Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1864-11-04
THE END
on no EEcToRY


UNION MEN or PENNSYLVANIA but FIVE days
remain 20 prepare for the great National struggle
with those who pronounce the war failure,
and demand that our victorious armies should be
arrested to give cessation Of hosalities' TO ex-
hausted traitors The time is short, the moments
golden, the issue vital-fraught indeed with the
destiny of the Republic
With such cause neutrality is impossible, in
difference criminal With our gallant armies vie
torious on almost every field with treason ex-
hausted in It's resources, broken in its credit, its
despairing armies decimated by 'desertion, and
field after field, and State after State surrendered
to the heroic armies of the Union, the great work
Of preserving our government now and for al
time is well nigh accomplished. They have rob-
bed the cradle and the grave says the invincible
Grant, and their last hope is the success Of the
Peace candidate at the next election
Loyal men! ponder wen the significant language
of your great chieftains You who have given
your sons and brothers TO vindicate the integrity
Of the government against the uluderous assaults
Of traitors who have given freely Of your treas
ures, and mourned the bereavements with which
you have been shadowed by a wanton war, turn
not now upon the faithful warriors you have sent
to the front and cloud their crimsoncd fields and
their wounds with sh anne, and the graves Of their
martyred comrades with dishonor Their sacred
sacrihces are well nigh fulfilled their mission a
bout to be oompleted-not by a hurniliating sur
render to our barbarous foes, but by the crowning
triumph of the Union armies and the utter over
throw Of treason.
From the Valley we hear the fresh notes Of vic
ter, giving us promise Of safety to our long dis
tracted and plundered borders, and weaving an
ether chaplet in the wreath Of honored and endu-
ring Peace. The ever triumphant Sheridan has
again discounted our Yandal foes, and sent them
',whirling' back upon the land they have desola-
ted by crime. Shall these trlumphs be voted
failures ?''-shall these victories be wasted By
resting over the graves Of our noble sons sacrificed
to preserve our free Institutes and eoneeding
cessation of hostilities? Every dictate Of pa
triotism, Of humanity, Of honor, and Of safety
forbids it. When traitors yield obedience to the
laws-the same 10 whichwe yieldwilling obedience
the war will be be ended, and ended with honor
to our living and to our dead, and with honor to
the Repubec,
UNION MEN i<6t tfttFG Ob y JttttY Ott5tg Gte
aohole hac Pennsylvania has declared for the
Union by over eleven thousand but it is due to
the gallant army that has given us victory and pre-
served our government, that loyal men at home
shall protect the rear while they protect US in the
front. The home vote of Pennsylvania can and
WILL declare for Liberty and Iaw-for Lincoln
and the Union and let no man falter or hesitate
because the result is certain The more decisive
is the verdict for the government, the sooner we
shall reach Peace, the more thoroughly viii the
laws be yindicated, and the more overwhelming
viii be the discontinue and despair Of traitors in
the field Their last hope win vanish as the North
with one voice declares that there shall be no de-
grading compromise with prejured traitors, to give
e,esh life for mad ambition to crimson new fields
n our future history.
Ohio, Indiana and Maryland send us words Of
cheer They have spoken and sent deep and dead
" the thrust into the very yitals Of our Counry's
foes Let one and all make common cause with
them let US join hearts and hands to give Veto
ry to Right-Peace by Union and Freedom to this
fairest of mans inheritance. Forward, Loyal.
Men TIE hour of final triumph seems just at
hand, and let US greet and strengthen every hope
that beats for Union and Law and drive into ut
er confusion and dishonoF, the faithless men who
would bring shame to our brave soldiery, disaster
to our government, and anarchy to thirty millions
of people Onto Victgyl--F FFaaElia Repository.