The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-01-05

of many little boy whose unconscious
parents fancy that he is engaged in SIN
day reddi3lg. They thus allow him to
become an admirer of horse-stealing,
and to acquire a profound respect for
murder, and to form, under their very
eyes, a noble ambition to emulate the
great Brown in those evangelical ac-
complishments. Littlenewspapers, too,
with wood-cuts, poetry and short tales,
are provided in abundance to feed the
intellectual appetiteof the young. They
affect to be devoted to religious instruc-
ton, but, if you scan them carefully,
you are certain to find the inevitable
Jc0Oi cropping out and Oyergrowing all
the flowers of rhetoric and figures Of
speech. / remember one of them pre-
sented to me in a railroad car by pale
gentleman with damp, long hair, stra-
Dismal eyes and craggy features, clad in
full black and with a Grape hat-band.
1t was enbellished with picture of a
malignant and vicious-looking old man,
nursing "A young and extremely black
Rig. \ galloWs stood in the background
and underneath was the inscription
'THe Saint on his rag 10 giOyy." Of
course it was "Old John" | said moth
ing, but uttered a mild, mental aspira-
ton that the worthy missionary might,
at an early period, join "the Saint" in
"Glory," or wherever else he may hap
pen to be situated. This is but a small
incident, but it is significant as showing
the kind Of trash which is being thrust
into the hands Of the people at every
turn.
As children grow older, 'HistOries," "
Biographies" " and Readers" are pro-
vided for them, all issuing from the
same mint and craven with the same
device. Histories of the United States
are stuffed full of pictures Of the ''Pil-
grim Fathers" +" the Bunker Hill Monu-
mentand Boston, as seen from all points
of the compass, while the letter-press
Is devoted to the work of magnfying the
piety of the pilgrims" and the patri-
0tism of their descendants. The ''Read-
ers" contain selections from the Yankee
poets, all made in the same spirit of self
gIorihcation, choice passages fromthe
speeches of MIR. Sumner, Wendell Phil
lips, Garrison and other eminent patri-
ots, and minute rules to perfect the pu-
pill in the art of pronOuncing the Eng
lish language through the nose-the ap-
proved Yankee fashion.
Besides these various appliances there
is an immense fund of magazine and
! periodical literature smuggled over our
borders and into our houses, all satura-
ted with the same falsehood, injustice
and malignity. The atlantic M0athEy
can ut Iedst CIalm tne merit OI OBTAIN
ing its subscribers on no false pretence.
! ftisnot0riouslyan Abolition magazine.
1t is open in its villany, and its editors
are not only gentlemen void of the
moral sense, but entirely regardless of
the fact that other people possess it.
But the HmperS stand at the head of a
different class of publishers. They are
guilty of perpetual and scandaloue
fraud upon the public. They affect to
iSSuea neutral magazineand weekly.
They call the latter a journal of Civ
iliZation, - and the former q literary pc
riodical. Until it begun to poy to de-
nounce the Democracy of this country
they toadiedto it with a servility which
was absolutely disgusting. They de-
nOunced John Brown, in 1859, in the
most savage terms, and had their paper
filled with pictures Of the raid, design
ed to show the love of the negroes for
their masters and the atrocity of old
Browns bloody attempt to sever the
"patriarchal relation" Even when the
war was just impending, when Beaure-
gard had douned the Confederate uni
form, when Davis was sitting at the
head Of the new government which
was certainly as fatty in rebellion then
As ever afterwards, they published the
likenesses Of those two persons, gave
fiattering biographies of them, and
never intimated hint of disapproval
Of the work on which they had entered.
They showed then the same spiritwhich
they had displayed long before, when
they embellishedth their journal of Civ
iIization" with an immense wood-cut
of brutal prize fight, because they
could not bear to resign the sixpences
of the shOulder-hitters and blackguards
of New York to their competitors Of
the other pictorial weeklies. They
sought 10 appease the decent portion of
their readers, on that occasion, by Civ
ing, on their editorial page, a flaming
moral article on the Wickedness and
indecency of human creatures pound I
ing each other as represented in the
picture!
As soon as the war had fairly broken /
out and their Southern subscription list /
was hopelessly cut off, they commenced .
to print the most insulting Abolition
sheet in the country. Not content with I
reviling the people actually engaged in
the rebellion, they have continued, ever
since, to libel, by word and picture, the
great Democratic party of the North.
They have filed both mNeeklu,, and |