The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-05-08
THE DEMOCRACY In COUNCIL |
Grand Uprising of the Peoplell
Good Feeling and Great EnthusiaSm!l! |!

Siuo VI Deuioru oorouShp HssemDleo at ING
Court House, on Monday evening, 4th inst. j
the President, Isaac Mengel, Esq, in the chair
The attendance of Democrats from the country
being immensely large, the Club resolved itsoll
into Mass Meeting, with the following named
gentlemen as officers:
President, MICHAEL REED, Esq.
Tce Presidents, William Bowles, John Amo
Thos w. Horton, John c. Black, John C. IT
gard, William Cessna, ST., Adam Zemboweb
George Elder, Jos. c. Miller, Samuel AXE, i
c. Rifle, Geo. w. Gibboncy, Geo. Rhodes, II
vi Devorc, Lewis Howsare, Peter Wincgardne,
W. M. Akcrs, VIM. Smell, A. J. Morgart, J. O.
Hartley, jesse Dicken, John Kemery, Jac@
Walter, Samuel Burket, Michael Wyant, Da4.
el Brumbaugh, Levi Fluck
Secretaries, Samuel Miller, E. F. Kerr, Thos
Gephart, VIM. Cessna, Joseph Miller.
The meeting being thus organized, Hon. Joh1
Cessna introduced to the meeting Gen. A. HI
Coffroth, of Somerset, Member of Congresa
elect for this district, who proceeded to deliver
an address fraught with sound common sensS
views and full of home thrusts at the monstros.
tiles of the present Abolition Administrations
The speech of Gen. Coffroth, was received with
great favor by the meeting. as was attested by
the frequent outbursts of applause by which thb
speaker was interrupted.
On motion, B. i. Meyers then addressed The
meeting in defence of the course pursued by the
Democrats in opposing the policy of coercing
disaffected States, quoting from the writings and
speeches of Edmund Randolph, james Madison,
Alex Hamilton, and other founders of the Re-
l {, al 4 \
and Lyman Trumbull, to show that the coercion
of q State was considered by them an impossi-
bity and without warrant of the Constitution.
At the conclusion of this address, the speaker
read the following resolutions, which were unan-
imously adopted, amid much applause:
| Resolred, in the language of the House of
Representatives Of Pennsylvania, That as our
institutions are assailed by an armed rebellion
on one side, which is being met by the sword,
and on the other by unconstitutional acts of
Congress and startling usurpations of power by
the Executive, which, we have seen by experi-
cy as well as principle requires that our people
shall await the process of reform which is slow
but sure, and refrain from all unlawful and un-
constitutional acts, which have already brought
terrible calamities upon the country, whilst they
invoke the aid of all patriotic men to assist in
averting the evils that threaten our free insti-
tutions.
Resolued, That We will adhere to the Consti-
tuition and the Union as the best, it may be the
last, hope of popular freedom, and for all wrongs
which may have been committed or evils which
may exist, we will seek redress under the Con-
stitution and within the Union, by the peaceful
but powerful agency of the suffrage of free
people.
Resolved, That we recognize manifest differ
enee between the administration of the govern
ment and the government itself-the one is tran
STORY, limited in duration to that period of time
for which the officers elected by the people are
charged with the conduct of the same; the 9TH
or is permanent, intended by its founders to en-
dure forever.
Resolved, That in the exercise of our right to
differ with tho federal Executive, we enter our
solemn protest against the proclamation of the
President of the United States. dated the first
day of January, one thousand eight hundred
and sxty-three, by which he assumes to eman-
cipate slaves in certain States, holding the same
to be unwisc, unconstitutional and void.
Rcsolued, That, on behalf of the people Of
this County, we declare our determined oppo-
sition to n system of emancipation by the
States upon compensation to be made out of the
treasury of the United States, as burthensome
upon the people, unjust in its very nature, and
wholly without warrant Of the Constitution.
Resolved, That we declare that the power which
has recently been assumed by the President of
the United States, whereby under the guse of
military necessity he has proclaimed and extend
ed martial law over States where war did not
| exist, and has suspended the writ of ha6eas COR
pas, is unwarranted by the Constitution, and its
| tendency is to subordinate civil to military au-
| thority, and to subvert our system of free gov
| ernment-
| Resolved, That we deem it proper further to
declare that we, together with all truly loyal
people, would hail with pleasure and delight any
manifestation of q desire on the part of the Sc
ceded States to return to their allegiance to the
government Of the Union, and would in such
event cordially and earnestly Cooperate with
them in the restoration of peace and the pro-
curement of such proper guarantees as would
give security to all their interests and rights.
! Resolved, That we hail with pleasure and hope
the manifestations of conservative sentiment a.
mong the people of the Northern States in their
late elections, and regard the same as the earnest
of good purpose upon their part to cooperate
with all other truly loyal citizens in giving secu-
rity to the rights Of every section and maintain
ing tho Union and the Constitution as they were
ordained by the founders of the Republic.
| Resolved, That the soldiers composing our ar
mics merit the warmest thanks of the nation.
Their country called, and nobly did they respond.
Living, they shall know nations gratitude
wounded, nations carei and dying, they shall
live in our memories, and monuments shall be
raised to teach posterity to honor the patriots
and heroes who offered their lives at their CONN.,
try's altar. Their widows and orphans shall
be adopted by the nation, to be watched over
and cared for as objects truly worthy nations
guardianship.
Rssohsd, That the laws of this State must be