The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-02-21

South in the next election. The South
must be forced at the point of the bay
onet, by white disfranchisment and
negro suffrage, to vote for the Radical,
or he will be beaten. The majority in
the Northern and Western States a.
gainst him must, therefore, be over
! come by the negro votes of the South.
Sir we shall see if the people of the
/ United States will allow the regular
army, which now controls this igno-
rant negro vote in theSouth, to hold the
balance of power in the Republic and to
elect to the Presidency the candidate
| of negro supremacy, upheld by militia
| ry despotism. Shall Pretorian bands
control the Presidency, aS in the degen-
crate days of Rome they setup the en-
pire for sale? l am no prophet; but,
if not mistaken in the signs of the
times, the American people are not
prepared for that. The Democratic
party, everywhere freeing itself from
the errors of the past, planting itself
upon the living issues the hour,
welcoming into its ranks all who are
opposed to this radical and barbarian
policy of sutjecting the States of the
South to negro supremacy by military
dictatorship, all who are in favor of
maintaining the integrity of the T.
| niOn, the rights of the States. and the
liberties of the people under the Con-
stitutiOn, and all who neither admit
the doctrine of Southern Radicalism
which brought on this rebellion, that II
State may secede from the Union, nor
admit that other doctrine of the North
! ern Radical, no lesIrevolutionary, that
Congress may exclude or disfranchise
ten States from the Union, are now
together upon the platform of the faith
erS of the Constitution, and in the same
fraterna spirit i'll which it was form
ed, and by which alone itcan be main
| tanned.
Sir, there are times when public opin-
| ion is like placid stream gently How
| ing within its banks, when slight ob-
Sticles may for time arrest or change
or divert its course. Then, it may be
said, the voice of the people is the will
of party, But there are other times
| when the heavens are overcast, the
rains have descended, and the floods
have come, that its majestic current
rolls on, the emblem OfWratha and power,
when resistance maddens its fury and
increases its strength. Then it over
flows its banks. The barriers Of party
caucuses and politicians are all swept
away and become mere flood wood on
thesurface of the troubled waters. The
voice Of the people then is no longer the
voice of politicians; then it is that
the voice of the people Is the voice Of
| God.
And now, sir, what do we behold?
A dominant majority in this Senate
and in Congress, under the lead OF
Northern Radicalism, at the point Of
the bayOnet forcing negro suffrage and
negro governments upon ten States
OF the Union, thus doing what the
rebellion could never do, and what VIC
spent 5000, 900, 900 and five hundred
| thousand lives of Our best aud braveSt
to prevent. For long mQnthS we have
seen them 'encroaching steadily aud
persistently up0n the just rights of the
Executive; and now, to rivet their
chains upon us, and to crown the whole
of their uSurpatiOns, they propose to
subiugate the Supreme Court; to over
turn justice in her sacred seat in
this tribunal of last resort. They
would compel the Court whose
office il IL TO hold an even balance he
tween the States on the one hand and
the Federal government on the other,
and also between the several depart
ments of the governments, to place
false weights in the balances. They
would make the weight of the Opin-
ions of three judges in favor Of the u
surpatiOns of Congress more than eqnaI
the weight of the opinions of five
Judges in favor Of the rights of 9th
er departments, the rights of the
States, and the liberties of the people.
Sir, we are in the midst of new re-
bellion, bloOdlesS as yet, but which
threatens to destroy the Constitution,
and with it the last hope of civil liber-
ty for the world. But let us not sur
render our faith in the people nor cur
faith in the republican institutions.
The people everywhere are coming
to the rescue. They are again rising
above party and the ciamors and de-
nunciatiOns of partiZans. Hundreds
and thousands of the earnest Repuhli
cans who supported Mr.. Linc0ln's att
ministratiOn have already seVere';
their relations to this revolutionary
party. Hundreds OF thousands more
are ready to do so and to strike hands
with the great mass Of the democrat
ic party to rescue the Constitution
from this new rebellion against it.
They are organized everywhere,
from Maine to California, not upon the
dead issues of the past, for inglorious
defeat. THERE'S too much at stake, and
they are too terribly in earnest for that,
But with living issues of the present.
they will organize for victory so COM
plete and overwhelming that the
votes ofthe negro States Of the South
cannot hold the balance of power and
decide the election against them. -
That same patriotism which led hun
dreds of thousands of Democrats 10
sustain the Republican party in put
) ting down the rebellion of the South
err Radicals, will now lead hundreds
of thousands of Republicans to act with
the Democratic party to overcome
, the no less dangerous doctrines of the
Radicals of the North. They are fight
: ing III the same cause Of the Union and
the Constitution, and for the spirit
which gives them life.
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