The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1864-10-14
lee GREAT CRIMINAL CASE.
The People or THE s
UNITED STATES

The PEop1-E or THE supreme Court of the
UNITED STATES Ballot Box--Octo-
re'sas Der & November
TnE Abolition PARrr Terms, 1864
Indictment drawn UP and presented by The
worklngmen Of New York, representing the
"toihng millions" of the United States of A.
merlea. Il is charged against the defendant
IN this case, 1.-THE Abolition party, that
1t has consigned to untimeiy deaths FIVE
hundred thousand human beings, the great ma
Jority of whom were workingmen--produ
contributors to the wealth of the nation
Ii has arrayed brother against brother, and
pitted father against the son in mortal combat
IL has deluged the land in bIood---whited the
fields of thtFsoath with the bones of the slain
It has brought grief and sadness to nearly
every fireside.
1t has opened up broad avenues for pecuia-
ton and plumber of the public finances.
IL ilss turargrd t,ty irvessslty tIge 1,rro-
lie debt.
1t has taxed the present generation beyond
all precedent, and entaiied burthens that viii
fall with crushing weight upon unborn mill
ions.
1t has taken from industrial and productive
pursuits over two millions of men.
repeated s'drafts,'' by the payment of sums (to
them petty and insignifeanb to the Govern
ment; while ii has compelled the toiiing mass
es to enlist, for the plain reason that their act
ual necessities required it for the immediate sup
port of their families.
1t has given us shinplhsters, green paper and
petty postage stamps for the common currency
of the country.
1t has created fuctuating and uncertain
standard of value.
1t has used the peoples money without legal
authority, in useless and vain attempts to bet
ter the condition of the negro, at the expense
of the white race.
Ithas inangurated schemes to thwart the plans
of the Almighty in co-mingling the races.
1t has allowed defanlters and defrauding eon-
tractors, paymasters, public officers and even
private individuals to swindle the people out
Of millions of dollars, and has dared 10 send
some of them on foreign missions as reward
for their rascality.
1t has ignored well established laws of Con-
gress.
1t has disregarded the Constitution under the
pies of .'military necessity"
It has taken the edicis OF the President as
laws Of the land, which laws they contravened.
1t has unidentified public officers from suits
at law for damages on account OF outrages
upon the-rights of citizens.
1t has arrested good aud true men and patFi-
otic citizens without legal authority dragged
them from their homes, friends and families ;
sent them beyond the limits of the State in
which they resided, incarcerated them in bas-
tiles, and falsely denounced them as traitors.
Ii has trampled down the great bulwarbs Of
civil liberty, the freedom Of speech and of The
press.
1t has abolished the writ of bubeas corpus,
right which no other enlightened government
under heaven would seek even to abridge.
It has set aside our system oG trial by jury,
and substituted arbitrary power ior the laws OF
the land.
1 1t has declared military control where the
civil tribanais were in the faithful discharge oi
4 their legitimate duties
/ 1t has created unnecessary departments IT
/ the General Government, thus causing more
/ expenses, increased "a xes, and heavier bcTthen'
( for the people.
1t has organized new states from the mere
| fragments of the originals admitting members
from these so-callcd States to seats as members
4 Of Congress.
Il has sent its spies and informers through
the principal cities and towns, to listen and re-
port the murmurinss Of the people touching
the manner in which the administration is con
ducting the affairs of the country.
] 1t has regarded opposition to the administra
ton as opposition to the Constitution and Gov
ernneut, than which there can be nothing NOR
false Is @ E8fFRT
r 1t has inaugurated a system by which one
tenth of the citizens of State instead of
majority, may form State Goyerament.
Il Ii has pfohibited7 the cireulatiolf of pews
papefs in the Cnited States mails because the