The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-08-29
NEW SERIES.

| they were the hour they enlisted. They have
been in the South, and have the authority of
hundreds of officers and privates in that gallant
army, for saying that not only are the original
Democrats in it, more devoted to the party to-
day than ever before, but that hundreds also
who went hence Republicans, have returned, or
will return, cured of the disease. Laughter
and applause. Sir, the army is fortunately,
most fortunately for the country, turning out to
be sort of political hospital or sanitary insti-
tuition, and l only regret that there are not ma
ny more Republican patients in it, Laughter.
Well, put the militia upon a war footing.
Put arms in their hands. They never can be
made the butchers or jaors of their fellow cti-
zens but the guardians of free speech and a free
press and of the ballot-box. Standing armies
of mercenaries, not the militia of a country, are
the customary instruments of tyranny and usur-
patton.
But this correspondent proceeds:
'slf the sympathizeis with treason and traitors
We sympathize with treason and traitorsl We,
who have stood by the Constitution and the
Union from the organization of the party, in
our fathers day and in our own day, in every
hour of trial, in peace and in war, i'll victory
and in defeat, amid disaster and when prosper
ity beamed upon us--we to be branded as enc
mics to our country, by those whose traitor IA
theirs burned blue lights as signals for foreign
foe, or met in Hartford Convention to plot trea-
son and disunion fifty years ago! We false TO
the Constitution and to our government, the
bones of whose fathers lie buried on every bat
tie field of the war of 1912, from the massacre
at the river Raisin to the splendid victory at
New Orleans; we who bore aloit the proud
banner of the republic and planted it in triumph
upon the palace of the Montezumas: We, by
whose wisdom in council and courage in the
field for seventy years. the Constitution and the
Union and the country which has grown great
under them, have been preserved and defended;
we to be denounced as sympathising with trea-
son and traitors, by the men who for twenty
years have abored day and night for the sue
cess of those principles and Of that policy and
that party which are now destroying the grand
est Union, the nobles Constitution and the fair
est country on the globe. Talk to me about
sympathising with disunion, with treason and
with traitors! | tell you, men of Ohio, that in
six months, in three months, in six weeks ii
may be, these very men and their masters in
Washington whose bidding they do, viii be the
advocates of the eternal dissolution of this u
Mon; and denouncc all who oppose it as enc
mics to the peace OF the country. Foreign in
tervention and the repeated and most serious
disasters which have lately hefallen our arms,
will speedily force the issue of separation and
southern pendence-oiSunion-o of Union
| by negotiation and compromise. Between these
two / am--and l hereby publicly proclaim it
for the Union, the whole Union and nothing
less, if by any possibility can have it; if not,
then for so much of it as yet can be rescued
and preserved; and in any event and under all
circumstances, for the Union Which God ordain-
ed, of the hI;ssissinni Valley and all which may
cling to it, under the old name, the cid Consti-
tuition and the old flag, with all their precious
memories, with the battle fields Of the past and
the songs and the proud history OF the past
| with the birth place and the burial place of
| Washington the founder and jackson the pre-.
server of the Constitution as it isand of the u
nion as it was. Great applausc)
But this correspondent again proceeds:
'lf the sympathizers with trea and traitors
mediate to carry out their plans in this quarer.''
What plans? Just such as to-day have been
the business of this Convention; the plans OF
chat old Union party, laying down a platform
and nominating Democrats to fill the offices and
control the policy of the government, to the end
that the Constitution may be again maintained,
and the Union restored, and peace, prosperity
and happiness once more drop healing from their
wings.
''Plans'' the fellow proceeds, Gin this quarter
they will doubtless find the work quite as hot
as they bargained for" And | tell the coward
ly miscreant who telcgraphed the threat that
he and those behind him, will find the work fif-
ty fold hotter when they begin it than they had
reckoned on, both here and in Indiana.
''Tcn thousand stand of arms, he adds, 'have
been ordered for the State troops"
For what To put down the Democratic par
ty. Sir that is a work that cannot be done by
ten, or twenty or fifty thousand stand of arms
in the hands of any such dastards in Office or
out of it. If so full of valor and so thirsty for
blood, let them enlist under the call just issued
for troops in Ohio and Indiana. Let them go
and help the Democrats fight the 'rebels' in the
South and let Democrats, too, fight the unarmed
but more insidious and dangerous Abolition reb-
els of the North and West, through the ballot
box. Forty thousand additional troops, esti-
mate it., are called for in the proclamation OF
yesterday, from the State of Ohio.
Where are the forty thousand Wide-Awakes
of 1860, armed with their portable lamp posts
| and drilled to the music of the Chicago Platform!
Sir, propose that 35, 900 of them be conscrip-
ted forthwith. They are "IIome Guards"
They ''don't CO." but stay vigorously at home
TO sIander and abuse and threaten Democrats
whose fathers or brothers or sons are in the u
Mon armies or have fallen in battle. speak gen.
erally-certainly there are exceptions But will
| engage that if the record of the old Wide-A-
wake clubs in the several cities and towns OF
Ohio shall be produced and the Republicans will
detail or draft 35, 900 from the lists, Twill find
5000 strong-armed, stout-hearted, brave and
loyal Democrats to go down and and see that