The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1864-05-20
HIGH GROUND OF THE DEMOCRACY
THE RING OF THE TRUE METAL.
Hear Hon. Samuel S. Cox.

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In the course of running debate in the
House, the other day, on the ''conduct of the
war; Mr.. Cox gave utteranUe to the following
well-timed, and manly sentiments, which the
Democracy of the whole country will applaud.
We take pleasure in presenting it to our read
ers i:
Mr.. Cox-Now, NJ. Chairman, have said
all that I intended to say of personal ciarac
ter. l have said it with good temper. ] have
not lost my good humor by the slang that has
been hurled against me since | spoke before. /
dislike personal controversy, and do not indulge
in it except when attacked. There are more
Important matters for our debates. L am more
anxious to hold these gentlemen to account for
their Aboitionism and It's destructive tendencies
1t is growing worse and worse daily. Where
will it end? We should hold that side of the
House to an account for the SANDERS heaped
upon the Democratic party-a proud party, of
history and of patriotisn-a party which has
for seventy years kept the country together pros
perously and peacefully Their ISLANDERS against
that party in this House and elsewhere are pro-
ducing a reign of terror throughout the coun-
try and especially in the Northwest Do gen.
tlemen know the effect of their speeches against
Democrats? Are they aware Of the fact that
as to produce the same ill-will in the North, be-
tween members of the two parties, which they
produced between the sections? If it 90 on
will it not have the same bloody catastrophe
Do gentlemen observe the signs at home? When
ever our furloughed soldiers come home they
are filed with your ISLANDERS against the Demo
Gratis, and, under the prompting of malignant
towards, they hunt Democrats to their homes,
drag them, as they have in my district, through
the streets, and compel them to take an oath
whose sanction they have never sought to dis
honor. True and loyal men have been thus treat
ed through the West. Under the reign Of law
less mobs, printing offices rihed and destroy
ed our people shot, our meetings broken up, our
property burned, and every personal and poht-
ical right outraged. Thus bounded on byyour
Infamous ISLANDERS upon the Democratic party,
for self-protection, Democrats are forced to
threaten reprisals and retaliation as their only
: safety What else can they do, when the law
and It's officers are Indifferent or powerless to
,9,sa ska7a.-fnuq insult ard DEGRADATION Be-
Shall be held responsible for all the consequent
ces.
The reaction will come by and by. Indeed
il has begun already In the little town OF Rock
Island, the other day, after a mob had torn
down a Democratic newspaper office there, an
, election was held in which Democratic gain OF
E one hundred and ninety votes was perceptble.
A straw, but it shows which way the tempest
will blow.
I have been promptly and perhaps properly
called to order for my personality in debate to
day But why has not the rule been apphed
to Others on the other side We are charged
: directly and indirectly, day by day, with dis
> LOYALTY and treason, but no Chairman calls te
order for that. The crime which includes al
- other crimes can be hurled upon US and We
e must sit sereneIy placid to receive 1t! How nm
. like a scene in the French Chamber OF Depu
tles but few weeks ago, where the opposluor
> only number some twenty or thirty, but where
:, minority compelled decency and decorum to
: ward itself and from its adversarIes. NJ Rou
!, land, the Minister of State, in reply to M JuIe
!! Favre, had charged the latter with "dlsloyaltY,
y as arrogant members frequently charge 1t here
/, The moment the word was uttered the who'll
- opposition rose to their feet and protested againS
~ it as unparliamentary. The Minister was for
! ced to retract. That small opposition felt a
- M. Jules Favre said, ''We are but a small mum
u bnr in this inclosure. but we have behind US al
ut France"
u We. upon this side, may yet be taught to Ell
- ulate the courageous opposition IN the trenc
AS--
. nitv. and our friends at home from insult. Da.
% by day here we have insults like those OF til
- French Minister, with the permission OF tn
Speaker, and without suggestion that 1t Is VI
- oiation of parliamentary law Week atte
week the foulest imputatiDns are heaped upo
- the Democratic members, charging them wit
u dislovalty and treason, and we have no reconrs
~ except to hurl the slanders back from whenf
- they came. We had it to-day from the gentle
- man on the other side. [ need not say thf
De hS such charges applied to the Democratic part
u and It's REPRESENTATIVES, are false, through an
y tbrouuh false. The members upon the oth'
10 side know it. 1t is not only in violation OF fal
u and orderly debate, to make such charges bl
, It is cprous with mendacity from top to TO
~ I scorn to defend the patriotism of our constr
- uencies.-There never was truer body OF me
nI in anv country They love, as no word
-, ~ mine can express it, the Government as ma
,io -, by our fathers; they have never tailed IN &c
le nine and generous devotion to the whole cou
Fo trv and to all It's institutions, local and Fede
40 al: they number to-day million and haii
'"l men. At least that number voted the Dem
1ls cratic ticket, even in the late elections III t
W Northern States, when, too, we failed to acme
u success and failed, sir, because OF these We
in SANDERS proclaimedin this House and elsewhel
1Ii- for which, repeat, you shall be held respon
me ble They are people who love law ana
ted der but If these fail, they will protect tn
all persons homes, property, and lives at all III
f a ards It makes my blood boil to read the
,ti- counts we have from the West; such outras
as those committed in Greenville, Ohio but