The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-08-29
BEDFORD, Pa. FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 90, 1862.

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and of the United States, are resolved that an
end shall be put to this sort of slander and a.
buse. But do not propose to discuss this par
ticular subject just now (Go on, go on.)
Well then, from that which concerns the Dem
ocratic party to word a. single word, about
what relates to myself and beg pardon for
the DEPRESSION. am rejoiced that it has been
permitted to me to be here present to-day in
person before you. Had you believed the re.
ports of the Republican press, YOU would no doubt
have expected to see probably the most extra
ordinary compound of leprous and unsightly
flesh and blood ever exhibited. daughter y
Well, my friends, you see that am not quite
s'monstrous' at least, and bear no especial re-
sembance to the beast in the Apocalypse, either in
heads or horns but am a man of like fashion
with yourselves.
To the Republican party alone, and its press
and its orators, am indebted, no doubt, for a
part of the ''curiosity' which | am sorry to say,
L seem to have excited; and which has brought
out SO many of them as if to ''see the elephant
They have never meant to be friendly to-
wards me, but as | see some of them now with
in my vision, let me whisper to their ears, that
L never had better friends, and no man ever had
since the world begun. They have advertised
me free of cost for the last fifteen months; yes
l may say, for some five years past, all over the
United States Why, sir, a Republican editor
without ''the undersigned' for a text, would be
the most unhappy mortal in the world. Every
little ''printer's devi in the office would be hall
looing for copy, and no copy to be had. know
they are friends, by the usual sign, ''the re-
marks they make" Gentlemen have my share
of what Jefferson called the JUNCTION, the holy
oil with which the Democratic priesthood has
always been anointed-slander, detraction and
calumny without stint. Really | am not sure
that with me it has not reached ''extreme unc-
tion,' though | am not ready, and do not mean
to depart yet. Well, will not complain 1t
has not cost me a single nights sleep from the
beginning. My appetite il you will pardon the
rcterence-if you will allow me, as MIR. Lin
coin would say TO s'blab' upon SO delicate a
subiect-has been in no degree impaired by it.
Others before and with me, have endured the
same. Here is my exceilant friend near me,
Mr.. Medary, Oh blessed martyr! [Great
laughter and applause.] For sixty-one years,
the storms of partizan persecution and maligni-
ty in every form have beaten upon his head !;
but though timcsrnd toll have made it gray, the
heart beats still to-day, as sound and true
to the instincts of Democracy and patriotism,
and of humanity, too, as when he laid his first
Offering upon the altar of his country just for
ty years ago. What others have herocaly suf-
fered in ages past, we, too, can endure. We
are all, indeed, still in the midst of trials.
Here before me, is the gentleman of whom
have just spoken, whom you honored with the
Presidency of this noble Conventon for forty
years Democratic editor--for forty years do
voted to The Constitution and the Union of these
States-a man who through evil and through
good report, has adhered with the faith of
devotee and the frmness of a martyr, to the
principles and policy of that grand old party of
the Union and now that the frosts of three
score years have descended and whitened his
head-he, I say lived to see the paper to which
he gives the labor and wisdom of his declining
years, prohibited from circulating through a
part Of the mails as ''disloyal" to the Govern
ment; (Cries Of no, no, shame.) Samuel Me-
dary dsloyal and Wendell Phillips patriot
Sir, it is not many months since, that in the city
Of Washington, in that magnificent building
erected by the charity of an Englishman who
loved America wish there were more like
him, that art and science might the more wide
ly flourish in this country--tlic Smithsonian
Institute-W Wcndell Phillips addressed an assem-
blage OF men as false 10 the Union and the
Constitution as himself. Upon The platform
was the Speaker of the House of Representa-
tivcs, the third officer in the Government; by
his side the Vice President Of the United states,
and between these two, in proportions long
drawn out, the form of s'Honest Old Abraham
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other and earlier, abolition. lecture by that other
disunonist, Horace Grecly in the same place
there have been many of them-that Lin
coin attended? The speaker and Vice Pres
idcnt know were there: and with these two or
three witnesses before him, and in presence Of
the priesthood of Abolitionism, the Summers
and Wilson's, the Lovejoys and the Wadcs Of the
House and Senate, (great laughter and cheers, J
surrounded by these the very architects of dis
union, he proclaimed that 'for nineteen years
he had laborcd to take nineteen States out Of
the Union" And yet this most spotted traitor
was pleading for disunion in the city of Wash
ington, where women are arrested for the wear
ing of red, white and red upon their bonnets,
and babies of eighteen months are taken out of
the little willow wagons drawn by their nurses,
because certain colors called seditious are found
upon their swadling clothes The next day,
or soon after, this same Wendell Phillips did
dine with or was otherwise entertained by his
Excellency the President of the United States,
who related to him one of his choicest anec-
dotes. Yet Democratic editors, Democratic SEN
ators and Representatives, and those holding
other official positions by the grace of the States
or of the people, are ''traitors" forsooth, be-
cause they will adhere to the principles and
organization of their noble and patriotic old
party! Such are some of the exhibitions which
Washington has witnessed during the past win
ter. Congress, too, has been session. Sir, |
saw it announced in one of the disloyal papers
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