Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1856-07-04
BEDFORD, PA. FRIDAY. JULY A. 1856.

of being filled with arrivals from abroad,
and sales Of merchandise, teelned with
bankruptcies. And our ships we're laid up
to rot, as melancholy monuments of the
weak and wicked policy of our Govern
| ment.
Who that has witnessed things cannot
observe the hand Of the Corsican despot,
like that dreadful hand upon the wall of the
Babylonish monarch, writing our destruc-
tion. Who can avoid believing that Bona
parte was the source of this policy, and
that it was intended to operate in unison
with his continental system. 1t might per-
haps be unwarrantable to assert that our
administration was actually corrupted by
France; but that their politics were biassed
by warm and improper partiality for that
country, there can be no doubt.
He acknowledges that has tongue cannot
portray the corraptions Of the Democracy.
| Time will not allow me to enumerate all
the other wild and wicked projects of the
Democratic Administration. Suffice to say.
that after they had deprived us Of the
means of defence, by destroying our navy
and disbanding our army, after they had Ia
ken away from us the power Of re-creating
them by running the commerce, the great
source Of our national and individual
wealth; after they had, by refusing the
Bank of the United States continuance
of its charter, and harassing the financial
concerns of the Government, and with
drawn the only universal paper medium Of
the country from circulation; after the peo-
pie had become unaccustomed to, and of
course, unwilling to bear taxation. and with
out money in the Treasury, they rashly
plunged into war with nation more able
to do us injury than any other in the world.
What was the dreadful necessity for this
desperate measured Was our country in
yadedl No. Were our liberties in dan
ger? No. Was it to protect our little re-
naming commerce from the injuries sus-
tanned by the orders in commando No.
Commerce was not such faFerite, and the
merchants wished for no war on that ac-
count.
His idea of Democratic duplicity in regard
to Forsignism.
Besides If the existence of the orders IN
council had been its true cause, after their
! epeal, our country would have accepted
tho, olive branch, which was offered by Eng
land. Wha: then was the causel The one
for which we professed to draw the sword
and risk our all, was 10 determine an alb
stract uues, ion of tie law of nations, con-
corning which, an opinion different from
that of our administration, vas held by all
Europe. To decide whether man can ex-
natriate himself or not. In the decision ol
this question our administration pretended
10 feel a great interest. THE GREATEST
PART OF THOSE FOREIGNERS
WHO WOULD BE AFFECTED BY 1T
HAD LONG BEEN THEIR E .ARNESl
| FRIENDS, THEY HAD BEEN ONE
OF THE GREAT MEANS OF ELEFA-
TING THE PRESENT DEMOCRATIC
RULING PARTY, AND IT WOULD
HAVE BEEN UNGRATEFUL FOR
THAT PARTY TO HAVE ABANDON
Ed THEM.
He says Foreign Influence controls the I'D
mintstiatioR
Superficial observers may suppose this u
have been the real source of the war, bu
whoever will carefully and inIrartiaily ex
anime the history of our country, will INT
its true origin to have been far different
It took its rise from the overwhelming par
tiality which the Democratic party haV
uniformly shown for France, and the conse
quent hatred which they felt against be-
great adversary England. To secure thi
Foreign Influence has been the labor o
their leaders for more than twenty years
and we'll have they been repaid for thei
trouble, for it has been one Of the principa
causes of introducing and continuing then
} in power.
Immediately before the war, this foreig'
influence had completely embodied itsel
f with every political feeling of majority Q
the people. particularly in the West, it
voice was heard so loud at the seat of gov
ernment, that the President was obliged =
Weld to its dictates or retire from Office
The choice in this alternative was easil
made, by man Madison) who preferre'
his private interests TO the public good
We were, therefore, hurried into war en-
tirely unprepared.
The administration conquer disgracefa
Peacp.
ri What has been its resultsa Exactl
/ what reasonable inen expected at Its com