The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-03-23

Bill.
Loud calls were made for Hon. S. s.
Cox, who advanced to the front of the
stage and addressed the assembly as
follows:
After the remarks of Mr.. Kinney,
from Utah, on motion, Mr.. S. s. Cox
was called on to address the meeting.
He was greeted with cheers, and began
by referring TO the fact that the Delegate
from Utah, who had begun this disOr-
der, would no doubt wish a resolution
reported against pOlyga0ly! Taught
er. The one relic-'' -''slavery'-having
been abolished, polygamy comes next;
and he hoped the barbarous institution
was intended to be abolished. TCheers.l
Mr.. Cox, further continuing, said that
the Hon. Mr.. Stevens, whose age and
brains entitled him to respect, inciden-
tally remarked the other day in his seat
that there We're Earthquakes aboutm
Laughter In volcanic regions these
terrible phenomena are preceded by
strange rumblings anderuptions Of fire,
ashes, and smoke! Laughter The
worst crime enacted on this star was
accompanied with violent quakings of
the earth. ST. Matthew tells us ''the
vail Of the temple was rent in twain
from top to bottom, and the earth did
quake, and the rocks We're rent, and
the graves opened, and many bodies Of
saints which slept arose and came out
of their graves after the resurrection,
and went into the holy city and appear
unto many" Without wishing to ar
rogate any saintship, it seems cheerful
/ to see so many brother Democratic
saints Laughter coming forth from
/ their graves and appearing unto many
/ this day! Laughter. Salvation, we
learn, came out of the very agonies of
nature. Cheers. If our crucified
| land dshall see salvation, twill Through
the rending of party walls and party
rocks Icheers, the separation Of the
/ good from the bad, the conservative
from the revolutionary. The signs in
/ the sky, after the strange commOtiOn,
betoken united, peaceful and happy
land again! [Cheers.
What has done all this? Simply the
attempt of the President to see that the
Claws be executed" He would execute
/ the supreme law, the Constitution. He
has exercised the power given him in
the Constitution, and as part of the
Legislature disapproved of one of its
revolutionary measures. This veto
! power was placed in the Constitution
/ for wise purposes. 1t is check from
| the President of the people upon the
representatives of the States and peo-
ple. He was bound as an honest Off
! Ger to veto what he thought was incon-
siderate and hasty, unwise and uncOn-
/ stitutiOnal. If he has done this with
respect to one of the least Obiectional
measures of the Radicals, what will he
do, and what sort of quakes will follow
his future vetoes? 'If this be done in
the green tree. what will be done in the
( dry?'
The Radicals would seem to have
! been little negligent in this matter of
amendments to the Constitution. They
have only proposed some thirty-seven:
but Notwithstanding all the premoni-
tory symptoms of veto, no one pro-
posed to abolish that. Wonderful want
ofsagacity! Terrible lackof fforethOughtl
1t remains, while it remains and john
son lives, there will be hope! Let the
quaking go on-let the dry bones in the
valley shake-let the frail tenement
tremble; we ghosts of departed DemOc-
racy now come forth and appear unto
many, and while we pay our taxes are
privileged to speak. Laughter and
cheers.
The country is in the path TO peace
and Union! 1t seems to me that the
very sky is bluer, the air more blithe !;
the flowers are shaking off their winter
lethargy and peeping above the earth
to greet the shine of the spring dawn.
The veto which Jackson used for one
class of malcOntents and mischiet-mak-
ers. his heroic successor has used for a.
mother. Even Nature rejOices! 1t is
not that | rejoice with nature in the
coming of this better and brighter day
because he has vetoed this bill about
the black charities. In the hands of IA
lust Executive it might not have been
so bad. however unconstitutional and
impolitic. But it is because in his mes
sage he has drawn the line of separa-
ton between himself and the disuniOn-
ists-not in the question of black be-
nevOlence, but of white liberty and
State existence and equality. Cheers.
Mr.. Raymond, in his paper of the DIST
refers to the "exultation of faction
who see in the veto the establishment
of an irreparable breach between the
President and the Union party" He
says they will be disappointed, as some
measure on this freedmen's business
I will yet be cobbled up upon which the
r President and Congress may agree.
am one of the exuItants in this breach,
and hope no such cobbling will be ac'
. complished. 1t will result only in un'
= mixed harm