The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-05-09
For|tIe BEDFORD Gazette.
"The Irrepressible Conflict"
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President Lincoln and Premier Seward are
determined to have slaves enough emancipated
and sent North, to bring about black conflict
with free white labor, now begging in our
streets. IF Mr.. Lincoln intended to do what
bis high position and the Constitution. common
sense and Justice demand at the hands of an
honest, patriotic American President, he would
long since have had no Cameron, no Welles,
nor any of their hangers-on about him. Their
touch is pollution, their example corruption and
all who sanction or sustain their conduct, have
fearful account TO settle with tie people.
I have remarked as above to show how sug-
gestive of wickedness has been the course OF
Mr. Lincoln. Every example, every precept, Of
all the fathers of the Republic, he ignores, il
it be found in the way Of abolishing slavery
Mr.. Lincoln was elected for that purpose and
he is determined to fulfil it to the fullest extent
in his power.
If it never has yet occurred to the President,
in his reflections on Myers, and their superior
qualifications for citizenship, their claims TO a
distinct nationality, enlarged liberty, &C., &C.,
he would do well now to overlook the fact that
such men and patriots as Washington, Adams
Hamilton, Jefferson and Madison, failed to do
their duty towards the poor niggers at q time
when the white and black races of n. Ameri-
ca became alike free from the bondage of that
vile old harlot, the would-be dctatress of the
world Mr.. Lincoln, no doubt, looks back
with regret to the day when this poor, miserable
constitution of ours was formed and adopted by
an ignorant rabble as must have been the Revo-
lutonsts of '76, who forgetfu Of every dictate of
justice failed to elevate the African to his prop
er social and political status. What pity
that Lincoln, Greely, Checver, Garrison, Wen
dell Phillips and ''Glorious John Brown" of
Harper's Ferry notoriety, were not then upon
the stage! Had they stood in the shoes of the
conscIipt fathers all would have been we'll But,
alas for the good name and the welfare of the
Repnhin, then hoI onl.y euol, mediocre.
dough-faces as George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, and that ilk, and the reformation of
their badly contrived work, remains for the
magi Of Abolitionism to perform To this end
the poor, miserable old Constitution must be a.
mended by cutting and carving at it with the
sword, might gives semblancc of right and ne
cessity gives excuse for any act of tyranny the
Executive may see fit to do. To this end the
dark principles of the Chicago Platform must
be carried out, though the effect would be to
abrogate the Constitutions for the crowned heads
of Europe must be made to know that we have
a despotism as thorough and absolute as any
that exists on transatlantic shores, and that an
Abolition President of the L. S. is superior to
the Constitution and can do that which not
even Napoleon Of the French, nor Alexander
of Russia would dare to do.
Now, Mr.. Ed, to closeD for the present, I
have but to say that the Democrats of this
county are ''loyap' to and earnest supporters of
our glorious old time-honored Constitution, the
opinion of President Lincoln and Forrest For
ney for the necessity of its abrcgation, notwith-
standing. 'It must and shall be preserved"
And Forney, the apologist and chief trumpet
er of Mr.. Lincoln's diminishing host, is now
too well understood, to enable him to palm off
any libelous sentiment against the honest dem
ocratic soldiers, whom, after fighting the battle
for the Constitution, he would ask to pay the
savc-owners for their blind Niggers end take
them home with them to their firesides in the
North. JUNIUS.
Huntingdon CO., May II, '62.