The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-08-13

made the Revolution. So long as their great
leader IN peace and war, the typical man of
the Revolution, Washington, lived, party divis-
IONS were OF secondary account in the govern
ment of the United States When he died
when The work of constructing and setting
IN motion the machinery OF the Union had
been done-then the people of the United
States began 10 discuss and TO divide upon theo-
ries OF administrative policy in other words,
to form nio political parties and the history
OF the country exhibits the memorable fact that
from that day TO this, with brief and apparently
but casual Interruptions, one grand party has
controlled the administration Of the govern
mennt.
1t has been the fortune of that party TO initi-
ate all the great measures of administrations,
each one of which the adversary party opposed
IN their inception, TO acqulesce in them after
ward as fact, and to accept if not approve them
as theory. | can remember but one great meas
ure OF policy, foreign or domestic, which had
different origin. mean the subsisting imperfect
arrangement Of the common relations of Great
Britain and the United States 10 Central A
merica and that has never been anything but
stumbling block and an offence 10 the path Of
the Union. All the signal steps in progress Of
the country, as the acquisition of louisiana,
Florida and California, the accession of Texas,
the vindication of our rights on the side Of Great
Britain and Mexico by the successful prosecu-
ton ofwar with each, The successive adjust
ments OF the financial system of the government, !,
the determination Of the proper relation of the
Territories TO the States and the Union all
these are the work Of the same Democratic and
National association OF men and interests which
still presides over and administers the Govern
ment of the United States.
All this, we are told, is 10 be changed, for
The very reason that it is NATIONAL for the reason
that the tims-honcred theory of Administration
refuses to be sectionai-refuses TO defer TO the
exigencies Of the North, 50 far as TO disregard
the rights OF the South-refuses, in lis paternal
justice, TO see or know that there is a North or
South, an East or West, and looks only with
impartial eye on the whole undivided Union.
For this the people of the United States are to
be persuaded TO substitute sectional administra-
tion-or, TO speak more accurately, the people
OF the North are invited to make second effort
TO impose, by their sectional votes, such Sec
tonal administration on the people of the Uni
ted States.
Can this be done Will il be done I do
not believe it. can see, on the one hand,
political association, which holds in its keeping
the traditional public policy OF the country !
which, al both ends Of the country, North and
South, courageously and conscientiousy as
sumes the burden of nationality, N defiance Of
local jealousies and Prejudicies which alone
pFofesses Constitutional political creed, and
follows a Constitutional theo-y of action; /
which calmly, but resolutely maintains our in
rights in all emergencies which is .
Constituti0nally OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES it is
Democratic in principle, and thus conciIiates
ogether the rights OF the States and the rights
,fthe universal people. see, on the other
nand, a political ASSOCIATION, winch is not
only of the fragments broken off from other as
ociations, which has no definite platform of
doctrines and floats at random on the tide of
public policy, in the hope of picking up some
chance hemsman, It knows no. where, who
nay bring il into port, which lives only BY hate
al vItuperalion oil the South, which is the re-
uge and receptacle of all the crochety rsms of
he day.
Both are vain things and all who in vain things,
Bull their fond hopes of glory or lasting fame,
IRE the unaccomp lshed works of Natures hand,
bortve, monstrous, or unkindly mixed,'
ossng and whirling about in that limbo Of vaGi-
v. Can those eminent men, who, on the dis
olution of previous political associations, have
mprovidently allowed themselves TO drift up
nto that limbo, govern and guide their hetero-
,eneous, incongruous and imPracticabe COM
,anions to any useful purpose, either in the at
arnrnent or the exercise OF power / doubt.
Thew NAV do it, | admit, in single States.
Ieny that they can do il, on the broad field OF
he Union.
Il HAVE NOT BEGUN TO FIGHT YET"
The above language of the gallant and brave
Paul Jones, when the British commander asked
+ he had struck his flag and surrendered, are
words. Although his deck was
,Tirnerv and streaming with the blood OF his
,ailant crew, his ship was on fire, ,his guns were
7ealv every one dismounted, his eolors shot a
yay. and his vessel gradually sinking, Paul