The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-09-26

= SuDllfne.
There is relieving feature in this unpeas.
ant business. 1t is that while there are scores
sof men who, by personal intercourse with Mr.
AFremont in other davs, are in a condition to
J give the most conclusive testimony-and mary
/ OF these hostile to MIR. Fremont politically
not one ofthem OF any character has been
found 10 violate the rights of private intercourse,
or the political privilege Of religious liberty, so
much as to be induced TO publish word on the
subject. The unSeemly contest has been left to
the two know nothing factions to dispute be-
tween themselves, the one set averrDg-what
Nlr. Fremont does not, with his own words,
aver-that he has never professed himself Ro-
man Catholic the other set asserting that he
has not ceased to be Catholic but is PLAYING
some dark and mysterious part for the accom-
plIshmfnt OF Catholic designs on the country
The two sets are we'll matched II would be a
pity to interfere with them
Bat We must insist on their letting alone the
good name Of the Catholic priesthood. 1t will
not 10 for the friends Of Mr. Fremont TO ma
Ign falsely the character OF the good old Jesuit
Fathsr Van Horseigh, who married him. Respect
for the memory of good priest, now deceased,
will one day compel the overhauIing of the
coarse charges Of the Tribune that he had no re-
gard TO the requirements Of his sacred office
The same kind Of gross mpsopriety has been
practised with Catholic priest still living
The Rev. Mr.. Glivetti, Of Whitehall, in the d-
ocese Of Albany, has been trumpted through
the country as having declared that be knew
Mr.. Fremont to be a Catholic, and that he meant
to vote for him on that account, and that he
had five hundred men in Essex county whom
h.,1 I T.. L n
Il has felt ii proper TO give formal denial TO
THIS tissue of ahSurditips in local paper at
Whitehall. He says that he knows nothing
about Mr.. Fremont's rrIigion-how should be
that he has not had time TO learn the merits
OF political parties in this country, and does not
intend TO vote at all, having enough TO 90 with
the discharge of his clerical duties As TO the
retenne Of fiee hundred men that were waiting
for his word TO vote, ii is hard TO think that such
stories can be believed BY any onr. Catholics
understand perfectly we'll their rights, and their
'ndiUiduai responsibilities as citizens, and do
moi exercise their citizens privilege at the die
tatlon of any man. But the Catholic conscience
in such matters, IFS liberty and its dignity, is a
thing not TO be understood by know-nothngs.
who bind themselves 10 do blindlv of the
knights that carry the dark lantern for their
party.
Meanwhile, as the know nothing faction that
sustairs Mr.. Fremont repels as fatal 10 his pros
poets the charge Of his having for years been
known Catholic, and The know nothing
faction that opposes him maintains that he is
still Catholic at heart, and only Protestant
for the nonce, till after election, il gratifes
10 witness the profound disgust with which
vast proportion Of the community view this IN
decent discussion. Like The fictitious issues
made mp in the old courts to test principle by
an assumed trial between John Doe and Richard
Roe, we believe that the effect Of this vile con.
est between the two Setts of know-nothlngS
will be 10 banisb from future contests all nquis-
orial searchrs into the religious professions OF
political candidates.