The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1861-08-16

AGAIN, Mr. Lincoln, in his Inaugural, en-
dorsed in the most fulsome style by the Inqu,-
rer' held the following language:
" Suppose you 90 to war, you cannot fight
always, and when, after much loss on beth sides
and 40 gain on either, you cease fighting, the
identical old questions as to terms oi intercourse,
are again upon you. THIS country, with its in-
stitutions, belongs 10 the people who nhabt tt.
WheneUeT they shall grO10 lOeGry Of the eptst,ng
goUe' nmenf, they can ersrcise their Constitu-
t'0nGt right # amending IT. or Ehear repaiutioa-
arg right 10 DLSsHE.NBER, or ouerthrow 1t y
Thus taught Abraham Lincoln on the fourth
OF March last, and the Iaquirey sung out Amen.
most obedienlly. But suppose that we, or any
other Democrat were now to make use of the
identical language of Mr. Lincoln, what wonld
be said of US? Why, dear reader, the whole
blood hound pack would 5awl out 81 Trrason
Treason Hang hin Hang him :" Every
Black Republican, from Abe Lincoln, the Rail
Splitter, down TO Francis Jordan, the back-out-
eF, could utter such sentiments and be esteemed
loyal and patriotic but as for us and our
house." we must, forsooth, be Published as trai-
tors if we have the temerity to entertain them
Again, in lts issue of Nov. 16, 1860, the
tratorous Disunion Iagairer published on ITS
editorial page in the third column, without a
word Of dissent on the part OF the clique, an
article from the n Y. Tribune containing the
following '' rank" Secession sentiments
The telegraph informs us that most Of the.
Cotton States are medating withdrawal from
The Union because Of Lincoln's election. Very
well: they have right TO mediate, aud medi-
Iation is profitable employment Of leisure =
We have a chronic, invincible disbelief in Dis
union as a remedy for either Northern or South
eTn grievances; we cannot preceive any nece8-.
sary relation between the alleged disease and
the utra-heroIc remedy still, we say, if any
body sees fit to mediate Disunon, Jet them do
50 unmolested, That was base and hypocritic
row that the House once raised, al Southern
Gictalion, about the ears of John Quincy. Adams
because he presented petition for the dissoiu-
ton Of the Union. The petitioner had a right
to make the request it was the members duty
10 present 1t. Ara now, # tL- tJyrrtgr4 See1te>
consider the value of The Union debatable, We
maintain their perfect right TO discuss it, Nay,
we hold with Jefferson TO the inaIienable right
Of communities TO alter or abolish forms of gov
ernment that have become oppressive or iniur-
Gus and If the Cotton States ShqE become sat-
listed TINT they can do better out Of the Ua1oa
than in ii, toe insist on letting them go in peace
The right TO secede may be revolutionary one,
bat il exists nevertheless +; and we do not see
how one party can have right TO do what an
other party has right TO prevent. We must
ever resiStthe asserted right of any State to re-
nam in the Union and uullify or defy the laws
thereof; to withdraw from the Union is quite
another matter. And whenever a considerable
section Of our Union shall deliberately resolve to
go OUT, shall resist all coercive measures de-
signed to keep il in. We hope never to live IN
republic whereof one section is pinned to the
residue by bayonets.
There II is "If the Cotton States shall be-
come satisfied that they can do better out Of the
Union than in 1t, we insist on letting them 60
in pefce!" Thus spoke General Greely and
thus echoed thF grovelng demagogues OF the
Inquirer. Thus were the people of the South
encouraged to Secession by the Abolition sup
portPrs OF Lincoln nisunionIsm in the North.
AndS now, from this evidence, according TO the
same rule put in force against US by these fpnds
III human shape, we pronounce the Bedford
Inquirer clique TRAITORS OF THE DEEP
EST DYE TRAITORS deepest-dyed and
doubly damned TRAITORS whose offence a
gainsl the Union smells 10 the very heaven
ira ITORS whose bones should hang as a spec
ire warning 10 all future peFveFse and wicked
generations Of viper demagogues that may
crawl upon the devoted soil of America
THEY ARE THE TRAITORS! LET THE
BRAND BE PUT UPON THEM