The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-04-03
"sTRICTLY = POLITICAL PAPER"
"The Devil was sck the Devil monk would be
The Devil got we'll, the devil monk was he"

Satan has taken to preaching. The
Bedford Inquirer, of last week, lectures
Us on publishing too many political
articles, livery we'll written ones, too"
Now, we shall treat our neighbors bet
ter. We do not object to their paper
on account Of the number of their pO-
litical articles, and rs to the quality of
them, we are quite sure we have no
right to complain. So long as their
style of writing involves nothing more
dangerous than the chaste and pleas
ant eXpletives Of that famous FIShlcO-
minis Dictionary TO be had at the m
quirer Book Store we shall not be a.
harmed. Scarcely issue 0 theirpaper
appears which does not contain the epi-
thet, "Copperhcad," or which does not
heap the fOulest abuse upon the Demo-
cratic party, or which does not seek to
misrepresent Democratic officials, or
which does not approve such suicidal
measures ~ The continuance of the
Freedmen's Bureau, the keeping-up of
standing army, the government Of the
excluded States by Congress, and the
thousand aid one deviltries Of Thad.
Stevens and his fellow conspirators a.
gainst the Constitution. All this is
strictly political" The editors of
the Inquirer have no more faith in the
justice and propriety Of these things
than we have. They would never
have dream5 of advocating them, had
not their party committed itself to
them. But, az the Inquirer is ''5trictly
a potaical paper" it goes the whole
hog, Thad. Stevens, Freedmen'5 Bu-
reau, Standing Army, Negro Suffrage
and all. Sill we do not complain OF
this. Not nj ali. Why should We, when
we know that every issue OF the IN
quireg but proves to its Republican
readers that what we charge upon the
Radical party is true?
The Inquirer wants to know wheth-
er it pays Democrats 10 be Democrats.
Well, we rather think it pays at least
as well, in this county, IS it does Re
publicans 10 be Republicans. The edi-
tors OF that paper evidentlyjudg every
body else by their own standard. Be
cause they are selfish, they conclude
all mankind must be likewise. Itnev-
er occurs to them that men who cling
to principle, through good and through
evil report. amid the storm of war as
well as in the sunshine Of peace, who
defied the mob, laughed at the bay0net
and dreaded not the prison cell, are
governed by higher motive than dol
lars and cents. The fact is, the Inquir-
er men fnd that they cannot drire
Democrats from the Right, that they
have been beaten and always will be
beaten on the issue they have made,
and, that the hope of gaining their
point, by appealing to the Selfishness
of human nature, alone remains to
them. Their political articles have
not been a success. ence, they are
slightly indisposed, in that way. just
now. "The Devil got sick, the Devil
monk would be-" But, they'll recOv-
er after awhile, and their paper will
again be filled with slang and abuse.
"The Devil got well; the devil a
monk was he. -
We cannot refrain from copying the
concluding parts of the L'aq'drer's ar
ticle. We call special attention TO the
following:
''If these views are correct, and we
are led to believe that they are in
ninety-nine cases out OfeVery hundred,
then the course of the Gazette has been
absolutely of no advantage to you, but
on the other hand, downright loss
Let us suppose that it had, during ali
this time, consistently advocated an
improved system of Agriculture in 2d-
dition to its politics, would it not have
had very beneficial effect upon the
industrial prosperity Of the county ?
SuDpOse it had advocated the location
of iron manufactures in the county as
earnestly as it has advocated politics,
does any one doubt that we would have
| a large number of these establishment,
! located here with our facilities Again,
| had it paid as much attention to the
building Of a railroad through the
/ county. as it has to the election Of DEM
ocrats, from the highest position down
to township clerk, would Our people
not to-day be enjoying all the adVan-
tages which such Improvements would
| bring? Certainly, there cannot be q
doubt in regard toit."
Now, aren't we somebody? We
could have under-drained, lined, plas-
tered, sub-soiled, covered, and post
and-raiI-fenced this whole county, we
could have built iron manufactures,
! nav, we could have constructed rail
road through the county. if we had
only let Democrats take care of them