Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1860-11-16
UNION MEETING AT HENDERSON, Ky.


UNION MEETING AT HENDERSON, KY.
HRnDERsoN, KY, Nov. IA large and
enthusiastic Union meeting irrespective Of par
ty, was held to-day.
FIX. Governor Dixon presided.
Strong Union speeches we're made BY Bell,
Breckenridge aud Douglas men.
Union resolutions were unanimously adopted
in which secession is strongly deprecated.
meeting Of lhe people OF the whole State
has been called for Saturday next.
THE SENTIMENT AT WESTINGHOUSE PREsI-
DENT TO ISSUE SPECIAL PROCLAMATION.
WASHINGTON, New. l2.-As far as csn be
ascsrtained, there is no disposition either on the
part of the Administration or of gentlemen of
political prominence here, to interfere with the
present Southera movements, except, perhaps,
in friendly spirit.
l. is now probable that the President win
soon issue an address or proclamation, as tue
election Of delegates to the South Carolina Con-
ventIon will take place at an earlier day than
was recently anticipated, aud as, in consequence
there would not be sufficient time for the gene
raj circulation Of an appeal through the annual
message, as was original contemplated. The
subject tonight under consideration
Such is the alarm that Washington will not
be continued as the seat of government, that
tho value of real estate has been sensby af-
fected by the secession movement.
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Gov. Houston, of Texas, talks 10 the follow
ing sensible way TO the Disuuou babblers.-
The ex tracts are from his speech at Austin,
Texas, September 22d
ssBut, fellow-ctizeas, we have new party
in our midst. They have deserted tue old
democracy, aud under the lead of Mr.. Yancey
have started what they call Southern Con-
stitutional party. They say that they could
aot get their constitutional rights in the ma
tlonal democracy; and because the platform
was adopted which they all endorsed and un-
der which they all fought, 10 1856, they sece-
ded. il will be recollected that objected to
that platform in 1856 but was declared to
be wrong. They all denounced me then but
now they suddenly see that the platform won't
do, and they seeode to get their constitutional
| rights. They are keepers of the Constitution
they don't want anything but the Constitution,
ana they won't have anything but the Con-
stituton. They have studied it 80 profoundly
/ that they clain, to know better whas it means
| than the men who made 1t. They have nomi-
mated Southern constitutional candidates, aud
| have mea travelling about the country ex,
polndng tie Constitution aud yet there is
scarcely one Of them but will tell you that,
| notwithstanding the fact that Mr.. Lincoln may
| be elected in the mode pointed out by the Con-
stltuiion, aud By constitutional majority,
they will not submit You hear it from the
stump you read it in their papers aud their
resolutions, that if Mr. Lincoln is elected the
Union is to be dissolved Here is a con-
stitutional party that intends to violate the
| Constitution because man is constitutionally
| elected President Hera is a constitutional
party that proelaims it iTeasonable for a man
to uphold the Consultation. If the people
eonsIitutionally elect President. is the ulnor-
| Ity to resist him? Do they intend to carry
that principle into their new Southern Con
federacyl If they do, we can readily con-
ceive how long it will last.
| "But who ara the teachers of this new
| tangled southern constitutional democracy.--
| Are they not men like Yancey and Wigfall,
who have been always regarded as beyond the
pale Of national democracyl Transplants
from the South Carolina Oursery of disun0n
| Whenever and wherever the spirit of nuli65a-
! tlou aud disunlon has shown itself, they and
| their coadjutators have been found regularly
at work. They have been defeated time aud
| again, but like men who have a purpose, they
| have not ceased their efforts. No sacrifice of
! pride or dignity has been deemed too great if
it assisted 10 the great purpose Of disunioD.--
| What, if they assai,ed the Compromise of 1850.
| They endorsed it iu the platform of 1852
From Don-intervention they turn to interVen-
tIon. From the peculiar advocates of state
rights, denying the jurisdiction Of the Supreme
Court, they become the advocates of the Su.
| preme Court, as an arbiter, aud shout for the
Dred Scott decision. Anything for dlsunion !!
They can readily dissolve the Union upou
one issue as another. AT the Nashville Con-
vention they determined to dissolve it, unless
the Missouri Compromise line was extended TO
the Pacific. 10 1854 they deemed the exis-
tense of this line cause of separation, and
demanded its repeal. The admission of Kan
sas was the next uttinsatum, and now il is the
election of Mr.. Lincoln. Should they fail, it
will be the adoption of the slave code, and the
repeal of the laws making the slave trade
piracy"
Mr.. LINCOLN ON ELECTION DAY.-The
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