Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1861-06-28

property within the limitsIof these States wore
seized amd appropriated, down to the hospital
stores for the sick soldiers. More than half
a million of dollars was plundered from tho
mint at Nsw-Orlssns. U. 8. vessels we're
resolved from the defilcd hands Of their officers
10 command, and, as If in the hope of coDse-
Grating official treachery as one Of the public
virtues of the age, the surrender nf an entiTe
military department by general, to the keep
log of whose honor it had been con6ded, wea
Zee med worthy OF the commendasioD and
hanks Of the conventions of several States
All these laBless proceedings Tere Tell un-
icrstood to have been prompted and directed
By men occupying seats ia the Capitol, some
of whom were frank enough to declare that
hey could not and would not, though in
minority. live under Gosernmept which they
soald not control. la this declaration is found
the key which unlooks the whole of the eoln-
plicatsd machinery of this revolution. The
proHigate ambition of public men in oil ages
Aad lands has been the rock on which rcpub-
lies have been split. Such mon have arisen
ia our midst men who, because unable per-
naneDtlY to grasp the helm OF the ship, are
willing 70 destroy il in the hope TO command
some QUO of the RATS that may float away
from the wreck. Tue effect is to degrade
ia 10 level with the military bandits of Mex
leo and South America, wbo; when beaten at
an election, fly to arms, and seek 10 master by
tha sword what they have been unable to con-
trol by the ballo.-oox.
The atrocious acts enumerated were acts
o. war, and might all have been treated as
such by the late Administration; but the
President patrioticaIly cultivated peace how
suxiously and how patiently the country well
knews. While, however, the revolutionary
leaders greeted him with all halls TO his face,
;hey did not the less diligently continue TO
whet their swords behind his back. Immense
military perpetrators we're made, so that when
ibe moment for striking at the Government OF
lha United States arrived, the revolutionary
States leaped into the contest clad IN full ar|
NOR.
As if nothing should be wanting to dsrken
this page Of history, the seeded States have
aiscady entered upon the work OF conhscatlng
the dents due from their citizens to the North
and North West. The millions thus gained
will doubtless prove pleasant sub;ltute Tor
those guarantees now 30 scornfulIy rejsoted.--
- these con6scalious will probably succeed
s0su lhosa Uf lands And negroes owned Dy
The citizens of loyal States: and, indeed, toe
apprehension of this step 10 already sadly
disturbing the fidelity of nonresident pro.
prieters. Fortunately, however, in;!Fm''y T. 81
faith, springing from such cause. IS not h.e-
ly to be contagious. The war begun is oeIps
prosecuted by the Confederate States IN q
temper as fierce aud uusparlng as that which
ebarac terizes conflicts between tho most hos
'ile Dations. Letters of malque and reprIsal
arc being granted to all who seek them, sc
that our coasts will soon swarm with these
piratical cruisers, as the President has prop
erly denounced them. Every baccsuier who
desires to rob American commerce upon The
ocean can for the asking, obtain warrent t.
do so, in the name of the new republic. Tt
crown sll, large bodies Of Indians have beer
mustered into the service of the reVolutioua-
~ States, aud are now conspicuous in the ranks
of the Southern Army. a leading NORTH
GaIolina Journal, noting their stalwart frames
and uuerring craftsmanship, observes, with
an exultation positively feudish, that they ar
arm, d, not only. wi b the rife, but also Will
the sealping knife and tonGhauk
II Kentucky willing TO Ink her name II
history with the excesses aud crimes which hsv
sullied the Revolution at every step Of its pro
gressa Can she soil her pure hands with it
booty4 She possesses the noblest heritage tha
God has granted to his children; is she prepar
ed TO barter it away for that miserable meas 0
pOttsge, which the qualification of the uuhol
ambition Of her public nen would bring to be
| lips? Can she without laying her face in th
dust for very shame, become participant j
the spoiation Of the commerce of her neigh
bors aud friends, by contributing her sta
hitherto 50 stainless in its glory, to light tb
corsair on bis way1 Has the war-whoor
which used to startle the sleep Of our frontiers
SO died away in her ears that she Is willing I
take The d-haDded savage TO her bosom as th
champion OF her rights aud the representative
her spiritl Must she not first forgot her ow
heroic sons who perished, butOhered aud scalp
ed. upon the disastrous field OF Ras1!
The object of the revelation, IS avowed b
all who are pressing it forward, is the perRl'
nent disnember OF the Conicderacy. Th
dream of reconstruction used during the la
| winter AZ lure to draw the hesitating or lii
| hopeful into the movcnent--has been fGrmerl
abandoned. IL Kentucky separates hersei
| from the Union, it must be upon the basis TIA
| the separation is to DO final and eternal.
there ought in the Organization or administra
ton of the Government OF the United State
to Justify, on her part, an act SO solemn an
so perrlousl Could the wisest of her lawyer
If called upon, find material for an ndictmer
in a0y or 10 all the pages Of sae history OF th
Republics Could the most leprousslipped {
its calumninstors point to single State {
Territory, or community or citizsn, that it ba
wronged OF oppressedi Il would be impossible
So far az the Slave States are concerned, the
pro.ec,ion has been cOwplete, and it it has Dt
been, it hss been the fault OF their Statesmen
who have bad tho control Of the 6osernmel
since its foundation.
The census returns show ibAs during d
year 1850 the Eugitgs Slave l3aS was e3scl