The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-08-29

ed in favor of the Confscation Bill, and against
Mr.. Holman's proposition to re-affirm the Crit
tenden resolution which declared the onty object
of the war to be '.to defend and maintain the
supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve
the Union" Mcpherson is no Abolitonist,
though as is well known and has been said Of
him by his colleagues (of his own party) in Con;
gress, he is controlled and led by Thaddeus Ste
vens Though these things be true, they prove
nothing, for does not Mr.. Scott tell us that he
'',cent to this war at the head of his company" ?"
True, he did not go very far into the war-he
did not fight, nor bleed, nor die for his country
but all that makes no difference. He wem to
this ,car at the head of his company--not at the
tail-and, therefore, lie is no Abolitionist! We
yield the point, Mr. Scott, for, indeed, we can
not rebut your powerful reasoning; yet, like all
men convinced against their WILL" we are ''of
the same opinion sti,'' and beg leave to say to
you, that in our opinion, if Mcpherson is not
an Abohtionist, there is no truth in Congression-
al records nor sense in the Constitution of the
United States. But here we leave the question
of Abolitionism and the Abolition candidate
Tor Congress in this district, and devote the few
remaining sentences of this article more espe-
cially to our quondam brother democrat, ''the
gentleman from Huntingdon"
Who was it that in past years warned the
people in the most eloquent and forcible terms
against the Vaccinations of the Abolitionists as
calculated to bring about the very calamity
which now threatens to destroy the nation
Who was it that, in 1860, bore the standard of
the opponents of Aboltionism in this SENATOR.
al district and in 1861 took part in and appro-
we'd of the proceedings of State Convention
which resolved to resist the aggressions of North
ernfanatcism upon the institutions of the South ?
Who was it that when selected by the Demo-
Gratis Of Huntingdon county to represent that
county III the Legislature (the Republicans hav-
ing conceded the "member' to the Democrats,
in consideration Of being allowed to take some
of the other offices without opposition) betrayed
the party that made choice of him, bJ assisting
the ''RepublicansS to organize the House, and
by helping the same party to ''gerrymander'
the State in the Congressional apportionment
We doubt not that Mr.. Scott can answer these
questions without travelling very far from his
own office to find a reply.
But we cannot afford to waste more space
upon the no-party nondescript of whom we have
been discoursing. Suffice it to say that we have
no faith in the mawkish pretensions to indepen-
dence made nowadays by certain politicians.
If the Constitution and the party who sustain
it were right in time of peace, they are right in
time of war and ought to be maintained. If
the enemies Of the Constitution were wrong in
time of peace, it is tenfold more certain that
they are wrong now, and, therefore, should be
put down. The man who dares not take sides
for the Constitution and with its friends, or VINO
tries to serve both its enemies and its supporters,
is either coward or demagogue, or combi-
nation of both Such man cannot be pa
triot. Of him it may truly be said,
"SmooM runs the aOater vhere tile brook is deep,
And in his simple sho,o he harbors treason,
THE for baf1s not ,ohen he Uouiu steal tic lamb"