The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-06-26
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a manifest destiny man? What your
opinions were on the foregoing sub
jects in ''times that didn't try mems
souls" / confess | can't remember, al
though tOlerably familiar with the
views and feelings of the Editor OF the
BEDFORD GAZETTE.
If you are not a manifest destiny
man, it behoOves you to swear allegi-
ance to Ulysses, the 1st. According to
the Pittsburg Commercial, a paper that
never had and never will have an un-
paid political opinion, and the Penn
sylUaaia TeIegrdph, State Guard and
Bedford Inquirer, papers that never
had political opinion, that was not
paid for: 1t is "Treason, Stratagem
and things" not to swear by Ulysses,
the 1st, who never had political opin-
ion under any circumstances.
We disloyal people are in a terrible
situation. 1t is impossible for us to
tell when we may become offensive to
Ulyss, old Jessie, the intellectual Aunt,
Mrs. Cady Stanton, Anna Dickinson,
Esq, and others Of the "God and Nor
ality" party, inasmuch as what would
be treason one day, may be loyalty the
next, and what would he loyalty to-
day, may be treason tomorrow. l
have lately discovered, and | claim
credit forit. thata three years soldier can
express his honest opinion of Mrs. Lin
coin, without being considered disloyal.
That is, if his opinion is unfavorable.
| remember the time when to do so,
was not only dangerous, but positively
acOnUeRiert, as the undersigned can
testify. That was when Mr.. Seward
could tinkle his little "beli," and Mr..
and Mrs. Abe could receive carriages,
horses, jewels, ct cetera, in paym ent for
public offices, and if any dissatisfied
spirit, any disaffected COpperhead, said
one word against it, Mr.. Seward's
bell tinkled, the blOod-stained Gen.
Bakers cohorts were rampant, "loil''
people were indignant, and the moral
SGllSt VI tire NdtIIOI was OiilE "ppNSt7Su'
when the disaffected, disloyal, danger
Gus person was incarcerated in one Of
those BastiIes that were disgraceful a
like to the humanity and civilization
of the 10Th century.
For the American citizen of the pres
ent day, the only safe and popular side
=, to nIr 4ha NTahnpNntnt1 (Nuith n
slight variatiOn) God is great and
Grant is a Greater. We are told by
those who were authority before the
war, that the Nation is looking to
him!! That the eyes of the civilized
world are turned upon -us!! IN. b.
The eyes Of the civilized world must
be little cross-eyed if they have been
turned upon us for the last years
IN. b., No =. No reference to Gen.
b. f. Butler of Massachusetts,, the Con-
gressiOnal Manager who conducted the
cross (eyed) examination of the wit
nesses on the Impeachment Trial.)
That the great battle of Freedom is just
being fought!! That the contest is
still raging, and we must keep with
the bayonet what we gained by the
sword :! &c.
As far as we can see, all we have
gained by the sword, was a lot of un-
principled scOundrels who arrOgate to
themselves the regulation of affairs
Sumner, Stanton, Butler, Grant, LO-
gan & Co.; debt that there is not
money enough in the world to pay;
FOURMILLIONS 1000, ,O0O) ofworth-
less ''Niggers," who must be fed and
clothed by the laboring men of the
North, an a familiarity with despot-
ism and despOtic acts that few years
ago would have driv n the American
people to phrensy. We have also
learned to submit ourselves to such
leaders as Thad. Stevens, who in his
place, in the House of Representatives
Of the. United States, sneers at the
Christian Religion, and openly calls
the Savior of Mankind a mere man
dan ''individua!." We, a Christian
Nation, sending braWling preachers
and insidious tracts, to the enlightened
Nations Of Europe; sending prOfessed
ministers Of the Gospel to the heathen,
and swindling the well-meaning por-
tion of our people, out of their earnings
or their abundance, to send King
James Translation to people who had
the True Bible before the existence of
America was known.
We have further learned to submit
uncOmplainingly to people who sneer
at US, jeer at US, and have always made
a jest and virtue of cheating u.s.
Yes, to our shame be it said, that the
descendants Of Pennsylvania Baptists
and Quakers, whose ancestors were
whipped through the streets Of Yam
kee towns at the tail of Yankee carts,
followed by IA horde of horde-faced,
psalm-singing Yankee men and women,
casting mud, stones and Opprobrious
epithets upon them, the liberalism
and enlightenment of the Methodist
have resolved themselves, in many ca
ses, into a serviie imitation of Yankee
intolerance, that some of the once proud
and respectable Lutherans, claiming to
be the true and only Church, now
basely consent to follow the lead of