The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1864-10-14
BEDFORD, Pa, FRIDAY MORNING OCTOBER Ia 1864.

fsecured for our commerce the ''freedom of the
seas"
! They published and declared to the world
the "Monroe Doctrine and they maintained
that doctrine as long as they were ableto main
/ tain the Union
| They vindcated the honor of the country
and greatly extended it's boundaries and ma
terial wealth by the war with Mexico. And
this they achieved, though the now President
of the United States, then a Congressman, re-
fused to vote a dollar to the war, aud though
the people who now rnle over rs and revel in
in our miseries, wished that our soldiers in
Mexico would be welcomed with '.bloody hands
ana hospitable graves -
They made France tin the days of the TN
n-Saver-C Copperhead Jackson,) pay the debt
she honestly owed to our despoiIed merchants.
They queled rebelioua South Carolina (by
the Union-Saving Jackson) and brought her
/! under the laws Of the Union, without she'd
ding enc drop OF traternal blood.
They were able to protect our frontiers
against tens Of thousands OF hostile Indians,
and to chastise them into submission.
They preserved the commerce and manufac-
lures OF the country, advanced and protected
the private pursuits Of all, and handed down
of gold and silver, and paper convertible into
hard money at any moment.
They steadtastly refused to blond religion
with politics or to permit the unnatpral com
junction of Church and State. 'Freedom to
worship God" after the dictates of his own
conscience, they claimed for every human be-
ing. Christian Churches were never by their
consent, turned into partizan club-rooms po-
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crate the Sabbath and insult the unwilling ears
Of their auditors with electioneering stump
speeches.
They respected the rights of the States, and
of every citizeE- presented untanted the pub
lie credit at home and abroad, and during their
golden sway, prosperity, liberty and brotherly
harmony pervaded every corner Of the Repub-
lie, and our flag was honored aud welcomed in
every ocean.
And having made such glorious record as
this, shall we be dismayed or ashamed when
our incapable, enyenomed Successors In power
4neer at US as sUnion Savers" and Cooper
headSi Il in VAN thar ws are denounced as IN
true to our country in the facs of our coun-
try's history. If the safety, honor and well
fare of our people demanded that we should
sustain the wretched chaflatans who now ad
minister Che government, we would surely do
So As traditional 'sUnion Savers we would
Join hands to save the Union, even with men
as base and corrupt as those who now rule
over us-and this we have tried to do ever
sncs the wal commenced.
But how can we coalesce with Lincoln the
DESTROYER, who tells ssa whom it may con-
Germ" that except upon his own conditions and
amendments, the Union shall not be restored?
This monster of heartless presumption who
claims for himself all the prerogatives of an
absolute king, and all the smutty license of
kings fool, will make no peace that does not
secure 20 the negro an equal share in8fhis glo-
rious government, which was ordained for
white men and for white men only BE it
here especially remembered, that the s'Union
Savers and ''Copperheadsh are all white men,
and, God pardon their peryerse prejudice,
while they will not Cypress any sort of people,
they do prafer their own race to any other on
the face of the earth.
The Union Savers" otherwise Cooper
heads" cannot support Lincoln, because
1. He has ignored and spurned the Crit
tenden Resolution passed in July, 1861, and
refuses to conduct the war under that unani-
nous, solemn agreement of all political parties
of the North as to how and for what the war
should be waged.
2. He has suffered the substance of the ma
tion, wrested through relentless taxation, to be
squandered by Simon Cameron and hordes of
plunderers like unto him, and he has deliber-
ately assumed the sins Of Cameron for Kim
self
3. He has utterly driven out from circuIa-
ton the constitutional coin Of the country, and
has substituted for it illegal issue, worth but
forty specie cents on the dollar.
! L. He has suffered our commerce and our
! foreign and inland commercial marine TO be
destroyed by rebe. cruisers and guerrillas, when
he had abundant means to protect them on riy-
ar aud ON sea.
| 5. He has for two years permitted few
contemplate bands of Indians to devastate the
! country and plunder and murder the people all
! along the Western frontier, while he has near
| ly million of soldiers under arms and in me
! field.
/ 6. He has imprisoned free men, silenced
4 free speech and destroyed free presses,-and
this for the temperate discussions of public top
! les. moi for abuse Of himself nor Of his Office,
] mo such abuse as was poured out without re.
morse and without hinderance, upon Jefferson
and Jackson, has ever been visited upon his
unworthy head.
7. His cruel and relentless policy has caus-
ed the killing and wounding Of hundreds Of
thousands of his country'nen, whom he has
sacrificed for the Negro aud not for the Union,
and still he calls for more.
g. He las been the means OF making Wild
ows and orphans who are counted by millions,
and yet he viii not attempt to put stop to the
horrid carnage.
9. He has taxed without judgment and
4 without remorse-he has taxed every interest
and every pursuit, every article of food or
raiment, to fill the pockets of shoddy con-
tractors and peculating generals until the
in