The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-08-08


this slavery question, especially in the shape
which it has now assumed We speak not 0
it with reference to Kansas. True, the aiten-
tion of the people of the North is artfully drawr
exclusively 10 that territory A loud cry O
"Free Soff" and ssFree Labor is set up and tbe
sympathies of the people solicited for its condi-
ton. We will not pause here TO dwell upon
the ready and complete answer to all this
The Senate has adopted a Pacifcation Bill
which amply provides for the peace and the
happiness of that terri,ory,-whch secures tc
IFS inhabitants every right which they should
enjoy-and which fully guarantees TO them the
privilege which the inhabitants of all the States
and all the Territories should possess, of deci-
ding the character of all their institutions for
themselves. Ifthere have been wrongs and
outFages in Kansas, this Senate Bill will prevent
their recurrence. Ifthere have been just eau
ses of complaint, ii removes them. The Dem
ocFatic party favor that bill--they wish TO res
tore peace TO the Territory, and secure equal
and exact justice to all its inhabitans-but the
Black Republicans bitterly oppose it. The
Democrats wish to avoid difficulties in Kansas,
and to create peace and harmony there-fhe
Black Republicans show, by their acts, that they
desire TO stimulate disorder, reuoi0faoa, anarchy
and btoodshed
But no man who wishes to comprehend full
iy the bearing of the present slavery agitation
mnsi imagine, for a moment, that the state of
affairs In Kansas is the only or the principal
feature connected with it, That is hut an Incl
dental consideration. The main questions rise
IN Importance above the fate of a thousand new
and sParSrly populated territories They con-
Germ the peace and the welfare of the millions
of happy people who nhabit all the States
Whatever may be the degree ol soicitude
with which regard Kansas, and the Demo-
cratic party, tin conjunction with the National
Whigs,i has shown by the Pacication Bill
that il alone is truly mindful of its wants, and
It alone anxious 10 provide rempdy for lis
condition: let no man forget that his first duty
is to examine closely the bearings of the Black
Republican agitation upon himself and upon his
own immediate interests and locality.
Since the time Henry Clay wrote the let
ter published above, the Abolition party has
assumed frarfnl proportions. 1t has enlisted in
its service an army of agitators, whose voices
incessantly below forth fulminalionS against
the Constitution and the Union; and their per-
sistrnt efforts have at last aroused in many quar-
trrs a responsive feeling. And now all the
veteran warriors of the crusade upon the South
all thu disafrcted and soured politicians who
have imaginary wrongs to rgdfeSs-all the ele-
mentS Of DiSunion and Aboitlonism, have uni
ted together 10 a sectional organization, under
the leadership of Fremont with the avowed
purpose OF putting him in the Presidential Char,
upon no other platform Of principles and with
no other idea OF governmental policy than that
OF attacking and outraglng the South, and pla-
cling the whole power of the government IN
the hands OF open and avowed AbolitlouiStS.-
1t is true there are specouS disguiSrS in which
this design is vrilrd. Bot look al the men Who
lead off the movement for FEEMoNT and the
iradlng presses which advocate him. Abol-
ton is the one great thought OF their lives
anti-sIavery sentiments and hostility 10 the
South, the moving principles ofall their acts.
They live, and move, and have their being po-
hiica!lv, by and through ant-Savpry agitation.
Their succrSs in the Presidential contest would
be the success Of AbolitioniSm, and the govern
ment in their hands mere engine for the en-
forcrment Of Abolition vrws.
Now, reader, at this point pause and reflect
upon the consequence. We will not ask you
here to !hink ofthe tendency Of such result
upon the South, bu to the people Of the North.
Turn for your answer to the letter Of HENEy
Clay. Let the fearful words by which in his
wisdom he 50 truthfully and so pointedly eX-
pressed the inevitable result sink deep into your
heart ON-PERPETUAL WAR
THE EXTINCTION OF THE AFRICAN
MILITARY DESPO-
TISM"-this is the frarful banquet TO which
Black Republcanism uRder the gard of phiiaR-
thropy invites US, according to the testimony
e. tI Il ~, D.,t l., i
not end there He wished to s.GrouSe the la
boring classes in the free Stafes ngoinst .aJoii-
tionism," bpcause the slaves, being free, ''roaid
enter into competition wifh the free iaborer -
g REDUCE HIS WAGES" abe contounded
with him." and finally Shat the object Of the
Abolitionsis was '.fo rerIUce the ,cAife iaboyiHg
nun to The despised and degraded condition Of
the black man." There are now desperate APP
peals being made to the free laborerS Of the
North for their support ofthe Abolition candi-
date Fremont, bat will they not heed the war
ming Clay has given, and which moments re-
flection will convince them is correct We
wish TO heaven that every laboring man in the
North, and above all in the border State of
Pennsylvania, could be brought TO see this qups-
ton in It's true light. Let it be pressed home to
them by all their true friends. Let them es-
cape ere too late The fatal net which their worst
foes have set for them. The white laborlng
men have no deadlier enemies than the Aboli-
tionists, and the experience Of thousands of
them will establish this assertion. Yet nnder
the preteXt of aiding free labor in Kansas, they
would cajoie them into an effort to destroy ir-
retrievaby their own best interests. Under
cover ofthe infamousIy and nooriously false
charge that Mr. Buchanan spoke in favor of
reduction of wages, they would inangurote
Increment uhich acOuld cripple md destroy for
erer TIE prosperitu of Laborinr MN