The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-04-20
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DESTNEON PABCLEN.

For the Gazette.
DESUNEON PABULEM.
The nap OH which Bedford county Disur-
iOnisgS are fedI---SaIad for SecessiOnIStS
..-Ruttered brains of Dead Ducks for
deSsert---A Legislative TempIar.
Mr.. EDITOR Il have often wonder
ed why it was that men who profess to
be supporters of the Constitution and
who invariably declare that they are
opposed to placing negroes upon an e.
quality with white men, should yet
vote ticket representing opposition to
the Constitution and the practical e.
quality of whites and blacks. am no
longer astonished since | have become
a reader of the Bedford inquirer. That
sheet is the teacher of these things and
the so-called "Republicans" of Bedford
county are its pupils. \ large maiori-
ty of them see no other paper and are
led to believe that all that appears in
its columns is gospel. 1t advocates e.
quail rights for the negro, and its po-
lticaI friends, without further inquiry,
swallow the dose it gives them. No
matter how much poison is contained
in it, they gulp it down, not thinking
that in the end it may prove the death
of the body polite. 1t i no wonder,
therefore, that men learn to despise
the Constitution and imbibe a willing
ness to consent to the degradation OF
their own race. Take that paper for
the last six months and what do you
find in it but advocacy of the right Of
negroes to enjoy the p1irieges Of the
1chHe man? Scarcely a single issue is
without an article in this line. Such is
the pap upon which men who are yet
but babes and sucklings in the CradleO
Negro EQSdiHy, are constantly fed.
Soon, however, the noXious stuff slim
ulates their system and they expand
into full grown advocates of that hOr-
rible doctrine. ItcannOt be denied that
this is true. A year ago men who now
glory over the passage of the Negro
Civil Rights bill, would haveindignant-
ly repelled the charge that they were
in favor of making negroes citizens.
What has changed their views in this
respect? DiSunion, Negro equality
newspapers, such as the Bedford Lnq3fi-
9'ey.
But, it is not only what that paper
does publish, but what it purposely O.
mits to publish, that misleads and de-
bauches its readers. 1t has an advau-
tage over the members of its party who
are its patrons, which it makes use of
in themost shameless manner. Few OF
them take any other paper, and, there
fore, besides imposing false and malig-
nant doctrines upon them, it expressly
With-holds from them facts and docu-
ments of the most important charac-
ter. For instance, it dr0ided publishing
the great speech Of President Johnson,
made on the last 0luairersayy Of Wash
| mgiOR'S JiHh-d0y. II has also fuiIed TO
| publish the President'S message UetOi4g
the Negro CicH Rights bH. Whoever
heard of such contemplate unfairness
as this? How can Republicans"
make up their minds as to whetherthe
President is right or wrong, when they
are not permitted to see his side of the
ease? Does thislOp-sidedness not show,
Of itself, that the Inquirer stands upon
slippery ground, that Negro equalityis
not tenable platform, that the Presi-
dent is right and his assailants wrong ?
If the people are to shoot in the dark,
isn't there great danger that they will
hitthe wrong man? Nevertheless, the
editors of the inquirer should remem-
Der that shots in the dark, as well as
those in the light, sometimes rebound.
As long as blood was to be split and
money to be made out of the misery
of the people, the inquirer was ram
pant in its Out-cry for the Union. But
how is it now? 1t is year since the
terrible .'rebels" laid down their arms
and got ontheir knees for pardon. Not
a single armed man in all the South to-
day lifts his hand in opposition to the
government. Not a single remnant of
the rebellious stars and Bars" fiutters
in the wind, from Maryland to Texas.
The Southern people are in complete
and utter subsection to the laws of the
Federal Government. At its bidding
they have abolished Negro .SJdUeyy, an
institution near and dear to them at
its beck they have ratified the amend