The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1864-07-15
AN IMMEDIATE PEACE.

Our contemporary, the Commercial, yesterday
propounded to us the following poser:
''This, we perceive, is the cry of the Demo-
cratic press belonging TO the copperhead variety,
which description embraces our local organ
We would be glad to be informed just how an
immediate peace" can be obtained. If we can
see il, we most certainly shall be for it, as an
incalculable blessing"
Not being in power, it is not the business of
war, because the party in possession of the Gov
ernment seem determined to prolong hostiilties,
and not bring them to a termination. Give us
power and we will soon make blood-letting cease;
at least we would exhaust every effort for its
attainment. The means we would use are sim
pie, but they would be effective. But the pres
ent Administration and its party require no
peace. Have they, since hostilities began, done
one single act calculated to secure peace! Have
not all their acts, proclamations and speeches,
aimed at the subjugation of the Southern peo-
pie, instead of crushing the leading rebels; and
has the Administration, in one single instance,
intimated desire for peace, except upon such
terms as the Southern people could not, and are
not expected to accept? II they would free their
negroes, as Mr., Lincoln proclaimed they might
return to the Union; but that mountebank knew
that such degrading proposition would only
make the rebels moJe united. The mere fact
of the Administration refusing to let Alexander
Stevens, Vice President of the Southern rebel
Confederacy, deliver his message, and its lying
afterwards, regarding the nature OF his intend
ed interview, was and is proof sufficient to show
that its policy has been to prolong hostiities
and not bring about an Immediate, or any other
sort of speedy peace. We believe that we could
name half dozen of men, North and South,
who, if permitted, could secure satisfactory
peace in twenty-four hours. We do not mean
that their labors would be acceptable TO the
leaders of extreme Abo!itionism nor of extreme
secessionsm but they would be to nine-tenths
of the people of the entire country. But as
long as the two extremes, which produced this
conflict, are in power, it is not likely that peace
will enter into their deberation. The first step
towards attaining peace is the getting rid of our
present ilnbecile, deceitful and corrupt Admin
istration II PittSbug Post.
eg-Thc following is the concluding part of IhC
| Ohio State Journals response to Fremonts nom
ination.
"He TFremont has for the last fifteen years,
in every place and circumstance, demonstrated
that he has indomitable energy, courage, re-
sources, administrative talents of the highest
( order. He has more of romance about his ca
reer than that of any other hive American. He
has just the qualities that are wanted, for the
! present crisis, and the American people, with
true instinct, in their presens condition have
/ turned TO him, and have chosen him as thell
leader. The selection is eminently fit to b'
made and viii be hailed with demonstration
of reioicings all over the land. We throw tht
fac to the breeze with the name of FREMONT
inscribed thereon 1t will be a tower of strength
in Ohio, and viii bring to our standard hos
that will bear that flag to victory which vii
be- only equalled by cur splendid triamPhs
the last two years.