The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1864-04-29
VOL. I, NO 80.

pie will decide which is the better way to ris,
in arms and throw off Government worsl
/ than that of Old King George, or wait anothe
four years and vote again. The Constitution
is the fountain and father of all our troubles
''The only hope Of the slave is over the ruins
of the Government and of the American Church
/ "'Fhe dissolution of the Union is not prima
rily question of conscience but of policy
We made the Union aud we have right tc
/ unma Ike it if we choose" II. W BetloGos, 1856
| Sir: | hope il will come (the issuel, and il
/ it comes to blood, lei it come it cannot come
too soon--and when the war has been proclaim,
! ed, with the knife, and the knife to the hit
j. p. Hale, 1886.
''1 on call this revolution-it is-we must,
we will have it--let it come."-C. Scli,t,x, $50.
''The portonts which darken our land fore
shadow a strife, which unless averted by the
triumph of freedom, will become war-fratrici-
! dal, parricidal war-with an accumulated wick
/ cdness, beyond the wiekedness of any war in
| human annals. &C Slmaer, 1855.
In 1880, w. H. Seward tells the South, HIf
they will not enanciDate their slaves, they shall
have disunion, civil var aud epaneipatioa--
then The Shareholders will perish in the strggle."
In 1856 he again speaks Of civil war as the
result Of TIE agitation, aud says: "Ihen the
free States and slave States Of the Atlantic,
divided and warring with each other, would
disgust the free States of the Pacific, and they
would have abundant cause and Justification
for Withdrawing from a Union, productive no
longer cf peace, safety and liberty to themselves
II have no dodbt the free and slave States
ought to separate. The Union is not worth
supporting In connection with the South'-J
S. Pie.
81 can conceive of time when this Consti
tuition shall not be III existence, when we shall
have absolute, military, dicfasoriaI govern
ment, transmitted from age to age, with men at
its head who are made rulers by military c5m-
mission, or wh9 claim an hereditary right to
govern those over whom they are placed. ~
r. Rt.lkS, 1855.
''If Buchanan is elected, don't believe the
Union holds out three years. shall 90 for dis
solution" n."-TKeodoye Parker
'sIe}o not believe that any permanent Union
is possible between the North and the South
The same, 1856.
On the evening Of election day, after hearing
of Fremont's defeat, he wrote
''Of course we shall fight. have expected
civil war for months"
A few days later
''There are two Constitutions for Americans,
one writ on parchment and laid up at Washing
ton the other also on parchment, but on the head
of a drum. 1t is to this we must appeal and be-
fore long"
Not long after the defeat of Fremont, meet
ing OF traitors was called at Worcester and held
there. This was the language of The call:
I'VE, the undersigned, citizens Of Worcester,
believing the result of the recent Presidential e.
lection TO involve four years more of pro-slaver-
government, and rapid increase in the hos
tiliy between the two sections of the Union
believing this hostility to be the offspring
not OF party excitement, but of fundamental
difference in education, habits, and laws;
believing the existing Union to be failure.
as being hopeless attempt to unite under one
government two antagonistic systems of society,
which diverge more widely every year;
"And believing it to be the duty of intelligent
and conscientious men to meet these facts with
wisdom and firmness
''Respecttully invite our feow.citizens of
Massachusetts, to meet in Convention at Wor-
cester, ON Thursday, January 10, to consider
the practicability, probability and expedieney
of separation between the free and slave States,
and to take such other measures as the condi-
ton of the times may require
IL conceive therefore, the true object of this
war is to revolutionize the National Govern
msnt IN F: Conway, Of Kansas 1862
''lf these fanatics and Abolitionists ever Get
power into their hands, they will override the
Constitution, set the Supreme Court at Defiance
change and make laws to suit themselves. and,
finally. they will bankrupt the country and del
uge it with blood "-Daaiel WebStey,
''Here lies people who lost their own hber-
ties, in trying to give freedom to. the African
race. ."-EJleood Fisher.