Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1861-06-07
WHAT THEY SAY OF US IN GERMA-
NV


We translate, says the Erenlng Posi-, tie
following leading article from the Cologne
Gazette (Kolaasche Zei.ungl one Of the ablest
German journals It win be seer that this Ger
man writer eomprehends much better than the
English the true position of affairs in this
country. The vast German emigration to thu
United States has forced the best minds Of
Germany TO study closely the circumstances
and institutions of people who have absorb
ed so many thousands of the best population
of their country.
From the Cologne Gazatts, Of My sta
1t is not to be denied that from military
point of view, the Rebels in the United States
have just now several CREST advantages over
the Government. They have en- ably organ
lied army, which has been traned for several
months, aud which INST needs fight aod plum
der in order TO be kept together; while the
Government can oppose to their attacks ouly
raw and undiseiplined troops. Moreover. as
The war is to be caFried ON in the Border Slave
States and 10 the Southern ports, the Governs
ment troops viii suffer from the summer heats,
which do not so much affect the Sesessionists.
Il Is therefore, quite possible that sha first re-
suits viii be 10 fAvor OF the Rebels.
We have, however, no doubt that iniell-
gehce and enduring strength are on the side
Of the Government, and that victory cannot
but remain with the loyal side. We Judge
from the recent news that the people of the
North have at last learned to recognize and
value justly The objects aud power of the
Rebels, who threaten their national existence;
and we believe that the North is NOW deter
mined never to lay down its arms till the au-
thority of the law 10 onGe more restored in
all the Seeded States, and the political power
of slavery, whieh has grown to SO mischiev-
GUS strength, is destroyed. Tweuty-three
millions of people, strengthened by ali the arts
of peace, and possessed of inexhaustible re-
sources, are opposed to three hundred and fifty
thousand shareholders, four millions of slaves,
and three millions Of poor whites, whor with
the exception of few cities, are thinly scat
tered over broad space of country. and are
accustomed to the most primitive and unsocial
conditions OF life.
The whole civilized world has an interest
in this war. 1t is war which the people of
the Northern States, conservative by the ma
tuIe of their Industrial and political habits,
could not longer pat off; and it is q war which,
under, perhaps, other names, many nation of
| Europe will have TO take up in its turn. 1t is
with them tthe Uni.ed States) as with us; the
| feudalsm of the middle ages is arraycd in
arms against the citizenship of the nineteenth
century; aud exploded theory Of society is
lifting up its head against the triumphs of our
/ thinking, industrial and progressive century;
the poverty-siruck Don Quxotes of the Souths
ern plantations give battle to the roaring
windmills and smokeing chimneys OF the
wealthy North. Ii is. the snpercilious noble in
/ arms against the spirit Of the century, In
which the citizen is supreme. In such an issue
we can wish success only to the constitutional
Governments.