The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1861-07-26
For the Gazette.
LETTER FROM LITTLE BERKS. .
Cumberland Valley. JulY ISth. '61.

Cumberland Valley, July 18th, 81.
The last communication in the Inquirer, from
the Valley, signed "Lucius," does not speak
the sentiments of the people of Cumberland
Valley, know. MIR. Lucius is well known in
this township and about as little thought
Of SO that his writing ialsehoods for the apple
butter Disunion organ at Bedford, rs taken here
at ITS proper value. He says that IN my other
communication | did not tell wherein the
North had violated the Constitution. / can
tell him did, but for The informal: ion of Mr..
Lucius and other people as wil(ully blind as
himself, | will tell him again that the Consti-
tuition was made by Write men for the benef:
of white men, and not for the negro; that tbe
Constitution gives equal rights to the people OF
the whole couatry, North as well as South, in
the Territories as well as IN the States that
the Constitution authorizes Fugitive Slave
Law, and that, therefore, the negro anti Fugi-
tive Slave Law-Personal Liberty Bills of two
thirds of the Northern States, are open and pal
pable violations OF the Constitution that the
Constitution says that saugitives from service"
shall be returned and not taken from their mas
ters by mob violence, even TO the killing of
those in pursuit OF them that the Constitution
requires tie Fe0pral Government to protect the
people OF the States against invasion, whether
by John Boil, of England, or John Brown of
Kansas But it is folly TO sscast pearls before
swinp," and so Mr.. Lucius may read the re-
mainder of the Constitution himself Mr.. Lu-
c,as contradicts my saying that the Republ-
cans had gwen the runaway Eegnoes money TO
carry them beyond the reach OF their masters.
He laws the blame on the AboItionists. = n re
moi Republieanism aud Abolitionlsm SYNONYM
Gus If not, how coRaes IT that majority Of
the Republicans ia Congress, recommended The
Helper Book, which counselIed the Abolition
OF Slavery Or how comes it that a majority
OF them ia Congress voted, few days ago, for
the AboIItionist Loveloy's resolution to repeal
the Fugitive Slave Law Mr.. Luclus says that
such Communications as mine are intended to
weaken the Union sentiment. Il is false.
am nothing but a mere boy, one that might De
thought incapable of being interested in the af
fairs of his country, but can tell him that if |
did moi have the interests OF the country more
deeply at heart than the Black Republican ru-
lers OF our once happy land, I would hang
myself On the nearest tree and will my car
cass TO the dogs, with Mr.. Lucius as my Exc
cutor. I am at least as much interested in the
welfare OF nv country as the man that bought
his praise from the soldiers who went through
here, with gallon OF rot-gut whlskey. [ will
also say to Mr.. Lucius that when he accuses a
certain Doctor of Physic and certain little
tavern-keeper, as he does in his communication,
he accuses people that are about as respectable
and patriotic as himself, If not little more so,
and also that he bIaAes the wrong persons for
being the authors OF the communication to the
Gazette, signed Young America. am The au-
thor of that communication and am ready TO
bear the responsibility.
OSBORNE G. Mccoy.