Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1859-11-04

Virginia is still in ferment. "Old Gig
zard-foot" IS on bis high horse, talking away
by the hour, distributing arms to every county
10 the disturbed commonwealth, and putting
the whole country into mortal terror at she iu-
terminabie letter which is sure to come from
his pen. Harper's Ferry is yet in the pa
roxysns of fright, and Sandy Hook is in mo.
mentsry expectation of a general massacre
Throughout the eutlre Old Dominion there is
hunting up of old swords, Furnishing of rifles,
| aud careful inquiry iBte the state and supply
of the ammunition. The chivalry is all agog
for deeds of bigh emprise, and demanding to
be led against the million of Browns and
Smiths whom its Rffrighted imagination has
coujured up. s'To arms! to nrmsi ye bravel"
And what is the cause Of all this commo-
tione What has occurred to stir up thus the
courage of the undaunted sous Of Virginiaa-
Why this blowing of trumpets aud marshslling
of hosts-th this delivery of speeches Of "lcarn-
ed length and laundering sound" and rattle of
bayonets as TIE mighty battalions gatber?-
Virginia has been invaded! One Of her
strongholds has been captured! Twenty men,
fifteen OF them white and Eve black, have
marched into the bowels of the land, taken
town, captured an armory, formed a provision
-
blotted out the Constitution of Virginia, and
put her entire people into convulsions of
terror. One old man, with nineteen puuy
hackers, has done it all!
If the thing had occurred at our arsenal,
here in Pittsburg, our day police would have
put an end 10 the riot in an hour; but down 10
that classic State, renowned for ebo-shins and
gizzard-foots, oysters and Gov Wise, there is
q sudden hurryipg TO snd fro Of military COM
panies; the aid Of the General Government is
invoked; three or four thousand men are sped
to the place ~ conflict; old Brown and his
nineteen lunutcs are shot down, and the Seye-
raj thousand people of HaTper's Ferry, hud-
died toghther like sheep, as their Governor un-
complementary observes, breathe frees and ca.
sier again!
But the end is not yet. Brown is mortally
wounded, and fifteen Of ths fools who went
With him are dead; but the appalling dismay
spread over Virginia by these twenty power
less men is not dispelled. The danger still
continues, though they cannot tell from whence
NJ Is to come. There must be danger, some-
Nhere, else why should ihe brave, chivalric,
Outrageous Virginians be oil of trembleq-
Vpld they, the lion hearted fellows of the
natAn, the very embodiment of vigorous cour
age' WOULD they tremble, think you, if there
were FVt real danger? Not bit of it. Could
t"entyWen scare two hundred thousand fight
ihg menput of their wits? The thing is not to
De ihougs Of. They are the eonserrators of
the natisna peace, and are not to be scared BY
any amounsf Browns. Not they. Did not
some three heusand of them reoapture Har-
per's Ferry fra the boodthirsty Brown4 Yes.
sir! They dld i,easy.
Seriously, it is'aughable to witness the ter
rieia fear into whls Virginia has been thrown
oy paltry SCORE moonstruck adventures.
But why do they no lie, their fears subside.
now that the danger hover, (if it ever exist.
ed,) and not try to pusbe whole country into
fermeLt because coardly village has been
panic strioken' Here in the North we sun.
press our own rows; bu, Ger there thew have
to call on the Presidents Nd the army. and
now the craven Harper's Fefyites are striving
to diffuse their nervous terroAoyer the eoun-
try, without conprehending Now ridiculous |
they are making themselves. THE whole or |
the original affair was silly enSph. but this |
effort to keep up the excitement Nth exaepe-
rated reports OF vast conspiraA, aud with |
flaming and furious editorials, is moS intensely |
silly. 1t were better, far better "a them 10 .