The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-08-22
PETTY Tyranny,

HARKsRuRe, PA, August 6.-Brig. Gen.
Wadsworth, Provost Marshal of the District
of Columbia, arrived here at an early hour
this morning, and acting under orders from the
War Department arrested. the editors and pub
fishers of the Patriot and Union, on the charge
of issuing posters of reasonable character and
calculated to embarrass and retard recruiting
throughout the States. The whole party left for
Washington at eight this morning.
The following is the ''poster in question,
which was printed and posted up at various
places in the city Of Harrisburg, on Monday
morning last:
s'The great General James Lane has arrived
in this city to-day, and will address the colored
citizens of Harrisburg in front of the Market
House at four o'clock this (AIonday) afternoon
Men and Brethren come, come along! The Gov
ernment having granted permission to raise two
COLORED REGIMENTS, he will be able te
swear in all able bodied colored men who may
offer, and he confidently expects to raise one
company in this place. Arms, equipments, uni.
forms, pay, rations, and bounty the same as re-.
ceived by white soldiers, and no distinction wW
be made. Come one come all!'
| F9-We since learn that the editors of the Pa-
trtot have been consigned to prison in Wash
ington City. We think history is without a
parallel for such petty tyranny. The joke could
honestly be construed to be nothing but a fling
at the cry just now making by the abolition
press in favor of enlisting negroes. If the edi-
tors Of the Patriot and Union were guilty of an
attempt to retard volunteering how much more
guilty are such papers as the Pittsburg Gazette,
and New York Tribune, that daily advocate the
enlistment of negroes Gov. Sprague of Rhode
Island who has accepted several regiments OF
negroes, and Jim Lane who had declared lns
intention to do the same thing. But few days
ago the Republican press of Pittsburg announ.
ced with flourish of triumph that Jim Lane
had been authorized by the President to raise a
regiment of colored volunteers. Why were they
not arrested. We think the acceptance of me-
gro soldiers would retard volunteering, and
therefore he that earnestly recommends it is do
ing the Union great wrong and he that dis
countenances it, by a burlesque or otherwise,
doing good BY this petty act of partizan tyr
amy the Republicans tacitly acknowledge that
their advocacy of negro enlistments is for the
purpose of injuring the cause. 1t it is treason
to create the impression that negroes are to be
accepted 1t cannot be patriotic to urge their &C.
cebtance!
The determination of those in power appears
to be to let abolitionists utter treason whenever
and wherever they please, but to rule the De
mocracy with a rod of iron. We would be tho
first to condemn any thing calculated to dissuade
those who wish to do so, from volunteering
but in view of the fact that almost every repub
lican paper in the country loudly advocated the
acceptance of negro volunteers, we cannot bu
regard this instance of despotism as equal to
any found in Europe, and this arrest as estab
fishing precedent for the arrest Of any demo
cratic editor who honestly exposes the policy o
W. r'epuplican party. If this is the intention
OF the Government we are to-day many dogroo
nearor an absolute despotism than in the wors
days of the "alicn and scdtion laws"
Washington Re,rew.