The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1860-10-12
ONE GLORIOUS DESTiNY /!
LINCOLN AND HIS SUPPORTERS.
BEHOLD TIE RECORD.

BEHOLD TIE RECORD.
! An awful responsibility rests upon the voters
! Of this country a great, iealiul, a vital
issue is 10 be decided by them on the 9th dav
Of November next Through the ballot-box.
before the Supreme Ruler OF the Universe, I'VE
speak most reverently,l and in The eyes of the
! civilized world, the citizens Of this great coun-
/ try will be called upon to decide whether the
! Constitution and the Union our fathers made
! shall stand or fall-whether this great Govern
ment, the treest and the best The sun Of Heaven
ever Shone upoa- shall 60 on in It's high Career
OF prosperity aud renown, or be torn asnnder
by ctvil war Disguise It as YOU may, union
or dlsunoa IS the question to be- decided in
November. No man with a thimbiefulI oi
brains IN his head can fail TO see that the
triumph OF a sectional party, whose avowed OBJ
jet Is 70 war upon the institutions of the other
nall ot lhe Coutrderacy, leads inevitably to a
dissolution OF the Union. Hence ii was that
the Father uf his Country warned us 10 be-
ware OF sectional parties, and to Indignantly
irown upon tue trSt attempt 10 alternate one
section Of the Union from the other "A
house divided against itself cannot Stand;" holds
trne IN the political as well as the religious
world. THIS war OF one section upon the
other section can. have but one end-tte dsrup-
ION Of tie ConfrGeracy. II continued, it must
lead to estrangement, then hatred, then open
and violent alterations, and the dissolution of
the bonds that bind US together as one. people
How happily aud how truly did the great
Statesman OF Kentucky, Henry Clay, express
| tins idea in a sP ech in the Senate, on the Z OF
February, IS 80:
tlSr 7 SpPdkiuU
lightly OF the possibility OF dissolv;ng this hap
py Uni)n. The Senate Know thl,H have de-
preCated illusions, on ordinary occasions, to
that duefui event. The country will testify
that, if there be anything in the history of my
public career worthy of recollection, it is the
truth and sincerity OF my ardent devotion to lis
lasting preservation. But we should be false
in our allegiance # we did not discriminate
between the imaginary aud real dangers by
winch II may be assaied Aboh'ion,sm shoult
no louger be regarded as an imaginary danger.
The aOJltionIsts, let suppose, succeed IN
their present aim OF uniting the tuhabitans OF
the free States ;, as one man, against the inhabit-
ants of the slave States. Union on one side
will beget Union on the other, and this process
of reciprocal consolidation wii be attended
with ali the violent prejudice, pmbittprpd pass
graded or deiormed human nature.
One section will stand IN menacing and hostile
array against the other. The collision of opin-
ION will be quickly followed by the clash Of
/ arms. wI:t not attempt to describe scenes
! winch now happily lie concealed from our
WV. AboilIoniSts themselves would shrink
| back in dsmay and horror at the contempla-
ton of desolated fields, conaagrated cities,
murdered lnhaoltantS, andIhe overthrow OF the
iaireSt fabric of human government that ever
! roYe 10 animate the hopes Of civilized man.
How sadly true, nay, how prophetic, also,
are these words of Mr.. Clay. The triumph OF
spctIonaIism is the downfall Of the Republic
To preserve the Union we must keep the bond
our fathers made, and crush out and exterm-
nate this hydra-headed monster of abolitloRism.
The man who casts hls vote for Lincoln, ia
that act, deliberately, solemnly, aud knowingly,
votes for dissolution OF the American Union
There is no dodging this position. What are
the principles OF that sectional party, and what
the uttpfance OF the men who formed lead,
and control il? Behold the record
Before proceeding to the record, however,
let US see how, ID the speech from which we
have already quoted, MIR. Clay sums up the
designs Of the abonlonlsts
sand ;he third class are the real ultra a5-
oIitonis!s, who are resolved to persevere in the
pursuit oithelr object at all hazards. With
this class the immediate abolition of slavery in
the District OF Columbia, the prohibition OF the
removal OF slaves from State to State, and the
refusal to admit any new State comprising
within its limits the institution OF domestic
slavery, are but so many means conducting 10
the accomplishment OF the ultimate but PERI
lous end at which they avowedly ard boldly
aim, are but SO many short stages In the long
and bloody road to the distant goal at which
they would finally arrive. Their purpose is
abolitIon-unlversal abolition peaceabIy if
they can, forCbly II they must"
How graphically descriptive Jf the black
republican party of the present day The pic
| ture is true to life.
/ LINCOLN AND HIS SUPPORTERS IN FAVOR OF THE
ulDEoUs DOCTRINE OF NEGRO EQUALITY
! On the 10th of October, 1854, Abraham
Lincoln delivered speech at Peoria, Illinois,
IN which be used the following language
"What do say is that no man is good
enough 10 govern another man without the
others consent. ] say this is The leading
principle, the SHEET ANCHOR Of American