The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1861-08-30
Our Position Stated Once More.

Our Position stated once more.
So many startling things happen nowadays
that men forget the past in their interest in
the present and their speculations on the future.
This seems to be especially true in political
matters. Men who were formerly diSunioniSts,
unmiudiul of their late position and principles,
bitterly denounce as disunionists those who were
all their lives Union men from pTincipl !!
The memory of the JacobIns of the present
time, IS so treacherous, that to save himself
from their oblurgations, man must be almost
continually employed in defining his position.
The question Is perPetualiy on the tongues OF
these holy .inquisltoIs, "Are you tor your
country, or against it 90 They never stop TO
ask their own hearts that question. They nev-
er take time TO inquire in their own minds
whether there is not better and more patriot
ic way Of serving their country, than by SIAN
derlng their neighbors and calling in question
their loyalty to the Government. But their
clamors must be answered, not because there Is
any thing TO oe feared from the if menaces, but
because man who loves his native land and
prays day and night for its deliverance from
the horrors which now becloud and blacken It,
has no desire TO be misunderstood and Is deter
mined not 10 be misrepresented. care you for
your country Z" There is not man from
Lake Ontario to the Gulf OF Mexico, not even
the Abolblonrst of New York, or the Secession
lst OF Alabama, that would not answer, yes
comprehensive, to indicate the nlea "a - -
Conservative citizen Of the loyal States answers,
my sympathies are with the North, not as
section, however, but because the North sus-
tains, and is, at present, the Government
Hence, that iaterrogatoVy is also not exactly
expressive ot the sense of the patriotic querist
''AIe you fol- the Government 2" All that's
another question With all my heart, is the
answer Of every man who knows the benef-
cence and who Prides himself in the glory of
American Institutions. With all our heart do
we hope and pray for the permanence Of our
Government. In IFS peaceful councils, may il
be wise and successful IN war, may 1t triumph
over It's enemies, foreign and domestic. What
more, inqusitor care you for the Admins
tratlon 2" Ay, there's the rub We can an
swer that question as freeman and friend of
his country should answer It. We are for the
Administration when 1t does right, against it
when 1t does wrong. We are for keepiDg
Abraham Lincoln in the Presidential Chair un
til his term of office shall have expired, unless
his own partlzans in Congress should impeach
and depoSe him. Meanwhile we are not so
recreant TO the injunclions, or so deaf TO the
warnings, Of Washington and the fathers of the
RePubi& as not 10 distinguish between the pow
ers OF the Government and those of the .4dm,n-
istrafion The latter is a Department OF the
Government, and merely Department Ii has
Two equal partners, which are entitled TO the
same respect as that due to itself. The Legfs-
tof'Us and Judicial Departments are co-eoual
and coordinate with :he Erecutive, or Admin
istratlon, and, therefore, when we speak of the
government, we do not mean the AdminIstra-
ton merely, but the whole Government.
We are, then, for the Government, first. last
and always, IN war, as well as in peace, whether
the war be against foreign or domestic enemies.
We are for the North in sympathy, because
1t is the North which at present sustains the
Government
We are for the Administration when we
think 1t right, against it when we think it
wrong.
The REBEL COLONEL PEGRAM.-Some three
OF iouF weeks since, Mr.. Parker, with male |