The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1860-10-12
VOL. 4. NO. IL.

"fhere are constitutions and statutes, codes
mercantile and codes civil but when we are
iegislating for States, especially when we ale
rounding States, all these laws must be~brouqht
| 10 The standard of the laws of God, and mus. he
| tried BY that standard, and must stand or fall
| by it.
| "Ihe Constitution regulates our stewardship
the Constitution devotes the domain to the T.
mon; TO justice, TO defence, 10 welfare. and to
liberty. But there is higher law than the
Constitution, which regulates our authority o.
yer The domain, and devotes it 10 the same no.
ble purposes. App. TO Cong. Globe, lst Sess
3lst Cong. PIP 263, 265.
Again, in speech 10 the Senate. March
| 1858, Mr. Seward said
''Ihe interests of the white race demand the
ultimate emancipation OF all men. Whether
that conSummatlon shall be allowed TO take ef
tect, with needtul and wise precautions against
sudden change and disaster, or be hurried on by
violence, is all that remains for you TO de
cide'
Still later, only few days ago, at Boston, he
boldly proclaimed
''What commentary upon the history of
man Is the fact that eighteen wears after the
death OF John Quincy Adams the people have
tor their slandard-bearer Abraham Lincoln.
| contrasting the obligations of the higher law
which the Sage of Quincy proclaimed, and con-
tending TOR veal or woe, for life or death. in fhe
IrrePressibe conflict between freedom and sla-
very. l desire only TO say that we are in tie
last stage otthe conflict before the great trium-
phai Inauguration of this policy into the Gov
ernment OF the United States"
Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, in his Bos-
ton speech in 1855, said
''Send it abroad on the wings of the wind that
am committed, fully committed, committed to
the fullest extent, IN favor OF immediate and
unconditional abolition of slavery, wherever it
exists under Ibe authority OF the Constitution of
the United States"
In letter written on July 90, 1865, the
same Wilson wrote
'Let US remember that more than three mil
lions OF bondsmen groaning under nameless
woes, demand that We shall reprove each other,
and that we labor for their deliyerance. + /
I / / | / / / / / / / i
81 tell you here to-night that the agitation of
this question will continue while the foot of
slave presses the soil of the American Repub-
| lic."
Hc ii0n' hbsuh DufIitlSdIHe, OF IudsSacDu-
| setts, IN his speech 10 Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
October, 1856, pressed the same idea
''The republican party does not wish 10 in
terftre in the internal government or social in
stutions of the slave States, but merely to
place around them cordo of free States-
Then this horrible system will die OF inanitlon.
or like the scorpion, seeing no means OF escape,
sting itself to death.
CONCLUSION
1t will be perceived that we have made no
quotations from that still more ultra and extreme
portion OF the Republican party led by VIM.
Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Abby Foster.
Gerrit Smith, Redpath s Co., who have the
merit OF being more out-spoken, bold, and vio-
lent in their assaults upon the Constitution and
the Union for the reason that, though voting
with that party, yet some OF the Republican
leaders iii some of the States, such as Indiana,
Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, where Black
RePublIcanism Is of slow growth, affect 10 de-
ny their authority TO speak for the Republican
party. So, in these papers, we have confined
ourselves strictly 10 quotations from the repre-
Sentatlye men-the admitted ieaders-the en-
dorsed and everywhere acknowledged founders.
creators, and nurses, advocates, and chief sup
Porters of the Republican partv-the men who
made this party, whose talents sustain, whose
counSels direct, whose acts control if. No man
can gainsay their authority to speak for it, for
they themselves constitute the party. We have
made fair and honest quotations from their
speeches and letters. And now look upon the
record. What does it all meana The dissolu-
ton of the American Union, the emancipation
of the Southern slaves, and the reduction OF the
Sou:hern States and Southern men into the ab-
ject position OF colonies aud vassaIs. This is the
''bloody goa' at which Black Repubicanism
strives. And what is the lesson this. brutal
programme ought TO Insti into the hearts of
conservative men Of the North! We unhesi-
tatingly answer, Union for the sake of the Un-
ion. When bad men combine, good men ought
TO unite and when the bloody banner Of fanat-
Icism is unfurled to the breeze, and when irea-
son, grown audaclouS and defiant, no longer
SknlkS in secret, but with shameless front pro-
claims its principles and objects TO the world, it
is high time for the friends OF law and order at
the North 10 rally around tue Constitution, and
to raise aloft the flag OF the Union, while yet
we have Constitution, Union, and fac.
and before these Black Republican revolution
lists succeed IN lnauguralng reign OF terror like
he carnage of St. Domingo, and before the Re-
public OF North America, rent into fragments,
has become thing of the past, fact only in
in the page ofhistory. There isbut Que political
organization IN this country that has the power
to resist and roll back the waves fanaticism.
That organization is the National Democratic
party. Firmly planted in the hearts OF the A
mprican people, descended from the purer and
better days Of this Republic, contemporary with
Washington and Jefferson and Jackson, it stands
forth to-day, as il has ever stood, the champion
OF the Constitution and The Union. II has en-
countrrpd and ovethrown the Black Rrpubli-
Gao GiSnninn narlY nnnn one haitle-liald. LET