The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-01-02
"When Shall We Have Peaoe2"

Wueu DHdll we Lave I6dC6
The Potiand Adye7issr, the leadiug Republi-
can paper in Maine, asks this important and lii
teresting question, and answers it as follows;
''Ne answer, when Congress shall be pcrsua-
ded that reason, not force, is THE DIVINITY of
the age in whic h we live. When Congress shall
be persuaded that history furnishes no example
Of six millions OF people educated, free, and in
dependent, being subjected TO captivity and
ruled against their consent. When Congress
shall be persuaded that no nation on earth has
proved themselves powerful enough in arms, or
in wealth, to establish, and maintain, indefinite
y, military dcspotism over six millions of
white men accustomed TO freedom, and TO rep
resentatiye government. When Congress shall
be persuaded that every bayonet that carries q
demand for obedience to law, and TO the Feder-
al Government, should also carry the announce
ment OF religious respect for the political rights
out Of which this war has arisen, and a willing
ness to confer amicably upon the terms OF re-
adjustment of those rights.
''Ffght on, We men of the North! and fight
on will be the cry of the men Of the South, un-
til, substantially, these conditions we have ma
med shall come to pass. But fewer of each
side shall live to enjoy the result, as day By day
passes away, and all Of each will be poorer in
purse, until the result that gives peace shall be
attained. Peace is the child Of reason and re-
ciprocal interests. War is the heathcn and
soulless AIoloch that devours, without remorse,
every life and every interest that stands in the
way of its imagined or proclaimed necessities.
Cold, pitiless inhunan, is war in its best aspect
II makes children fatherless, wives widows, the
Bile, the feeble despairing, and the world itself
everything what it ought not to be to every cit
izen and to every interest.
''But fight on, fight on, will be the impulsive
cry of politicians, OF aspirapts to office, of Gov
ernment jobbers, and contractors and Of ia
natical, one-idea men, both of the North and
at the South Fight on will be the cry of stand
ard loyalty, until the still, small, and yet sub
lime, voice of the ballot-box shall bid battles
to cease, and reason to resume its sway over
the councils of the nation. Then no broken
nationality-no inviduous titles to superior
righteousness in the framework of institutions
and of society-will be recognized, but re-u-
nited people, with one flag of national glory
and strength, and one Constitution, one govern
ment, and one supremacy, shall become the in
heritance OF all our people, East, West, North
and South If there be treason in the sentl-
ments, make the most Of it,"
We commend the answer to the careful at
tention of those who are So free with their char
ges of treason against every Democrat who
speaks of peace. 1t is signal rebuke af the
presumption, insoleuce and ignorance OF such
venal sheets as the Washington Chronicle, Phila-
delphia Press, and Harrisburg telegraph.
WH1sKEY AND NEwsPArERs.-A glass OF
whisliey is manufactured from perhaps dozen
grains of corn, the value Of which is too small
to be estimated. A pint of thls mixture sells
for one shilling, and il of % good brand is con-
sidered well worth the money. Ii is drunk in
a minute or two--it fires the brain, sharpens
the appetite, deranges and weakens the physl
cal system. On the same side board on which
this pernicious beverage lies newspaper. 1t
as covered with half million of types-it
brings intelligence from the four quarters OF the
globe. The newspaper costs less than the glass
of grog-the juice of a few grains of corn; but
bnt it is no less strange than true that there is
n large portion of the community who think
corn juice cheap and the newspaper dear.
TIE CoURTING OF SHARP MAN OF BUSI- |
NEss.--Potts is sharp man, man OF business
tact, and when he goes into a store to trade, he
always gives hclowest cash price; and he says; |
--'Wel, I'll look about, and if | don't find a.
nything that suits me better, I'll call and take
this
Potts, like all men, is partial to women and
young ones in particular. Now, quite lately
Potts said to himself:--T am getting rather long
in years and guess I'll get married.
His business qualities wouldn't let him wait,
so off he travels, and calling upon a lady friend,
opened the conversation by remarkng that he
would like to know what she thought about his
getting married.
ooh, Mr.. Potts, that is an affair in which |
am not so greatly interested, and pretend to
leave it with YOURSELF
'But,' says Potts, you are interested, and,
my dear girl, will you marry meP
The young lady blushed hesitated, and final
ly, as Potts was very we'll to do in the world,
and morally, financially and politically of stand
ing in society, she accepted him. Whereupon
the matter-of-fact Potts responded:
sWell, well, I'll look about, and if Idon'ttnd
anybody that suits me better Man you, RI come
back