The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-03-28
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Treason and Slander of Wendell
Philips "A Picture for the Constituents
Of the Pennsylvania Senate.

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
ber to WENDELL PHLLms by the accommoda-
ting Senators Of the State Of Pennsylvania -
This man is at best but on par with Brock
ENIuDGE rs an utterer OF ''pohshed treason,
and why he should be petted, aided and comfort
ed by the State Senate Of this Commonwealth
is mystery to all but those who know how far
thc blind infatuation of party will compel It's
subaervient adherents to go. II n 1.-THE OF what
has been recently uttered by this itinerant mis-
chief maker had been spoken by any champion
Of treason on the opposite side, the whole tribe
who follow, applaud and illoze PHuLIPs would
clanor for the immediate incarceration OF bis
adversary in Fort Warren or Fort Lafayette.
Yet we see a party majority i'll the Senate OF our
! loyal and conservative Commonwealth patroni-
zing this preacher of dseord ard 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 10 full report Of the recent ha-
rangue of PHILLIps in this city, but the Tribune
of March I8th furnishes six column report OF
the speech he made iii Washington ON the pfevi-
! oIss Friday, and from his we extract sufficient
! 20 show tie people of this latitude what char
acter of man and what quality OK sentiment their
Senators have taken under thair encouragement,
| patronage and protection. What follows Isl quo
ted from PII.LLIPs:-
''Nolr, | love the Constitution, though my
''fliend ()r PIEaIOST,l who SITS beside me- has
| 'heard me curse It a hundred times and / stat
'agatt if itdoes not mean justice, Ihace hSbor-
'a3 n1Hetaea gears to take niqstcet SfaGS otof this
Union, and if | have spent any nineteen years
80 the satsJocto1 Of my Puritan conscience, Il
| ''Jras tjose nineteen gea,S."
'.Unless within twelve months or tnenty-four,
Maryland is a free State, Delaware and hall
''Virgiuia, would to God that building (the Cap
| .ito) with this city Of Washington, had been
'sileled TO ashes last July"
Speaking of the origin Of the rebellion, PM
LIPS declares that Iii was nobody's fault but
that ''it IS tie inevitable result OF the seeds Our
'Jottios planted seventy years ago y and in ao-
other place but en- this same subject, IN his flip
pant and impious style of remark concerning tie
/ Deity and the venerated founders OF the Repu!-
lie, he says Of the latter that they '.dage not
trust God"
Referring to WN. LLOYD GARRISON, the in
yotarate disunionis.-'vho kept st&nling, time
ont Of mind al tie head Of his paper, the in.a-
nous sentiment that the venerable m-n who fra
med the Constitution had made ''an agreamen!
with death and 4 covenant with hell this y5-
to2e Of the Senators Of Pennsylvania character
lied him IS ga man who had done more, in the
''proyidence of God, to shape the ia.e Of this
generation than any other enc, and that lie
PHnLrs,) was proud to sit at his (GARus0N's)
feet
He characterized McCLEILAN as one who
chad never fired cannon" and rs ''Quaker
General" as if he had no practical experience
as a soldier under fire, and as if Pennsylvanans
were ''Quakers' and that ''Quakers" were COW
! ards
The falschood about Mcclellan in this pas
sage needs no reply. His whole history as
soidier--his ''galiant and meritorious conduc5'
on the battle field which won him his promotion
in Mexieo-his brilliant campaign in Western
Virginia, which was all chat buoyod up the sink
ing heart of the nation in the early months Of
this wicked Rebeiiion--ani The order, organiza-
ton, confidence and success which he brought
out of the chaos, and dismay, and defeat that
he found in NVashington-noed only to be rec-
ted to stamp this slander Of piuLurs' as It de-
serves, But this is moi enough. His atrocious
uit " tLlN = Nii-i'N 'filitii', lG
he calls them, should be held up to public rep
rotation. The brave and noble spirit who was
the most conspicuous victim Of the martyriom
Of Balls BlulF.-thc most noble heart that was
pierced in that terrible coniict-vas that Of one
of thcse same Quaker Generals" And bis de-
vote. friend and second in command who stood
b. deserted gun to the last in that fierce death
shower, and who now carries his good right arm
~ IL,
"QGahers," Of whom rnuI1Ps 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 rs BAKER, WIsrAR,
and MCCLELLAN are periing and sacrificing life
and limb in the cause Of the country, such q
man as PIuLlIPs should be allowed 30 perambu-
late our cities, preaching disunion and treason.
and defamine them with his 'silver-toneued'
SANDER and abllscl Above ALL what humia-
ton is in the thought that a reckless party ma
iority 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 tie Fight at
Fort Donel8on and Of The Causes Which
Led to it.
The following information in regard TO the
surrender Of Fore DoneIson, is received from
correspondent in Kentucky. Although touch
inc only upon the closing scenes OF that bloody
struggle, it will nevertheless be found remark
ably interesting:
s i" The resistance made Icy the Coniederates
was most gallant, although they fought under
every disadvantage. On Wednesday, the gunboats
were entirely defeated and rendered useless
The strength Of the outer detonces, as given in
the Northern Journals, has been greatly exag-
gerated, there being in fact nothing but earthwork