The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-08-29
Read Carefully the FiEst PAGE.

10 The first page is full of interest. Read il
cafefolly-but especially read the maserIy and
vincing Letter Of RUFrs CnoAre to his Wing breth-
of Name, by which ii Will be seen that this dis
tinguished Wing proelaims for Buchanan. In speak
ing of the letter, the Philadelphia Argus says:
The nationality Of Mr.. Choate is well known, but
even those friends who knew him best hardly
prepared for such fearless and emphatic avowas of
thorough Gniouism, and such decided and prononE-
ced step. The National Democracy most respectful
ly and heartily welcome Rufus Choate into their
crowded and augmentng tanks What splendid
demonstration Of the truth and soundness OF prH
cipes il is, that the very flower OF the patriotism
earning talent, and virtue OF the late Wing party
compelled. by the mere course OF events 10 take
iuge under the banners of Democracy! Rufus Choate
is the peer of the pet rhetorician Of Free SoiIIsm-
Charles Sumner hmseli-in eloquence and learning
and his superior in common sense and massive intel
lect. Choate's constitutional ideas and sympathrs
formed and Snatured under the majestic ausp-
ces Of Daniel Webster. Having imbibrd Webster's
serene and impartial Constituiionalism and National
y, Rufus Choate readily perceived the narrowness
and shaowness, and evasiyeness of what dubs itself
'sRepublicanistn.'' He views the slavery question
calmly and practically, from a stand point that en-
braces the whele country within lis range of vision
His unfalterng intellect always keeps itself in rela
ion with the nation and the nations common inter-
ests. He thinks, e.uot as Northern man, not as a
Southern man, but as an American" His fundamen-
tai thought always is that, all hazards, at all sac
rifees, and in any event, the Union must be pre-
served. And SO thinks every great mind. The Tn
ion OF the States has ever been, and now is, the glo-
Fy, the joy, the hope, the political idol of every A
merican patriot and statesman. That Union was
sprnked with the blondo our Fathers, watered with
their tears, cemented and made strong by their
cessons and sacrifices, sauctiAed by their prayers,
sustained By their Hcessant and devoted labor, and
watched over by their constant anxiety Every pub
llc man among us who deserves the name of states
man has placed the Union in his heart, next TO his
God Not that these great cherished any blind
and unreasoning love for the Union Blu; they com
pretended that the Union was the sole and strong
safeguard of liberties, the copous fountain ofour
properties. the of our national greatness
As Washington and Jefferson felt and spoke, speak
now such minds and hearts Rufus Choate. Alex
ander Hamilton once said in private conversation,
that ''to break the Union would be TO break his
heaFt'' That expresses the throbbing devotion OF
the fathers to the Uniont expresses the desire and
anxiety OF true and intelligent patriots
The tide of untoward events has, at last, drfted
the Union amid the breakers feared and dreaded,
b. Washington, aud all our fathers. The nation is
divided BY sectional party lines. The contest tor
the Presidency threatens to be sincerity geographical.
Can the Union survive such fearful trial Il is
time for all wise and good men to TO the rescue.
1t is time 10 forget all past minor issues, TO ignore
mere differences about finance, currency and public
works, and TO surround the nIperilIed Constitution
with Gordon OF stout and fra ternal patriots, where
one common feeling and purpose will be ''the Union,
il MUST and SHALL be preserved"