The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-09
TO THE PEOPLE OF PENNsYLyANIA,

1nefF Is out one week between liiIS
and the election. Have you made up
your minds how to vote? 1t is import
ant that you should have, for upon the
result of the State election depends in
terests that may be either a profit or
loss to you for generations yet to come.
This election is turning point in
the history of the country.
If the people of these United States
shall respond at the ensuing election
in favor of the measures of the Radi-
cal Congress, then the institutions of
our fathers will exist no longer; then
the Constitution will have become q
dead letter, and we shall have an en-
tire change of government.
Have you ever, fellow-citizens,
thought of this? Do you thoroughly
comprehend the Importance of the
questions you have to decide?
Great is the possibility that rests
upon yoI- tremendous the task which
has been imposed upon you.
Have you, or have you not any faith
in the work that your fathers accom-
plished? Have you any reliance up
on their judgment or their patriotism I?
If you have you cannot support the
doctrines of the candidates of the Re
publican party, for they give the lie to
all your fathers said or did.
We are now dealing with party
that ahrogates all the ideas of the faith
ers of the government, and would sub
stitute, instead Of the sound doctrines
which they incorporated in their creed
of government, abstract and abstruse
notions incOmprehensible to the mass
es of the people, and leading US far
astray from the doctrines of the con-
stitution and of free government.
The Democracy hold, as their faith
ers held, that this is a white mans
government, framed by white men for
white men. Whatever privileges are
extended to those of other races are
mere privileges and not rights. We
hold that the Caucasian race shall
govern this continent. If we choose
to give to Africans, MOngolians, or any
other race civil rights, to protect them
in person and property, it does not,
it should not follow that we are bound
to extend to them all the rights that
our constitution guarantees to our own
race.
History has taught Us that the ANAL
gamation of races is an evil that no
government which tolerated such a
thing ever prOspered, but on the con-
trary went down rapidly to the ex-
treme of degradation.
Having the African among us, the
Democratic party are disposed TO be
liberal towards him, to extend to him
all the rights and privileges it can,
with safety to the country. But there
are interests paramount, which must
be regarded, and we cannot afford, as
the Radicals wish us to do, to extend
to a different and inferior race all the
rights which belong to ourselves.
The Caucasian race must and will be
sovereign wherever they exist. They
are the ruling race, and, as Heaven in
tended, they will rule. The African
has never yet, since the first page of
history was written, done a single
thing to advance civilization, and the
party (the Radical party that are now
trying to place him upon an equality
with his superiors are the worst enc
mics the country ever had.
There was no such thing attempted
in the days of Clay and Webster, in
the days of the statesmen of our coun-
try; it is only now, in the days of
usurpers and demagOgues whose inter-
ests depend upon the subversion of the
government, that the equality of races,
social and political, is made doctrinal
point in the politics of the country.
Let those who love their country
honestly and well consider to what
their duty now leads them.
Will they have an equality of races
or will they not? This is one of the
questions which they must decide on
the 18th of October.