The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-08-06
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Be,ilerd Gazette.
WASHINGTON, AUGrsT ., 1858.
MrssRs, MeyFrs * BENFoRD

One wear having elapsed SINCE you took charge
ofihe "Bedford Gazette ] rtioce to learn, BY
your last issue, that YOU have realized your
highest expectations. II you had not, should
have been greatly disappointed, for a nobler
or d ruer body oi men than the patrons Of the
Gazette, are not TO be found. am pleased 10
be able 10 say, too, that YOU have merlted their
appreciation, in an eminent degree, bg the
course of nolicy you have pursued during the
year. When older editors iattered, and were
too iimid 10 defend great principle, and others
were governed by that selfish spirit Of yclding
right 70 erpcdiencg, The Gazette promu gated
views which are destined TO live whilst the Con-
Stnutlou of our country exists. ''Do r{gdt and
tear not" should be The motto of every Demo-
cratic editor. and he who adopts any other
course, even in the darkest and most trying tmrs,
viii find that he has been building on sandy
foundation.
You will kindly allow me 10 correct a very
gross error into which you have fallen. You
assert that, ''ior upwards of fifty years, the
Gazette has been the untiung advocate of Dem
ocraiic principles" The Gazette never was
the advocate OF Democratic principles until a
lew months before il passed into my hands
Prior to that time it was, TO The fullest extent,
an organ of the Federal Party. CnAs. McD4w-
ELL, Esq, WHO established the paper, never
made any profession Of Democracy until GES.
JACKSON vetoed that Monster, the i'anaa Of lhc
United States, on which occasion he abaa2oaeI
iils iorGlrr party and its odious principles, and
commenced battling manluIly Tor Jackson and
| Democracy. This was the condition in which
[ found the Gazette at the fine | purchased,
and it is highly important that this fact should
be kept fairly before the people, IN order that
Democrats may not be miSlrd. The opposition
in Bedford County have used all the ingenuity
al their command 10 create The impression that
the Gazette IS RoD what it alTays lcGg, and, by
tins faise clamor, succeeded IN deceivIng some
very good men. Mr. Mcdowell was radical
Democrat at the time OF his decease, but be was
in full communion with the federal party until
the Bank Tefo opened his eyes to its en3rmitics
For upwards OF % years the Gazette has been
the suntiring advocate Of Democratic princi-
pies" as reference to It's files will abundantly
prove
You clam the credit OF being the first to pub
liSh paper in Bedford for one dollar and fifty
cents a year This is the fact. but the su5scri-
bers to The Gazette never grnmbled at two dol
lars year, and do not thiak any man should
be asked 20 publish a co9Rtry weekly for less
The spirit infused into the Gazette by its new
editors has rendered the paper more interesting
than ii was IN former days, and think know
the character Of yoar subscribers well enough
to say that they would cheer fully have paid YOU
two dollars year for your energetic labors.-
tThe very low price, however, at which you
offer the Gazette, should be the means Of intro
ducinr II into at least every Democratic house
in the couniy-anJ, If some Of the many good
and active men in our ranks would take this
matter IN hand, It would not De- long until the
end would be accomplished. The iact&lia CT
~ daii+s put their week.-Mrs. at one dollar, and
even less, IS no reason why The country press
can afford TO do so. lhe man who asks tue
country editor TO 90 TINS is totally ignorant ol
:he degrading request he makes. No man per
iolmS more perplsXing labor than The country
editor, and the dignity OF the profession de-
mands that ne should De pad as hhefahy as
others May the iuIuFe oI The Gazette be
st M brighter
WIN such noble men as BURNS, BEcKLEY,
LONG, Amos, and DEFoRE, on your county Tick
ct, your success is SeFtah, as a matter OF course
The Convention could not have selected a more
nheXcePiioha1Ie Ticket. Every democrat VIII
leel 1t pleasant duiy 10 give TO such men a
warm, CORDIAL and enthusiastic support.
would love to renew NY former associations
with the people OF my native county, and II
possible, VIII oe "ith You at some Of your
Township gatherings during the campaign,
where may take my old and valued friends
6y the hand once more. Ny heart IS 10 that
I0cai''y' ana no change OF place or circumstan-
ces' can ever aiehate my affections from tue
people "l beo'oFd county.
Things seem 10 look we'll IN the Slate, notwith-
standing the amaigamqted opposition claim TO be
able 10 carry ii by thirty thousand. As the Of
fee OF canal commissioner will be abolished al