The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1864-05-20
secret of the difference between your currency
and that of the South.

secret of the difference between your currency
and that of the South.
We have been imposed upon long enough
The ruin which you have been unable to ACCOM-
plish in four years, would certainly be fully con-
summated were you to remain in power four
years longer. Your Military Governors and
their Provost Marshals override the laws, and
the echo of the armed heel rings forth as clear
ly now in America as in France or Austria
You have encroached upon our liberty without
securing victory. and we must have both.
You have dishonored us abroad by shameless
misrepresentation as to our true condition.
Places that we occupied in 1862 are now again
in the hands of the rebels, and God knows whe-
ther your preparations for the approaching cam
paign are adequate, Corruption has entered
into every department of your administration,
rendering it q very Augean stable, which needs
a Hercules as your successor. 1t is time for
the light to shine forth and for the truth to fully
appear, SO that all sincere patriots, all men who
look for nothing further than the advancement
Of their country and of liberty, may reilly in
one compact body around the great principle of
iberalism and form liberal party really wor-
thy Of the name. Such man can only save
the country.
Away with all the impostors who have inva-
ded the temple of liberty, and turned it into q
vote market. Let there be an end to this ridic-
ulous farce of unconditional loyalty, which is
only fit to secure the votes Of those fools, who,
instead of delving to the root of the matter,
blindly believe all the interested falsehoods pub
lished by journals that are paid to applaud and
submit, whether right or wrong.
Mr.. LincoIn's honesty is of strange descrip-
ton. 1t consists in nearly running the country
and in disregarding its interests in order to make
sure of power for four years longer To our
eyes, the man vino has deprived his country of
the services of some of its best citizens, who
has been unable to make any better use of the
incredible resources confided to him, and who,
after agitating so many public questions With
out solving one of them, disregards his own ut
ter incapacity, is, of all the citizens of the u.
States the least honest and the most dangerous.
But even if President Lincoln were the hon
est man that his paid organs represent him to
be, how dangerous would his re-election prove
to the liberties of the people, under existing cir
cumstances, surrounded, as he is, with the mil
itary influences that he has at his back let
US remember the teachings of history, and the
instances of feigned or real imbecility, all OF
which have resulted in despotism. Sixtus V,
school. The men who have had TO endure rrieri,
elected them as unimportant individuals, whose
election would give time for reflection and con-
| sideration; it will soon be sixteen years that
! France has reflected and pondoreG over her los
| liberty. Fearing the unknown and shrinking
! from the perturbations incidental to change
they have had despotism and ruin, which ARK
Leading them inevitably to the most terrible o
all the revolutions that history has hitherto re
corded.