The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-10-07
BEDFORD, Pa, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7, 1859


cially the President and Secretary of State. with
whom L was in closest relation from first 10 last i,
gave me cordial and thorough support, which
could only repay by trying to do that which
would rebound most to the public benefit and
the fame Of the Administration, with which ior
veal or woe, | am proud TO say my reputation
Is Indlssnlubly connected. Ia office and out of
office | am the friend of the President I wish
there to be no mistake about this. The eloouent
gentleman who has Just addressed you, il speak
ing of some who acted with you in 1856, and
who are with you now, spoke OF them as S'cap-
tured" Wings; have simply to suggest that he
should have used the term "captIyaed" I'm
mense applause.)
But gentlemen, with these feeIings-asa con-
verted Whg-a Democrat of yesterday-an
ofhcehoIder who has resigned his ofiice-a warm
personal friend of the President-and if | know
my own heart, one who loves my country and
the ConstItution,-I come home and | am told
there is fatal Reorganization and disCord-that
there S mutIny in the camp-that with a con-
test before us more perious to the Union than
any yet waged-for the Fremont folly ofl656 !
VIII be nothing to the fierce ianaticism Of $50, !
there IS danger of division on some such abstrac-
ton, for such it now is-as slavery in the Ter /
rltorIes, cannot persuade myself OF this. This /
great meeting does not look like if. The great
phalanx of the Southern Democracy seems
compact. The cracks are merely on the surface. |
The minority in the \ orlh and East is sleadlast
and II | mistake not the signs, may in some
quarters become a maj ority. The opposition !
Is hopelessly divided, nd if it ever untes, can
only DO 50 on terms which will drive away all /
conservative men from it. In New York all is !
lanatlcism OF one sort or the other. In Penn /.
sylvanla, or at least in this region of it. Judging
by the papers, gentler deusIon seems to pre- (
vaIi-but there is no cohesion and no chance
OF It. All, then, gentlemen, depends on YOU /
the resolu;e firm Democracy Of the middle !
States. With the United South. the States of |
Kentucky and Pennsylvania, to whose close |
sympathy on constitutional principles Justice is /
scarcely done, can save the day. But there |
must 6e no more bickering, no more dscord. |
l do not mean, IN any thing nave said, 10 un- |
derraie the purity or importance Of even the |
great abstract ques tions that divide the country.
They are worthy OF discussion. Whslher, since. !
according to some, The Supreme Court has fail J
ed 10 decids '.~'", they 70 1ure uIurCisIon,
| don't venture to say. But, let them be dis /
cussed temperately and discreetly. Let there
be no vulgar denunciatiOG--no calling nick |
names or giving the lie-~and, above all, let those (
who have, as much at stake as the democracy of /
Pennsylvania in the couiDg contest, as we'll /
as 1860, show by their votes that all efforts 10 /.
divide and disorganizp them viii fail
Gentlemen, | came here to diyht on a few !.
moments notice, to show by my presence and /.
the few words have uttered, how earnestly I .
Svrupat hisp with Won and b1v, sirrgr.I,, .