Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1856-07-04

| tion. NOTWITHSTANDING their desperate ef-
forts the Constitution was adopted, and
Washington was elected President.
| Il might have been supposed that these
facfionists would have been awed into ST.
lence by his wisdom and virtue. This was
not the case. The opposition which they
| bad given to the federal government, was
now transferred to its administration. AT
first, indeed, the voice of calumny dared on
| ly to whisper against Washington and his
measures, butere long it was heard in thun-
| der.
When the French revolution commenced,
it was hailed by the people OF this country,
generally, as the dawn OF rational liberty
in Europe. But when, in its progress, IL
had become the destruction of religion and
morality when thousands of citizens were
daily sentenced to death, and butchered
without Trial aud without crime when all
the horrors of anarchy were poured out up
on that devoted, country at home-and when
Attila like it hal become the sceurge of
God to foreign nations; the Washingtonian
party began to entertain Fears of its result,
and thought it necessary TO stem the torrent
of French influence, which was rapidly
overfowing our country. To this duty they
were imperiously called, as il was not only
in theory one of the avowed objects cf tha'
government to spread revolutionary primer
pies over the whole world, but they had ac-
tually attempted to SOW the seeds of re
bellion throughout the United States.
Heqccuses the Democracy Of Hbeiting Wash
ington.
True to their original principles and their
first love, the Democratic party of that day
become more the friends of the French as
they became more the enemies of social or
der. When the proclamation of neutrality
was issued by Washington-that proelama-
ton which is now almost universally admit
ted to have been the salvation of our coun-
trv--that proclamation which impartially
placed England and France upon the same
footing, and laid open the commerce of the
world to America, they were enraged that
+! we had not entered into su alliance with the
French Republic, and waged war, under
their banners, against the human race
But, when the treaty of peace with England
commonly called jays treaty, was ratified
by Washington, torrents of personal abase
| we're poured out by the Democratic Party
upon bis head.
| They openly charged the Father of his
Country with an intention of destroying his
own beloved offspring. To such pitch of
ingratitude were they carried by their
diabolical passions, that they dared public
IL. and without the slightest foundation, to
accuse him of secretly putting his hand iD-
TO the treasury, like felen, and appropriat-
ing without authority, the money of the ma
ton TO his own individual use. The man,
whose youth had been worn out in those
splendid military achievements which made
| our country independent, and whose age
and experience had been devoted to the
creation and organization of the Federal
| Goyerument-that man who had never re-
eeived one farthing more of the public money
than what be had expended in the public
service, was accused of being base pecula-
lor of the public treasure. Du,ing this
cruel persecution his noble mind felt sensi.
bly, the stiugs of his countTymen's ingrati-
tude. In the bitterness of his soul he had
been abused, to use his own emphatical
language, in 'such exaggerated and inde-
cent terms as could scarcely be applied to d
| Nero--a notorious defaulter-or even to a
common pickpocket'.
Says the Democracy hare not the principle
of Washington.
What must be our opinion of an opposi.
ton whose passions were so dark and nlalig.
nant as to be gratifed in endeavoring tt
blast the character and embltter the old age
of Washington. After thus prosecuting
the saviour of his country, how can tht
Democratic party dare to call themselves
his disciplesa
] But no opposition could divert the s,eady
soul of Washington from bis purpose. He
had digested system of policy which ht
steadily pursued, amid the storms of fac
ton. His successor in Office for the mos
part, walked in h,s footsteps. To continue
at peace, a nation must be ready for war
was maxim by which the Federal Admin
istration were constantly directed. Under
their auspices. therefore, public credit wa'
we'll established, as the best means Of pub
lie defence.
The debt of the revolutionary war wa'
4 founded and moderate taxes we're imposed
i A navy was built for the protection of com
merce. We considered all nations equally
in war, as enemies, in peace as friends; and