The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-07-17
Against Home Interests.

We are informed that some OF the Abolition
Post Masters in this county, are making efforts
to induce people to stop their county papers and
take some of the blood and thunder journals
published in the Eastern cities. We are told
that these disinterested patriots tell Democrats
that they have stopped their subscription to the
Inquirer, and, therefore, Democrats ought to
cease taking the Gazette. The Postmaster at
Alum Bank is reported to us as manGuvring in
this manner. IF this be the case, and we doubt
not it is, the Abolition Postmasters are guilty
of striking at the home interests of our county,
by endeavoring to break down the local news
papers. They would rather have the peoples
money go out of the county, never to return,
than have it given to sustain the county press,
which speaks for the home interests of the peo-
pie and which urges, encourages and sustains
local enterprise. Such men are untrue to their
own firesides and deserve the execration of the
public. We warn these offcious p Ms that
they had better simply attend to the duties of
their office and let the people take whatever pa
pers they please; for, if they DON'T some of them
may discover ere long that other people know a
few of their official secrets as well as themselves
At the door of the Copperheads of the North
can be justly laid the responsibility of the dar-
ing invasion and consequent damage incident to
the raid through portion of our State and
county.-Fulton Republican.
Will the sapient gentleman who is the author
of the above delectable paragraph, be kind e.
nough to inform us whether he considers the
President of the United States, the majority of
both Houses of Congress and the Governor of
Pennsylvania "Copperheads?" If he does not,
then it follows that he tells deliberate false
hood when be says that the responsibility for
the rebel invasion of our State can be laid cat
the door Of the Copperheads.' For nobody un-
der the sun but the President, the majority in
the last Congress and the Governor of Pennsyl-
vania can be blamed for the state of affairs
which permitted, nay invited, the rebel army to
enter Pennsylvania. Who removed Mcclellan
and appointed Burnside, under whose blind lead
ership the Army of the Potomac was rushed
forward to slaughter on Marye heights? Who
appointed Hooker, under whose sad and san
culinary blundering, the disaster of Burnside
was repeated, and by whose deporable failure
the rebel army was left straight and unob-
structed highway for IFS march into Ponnsylva-
MA? And whose peculiar policy has prevailed
Tor the last nine months, to the utter exclusion
of every modifying suggestion from those whom
the Republican styles ''Copperheads?" The Pres
ident and the majority in Congress have had ev-
erything their own way. They have had as
many men as they asked for, and as much mon
ey as they could spend. They appointed their
own favorites to fill the Offices, both civil and
military. They even assumed powers which
they themselves admit do not belong to thcm
but which, they declare, ''lnilitary necessity
demanded them to exercise. The Governor of
Pennsylvania had the military power of the
State in his hands. He could have lined the
border with effective soldiery drawn from mill
tia which he might have had well organized and
disciplined. But with all the resources within
the reach of both Federal and State Admins
tratlons, with all the power, Constitutional and
assumed, in the hands of Mr.. Lincoln and the
last Congress, and with the one hundred thou
sand militia which Governor Curtin could have
had within his control, the war for the suppress
sion of the Rebellion is transferred from Virgin
ia to Pennsylvania, and the gallant Army of the
Potomac, instead of acting on the aggressive,
is compelled to stand on the defensive Now,
who is III the fault? The President, Congress
and Governor Curtin who had every thing in
their own hands and pursued their own course,
or the Democrats c'Copperheads" in Abolition
parlance) who asked these functionaries to change
their policy, but were not listened to9 Let COM
mon sense answer