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.

encouragement ana pfotecli0n OF Tree speech
Is certainly carried to degree bordering upon
folly in the grant Of the use of the Senate Cham
Der to WENDELL. PHuIIrs by the accommoda-
ting Senators of the State of Pennsylvania
This man is at best bui ON a par with BREcK
ENRIDGE as an utterer OF ''polished treason"
and why he should be petted, aided and comfort
ell 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 It's
subservient adherents to 90 Ii 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 idolize 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 disunon 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 PHILTIPs in this city, but the Tribune
of March I8th furnishes a six column report Of
the speech he made i'll Washington on the preyi-
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
ted from PiIIILIrs:-
''No,c, love the Constitution, though my
''friend DIR. PIERroNT,) who sits beside me, has
>heard me curse hundred times. and I StaH
'.agam If it does not mean justice Ihnre m6o5'-
'ed ~ieteea gears to te nineteen States ont Of tjs
"Uatoa, and if | have spent any nineteen years
''to the satisfaction Of my Puritan conscience ii
'acas those nineteen yeGjS.''
Unless within twelve months or twenty-foln..
'.Maryland is a free State Delaware and half
''Virginia, would to God that building (the Cap
'itol, } with this city of Washington, had been
''sileed TO ashes last July"
Speaking of the origin of the rebellion, Pail
LIPS declares that ''it was nobody's fault" but
that '.it is the inevitable result of the seeds our
'..;utiag planted seventy years ago and in an
other place, but on this same subject, in his flip
pant and impious style of remark concerning the
Deity and the veneratcd founders OF the Repub-
lie, he says of the latter that they ''dare not
trust God"
Referring to WM LLOYD GARRISON, the IN
veterato disunionist-who kept standing, time
out OF mind at the head Of his paper, the inG;-
nous sentiment that the venerable men who fra
med the Constitution had made san agreement
with death and o covenant with helI''-ths pro-
toGe of the Senators of PENNSYLVANIA character
lied him rs "a man who had done more, in the
providence Of God, TO shape the fate of this
generation than any other one and that he
PHIMIps,) was proud to sit at his C. ARRIsoS's)
feet"
He characterized MCCLELLAN as one who
chad never fired a cannon" and rs Quaker
General, rs if he had no practica! experience
rs a soldier under fire, aud as if PennsyIvanians
were 'Quakers" and that "Quallers" were cow
ards.
The falschood abont McCLELIAS in this pas
sage needs no reply. His whole history as a
soldier-his ''gallant and neritorious 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 Rebellion-and the order. organiza-
ton confidence and success which he brought
out of the chaos, and dismay, and defeat that
he found in Washington-ncel only to be reci-
ted to stamp this slandcr Of FHIIIPS as II de-
serves. Bat this is not enough His atrocious
insult to the Pcnnsylvaniaus, the ''QGakcrs, 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 martyrdom
Of Balls Bluh-the most noble heart that was
pierced in that terrible conhict-was that of one
OF these same "Quaker Generals" And his de-
voted friend and second in command who stood
by a 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
'EQuakcrs,'' OF whom PHHLtPs is encouraged by |
the Senate Of Pennsylvania to speak with such |
hippant contempt. Oh! what q commentary it |
is upon the pass to which this nation has been I
brought, that while such men as BAKER, WIsTAR |
and Mcclellan are Periling and sacrificing life |
and limb in the cause of the country, such |
man as PHIIIIrs should be allowed to perambu- |
late our cities, preaching disunion and treason !
and deftming them with his ''silver-tongued'' |
SANDER and abuse! Above all, what humilia-
ton is in the thought that reckless party ma
iority in the Pennsylvania Senate should insult |
the people by lending their halls of legislation !
to such man for such purpose.
4 Confederate Account of the Fight at
Fort Donelson and Of the Causes Which
Led to it.
The following information IN regard to the
surrender Of Fort Donelson, is received from |
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