The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-03-21
LETTER OF REV. JOHN CHAMBERS.
TO Gen. Geo. w. Bowman,
Editor Of the Bedford Gacette.
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PHILADELPHIA. March 10th. 1856,


PHILADELPHIA, March 10th, 1856.
Gen. G. w. Bowman - received mark
ed copy Of the Bedford Gazette, containing my
letter of the 18th of January, addressed TO a
member OF the Legislature, with your comments
.lpon the same. | thank you for having put
before your readers the truths contained 10 that
letter, however rudely set forth YOU have aid
ID our cause, andhelpeG 10 rebuke the whiskey-
Owing Democrats. The letter, when written,
was not designed for publication, but was the
sudden and honest outpouring of indignation,
tn find the Democracy of Philadelphia, as rep
tPsAnted in the House, bound hand and foot,
aud sold TO the sLiquor League The letter
Happened to b. seen by strong enemy Of the
sJugers" and the eJugites," most ardent
Friend Of God, humanity, temperance and cor
r-ct principles, and by his agency it found its
way into print
have no regrets TO express or apologies TO
offer for lis publication. Il is the truth how
ever rugged and however offensive to the Jug
lies. YOU my dear sir, know; every honest
man in the State knows and feels every Demo-
erat; not sold into the band of the Liquor
League, regrets that the party born Of the loft
Iest parentagP, 9fthe union OF humanity with
principle which God himself has enunciaied.
has been dpfled BY the embrace, last fall, ofihe
ftim-power Of Pennsy ivania The fruits Of the
iniqulty are TO b. found in the votes Of the
members OF the House, upon the bill TO repeal
The Restraining law of last session. tell yoa.
tfeneral. that there are thousands of the poblpst
Democrats in this Slate, who are not only IN
dlgnant, but who repudiate the union with the
rpni-power, and as free men, having the ight
Of free speech, will not be gagged, overriddsn
or put down. Hard words wilt not conquer
them the cry Of |'5aaatic" will not intlmi-
date them, and nothing but an honest and
quick return to the true principles Of our party
will prevent their ontcry IN the ears OF all the
people
You will remember sir, and not mistake the
fdcis-that we had no vote last year upon the
Restraining Law, but the year before the people
voted upon Prohibition. Philadelphia, BY some
fSe thousand majority proclaimed 10 oil the
world her disgust Of the liqaor traffic, and II
Will not do TO call the union of the JngerS ard
Jagites with the Democracy, such an express
sion Of the popular will in this city as TO justify
the votes OF the representatives OF Democracy in
fhp House Of representatives | can tell you,
General, that mauv Of the nobiest Democrats
here, are heaFiiy sick Of the Jugers-ihat they
see determined that these fellows shall BE- un-
horsed, and they viii exert an open and de-
tprmined opposition 10 the farther role Of the
Liquor Leagu" appeal 10 you sir, il ii is not
burning disgrace, brand OF inlamy, that a
great party shall bt. so entangIed and so wrong
ed. To see we'll educated, intelligent. Ieypec-
table Democrats PROSTATE before some misera-
Bile, disappearing, Sahbath-brrakjng. law dgspis-
ing rur-sucker, VINO could not spell thiSbeg if
,-,t IN
arouse The slumbering manhood of the most
greedy otliC"-hunter-and 10 make high toned
gentlemen torn with disgust from the polls
At the crack Of the whip ofthe Liquor League
is the whole Democratic party expected 10 enter
upon the rum course, and 10 do It's best for Sue
cess Pardon me-, but that is The road to ulti-
mate ruin and dsgrace, as we'll for paftirs, as
for men Ths whole thing is bad; and no cas1-
iStrv can make it better, or deceive the people
llr single yrar. IL sworn divorce is not
consumnaled, the present organization OF the
Democracy Is PROSTATE in tbs State When a
man loses his seil-rpSprct he is ruined, and 50
when patty drifts from the moorinES OF high
principles and allies ltSeiiov eXpedIenCY sake
TO falSrhood aud shame. the knell of its fate has
already sounded Purge the Democratic party
of Pennsylvania Of this ioul alliance, and we
shall sweep the State this fall like an avaIanch
omit to do IT, and are disgTaced as well as
beaten
Now I ask YOU, General, not as a citizen on
", but as a nen5er Of a christian church
which YOU are: How IS IT. iha, man may
make rum. sell rum, get drunk on rum, beggaf
himself and family By the US OF rum, and blast
his prospects for time and eternity by rum
and there is not word of reproach, and no
charge of tanaticsm II matters not how many
families they lrupovprish or destroy, how many
wives and widows hearts may BE- broken, how
many Of our noble youth may be ruined forever
1t is not Democratic TO oppose all this GER
tain misery 1t is anti-repubcan and awtully
unconstitutional, TO prevent those invaluable
auxliarirs of poverty, crime and death, from
carving on their prrniciouS business What a
farce is all this which great party attempts
to play before the calm scrutiny of The masses (!
There is no man, however stepped IN rum, that
does not in his secret heart know better. Bot
the moment the Temperance Democrats land
thank God their name is legion in any well de-
fined issue in this mattel) attempt to stay the
burning tide of death, are denounced as
fools, fanatics and madmen
And vet. on the side of law and order, viz
tue and good morals, and religion, stand the
large body ofthese denounced men, while par
ty papers throw mp their caps IN favor OF the VI
oaiols Of the law, and openly cheer IFS daily
iniracton. We think we have reason TO be
proud of our position and Of our company
Tell Us. General, when and where the Tempe
rance men of this State set The laws at de6ancea
Was it in the time of the whiskey boys, when
Gen. Washington had to put down insnrreclon
by the fear of bayonets? Or IN our own day
who hni the rnmitrs set at defiance the Sunday