The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-09-15
Cessna VS.. Cessna.

cessna VS.. cessna.
In order to show the complete political
tergTersation of the present Chairman of
| the Abolition State Committee, we have but
to refer to the series of resolutions In his
own handwriting, presented at Democrat
ic meeting, held in the Court House, in this
place, in September, 1861, and compare
them with one of the principal planks in
| the platform upon which he and his candi-
dates now stand. We have, in our posses
| sion, the following resolutions, in the Yerita-
bic caligraphy of John Cessna, and any
person wishing to see these curiosities, can
do SO by calling at our Office:
Res5lusd That we hereby approve endorse and rati-
y the platform of Democratic principles adopted by
County Convention and cordially recommend the tick
/ people, Mem John vas On the ticket himself, that
J year4
Rssolvgd That the civil wag by which our country is
present distracted is the natural offspring of misguided
sectonals engendered by faaatical agtaors North
well South and that the Democratic party have equal
y opposed the of both sections and having
all times Tealousy eentended for the administration of the
General Government within its constitutional limits that
party is III way responsible for calsmies that have
j Of its warning and Edyioe.
"ReOlved That the following resolution of the Hon
John Crttenden of Kentucky, lately introduced into
Congress by him and adopted almost unanimously by that
body far at -sses the objects of the war
with the appreciation Of the Democracy of Bedford coun
ty Resolved that te present civil has been forced
by the dseniopiss of the Southern States in
rebellion against the Government of the United States
thatdn tIs national emergency Congress banishing all
feelings passion resentment wi recoect only their
duty to their country that the is not waged for
quest or subjugat5a or interfering with the rights or e
sEAa hutf and
defend the supremacy of the Constitution with all the
dignity equality and rights of the several states under it
unmpaired and that these objects shall be
cOmplished the war ought 10 cease"
! Here twill be seen that the present chair
man Of the Abolition State Committee, COM
pIetely exonerates the Democracy from all
responsibility in connection with the origin
,of the war, and that he blames our nation
al troubles wholly upon 'fanatical agitators,
North as we'll as South, " meaning the very
Abolition leaders with whom he at present
consorts. But how does the Crittenden
doctrine which John Cessna so strongly en-
d0rsed and which declared the w ar not to
be for conquest Or subjugation, but merely
for the restoration Of the authority of the
! Constitution, tally with the fourth resolu-
tion in the present Abolition State Platform? :?
I That resolution declares,
THAT having conquered the rebellious states they
should be HELD IN sUBJUGATION, and the treatment
they receive and the laws which govern them
should be referred to the law making power Of the nation
te which they legitmately belong
Observe the sharp and direct antagonism
between the Crittenden resolution and this
fourth plank in the Abolition Platform. The
former says that the war is not for conquest
or su6jugati0n. The latter declares that the
''rebeIious states have been conquered" and
''should be held in Su!jugation." There
fore, John Cessna, in order to stand upon
the present Abolition platform, is compelled
to face in an exactly opposite direction from
that in which he looked in September, 1861.
Now, as to the consistency of such a man
and his claims to the confidence of the pub
lie, we leave the reader to make up his own
opinion.