Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1864-04-15

March 26, 1864.
The House being in the Committee of th Who'll
on the state of the Union
Mr.. M0ORHEAD said
Mr. VHATRStAN: My colleague frou#he 2ls
district Mr.. DAWSON has made confessdly th
abiest speech on the other side Of the Ubse, AM
has stated with great frankDess and cleafsss tn
grounds OF his opposition to the war. thougl
y was wei answered by my colleague 35n th
18th district, Dir. ScoFIELD, / feel it iflnlben
npon me 10 give It some attention, as oalistrict
adJoIn, have ike interests and feelings FL as spe
clal efforts have been made, BIZ the circntion o
hls speech, to affect the political SEGMENT o
" estern Pennsylvania. We both live atae hea,
OF the great channels of trade formed bYfe Ohio
and Mississippi rivers, and their tributars dowI
which the coal, lumber, and agricultural oducts
and the manufactures of glass, steel rdncopper
wood, &c, Of our people were aecustoi1l before
the rebellion to Hoat safely and witli8 let ol
hlndrance; to the inhabitants OF thirtea States
and on through the Gulf to foreign inkets.-
Valuable as the Federal Union is to thA ople Of
other States, it is beyond all price to yana.
and especially to his constituents and nc, who
alike love their country, are proud Of fhistory.
belleye In free government, hate slavery. % ready
10 de rather than see their national lag dis
honored at home or abroad and will ii permit
the destruction of their government bv astoeratic
shareholders, who treat and speak ofaorthern
people-Democrats as well as RepEblles-with
more scorn, than they feel for the slaveon their
plantations. The blow of the traitorsHo made
this war, fell first and heaviest on our cstituen
eles, when they closed the navigation dfhe Mis-
slsslppl, seized and eonfseat3d pgoperBand des-
troyed trade more than sixty years eafe and
Tor restoration OF the right TO which d people
nave been vigorously lighting for nssy three
years. DO thls Dir. Chairman, the nrc readi-
~, because the doctrines he anaounae are the
very same winch brought on the war ID if not
condemned by the people, would max sse south
ern rebels our masters forever
My colleague began his speech bv ra4ndiiag us
IN glowing terms OF the happy and pspfous
state OF the country about eight yda SIRE
when he left these halls He left two Frs Hfore
SIR. buchanan became President. W.T. WIS its
conditionwhen Mr. Buchanan handed aGetern-
ment 70 Mr Lincoln Why is my cue llent
az to the pregnant fact, that when MEsucIAnan
retired, the gloom Of that awful periodgas buch
that It's mere rernbembranee comes ~ aIl evil
shadow oyer the heart Of every patridt
1T has been suggested he has BEEN heep
sleep during the eight years he was Aent from
political llfe. Ills speech furnishes eonel eyi-
aenee OF Y. Let me then iafi,rm liiiSZhH he
should know, and what many of his rstitients
90 know, that not merely are we rie id the
midst OF revolution, but the coiIfv 1hs in
the midst OF a revolution when MrsSucianan
retired, and has been on the brink of revolution
at different times, for thirty years.
jackson suppressed treason in IL. JEFF.
DAVIS and has fellow 7conspirators madeDm4 signs
OF beginning revolution, under old zh. Taylor
N N 1890, when California was adnitb asp free
Iotate, but The hero OF Buena Vista kelehed IL
by announcing that he would hang thirst rebel
who dared to lift hand agcinst the nion and
Jeff Davis knew well he would do it. rhey pre-
pared for 1t, while Pierce lived inle White
House, and Davis governed the cogry, They
perseyered while Buchanan was pnlent. and
Floyd controlled the army until, betan the 4th
November. 1860, the dav Lincoln wasscted. and
the 4th March, 1861, the day he wasiugurated.
every southern fort except Piclens d Sumter,
every armory and arsenal, all the ordnce arms,
and ammunition, all the cust0m-hon., post Of
nces, and mints, ina word all the pretty of the
Federal Government in every seeedeState were
seized by slaveholling traitors. witnt a blow
being struck or shot being fred in eh defense
and thirty days before Buchanan Ia expired,
eight sayehoidlng States had ore rebelled
against the government, cast off Alliance to it
ana excluded ITS authority, hauled sin its flag,
captured ITS troops, arms, forts, shiI munitions
OF war, assembled congress at Hlntgomery.
Alabama, adopted a constitution, eled Presi-
cent, prepared to raise armies, aud,ganized
co;niederaey as foreign and hostiIevernment,
az under that Democratic rule whichv colleague
is so anxious 70 restore, and all done Democrat
&c leaders What did Mr.. Buchansdo to pre-
vent these great crimes? NOTHING What did !
the Democratic party do to prevent fn ? Moth
ing " hat did they propose to tx Nothing |
On the other hand, they resisted erthing that |
looked ike protecting the public Snertv and |
PRESERVING the nation honor.
Sir so widespread was treason. seithless the |
President that all hope was exhausi except the |
single one that his term would eke before all !
was lost. Thank God! Abraham5 Holm became |
fTessient before the cause of thelion was to- !
tally ruined, and then the work Of rae began.
My colleague, IN a speech of twennine pages,
says not word in denunciatisn oe Sc rebel IN |
SUITS and outrages, nor does he slioany sympa- |
thy with those Of his neighbors wh blood has |
enriched every battlefield IN desc of their |
country, and whose bones are bdf Richmond |
and Charleston Gettysburg, Vickslr and Chat
tanooga and whose heroic valor hasrotected his |
home and mine from threatened hsion by his /
late political friends. Nor has he9 charges to |
make against anybody except of ladness and !
tony against the people, and raili against the /
government, the Quakcrs and Ab6bnists. The |
re5ellioniS tenderly mentioned as 'M-sdqed |
coetttUt llU crime IN lt---n0 blood the rebels
hands; only a mistake of iudgalertbad caess as |
to time and result Sir, do not,ink INV col
league has allowed his good feeling find expres-
sion in his speeeh; but as it was 1a to aid N re-
storing the Democratic rule. It's err and fallacies
should be pointed out.
My colleagae sees no prospect One end He
says nearly three years of civil yFaaye no5T dis
charged their relentless fury uronr 1Jnhannv
country, and we are yet apparentis remote from
any satisfactory adjustment of otlI; I;tTarences as
when we first few to arms. Sir.broadlv denv
this extraordinary statement. Htbe nol;cv of
the rebels, and those who svmnate With them
to underyalne the results d,ccomnl;shed.
and to discourage the public feeIinf the North
JEFF Davis says the South eanute cononered
and my colleague deliberately shuts ewes TO the
results already attain 1lbe rebel
ion is In its last agonies immer rag;ons have
been reclaimed several states ~ their
and on every hand tbe;s Int one in
dication, and that Of the increasii,oosver of the
Union and the increasing weak knfoe tho rebel.
ion. Ny colleague should see th Int there i
none 50 blind al he who will MI His dac-
trne as 60 the true character az fo,-arn,syt