The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-02-14


kfy State, every Climate, every section, uniting
in conservative views Of policy, it obtainsd the
position among nations which the ancient poll
tcians dreamed of, but died d4spairng of.
There are puny politicians at the North, in
4 this year Of trouble, who charge on the fathers
OF the Republic the errors which have led it
into the present time Of trial. There ATE ambi-
tous demagogues al the South who curse the
Union which Washington and his companions
founded, as a Union in which they cannot find
the freedom aud the power ihey desire. Both
classes are maged by the very emotions which
Washington loreSaW, and against which he
warned the nation. There was nothing in the
constitution OF The government against which
/ either could complain II the Ma sachusets
; phlanthropist desired field for his large and
expansive view of his duty 10 his fellow man,
he might have iCuud sins aud suffetings in 8os-
ton that would have lasted him lifetime OF
bard labor, and remained perhapI Tar his chill
dren 10 work on. Ii The ardent and aspiring
South Carolinian did not find the United States
broad enough for the elioits of his ambition, he
might have, at least, been wiser than to confnt
his genius to the limits Of one small State, or
Contrderacv made up of only par. OF the old
country. Il was the union OF Massachusetts,
and S SIuth Carolina that tempered the ambition,
checked the reforming and Gisorganizing spirit,
and made solid and substantial basis OF power
for great nation. Il is easy now TO say that
we of the North do not want Union in which
Davis and Mason and Sldel shall retrrn 10
their old positions. So it is easy at The South
to say they do moi wan! Union in which Sum
ner, and Lovejoy, and Giddings shall occupy
places OF power, and hurl their taunIs and in-
suits at the STAKEHOLDER. But this dealing with,
or talking of individuals on both sides, is child's
( play, when we are discussing the welfare Of
nation which is to live thousand years after
we and these men, traitors on one side, and abb
olhionisls on the other, shall have been dust of
the soil. We do want Union, and no other
Union can be devised than Just that old Uncn,
in which Masors may meet Summers in the SEN
ate, and, if needs be, mind clash with mind,
that ;he spark Of truth be elected 10 ealighteo
the people. Back of all this lies the error that
the people must learn, that their representa-
lives should be wise and harmless, sasacious and
calm, and if out of this present dlscord that old
Union shall emerge safe, we venture lhe proPh-
ecy that the lcssan will have been we'll learned,
and The land will have res; from political dem7
agpgGes and radical reiormers Tor al least hun
! dred years
What other Union would the Northern re-
f>rmerS have? We put the question 10 them,
because the Southerners avow that they will
have no Union, and these men seem to have
some incoherent notion Of conquering new
Union out of The war. Would they give to the
general Government the powers OF the States
That would bs nation, bot uot a Union.-
Would they have a grand Sheik al Islam,
great interpreter Of the reform faith, to be the
( dispenser OF the laws, the Judge of moral right
and wrong for every State, the administrator OF
the LHghe, Lac The Saints will judge the
world, if prophecy be true, but the time has
Z hardly arrived yet, and the Saints are wanting
among these reformers.
No, # since .he parlarchs ruled lheir flmi-
lies in love, four thousand years ago, on the
plains OF Asia, there has been anything Of gov
crnmpnt on the earth to be admired, respected,
held IN proioundrst veDeraton, il is the Amer
ican Union as it was in the year 1860 after
Christ To II every eye on the globe, among
civilized nations, was turned with hope. Even
the bardarians respected, and some among them
reveret IT, No man, whatever his name what
ever his creed, Whatever his education, no
man, failed to do homage TO the work OF Wash
'ngton. As the religious world. the eyes oil
dying Christians urned with longing gazr TO
the Eastern skies, as il to behold the light a
bove Jerusalem, so in the political world the
faith and hope Of men was directed Westward,
and old statesmen, and worn oct dealers in the
broken theories of monarchy and absouism
died with their ain gaze turned 10 lis, belIev-
ing IN our gcrlous destiny.
These are no idle phrases, gi,elng g'nef-
ahles. In this hour Of our trial, God forbid
that any man should waste mere words in pral'-
ing the American Union, or write OF it merely
10 run high sounding periods. We write in
soberneSs, ard 10 that which is written The
heart Of every American responds, il he be true
to the holy bond which the fathers bound.
There may be men at the Moth who will sneer.
They are enemies Of their couItry. There
may be men at the South who will deIde.
They are enemies TO their country. We care
( not whether the nan is Northern .abolilonst
or Southern rebel, he who says to-day, in The
honr of darkness, that the old Union ought TO
fall, he who laughs at the Constitution, who de-
ues its splendor among the long dim row OF
human inventions Of government, is no true
son Of America, and no loyal defender OF the
nation
SPECULATION In MULES.
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