The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-07-07


many persons in attendance at Mann's Hill as
there were at tile political meetiugin Deibaugh's
woods. The toasts were as follows:
REGULAR TOAsFs,
j The Union one and inseparable, now and
forever.
?. The Constitution and the enforcement Of
the laws.
3. The President of tile United States
4. The Governor Of ennsylvania.
5. A free and Independent Judiciary
g. The Army and Navy.
:. The Ladies, Gods first, best gift TO man
s. The Anvil and the Plow.
g. The heroes of 10.
10 The Press.
II. Commerce--the tie that binds the con
tinents together.
l3. Peace-the end Of civil strife, Glory
be to God in The highest, Peace on earth ami
good will toward men"
VOLUNTEER ToAsTs.
Lieut.. John Nelson offered the following
toasts:
Uncle Sau-begotta,, amidst tho storm Of
the sixteenth century. It's niantle movements
were dim and distinctly seen on board OF The
May Flower, on therock of Plymouth, at James
town, on the plains al Monon2aRe:a and
on the heights of Abraham. The capri
cious squalls OF its infancy were heard in the
Tea party of Boston, in Faneuil Hall, on the
plains Of Concord, Lexington and Bunker lilli.
! In his boyhood he ran barefooted and bare
headed. over the fields OF Saratoga, Trenton,
Princeton, Monmouth, and Yorktown. Whip
ping bis Mother and turning her out Of doors,
in his youth, he strod oversthe prairies Of the
I boundieSs west, and called them his own, Tald
tribute to the despots of Barbary IN powder
and ball, spit in hts Fathers face from behind
cotton bales at New Orleans, whipped the
mistress Of the ocean, Teyeled in the halls ot
/ Montezuma, straddled the Rocky Mount ANS,
and with one foo: upon golden sand and the
other upon Goldfish and lumber, delied the
world In his Manhood clothed in puTFle and
/ fine linen, he rides over the continent IN cnsh-
ioned cars, over the ocean in palace steamers,
sends his thoughts of lighting to the world a
round, laundering at the door Of the celestial
empire, and at the portals OF distant Japan;
! sIaps his poor old decrepit father in the face,
and tells him 10 be careful how lie pecks into his
pickeroons, and threatens TO make sheep pas
| ture of alltho land that joins him. What he
will do in old age God only knows. May he
ever cherish the principles Of Old maids, always
ready and willing for Union.
The Constitution of the United States-a
monument Of wisdom reared by our patriotic
] Forcfathers Let not folly seek 10 destroy lis
beauty and symmetry, nor wickedness attempt
to tear down what virtue has built upon the
! solid foundation Of truth and justice.
! Legislature and Judiciary-like the SiamesC
/ twins, distinct and independent in their separ-
ate functions, but so intimately connected that
( the bond of Union, cannot be severed without
involving the destruction Of the body polite.
/ The following were offered by guest.
! Gen. Sherman--His military genius cut the
/ Gordian knot of our civil war. May he live Il
/ see the day when he shall be rewarded accor-
( ding to his great merits.
/ The patriots of '76-may their descendants
grow in love for ard admiration Of the insGtu-
/ tions which they established.
/ The fortresses of our country-may the time
+ soon come when they will be longer q terror
/ to any but our country's enemies.
/ Woman-A clear proof OF natures last and
best work The theme of artists and poets
bu all the gifts of both are unequal to the task
Of protFaying her graees and her worth.