Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-09-22

Beneath this caption the Gdzette of last
week undertook TO show great inconsistent
cy In the political. course of the Hon. John
Cessna, and for this purpose, published the
following resolutions of Democratic coun-
ty meeting in September, 1861, which the
editor informs us were written by Mr.
| Cessna:
sRcsolre,i, That we hereby approve, en-
dorse and ratify the platform Of Democratic
principles adopted By eur late County Con
vention and cordially recommend the ticket
nominated by that convention TO the support
of the people.
/ sResoIr d, That the civil war, by which
our country is at present distracted, Is the
natural offspring of misguided sectlonalisnl,
engendered By fanatical agltat0rs, North as
well as South, and that the Democratic par
! ty have equally opposed the extremes OF
both sections, aud having, at all times, zeal
ously contended for the administration of
the General Government, within its constr
tutional limits, that party Is IN no way re-
sponsible for calamities that have resulted
from departure from its doctrines and a
disregard of It's warning and advice.
ResOlved, That the following resolution
ef the Hon. John j. Crittenden, OF Ken
| lucky, lately introduced into Congress by
] him and adopted almost unanimously by
| that body, so far as 4Nrelates to the objects
| Of the war, meets With the appreciation of
/ the Democracy OF Bedford county Re
solved, that the present civil war has been
| forced on us by the disunionists of the South
/ ern States now in rebellion against the Gov
!crnment of the United States that in this
lnational emergency, Congress, banishing all
feelings of passion and resentment, will rec
collect only their duty to their country, that
| the war is not waged for conquest or subju-
! cation, or interfering with the rights or es-
! tablished institutions of the states but to
maintain and defend the supremacy of the
Constitution, with all the dignity, equality
and rights of the several states under it un-
/ impaired, and that as soon as these objects
shall be accomplished the war ought to
cease.
/ In contrast to this it publishes the follow
Ting one Of the resolutions Of the late Repub-
lican State Convention, of which Mr.. Cess
pa was distinguished member
| That, having conquered the rebellious
states, they should be held in subjugation,
and the treatment they are to receive, and
the laws which are TO govern them, should
nation, to which they legitimately belong 2
Now whereis the remarkable inconsistent
Hcy in all this2 The editor might accuse all
the members of Congress of the same incon-
sistency who afterwards supported the
| emancipation policy of President Lincoln.
The doctrine of the above resolutions was
the doctrine of the entire Congress of 1861,
! and Of thepeople generally. Il is she doe.
trine Of loyal men to-day tits true, there
| IS in these resolutions little unnecessary
glorifcation of the late Democracic party,
especially in the light of its history of four
| pears, but that was quite natural for one in
AIr Cessna's position He believed that
the Democratic party would sustain the
| government in the prosecution Of the war,
and labored earnestly, with the late lamen-
ted Maj Tate, to bring the party in Bedford
county up to that mark. How well he sue
eeeded for little while, the above resolu-
tions viii show. The Democracy of Bedford
county have not passed any resolutions with
that ring in them since. They have all had
a eoppery jingle, but Mr.. Cessna lid not
write them. When the Democratic party
ceased to exist, and degenerated into trai-
torous copperhead rump, and under the con-
troll of Yallandigham, Long and Ben Wood
at Chicago, resolved the war "a failsue, !"
Mr.. Cessna left the concern. There was no
other course left him.
The editor has no aeed to asseyerate that
Mr.. Cessna wrote the above resolutions.
For Just this one time we shall take the edi-
tor at his word, and shall not call to see the
manuscript. Let him take good care of it !;
it is valuable and interesting souuean of
the better days of the Democratic party.
The internal evidence of the authorship Is
quite sufficient for as Who else could have
written these resolutions While Mr..
Cessna was inditing them the other leaders
of the party, with one or two well known
exceptions were loud in their denunciations
of the war, and in their denial of the right
to coerce the rebellious States. And such
was the doctrine they held up till the day
when Lee surrendered