The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-02-22

ed, or are the rebellious people to be
punished? The latter, surely. Well,
then, why don't the people intervene
in behalf of the preservation of the
States? Are they blind and deaf and
dumb? Why, the statehood of Penn
sylvania is no safer to-day from the
ruthless hand of Radicalism, than that
of Louisiana? Already has the leader
of the infamous anti state cabal, Thad-
deus Stevens, declared that Pennsylva-
MIA does not possess Republican form
Of Government. True, Louisiana may
be territorialized very soon and Penn
sylvanla may retain her statehood !;
but what guaranty have we that the
madness of the rabid destructivcs in
Congress, will not, sooner or later, rage
Northward, as it is now blighting ev-
erytling Southward?, The same med
icine which is now forced down the
thrOat5 OF the Southern people, may
some day be commended to the lips of
the North, and, then, how will they be
able to decline swallowing the bitter
draught, having themselves insisted up
on other people taking it?
The measure known as Thaddeus
Stevens Military Bill, has passed the
House. 1t provides for the division OF
the ten excluded States into five dis
tricts, to be governed by military sat
raps. The courts are not allowed to in
terfere with the will Of these vice-ge-
rents Of Congress, and each one of these
military commanders, Isl as absolute and
supreme within his own district, as the
autocrat Of Russia! Great God! Is
this Republican Government ?-The bill
was passed by vote of 100 yeas to 90
nays, lacking one of two-thirds vote.
1t will certainly encounter a veto, and
think will fail to become alaw. Should
it be otherwise, popular government
will be practically atan end in the Uni
ted States, and our boasted system will
become the butt and laughing-stock of
despots throughout the world.
a bill for the destruction of the State
Government of Louisiana, has also
passed the House. ItWas drawn up by
Eliot, Of Massachusetts. 1t makes the
negroes and about one third of the
white men of Louisiana thelegal voters
of that State. Its design is to throw
the State into the hands of the blacks.
[ doubt whether the bill will pass the
Senate in time to become a law, as the
President can hold it ten days; conse-
quently it must be placed in his hands
ten days before the 4th of March, or it
will fail for want of time. 1t should
be remembered that the present State
Government Of Louisiana, is the same
established under the auspices of the
late lamented Abraham Lincoln,
through the instrumentality of Gen.
Banks; but the Radicals are not salts
fed with their own work, because, for
sooth, they cannot control the politics
of the State. What a set of hell-hounds
they are!
The impeachment question hangs
fire, and [ am still inclined to think
that nothing Of importance will be
done in regard 70 it by this Congress.
The fact is that theleader of the move
ment, Ashley, is considered a fool by
his own partizans, and they want to
take the matter out of his hands. Be
side Ben. Butler wants an opportunity
to distinguish himself, anditis thought
that he will be put forward by the next
Congress as the champion Of impeach-
ment. The great Cock-eye wants to
get after Gen. Grant. | hope he will
try that game; if he does he will be
'bottled up" more quickly than he
was at Bermuda Hundred. More
anon. PRY.