The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-08-21
Conservatives VS.. Destructives.

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upon the conservation of our political institu-
tons as handed down to us by the fathers of
the Republic. 'The Union as it was and the
Constitution as it isl is the watch-word of the
Democracy. On the other hand the Administra-
ton or Abolition party have made it their fixed
and Interchangeable purpose to destroy the polit-
cal fabric erected by the adoption of the Federal
Constitution. They hate and loathe the Un-
ion as it was. They spit upon and trample
under foot the sacred instrument in which
Washington and his compeers lodged, for eter-
nal safety, the liberties of the American people.
They crush out civil freedom by muzzling the
press and casting citizens into prison and trans
porting them into exile, without trial by jury
of their peers and without regarding even the
forms of law. They make war upon the rights Of
those willing to submit to the authority OF the
lGovernment, by emancipating their slaves and
Iconfscating their property in general. Finally,
they declare it to be their unalterable determina-
ton to abolish negro slavery. before they will re-
ceive the seeded states back into the Union, and
to this end they are willing that every white man,
woman and child in the rebel states, shall be
destroyed, and that, if necessary to effect this
result, 'the last man and the last dollar in the
tructiues and such are their doings and their in
tentions. No matter how great the sufferings
of the people, their programme of destruction
must be carried out to the letter. No matter
if every household mourns slain father, son,
or brother, their crusade of devastation must
go on. No matter if the country is bankrupted
bloody, vengeful and blighting revolution which
they have inaugurated, must not be turned back
ward. They are seated upon the Juggernaut
car Of Destruction which is to grind to powder
the PROSTATE South, though to reach its special
victim, its wheels must first pass over the dead
bodies of millions of their fellow men. The South
is their Carthage and Carthage est delenda.-
How cheering, bright and gladstone, then, is the
contrast between the objects of these mad des-
tructives and the purposes of the grand con-
servative element Of the country-the Democracy
that glorious old political organization, which
reveres the wisdom of the early years of the
Republic, which folds to its bosom with indy
ing devotion, the sacred charter of our liberties,
which asks only that the Union shall be restor-
ed as Washington made it, which desires an
early cessation of bloodshed and an honorable
and lasting peace, and whose warmest, purest
wish is to save what remains to us of the
splended heritage bequeathed to us by better
and nobler generation. Between these parties,
Conservative Democracy and Destructive Alb
olitionism, the people must choose. The prin-
ciples and policy of the former are illustrated
in the history of the country. The results of
the doctrines of the latter, are written in blood
} upon almost every hearth-stone in the land.
How then can the decision be doubtful?
The Town Council VS.. 'Wheelbarrow."
The last issue of the Bedford Inquirer, con-
tains an attack upon the Burgess and Council,
and particularly upon Mr. William Hartley, a
member of the Council, in which it endeavors
to hold those gentlemen generally and Mr.. Hart
ley especially, responsible for the condition of
the watcr-works, &c. This attack has elected
the subjoined statement, which is signed by eve-
ry member of the Council, irrespective Of party,
and which brands the Inquirer man as delib-
crate and wlful falsifer. This ought to be suf-
Gcia fo hot ,ulo fo do
sist from his shameful practises.
As to the gentlemen of the Council, they need
no defence at our hands. few years ago. the
Borough was $1,000 in debt, and now it is clear
of all indebtedness, and the tax assessed at pres
ent is mills instead of 4, as 1t was when X.
n. Republicanism ruled the roast. But, read
the following plain language used by the Town
Council in reply to the Inquirer:
STATEMENT.
Whereas the editor of the Bedford Inquirer,
j. r. Durborrow in his paper of the l4th inst,
stated that VIM Hartley obtained contract to
supply hydrants for the use of Bedford borough,
and charges MIR. Hartley with falsehood and de-
ception, and likewise insnnates malteasance on
the part of the Burgess and Council in employ
ing one Of their own number in the purchase or
procurement of hydrants,
Therefore,, we the undersigned members of
the Council of Bedford borough, without re-
spect to party declare the statement of j. r.
Durborrow WILFULLY and MALIGNANT
LIZ FALSE so far as Mr., Hartley is concern
ed, and repel with INDIGNATION and CONTEMPT
the imputation against us.
Mr. Hartley sOcs ordered to purchase the iy-
drants, and furnishes them at the Philadelphia
price, freight added; and the delay in getting
them was caused by the fact that for some time
the railroad companies would carry no freight,
and also from a want of understanding as to
kind of hydrants desired, which occasioned some
correspondence between Mr. Hartley and the