The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-09-01
NEW SERIES.
CFIom the Philadelphia Age.l
ANOTHER PROPOSED WAR UPON
The CONSTITUTION OF THE UNI
TED STATES.

The following circular letter has been sent to
a number of prominent gentlemen in this city,
and we suppose it has been very generally cir
culated:
PETITION.
The undersigned respectfully ask tn adop-
ti0n of the following PRoPo5ED AMENDMENT
TO TIE UNITED STATS CoNsTGrUrIoE
NO STATE shall make aay distinction ia ciU-
i rights and P5tU7ieges amoHg III. nQfuroii2ed
citizens of the United STATES residing wltha
IFS limits, or among persons torn on as Soiiof
parents Permaoeniiy resident there, on account
Of race, coiOr, or descent.
! ask your attention to the following, rs a
means Of ensuIing permanent prosperity III our
country:
DO not trust 10 State enactments to SECURE
the ballot to tie disfranchised at the South
Pro-siayery States will give a vote 10 tie
Freedmen to be again recognized as States; and
when admitted, will takeit away aud again op-
press thera.
Brfore ang Of tie rebs{ioug States are al
nilsa, make 1t the FUNDAMENTAL Law
! Of the NATION tAat no State shall put a ban
On any ona because Of race. color, or descent
! and t!.en the otherwise deie.-eless population
of che South will have the means to make their
rights respected.
Sign and haze al true friends of Peace and
Freedom to sign the petition on the other side.
When you have ten names Or less, SEQ that the
petition Is sent TO your Representative in Con
gress. If you agree with this, do not ily it
aside, expecting others to IL your work
EDWARD v DAVIS.
July, 1865. Philadei phia.
II appears from the following letter, from a
distinguished clergyman Of our city. which has
/ been sent to US for publication, that the contri
Vers of this new crusade against The fundamen-
. tai law of the land, have, at least in one in
stance, "wakoned the wrong passenger"
GIEARO ST. August 10Th, 1865.
.Nr. EdWqrd N DaUis
. DEAR SIR-A printed circular purporting TO
come from you, and signed with your name,
( has been received ny me, in which you have
/ the presumption to ask me to aid you in a cru-
SADIE against the rights OF the States forming the
American Union.
Now, sir, / wish you TO understand that l
never had, and never mean to have, any afi
atiun with men who denounce the Constitution
/ of the United States as "a Covenant with
: death. an agreement with hell''-nor have |
any communion or fellowship with those who
clamor for san Anti-Savcry God, an Anti
Slavery Bible, or an Aa;i-Siavery Constitution
/ Neither have I the slightest sympathy with
/ those who excIaim ''Let the Union slide" It
/ is 10 YOU, sir. and such men AS Banks and the
whole host Of blaspheming infiels, whose bla-
/ tant orat0ry and subtle sophistry have lured
/ the people Of this once fair and happy land to
! their own destruction, that we are indebted for
! the lamcntation. weeping and mourning; for the
wi!owha-d and ogphanage; for the miIjaw aad
/ blasting OF the best ard brightest hopes the
world ever saw. You ere .ha men who, by
/ your influence and pernicious teachings, have
scattered broadcast, unui thew lie thick as au-
tumna leaves such evils, such miseries, rs sick
/ en- the heart to contemplate. 1t seems to me
that a sane man, after the frightful carnival OF
! blood winch you and yours have brought upon
Us, would, st least, ask for little time to re
/ feet upon the past-would snatch 4 brief peri
Oh to breathe. But, alas, no! Drunk with
| blood. vou, ike the daughter of the h0rse eech,
cry, Give Give" Onto more ruin, more
! blood more desolation.
! You are eager again to shout and laugh while
/ the word is bathad to the hilt in the warm
hearts blood Of your fellow man. Like the
maddeninc and devourng fame and torrent OF
a volcanic mountain, you woald sweep over the
sunny and happy homes Of helpless women and
| innocent children, carrying utter hopeless deV-
astaiion in your path and caring for na"gat
save that your peculiar views, yonr pet system
of philanthropy, MIGHT be sustained and carried
through. Is there TO be no abatement OF this
| viii nothing but .he tear Ct widows and or
phans--the blood of brave hearts and trne,
slake your thirat Where aTe the peace men
once so loud and denuncatoTv arainst any and
all wars-such rs Barnes, KcIioy. Fuyness,
l,t. IL, ~
that all wars were sinful and anti Christian.
And where are the ''Friends' of your own kith
and kin 4! Must a war OF determination 90 on
Are the ministers Of reli gion to continue ever
| to call for a little more blood.Ietting, and TO
encourage the desire for devastation and plum
der
Have you no compassion for The millions Of
unfortunate and tbrittless negroes whom this
most unhappy war has deprived of home and
friends Look at those creatures, the victims
of the mad folly Of wicked, unscriptural, un-
constitutional fanaticism. Have you any pity
left in your hearts? | DO not mean for the
Southern white man, for this am sure you lave
not; and l make no appeal on such ground as
that, knowing it to be utterly useless-bu for
the negro. He is hungry; he is naked; he IS
homeless, he is friendess. All this has been
brought upon him by you and your contreres;
and yet you are not satisfied "Agitate, agi-
tate" is your cry and viii be until you ag'tate
: the negro out of existence.
| Remember, Mr. Davis, that this spirit which
now moves you and others of the same rolitic-
al school, made its appearance very early in the
worlds history. The iirst preacher of the doc
trines which you now advocate was the father
Of lies in the garden of Eden. He dec,.red
, God to be a falsifer and deceiver, ard advoca
ted the total abolition Of his moral government