Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1861-08-02

The fsllowidg articles are from two leading
Democratic journals, the Juniata Democrat
and Carlisle Volunteer. How different they
speak 10 comparison with the Bedford Gazette:
SHALL The UNION BE PRESERVED.
The question, Shall the Union be pIeservedl
would not, at any tine prior to this, in the his
tory Of our country, have received sven a
passing notice from those inbued with ordina-
ry love Of country. But strange and incredi-
bic as it seems, il is nevertheless fact, that,
besides the fanatlcal and infdel element of
Abolitionism, besides the disunion and govern
Notwithstanding elements Of tne Seeded States,
we have those in the Northern States, nay,
even in our midst, VITO ere indifferent about
the present struggle of our Government for
existence some who even sympathize With the
rebels IN their unhols attempts to subvert the
best governments the sun ever shoue upon, and
in lily feigned holy horror cry peace, peace,
and contend foI the acknowledgement of the
Independence of the Seeded States, and
thus, as they argue, avert horrible and de-
VAstating war.
TO what is this want of loyalty TO the Gov
ernment oWinga to weakness, deluson, or OBJ
stinancyt What sane man can, for q moment,
=
no peace, temporary truce,7or the formation
of innumerable rival and evercontending gov
srnmentsi What other result, We say, can be
conceived of II not the final destruction of
our country, than the strengthening the hands
of the rebels, preparing them for more for
rpidable rebellion, which in the end will cost
thousands of lives, millions of treasure, and
years Of time more for its suppression than If
Ax,- laH Ac1 nj
effer, for its arrest. This is the course that
prudential foresight, good judgement, and hu-
manity itself would dictate. This course,
whilst it ia clearly the only mode of establish
ing the perpetuity of our Government, Of
meeting the charge Of European aristocrats
that our form of government is failure, is far
from any endorsement of principles OF the
Rspublcan party. We have fought aud ex-
peot for the balance of our lives to war against
the principles of that party: but at the same
time we permit no sickly sympathy for South
ern politicians, who may at one time bave act
ed with the Democratic party, TO pervert our
loyalty; for we believe, and firmly believe,
that many of the leading, designing politicians
of the South fOsiered disunion schemes for
years past, as have the Insane Abolitiouists
of the GARRISON and GIDDINGs school, whose
love for the nieger is paramount to religion,
20 country, and to everything. 1t should have
been PLAN to every unprejadieed mind that
the acsicn of the Southern disunionists in
breaking up the Charleston and Baltimore
Convention and in disorganizing lhe Democrats
ic party was but part, in fact the eonsummas
ton of their bellish designs. Ii is now eP-
parent to sill, aud candid men admil it, they
toOk that as the shortest route and quickest
way TO disunioB, TO prepare the minds Of the
masses of the Southern people (most Of whom
we're then loyal) for the Secession movement,
knowing that they could, by the election Of a
Republican President, iDhame the populaee
end enlist them in this unholy secession, dis
union scheme, and in their attempts they
,feuad the internal raEiDgs Of the higher-law
Abelitionsts 10 render theE important aid.
who, in the face Of facts, can doubt that their
liked intention Eas disunion from the onset.
ysa see no proportions Of adjustment, no over
lures for reconstruction coming from tho Cot
ton Estates; and 10 addition to that 10 the fact
that BY their Representatives remaining in
Congress there would have been majority in
both Houses of Congress against LINCOLN and
bis cabinet, which would have secuCed the de-
feat of any sectional measures they might
have attempted to introduce.
But we did not inteud TO write at length,
and conclude our article BY expressing the 6rm
conviction that, Notwithstanding the trsasona
tle designs Of traitors North aud South, in
the language of JACKSON, The UNION MUST
AND SHALL BE Jun1ata Dem.
0cTGf.
pEACE