The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-03-30
HON. ROBERT J. WALKER.

eloquent letter to themeetingin Wash
ington on the 22d of February. Mr.
/ Walker is an old and sagacious states
man. and his opinions are entitled to
/ respectful consideration. He has been
member of both branches of Con
grees, and was Secretary of the Treas
ury during the administration Of Col.
Polk. At the commencement of the
civil war, Walker was sent 10 Europe
by Mr.. Lincoln as ap0itical and finan-
cial agent, and ON his return he contri
bused a series Of articles to the press in
favor Of emancipation in Maryland,
for commercial, agricultural and finan-
ciaI reasons. y letter from 50 loyal a
person should be read by all honest
Republicans.
Leg1er from EHOn. RsberiJ. walker.
PHILADELPHIA,
February -, 1866.
To the Editors Of the I7te5tgeRcer:
Detained from the great Union NEE
ting by circumstances beyond my con-
troll. ] must address it geographically,
and not as did after the fall Of Sumter
President JOhns0n's veto opens the
new campaign in favor Of the Union.
1t arrests the overthrow of the States
and the concentration Of all power III
one consolidated military despOtism.
1t prevents the expulsion Of eleven
States from the Union, and the cree
ton Of eleven Irelands within its linz
its, to be controlled and oppressed by
military power. 1t prevents the quar-
tering Of a large standing army and
hosts of officials in the South, with an
enormous increase Of our debt, to be
followed surely by oppressive taxation,
or dishOnOring and disgraceiul repUdi-
alton. 1t prevents the defeat Of the
plans Of the Secretary OF the Treasury,
for the funding and reduction of the
public debt, and a safe and gradual re-
turn of speciepayments. Reputation
is disgrace and ruin, and the probable
extinction of republican institutions
throughout the world, The result OF
large standing armies and oppressive
taxation. caused by the policy Of the
Presidents opponents, would produce
an earthquake convulsion. 1t would
quadruple the excise and income tax,
blight every field, becalm every YES
sci, break every bank and railroad, and
ruin every factory in Che country. 1t
dissolves the Union, destroys the Con-
stituion, and crects a military despOt-
ism on its ruins. 1t would postpone,
perhapsindehnitely, the transierof the
command of the commerce and eX-
changes of the world from Europe to
America. European despots would
cxult, whilst the friends Of freedom IN
the old world, and especially in Ireland
and Germany, would weep tears Of
blood.
johnson is walking in the footsteps
Of jackson and Lincoln, and re-echoing
their sentiments, "The Union shall be
preserved" The prolonged govern
ment Of eleven States as conquered
+ provinces, enforcing taxation without
. representation, would permanently al
ienate the South from the North. II
might drive them to madness and dCs-
pair. and renew the civil warWhen our
. credit and resources We're exhausted.
We have emancipated, through great
constitutional amendment, carriedonly
by Johnson's policy, four millions Of
negroes. Let US not attempt to enslave
eight millions Of our erring white
brethren Of the South: they will all
welcome death before such a fate as
this. | have fought all my life against
! secession and disunion in the South,
and | renew the contest against it in
/ the North. Congress has no constitu-
tiOnal power to dissolve the Union /;
and to condemn eleven States to terri
/ toriaI pupilage, is a dissolution Of the
! Union. / cannot act with Northern or
! Southern disuniOnists. Johnson's pol
/ ICY alone can practically restore the
/ Union.
/ It has already crushed the heresy of
+ secession at the South, and it alone has
/ secured a constitutional majority for
/ abolition of slavery. If the heresy of
secession is crushed at the South, and
emancipation secured, the crOWning
/ glory rests upon the head Of Andrew
johnson. Slavery and secession, our
only discordant elements, being thus
eXtirpated, the johnson policy will go
on conQuering and to conQuer-not by
the sword, bat by wisdom and magma
I nimity. 1t will subdue at the South
their passions and preiudices. 1t will
touch their hearts and conquer their af-
frctions. We shall hear DO more OF
exceptional and individual acts of in
! subordinatiOn, for we shall have Un-
ion of interest and aiiecti0n-a Union
Of States with States, and not with con-
quered provinces. We shall have the
/ Union and representation Of all the
/ States, as ordained by the Constitution
We shall have cordial, fraternal, an
ever'expanding and perpetual Union
Men of the South, from Virginia tC
! Texas, close up the ranks, and fight
harder to get into the Union than you
ever did to get out Of it. You fought