The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-09-19


ed for good and holy purposes, brings countless
blessings ~ lis train: but when perverted to
the accomplishment OF ends entirely alien and
irrelevant to the object which created j, IS
fraught with unmitigated and terrible evils
Now, The appalling fact stands outln bold re-
lief. that for ihr last two years, the Clergy Of
New England have almost universally been
nothing more nor less than the mere pedlarS
and retailers Of politics; that almost every one
has turned hls pulpit into political rostrunI
with unblushug and shameless audacity; that
the congregations assembled 10 hear the word of
God and receive the Bread Of Lille, have been
treated instead with partzan harangnes worthy
Of the most approved stump orator with inyec-
tive he nest foul aud misrepresentation the
most afrocious, against the people of one half Of
this n-drnouRcing them as murdrrerS,
cut-throats thieves and handitli, and invoking
upon their heads the most f-arfnl uiaIrdclons,
Ipon people thus constituted upon a people
thus habituafrd to repose the most unlimited
confidence in their spiritual guides, and 70 be
governed and guided by Ihem-thpsr fiery pc
llIcal Giaribes have had tremendous effect:
but rfrtt which has occasioned very little
surprise in the minds Of those conyersant with
all the circumstances.
These pernicious Influences, we are conf
dent, furnish the true solution Of the recent re-
suits in Maine and Vermont, a majority Of
whose people, it is fair TO infer, prefer all The
horrors OF Dsunion, and are prepared TO put a.
way all the blessings and benefits Of Union
They pervade more or less all tb- New England
States, but beyond their borders they are power
less and innoXious. A majority Of the citizens
Of New England, under the lead oil GARRISON
and PAEKER, and FRED. DoUGLASs, and a uni-
ted and taithless clergy, may, if they choose,
consider the Union valuelesS, and regulate their
political action accordingly but We tell them
boldly and dehantly, that they cannot srduce
the population Of the great Central or Middle
States INTO dsloyalIy to the Union and the Con-
stitution, cause them to turn their backs up
on their Southern brethren and spurn them as
Irlons and as IeprFs. Should every State east
Of New Yofk desert the Union in her EXTREMIST
peril, il would not shake our confidence for a
moment in the result Of the great Struggle now
progressing
As, in 1883. Virginia served as breakwa-
ter III arrrsting the tide Of knowNoihiug ia
naliciSm that was sweeping over he cnuniry,
50, in 1886, viii ihe Middle and Western
Stat~s-New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Chic, Ihdi-
ana and Illinois perform the same patriotic
function in resisting and bratiag back the black
and swelling surges Of AboIlioniSn and Dl~pn-
ion that are crowding upon Us from The East,
and whose murmurs sound
Like The ravens eroak DER the infected house.
That PrnnsyIvania-th old keystone Of the
Arch-wilI stand firm and immoya5lr in her
attachment to the Union, at tl,is fearful crisis,
we have never entertained a doubt We can
youch ior the loyalty Of h~r citizens, Her
great heart Is sound TO tie core. aud beats
hrathIly IN response 10 the music of the Union
and the Constitution. All her associations, all
her instincts, all her thoughts, emotions, asPra-
tons and Interests are ia consonance with that
lofty and national patriotism that looks upon
the disruption of the Union as the dirrst calam-
lily the world ever witnessed, and iu!l Of un-
numbered woes and diSasters.- PeansWveaiaa.