The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-06-13
CENrREvILIE,' June 8, 1862.
MIR, ENRON

In the last issue of tho Inquirer, is al-
most an entire column Of claptrap in answer to
my communication to the Gazette of week before
last The writer, signing himself a." talksvery
patronizingly to your humble servant. Perhaps,
though, he feels kindly toward me; but, if he
does, / am sorry to say that after the affection
he has shown for the niger, in that article, | can
scarcely take it as a compliment If that rath.
er learned C) and lengthy article of his had been
measured by its quality rather thanitsquantity,
it might have been put in less than ten lines (;
and the same may be justly said of most of the
articles in that erudite sheet-excepting the ad-
vertisments, of course. And if the editor
would take my advice and print only the sensi-
bic portions of his communications as well as
his editorials, he would save at least twenty
rcams of printing paper, annually, to say moth
ing of the ink and labor expended in endeavor-
ing to white-wash the ''everlasting niger"
But let us turn our attention to the very able
reasoning of "A."-Says he, 'eThe administra-
tion swore to support the UnionC) and Consti-
tuition, resist this wicked unwarrantable rebel-
ion and seek to repress it, as they are bound to
do by the most solemn oaths and obligations"
Well, that was tremendous OATH Pray, Mr..
GA" did any other administration swear to do all
that Didn't the administration, par excellence,
swear to free all the niggers in the South and to
give you the 'pick" of all the lovely females
among them for a wife? If they did not they
were very inconsiderate of your individual well
fare, as Judging from your letters, you will new
er have peace until you have a few colored rel
atves. But says GA" again, ''Timothy finds
fault with those who approve of these measures
TO sustain the government, and is using his mite
of influence in favor Of ngger catching and
southern rebels!" Well, perhaps, Timothy does
'find fault with those who approve of these
measures to sustain the government" but he does
not find fault with those who like Edgar Cow
an Qatcy very good Republican, do sustain
tho government, by sustaining the Constitution,
but not the administration alone, nor the Aboi-
ton wing of the Republican party. But does
"a" himself sustain the Administration Let
lis see. ga" says General Hunter, himself a
Democrat, took step in the right direction,
but the President repudiated him. Now my
dear Mr.. CA" if finding fault with the Presi-
dent is opposing the government, l rather think
you can be 'counted in" (Parentheticay, am
happy toinform you Mr.. ga" that general Hun
ter is not himself Dcmocrat.") He is like Mr..
GA" rank Abolitionist, and his nephew is the
commander of the "Nigger Brigade" lately
raised at Hilton Head, South Carolina. But
why does GA" find fault with others for sus-
tanning the Administration when he does not do
it himself2 Don't all the Abolitionsts? and
aren't they in Congress and out of If continually
criticisng its course? From the very beginning
of this war there has been a split in the Repub-
lican Party--one wing being in favor of freeing
all the niggers, and che other, lin which / in
clude 'A') in favor of some indefinite policy,
perhaps the freeing of only the feminine portion
of them. shall pmt "a" down among the
! conservatives and hope he won't be offended if
l should refuse to come to his wedding. But
the elements Of the Republican party are SO di-
verse that in it extremes continually meet; and
when the war is over, posterity will write on
the tombstones of their fallen braves, and in
honor of their gallant Congressman at Bull
Run:
"From morn till night those men of might,
Display'd amazing courage;
And when the sun was fairly down,
Retired to sup their porridge.
An hundred men with each pen,
Or more, upon my word, sir,
1t is most true would be too few
Their valor to record, SIR
might make this article more lengthy, but
it is too much like firing columhiad at spar
row. ] shall, therefore, hold over until after
ga" gives us that sublime description of the
weather and crops which sfspace forbid in the
Inquirer. Yours, &C.,
TIMOTHY SWIPES.