The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-08-11
WHAT WAS FOUGHT FOR,

WHAT WAS FOUGHT FOR.
The object Of the war, SO far at least as it
was ostensibly put forth by President, Congress,
speakers, and presses, and as it was understood
by men here and abroad, was the preservation
of the Union, the continued claim of q right
of political partnership between the loyal and
the seeded states.
The claim of the Southern States was, that
this partnership was dissoluble at their will; the
claim of the free states, that il was indissou-
bic without their consent.
That right of a state to withdraw which the
slave states claimed was the issue to be decld-
ed by battle The free states wen, and the
claim IS disposed of, for this generation at least
But some men are not satisfied with success
in their undertaking; they seem to feel that men
at the South ought not only to be submissive
and accept the logic of events, but that they
must believe whattheir reasoning faculties cam
not instruct them to believe. And some seem
both disappointed and hurt because the old truth
in "Hudibras'' is as much truth IN 1868 as IN
1868:
"a man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion STILL"
IF there are two rival claimants for throne,
as was the case in the War of the Roses, it is
very certain that one or the other will eVentu-
ally succeed. The Lancasterlans finally tri-
umphed, and held the throne. The 1orklsts
who thought on the question of descent at all,
never could change their conclusions because
the battle of Bosworth Field terminated in the
death of RICHARD instead of the death Of HEN
RY; but the issue was settled, and very soon
grew obsolete. So the issue of secession is settled
and will grow shortly obsolete if it is let alone.
The only way to keep it alive is to make the
several states feel that there is an indispensa
bic connection between it and liberty, by max
ing the federal Union the same symbol of op-
preston that the union with England is to an
Irishman.
The southerner very naturally says: "What
"do you want? You have flogged us back into
''the Union, and you have punished us for try
sing to leave by uprootlng our social system
''and taking away from us as much property as
''the federal debt. We admit the result; we
are in the Union, and we own no slaves. There
is one thing more you can ask of us-to be liars
and hypocrites; do you want that, and why :?
1t can do you no good and can do US great
deal of harm; it keeps up continued irrita-
''tion; and occupies the mind with hate at the
Compelled abasement. Do we think secession
"an illogical conclusion? We do not. Do we
''think emancipation a blessing? We do not.
''But we recognize that the blacks cannot be
'Ere-enslaved, and that secession is an equal i'm
possibility"
IzAAK WALToN instructs us how to sew up
frogs gillS and to put the hook through him,
''tenderly, as if you loved him" What the
frogs idea of Piscator's love may be, we have
no exact means of knowing; but we doubt it,
in his base, moist, and clammy nature, he appre-
ciates the affection of Pscator at its true value
There is no more reason for the southern
white to love the Union now than for the frog
to love Piscator. There may be very good
reasons hereafter.
A man whose house is burned down may
Justly rail at fortune; but if in digging out the
ruins he uncovers a pot of treasure he may
bless in the future what seemed his misfortune.
Before he strikes the treasure, however, he is
not apt to be over-thankful at the combustion
Now, if we can let the southern people alone;
if we can remember that they have the same
nature as ourselves, and that human beings
cannot love the rod that smites them when the
smart still tingles, things will soon work right;
but if we insist that they shall be saints, the
most we can get will be Mawworms.
Now that the slaves are freed we know Ter-
fectly we'll that the millennium is at hand that
notes will be discounted, not shaved; that chest
nuts will grow roasted; that men will no longer
| get drunk, and beat their wives; that women
will be industrious, and not extravagant; that
the teeth of children will come easier, and that
BRANDRErH's pills will not be needed to purify
the blood.
The southern people do not yet exactly re-
| cognize these facts. Until they do it may be
well to govern them militarily; but we protest
| against continuance of that rule one minute
| after World.
| Addre ess of Bishop Andrew to the Meth
odists Of the South.
The following is the next text of the pasto-
raj address, just issued by Bishop Jas. o. An
drew, the most eminent ecclesiastic of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church South.
Dear Brethren The events of the last few
months have placed both the Church and coun-
! try in greatly altered circumstances, and hence
1t becomes necessary to adapt ourselves to our
altered relations. Our hope of obtaining dis