Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1864-09-16

up revolutionary Government. They levied war
against Us to effect separation and establish a
distinct sovereignty and independence.
REELECTION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN A vINDIcA-
TIoy OF THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS
We accepted the war in defence Of the Union.
The only grievance of the insurgents was that their
choice Of John c. Breckenridge for president was
consttntionay oycrruled by the election of Lincoln
They rejected Lincoln and set up a usurper The
Executive power ofthe United States is now there
fore, by force practically suspended; between the
usurper Jefferson Davis and that constitutional
President Abraham Lincoln The war is waged
BY the usurper to expel that constitutional Presi
dent from the capital which; in some sort, is con-
stantiy held in siege, and to conquer the States
which Loyalty adhere to him. The war is main
tanned on our side to suppress the usuper, and to
bring the insurgent States back under the author
ity Of the constitutional President. The war is
at its crisis. 1t is clear therefore that we are
fighting to make Abraham Lincoln President of
the whole United States under the election of
1900, TO continue until the 4th of March 1S65-
In voting for President Of the United States.
son whom, with force and arms, we are fighting
into the Presidency? No mo- Yon justly
say no. Itwoud be nothing less than to give
up the very object of the war at the ballot box
The moral strength which makes our loyal posi-
ton impregnable would pass from US; and Rhen
that moral strength has passed away material for
ces are no longer effective, or even available. By
such proceeding we shall have agreed with the
enemy. and shall have given him the victory
But in that agreement the Constitution and the
Union viii have perished, because when it shall
have once been proven that minority can, by
force or creumyenton defeat the full accession of
at constitutionally chosen President, no President
thereafter though elected BY ever so large ma
jority, can hope to exercise the Executive powers
nnopposed througout the whole country One Of
two things must follow that fatal error. Either a
contest between your newly-elected compromise
President, and the same usurper, in which the u
surper must prevail or else combination be-
tween them through which the usurper or his sue
cessor subyerting your Constitution and substitu-
ting his own will become President, King. or Rm-
peror of the United States with foreign aid, if he
can; with foreign Intervention if necessary
That SO. To be sure it is 50; nothing IS more
certain than that either the United States and
their constitutional President, or the so-called
Confederate States and their usarping President.
nlllst rule within the limits of this Republic
therefore regard the pending Presidential election
as involving the question wheter hereafter we shall
have Constitution aud country left us. How
shall we vote, then, TO save our county from
CHS fearful danger? Vote Lincoln in again ~
You have hit it exactly, my friend. We must
vSte Lincoln in again. and fight him in at the
same time If we do this the rebellion viii, perish
i, ~ , i. root five do otherwise we have on
usatpaton or Of entering an endless secession Of
eieil and social wars Upon these grounds en-
tirely irrespective of platform and candidate, 1
consider the recommendations OF the Convention
at Chicago as tending to subycrt the Republic
tlt's so; that 5 a fact.
1t will seem hard thing when I imply that
party ike the Democratic party can either m 4di-
ute or blindIy adopt measures to oveftHrow the
/ Republic All experience. however, shows that it
/ by the malice or madness of great parties that
I rec States have been brought down TO destruc-
/ ion. You often hear alarms that a party in pow
sr is subyerting the State, and it sometimes hap
pens 80. But nine times out of ten it is party
sut of power that III It's impatience or ambition
sverthrows Republic
How REBELS AND coPPERHEADs HAVE GROWN
ToGEHER-THR NEW CESAR AND PoMpEY.
The Democratic party, of 6dutse iss;ving off the
pyal Union Democrats opposed the election Of
Abraham Lincoln in 1860. In doing 50, they di-
Eided and organized in three columns One,
Reasonable column of State-rights disunion Dem
gcrat@ under Breckinridee A second losal
Northern column, Under Douglas The third,
ionciliatory fging column, under John Bell, who
aas sihce joit1ed the insurgents We therefore
Invited the two loyal columns to combine with
lhe Republican party To Oppose tie disunion
Democratic column They declined On the eve
bf the election in 1860 | told the followers of
Douglas and Of Bel that when the election
shotlld Have closed they would find that they had
inadvertently favored disunion and rebellion. -
They persisted, and the attempted revolution
came Disunion then presented itself, in the prac-
teal form of preventing Abraham Lincoln from
assuming the Executive authority Thus the
Democratic party produced that calamity, the
Southern Democrats acting from design, the
Northern Democrats passive through inadvertence
The disputed succession still remains uIadiusted
A new election has come on. For a time the /
Northern Democrats, with notable exceptions |
gave more or less liberal support to the Govern /
ment, against the Democratic insurgents Or the /
South But the same Democratic forces which /
figured in tic election Of 1860, now appear in the
political field, with positions and policy unchang-
ID SINCE that time as think, except for the worse
The Southern Democracy is stiil IN arms under
the 1isyirper at Richmond. The Douglas and Bell
columns, consolidated, are found at Chicago, ard
al three Of the parties are compassng the rejec-
tDnof the Constitutional President cf the United
States. They agree not only in this attempt, but
tey assign the same reasons for it, NAMELY, that
1braham Lincoln is tsrant.
They agree, also, that the real usiirper at Rich