The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-08-22
BEDFORD, Pa, FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST %. 1867

had enlisted for the mere purpose OF fe-estab
fishing devotion to, and the protection of, oul
proud national ensign, the star-spangled banner
there again spread out its folds. At the begin.
ming of these successes much attachment to the
Union was developed among the people where
such successes occurred. 1t was hoped and be.
lieved that, with few more similarly impor.
tant blows infected upon the rebellion, that its
force would have been spent, and that the peo.
| pie OF the rebelious States, being assured that
| the pledges of the President and Congress wond
be faithfully observed, would have relaxed their
efforts in behalf of their usurping government and
that the Union men Of the South, and the return
ing sense of the inestimabio value Of the Union to
all divisions of population there, would complete
the restoration of respect and obedience to the
Constitution and laws of the Federal Govern
men These hopes have not been realized, and
the explanation Of this disappointment, in q
great degree at least, is found in the evidence
afforded of the terrible fact that the abolition.
lists in the North are det, rgined that the white
population of the South shall be exterminated
or held in subjugation, and that our Govern
ment shall be overthrown, and the Union Of
these States finally and forever broken up
Yes erte,miaate the whites of the South, or
govern them as q subjugated people, and o,sr-
M,ow the Government and destroy the Union,
is their purpose And we ask your consideration
for moment, until we present to you points,
from which you will see that the inference is lr-
resistable that this is the design Of this most
disloysl band.
The Constitution and the Union were early
regarded by aboitionsts as the barriers that stood
in the way Of negro emancipation. Hence the
Constitution was by them denouncedas "a conve-
nant with death and an agreement with hell"
$50 late as the 18th of June last, portion of the
members of this band at a meeting in Massa-
chusetts, passed formal resolution, viz:
"Resolved, That as aboitionists, devoted to
the great work of overthrowing slavery, we renew
and repeat our old pledge, 'sNo Union with
| Shareholders. No support to any administration
Or government that permits slavery on any por-
ton of its soil--and we value this war only as
we believe it must lead to emancipation by order
of the Federal authorities, or TO dissolution of
the Union, which must speedily produce the
same result
1t is unnecessary to even specify the promi-
been afforded that the abolitlonists had firmly
resolved upon the destruction of this Govern
ment A few of them are found in the uncon-
Of several States, the repeated declarations oi
prominent party leaders, even in the last Presi-
Dental campaign, (see the speech delivered by
Frank p Blair, at Franklin Hall in the city
of Philadelphia, on the 2nd of October, 1860,
one week before the election in which he, quo
ting still higher authority, declared that the OBJ
iect of the Republican party was "the utter
extinction of slavery" In the avowed determi-
nation TO resist the decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States, in the Dred Scott
case, and in such declarations as made by Sen
ator Wade, "a Union where all men are equal,
or no Union at ALL" Acting upon this original
purpose, and upon the conviction that return
TO Congress of Senators and Representatives
| from the Southern States would result IN their
overthrow, the abolitionists in the late Congress
have pursued policy that has alarmed every
loyal man in the North, and forced the convlc-
ton that our gallant armies in the field, and the
whole nation were to be thwarted in their pat
rioaic purposes. The resolution above quoted,
adopted by Cohgress in July, 1861, immediate
ly after the Bull Run disaster, it was sought to
re-aiIrm in the present Congress, through res
olution offered by Mr. Holman, of Indiana, in
the following terms:
| Resolved. That the unfortunate civil war into
which the Government of the United States has
been forced by the reasonable attempt OF the
Southern Sccessionists to destroy the Union
should not be prosecuted for any other purpose
than the restoration of the authority OF the Con
slitution and welfare of the whole people OF the
United States, who are permanently involved IN
the preservation of our present form OF Govern
mont. without modification or change.
This resolution was defeated by motion tc
lay it upon the table, made by Mr.. Loveioy, by
the following vote, yeas go, nays 90. vi those
who voted to thus defeat the resolution, so were
republicans, while every Democrat excepting
one, and every Border States representative
whose vote is recorded, voted in the negative.
In cooperation with this most significant dec
laration, by the Federal House Of Representa-
tives, we had the military emancipation procla
nations of Generals Fremont and Hunter
| Along with these we had the project of MIR. Sum
ner. in the Senate, to blot out the State govern
ments of the rebel States, reduce them to ter
ritorial condition, and to govern them as such
Then followed various emancipation schemes
and among them the project Of c0efscatOn o
slaves nominaiy, but really bill to emancl'at
them. We can not probably better prove the
operation of such measures upon the Southern
mind, than to quote the following extract from
twenty out of twenty eight representatives from
the Border Slave States to President Lincoln
in reference to his appeal to them to adopt hi
project, that the Federal Government should a't
them with money to pay the master for his ne
gro upon his emancipation, viz;
There follows an extract from the reply o
the Border State Congressman to Lincoln's E
Emancipation proposition, which Will be found il
the Gazette of August l