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

fishes; they have lost hopeful sons for season
IN the rebel armies; have lost upright, emi
IDENTITY Order-loying citizens from their social
circle for the mere eccentrlcity OF numbering
a Deputy Provost Marshal and enlisting in
the rebel army to devastate their own homes:
and to crown their deluge Of grief, the Ethio-
plan now threatens to arise from his abiect
degradation, marry their daughters, confs-
cate their lands, and crack the master 5 whip
about their loins as they go forth from day
today 10 unrequitcd toll We keenly sympa-
thize with them, for
Like warp and woof all destinies
Are woven fast.
And when the dark day of Ethiopian do
minion shall come, none can escape the ter
rible doom-''the paining jar through all
will run. Well does the Gazette proclaim
the danger '1Arousel arousel it thunders
to ItSimpeTlled readers, and decide 'wheth-
er y0H shall continue TO be the dominant race
in thiscountry. Whether the historic hills
and tastnesses of Bedford, which have been
hitherto sacred to bounty-jumperS and skull
king conscripts, shall hencetorth resound the
broad, deep, sonorous voice OF the lordly
African calling his Meyers 5, Shannons and
Reeds-his unwilling but yet subdued and
ObedieDU serfs-to their daily tasks; or
whether they shall remain, as now, the recip-
tents of the priceless, religious civil and So
eial blessings conferred on them By govern
ment they have rewarded with the deepest
hate and the most persistent efforts to des-
troy it. Such is the issue-sO traught with
veal or woe; so pregnant with the question
of dominion between the sable and the pale
faces of our Western citizens. The GGz,tte
has read Jefferson-the father of Democracy
and it remembers that, in consequence Of
Slavery, he trembled for his country when
be reflected that God is Just; that His
justice cannot sleep for ever; that consider
ing numbers nature and natural means only
a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an
exchange of situation is among possible
events; that it may become probable by
supernatural interference, and that the
Almighty has no attribute which can take
side with us IN such a contest! Well has
the Gazette trembied, and it and its sorrow
stricken followers
Thus rowing on
In confused march forlorn tn adventurous band,
With shuddering horror pale, and eyes aghas,
Viewed their lamentable lot, and found
No rest p
The Ethiopian is omnipresent with them.
Their dreams are Shadowed by sable night
mares; their waking hours are made hideous
by dark apparitions ever fitting before them;
the lash and chains are ever clanking and
whlrling in their ears, and they are at last
driven to that d 2pth of despair where hope
ne er dawns aud pleasure never smiles. In
starless midnight of their grief they cry to
themselves and TO theirfollowcrs to 'Arousel
Arousel for the African Is at their doors,
and with grimly smile he rattles the dead
bones OF a million Of his sleeping race, cur
scd, brutallzed and benighted by man, each
one crying for that vengeance which God
has mo attribute to interpose and break
its fearful sweep.
In charity we would whisper philosophy
to the palpitating hearts ofthe Bedford De-
mocracy Howmuch they merit the fearful
noon that makes them utter the cry of deS-
pair, lest the African may win distinction
over those so sparingly endowed as the Dem
ocratic leaders of Bedford we do not pretend
to decide; but we assure them that all need
ful protection shall be awarded them. lfit
must be so, we shall favor statutory interdlc-
ton to protect the Gazette from the compe
tition of better and ADLER Democratic organ
being published by sable son of the South,
or even one of mingled African and lordy
Democratic blood. If they fear that the
disenthralled slave shall outstrip them in the
learned professions; shall make their fields
to blossom with still richer fruits; shall
shame them into the support of truth and
justice as voters at the rolls; shall win popu-
lar elections by honest sufFrages rather than
by manipulating election returns; shall
gather their daughters In marriage over
their paler rivals, and, in short, make Demo-
cracy and the G3zette forget their cunning,
and draw them step by step from power to
the voluntary surrender of dominion If
these are to be the inevitable fruits of the
freedom of the benighted bondman, when
his untuned chords shall strike in painful
melody with the inestrung social strains of
his OppresSor, then must there be law to
save the Gazette and its race from the une-
quail struggle. Rest easy, tender, trembling
Gdzette Jefferson appalling prophecy
will fall short of fulflment, for the reason
that the God ofjustice did not sleep until the
slave worked out his own redemption. His
proud, insolent, traitorous lords, and their
cowardly, coppery serfs of the North, hasten
ed the triumph of Freedom, though they
marked its victorious path with rivers Of
gore. The slave is free, but he rules not.
His fidelity and his bay0net, turned the tide
of the terrible conflict when loyal hearts
were dismayed with agonizing doubts and
when the Gazette and its treacherous safe
lytes demanded the confession of treasons
supremacy. He has won the right to be
man; to own himself; TO protect the purity
of his hearth; to shield his children from
the auctioneer's block and masters bru-
taiity and lust. No more, 10 less, Is hs
victory; and having consigned min to a BON
dage that made him but chuiIci, thing,
a stranger to light and knowitl.c, we now
condemn him because he has INT dehcd all
statutes and moral and social barriers, and
fitted himselffor citizenship. II, :, commit
ted to our care for atonemen mot as the
prey of the fears and preiudiccs ut' the igno-
rant, who tremble at the pro,Pcct of his
progress, and demand protection from his
probable intellectual, social ANA political
power. The Gazetts, aud hike organs ana
orators, who dare not be just lest The
degraded bondman shall teach tllcin humIlI-
ty, will be faithess still; but theem -htened,
the patriotic the christian sentil..git OF the
Nationwill in due time vindicatc IScit, aud
labor to elevate an ahjeet race, made - by
our erimes--not theirs. Let the CARTE
quiet its fears, letit learn to accept the lncyl-
table logic of events, for
''The mower though the alder may
writhe
And the copperhead coil round the blade Of his
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