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

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ben's departed spirit by ministering to
his companions who are left behind,
and forthwith becomes an army nurse.
Finally, she happens to be wandering
through the wards Of a strange hospital
when she hearsa familiar voice exclaim-
ing, "Oh! that / could but see Nellie,
and die happy!" She bounds forward,
tears back the curtain, there is stimuli
taneous squeal-'F FReu6enI' ''Neilae"
and these two pure-hearted young be-
ings are locked in each others arms
Of course, Reuben wasn't killed at all.
The story was invented by base Cop
perhead who was his rival, and hadn't
pluck enough to go to the war. He was
merely wounded by 20 inch cannon
ball in the chest--soon gets on his legs
they are married-settle down in neat
cottage with an eligible onion patch at
tached-are blessed with a brood Of
healthy young Abolitionists who come
by twins, and here the moral sneaks
I'M are steady purchasers of all thestuff
the Harpers print. Fortunately it is in
the power of the Democracy of this
country have bought, in pasttimes
thOusandsof books and periodicals with
the name Of the Harpers on them, to
cut down the circulation of this nom
sense sensibly and right speedily. That
is the only way to reach such mercena-
ry souls as theirs.
There is another kind of Abolition
Literature of which | have word to
say, although there is hardly time left
in which to say it. 1t is the poetry
written by that vast body of domestic
patriots who prefer the work of anima-
ting their neighbors with military
spirit to that Of showing one in their
own persons. The amount of jingle Of
this kind which has appeared during
the past five years is one of the most
distressing consequences of the war. 1t
has employed large amount of mus
Gle for the labor of producing it is pure
ly mechanicai1 which, considering the
political alsentimentso of the writers might
have been more gracefully employed in
carrying a gun. Still, it is valuable,
for it illustrates the cowardice and hy-
pOcriSy of the Yankee AbOlitionistmore
clearly thananything that hasever come
from his pen. 1t is really almost in
credible that men exist shameless G.
nough to print the martial appeals and
threatenings in which scores of these
rhymesters have indulged, while toast
ing their shins between drinks in a Gus
tom house clerkship, or engaged in the
perilOus work Of weighing out links Of
sausage and plugs Of tobacco from a
suffers wagon. How they can face
their names in print appended toex-
hortati0ns to "rouse," to ''march," to
conquer, and to "die," and to do 9TH
er ferocious things Of that nature, is
more than [ can comprehend. One spe-
cimen of this species of writing, select
ed at random from large collection, is
all that my limits will allow me to give.
ssYou must meet them Jreast to breast
nh ----7.-r ~ 1T-.yi4 <s4lu West
Not with 7cordS-they laugh them TO scorn,
And tears they deSpise-
But with swords in your hands
And Dscth IN yONr eyes ~
Can you believe it that this most des-
perate bard, who is resolved to meet
the rebels "breast to breast" who car
ries death" even in his "eyes," lhe
ought, for the safety of society, to be
compelled to wear goggles has been
engaged for the past five years in the
peaceful occupation of driving a quill
in the New York Custom house! There
are scores more Of his kind. They have
all passed safely through the war. But
they have been the most marvellously
afflicted class of people in the world.
There is no disease known TO medical
science which these loyal warblers have
not carried to the exemption office. In
deed the fact is worthy of physiological
and metaphysical investigation thatthe
power of rhyming developes itself a.
mong Yankee AboIitionists, only in
those who are over forty-five years of
age or in bad health. No man, of all
the New England choir who solicited
his countrymen, in song, to carry arms
in the late war, admitted his own abil-
ity To shoulder musket and take the
field.
/ have endeavored merely to sketch
me evil and the danger of this Yankee
=. oolition influence as developed in lit
erature. 1t is subject which could not
be exhausted in many addresses, and
which, l trust, will be kept alive in our
newspapers, by our tiresides and every
where. The remedy is as simple as the
evil is patent. Let as 6uy no more of
their books, or buy only those which we
have cautiously examined. | do not
propose to exclude the publications of
these AbOlitiOniSts from our houses be-
cause they advocate political views in
opposition to ours. [ am willing to
concede the largest liberty of thinking
upon all public questions, and regard
the Abolition fashion of suppressing
newspapers, imprisoning editors, and
kidnapping speakers as one of the gra-
vest Of crimes. But it is because their
books are grossly immoral, shockingIy
Dlasphemous; because they make
and horse thief a god, and call
tha Divine Father of nS nIl o ssSnnnrn