The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-03-24
FIGHTING MEN WANTED.

From a hundred of the Abolition presses of
the North now goes up Il renewed demand for
more active hostiiities, aud greater earnest
! ness ia The prosecution Of the war The work
OF " crushing out the rebellion Is to be
short and quick-for this purpose it is necessa-
ry that the requisite number OF IN IN should be
furnished on demand; there is to be no more
halfway work the great army Leaders are to
be reinforced Immediately; Sherman is to
sweep armed resistance from the States Of
North ani South Carolina, AMI bringing his
mighty aud victorious army to the Southern
slde OF Richmond in corporation with G eneral
Grant, tie finishing stroke--lhe coup de grace
lis to be dealt to the power of the Conteder-
acy.
This is pleasing picture if it was not SO old,
SO stale Il one. The finishing stroke has boan
held suspended above the Confsd .rIcy for
years, and yer the effective blow has never been
struck. Somehow, when opportunity is af-
tortled for Il StunuIag whack, which, in pa I'll
istc phrase, is o knock the Cpnfederacy 'out
ot Iime," the sm tier and weaker of the beillg
erenls, who had just come TO grass with n
d0ntabte pluck, step smlllngly up to = the
scratch, fer the next round.
We have been told that there were hopeless
divisions in the councils aud among the people
ot the Confeeracy. The press of that sec
ton, echolng the popular thought, giving voice
to the peoples will shows no evidence of want
of harmony. Tue @ ra-iu- GCtlief, the tri-
ed, faithful and trusted Lee, sets himself to
the work b.E, e hjtn with courage and pur-
pose which is intusin5 new life into the now
thoroughly aroused men of the CJnfe deracy.-
NJ +,
ridge enters upon his ofi;e pJss ssnJ the Ut
most conf ience of the people, and will prove
as active AMI inlefltigabe there as he has done
heretofore in the field Gen. Joe Johnston will
face Grant before Richmond as datermi1eliy as
Lee has done; every where there is manifested
hope, conf leace anl eyilsnces Of an unyied-
ins purpo5e to achieve their iniepsnI1ncs ~ a
I people.
What are citizens Of the Feleral States do
ing in IAN awhile ! Grlm3ng at the PtDvast
Marshal O ,nerai; s,ekiag by every imaginable
shift, qupbe, AMI subterfuge, to reduce the
quotas of States, CDa9Te,sianIl districts. cities
aill towns All the war men say "we must
iwhip out these rebels conquer a peace, drGb
Them into the Unon," but none of the gentry
who clanar - lDl lily that there shall be no
compromise with traitors express aay inten-
ton Of going to the tront themselves Some
! OF them it Is true. have bought a ii :sSltn, Il
Chinaman, an Ia liAn. OF even a niger, to rep
resent them in the field, bat that is not the
| way in which the contest is wound up 1t Is
| time these valiant war men themselves took
| hold; the war is TO be short and sharp there
! fore, A Abotiouists, the present IS your last
chance glory awaits you-and plenty of fight
! ins Strap on your knapstcks and strike the
! last and most vigorous blows al the totterng
AMI falling Rebellion
|, I've New York TINS thnkS the people gen
| orally are over conf lent, and III its issue Of
| Monday, appeals to them to be more Jealous
| and prompt than ever. 1T buntly declares that
! sherman needs more troops that 1t is one
! thing to march from Atlanta TO Savannah with
out battle and decidedly another to success
! fully prosecute his present campaign in which
/ he - To keep possession of Savannal to take
! and hold Augusta, i5ranchville and Charleston,
and then sweep like The destroying angel straight
| tn Richmond He is 70 fight battles this time,
and to meet again and yer again, troops and
| lea Ter, VIII nave OWNED his purposes and in
tend to thwart them if possible. The North
ern .ope. the Times therefore declares, g must
rec ,gnize that this viii cl-t cOlinuei drains,
whi,h must const nIy be nude god by new
supplies. -E1dgrmt(Ct) Fiamer.