The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-09
WHAT M WILL LEAD TO.

Have candid, moderate men, consid-
cred what will be the consequence of a
triumph of the Jacobin party in the
coming election? Men of violence,
revolutionary in their spirit, intent
upon carrying out impracticable theo-
RES, is it safe to leave the Government
longer in their hands? The country
has had no moment of repose since
they came into power, and every sane
man must see that it 'can have none
while such men rule. Should their
Presidential ticket be elected, and the
majority in Congress still be with
them, they will claim that their poll
cy, their most extreme measures, have
been indorsed, and they will be more
violent than ever. Should there be
any one who believe that Grant would
be disposed to moderation, is there any
one so weak as to suppose that he could
restrain them? No, they would east
him aside as they have johnson, and
as more than likely, they would
have treated Lincoln, had he lived.
The history of the French Revolu-
ton is full of instruction and warning.
There the moderate men, one after
another, all went down before the fury
of the Jacobins. So it has been in 9TH
er countries, and will be here, until the
party itself shall be put down, by the
uprising of the sober-mipded, order
loving people, who have become tired
of the violence of fanaticism, and
alarmed at the prospect of internina-
bic disorder and ever-increasing ex-
travagance and corruption.
Does any man hope for repose, for
stability, for order and prosperity,
with the Government in the hands of
such party? 1t is without practical
wisdom, without craftsmanship, and
devoted to visionary theories and inn
practicable schemes which as expert
ments will fail, and yet will be persist
ed into destructive ends, because there
will be wanting both capacity to dis
cover, and candor and patriotism to
adopt, measures of deliverance and
safety.
And while they have been making
show of reducing expenditures, for eff
feet upon the Presidential election, no
sooner will they receive the popular
Endorsement, and the further lease of
power, which they are seeking, than
they will come in with deficiency bills
to provide for expenditures which they
have well known their policy and the
greed of their partisans would demand,
but which have been artfully kept
back till after the election. Assured
of a continuance in power, the flood
gates of extravaganza and corruption
will be opened, and they will find pre-
texts for running up the expenditures
by hundreds of millions, and debt and
taxation will increase to an extent that
will despOil the country of prosperity,
crush enterprise, paralyze and impov-
erish industry, and turn the people in-
to sullen and hopeless bondmen to the
consolidated wealth of the owners of
the banks, bonds and factories, or
drive them to revolution.
We warn capital to beware of the
fate which it is provoking. Push not
the people to desperation. With the
strength SO take what they need, they
will not long 60 hungry or naked.
Beware of the cry of bread or blood
Bread or Blood
1t has been heard in other lands-O,
with what terrible associations! Let
not wealth, and monopoly, and greed,
provoke the repetition here, of what
we shudder TO contemplate, but which
cannot be avoided, if this Jacobin par
ty is still to rule over us. If, in their
shOrt-sighted selfshness and folly, the
banks, the scrip-barOns and the cotton
lords buy the election for these oppreSs-
ors and robbers of the land, the time
will come when their ill-gotten and i'll
used gains will perish before the wrath
of the people, and freedom will be
won amid scenes which it will have
been the folly of the money-kings not
to have averted by timely concessions,
and their madness to have provoked
by naughty bearing and unsparing and
crushing eXactiOns.