The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-12-30

!'o" trt Us take i glahCe at Inc state oi
things IN the Southern States, Comembers, as
they are, with US in the great republican CON
iederacy. Let us consider over what sort ola
population II is, that some persons among Us
thnk 1t not only right and commendlble, on:
IN the highest degree heroic, saint-Iike, god-lkr
10 extend the awful calamity which turned s.,
Dlmlngo into heap of bloody ashes ia 1871.
There are between three aud four millions oil
the cOl)red race scattered through the Southern
and Southwestern States, in small groups, I'd
cities, towns, villages, aud in larger bodies on
! ls1iated plantations in he house, the factore
and the field mingled together will The DOM
Inant race IN the various pursuits OF HE lif
latter amounting IN th' aggregate TO eight or
nIne millions II rightly recoliect the numbers
( Upon TINS community, thus composed, it was
.he design OF Brown to let loose the aeli-l0unds
OF a SrreIe asurection, and 10 bring on a stray
gle which, for magnitGir, atrocity and horror
would have stood alone in the history OF thp
world
Ani these eight or nine millioas, agaiqst
whom tbs frightfuI war was levied, are our f-l-
Iow-cItIzens, entitled witt Us 10 The nrotrciioa
OF that compact Of government, which recoeni-
zrs their relation 10 the c1lored race-a conpact
The States IS bound BY his oath to support H.
mong them, s,r, Is far proportion Of men sni
women o! education dHi cuture-of moral and
religious lives and haraclers-qir;Q0us at!lsrs.
mothers, sons, and daughters; persons Is h3 w9a,d
adorn any station OF society IN any county,
/ men who read the same Bible that we do, and
/ IN tue name of the same master knarl al the
/ fhr0ne 0flh same GoI-iormIar a class OF f?en
ig1rn which have gone firth s5ar af the gf.a:-
I est and purest Characters which adorn our his
/ torv-(i asaugtog, Jefferson, Madison, Moaroe
/ MARSHALL. These are TIE men, TIE women, for
( whose 5oson,s, pixies and rifles are manufactured
/ 10 New England, TO be placed in tae bands Of
an ignorant subject race, supposed, most whng-
/ fully, as recent events have shown. 10 BE-
waiting only for good opportunity 10 use
them.
/ Sir, have on three or four different tsca-
slons IN early lite and more recently, yrsieI all
! the Southern and Southwestern States Wit the
exception Of Arkansas and Alabama I have
enjoyed the hospitality Of the city and the
country ! have had the privilege before
crowded and iavorng audiences to hold u8 the
character OF The father Of his country, and to IN
calcate the blessings oithe Union 10 tie same
precise terms IN which have done il here at
/ home and IN the other portions oflhe Iasd. ]
! have been admitted to Toe confIei.cs 9i ;he DO
mes;ic Circle, and have seen there touching
manifestations Of The kindast feelings by which
that circle. IN all lis members hi.a and low.
master and servant, can be bound together and
when contemplate the horrors that would
have easled had he tragedy on which the cur
tain rose at HarpeI's Ferry, been acted Ont.
through all lis scenes u lire and sword, or last
and murder, o! saPne a0i des7laioa. 10 lie f.
nai catastrophe, am filed wih emotions 70
"a'ca no words can G3 Justice.
There could OF course be but one r4sr,!t. and
that well deserving the Thoughtful meditation
o! ,dos", 81 any suca there be-, who th,nk that
The welfare G! The cniored lace could by aay
possibility be promoted bg the success Il suct
movement, and who afp willing to purchase
that result by SO costly q sacrifice. The colo-
red population @! s.. Domingo amounted to bni
little short O! half = million, while The white,
amounted to 10000. The whne population
OF the Southern States alone, ia the aggregate.
outnumbers the coi0red race in the ratio Of two
20 one; 10 the Union at la:ge in the ratio Of
seven to one, and i! (Which Heaven averll they
should be brou-h, into conflict, II could end on
iy Ia the determination o. the Latter after scsaps
.! woe tor winch language Is too faint. and l,r
"hicA ta9 iFri1St fancy has no adequate ina
ges Of horror.
Such being the case, some one may ask why
does not the South lortify herself against the
possible occurrence OF such a Catastrophe, Ay
DONG away with the one great source from
when alone it can spring This is a question
easily asked, and | am not aware that II i, our
duty at the North 10 answer 1t; but il NAV be o.
served that great and radical CHANGES in the
framework OF s2cirty, involving the relations Of
Twelve millions OF men, will not wait on th-
oidding OF an !mpa.Ient pAIiauthr )py. They
can only be brought about IN !hr lapse Of TIM.
by the steady operation Of .hysica, eciuomi-
Cal and moral causes. Have those who re-
5uke the South for :he Continuance of slavery
considered that neither the present generation
nor the preceding on" Is re: ponsILie iof its ex-
lsience! The African SIavt-trade was nrobib-
tied by act Of Congress titty-one years 20, and
many Years earlier by the separate Southern
States. The entire coiored population, with the
perhaps, Of lew hundreds surrep-
thiouSIy Introduced, IS Gative 10 the soil
/ heif ancestors were conveyed from AGica in |
ihe ships oil OH Eug!a and New England. |
they now number between three and iJur mil |
lions. Has any person, Of any party o, opinion, |
proposed IN soJ1r earnest, PRACTICAL method OF |
wholesale emancipation!
believe most persons, in all parts ofthe |
country, are Of opinion that free labor is stpadl-
~ gaining ground. 1t would, in my judgement. (
have already prevailed in the two northern /
tiers Of the slaVeholding States had its adyan-
ces not been unhaPplly retarded By the irrlta-
ting agltations OF the day. But has any person, !
WHOSE opinion is entitled to the slightest re-
sprct, ever undertaken to sketch ou! the de-
tails Of plan for egrctlng the change at once,
by any legislative MEASURE that could be adnn- |