The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1861-04-12
CIVIL WAR.
not be in vain


The so-calied "peace policy" of The Lincoln
Administration has all at once been turned INTO
one of blood and horror. As the white and
placid moon when storms are gathering in the
armament, sometimes changes her wonteC pal
lor to a lurid red, SO the tickle "powers that
be-" have suddenly yielded up their profeSsed
desire Tor peace and are now engaged 10 the
wicked and desperate attempt TO PreciPitate up
on the country conflict, unnatural and uDne
cessary, brutal and horrible, and calculated to
bring destruction, famine and desoiation TO the
hearth-slone OF every American family. 1t is
Low almost certain that the preteAce OF peace
on the part OF Lincoln, was mere ruse TO gain
time for preparation for war ; 10 IuII the sece-
ded states iLto security, aud bring about the adj
tournament of the Conventions in the Border
Slave States without any definite result. This
hyPocritIc policy, Mr.. Lincoln, doubtless. I'M
aglned, would not be discovered by the Sou
thern people until too lale to resist ITS consum-
nation. How sadly, how IameLtably he has
erred, he will learn when Maryland, Virginia
and the remainder of those slave states which
have so firmly and nobly stood by the Union,
shall have joined hands aud shou!dered mus
kets with their brothers OF the Southern Con-
federacy. Too late will he then discover that
bold and straightforward course, an open and
unconcealed front, even though it had been
warike, would have been far better for the
broken and distracted nation over whose desti-
MES he presIdes. Too late also, may he rec
ognze the fact that the adoption by his Admin
istration OF some one OF the numerous plans
suggested for pacific adjustment of the Sou
thern difficulties, would have been ineffabIv
preferable to the barbarous wager of battle to
which be has chosen 10 resort. When he shall
behold his country torn and bleeding, the prey
of civil teuds excited and Preciptated by his
own immediate agency when the cruel fe-
rocity of the liberated slave shall bring fire and
rapine 10 the homes of the North as we'll as to
the plantations OF the South when this lovely
land, ere while an Eden OF love and peace, shall
havebeen turned into very hell of hate and
strife Mr.. Lincoln and his partizans may learn
W pray that the curse placed upon their poIit-
cal sins may be removed. Perhaps, says one,
civil war will not bring all this Friend, If has
never broughtIless. Do you remember Greece
Rome York and Lancaster? The French
Revolution Do yon remember the disasters
that resulted 10 mother England when she at
tempted to coerce ou fathers. her children
But how much better would it have been il
Mr. Lincoln had made the Crittenden CompEo-
mise, or even the Peace Conference Plan, a
measure of his Administration. The Slavery
question would have been settled. No civil
strife would have ensued The adoption of the
Crittenden plan, would have brought back into
the Union al! OF the seeded States, for theil
President, Jefferson Davis, their Vice Pres
dent, Mr.. Stephens, and even Mr.. Toombs
expressed themselves satisfied with that meas
ure il acceded to BY the "RepubLcans''-
When this sectional conflict shall rage, wher
the Northern man shall be called upon TO batht
his fraternal sword in bis own blood flowing
In the veins of his Southern brother, let II o.
remembered that this unjust and unholy wa
could have been avoided, but that NJ. Lincoln
and his Cabinet PeremPtorly refused to maxi
any compromise with the Southern people
stohdIy insisting upon constituting the Conshtu
ton as they please, no matter how the SuPrem
Court, the proper and only tribunal erecte
for the decision of Constitutional questions
may expound it.