Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1858-05-07


I auaintance, who dill not, ut FIRST, doubt or de-
nounce tie unexpected and extraordinary ex-
ample. The only interest that applande,l his
course was that extreme pro slavery. cabal,
/ Gknown to desire dissolution If the Union, j
which bad induced him 10 leave those true
and gallant spirits who had so long upheld his
standard, and 70 stirrebder the holy principle,
without which he would be reposing in hon
cradle quiet at Wheatland.
From that moment TO the present. what
have we witnesseda Nothing but succes-
sion of personal and political deeradations.-
The principle of the swill of the n,a1ority,'
had become overwhelming. The etihcryls of
fidelity to sworn pledge, and to a consecrated
creed, had sunk into all hearts The Tresi
| debt, the Cabinet--M men had met upon this
patriotic platform Il was built npon honor.
and rivetred and cIinched by thousand sol
cnn assurances. To destroy it required her
| eulean exertion4, and series of opera
tions, before which all the efforts of past
Administrations have paled their ineffeciuaI
fires. 1t stood out full-arnled before the
nation. instinct with energy, aud resistless
from tie ASSOCIATIONS that surrounded it,
But the word had gone forth, end Mough II
ctulE NOT BE- annihiiated, it .cqs al leasf be-
/
character IF the Democratic party, aud of the
country, has been shamelessly disLonored
independent man, who would not bow 10
the attempt to sacrifice principle, we're
turned out Of Office, and base and character
less knayes put into their places.
Solemn assurances TO high fanctionaries.
written, spoken, and printed, were ruthIessly
broken.
Ranresant 4, t;,,os ,ro.a ,,roIll =.
their votes and TO violate their plighted faith,
and were conscience failed to approve pa
tronage came IN to support them.
Galcmnies, the rSost atr6cioGs and. cruel.
were hurled against all who dared to be
true to the truth, l. tbs all Would tnat it
weres The formal declaration oi proud,
national party was songht TO be nullifed by
the action OF Unngress, ami in substitution
for principle, inposiugly declared and
solenlnly sealed, before the eyes of the whole
country, we had offered to US a, miserable cheat
The dark deed Of gang of reckless speculators
in Kansas was made the test of Democratic
faith. Fraud and Falschood were erected into
cardinal yirtces, and the protests of fifteen
thousand freemen against this deed were
laughed at, as the protests of our fathers in
the Revolution were laughed at, as the rawlings
SO far for the footprints of this unhallowed
DeSpotism They are marked on the historic
page the evidences of receding morality
and dcgenerating Democracy They turn
back the hands on the dial plates of time, and
remind US that We are living in the feudal ages
Nay, worse than THAT; for then, if power was
great, public men were brave, and tie knave
that sold His character died the death of the
infamous.
Bdt the great crime dii not stop here One
wrong after another was tried, till at last, as if
10 mock at even the semblanee of right, the So
called ENGLISH BIbf. was proposed, the ir-
incarnation of treaciery and OF duplieity Ia
bill, be 1t understood, which differed from its
precedents Iii this: that they were swndles aud
this was brieb, which, ,professjng to submit I.e-
compton to the people, did not submit il, ac-
cording to its Southern expounders, aud
which, starting ont in the preamble with
scandalous nisstaienlent, crowned the whole
proceeding with declar,tion that if the peo-
pie cf Kansas did not take it, they should
tester in dissensons ill 1. suited their mas ers
to admit them
And this is the scheme that was forced through
yes,erdsy-TnE BLACK FRIDAY of our century.
Well may the Senator from New York
Ci} uEOH tHe uHHHiuS uSeu
All history will cry Shame upon it, too
The burden Da,ch this odfrSge atidche$ to
The Democratic party canaot BE- carried rc.tbom
crushing it. Candidates for office viii be com
PEELED 10 speak out againstit, and those who
are silent will pay the penalty Of such all ac-
quiescence.
What Kansas may decide upon, we are not
authorized to say, but We cannot doubt that
she will reject the bribe with scorn. Whether
she does OF not, the wrong done will be aveng-
ed, and the sacred a1etrine yindieated The
case has pissed into the hands of the people of
the States, especially those who have been in
suited by iiieir Representatives, as we have
been BY elefen Of our members from Pennsyl-
vaniaj four of whom represent this proud me-
ropolis, ,whefe there is bat one sentimne outside
of the ofFice-holders and office-seekers, and
that fearlessly against the action of the Con-
gresS Of the United States, in forcing an odious
Constitution upon a protesting people. Pres.