The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-06-12


Ilie rebels are disarmed, how meek and lowly,
pociie and penitent they win be while beholding
bur Northern brothers occupying ngtheir mansions,
tnd illustrating the beauties Of General Banks
apprentice system. With what impunity Gen.
dal Butler would ride from his plantation On
Noon lake to his rancho ON Deer creek! Then
would be ma de manifest the absurdity Of those
cppperhesd croakers who foolishly insist that,
while military power can put down q rebellion,
moral power alone can eradicate its consequen-
c& and keep it down!
1t is true, they cite the example OF Vendee )
which, in area, is only about one-fortieth part
Of France. There, we admit, the peasantry be-
leved their religion was endangered, and histo-
rY records that they defeated six or seven Of
the b st appointed armies which the French re-
public, in that warlike age, could hurl against
him. 1t Is also true that afterwards, when
Carnot was made Minister Of War. he quieted
the people by assuring them they should be un-
disturbed in their religious faith. These mis-.
chievous fault finders, to give further force to
their insidious assaults upon our worthy Presi-
dent point also to Poland, in which the fires
Of rebellion are ever bnrning, but they forget
that the Gear Of all the Russias is in all respects
inferior to our model President, and is wholly
ignorant Of the true means Of quieting u disaf-
fected people. 1t never occurred to the afore-
said Gar that, to squelch rebellion etectual-
ly, he cause must be removed. Had he stud
led tie history Of rebellions in this country, he
would have discovered that we always ascer-
tainsd the cause, the evil, the sin, which gave
pretext to the insurgents.
For example During the administration of
General Washington portion Of the people OF
Pennsylvania got up rebellion about whiskey.
1t was crushed out by "coercion;" but the sa.
gacious statesmen OF that day determined to
strike 1t the cause.
The result is that the people Of that noble
Commonwealth have ever since eschewed whis-
key and turned their attention TO contracts. -
Nothing is now known in that State of whis.
key, and though Buchanan used to recite some
tradtionary stories Of ''old rye" to the junior
members Of his Cabinet, il is well known that
the sight of bottle Of pure Monongahela was
as repulsive to his nature as ice water to mad
dog Subsequently, while General jackson was
President, the people of South Carolina revolt.
ed against taxation, because some demagogues
called it high tariff, and asserted that the mon
ster '.stole money from their unconscious poek-
ets." The rebellion, however, was subjugated
y the military power Of The Government. and
the cause---taxation--of course abolished. No
tax-gatherers have been known since in South
Carolina. At later day, during the adminis-
tration Of John Tyler, Of the firm Of 'sfippe-
canoe and Tyler toe" some unwashed Demo.
Gratis in Rhode Island fermented grand insur.
rection against the sovereignty Of that large and
populous State. The army and navy OF the
United States, by hearty corporation with
the ''loyalists" of that day, soon overthrew the
insurgents.
Their provisional Governor, Thos w. Dorr,
was captured, denied the rights OF "beiliger.
ent," and sent tu the penitentiary. The DEM
0cratic party--the cause-was abolished, as all
subsequent elections have shown, throughout
the United States, since which no speck OF re.
bellion has been known within the vast limits OF
that loyal State. The rebellion Of Utah, which
occurred during the reign Of that old public
is too recent to be forgotten. The
cause is doubtless fresh in the mind OF every
aged maiden lady in the loyal States. The re-
publican instincts Of our people would not toll
crate monopoly in Heavens ''last, best gift to
man." General Albert Sidney Johnston was
sent to Utah with instructions to conquer the
conjugal spirit Of Brigham. The Mormon war
ended gloriously to our arms. The cause was
removed. Harems are now unknown among
the Latter Day Saints, and Brigham, like some
lone bird without a mate, ''reiuses to be com.
forted.' In Europe, pruuacted and sanguinary
civil wars have often resulted from differences
Of opinion in regard to the true mode OF con-
STRUNG the Bible, and especially concerning the
operations OF the Holy Ghost. They have fail
ed to abolish the one or deny the other. The
result is that few countries in Europe maintain
the quiet which usually ''prevails" along the
1t should not be overlooked that our people
were very ignorant or they would never have
been deceived by the reasonable enemies, North
and South, of our noble President 1t was false.
ly charged that he and his party friends did not
e.ire to suppress the rebellion without first sub
yer,ing the rights of the ,States-iree,ng all the
slaves and elevating them to political equality
with the whites. Our people being, OF Course,
very ignorant believed all these false, scanda.
lous and malicious statements, and among the
resolutions you will adopt at your meeting, there
should be one thanking his Excelency, our most
approved President. for the efectual means ho
has adopted to give strength and moral power
TO the Union men and women of the South;
while at the same time be has shown how wick
.dIy false and libeous were the allegations Of
Southern traitors and Northern copperheads that
he intended to use the army and navy to abolish
slavery.
The Union men of the South will ever CRATE
fully cherish the name and memory Of one who,
by a scrupulous regard Of his official and other
pledges, and his manly adherence to the Chica-
70 platform, has vindicated the truth of all the
pledges which from time to time we made in his
.,ehalf and the traitors and copperheads who
hus falsely charged our great and good Presi-
lent with designing to subvert the institutions
Of the Southern States, must henceforth hide
their faces X shame.