The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-05-29
''Sympathizers With Treason. >
May ~, 1868


At the announcement of the death of GEN.
Jackson, sympathizers with treason in this pe.
euliar spot, hung their heads in despair and
would have gone down in sack.cloth and ashes
ii it would have restored him to life
Nothing but downright cowardice keeps them
from joining the Southern army, and if they
had three grains of manliness they would never
he found voluntarily under the protection of a
government which they from the very bottom
OF their tiny hearts desire to destroy ford
Inquirer.
Were it not that the author of the paragraph
above quoted, speaks for party, we would not
dignity his falsehoods with even a passing no.
tice; but, as through him the Abolitionists of
this county address the people, we feel it our
duty to expose the malice and falsity Of bis
statements.
Now, you envenomed black-snake, who are
the 'sympathizers with treason in this peculiar
spot?" Name them, If you please, but be care
ful when you do SO, not to make any legal blum
der. There are some people in this town who
will not permit you, nor any other Abolition
serpent, to hiss at them with your snaky insn-
uations about Secession sympathy" AS for
ourself if you (or any other viper like you) dare
to say that we are ''sympathizer with trea.
sop," we pronounce you in advance, liar and
slanderer. You know, in your own venom.
GUS heart, that there is not one Democrat in the
Borough of Bedford who has any sympathy
with treason. You know that you wilfully, de.
hberately and maliciously uttered a lie when
you spoke Of such persons living in our midst.
You know that you publish such falsehoods for
partisan purposes, in order to divert the atten-
ton Of the public from the monstrous crimes Of
which your party leaders are guilty, and to save
tbe necks of the thieves and rascals who are
now engaged in plunderins the pockets of the
people. A pretty fellow you are, truly, to talk
about sympathy with treason. Your party,
through its leaders, is stepped in treason. The
men that do the thinking for it, proclaim their
hostility to the old Union, and, therefore, to the
Republic, which is treason ITSELF Can you de-
1y tbisf No, you dare not, You know it is
true. AS to Stopewall jackson, there is no.
decent white man in all the North, who, now
that this great foeman is dead, will not accord
70 his memory that respect which is due to all
men of genius, even If their talents be employ
cd contrary to our wishes or tastes, or in oppo-
sition TO our interests as individuals or as ma.
tion. We advise the demagogue who talks a.
bout sympathy with treason, to read the lead
ing organs Of his own party on the subject of
the death Of Stonewall Jackson. There is not
one Of them that does not praise his virtues and
extol bis skill and bravery as general. Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher, IN a lengthy article in
the New York Independent, canonizes jackson
and places him safe in heaven. But the fierce
hussar, the bold and blood-stained warrior of
the Inquirer, would have people dig open the
grave of the departed fceman, and ghoul-like,
tear his dead body with savage teeth. The
grave is no barrier to his vengeance; nay he
would apit his venom upon the white robe of a
saint,in heaven, were it not that no viper like
be can ever get 80 near the celestial portal
bltteTly loyal and brimming over with patriot
ism, he would dance jig upon the tomb of
stonewail jackson. and ''nothing but downright
e'~ardice keepshim from joining the Federal
srmy," for The purpose Of capturing the last
sssting place Of the departed rebel.
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