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The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03
Full-blown Abolitionism,

The black poppy, Abolition, whose opiate seeds
are the deadly Hasleesh upon which the people
of the North, have, alas too long been feeding,
has at last opened its dark leaves in ful-blown
maturity to the astonished gaze of the deluded
populace There are still infatuated leaders who
call upon the people to follow them and pluck
this forbidden flower. Others urge the people
to shun it as they would if serpent's sting
were coiled within it. TO descend from the
fgurative to the practical, there are few fa-
natics who would have sober, sensible, patriotic
people endorse the Abolition Proclamation of
the President. But the great preponderance of
thought and feeling in the North is against it.
The whole Democratic party and many conser-
vative oppositionists are against it. In our own
county the people are almost unanimously op-
posed to it, Every man on the Democratic
county ticket, from Congressman to Auditor,
disapproves of and opposes it. No man can be
a Democrat who does not repudiate it. Be
assured that the Democratic ticket is unit on
this question. Democrats will never pluck this
Lincoln poppy.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03
Rally! RallY!!

Democrats, the prospect of ousting from place
and power the plunderers of the public treasu-
ry, the destroyers of our counrys veal, is bright
ening every day! You cannot, must not, dare
not, fail now to do your duty, if you would res
cue yourselves and your posterity from the ruin
which is impending! Rally, Rally, Rally! Eet
every voter turn out to the election! Let every
Democrat be committee to see that his neigh
Dor goes to the polls. We must and will be VIC
torious! Now's the day and now's the hour!
Close your ranks! Nostraggling Nohalf-heart-
ed work! But charge the enemy in front, and
flank and rear, and never, never yield till the
day shall be won. "Up, Guards, and at them!"
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03
Hon. Jos. B. Noble.

1t is well known in this county that Judge
Noble did not seek the nomination for the office
for which he is candidate. On the contrary
he was solicited by men of all parties to allow
the use of his name in that connexion, on the
ground of his peculiar fitness for the position,
citizen. He has not been in office for eleven
years, nor does he now ask the suffaages of the
people as an otfice-seeker. He comes forward
at the call of his fellow citizens, to bear aloft
the standard of Conservatism, the true Union
flag, under which alone our country can be res
tored to its pristine happiness and prosperity.
He comes forward as the representative of the
sober-minded, earnest thinking men of the coun-
try who desire to rid the halls of legislation of
the harpies and plunderers that have well nigh
drawn the life-blood out of the body polite
He comes forward as the friend of good and
liberal government and the enemy of monopo-
lies and graspng corporations. To our Hunt
ingdon friends we would say that Joseph B.
Noble was and is an unco mpromising opponent
of the repeal of the Tonnage Tax, and if elect
ed will not play false to them on this great ques-
ton. We make this pledge for him fairly and
honestly and without any reservation of any
kind. At the same time Judge Noble is an ear
nest and sincere friend of local enterprise, and
| and will, if elected, do as much for our coun-
ty'sinterest, as could be expected from any man.
We put it to the people of Bedford county,
can you send better man to the Senate than
honest Joseph B. Noble? Answer, ye who know
him, and answer in accordance with your can
did convictions
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03

sable Sepoys shall have ended on the planta-
tions of the South, bloated with booty and drunk
with blood, they will make the fair fields of the
North, where they have been taught that color
is no badge of distinction, the desire of their
hearts The white laborer will be crowded from
the plough, the axe and the spade Starvation
will come, and the grand but bloody finale will
be war of races, with what result it would
not be hard to predict.
The second proclamation of the President
makes a military district of the whole North,
by declaring the writ of Habeas Corpus sus-
pended in regard to all persons arrested during
the rebellion, or who are now, or hereafter shall
be, imprisoned in any fort, camp, arsenal, mill
tary prison or other place of confinement, by
any military authority, or by the sentence of
any court martial or military commission. This
edict establishes the military despotism, which
has been so long predicted, and now it only re-
mains to be seen whether the American people
can be made slaves by a single stroke of the pen
of Abraham Lincoln. 1t only remains to be
seen whether freemen will not resent at the bal
lot-box (the only place where they should do SOY
this outrage upon the white race and the Amer
ican name, this proclamatory liberation of the
negro on the one hand and enslavement Of the
white man on the other.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03
Dawes Speech.

Why doesn't the Bedford Abolition ORG an
nublish the great speech of the Hon. Mr. DAWES,
of Massachusetts,, exposing the corruptions of
Lincoln's administration? Mr.. Dawes is a good
Republican and deserves to be heard. Some of
the readers of the organ might be enlightened
in regard to the promised ECONOMY and ''bet-
ter tines of their party by perusal of this
speech. Mr.. Dawes says that more money has
been stolen from the public treasury in one year
during the present administration than it cost to
carry or, the Government during the four years
of Mr. Buchanan's administration! Shall Dawes
be heard through the columns of the organ?
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03
A Brace of Proclamations.

The President of the United States, on the
22d and oath days of September, issued consec-
utively two proclamations, both of which will
be found in this issue of the Gazette. The first
proposes to free all the slaves in every state in
rebellion against the Government by the first of
January next the test of loyalty being repre-
sentation in Congress by the actual vote of a
majority of the people. This arbitrary, unne-
cessary and Quixotic decree of the President, is
not founded upon, nor does it execute as some
suppose, any clause of the Confscation Act
passed at the last session of Congress. That
law relates to all the property of rebels in any
state while this proclamation refers expressly
and exclusively to all the slaves of the States in
rebellion. Besides there is great legal difference
between freeing slaves and confscating them to
the use of the Government, for the lifetime Of
which confiscation can be extended under the
Constitution. Hence this ukase of Mr.. Lincoln
is as clear and undenabe a usurpation of pow
er, as bold and undisguised trampling under
foot Of the paramount law of the land, as much
an act Of rebellion against the written charter
of our Government, as any thing yet done,
without force of arms, in any of the insurrec-
tionary States of the South But its unconst-
tutionality and its assumption of power which
the people of the Union never dreamed of Civ
ing to their Chief Magistrate, are not the only
Objectionable features in this startling revolu.
ionary document. Its effect upon the country,
both North and South, cannot fail to be other
wise than disastrous. 1t will weld together in
aperfect white heat Of hatred against the North,
all the slave-holding interest of the Border as
we'll as Of the Cotton States. 1t will give the
sinews ofwar to the Rebel Army and nerve with
the unrelaxing vigor of most direful and dead
ly desperation, the soldiers enrolled under the
banner Of rebellion. 1t will divide, nay, it has
already irrecencilably divided, public sentiment
at the North with regard to a cordial support of
the Administration. And should it be possible,
tf the rebellion be not suppressed by the first Of
january to carry its provisions into execution,
should it be possible for our armies to march
Into the rebel states to release the slaves or en-
courage them to servile insurrection, what would
be the resultf A creeping horror steals over the
senses at the contemplation of the scene! Wo-
men and children butchered in cold blood, fire
and rapine ravaging the homes over which we
would fain extend the benign protection of the
Constitution, the carnage and diabolism of
new San Domingo purpling with human gore
and blackening with ashes, the soil Of once hap
~ Americal Then, when the carnival Of these |
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A Wet Blanket,

The last great proclamatory efforts of Abra-
ham, trampling under foot the Constitution,
liberating the black man and cnslaving the white,
fell like a wet blanket on some of the "Repub-
licans'' in this neighborhood. OF course, the
avowed Abolitionists, such as the ostensihle ed
itor of the Inquirer and few others, swallowed
it like so much mamma dropped from naradise
fiisTead Tier parry, or win the rank and filc for
once, have the independence to repudiate their
leadership
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03
The Terrific Battle at Antietam.

On the crest of a hill this side of Sharpsbure
the enemy were discovered in great force. Their
troops had been brought down from Hagerstown,
up from Harpers Ferry, and part of the army
held in Virginia as reserve. Lee, jackson.
Longstreet, Hill, and all the best generals left
with them were there, and with all their best
troops. Except occasional artillery contests.
the armies faced each other in quiet during the
rest OF Monday. On Tuesday there was no
movement on our side till toward night. The
rebels had kept batteries in position, but their
infantry was Withdrawn from view, and it was
Still uncertain whether they were retreating or
reinforcing.
About four in the afternoon of Thursday.
Hooker was ordered to cross Antietam creek,
at the upper ford on the right, with his whole
corps attack the enemy's left and occupy po-
stion on their flank. He crossed without OPP
position, sent forward cavalry skirmishers who.
were speedily driven back, and then, advancing
with his whole force about six, took possession
OF strong ground, close to the rebels left, and
Immediately became engaged with artillery and
infantry Darkness ended the fight with slight
loss on either side, Hooker carrying and holding
the woods from which the enemy's fire first came.
There were constant alarms during the night.
the hostile pickets being close to each other all
along the line. Early in the evening the rebels
took to fighting among themselves and several
heavy volleys were delivered before they discov-
cred their mistake
AT daybreak the fight was renewed suddenly
and vehemently, both sides opening fire together.
The rebel line was formed on crescent-shaped
ridge, which in front slopes down into an undu,.
lating valley, irregularly broken by connecting
ranges of hills. Behind the crest the rebel for,
sces lay in uneven and strong positions, sheltered
by ridges and hills, and especially strong on the
fanks. Antietam creek, stream too deep to
be forded, except in very few places sweeps by
the base of their position, and protected it from
assault.
McClellan's forces were first formed in front,
afterwards thrown to the right and left. There
is little or no ground on onr side equal in height
to the rebel posi- ion
hicke'is also " NJ fH:-a, :hroueh thr woods
in his front, and Doub! '.5 l5ita lis yuns. held
front against heavy ca>en343 A:cad9 G3.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03
Death of Mai, s, r. Tate.

1t becomes our mournful duty to record the
death of Maj. SAMUEL Fl. TATE, of this place,
which occurred at his residence on Wednesday
morning last, after an illness of about four days.
In the death of Maj. Tate, our county has
lost useful citizen, the poor and distressed a
sympathising friend, and his family kind and
holoued husband and father.
"No farther seek his merits to discloss,n
->Ss '',l,o UuHu MS tctSt 7y770Sc,
'7he bosom Of his Fdther and his God"
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03
Conpronnise,


Do not be startled, dear reader, by the cap
tion of this article! We do not mean to say any
thing that will settle the war in thirty days, for
that would subject us to a trial for treason by n
drum-head court martial. We do not mean
even to propose an armistice, with view to
make possible peaceful settlement of our ma
tional troubles, for that would defeat the dar-
ling prof jact of the Abolitionists and would there
fore, send every man in favor of it to dungeon
in some Lincolnitish Bastle. What we do pro-
pose to say, is, that if we to hope for offers
we had better see to it that we elect a Congress
to which the Southern people will be inclined to
make such offers of compromise or settlement.
Owing to the ultra enactments of the present
Congress and the well known sectional, anti
Southern, anti-slavery position of the "Repub-
lican" party, we believe that no terms of settle
ment will ever be offered to our Government,
by the people of the South, so long as the po-
litical complexion of Congress is not materially
changed. The animosity existing between the
"Rcpubican" leaders and the Southern insur-
rectionists, is deadly and unmitigable, because it
is personal, political and sectional. But the
conservatives of the North, though largely rep
resented in the armies engaged in the effort to
put down the Southern rebellion, do not enter
tain such bitter and implacable hatred for the
Southern people. They regard them as misgui-
ded and erring men, whose leaders deserve TO be
punished, not malignantiy nor rnuenaefnlly, hut
tuition; and, therefore, they do not hate them,
or bear them MALICE This is we'll known to
the Southern people, and what little Union feel
ing yet exists among them, has inspiration from
this very fact. Now, then, if we wish to dis
integrate and break up the secession organiza-
tion, so that eminent leading men may be indu-
ced to come out from its ranks and advocate an
offer of reconciliation to our Government, would
it not be wise to elect men to Congress whose
well known conservatism would be calculated to
encourage such an advance on the part of South
ern men? Most assuredly. Therefore let us be
certain in casting our votes at the coming cleo
tion, that we do not give them for candidate
for Congress to whom the Southern people will
never propose terms of reconciliation and re-
union. We of the North look to the South for
the first advance toward a restoration of peace,
and doing so, we should take care that we place
no impossible barrier in the way of those from
whom we expect such an advance to be made.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03
AUDITOR,
JOHN H. BARTON, E. Prov. tp.

The Carlisle Presbytery will meet in the
Presbyterian Church of this place, on next
Tuesday evening, October 7th, at Z o'clock
The opening sermon will be preached by the
moderator, the Rev. l. N. HAYS. The
church will also be open, Providence per-
mitting, for services next Sabbath morning.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03
SOMERSET, Sept. 20, 1862.

- t50HEr1oET, oCPt. 70,
GENTLEMEN:
Your letter of the 11th, informing me
that | was nominated for Congress by the
Democratic Congressional Conference for this
District, has been received.
In this note, accepting the nomination,
will say, that l am for the s'Constitution as
it is and the Union as it was," and, if elect
ed, will sustain the Government in all the
requisite measures to bring to a speedy close
the present unfortunate war, and in doing
so, restore peace and harmony to the people.
Yours respectfully,
A. IT. COFFROTH.
ToG. Fl. Snang, Fl. G.. Smith and Geo.
NJ. Stenger, Esqrs., Committee.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03

egThe children of the Presbyterian and Lu-
theran Sabbath Schools have recently had their
annual picncs. Happy youth, whose pastimes
are so full of innocesce, whose s'ways are
ways of pleasantness and all whose paths are
peace" -
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03
Be Assessed

Saturday next is the last day on which you
can be assessed as legal voter BE sure you
attend to it and see that your neighbors are as
sessed.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03
Abolition Proclamation by the President

Abolition Proclamation by the President.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.
By tile President Of the United States of America.
PROCLAMATION.
l, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United
States Of America, and Commander-in- Chief of
the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim
and declare that hereafter as heretofore, the war
will be prosecuted with the object practically,
OF restoring the constitutional relation between
the United States and each of the States and
the people thereof, in which States that relation
is or may be suspended or disturbed. That it is
my purpose upon the next meeting of Congress
to again recommend the adoption of practical
measures rendering pecuniary aid to the free ac-
ceptance or rejection of all slave states, so call
cd the people whereof may not then be in re-
bellion against the United States, and which
states may then have voluntarily adopted, or
thereafter may voluntarily adopt immediate or
gradual abolishment of slavery within their re-
spective limits; and that the effort to colonize
persons of African descent, with their consent,
upon this continent or elsewhere, with the pre-
v:ously obtained consent of the governments ex-
isting there, will be continued; that on the first
day OF January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all per-
sons held as slaves within any State, or desie.
mated parts of State, the people whereof shall
then be in rebellion against the United States
shall he then, thenceforward and forever free,
and the Executive Government of the United
States, including the Military authority and Ma
val authority thereof, will recognize ana min
tam the freedom of such persons and will DO no
ACT OF acts TO repress such persons or any of
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03

AT least two-Blair and Seward-and it is
believed three members of the Cabinet were
opposed to the emancipation proclamation of
the President. In consequence designations
are looked for shortly.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03
McDoNALD's HOTEL, Fulton Co.,
Sept. 18th, 1862.
''NT'e
GEN'L. A. III. CoFFRoTH:

, II OU., 7
Sept. 1lth, 1862.
GEN'L A. H. CoFFRoTH:
SIR: The undersigned appointed a commit
tee by the Democratic Congressional Confer
ence for the district composed of the counties
of Adams, Bedford, Fulton, Franklin and Som
erset. to inform you of your nomination by that
body as the Democratic candidate for Congress
in said district. beg leave herewith to make
known to you such nomination and to express
the hope that you will accept the same. With
our hest wishes for your success should you con-
sent to be the standard-bearer of the Democ.
racy Of the District, we remain
Yours Truly,
GEO. NJ. STENGER,
G. H. SPANG,
Fl. G SMITH,
Committee.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03

es-J. G. Fisher, Esq, has been appointed
clerk in the Prothonotary's office. A first
rate selection.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03
a PROCL.A.M.ATJO.N.

WHEREAS, 1t has become necessary to call in
to service, not only volunteers, but also portions
of the militia of the States, by draft, in order
to suppress the instruction existing in the Uni.
ted States; and disloyal persons are not ade-
quately restrained by the ordinary processes of
the law from hindering this measure and from
giving aid and comfort in various ways to the
insuTection;
Now, therefore,
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03
Acceptance Of Gen. Cohroth.

The following correspondence between the
committee appointed by the late Democratic
Congressional Conference, to inform Gen. Cof-
froth of his nomination by that body, and that
gentleman, has been handed us for publication:
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03
BE IT ORDERED.


FSrSt-That during the existing insurrection.
and as necessary measure for suppressing the
same, all rebels and insurgents, their aiders and
abettors. within the United States, and all per-
sons discouraging volunteer enlistments, resis-
ting militia drafts, or guilty of any disloyal
practice, ?ffording aid and comfort to the rebels
against the authority of the United States, shall
be subject to martial law, and liable to trial and
punishment by courts martial or military COM
missions.
Secoad-That the writ of habeas corpus is
suspended in respect to all persons arrested, or
who are now, or hereafter, during the rebellion,
shall be, imprisoned in any fort, camp, arsenal,
military prison or other place of confinement
by any military authority or by the sentence of
any court martial or military commission.
In witness whereof have hereunto set nv
hand, and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed. /.
Done at the city of Washington, this twen-
s<sEyssA ty-fourth day of September, in the
II BFqSpN year of our Lord one thousand eight
N4l=4sass hundred and sixty-two, and of the
Independence of the United States
the eighty-seventh.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
BY the President:
w. ii. SEWARD,
Secretary Of State,
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Sept. 29,1862.

Proclamation by the President Of the
United States.
THE Nrt Of HaJeas Corpus Suspended
IN the Case Of AU State Prisoners.
By TIE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
The New York herald., 1862-02-05
proposals % FOR &% 5000 90 o. CENTRAL Park IN

II pfOvement FWnd STOCK OF
Sealed proposals. will be received at the Comptroers Of
hce until Monday, the tenth day of February, 1861 at
O'Clock r. NJ when the will be publicly opened, fo the
whole hundred and ifty ihou-
sand dollars the "Ceniral Park Improvement Fund
stock authorized Ivy chapter s. OF the Laws of 1sC0 and By
Ordinance of the Common Council approved by the May
or, October IL. 1861
The said stock will bear interest at the rate of six cent
per annu, PAYABLE quarter yearly and the principal will be
rcdeemalle November l. 1870.
The proposals will state the amount OF stock desired aud
lie price per one hundred dollars thereof and the persons
whose proposals accepted win be required to deposit with
the Chamberlain the city, within days after the
ing OF bids the awarded to them respectively in.
Guiding the premiums on the same.
On presenting the Comptroller The receipts OF the Cham.
Deran such deposits the parties will be entitled 70
cciyc certificates amounts Of the value
stock, bearing interest from the dates Of payments,
Each proposition should be sealed and endorsed PrOpo.
saIs for Central Park improvement Fund Stock tue
same enclosed second envelope addressed the Comp
troller.
reh, is reserved to reject any all Of the bids II
sdered necessary to protect Or promote the interests Of the
city. ROBERT T. HAWS, Comptroller.
ers Once, January g. 1852
The New York herald., 1862-02-05
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