The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1864-05-20


have succeeded each other with a rapidityf
the greatest Snowman Of modern times. Il
immense variety of circumstances is only equL
ed by the identity Of the results. We have
Sherman's Reconnaissance.
Smiths reconnaissance.
Thomas reconnaissance.
kllpatricks reconnaissance.
Clusters reconnaissance.
Seymour's reconnaissance.
Gilmore's Charleston reconnaissance.
The result is everywhere the same, ridiculot
and disastrous. The sole concession we ca
make to your honesty is, that you have mprol
ed upon the change of base in 1862 you d
stroy fewer soldiers and burn less Of the n.
tons property.
How is it, that after three years Of incotnpi
rable victories, according to Halieck's faeetiof
expression, unprecedented in the military hi
tory OF nations, you are still ponderine ho,
to preserve the national Capital and your bass
Of operations?
! Is It arcward for such success for the achieve
ment of such results, that you now ask the ma
! tion TO pass a vote of confidence and re-eleo
/ you for another, and perhaps another term?
In your inaugural address you gave very
striking illustration of your peculiar honesty bJ
/ pedging yourself, i'll accordance with the we'll
known principles of the party which had elect
ed you, not TO serve another term; YOU said this
IN manner which none of your supporters then
understood; but your words were evidently de-
/ signed to bear double meaning, so that, if YOU
should find the sweets of office more enticina
| than you possibly anticipated, you might change
your purpose without seeming to violate your
promise. Candid people will see in this good
deal more evidence of cunning than of honesty.
The whole truth is this: you are leading the
nation quietly to its destruction by deceiying the
people as to the dangers which threaten it. In
the first part of the campaign of 1862 you gain
cd advantages which you were unable to utilize
or even retain in 1868
You sacrificed the entire West for the cap
ture of Nicksburg, and then you proclaim to
the four winds that the Mississippi is Free while
not single steamboat can navigate it without
being attacked or perhaps burned, and without
every passenger having the fear of death or cap
tivlty before his eyes.
To serve the ends of your cause, you have
made hero out of man upon whom you have
lavished everything, who had every obstacle re-
moved from his path, and who was promptly
FURNISHED with reintorcements and supplies, while
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decessor gained in spite of you by ms own tai
ents.
You have offered rs the distressing spectacle
of the sacrifice of merit TO caprice and pollti-
cal interests. and this in "a republic in the name
and under the plea of popular sovereignty.
| And to cap the climax, we are obliged TO
hear definitions ike this:-An unconditional
/ loval man is one who, although not satisfied
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approves them all and gives them his constant
support.
1t seems almost incredible Are we in Con-
stantinope, IT. St. Petersburg, in Rome or IN
Paris? Are we the descendants of those PROUD
Saxons who refused to succumb to any yoke
or the ilIeeitimate offsprings of cardinals seek
ing to secure fortune and greatness bya perPet
ual worship? Are we really the descendants o
those disciples of Luther and Calvin, who, ra
ther than subject their reason to an authort.
which they despised, preferred to eXpatnat
themselves to those shores, where, through tn
agency of liberty, they founded our natona
greatness, which you are now striving to drown
in a sea of cowardicc and adulation, corruption
and ;ncompetency? Were our ancestors to vlsi
the earth, they would certainly be surprised t.
see that, eighty years after the revolution tha
gave life and liberty to the nation, the Llncol
party could find no other definition OF loyalt
than a blind submission to the DEGREES OF tn
government.
But we have exercised this blind and NUT
; submission during three years; during thre
; years we have kept sient-and what was NOR
generous than silence?
7 Some true radical patriots said not long since
s'We have lost confidence in Fremont. Wha
has he said or done for a year past?"
, What could he do? What could he say? II
has done for you what Butler and Sigel hav
done; what we all have done; he has been cha
J liable enough to keep silence, and that IS MOI
than he should have done. In the face OF {
I much incapabiIity and corruption, patrotis
: alone has kept us silent. Each time that fires
. defeat or fresh concession to foreign powe
;, brought an indignant exclamation to our lip
we restrained It's utterance And yet have niue
. grief, and love, and admiration, accompanit
= each hcCatomb of those unknown heroes, ma
+, tyrs to their country, who have fallen throus
the incompetency and cold and Unsuitable an
bition of the men whose mission it was TO lat
= our sons to victory, but who, being blinded
political considerations for their personal a
vancement, led them only to proftless deaf
d And you have not displayed more talent
: energy abroad Napoleon has trampled upc
,e the rights of friendly republicj he has ins
e lcntly notified us of blockade of the Mexic;
+ coast, and thrown the Monroe doctrine in o
face.
II We ask, then, who is master now in Amer
|; ca, he who lays down the law, or he who su
d mits to the same? Isit Napoleon the III, or t
It successor of Washington?
le God alone, by bestowing upon the count
1T inexhaustible natural wealth, and that ardo
Z, patriotism which makes every soldier heI
III has saved the country from the ruin into viii
of vour selfshness would plunge it. This is t