The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1864-05-06
BEDFORD, Pa, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1854.

with his eyes fixed on the earth, lie whispered
to friend, E Dul 81 mure," sit moves for all
that" SO it win be with the man who IS for
ced to take the oath to save himself, his family
and his property. He may take it, but in his
heart he will detest and dcspise the authority
that requires it. VIII such man be devoted
to or make a good citizen of the government in
which he lives The history of Poland, OF Hun
gary of Ireland and of Italy furnishes answer to
the question. If imperial governments are not
able to hold in Submissive obedience small por-
tions of a vast empire once in revolt, how much
less a government having for its basis the con-
sent OF the governed. But subjugation" is the
Watcllword. Liberty and freedom for the slaves
and subugation and determination for the mas
ter is the popular cry. Meet them, fight them,
crush them says the gentleman from Kentucky,
(AIr. Green Clay Smith.) Sir, that is easily
said upon this floor and is popular with those
who from day to day fill the gallery of this
House, but even the gentleman from Kentucky
as we'll as a number OF other military gentlemen,
were quite willing TO forego the pleasure OF the
performance and exchange their commissions as
general in the field for a certificate emitting them
TO a scat upon this floor: and were | to Judge
by the Willingness with which it was done and
the tenacity with which they held on TO it and
the efforts some of them are making 10 return
here again instead of the war spirit they breathe
within these walls houldstrongly suspect them
of being in sympathy with the peace party.
Mr.. Chairman 1 am no military man, and
therefore incompetent to give advice or advance
an opinion in military affairs, but have been
oitc,. forcibly struck by a remark of Marshal
New. in re2ly TO Napoleon, as related by Head
ly in his Napoleon and his Mar5hals." :" "One
day, at Madrid. Napoleon entered the room
where Ney and several officers were standing,
and said in great glee, every thing goes on well;
Romano will be reduced in a fortnight; the Eng
iis are defeated and will be unable TO advance; !;
ia three months the war will be finished" The
officers to whom this was addressed, made no
reply, bat Ney, shaking his he;ld said with his
characteristic bluntness, "SIre this war has last
ted long already, and our affairs are not lmprov-
ed. The people are obstinate; even their wo-
men and children fight the massacre our men
IL detail. To-day we cut the enemy IN pieces,
tomorrow we have TO oppose another twice 's
numerous 1t is not an army we have To h5ht,
It iS a whole nation. | see no end to this bus
mess" .'Bonaparte followed his own incina-
tion, and wa S eventually defeated
Mr. Chairman: Is there not instruction in
the blunt yet forcible reply OF the Oil French
Marshal TO his superior officer for US! Have we
not had, from time TO iimo, the predictions OF
Napoleon during the past three years, but with
out a Marshal Ney to say Il sec no end to this
business"
But, Mr.. Chairman, how do we stand in the
eyes of the civilized world to-day, in waglng
war of subugation and conquest against the
Confederate States, which have seeded from us
and set up government of their own? Are we
not inconsistent with all our former acts Have
we not been early TO admit this property with re-
gard to others? There never was people Oh the
face of the earth that demanded an independent
government that did not have ttIs sympathy OF
the American people; and ought we now 10
shrink from the doctrine We have been willing
to apply to others! My earliest recollection Is
the appeal made by Clay and Webster in behalf
of Greece, in 1924, when they SO eloquentiy
decIaimed i'll that behalf on this floor and IN the
other branch of Congress. Whether 1t was
Greece or the States OF South America, or Po-
land or Hunga ry, or Italy or Ireland, the fact
that 4 large country, for any cause, demanded
Il distinct and separate Government, always re-
ceived the Ngarmest sympathy and support OF
the merican people, irrespective OF party
Even as late as December, 1860, after Mr.. Lin
coin was elected, and after the preliminary steps
for secession had been taken, the paper having
the largest circulation of any in the Republican
party, and having more influence than amy other
in the formation of Republican opinion, declar-
ed that it could see no reason why, II three mil
l:ons of colonistS could separate from the Brit
ish Crown in l776, that five millions Of South
erners could not separate from MS IN 1861. L
have been as much puzzled as the distinguished
Republican editor, Mr.. Greeley, to find look
ing at it as revolutionary right, the difference
in position Ought We to shrink from the ap-
plication of doctrine to ourselves which we
have been so willing to apply to other nations,
such as Austria, Russia and spain, if we co
what will be the judgment of impartial history!
How much better il would have been Tor us and
for the cause of Democracy throughout the
globe. What a splendid tribute it would have
been to a republican government If we had part
ed IN peace with our dissatisfied sister States, as
Mr. Everett recommended as Late as February
1861, sustained by such leading Republican
journals as the Cincinnati Commercial, N York
Tribune, indianapolis Journal, Chicago Trib-
une, New Haven tConnecticut) Palladium. CO.
lumbus Journal, and Salmon P. Chase, now Sec
retary of the Treasury, and many others of that
school. What In monarchical countries had re-
quired long and bloody war, would have been
accomplished by Democratic principles and re-
publican sense of justice. What splendid
proofait would have afforded of the capacity OF
the people Of self-goyernment.c What yaiua-
bic lesson it would have conveyed 10 the whole
civilized world. The fact that we could rise
superior to all prejudiccs and passions and to
have conquered ourselves would have been the
highest triumph that we had ever achieved /
regret rs much, alr. Chairman, as any gentle
man upon this floor that any of our sister States