The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1861-02-22

clamberIng into every part OF tree like chilC
in your arms searching with its passionate love
TO find another place for a kiss Or again
when you consider their chvarous spirit, al
tested by our revolution, our foreign iplomacy
oui national legislation, you were ready to adopt
as your Southern symbol, the Cherokee Rose,
which, while it filings its arms over everything
and covers it with flowers, also makes hedge
whica defeS man and beast.
If reason, mingled with kind words and ac-
tions, can prevent it, we do not intend to lose
one State from this Confederacy. AS Words
and sisters some dead, some scattered, SAID to
the paSser-by, awe are Seven," we, the old
States OF this Union, mean TO say, TIL time shall
be no longer, owe are Thirteen" We miss
one piece of household treasure to-day, and we
are not thinking of all which remains, but OF the
piece which is lost We shall sweep the house
diligently till We find 1t. And as the shepherd
did not stop TO consider whether the hnndreth
sheep wandered away or was driven off, we
will leave the ninety and nine which are in
the fold ill we find the absent one aud Law it
on our shoulders rejoicing.
There was civil war ia Israel Men IN
the tribe of Benjamin hai been guilty Of an "a
trocious CRIME The other tribes demanded
their lives, and the demand was accompanied
with limitations of force ID case OF refusal
This reused the spirit OF resistance. The nation
inquired of God which IrIoe should $50 up
first" or lead the attack, Tue answer was,
Judah. The inquiry was not, snail we 60 up
but who shall 60 up first? The answer was
suited TO the PREDETERMINED spirit OF the inqui-
Il. .tr1h Isf tHI t,a
first battle, with the loss OF twenty-five thou
sand, and in the second OF eighteen thousand.
Then they tasted aud wept, and Organ the war
again, and slew twenty-five thousand OF Benja-
min and burned his cities. Then they wept.
eIhaps they felt that ihey had done right, aud
had executed justice but they must also have
reflected that wise delay and more patient use
of means to effect their demands, or an express
ion OF honorable confidence that Benj4nln
would redress the great wrong, would have done
more for the furtheraace OF Justice, besides pre-
venting the awful carnage. The scaohard is
the place Tor the sword, Till We are positively
sure that the cause is ofGod, and that every O.
ther instrument OF redress has certainly tailed
Chaucer says, "fhere be many who De ready
10 cry We're WE'RE! Who IttTt Ren what
We're amounteth."
The better feelings OF our nature rose up in
the hearts of Israel when they saw the car
mage but still, this was their Chief sorrow,
that tribe was destroyed. Then they renem-
berpd Moses and the Red Sea, tue wilderness
and the mama, and the rock that followed them;
the cloud by day and pillar Of IRE by night,
which seen from every tent door, was the ban
ner OF God Almighty extending lis protection
to Benjamin as well as to IuGah. Would that
Benjamin had not sinned Would that we
had treated SHINING Benjamin with :he meek
ness OF wisdom. 'Aud the children Of Israel
repented them for Benjamin their brother, ava
said, There is one tribe Cut oil from Israa. this
dav'
IshaIl not attempt 10 draw parallel between
this passage OF sacred history aud our national
affairs, for the histories themselves 90 no. war
rant this | would only use the lncldent that
we may see now the patriotism OF the Hebrew
tribes mourned over Calamltles which, il Is pos
Sible, may now b. impending over these States.
The hand OF God, we cannot doubt, is in
these affairs. Our prevailing belief is that we
are TO see good days, and not only so, but unex-
ampled prosperity that the ''5eauty of the
Lord our God' will be upon US; that a more
perfect understanding Of each other, larger
charity, more forbearaHce, aud willingness TO
be instructed by each ether as to our respective
interests ard dutleS will lead the different sec
tons of the land to dwell together in love aud
concord. Let no one think that we cannot all
agree, for example, Oh the subject of slavery.
strong preSumptlve reason for believing that
we shall substantially agree upon this subject
Is, that the God OF our Fathers and our God,
cannot, we deyoutly trust, through US, inhIct
upon Us and upon our interests such calamlties
as will inevitably flow from continued disagree
ment OF humanity. The possibility OF agree
ment on thus subject seems easy when we admit
one simple, OBVIOUS truth, namely That there
is 10 the Southern States body of christian peo-
pie in every respect as humane, wise, and pi-
Gus as christians at the North.
This proposition, which would awaken a
smile ITO speak moderately at the South, is not
practically believed here at the North. We
mourn over our Southern Christian friends as
implicated IN great transgression, which we
complain ttey are offending. Our great Nor
them fault on this subject IS a meek self-rght
eousness. You sometimes hear a good man a
mong you say, 81 have no doubt that there are
some good people at the South" What would
we think il at the South we should hear a Sou
thern Christian say this of our Northern Sec
ton Just now, probably, our patience would
not be likely to be tried in that way.
We at the North are certainly responsible
before God for the existence Of slavery in our
land. The committee OF the convention which
framed the Constitution of the United States
consisted of Messrs. Rutedge of South Carolina,
Randolph of Virginia, and three from free
States, viz, Messrs Wilson OF Pennsylvania,
Gorham of Massachusetts, and Ellsworth OF
Connecticut. They reported as section for
the Constitution, that no tax or other duty
should be lad on the migration or importation
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