The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1861-06-14
For the Bedford Gazette,
F1IE RIGHT OF REVOLUTION. &c.

For the Bedford Gazette.
F1IE RIGHT OF REVOLUTION, &C.
! am Well aware, Mr.. Editor, that you are
averse te any recognition ty the q s Govern
ment OF The right of accession, and have no
dssue 10 enter into dispute with gou upon
hat subject. But, if YOU viii allow me the
space, world hike to set down a few general
thoughts for The benefit Of your friend and 'sel-
low pitcher" the Iltor OF the Inquirer. l
shall speak my mind freely, not having the fear
Of the mob before my eyes, and as have de-
sire to lean as we'll as to teach, would like to
kGow how the IRgurer will meet the points
shall make, and whether its Editor does not
agree with me IN most, If not all Of them.-
f'Come, let MS reason together I"
The right OF revolution is ore Of the most sa-
cred OF rights 1.-The right which | believe is yet
to "mancIpae the world the ght OF people,
II they have government they do not like, 10
flse and shake II of. in the exercise OF that
right, the Texans shook of the Mexican yoke
But how far DdAhe nation did the people
revoIulonize by lines Certainly not. They
revoluioniZed exactly TO the extent that they
| took part in it. When they rose up and shook
OFT The old Government, SO much OF the coun-
try was theirs. And where were the people
that dId not rise They remained with the
| old Government. | was this right OF rpvolu-
ton, and it could not be a perfect right il il
could not BE- exercised until every individual
inhabitant was IN favor of it. i would be no
right, Mnor'tIes must submit TO mainrItips
jest such was the case with the Tories IN the
American Revolution. They were obliged 20
submit to the majority great body OF HE
people, who rose and put them down by force.
When the Texan people rose up and shook off
the Mexican Government, they put down the
minority among them who were not disposed TO
so with them and became owners of the soil
themselves the country belonged TO Texas 49,
No rule could be more Just, mote republican,
more IN Conformity with natural right. Why,
under the rule that one portion ofthe people
have the right 10 rise and shake off their Gov
ernment, another portion have precisely the
same right 10 remain as they were. When
they risr up, they have right to pat down The
minority.
That is my understanding OF the subject, and
] brlIeve IT is the right undrl standing. III
were a member Of Congress, | would ask the
President of the United States to talk 10 the
House on this point, whIcE he seems excerdl0g-
ly anxious 10 avoid. Othpr people talk about
1t l would like to have the President talk a.
bout 1t. | now here declare, that il by party
z-al, II by listening 10 representations which
were erroneous, have been induced tSsuppose
what was not true in relation to the una in1tV
II the people an The Seeded States if the Pres
dent wall come forward and give US facts not
arguments, remembering that be sits where
Washington sat, and answering as Washington
would have answered remembering that a
nation should not be- evaded, that the A mighty
Viii not BE- and wall show that hr sends the
army among people acknowledging allegiance
to us-if he will show this by facts, I will be
most happy to reverse ny positiaa. | will go
the other way-wilI go with bin.
But if he cannot, or will not ii on any pre-
tence, or no pFrtence, he refuses to do Il, shali
then be fully convinced OF hat | have more
than suspected, that the President is deeply con-
Evious oI being IN the wrong IN Inis matTer
that he feels thr blood of tins war, ike the
blood ot Abel, Is crying from the ground against
hin; that originally he must have had some
strong motIv--what it was will not now stop
70 'nqulre-for involving The two sections in
var; that, having that motive, he trusts 10 a
VOID the scrutiny OF his own conduct BY dirpc-
ing the attention Of the nation, by fixing the
public eye upon military gloiy-thst rainbow
that rises N showers of bIood-that sprpent's eye
that charms but 10 destroy and thus calcula-
ting, had plunged into this war, until disap-
pointed as TO the ease by which lh- South could
be subdupd, he finds himself at last he kn,ws
not where.
Does not the Editor of the Inquirer agree
whh-rns in this If not, is there any "trea-
SOM in the abovel
Bedford, June llth.
ONE OF THE TWENTY.
X We give the above as communicated,
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