Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1861-10-25

1ettcrs 10 tue I1onuOD ltfaeSs one OF Wiiieh is
dated at Washington, September 9Th, and the
other September 10th:
FREMoNT's PROCLAMATION
Major General Fremont's proclamation bas
driven wedge not only into the fine piece OF
Cabinet work At Washington, bnt into the
whole substance Of The Union party Il did
not need any such appliance to cause assures
in either, for tEefe were, and are, deep rents
and cracks IN these fabrics, built up, as they
are, of bits of different platforms, which all
the Union Clues aud the varnishes of the polls
ticians could neither eventually cement nor
conceal. A system of ostracism and the lib
era use of Lafayette once introduced, il is
hard to say where the result may end, or when
those Hbo enjoy the power will become phils
osophers enough to deny themselves the equiss
ite pleasure of sending of an opponent at an
election or a possible rival to the seclusion of
the strict retreats, where be may reflect on the
errors of bis way, and repent him Of the evil
be has done.
RUssELL's VIEW OF OUR PRESIDENT AND
CABINET
| do not attach any Importance whatever TO
rumors, but it is within my own personal knowI-
edge that serioss personal dislikes exists between
the members OF the Cabinet The President
hans approves the councils Of Mr. Seward, bat
be is exhibiting a rude Vigor of his owa-rude
becsuse it is displayed opeuly which proves
that he eau reduce his Cabinet to what il really
Is according to the American theory-a mere
board Of heads Of departments, who may be
put on one side it he pieases. Dir, Seward,
wise in bis generation, coufues bis attention
10 she cDercus business of his own departs
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themselves by al unlucky assiduity 10 tormen,
ting themselves with the affairs of departments
which do not belong to them, aud 'seVerylhing
by turns and nothing long, are lhe teredos OF
every plank 10 the ship of state. Mr.. Lincoln,
who has a right to go everywhere, land do
anything he likes apparentlg,) esinces So
licitude natural enough in al that IS going 90
in the army, the navy.End the othersbrancbes Of
the public service, aud has lstterly turned bis
attention to the subject Of big guns aud ord
Dance, 1t would surprise an Englishnap whose
netion of the functions of President, found
cd on the popular IDEA that they were those of
milder sort Of chief msgstraoy than that
which We have the happiness to possess, proba-
bis restricted bis powers to that of veto or
approval By signature of acts of Parliament
and the sending Of messages, TO be told that
navy, but that in such questions as The prppri-
ety of relieving Fort Sumter by military and
naval expedition the Illinois lawyer studied
books, beard arguments on both sides, aud e.
nally determined on the course to be pursued.
Pray observe with wbas snbllety the southefs
uers have acted, n The lauguage they have
used in familiar correspondence and 10 the
press, when speaking Of the United States.-
rvF A. Il ~
Republic The United States army is TO them
eI.incoln's mercenaries,'' the United States
navy ia oLincoln's war sbips,' and so on
through all the varieties,of Lincoln's "hories''
ebarbarans,' Yankees" sssavages," &c, they
endeavor to tx on the President the direct
personal responsibility of the whole conflict,
to restrict the agents he uses in waeing it to
the Yankees of the New England States
LINCOLN, ELAIR AND CHASE.
The mass of The South are Sighting for
Union Of their own, to which they have insen-
sibly transferred their loyalty and their ma
tional feeling, which uDquestionably is great,
in the old flag, snd believe they are fighting
against an alien enemy-cne Abraham Lincoln
- who is aided and abetted by the powers of
darkness and their Yankee co-ef6eieDt And
yes have reason to believe Dir. Lincoln is one
of the most moderate men in tue section of
his own eebine, which looks 10 internal polls
tics, and that in the present distraeting discuss
sions he generally inelines to the view that the
North is net making var against slavery, and
that the result Of her success need not to be
the liberation of the negro. Mr.. Blair who is
q downright coVepanter of the American sort,
and With whom the southern Shareholders are
sons OF Belial--ssa sword of the Lord and
Gideon man, who could smite the Philistines
hip and thigh from the rising to the going
down of the sun-and several hours after
gith GRIM satisfaction 10 being chosen in
strument-l speak, of course, meiaphorieally,
aud not .physically-has great influence, de-
rived from the clearuess or his head, his per
sisteney, and the rigidity Of his principles,
among his party; bnt his doctrines would most
likely end in confning the United States to
the original New England settlements or 10
establishinga dictatorship resting on bayonets. I
What prefacy, Popery aud monarchy we're to
che men of the frst Covenant, sou,hern rights, I
slageholdBg included. are to Mr.. Blair. Nor 7
are they less so 10 Mr Chase, who possesses,
after all, the largest and most eolid brain 10 |
the Cabinet, but who lad DO objectinn 81 ono /
time to let The South 20 il il Liked, believing |
that the system on which il was founded must |
be in the end, and that not distantly, the
neaus Of i1ficsiDg . punishment and ven
gesnce on the seeediug states far more terrible
thsn any either the army or navy of the North
could execute
FREMONT AND His PROCLAMATION.
may readily, then, be imagined how Gen.
Fremont's proclamation increases be difficulty
and augmenis the aninosiiies which exist 10
the sections of the Cabinet. Lest it might be
supposed that the Law confscatng slaves who
mad been employed by their masters against