The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-03-28

The Treason and Slander of Wendell
Philips Picture for the Constituents
Of the Pennsylvania Senate.
Encouragement and protection of free speech
is certainly carried to degree bordering upon
folly in the grant of the use of the Senate Cham
Der to WENDELL PHILLIPS by the accommoda-
ting Senators of the State of Pennsylvania
This man is at best but on par with BRECK-
ENRIDGE as an utterer of 'polished treason,"
and why he should be petted, aided and comfort
ed by the State Senate of this Commonwealth
is a mystery to all but those who know how far
the blind infatuation of party will compel its
subservient adherents to 60. Ii tithe of what
has been recently uttered by this itincrant mis-
chief maker had been spoken by. any champion
of treason on the opposite side, the whole tribe
who follow, applaud and idolze PHILLIPS would
clamor for the immediate incarceration of his
adversary in Fort Warren or Fort Lafayette.
Yet we see party majority in the Senate of our
loyal and conservative Commonwealth patroni-
zing this preacher of discord and disunion. What
is the probable character of his proposed speech
in the Senate it is very well the public should
know, and we design to devote some space to
their enlightenment.
We have seen no full report of the recent ha-
rangue of PHILLIPS in this city, but the Tribune
of March 18th furnishes a six column report of
the speech he made in Washington on the previ-
GUS Friday, and from this we extract sufficient
to show the people of this latitude what char
acter'of man and what quality of sentiment their
Senators have taken under their encouragement,
patronage and protection. What follows is quo
tod from, PM
'Now, love the Constitution, though my
'friend Dr. PIERPoNT,) who sits beside me- has
"heard me curse it hundred times and / shall
''again if it does not mean justice. Ihace abor-
''ed nineteen gears to take nineteen States omot tbs
"UTnon, and if have spent any nineteen years
''to the satisfaction of my Puritan conscience, it
'',cas those nineteen years."
'Unless within twelve months or twenty-four,
"Maryland is a free State, Delaware and half
"Virginia, would to God that building (thc Cap
.''itol,) with this city of Washington, had been
'shelled to ashes last July"
Speaking of the oSigin of the rebellion, PHIL
LIPS declares that ''it was nobody's fault" but
that sit is the inevitable result of the seeds or
'..fathe's planted seventy years ago." and in an
other pacegbu on this same subject, in his flip
pant and impious style of remark concerning the
Deity and the venerated founders of the Repub-
lie, he says of the latter that they 'dare not
trust God.'
Referring to WM. LLOYD GARRISON, the in
veterate ,disunionist--who kept standing time
out of mind, at the head of his paper, the infa-
nous sentiment that the venerable men who fra
med the Constitution had made San agreement
with death and a covenant with hell"-this pro-
toge of the Senators of Pennsylvania character
lied him as ga man who had done more, in the
providence of God, to shape the fate of this
generation than any other one," and that he
(PHIIIIPs,) was 'proud to sit at his (GARRIsoN's)
feet"
He characterized Mcclellan as one who
''had never fired cannon" and as a 'Quakcr
General" as if he had no practical experience
as a soldier under fire, and as if Pennsylvanians
were "Quakers" and that "Quakers' were cow
ards.
The falsehood about MCCLELLAN in this pas
sage needs no reply. His whole history as Il
sodier-his ''gallant and meritorious conduct"
on the battle field which won him his promotion
in MeXico-his brilliant campaign in Western
Virginia, which was all that buoyed up the sink
ing heart of the nation in the early months of
this wicked Rebollion-and the order, organiza-
ton, confidence and success which he brought
out of the chaos, and dismay, and defeat that
he found in Washington--need only to be reci-
ted to stamp this sandcr of PHILLIPS as it de-
serves. But this is not enough His atrocious
insult to the Pennsylvanans, the ''Quakers," as
he calls them, should be held up to public rep
rotation. The brave and noble spirit who was
the most conspicuous victim of the martyrlom
of Balls Bluf-the most noble heart that was
pierced in that terrible confict-was that of one
of these same "Quaker Generals" And his de-
voted friend and second in command who stood
by deserted gun to the last in that fierce death
shower, and who now carries his good right arm
disabled for life, was another of these same
OF whom PHILLIPS is encouraged by
the Senate of Pennsylvania to speak with such
fippant contempt. Oh! what commentary it
is upon the pass to which this nation has been
brought, that while such men as BAKER WlsTAR.
and MCCLELLAN are pcriling and sacrificing life
and limb in the cause of the country, such a
man as PHILIIps should be allowed to pcrambu-
late our cities, preaching disunion and treason,
and defaming them with his ''silver-tongued'
slandcr and abuse! Above all, what humia-
ton is in the thought that reckless party ma
jority in the Pennsylvania Senate should insult
the people by lending their halls of legislation
to such a man for such purpose.
A Confederate Account of the Fight at
Fort Donelson and of the Causes Which |
Led to it.
The following information in regard to the
of Fort Donelson, is received from a |
in Kentucky Although touch
ing only upon the closing scenes of that bloody