Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-09-18


science eallous to every human feeling, and
whose principal recommendation might be
that be could whip out Of the unprotected
slave the greatest amount of labor
Thomas Jefferson might well ray, in view
Of such state Of things, Il tromble for my
country when / remember that God Is
just.
John Wesley has well declared that such
a system contains within itself the sum Of
all yilliany. The enortnity of human
slavery win appear from the following ad-
vertisement, copied from The Georgia Hes
seager Run Awag-My man, Fountaine;
has holes in his ears, scar on the right
side of bis forehead, had been shot in the
hind parts Of his legs, Is marked on his back
with the whip. Apply to Robert Beasley,
Macon.
We might well have said, in view of a
4 system that allowed such cruelty, as God is
just that the time must come when those
great principles Of our Declaration of Inde-
pendence that declares that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain inalienable rights,
that among these are life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness, must be vindicated
in our own country. Allow me to repeat
what | said in my last letter, namely that
|, who served my country in person and by
substitute from the commencement of the
war with England to its close, feel that |
have a right to plead with my eountrymen
Of every shade of political opinion, and to
beseech them by every consideration that
can move our manhood to consider carefully
the dangers tfat threaten US as nation.
1t has been to me, for years, a source of
profound regret to find so many OF those,
whom I have esteemed and honored as
friends, taking pa with and forming all
kinds of excuses for men who have done al
that was possible to destroy our Union Of
States; aud now regret to fud those very
friends calling themselves Democrats; and,
at the same time, uniting with those who
were leaders in the Rebellion, and striving
to aid them to build up what they are pleas
ed to call "a White Mans Government, ="
( BY which they mean to hold 5000, 600 of
human beings under ban or disqualified
tion that viii prove as destructive to their
happiness as the slavery from which they
have been delivered have been at loss
! to see how a mind so elevated as yours
could for moment consider it possible for
a democratic government to enact a course
Of class legislation that would make one law
+ for the white man and another for the black
man.
T John Stuart Mill has said with great pro
/ priety that There is no true democracy
where large classes of a community are de-
MED equality of political rights
He further declares that Every Govern
ment which permanently dirides tbe people
into a governing part, and goUuaod pant
IS an aristocrattc Gorenme7,t Jy ighatercr
Huute u may be e1ile{ -
find that the very men who profess so
much concern for the preservation of the Con.
stitution, are now most earnestly labOring to
make proselytes for white mans govern
ment, which can only be had by legislating
for class, thereby adopting principle that
/ is at war with the very letter and spirit OF
the Constitution which they profess so
much to revere. Such a course is as incou-
/ sistent as the profession and the practice Of
President johnson. He declared at one
( time that treason against the Government
is the highest crime that can be commit
ted, and that those engaged in It should
suffer all its penalties. Treason, be
said, must be made odious, and traitors
must be punished aud impoverished
He went 50 far as to say, ''They must
not only be punished, but their social power
must be destroyed; if not, they maintain an
ascendency, and may again become numer-
Gus enough for treason to become respecta-
bic. " He said after making treason
odious, every Union man should be remu-
nerated out of the pockets of those who
have inflicted the great suffering on our
country"
He then said, Il hold it a solemn obliga-
ton, in every one Of these States, where the
Rebel armies have been beaten back or ex-
PEELED, care not how small the uumber Of
Union men may be, if enough to man the
ship of State, hold it 10 be a high duty to
protect and secure to them a republican
form Of government until they gain strength.
They must not be smothcred by inches -
In reference to a Convention to restore
the States, be asked: "Who shall restore
them? Shall the men who gave all then
influence and means to destroy the Govern
ment? Are thoy tt participate IN the great
work of re organizing the Government, who
brought this misery on the States? If thi:
be so, then it is said in truth that all the
precious blood of ear brave soldiers and off
GERS viii have been lost, aud all our battle.
fields viii have been made memorable il
vain.
He then asked, why all this earnace?''
and said it was that treason might be put
down and traitors punished. He said
traitors should take back seat in the work
Of restoration He said the traitor ha.
ceased to be citizen, and in forming rebel
lion has become public enemy, and has lost
his right to vote with loyal men.
He said that the great plantations of the
traitors must be seized and divided into
small farms and sold to honest. iuduztriou.
men,; also, "The day for protecting the
lands and negroes of these authors Of rebel
hon is past.
To cap the climax of inconsistency with
all that he has since done and tried to ac.
eomplish, he said that he had been deeply
panied by some things that had come un.
der his observation. He said, I'VE ge
men IN command who, under the influence
of hattery, fawning and caressing, grant
protection to rich traitors, while the poor
I Union man stands out in the cold. Ht