The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-07-07

badges and they were not near enough TO
supply the demand. The rank and file, the
bone and sinew, Of the soldiery of the coun-
Try, are conservative and true to the Con-
stitution for the supremacy Of which they
shed their blood.
eJCompare the behavior Of the people
who attended the Union celebration on
Mann's Fill, with that of the party Of
''Fourth-of-July-Splitters, who assembled
in Defbaugh's woods. Note how decently
the Democratic Union men conducted them
selves, interfering with no one, insulting
nobody, moving on IN the even tenor Of their
way, without indulging in even partizan
remark. Then, recall the fact that the night
previous to the Fourth, band of drunken
"Spltters" went around the town, groan-
ing at the doors of peaceable citizens, howl
ing and yelping and making night hideous
with their orgies remember. also, that
whom the Berlin Brass Band came into
town, the effort to drown the ''Star Span
gled Banner" which the Band was then
playing, by the groaning and drumming in
front Of the Washington House, and the
ringing of the Court House bell by a ''wool-
ly-head," )" and to crown the infamy of these
devils in human shape, the throwing of
stones at the Band Gnofensive strangers)
as they drove through town. Make the
comparison and draw your own inference.
e@Wo are informed that John Cessna
made very bitter attack upon the Demo-
Gratis, in his speech on the Fourth, and that
he read garbled extracts from our paper,
with the purpose Of melting the rowdies in
his party against us. Now, our columns
viii show that we have counseled peace and
harmony, that we urged drafted men to re-
port and that we did what we could to allay
strife at home. But our efforts in this di-
rection have been and are, now, secuted by
some of our political opponents in this town.
John Cessna is among that number. His
object is to keep the people divided, not
only politically, but socially. \ pretty
Union man is he, indeed. Well, we don't
wish to be understood that ace desire his
friendship. We would as soon think of
having friend in the gaunt and starving
wolf, as in this ungrateful wretch. He de-
eeived us once; he shall never betray us
again. But since he seems determined to
keep up the war, we say, war let it be I.
Once for all, we tell him that we are ready
10 meet him IN any manner in which he
may choose to fight us.
rz-A complete answer to the TRADE of
abuse indulged in by the last Inquirer to-
ward the Burgess and Council, is, that the
latter offered the Republicans exactly
the same rights and privileges as to speak
ers and committees as the Democrats were
to receive. The excuse trumped up by the
inquirer, that meeting of citizens had
been called prior to the action of the Bur-
CESS and Council, shows the foul play in
tended by the "Splitters, " as none but a
select fer knew any thing of that call. All
their Wriggling and squirming cannot avail
to get them out of the bad predicament in
which their folly and bitterness have placed
them.
Fain would they have us forget that they ig-
nored the ''stars and stripes" and Haunted the
'red, white and red"-Bdford Inquirer.
At the breaking out of the war, we pla-
ced the Stars and Stripes upon our office
before any Abolitionist in Bedford thought
of showing his colors, and it Aoated there
until wind and weather tore it to atoms.-
We never called it ''faunting lie." as did
the poet of the N. York Tribune. Who
''haunted the red, white and red?" No cit
izen Of this county that we ever saw. That
charge is lie out of the whole cloth.
ez~Thanks to the Berlin Band for the serenade
given to us and others on the night Of the 4th.