The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1860-11-02
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THE DANGER OF THE UNION.
sMALL 1T TBEDEsTROYED OR OR.PRESERVED.
SIGNIFICANT INDICATIONS
SIGNS IN OUR SOUTHERN SKY.

From the Mo bile (Ala.) Register, Douglas and
10 hnscn.)
A REVOLUTION BEFORE Us.-And so will
come Disunion when il comes. And so # was
intended TO come. The programme was skill
fully arranged. Divide the South paraIyze
the million and half conservatives OF the North
who, backed BY united South, could have
crushed the Republicans ; encourage the hopes
and redouble the energies of the Black Re
publIcans elect Lincoln, and then-Hurrah
for disruption and Southern Confederacy -
That's the programme of the leaders.
Many honest B. & L. men d. not see II so
and do not believe it yet. But they will Sc 1t.
When the banner of civil war is raised and
commerce is deranged, when the price of prop
erty is disturbed, capitalists withdraw their
money from circulation and the distrust and
doubt which always come along with great Po-
litcal changes, appear when B. s. L. planters
who have followed the mad hurra after an ab-
stracIon in the Territories find that in cropping
at shadow they have lost the substance
when their lands and negroes, feeling the chill
ling effects OF the great change, tumble down
fifty or sixt, per cent IN value, and nothing
goes up but the price of powder and ball, and
nothing is at premium but new inventions OF
perruSoian caps and 1uich-fepeating rifles, pis-
tolls and guns.
And now we stand within brief month of
the grand finale Merchants, planters, capl-
taIIsts, mechanics, working-meu, fathers, hus-
bands, brothers, nay, wives, mothers, sisters and
daughters, look ii in the face and tell, as your
pulses quicken and your. cheeks blanch, for
what good end will TINS mighty change from
| safety to peril, from peace to war, have been
| invoked There is but one answer, and 1t
will be 'Ve bave broken up the most magnifi-
cent empire the sun ever shone upon rather
! than allow American citizens in American
| Territories the privilege OF SELF-GOVERN-
| MENT."
That's all. That's the whole dispute. If
| there is anything else, as God is our judge, we
cannot fndit. For this, we are brought face TO
face with the hour when great empire may
| fall in the throes and agonles OF dISsolu-
| ton.
The Advertiser, lBreckinridge,) of the same
| place, gives briet report of speech by Gen.
Walker, of that State, made lately 'at Cowpen
Springs, in Lauderdae county, from which we
| extract briefly
! oIn reply to the question, "What would be
do if Lincoln IS elected - Gen. w. said,
drawing himself up TO his full height, and in
the subIimest strain of eloquence, "that, come
veal or woe, so help him God, he would not
submit, and he would take the banner OF the
| Constitution and plant it where the honor or
safety of the South demanded, and that he would
defend it with bis life and fortune against Sar-
acens or MoorS His answer was noble and
grand, and nobly was it answered by the crowd
! One old gentleman whose white locks and tot
| tering form indicated that he had run his
"three score years and ten," called Gen. w.
| TO his chair, after he closed, and, with tears
running down shrs cheeks, said, "Gene-al, |
wish L was young would fight and die with
YOU" do not honestly believe, except two
or three Douglas leaders, that there were half a
dozen in the crowd that GiSsented from Gen.
Walkers speech. Our people are now thor
ougIy aroused.
SOUTH CAROLINA A SECESSION UNIT.
From the Charleston Mercury, tBreck.l
! The question OF separate secession OF South
| Carosna IN the event of Lincoln's election, aud
other States IN the South failing to lead, being
| premature, and not subject for action before
| the egislature, has not been made an issue in
| the canvass. We believe that the delegation,
almost TO man, will vote to arm the State and
call State Convention, and place South Caro-
lima by the side of Alabama. Our readers will
remember that the Governor OF Alabama is in
structed to issue wrts of election, and summon
a convention ofthe people of that State, within
! forty days after it is ascertained that a Black
Republican is elected to the Presidency.
Hon. J...Slidell, United StatesaSenator from
Louisiana, has published an address to the peo-
pie OF the United States, in which the follow
ing passage occurs
"There was time, and that, too, not very
remote, feIlow-citizens, when the word disunior