The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-04-04
An Admirable EeeteT from ssm
old Lime We EaiS.

We have read with great pleasure the letter
Of Hon. SAMUEL CAGUrnEFs, Whig number
Of Congress from Missouri, 10 his constituents,
explaining his past action and defining his pre-
sent position. MIR. CaRcTnERs having voted
for the Dernncratc candidates for Speaker and
been charged With bFtrayins The Whig party
and abandoning the principles upon which he
waserclpd be- re Sizes follows:
And who is it that makes these charges2 Is
it the old line wings? | have not heard Of an
old Gnp whig, either in nay diScrict or elsewhere
who does not endorse nay coarse. These
charges are made by the know nothing press of
nv State, and by ANONYMOUS know nothing
scrihhiers, the latter Of whom, never having
had an honest motive themselves, have no con-
reption OF the thing in others. THgy chwge ME
1cHa b4royjng the ring Porfy' They who de-
coyrd it INTO their councils, and ass0SSinmed 1t
in tie d,rk-fhey who come forth from their
conclaves with their bands dripping with It's
hlood-fhpy who met at Philadelphia in convon-
'ion. and vauutngiy proclaimed lis dnath-with
a phari>aicai aHrctalion Of party, declare that
Hey are not irresponsible for lis obnorious nets
aad rioiafed yiedges - that il has '.eieu0fed
sedioaci hostility info posifire element Of Po-
htioi porey. and broagH our institutions into
psriI." Yes, whiir ! stand a nourner at the
grave of the Wing party, they rcinicing at
lis death and calumniaiing lis life Yet these
men have TIE unbllshiug hardhood to t1C1 me
with abandonment Of that once noble patty -
Was ever impudence more gigantic and more
absurd!
Bot ii is sometimes softly and gently whispered
that the American party is the whig party in
disguise If this is so, they have soiemnly de-
cIared lie in their own conventions, and il is
cheat and fraud upon the democrats in the or
der. So they hare ritter nbondoned tteir party,
and have no right to abuse. or are engaged in
a fraud hch make their abuse comp{imenf
tell these gentlemen they have stain mg first
lore, and left me political ujdorer and
have perfect rig ht 10 marry another party if
see proper
We would ike to see reply to this extract
from some admirer Of the politica hybrid called
'Sam."
It appears that MIR. CARurHEEs was cenau,-
ed by some of his eaemirs at home for not sup
porting Mr.. Fuller. of this State, for Speaker
Atier showing up Mr.. F.'s changes of front on
tae slavery queslion-and wonderful changes
they are, truly,-Mr. c. says:
But it is said that Mr.. Fuller is a kaoC noti-
ing, and therefore should have given him my
vote. The contest for the speakershp Develop
ed The fact that there are now three parties in
'he country-the northern know nothing and
abolition party, fused under the name OF black re-
plbIlcan, the (so-caIled) ''national Americans" )"
and The democratic party. This know-nothing
party was born amidst the fictitious excitement
manufactured by abolitionists and disunionistS
out OF the passage Of the Kansas Nebraska bill
sprung at once, "lke minerva from the brain
Joye," fuil armed, and entered the political
arena In the morning of its existence it as
loll OF promise. II declared that it would say
% the angry waves, e'Peoc6, be still ~ that ii
was the only, broad, national, conservatice par
" mat IT'S great, paramount mission was to
save the Union, which was imperiled by agia-
ooh. Relying upon these promises, confdirg
d" these assurances, many good men every
"here-many in my district-went into this
"rsanIzation: went triee land but twice.
mo Their councils. ] fisqw SAN" It took