Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-09-28
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As the chances of a Copperjohnson tri-
umph fade away beneath the majestic
uprising of the American people, the gal
vanized loyalty of the rebel journals which
endorses the proceedings of the I4th of Au-
gust Convention IS rapidly disappearing
from their columns, and we find, instead,
such bold invoeations to renewed strife as
We print below, from the Richmond E}can,-
i'Rer' Of the 18th instant
1--WE have renounced secession, and are
bound to that remuneration BY an honor
which has never beeu violated. But shall
we submit forever to tyranny because 1t IS
called Republican Shall an alien major
ity enslave us, and make US cringe to their
behests d? Forbid it every impulse of man
hood The true answer to the query lies
in thehistorical utterance of our own PAT
RICK HENRY, who said, give me liberty or
give me death. y
1t is wholly impossible that we should be
the thralls of Yankees, and it is becoming
apparent that we cannot exist under the
same government with them except in that
condition. We have reUolHtion as the al
tentative. Death before dishonor, is the
cry of every true Virginian and, while we
are ready, eager and willing to submit to the
Union and the Constitution in their legiti-
mate action, we are equally resolute to resist
the efforts of those who seek to make our
allegiance the means of insuferable oppress-
ion In resistance if we cannot, find victo-
ry and freedom, we can at least meet death
in the career of honor. 1t we
cannot attain the freedom that is our birth
right, we can at least retain the honorable
graves that heaven still reserves for those
who cannot endure Tyranny. We will not Sc
| cede again, but We viii die rather than be
reduced to the merciless mastery of radical
| ism.
This is accompanied, too by the following
sneers at the American flag, and the decla.
ration that representation in Congress would
be degradation, viz
If it were ever possible to surfeit peo-
ple with an overdose of flag, it is certain
| that the people of these United States,
both North and South, would Immediately
be seized with horrible attack of indiges-
ton. Go where you will the stars and
| Stripes are around and about you, before
| and behind you. There Is no escape from
their all pervading presence. A pop
cart an omnibus, or bread wagon
goes tearing down the street with Supplying
clatter, and as it glanees by your eye falls
upon the painted emblem. lt spreads out
upon the gay wrapper ofyour scarfallettl,
rolls roundthe handle of your pen, peers at
you from the title page Of your new book,
assails you from the corner of your pocket
handkerchief, and rides unsuspected in the
crown of your shining beaver. From the
vast consumption of raw materials one
would suppose that freedom must have
made an awful rent in the ..'azure robes oi
night and the only wonder is that there
are any 'stars of glory left.
We long ago gave over to the sons of the
dPilgrim fathers our interest in the flag,
the Fourth ofJuly and Yankee Doodle, anC
have never since felt any desire to reasser
our claims Were the test oath abolished
and tue doors of Congress opened to morrow
to Southern representation no man Of deti
cacg bit ,oou9d shrink from asking the bes
and parSet IN oar land to naiagte aDih d
aacIean creac ofrageaiag fools, and hoac!iR,
faaatics. To participate in the councils
the nation, once an honor, has now becom
| degradation,