The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-09-26
Look 10 the question as it's.

have evaded the issue and perverted the
facts We will very briefly refer 10 them
The question before the public TO be settled
lby the present presidential election is, when re-
duced TO the simplest form, the equaiHq of the
States in their rights and powerS
Human natcre is precisely now what it has
been IN all ages. We have il in the example
(. before us. Ambitious men with Us, bent on
getting power, Indifferent as 10 the means, and
reckless of the consequences, have aHiully mis-
represented the whole case. They have been
unwilling TO trust their countrymen with the
truth. A swift Judgment they know would be
passed against them. The people everywhere
IN our country prefer 10 do right in regard to
all political questions, rather than nfiict wrong
and injustice. They have a great stake in the
former benefits to he derived from il in the
present and the future, and serious niSchiefs TO
apprehend from the latter. They have no
pampered appetite for offce-no diseased ambi-
ton tor power. The safety aud security of
their homes, the prosperity of their private in
terests, the protection Of their lives, their lib
erty, and their property, form the chief end of
every thought and act which they devote TO the
public Interest. This may be fairly stated TO be
the object ofthr people in the choice of Pres
I tdrnt. They can have no malIgn motives. 1t
Is because of all this that the abolitonist, who
is against the Bible and against The equality Of
the States, and that the black republican, who
seeks the same political ends, will not state the
truth before the people, but resort 10 low and
despicahle perverSions. What is no less sig
nalIy true in the conflict in which we are now
engaged is, that the ambitious leaders OF the
party 10 which we refer, when the case is sta
ted 50 to make ont the truth plainly, when
j the facts charged against them are proven,
/ when they are taken in the commission of the
/ very offences of which we say they are guilty,
with hardihood for which the reprnbate ofthe
stocks and of the prison is peculiarly dstin-
gnlShed, they deny everything, and set about
to reconstruct their false distortions, with more
intense zeal and redoubled ingenuity.
1t is in this state of the contest, therefore,
that We have stated simply the question which
is really now submitted TO the people. II
one Of political life or death 10 our country
We will prosper Or may perish by its decs-
ion.
we repeat 1.-THE question in the political
conflict now pending, is, shoH equal rights er-
isl befmeea the Stafes II is question of the
sovereignty of the people. In other countries !
they have no sovereignty. Thei: rulers possess
it. We are equal and independent States
The rights and powers which any one State
aud the people of that State have, every other
State and the people thereof also have. The
people of no State may claim for themselves I
what they nav dsny TO others. Every State
in the L Mon has acted Independently, and for
itself, in the formation of its own constitution.
None inteffered, brcausp they had no right to
do 50. None eyer questioned it, because the
right to do tint did not exist. The Congress
OF the United States passed an act by which
they simply said that Kansas and Nebraska
should frame each a constitution 10 suit itself,
conformabv 10 the guarantees Of that Of the
United States. The latter respected, admitted.
and sanctioned slavery in any Of the States that
might choose TO maintain such an institution
The Kansas and Nebraska act did no more than
to recognise the porer of the pcopie 10 exercise
the right Of self-government, aud TO regulate for
themselves their own domestic institutions, as
tie ofder Sfafes had done for Themselves.
This, then, presents the simple question of
fhc rquaiify Of the Stofes Ont of it springs
another. il is this Which State, or qrhicA set
Of Sfnfes, has a higher claim 10 ce,tain sorer-
eign rights than other States Of the cenfrdera-
tion Who will answer this Who Will an
swrr il by declaring the particular States that
have right to, and wiH ererciSe this odious
prerogative Is there man who will dare to
do il before The American people, either in the
North, East, West, or South? Not one Yet
this is the question, the very question, which is
now pending before the people upon the result
OF the presidential election.
Our political enemies disguise the question.
They dare not present it as it is. If they can
continue this deception it may be fatal 10 our
existence as nation, ii it brings those into
power who are. determined 20 do that which
will force separation of this Union. We, :
therefore, warn American brethren OF the
North that they are thus arfully practised up
on By designing men, who are leading them on
under false pretenceS, and who seek power at
the price Of civil war, and the destruction Of
the government. We ask them TO pause before
they cross the Ruhcon--the last line of demar- {
cation that secures the peace the safety, and the
independence of the respective States.- VAST
ington Union. t
Fearful Ride down Spur of the .Hlleghany +
Stoge Upset-Periious Saua- !
ton and .Niracuious Escape from Death.
From the Richmond Wing, Sept. 6.l
On the morning of the 2+th ut., at half-pas &
wo O'Clock, party, twenty-one in number, =
left the White Sulphur Springs for the terminus I
of the Central Railroad. All went on pleas !
antly until about one O'Clock in the dav, and o
shortly after commenced the descent of Morris h
when it became alarmingy apparent q
o the passengers in the advance coach that the 4
horses We're running away and to increase i
heir terror the driver was seen rolling in the
lust The horses, thus left unchecked, went n
flashing on IN their mad career, the coach reel a
ug from side TO side under its heavy top load, /