The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-07-03
What the Present War Party did
in 1912.
FREE SPEECH THEN AND NOW.
The Rights Of a People whenIa Democrat
ic Administration Manage a War.

THE BEEcIlERs, CIiEEvERs AND TYNGs OF THAT
DAY.
The Rev. Elijah Parrish, d. D., in publish
ed discourse delivered by Byfeld, April 7th,
1911, among number of similar things, said:
"The Israelites became weary of yielding the
fruits of their labor to pamper their splendid
tyrants. They left their political woes. They
separated. Where is our Moses? Where is the
rod of his miracles? Where is our Aaron? A
las no voice from the burning bush has direct
ed here. Such is the temper
of the American Republicans, SO called. A
new language must be invented before we at
tempt to express the baseness of their conduct,
or describe the rottenness of their hearts!
IN New England, if invaded,
would be obliged to defend herself Do you not,
then, owe it to your children, and owe it to your
God, to make peace for yourselves?"
"No peace will ever be made, till the people
say there shall be no more war. If the rich
men continue to furnish money, the war will
continue till the mountains are melted in blood
till every field in America is white with the
bones of the people"
''ezyHow can the supporters of this esranti-
| Christian warfare endure their sentence-endure
their own refections-Fz-endur the fire that
forever burns, the worm that never dies, the ho-
sannas of Heaven, rsyWHILE THE SMOKE
OF THEIR TORMENT ASCENDS FOR
EVER AND EVER"
Rev. David Osgood, d. d., pastor of the
Church at Medford, in discourse delivered
| April 10th, 1910, and subsequently, printed, said
s'The strong prepossesslons of so great u por-
ton of my fellow Citizens in favor of race Of
demons, and against a nation of more religion,
virtue, good faith, generosity and benevolence,
than that now is, or ever has been upon the face
of the earth, wiring my soul with anguish, and
fill my heart with apprehension and terror of
the judgments of Heaven upon this sinful peo-
pie"
| In printed discourse of the same gentleman,
delivered June 27th, 1872, occur the following,
among other equally virulent declarations:
| .'liy mind has been in constant agony, not
so much at the inevitable loss of our temporal
prosperity and happiness, and the complicated
miseries of war, as at its guilt, its outrages "a
gainst heaven, against all truth, honesty, justice
goodness, against all the principles OF social
happiness"
1'Were not the authors of this war in char
acter nearly akin to the deists and atheists of
France? Were they not men of hardened hearts,
scared consciences, reprobate minds, and despe-
rae wckedness! 1t seems utterly uncomfortable
that they should have made the declaration"
''If, at the command of weak and wicked ru-
lers, they undertake an unjust war, each man
who volunteers his services in such cause, or
loans his money for its support, or by his con-
versation, his writings, or any other mode of
influence, encourages its prosecution, that man
is an accomplice in the wickedness loads his
conscience with the blacklist crimes, brings the
guilt of blood upon his soul, and, esyin the
sight of God, and His law, IS q mu,dererP'
eff at the present moment, no symptoms of
civil war appear, they certainly will soon, un-
less the courage of the war party should fail
them.'
ga civil war becomes as certain as the events
that happen according to the known laws and
established course of nature!''
From the Rev. I. S. j. Gardner, A. NJ, rec
tor of Trinity Church, Boston:
"H is a acar unerampled in the history Of the
scorld; wantonly proclaimed on the most t,ivo-
lous and grouadtess pretences; against nation
from whose friendship we might derive the most
signal advantages, and from whose hostility we
lses."-Discourse delivered July 28, 1912.
"What consequence is it to you if they re-
pcaled or not, if you are sold to Napoleon, as
you have reason to believe, by the slaves who
have abused your confidence
'Let no consideration whatever, my brethren,
deter you at all times, and in all places from
erecrating the present aoar. AS Mr.. Madison has
declared war, let Mr.. Madison carry It on. ."-Ib.
'The alternative, then, is, that if you do not
wish to become the slaves of those who own
slaves, and who are themselves the slaves of
French slaves, you must either, in the language
of the day, cut the connection. or 50 far alter the
national compact SO as to insure yourselves a
due share in the government. ."-Iden.
'sTHE UNION HAS BEEN LONG SINCE VIRTUALLY
DISSOLVED, AND IT is FULL TIME THAT THIS PART
OF TIE DIsUNITED STATES WAS TAKING CARE OF
ITsELF."-Idem.
Aiding tile enemy By interfering Nth the Revenue
La,cS-sellsny him provisions
ga Sheriff's officer in New Hampshire, re-
covered a letter dated August 16, 1879 signed
by five respectable citizens of that State, in
which they made the following assurances to a
British official, in regard to one Curtis Coe an
American, imprisoned as a spy at Three Riy-
lers:
"From our acquaintance with Mr.. Coe, his
character and politics, we are confident that his
object is far from being uafrieady to the motives
of your government in repeling the attacks
made on you by our Executive. His politics
have uniformly been what we style staunch Fed
eralism, and his object, we believe, no other
than traficking with your citizens in defiance of
some of your laws. His language and conduct
with us have uniformly belied even the SEM
hlancn of an enemv to YOUR ftouornnnnnt or M,