Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1860-08-10
BEDFORD, PA. FRIDAY. AUGUST 10, 1860


tinels over our entire fortunes. Just so long
as our custom houses, post Offices, navy yards,
and mints shall be stocked with thousands se-
lected virtually BY those who are 10 branded
opposition to us, aud whose principal business,
we are instructed to believe, is compounding
politics with per6iy, it will be impossible to
| render our condition better than it is These
| leprosy-yards must be cleansed. Their oceu-
pants load the air with contagious corruptioo.
/ Throughout their bodies and their souls they
bear the marks of the distempet with which the
| aristocrate pollutionists has touched them
risk but little iu saying that at this very hour,
this mighty phalanx, scattered throughout the
eighteen Northern States, having common
aud powerful bond of nnion, are desising mea-
sures to dispod our industrial classes, by con-
1 6nlng them IN densely- crowded fields of labor,
or forcing them to cutter into competition and
companionship with ignorant and brutalized
bondmen. They all, yes all, have been brought
! 10 believe that the doctrines of the Declaration
of independence are but sterotyped lies; that
/ founders OF the nation mad but sorry coucep-
ton of lnaiienable rights; that the Constitution
which they framed was intend.d as an instru-
ment OF cruelty and crime, and that the fsirest
/ feature of free republican association is union
! of States peopled with the lowest grade OF
| slaves2 Am | right! What is the trouble
against which We have to eontend2 Is it not
the steady influence of what may with propri
ETY. be called political conspiracies 20 misead
the public mind, and faint the public hearth Is
! II not an Administration blackeued with treach-
! cry, and crooked and tottering under the weight
OF ITS deprapty, using all the patronage of
lice, aud all the destinations of position 10 ut
1 teriy destroy US, by making the Territories OF
| the country but gaFrlsons for the enemies OF
| freedom, aud the labor OF white men degrading
and fruitless beyond the limits of the present
| States? If am 10 error, what is the correct
Interpretation of the political discords of the
last six years!
anticipate fully that my suggested mode Of re-
dress for existing win be denounced as Sec
tional; TO which answer it il be 81, the antidote
to bane may be bane ITSELF sssinliIra simiIi6us
cHranfnr.'' But its liability to the charge is denied
The real sectionalism is arrayed against as; do
but counsel systematic and persistent resistance
In studies Of the fundamental doctrines OF our
common charter, and the dispensations of the ia
vors of Government, we should never know a
North, South, East OF a West Ny COM
plant is that Others act as if they thought differ
entity. trust shall always be able 10 command
the exercise OF such patriotism aud comfy to
forever preclude US from aggression upon a section
interior TO ours IN every element OF maternal
strength and greatness. 1t can never be otherwise
than dastardly TO press upon the weak and sckly.
1t will be noticed that have spoken of the De-
mocratc party without reference its present dis
/ traction. Ny for doing is found in the
opinion entertain that these dissensons do not af-
feet issues-as neither branch indicates dispCsi-
tion to meet, fairly and openly, the great political
problem of the times. In casting the votes we
should be accurately informed to their effect up
on the policy we desire to established. We
should not be made instruments in the hands OF anv
ambitious manor the hands of any combination of
reckless and INSCRIPTIONS men, TO force unnat- !
ural growth of slavery in the country, and to blast
the hopes of our own people, contrary to what has
heretofore been the understanding OF the Constitu-
ton of the United States, and in palpabe viola
ton of what has been regarded settled nation
al policy. 1t should be matter Of stingng regret
to as, if from our bearing in the present contest
we could be fairly charged hereafter with a viola
ton Of the principles have long professed to
cherish, or with having imposed any, the slightest
impeachment in the pathway of national, WE'LL
grounded. and progressive liberty.
The all-absorbing question now presented to the
American citizen, for what will prove to be bis ul-
innate decision, have watched narrowly as it has
risen into Importance from year TO year, and
think know ths opinions of the several Presi-
, dental candidates respecting it.
am not aware that the supporters of Mr. Breck-
lnrldge attempt any concealment as to his designs
in case of his success. If they should desire to
resort to prevarication, they placed ii entirely
without their power by the frankness and boldness
and had almost said the recklessness of their
declarations. He has been brought forth promi-
Denty, alike in speech and platform, the Achilles
of the armies of the South, and as the determined
foe of free soil, free speech and free men, He
stands upon no single Democratic sentiment un-
less, indeed, what were regarded by al statesmen
within the last fifteen years as the pretenteus here
sizes OF John q. Calhoun can be regarded He
so reads the teachings of the sages Of the past and
their primary law to make it ruilless to attempt
an exclusion of his peculiar and avorte institution
from the organized Territories, and to make
j. indispensable that Congresses Courts and Presi-
dents should exercise all their ingenuity and all
their powers, to fdrtify and sustain it there Leg
isative action is to be invoked, judicial decrees
and executive fats pronounced, navies equipped
and armies Hnarshalied, to exclude forever every
settler therefrom who viii not bow down before the
black god of his idolatrous worship.
appeal TO yop, freemen, 10 know whether this
is the Democracy of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe
and Jackson. | appeal to you to know whether
you have ever found anything the annals Of par
ties so insulting to the under standing, anti within
the lifetime Of the youth who has not yet reached
his majority. appeal to you TO know whether
the honesty, Intelligence, and unmixed blood of
the offspring Of Northern mothers can ever accept
an excuse for those who woUld endeaYof TO fasten
such ruler upon rs. But we may congratulate 1
ourselves that even official zeal can perceive no
chance for Mr.. Breckinridge,s election. Ii there
had ever been any, che recent stump speech of Mr.
Buchanan would have effectually disposed Of it,
amount ofpopularity weuld be able TO stand against
the enconiums of such an advocate. His mid |
night appeal can only be accounted for by silppo-
sing the sold public fuuctiouary'' was unable TO
obiterate bis sniposities toward ssthe yonng gen
tleman Of Kentucky, and that his well known |
crafs suggested speech the readiest aud least
offensive means Of destruction. Such suggestions |
the more reasonable it is not he imagined
that the gyved tenant of the w hite House should I
for moment believe after the investigations |
which have been had, and the exposures which I
have been made, such testimony as he volunteered |
could be otherwise than ruinous to any cause
The daring evinced by him the occasion, was
only equalled by bis lack of self-respect, and his