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

men whicli-I would not for monument pretend
to compare for craftsmanship, respecta bility or
! patriotism, with this Convention. That body
has devoted its time and attention to doing more
in six months, for the cause of secessionism,
than Beauregard, Lee, Johnston, and all the
| Southern Generals combined have been able to
accomplish in one year. Said Senator from
the South the other day, Union man :-''Jeff
Davis is running to G ongress now, and is ma
king id sight more out of the Washington
Congress than the one at Richmond" (Laugh-
ter, and many remarks of approval.)
The legislation of that body has been almost
wholly for the almighty African" From the
prayer in the morning (tor gentlemen we are
pious body, we are--making long faces, and
sometimes wry faces, too Qaughter,) we open
with prayer but there is not much of the Al
mighty Maker of heaven and earth in it, from
the prayer to the motion to adjourn, it is negro
in every shape and form in which he can by any
possibility be served up. But it is not only the
negro inside of the House and Senate, but
outside also Washington City has been, with
in the past three weeks, converted into one uni
yersal hospital; every church except one for
each denomination, has been seized for hospi-
tai purposes; and while the sanctuaries of the
ever living God-the God of Abraham, Isaac
and jacob not the new God of the Burlin-
games and Summers and other Abolitionists, not
that God whose gospel is written in the new
Bible of Abotion-but the Everything Jehovah
God, have been coniscated for hospitals, every
theatre, every concert salooRevery other place
ofSamusement, from the highest to the lowest
from the spacious the atre in which a Forest
exhibits to an enrapt ured audience his graphic
renderngs of the immortal creations of Shake
speare, down to the basest den of revelry and
darkness, are open still as in the Inferno of
the great Italian poet
ssThe gates Of hell stand open night and day.
Sir, If these places of musements-innocent
some of them, but not holy certainly-had first
been seized as o.pitas, for the comfort and cure
oe the Thousands Of brave and honest men, who
won't forth believing in their hearts that they
were to battle for the Constitution and the u
Mon, but who now lie wasting away upon their
lonely pallets, with no wife or sister, mother
/ there to soOthe, groaning in agony with every
description Of wound which the devilish ingen-
uiy of man can infict by weapons, whose in
invention was inspired by the very author of
all human woe and suffering wounds too, rank
! l&s and fostering for the want of surgical aid
if those places, | say, had first been seized, and
then it had become necessary for the comfort
or fife of the thousands of other sick and woun-
ded who are borne into the city every day, to
occupy the churches of Washington, / know of
no better and hoer purpose to which they could
have been devoted. And now, sir, not far
from the stately capitol, within whose marble
walls abolition treason now runs riot, is bull
ding, "Green's Row" by name, in which 100
| fugitive slaves-"contrabands' in the precious
slang of infamous Butler-daily receive the ra-
tions Of the soldier, which are paid for out of
the taxes levied upon the people. One hun
dred thousand dollars day are taken from the
public treasury for the support of these fugitive
slaves while the army of Shields. and other u
mon armies in the field even so lately as six
weeks ago, marched bare footed, bare headed
and in their drawers, for many weary miles
without SO much as a cracker or crust OF
bread with which to aiiay their hunger. Aye,
| sir, while many gallant young soldier OF OHIO
| Just blooming into manhood, who heard thecry
that went up fifteen months ago, ''rally to de-
fend the flag and for the rescue of the capital,
and went forth to battle, with honesty in his
heart, his life in his hand with courage in every
| fiber, and patriotism in every vein, lies wan and
sad on his pallet in the hospital, your surgeons
| are forced TO divide their time and care between
| the wounded soldiers and these vagabond fugi-
| tive slaves, who have been scduced or forced
| from The service of their masters.-Ihese things
and much more--l have told you not 1.-THE OF
all--are done in Washington We know il there's
though it is withheld from the people; and
while every falsehood that the ingenuity of man
can invent TO delude and deceive, is transmitted
CT allowed by the telegraphc censors of the Ad-
Observation-Disclosures usurpers unknown to
the Constitution and laws-these facts are not
permitted to reach the people of the U. States
Your newspapers, the natural watch dogs of lib
erty, are threatened with suppression if but a
half or the hundredth part OF the truth be told.
And. now, too, when but one other means re-
manned for the redress of this and the hundred
other political grievances, under which the land
groans-party organization and public assem-
bages of the people-even these, too, are threat
ened with suppression with armed force. Aye,
sir, that very party, which not many years ago,
| bore upon every banner, the motto s'Free Speech
and Free Press" now day by day forbids the
transmission through your mails of the papers
from which you derive your knowledge of pub
lie events, and which advocate the principles
you cherish.
| And ndDemocratic editors, too, are seized, ''kid-
mapped" in the midnight hour-torn from their
families--gagged- wives with officers over
them menacing violence if they but ask one fare
well grasp of the hand, one parting kiss---thrust
into close carriage in the felon's hour of mid
night, and with violence dragged to this Capitol
and here forced upon an express train and hur-
ried off to military fortress of the u. States.
Yes, men of Ohio, to fortress that bears the
honored name of that first martyr of American
liberty-the Warren of Bunker IIill or it may
be to that other bastile desecrating that other
name sacred in American history, and honored