The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-04-28

NY Dear Sir:-You may use this as you
tink best. Bot as some may wish to know whea,
pyho and agty and az know not h0t0 TO direct,
give it (in the words OF your master)
'sIo WHOM IT MAY CONCERN" -
light or wrong, God Judge me, not man,
For be my motive good or bad, OF one thing
an sure, the lasting condemnation OF the
North.
love peace more than life. Have loved
the Union beyond expression For four years
bayo waited, hoped and prayed for the dark
clouds to break and for restoration OF our
former sunshine To wait longer would be
e.rseaa- Ali hnne for peace Is dead. My pray
VIII be done. 60 to sec and Snare me Outer
end.
! have ever held the South were right. The
very nomination Of Abraham Lincoln, four years
ago, spoke plainly, war-war upon Southern
rights and institutions. His election proved it.
await an overt act" Yes, ill you are bound
ana pIundered. What folly The South was
Wise. Who thinks Of argument or patience wheL
t.ie Gager Of his cnemy presses on the trigger /!
In Joreiga car |, too, could say, country,
-right OF wrong" But in a struggle sack rs ours
lwnere the brother tries 70 pierce the bIother's
aeart), for Gods sake choose the right. When
country like this spurns jsstice from her side
she iorleits the allegiance of every honest free
, man, and should leave him, untrameled by
any f4alty sewer, to act as his conscience may
approve.
People of the North, to hate tyranny, to love
liberty and Justice, to strike at wrong and op-
preston, was the teaching of cur fathers. The
study Of our early history will not let me forget
it, and may it never.
This coantry was formed for the Uaite, not
for the black man. And looking upon 4 fi4SaR
slure,y from The same standpoint held by the
nobh trainers Of our Constitution, |. for one,
have ever considered u one of the greatest bless
ings (0oth for themselves and us) that God ever
bestowed upon Il favored nation. Witness here
tofore our wealth and power; witness their ell
ovation and enlightenment above their race else
where. / have lived among it most Of my life
and have seen less harsh treatment from mas
ter to man than have beheld in the North
from father to son. Yet, Heaven knows, no one
would be willing to do more for the negro race
than |, could but see way to still better tier
condition.
But Lincoln's policy IS only preparing the
way for their total annihilation. The South
are not nor hare theg been fighting for the cortln-
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uance OF slavery. The first battle Of Bull Run
did away with that idea. Their causes Smce
for lca,. have been noble and greater tilr than
these that urged our fathers on. EteH should
we allow they were wrong at the beginning Of
this contest, cruelty and injustice have made the
wrong become right, and they stand no'0 (be
fore the wonder and admiration of the worId)
as noble band Of patriotic heroes. Hereaf-
IF yfao1e la l,a
forgotten.
When | aided in the capture and execution
Of John Brown lwho was murderer on our
Western border, and who was fairly tried AID
c0nClcfed, before an impartial Judge and jury,
Of treason, and who, by the way, has since been
made q god, ! was proud of my little share in
the transaction, for deemed it my duty, and
.hat | was helping our common country to per-
form an act of Justice But what was crime
in puor John Brown is now considered (by them
selves) as the greatest and only virtue of the
whole Republican party. Strange transmigra-
ton Pice to become a tf7Tue, simply because
more indulge in it.
/ thought then, as nosc, that the Abolitionists
scere The oaiy traitors in the land, and that the
entire party deserved the same fate Of poor old
Brown, not because they wish to abolish slavery
but on account of the means they have ever en-
deavored TO use 10 effect that abolition. If
Brown were living doubt whether he himself
would set slavery against the Union. Most or
many in the North do, and openly curse the u
MON, if the South are to return and retain a
siaglstfgE guaranteed to them by every tie which
we once recered as sacred. The South can make
10 ocho.oe 1t is either determination or slavery