Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1861-05-31
BEDFORD, PA, FRIDAY. MAY 81. 1861

now beng made. Ih9 government on our
fathers is to be oVerthiown and destroyed.--
Tue Capital that bears the name of the Father
of bis country is to be bombshellel and level
ed to the earth among7the rubbish and the dust
of the things that are past. The records Of
our government are tn be scattered TO the fonr
winds of heaven. The constituted authorities,
placed there by the same high authority that
placed Washington, and Jefferson, and Madi-
sou, and Jackson in the chair, are 70 be cap
tured and carried off to become a by word
and a'scorn to the nations of the world. New
er! Neverll
You may think that l am drawing picture
that is oVerwrought, aud not describing fact.
No man who spent the last week in the city
of Washington will believe have done justice
to it. You have all the elements of the French
revolution surrounding the Capital DOW, aud
threatening it with its terrors. Not only IS its
constitutional government to be stricken down;
not only is our flag to be blotted out but the very
foundations of social order are to be under
minded and destroyed; the demon Of destruo-
ton is to be left loose over the face of the
land; Feigu of terror and mob law is to pre-
vail 10 each section of the Union, and the man
who dares to plead for the cause of justice
and moderation 10 either section, is to be mark
ed down as a traitor to his section. If this
state of things is allowed to 20 on, how long
before you will have the guillotine IN active
operatioua
l appeal to you, my countrYmen-men OF
all parties-not 10 allow your passions to get
the better of your judgments. De not allow
your vengeance upon the authors Of this great
iniquity to lead you into rash and cruel and
desperate acts upon those who may differ with
you 10 opinion. Let the spirit of moderation
and of justice prevail. You cannot expect
within so few weeks after au excited political
canvass that every man eau rise to the level or
forgetting his paFtizau prejudices and sacrifice
everything upon the alter of his country; but
allow mo to say TO you, you will not be true to
your country it you ever attempt 10 manutac-
ture parlizan capital out Of the mlseries OF
your country. Much applause.l When cali
ing upon Democrats to rally to the tented fields,
leaving wife, child, father aud mother behind
them, to rush to tho rescue Of the President
that you elected, DO not make war upon then
and try TO manufacture partizan capital oui
of a struggle in which they are engaged from
the hottest and purest Of motives. lReueWsd
aPplause.l
! Then appeal to you, my own Democratic
friends those men that have never failed tt
rally under the glorious banner of the country
whenever an enemy at home or abroad hsi
dared to assail ito you who believe TO b'
the purest patriots that ever llved-do noi
allow the modification, growing out OF {
defeat in partizan struggle, aud the elevator
Of party to power that we firmly believed to
be dangerous to the countrywide not let tha
convert you from patriots into traitors to you
native land. Long continued applause. +
Whenever our Government is assaled- wheI
hostile armies are marching under rude anc
odious banners against the Government o
our country, the shortest way TO peace /
the most stupendGus aud unanimous prepara
ton for war; Tremendous applause.l Th
greater the uuaniultg the less blood will b
shed. Much applause.l The more promp
and energetic the movement, and the more im
portant il is in numbers, the shorter viii b
the struggle.
Every friend of freedom, every champion
and advocate of constitutional liberty through
out the land, must feel this cause is bis own
and that there is and should be nothing tha
ought to be disagreesble or humiliating t
men who have differed 10 time of peace Of
every question thar could divide fellow men
10 rally in union iu defence Of he eountr
aud against all sssaiants. While all th
/ States of this Union, and every citizen 0
every State has priceless legacy dependan
upon the success of our efforts to maintat
this Government, we in the great valley
the Mississippi have peculiar Inducements t
the struggle. What is the attempt now beln
, made2 Seven States of this Union, choOs
to declare that they will no longer obey til
behests of the United States, that they wi
Withdraw from the Government established b
our fathers, that they will dissolve, without ou
consent, the bonds that have united US togeit
er But, not content With that, they procee
, to invade and obstruct our dearest and mos
, inalieoable rights, secured by the Constitution
= One of their first acts is to establish batter
f of cannon upon the banks of tae Mlsslsslpp
on tbe dividing line between the States
/ Mississippi and Tennessee, aud require ever
steamer that passes down the river to come
under o gun, to receive custom house office
on board, TO prescribe where the boat ma
, land. and upon what terms it may put out
E barrel of -four or cask of bacon; upon Il
river and upon the borders of these States
r cut off our freedom of trade.
: We are called upon to sanction this poiic,
: Before cousenting TO their rights to comm
: such acts, iwpIore you to consider that q
j; same principal that will allow the Cotton Stat
Il TO exclude us from the ports of the Gul
d would authorize the New England States al
a N. York and Pennsylvania to exclude us fro
d the Atlantic, and the Pacific States to exclu'
II us from he ports of that ocean. WheEev
YOU sanction this doctrine of Secession, y
: authorize the States bordering upon the a
10 lantic aud Pacific oceans TO withdraw from
er form alliances among themselves, aud exciu
st us from the markets OF the world and ire
10 communication with all the rest OF Uhriste
d dom. Not only this, but there follows tai