The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-01-16
Comments Of the Western (0pposi
Press OH the Proclamation Of En-
patton.
The Chicago Times says:
''rIIE Deed


''Ihe deed is done-the deed which unitcs
the people of the South forever in their rebell-
ion, and divides the people of the North as to
the further prosecution of the war-the deed
which converts the war from a constitutional
contest for the integrity of the Union to an un-
constitutional crusade for the liberation of
three millions of negro barbarians and their en-
reimbursement as citizens-the deed which de-
stroys the last hope of the preservation of the
Old Government and inaugurates future dark,
uncertain and dreary-the deed which is as un-
warranted in military as it is in civil law. a.
gainst the purposes of which the humanity of
Christendom will protest, and TO nv ert the con-
sequences OF which European powers will in
teriere. The deed is done. The craziest abo-
litionism has achieved the very acme of its de-
sres. The end for which the war was com
mcnced by the dominant party-the separation
Of the Union and an armed anti-slavery cru
sade-has been reached It is not deed with
out n name. 1t will be known in all history
as the most wicked, atrocious and revolving
deed recorded in the annals of civilization"
The indianapolis Qnd.,, Sentinel closes an i'm
portant article as follows:
''lf this act of usurpation passes unrebul,cd,
then we may bid farewell to constitutional lib
eriy The constitutional guarantees of person
al rights and personal liberty will not be worth
the parchment upon which they are written
1t is for the people to say whether they will re-
main free by repudiating this usurpation of pow
er, or by yielding to it, surrender personal lib
crty and the right of self government"
| The Louisville (Ky.) Democrat remarks:
''The Presidents Proclamation has come to
hand at last. We scarcely know how to ex-
press our Indignation at this fragrant outrage
OF all constitutional law, all human justice, all
Christian feeling. Our very soul rcvolts at con.
templating an atrocity so heinous, and the feel
ing is intensified at the indeliblc disgrace which
it fixes upon our country. To think that we,
| who have been the foremost in the grand march
of civilization should be so disgraced by an
imbecile President as to be made to appear be
fore the world as the encourager of nsurrec-
ton, lust, arson, murder! The people have
condemned this in advance, and the President
has raised a storm that will overwhelm him.
1t is not in the rebellious States he has t1
fear most, but the true, loyal States will moi
| suffer their fair fame to he stained by him. II
is not enough that Kentucky is isexempt from its
force; not enough that it is Intellectual even r
the State it has reference to. The people can.
not, in any State, bear to be SO slandered by
one who usurps authority"
In another article it says:
'sBut we need not discuss the absurdity.-
After constitutional liberty has been so long cs
tablished-after it has been reduced to q scienc,
here comes man supposed to have honesty
and capacity enough to be elected President o
a Government of strictly limited powers, as
suming unlimited despotic authority over States
properly and persons. This spectacle will as
tonish the civilized world. Our statesmen al
along supposed that States wore real units, I'M