The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-04-01
DEMOCRATIC THUNDER !
THE CONVENTION SUSTAINED BIZ
THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS
From The Pennsylvania of The 18th inst

rise to considerable discussion. The few who
advocated it, disclaimed any approval of the
Governors conduct in reviving the Lecompton
question in MS last message, and in other re-
spects lending himself to the purpose OF party
disorganzation. The course of his Attorney
General, Knox, was expressly repudiated by
the delegate who offered the resolution. The
majority, however, could see neither policy nor
propriety in giving any such expression OF
opinion proposed by the resolution. The
Governor must bp looked upon as having volun
arily arrayad himself, like Mexican and
Shuttle, ganst The party which elected him.
He retained in office men who were making open
war upon the Democratic party and It's organiza-
tion. He had but recently turned out of office
sound and true Democrat, to make room for
man not a citizen of the State. who but last
fall, was openly in the field IN support OF Black
Republican candidates, and who publishes
paper which makes weekly assaults upon the
| President and the National Democracy of the
country. And moreover, he has given his
sanction to acts clearly prrjadlcIal TO the in
terests OF the Commonwealth and her citizens.
| Although there appears to have been thirty
seven of the Convention who were willing, as
matter OF supposed policy, TO vote for the
! resolution Of endorsement, it is we'll understood
| that scarcely ma n OF them has any confidence
whatever in the Governor, either as an officer
| or Democrat. They, with all other party
men, look upon him as having placed himself
with Knox, Hickman, Forney * Co., outside Of
the Democratic organization, and as ready to
approve any kind OF legislation that he may
believe calculated 10 advance the interests OF
the speculating crowd with whom he is known
to be associated.
From the Phila. Argus OF the 10Th inst.
The Illuminating position which Governor
! Packer now occupies will be painful TO every
Democrat throughout the Union. Elected by
an overwhelming majority TO preside over the
soundest Democratic State in the Confederacy,
in eighteen months we find him utterly repu-
dated by the men who elevated him, and his
political reputation forever covered with igno-
miny and shame. As man he may not have
deserved that hard fate, but as the representa-
tive of party he richly earned it. He sur
rounded himself with advisers utterly lost 10
political honor, and when called upon to dis
card them he closed his ears to the appeals
The people bore with him until iorbearance
ceased to be virtue, and their verdict has gone
forth, "Ephraim is joined 10 his idols let hin
+ alone"
From the Harrisburg Patriot o. Unlon
The Pennsylvania Democracy is like MIL
TONS young man waking from sleep and sha
f king his nvincible locks. A corruption anC
impedinents have been sloughed of-alI The
unI ot'Ior rcrnpi 1p6prel IN M
proud attitude OF defender oil popular rights anc
the union OF the States. PAcKER and his sat.
elites are harmless before the unbroken col
umn which we now present for hundreds o
the honest yeomen viii gather 10 our standard
where one double-dealing knaye Deserts
Heretofore we have been stricken down by Sc
cret foes ; hereafter we have them in font
ln the past, we were forced to bear the load Of
ndignily which recreant Democrats heaped
upon our shoulders 10 the future, we shall
present bold and honest front to the enemy OF
American nationality. Therefore are we stron-
ger far, than we have been for years. Indeed
no party ever stood so proudly as the Fighter
of the wrong, and indicter of the guilty. This
undaunted and loyal popular position attracts
the sympathies OF the masses-it confounds
trucking politicians, and terminates the miser-
able clap-trap about popular sovereignty and
Kansas. From the day of The last Convention
we date the regeneration of the Democratic
party, and an era OF new triumphs for the
friends of the the United States.
from the loTk Gazette, March 22d.
This Convention will teach wholesome les
son, in all time to come, to those in place and
! power. Had Governor Packer properly re-
buked the objectionable treason of his Attorney
General, when he preached disorganization to
the Democrats Of Chester, be would not now be
left naked to his enemies. "There was the
weight that pulled him down." II was ssa
bunder, worse than a crime," not TO set openly
and fearlesslv his mark of disapprobaton upon
the unwarrantable course OF the man he had
taken into his counsels. No one is too high TO
escape the evil which results from a contact
with bad advisers. The stream will not remain
pure, If the waters flowing into il are poisoned.
The Convention over, it now becomes the duty
OF every true Democrat TO rally round his party
standard. desperate attempt will be made
to defeat us at the next election. The recruit
er will be sent forth by the Opposition to steal
from our ranks the weak and wavering. A
victory IN October next, they proclaim, will be
victory in 1860. THEY MUST BE FotLEp +
We had Waterloo last year-let US show them
Buena Vista, when we meet them again in
battle.
From the HOldaysburs Standard, March 2a.l
After endorsing the administration and pas
sing the resolutions found elsewhere in our
columns resolution was offered by Mr.. Lam
berton supporting the State policy of Gov.
Packer. In support of this, Mr.. L., did not ask
that the Governors appointments should be
sustained, or that the course of the Govern
or'S organ should be endorsed but merely ask
ed resolution approving his State policy. AL
though this was asking tvery little, it was for
cIng just such an issue the friends of the Gov
Governor should have avoided. II would have
been better to have invoked the silence of the