The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1864-03-11

houses burned and destroyed, and many brave
men have died in defense of the soil. The en-.
omy, glutted with murder, rapine and plumber,
seemingly sicteaed ct their own ou.rages, are
Offering lern,s OF peaca, a species of mock par
don. The offered terms to the people are these
TIE TERMS OF SUBMISSION.
First. You mus. give up your negroes, and
make them your equals.
Second. You must swear not only to support
the federal Constitution, but all tile neflrious
acts OF the Black Republican party, and the
unconstitutional proclamatons OF Abraham
Lincoln.
Third You must, ifrequired, hunt down your
brother and your neighbor, bind them hand and
foot, and deliver them up to death. The father
who has sons in the confederate army is order
led TO forswear the land OF his birth and adop-
ton, and aid in the assassination OF his own
offspring.
NAPOLEON PREFERABLE TO PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
Propositions are made to those whose brothers
have been slain, whose lands have been aespeil-
cd, whose homes have been burned, whose wives
and daughters have been basely insuited. These,
Inc governor thinks, are not 10 be entertained
Peace is not SO swees as to be purchased al the
cost of reconstruction. Reconstruction means
subjugution, ruin. DEATH. Lose negroes, lose
lands lose everything lose lie itself, but never
tlnak OF reconstruction. He says: 81 speak
to-day by authority, speak as the governor of
Louisiana, and l wish it known at Washington
and elsewhere that rather than reconstruct this
government anu 60 back to the Union, on any
terms whatever, the people Of Louisiana viii,
in convention assembled, without dissenting
voice, cedo the state to any European power
speak to-day not only for the loyal
citizens Of Lousiana; who have stood by her
in all trials, bat in behalf Of tie misguided ind-
vidua.s who have beon compelled 10 take the
oath of allegiance TO the federal government. -
In their hearts they are true to US, and are daily
praying for the Triumph OF our arms. They
have felt the iron in t!eir souls, aud know full
well the course of reconstruction / speak by
authority for they write TO nc daily that they
would rathes, by len thousand times, lie the sub
jec.s of tie Emperor Of France than the slaves
Of Lincclu." He refers to history for examples
lof endurance, especially to Washington's cross
ing the Delaware with his few foo;sore, starving
soldiers, his want OF munitions and artillery,
and his subsequent success ut Yorktown. There
is no cause for despondency now with our army
Of 500, 0OO men i'll the field, commanded by
such generals as Lee, Beauregard and Johnston.
AFTER all our wars and sieges and battles-af-
ter disease and death have done their work, we
have still in the contedsracy, between the ages
Of 10 and 50, $50, 200 men. The two states
of Georgia and Alabama can easily furnish the
entire con lederacy cast of the Mississippi river
with corn"
THE sUFFERINGS OF THE PEOPLE.
Colonel Allen saws that the world will never
know the suiicrings of the people. The farm
houses have been stripped, barns and fences des-
troyed, desolaion is everywhere in the trail Of
the invaders. In the cities il is worse. Butler
came to New Orleans and instituted q saturna-
liza of thieves. He came there a bankrupt and
went away a millionaire. "a large portion Of
the movable wealth of the city Of New Orleans
and Lower Louisiana has been transferred 10
the pockets of this blear-eyed, incarnate devil
"a great part of which he put into foreign ex-
change and sent to Europe, and he is now by
far the richest man on the continent. He drag
ged from sick bed an aged citizen, s'thrust
him inio a cold and miserable cell. and he died
from the treatment" He store open the tomb
of General Albert Sidney johnson. and robbed
the grave of that gallant soldier" In Baton
Rouge the enemy not only destroyed public but
private property. ''Not satisfied with burning
the State House, with its valuable library, they
took malicious pleasure in robbing nearly every
private residence in the place They carried
away IS part OF their warlike trophies fifty pri-
vate pianos. Ihe wardrobes OF ladies' were
broken open and searched 6Y Yankee commits
stoned officers, and silk dresses, were taken by
these officers and sent to their own families in