The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-09-05
DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETING.
The People i'm Notion!
Splendid Inauguration Of the Political Canvass
The "Union as it was," and the "Consti-
tuition as it isIW
GREAT ENTHUsIAsM!!

Couft HOUSE, on MONDAY evening last, Sept. /.
On motion of Col Tate, the meeting was or.
ganized by the election of Hon. JAS. BURNS
as President, and the following named gentlemen
as Vice Presidents
| Bedford Borough-Job Mann.
| Bedford Io,cnship-Isaac e. Reighard.
Bloody Run Br.-Wlliam States.
Broad 1op-Edward Pearson.
Coleruna-William Beegle.
| Cumberland Valley-John May.
Ha'TaSon-George w. Powell.
HopewelNJacob Steel.
Ju,aahs-F. Hildebrand
Londonde,7y-W. Bonnell.
| Lberty-Isaac Kensinger
! Nonroe-Joln ID Lucas.
Napier-George w. Gump.
Providence E.-Joseph Barnett
Prov1dence We. +. Kerr.
st. Clan-J. w. Crissman.
Snake .Sp'ing-Michael Smouse.
Southanpton-William Adams
Schellsbuy Br.-John Otto.
Unton-Moses McIlwaine
Middle Woodba7y-George Potter.
South lVooClbe,7y-John b. Fluke.
Secretaries. j. G.. Hartley, Saml Axe,
Jacob Semler, ID. A. t. Black, j. II. Schell,
Samuel Working, j. S. Brumbaugh Samuel
Bender, j. w. Dickerson, VIM. Foster, David
Bralller, SEM, +. ID. Beegle.
Speeches were then made by Hon. F. NJ
Kimmell, w. M Hall, Esq, Hon. w. p. Schell,
o. E. Shannon, Esq, Gen. A. H. Coffroth (of
SomerseD, b. +. Meyers and Hon. John Cessna.
The speakers were frequently and loudly ap-
plauded. After the passage of the following
resolutions, the meeting adjourned with three
cheers "for the Union and the Constitution, and
the Democratic party, to restore the one and
maintain the other"
Resohred, That the Democracy of Bedford
county, in mass meeting assembled, hereby en-
dorsc and adopt the following PreambIs, and
held at Harrisburg on the 4th of July lasts
WHEREAS, The American Constitution was
ordained and established by our fathers in or
der to form more perfect Union, establish JUS
tice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the
common defense, promote the general welfare,
and secure the blessings of self-government and
liberty to posterity; therefore,
-Resolved, That the only object of the Dem
ocratic party is the restoration of the Union as
it was and the preservation of the Constitution
as it is.
Resolred, 2, That to the end that the Union
be restored and the Constitution and laws be
enforced throughout its whole extent, we pledge
our hearty and unqualified support to the Fed
eral Government in the energetic prosecution of
the existing war.
Resolved, 3, That the true and only object of
the war is to restore the Union and enforce the
laws; such purpose is alone worthy the awful
sacrifice which it costs us of life and of trea-
sure; with such purpose alone can we hope
for success-and those who from sectional feel
ing or party or private motives would give any
other direction to the efforts of our armies, are
unjust and unworthy to be entrusted with DOW
er and would cause all our exertions, extraor-
dinary and unparalleled as they are, to prove
futile in the end.
Resolved, 4, That we justly view with alarm
the reckless extravaganza which pervades some
of the departments of the federal government
and that return to rigid economy and accoun-
liability is indispensable to arrest the systematic
plunder of the public treasury by favored par
tizans and that in view of the startling devel-
opments of fraud and corruption at the federal
metropolis and throughout the country, we hold
an entire change of administrative policy to be
imperatively demanded
Resotred 5, That the party fanaticism or
crime whichever it may be called, that seeks to
turn the slaves of the Southern States loose to
overTun the North and enter into competition
with the white laboring classes, thus degrading
and insulting their manhood by placing them
on an eoualitv with neproes in their Occunatio,
is insulting to our race and merits our most en-
phatic and unqualified condemnation.
Resotred, 6, That We denonce Northern Abo-
htontsm and Southern Secession as the co-opera-
ting sources of our present caamities, alike trea-
sonabe to the Constitution and nimica to the
Union. The only way to a restored Union and
a respected Constitution, with returning peace
and prosperity, is through the overthrow of both.
Resolced, 7, That the Democracy Of Pennsyl-
vania is equally opposed to all sectional legisla-
tion and geographical parties, which base their
hope for continued partizan success on the a.
grarianism of emancipation and the hypocriti-
cal philanthropy of Abolition, because neither
is known to the Constitution and both are ia
tended to aid disunion and subvert the Consti-
tuition, and to prevent the restoration of amity,
peace and concord among States and people.
Resoluea, 8, That the Constitution and the
laws are sufficient for any emergency and that
the suppression of the freedom of speech, and
of the press, and of the unlawful arrest of citi-
zens, and the suspension of the writ of habeas
corpus in violation of the Constitution, in States
where the civil authorities are unimpeded, is
most dangerous to civil liberty and should be