The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-10-03
ELOQUENT SENTIMEsTS.

Convention of the friends OF BUCHANAN and
BREckENRIDaG, that sold man eloquent" Gen.
Cass, spoke as follows
General Cass being introduced 10 tie assem-
blage was received with hearty applause. He
said that he fell it good 10 BE- there. So great
an outbnrst of The popular heart be had scarcely
expected to see. Behold your couniry's flag
which here and on many another blood-siainrd
field our fathers CALAMITY defended. Be
you faithful TO them, and defend the FLAG Of the
Union, which you have inherited irom5ouI an
cestors with fidelity equal 10 theirs.
My qghntrymeD, the onion is in iasminent
dangrrA If had uttered such sentiment ds
this at { lr commencement Of ny political ca
reer wSpld have had no hearers But times
have greatly changed in my day, and now you
listen because you know that my language is
that Of soberneSs and&uth. Years ago when
visited thiSSpot, having come down the Wa
bash in a@bl,sh canoe, the silence was Su-
Wehe and impressive but now | behold about
he a@ast copcourse of earnest and excited cit
izens.A Tins change is but typical OF what has
occurred oveFtht broad lands Of all the North
western States.
No idle curiosity has called you forth to-day.
You have cometto manifest that attachment 10
the Union>and thr Union party which animated
our patriotic forefathers, and made them rather
bite 1he dust than see that Union dlShunofed OF
endangered by oreiga and domestic pes.-
(Gteat app!ausr.) ~
8 have Just come rom the halls of legislation,
and ifYou had been there and witnessed Nwhat
| saw and what l heard, not one among you
could think the cry of the Union is in danger
one of4alse alarm. 10 you would have r'ee@p
the wheels of Government blocked by party 5
and for no better or other reason than that the
army>Was sought 10 be paid iof<eniorcIng the
laws ofthe land. -
NThis is the fourteenth time that 'you have
been sailed upon 10 elect man 10 Preside over
the HeSNnieS OF the United Slatessth the freest and
happiest Government on the Globe. fouSare
called upon to choose one oftwo Candidates, and
in making that choice YOU should bear in mind,
that all your governmental prosperity and hap
piness you owe 10 that Democratic party whose
opponents have been IN power but one year in
four. Great applause.j
Many OF our people seem to ignore the eXis-
tence Of a rule, COLDER Iule, which says,
.smind your own business" 1t is most excel
lent rule and almost worthy Of being the thir
teenth commandment. By its recognition our
fathers prospered, and our country has prosper
80, bnt new sect has arisen whose motto seems
10 embrace the minding Of otbrr peoples busi-
ness as we'll as their own.
Bot what is the cause of. all this angry dis
senton and strife. Why We are told il is the
Nebraska bill And what is that Nothing in
the world more OF less than the extension OF the
same right to the people Of Nebraska and Kan
sas, the same right which you, the people Of In-
dianan, enjoy. ~
Is there one hete who objects 10 this? Who
thinks that Massachusetts ought 10 control the
local institutions an Kansas Voices ''No,"
'snot one.'l know there is not my friends.
If any, let him leave the asSenblage. ! don't
want to talk to such. Let him go to Massacha-
sets, That is the place for him. What is
there in man that renders him lrss capable Of
seli-government in a Territory than III State
Nothing in the world.
The General alluded to the late House Of
Representatives, saying that, though they tried
hard to starve the army, whose only crime was
that it had endeavored 10 enforce the laws, they
took good care to vote handsome aPptopria-
ton to themselves.
The General concluded in language nearly
as follows:
am an old man, having passed the age Of
three score wears and ten, and tell you, aye
repeat il again and again, that the Union Is IN
danger Let he entreat YOU by the blood Of
vour foIefathers, shed on this and on scores OF
other batte-felds-by your present prosperity
by all your hopes for the future-by all that
you hold most sacred and drar-bold on 10 the
Union-hold on 10 il in life and almost in
death J! has made US prosperous and happy,
and placed our country's fame high au.ong the
nations of The earth. ii the Union is lost, all
is lost. Anarchy first will enSne. then despo-
tism Oh, my friends, bewart-beware -
Think, pause, and again think, before giving
countenance TO those whose patriotism embraces
bot a segment of the country. We have here
to-day a son Of Henry Clay who now sleeps in
his grave. The son reminds me Of his father,
my friend and as noble patriot as ever breath
ed. 1t is to me source Of great consolation.
that though we differed on almost every poli-
cal question, never spoke di>reSpeciiul word
of him. He was my friend at his DEATH / at
tended his diving couch, and caught almost the
last accents that fell from his lips. He said
that Mr.. Fillmore was his first choice for the
Presidency. but fhe could not be elected, he
preferred 10 see the Wings unite pom Union
Democrat These were almost his last words,
my friends, and most earnestly would com
mend them to your consideration.
CHILD CARRIED orr BY BEAR.-The Man
itowoc tWisconSinl Tribune Satee that fear
fuI incident recently occurred near the village
of Neshota. Just before sunset q child five
years old was seized in the presencesof It's moth
tr by full-grown bear, and, in spite Of its
SCREAMS and the frantic efforts n its mother,
was borne off into the ticket. The alarm was