The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-01-26

paper, but have had experience enough
with the publishers of the Inquirer to
know that they would neither publish,
nor answer, this communication. So /
am compelled to resort to your paper as
avehicle for what | wish to convey to
the public, as well as to the eye-sight Of
my friends Of the Inquirer. Perhaps,
being asked in this way, the latter will
be ashamed to keep silence, and if /
succeed in smoking them out" | shall
not regret having written for a Demo-
cratic paper. LINCOLNlTE.
For the Bedford Gazette.
UNCLE TOBY'S PLATFORM. &c.
foI4Io, eAs>s >s4r,,lIIcU euuIrOsatIVIr VI On
Gle Toby's platform of principles, all
has been comparatively quiet on the
line Of the "Keystone rail road" AS
in the material 50 in the social and
moralspheres, after clouds and darkness
come brightness and sunshine. Every
storm is succeeded by calm. Uncle
Toby is still in the shadow Of the
mountain. The c0nneXion with his
base of supplies (which was partially
interrupted for q brief season. is now
reopened and DeU gatdTded. The hor-
rors of starvation for the present are
past. The kind-hearted, scientific gem
tlemen, who made SO much ado about
nothing and poured out the vials of
their wrath in such a furious manner
upon Uncle Toby head lin his absence)
are now like the man out Of whom the
unclean spirits were cast, clothed i'll
their right minds, and gentle as cooling
doves. The difficulty probably, after
all, was only the result of a slight mis-
apprehension. Uncle Toby may have
been at fault in that he did not append
a glossary to his ''KeystOne rail road, "
for the special benefit Of scientific gen.
tlemen, but he did not suppose that
theirpeculiar professional engagements
precluded the possibility of storing
their capacious minds with general and
miscellaneous information. For illus
tratiOn, had he told them that New
York is called the Empire State,u Vir-
ginia, the "Old Dominion" Ohio, the
Buckeye State" South Carolina, the
palmetto State" Delaware, the "Dia-
mOnd State" and Pennsylvania, the
keystone State" &C., they would
possibly have comprehended the fact
that UncleTOby's "Rail road" and "Car
of Progress were designed for the great
State of Pennsylvania, not gimPly for
village only renowned in history as
the place where Hannibal the great
(elephantj ended his extensive travels
and found an hOnOred grave. Then,
the gentlemen We're hasty and ungen-
erous mot to say djSt0yGi) in bearing
false witness against Uncle Toby and
endeavOring to ALLEVIATE from him the
affection of cherished friends. No mar
vel that his usually good nature be-
came somewhat rutfied and under the
influence Of mOmentary excitement,
he scratched them rather severely with
the point of his steel-pen. The fact is
he understood the genius of his cOun-
tTy's government, and priced her in
stitutiOns, before the scientific gentle
men could discern one card from an
other, or had made such proficiency in
the dubious art as to be able, in patri-
Otic manner, to fleece loyal Union SOL
diers of their hard-earned treasure.
These are not the learned judges to de-
termine great moral and political ques-
tiOns. It'll becomes them TO cry 'SRdke !
snake !" or to say what is proper or inn
proper, for Uncle Toby to do. Let them
purge themselves of the leaven of un-
righteousness, ere they presume to be
teachers in Israel. Uncle Toby can pity
and forgive them, but one thing is GER
tain, they must mend their manners,
correct their habits, and be washed in
the laver of moral regeneration, or their
names will never be registered amongst
the benefactors of the human race. The
very best thing for them to do, would
be to enter the "car'' of moral and in
tellectual progress, ;" abandon their ri
diculous dogmatism, admit the fact that
others are capable of thinking as we'll
as themselves, cast cards from them, and
be orderly, law-abiding citizens for the
future. If they agree to such hOnora-
bic terms, Uncle Toby will grant them
a generous amnesty.
1t is especially gratifying to Uncle
Toby to find that his platform of prin-
ciples, meets with general favor on the
part of the better class of citizens, ire
spective of former party affiliation -
Those principles, having for their basis
right and justice cannot fail to find a re-
sponse in the hearts of the gO0d, lriSe
and Uiytltous, throughout the length and
breadth of this land The ladies, dear
creatures, (the world would be drear
and desOlate without them) are nearly
all in favor Of Union, "a union Of hearts
and of hands, and Uncle Toby, is ever
ready when preliminaries are settled
by the parties Themselves to assist in
bringingabOuta aconsummatiOns much