The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-11-04
3. F. Meyers, Editor.
"gEPUBLlCAN'' FEELING.

ded disapproval Of the recent Abolition out
break at Harper's Ferry, there is strong and I
striking attempt to justify the conduct OF BROWN
and his fellow conspirators and to create SYM /
nalbv for the miserable wretches who wanton-
" and brutally shot down the aged and unoi-
feading BEoKHAM and who deliberately and de-
family committed treason against the Govern
ment of their country. The State Journal does
not want to be misunderstood. L does uotl
wish 10 be understood as favoring the Abolition
of slavery by fire and sword. OF course not.
That would damage the prospects Of its pet bum
bug, e:Republicani8n." Put whilst protesting
against being considered favorable TO i0rcibis
Abolition, the JournUj uses such language as
can leave no other impression on the minds Of
It's readers than that Brown and his men have
its hearty sympathy. The first two paragraphs
OF its article are very significant. Observe the
expression that ''the twenty two bold men who
recently held their Entertainments at Harper's
Ferry, in the face OF an arned array of as ma
ny hundreds for over thirty hours, fcsre m fee
ling bit tie representatives. Of a large and
growing class"
eve live in strange and startling times
The great national ulcer, slavery, havlag III
famed with IFS virus the circulation OF the en-
tire body polite, after itlUl periods of ietld
burrowing, breaks upon the surface in diseased
aspects as unexpected in kind as in locality.
Three years ago, when pro-slavery ruhianism
was devastating Kansas, who could have pre-
dicted that in the lapse OF halt a lustrum, the
IniamieS bf the African slave trade would be
extensively revived aud advocated IN this re-
public, the traffic deiying the tardy aud feeble
efforts for ITS suppression BY the National Gov
ernmen! or that score OF brave, devoted,
but misguided men would lnaugurate insurrec-
ton upon the serfimpoverlshed soil OF the Old
Dominion, and sacrifice themselves IN bloody
and menacing occasion
Menacing, not in the sense Of an occurrence
with immediate results OF moment, but IN the
force of precedent which may encourage by
showing the facility with which kindred en-
terprIses can be attempted, and, with com
mensurate preparation. prosecuted to depIora-
Bile consequences. Aenacing, also, as l!lusira-
ting the temper, more than earnest, intense,
and enthusiastic, which the unscTupulOusness
and arrogance of the sayeholdiDg ollgarchv
has awakened in the breasts OF thousands for
honest observers must know and confess, how
ever regretfuIly, that the twenty-five bold men
who recently held their entertainments al Har-
per's Ferry in the face of an armed array OF as
many hundreds for over thirty hours, wsre an
feeling bm representatives Of a large and gTOlC-
ing class.
Further on, tins organ OF Pennsylvania ''Re-
publicanism, attempts 20 justify Brown, by
comparing his case TO that of FIiibuster Walker,
holding that if Walkers expeditions to Central
America were right and lawfnl in the eyes OF
the South, then Browns Abolition raid into yir-
ginia, should also be considered, By the South,
right and lawful "If your Walkers are he
rops," ayslthe Journal, 'how comes it that your
Browns are feIons ~ The cases would BE- par
alleI, had Walker invaded State Of tie Union
as Brown did, but he inyaded foreign c0un-
trV, which was an offence against the law ol
nations and not treason against the Government
of the United States. But the Journal reasons
from the usual Black Republican premises. In
its opinion Virginia is, evidently, as much
foreign country as Nicaragua, or Costa Rica.-
1t could not believe otherwise. Every State
south of Mason and Dixon's line, is considered
foreign in the Republican creed. And why
For no reason under heaven except that Ne
groes are slaves in those States, as they have
been from tue beginning, and as they once
were in Pennsylvania and in Magsachu-
setts.
In the passage above quoted, the Journal
talks about the Harper's Ferry affair, .'as Illus
tratDg the temper, more taan earRest, intense,
and enthusiastic, which the unscrupulousness
and arrogance of the slave holding oligarchy
has awakened in the breasts Of Thousands !''-
This, taken in connexion with the assertion in
the succeeding sentence, that the Harper's Fer
ry conspirators "were an feeling but represen-
tatives of large and growing class, can mean
nothing else than the Abolition sentiment Of the
so-calIed Republican party. That IS the ''tem-
per, more than earnest, intense and euthusias-
tic" did the Journal meaa insane p Tint
is the ''feeling" Of the large and growing class
OF which those ''twenty two bold men" were
representatives.
The Journal concludes with a paragraph
that needs no comment. l; might as well have
said IN so many words, 'Ihere will be more
serVile insurrecIions, more Browne and Cooks
whose standard will never sink ill slavery
shall be blotted out IA blood" Sach is the
tone of the leading "Republcan" weekly in
Pennsylvania. How do the conservatives of
Bedford county, The national Americans and