The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-08-21
VOL. 7, NO 3.

the North needs is the return of the South with
its people. its territory, its staples, TO complete
1 The integrity of our common country. This,
and not mere devastation and social confusion,
would be the aim OF patriots and statesmen.
Inc Abolition policy promises us nothing bet
ter than Southern Poland, ruled by North
ern despotism But history is full of exam
pies how wise rulers have assuaged civil discord
by moderation and justice while bigots and des-
pots, relying solely on force, have been baffled
by feeble opponents. That temperate Consti-
| tutional policy will fail, in our case to reap
the fruit of success in arms cannot be known
till it is tried. The times are critical. France,
under powerful and ambitious monarch, is en-
terins on the scene, willing again to play an i'm
portant part in an American Revolution. The
English Government is hostile to us-it has got
all it wanted from abolition, and will have moth
ing more TO do with it. The secession leaders,
and the presses under their control, oppose re-
union, preterring, perhaps, even humble de-
pendence upon European powers. But from
| many parts of the South, and across the picket
lines, and from the prisoners and the wounded,
has come the proof of a desire among the peo-
pie OF the South to return to Constitutional re-
lations with the people of the North. Early in
the contest this desire was shown in North Car
DINA, one of the old Thirteen associated with
Pennsylvania the page of Revolutionary his
tory. But the majority in Congress made haste
to show that Abolition, not Re- union, was their
aim. In moment of depression, on the 22d of
July, 1851, being the day after the battle of
Bull Run, they allowed the passage of a resolu-
| tion, offered by Crittenden, defining a policy
far fba sc Al. -
| soon rallied and filed the Statute Books with
acts of confiscation, abolition, and emancipation,
against the remonstrance of eminent iurists and
conservative men of all parties. Mr.. Lincoln,
too, yielding, he said, ''to PRESSURE put his
proclamation in place of the Constitution and
! the laws.
| Thus every interest and sentiment of the South
ern people were enlisted on the side of resistance
| by thepolicy of party, which, as Stevens said,
will not consent to a restoration of the Union,
with ''the Constitution as it is" 1t is this policy
| that has protracted the war, and is now the
greatest obstacle to its termination. The re-nn-
ion of the States alone give them their old se-
curity at home, and power and dignity abroad.
This end can never be reached upon the princi-
pies of the party now in power. Ther princi-
pies are radically false, and cap. never lead to
good conclusion. Their hope Of setting up the
negro in the place of the white man runs coun-
ter to the laws of race,--the laws of nature.
Their craftsmanship has been weighed in the
balance and found wanting; their 'little blood
letting has proved a deluge. Their interfer-
ence with our armies has often frustrated and
never aided their success, till it has become
military proverb that the best thing for Gene
raj is to be out Of reach from Washington The
party was founded upon the political and NOR
al heresy of opposition to compromises, which
is the only means of union among States, and
of peace and good will on earth among men,
In popular government the people are the
soveregns, and the sound sense of the whole
community corrects, at the polls, the errors of
political parties. The people of Pennsylvania
have seen, with regret, the uncons titutional
aims of the Aboitionists substituted for the ORR
gnal objects of the war. They have seen,
with Indignation, many gallant soldiers of the
Union driven from its service because they have
not bowed down to the Abolition idol. They
will see, with horror, the war protracted in or
der to secure the triumph of a party platform,
or as Mr. Chandler said, ''to save the Repub-
lican party from rupture" The time is now
heard. The overthrow of the Aboiitionists at
the polls and the re- establishment of consttu-
tional principles at the North, is the first the
indispensable step towards the restoration of
the Union, and the vindication of civil liberty.
To this great service to his country each citizen
may contribute by his vote. Thus the people
.of the North may themselves extend the Con-
stitution to the people Of the South. 1t would
net be specious offer of politicians, to be OBJ
served with no better faith than the resolu-
tions of July, '6l. 1t would be return to
the national policy of the better days of the
Republic, through the intelligence of the people,
enlightened by experience. 1t would strength
en- the Government; for a constitutional gov
ernmenti strong when exercising with vigor
its legitimate powers, and is weak when it sets
an example of revolutionary violence, by invad-
ing the rights of the people. Our principles
and our candidates are known to you. Resolu-
tions of the late Convention at Harrisburg
were, with some additions the same that had
been adopted by the Democracy in several
States, and by the General Assembly of Penn
syvania. They declare, authoritatively the prin-
ciples of the Democratic party. 1t is, as al
ways has been, for the Union and the Consti- |
tuition against all opposers. The twelfth reso-
luton declares ''that while this General Assem-
bly, condemns and dcnounces the faults of the
Administration, and the encroachments OF the |
Abolitionists, it does also most thoroughly con-
denim and denounce the heresy of secession, as
unwarranted by the Constitution, and destruc-
tive alike of the security and perpetuity of
government, and of the peace and liberty of
the people, and it does hereby most solemnly de-
clare that the people Of this State are unalter-
ably opposed to any division of the Union, and
will persistently exert their whole influence and
power under the Constitution, to maintain and |
defend it."
We have re-nominated Chief-Jpstice Lowrie
for the bench which he adorns. Our candidate
for Governor, Judge Woodward, in his public