The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1860-08-17
VOL. 4. MOB.

to weld ITS power against slavery everywhere.
And The secesslonists want The federal force
welded for slavery everywhere. Thus you
una an lrrePressible conflict produced between
those two sectional parties. TIE one is the an
tPodes TO the other; and yet the one Is necessa-
ry to the existence Of the other. The republl-
cans OF the North and the secessonists of the
south occupy precisely the same relation TO
each other as the two blades of pair Of shears.
lhey Doth turn on the same pivot, but Get in
opposite directions. daughter and cheers.l
Interference by Congress with slavery in the
Territories Is the pivot on which both turn.
lhe republicans tell US that Congress must pro-
hiot slavery wherever the people want slavery
no matter about prohibiting it where the peo-
pie don't want It-they prohibit it themselves.
Hence, the republicans want Congress to pro-
hiblt slavery whenever and wherever the peo-
pie want 10 have it. The secessionists
on the other hand, demand that Congress shall
MAINTAIN and protect slavery wherever the peo-
pie don't want it. They say that they are 60
ing to have 1t protected by Congress wherever
necessary, and that is not necessary 50 long
as the people want it, for il they want 1t they
will protect II themselves. 1t is only necessa-
rv when The people don't want 1t, and that is
the only time they are going to Interfere to pro-
tect It. Thus, both Of those parties rest their
respective claims on the doctrine OF interven-
tlon by Congress with slavery IN the Territories.
IN opposition to the right the people in ali
cases. The democratic party, on the other
| hand, proclaim the doctrine Of non.interference
by Congress with the domestic institutions of
the people everywhere. (Applause.) Wesay
10 the federal government, "Hands off! Tench
| not the local affairs OF the people!' We say
TO the federal government, what our fathers said
TO the British Parliament, "Mind your own bu-
! siness." ('That's rlght.") Passing through Yer
gennes tie other day, gentleman IN the cars
called my attention 20 an old piece of Continen-
/ tai money. "Did you ever mind those words
| Mind your own business" Another gentle
man IN the cars called my attention 10 an old
Massachusetts, coin, on the reverse side of which
was, E'Ailnd your own business" (.sThat IS a
very good creed."j That was the creed of our
fathers IN the Revolution. That was what they
said to the British Parliament when they at
tempted to force slavery on the colony of Vir-
/ ginia, against It's will. That is what our fathers
said to the British government when II attempt
! ed TO control our people in their local and do
mestlc affairs, and to dictate what kind OF pa-
! per they should write on. Our fathers said TO
| the British government, GLANDS off. Mind
! your own business" And in order that thew
might perPetuate that motto and render it ia
mlllar TO their children, they placed It upon
their paper money and on their coin, in order
! that every child should learn to read it. Le:
Us now act on that principle. Let US say to Con-
gress, "Mrnd your own business, and let the
/ Territories alone" have word more TO saw
to you, and then have done. I presume that
many OF you have business before Congress of
some kind or other Perhaps one OF you has
claim for pension. II SO, ask your represen-
tatiVe, when Ee comes home, what became Of
/ your bill. He'll tell you that he dId the best
| he could for you, but that 1t was lost for
want oitIme. "Why lost for the want oftime9"
"Oh, Congress occupied the whole time in dis
cusslng the slavery question, and there was no
! time to pass your pension bil'' Another nav
have an interest in the French Spoliation bill.
Ask your representative what became OF that
bill. ''Lost for want OF time slavery question
| occupies The whole time; no chance for any-
thing else" Ask you: representatives WIZ
they did not remodel the tariff in ord,r TO raise
money enough to defray the expenses OF the
government without borrowing twenty mil
lions OF dollars year. They will tell YOU the
oftme. The negro question occupies the whole
time no chance for the tariff. Ask them why
they did not pass Pacific Railroad bill and at
the same time remind them that Fillmore was
pledged TO Pacific railroad when candidate
IN 1896, ard Fremont was pledged to it, aud
Buchanan was pledged TO t--ail three parties
pledged TO It, Yet the very bIll the very mea-
sure TO which all parties were pledged, could
not get majority in either house of Congress.
Ask your representatives. WHY? "Lost for
the want OF time the negro question takes up
all the tune, and there is no time left to attend
to the material interests OF the country''-at
least to the interests of the white folks, as my
friend in the crowd says. In my opinion, the
government o this country is the white mans
government. II was made bv white men for
the benefit of white men, and ought TO be ad-
miniSteIed bv white men. (Cheersl And I
think the white men have right to small
portion OF the tune, at least, so that their busi-
ness may be attended TO. You never will have
appropriate legislation on any oil these questions
before CongreSS-and am not DISCUSSING the
question as to what the legislation ought 10 be
but YOU never will have the subjects considered
and acted upon until YOU banish the negro CUES
ton from the halls Of Congress. Let US banish
that question from Congress forever. Remand
it the people OF the Territories who are inter
rsted in it. Let them do as they please. sub
iect to the constitution of the United States.
and there will be no cause OF controversy De-
tween the North and the South Maintain the
doctrine OF non-intervention and there will be
peace and harmony between all sections of the
country. Why can We not now live 10 peace
as we did in Ion mer times Yeu will all rs
member tha, during the Revolution the Nor
thern army was commanded by Southern gem
eral, and the Southern army by Northern
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