The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-08-29

that because the reason and virtue of on age of
reason and virtue could build it, the passions
and stimuations of a day of frenzy cannot pull
il down ii such there are among you, to them
address yourselves, with all the earnestness and
all the eloquence of men who feel that some
greater interest is at stake, and some mightier
cause 10 hearing, than ever yet tongue had
pleaded or trumpet proclaimed. II such minds
and hearts are reached, all is safe. But how
specious and how manifold are the sophisns by
which they are courted
They hear and they read much rdcue Of
those who fear that a geographical party does
endanger the Union. But can they forget that
our greatest, wisest, and most hopeful statesmen
have always felt, and have all, in one form or
another, left on record their own fear Of such a
party The judgments Of Washington, Madi-
son, Clay, Webster, on the dangers Of the A
merican Unon--are they worth nothing TO a
conscientious love of it 2 What they dreaded
as a remote and improbable continsrncy-th that
against which they cautioned, as they thought,
dshnt generations that which they We're 50
haR'y as to die without Seeing-iS upon u.s.
And yet some men would have US 90 on laugh
ing and singing, like the traveller in The satire,
with his pockets empty, at present peril, the
mere apprehension of which, as distant and
bare possibility, could sadden the heart of the
Father Of his Country, and dictate the grave
and grand warning of the Farewell Address
They hear men say that such party ought
not to endanger the Union; that, although it
happened to be formed within one geographical
section, and confined exclusively TO II although
its end and aim is TO rally that section against
the other on question of morals, policy and
feeling, on which the two differ eternally and
unappeasibIy; although, from the nature ofiis
origin and objects, no man in the section out
side can possibly join il, or accept office under IT
without Iniamy at home although, therefore,
il is siupendous organization. practically TO
take power and honor, and foil share of the
Government from our whole family of States,
and bestow them, substantially, all upon the an
tagouist family; although the doctrines of hu
man rights, which it gathers out the Declara-
ton OF lndependence-that passionate and elo-
quent manifesto Of revolutionary war-and a
dopts as lis fundamental ideas, announce TO any
Southern apprehension crusade of government
against slavery, far without and beyond Kansas
although the spirit and tendency of its elec-
tionFTrng appeals, as a whole, in prose and
verse, the leading articles of It's papers, and the
speeches Of its orators, are 10 excite contempt
and halr, OF far Of our entire geographical sec
ton, and bate or dread or contempt is the nat
ural impression it all leaves on the Northern
mind and heart: yet, that nobody anywhere
ought 10 be- angry, or ought to be frightened; ;
that The majority mnst govfrn, and that the
North is majority; that it is ten to one moth
ing will happen; that, il worst comes to worst
the South knows it is wholly TO blame, and
needs the Union more than we 60. and will be
qui-t accordingly.
Bot DO they ho hold this language forget
that the question is not what ought TO endanger
the Union, but what will do it Is it man as
he ought to be-, or man as he is, that we must
live with or live alonel In approaching the
Influences which may disturb a political sys-
tenn, and especially one like ours, do Won make
no allowance for passions, for pride, for ntirm-
ity, for the burning sense of even imaginary
wrong? Do YOU assume that all men, or all
MASSES of men, in all sections, uniformly obey
reason, and uniformly wisely see and calmly
seek their true interests Where on earth is
such FOOLS Paradise as that to be found Con-
crdIng to the people of the fifteen States the
ordinary and average human nature, its good
and lis evil, its weakness and It's strength, | for
one, dare not say that the triumph Of such
party oush; not to be expected naturally aud
[FWatIF 10 dSOnhe tAe SlalFS
With nv undouhting convictions, | know
that it would be folly and immortality in
men 10 wish it. Certainly there are in all Sec
tions aud in all States those who love the l.
mon, under the actual Constitution, as Wash
ngton did, as Jav, Hamilton, and Madison did
as Jackson, Clay and Webster loved it. Such
even is the hereditary AMI the habltual senti-
ment OF the general American heart But he
has read If, and books to little purpose who has
not learned that E'bosom friendships may be
ato resentment sourcd, and that no hatred is
so kcen deep, and precious as that.
ssAnd TO be wroth Nth one love
W i'll work like madness in the BRAIN.
He has read the book Of our history to still less
purpose, who has not learned that the friend
ships Of these Stalps-sisters, but rivals -Sover-
egns each, with public life, and body of in
tereStS, and sources of honor and shame Of It's
own and within itself, distributed into two great
opposing groups are Of all human ties most eX-
posed TO such rupture and such transformation.
| have not time in these hasty llres, and there
is no need, 10 speculate on the details of the
modes in which the triumphs OF this party
would do its work Of evil. It's mere Struggle to
obtain the government, as that struggle is con-
Quoted, is mIschievous 10 an extent incaleula-
blr That thousands of the good men who have
Joined il dppore this is certain, but that does
not mend the matter. | appeal to the con-
science and honor Of. my country, that It 1t
were the aim OF great party, by every species
OF access TO the popular mlnd-by eloqnence,
by argument, by tauni, by sarcasm, by reerlmi-
nation, by appeals TO pride, shame, and natural
right-to prepare the nation for struggle With
Spain or England, or Austria, II could not DO
IT'S business more thoroughly Many persons