THE BEDFORD GAZETTE !i riELISHTD EVER? FRIDAY MOEMNfI iiV MttYEK* A MEXfiEL, At th fo'iowing terms fo w 't: $2 tiO per annum, if paid strictly in advance. $2.50 if paid within 6 months ; $3.00 if not pat" within (5 months. cr.No subscription taken lor iess than six months [E?~.Vo p-iper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at tije option of the publisher. It has tieen decided by the United States Courts tbat the stoppage of a newspaper without the payment of arrearages, is prima facie evidence of fraud and is a criminal otience. IJ*7~rhe courts nave decided that persons are ac countable for the subscription price of newspapers, if they take them from the post office, whether they subscribe for them, or not. Select poctru. TAME THE PAPERS- Why don't you take the papers? They're the life of my delight, Except about election time, And then 1 r~ad for spite. Subscribe, you cannot loe a cent— Why should you be afnid ? Foi rush thus paid is money lent On interest, four-fold paid. 1 knew a printer's debtor once, Baked with a scorching lever, Who swore to pay her debt next d M DAVIS, July, 13T;. Philadelphia. It appears from lite following letter, from a distinguished clergyman of our city, which has been sent to us for publication, that the contri vers of this new crusade against the fundamen tal law of the land, have, at least in one in stance, "wakened the wrong passenger." CJIRAKD ST.. August 10th, iSi>s. .Mr. Edward JM. Davis : DEAR SIR— A printed circular purporting to come from you, and signed with your name, lias been received by me, in which you have the presumption to ask me to aid. you in a cru sade against the rights of the States forming the American Union. Now, sir, I wish you to understand that I never had, and never mean to have, any ailiii- I ation with men who denounce the Constitution ! of the United States as "a Covenant with death, an agreement with hell"'—nor have I any comtnuion or fellowship with those who 1 clamor for "an Anti-Slavery God, an Anti- J Slavery Bible, or an Ar.ti-Slavery Constitution.' j Neither have I the slightest sympathy with j those who exclaim "Let the Union slide." It : is to von, sir, and such men as Banks and the j whole h'-t of blaspheming infidels, wiios? bla- i tant oratory and subtle sophistry have lured the people of ibis once fair and happy land to j their own destruction, that we are indebted for I '.he lamentation, weeping and mourning; for the j wi.low'ijovi and orphanage; for the mil Dw and . | blasting of the best ami brightest hopes the i ! world ever .-aw. You are ;iie men who, by-j i your influence and pernicious teachings, have | scattered broadcast, mini they iic thick as au- j tumnal leaves, such evils, such miseries, as sick- ] !en the heart to contemplate. It seems to me ! that a sane man, after the frightful carnival of I blood which you and yours Uave brought upon ' us, would, at least, ask for a little time to re i fleet upon tiie past —would snatch a brief peri jod to breathe. But, alas, no! Drunk with I blood, you, like tiie daughter of the horse leech, i cry, "Give ! (dive i ' On to more ruin, more ; t blood, more dcolation. You are eager again to shout and laugh while i the sword is bathed to the hilt in the warm ! heart's blood of your fellow man. Like the j maddening and devouring flame and torrent of I a volcanic mountain, you would sweep over the sunny and hsppy homes of I. lpieSs women and innocent children, carrying utter hopeless dev astation in your patii and caring for na- iht save that your peculiar view:*., your pet system of philanthropy, tnieht be sustained and carried through. Is there to he no abatement of this? Will nothing hut die tears of widows and or phans —the blood of brave hearts end true, Make your thirst Whore are the p:aee men once so loud and denunciator** ngin a t any and all wars—such as Barnes, KclJey. Furness, Strong, Cleveland, who, in 1350. proclaimed that all wars wc**e sin'ul and anti-Christian. And where are the "Friends" of your own kith and kin ? Must a war of extermination goon f Are the ministers of relief,n to continue ever to call for a little more blood-letting, and to encourage the desire for devastation and plun der T Have you no compassion for the millions of unfortunate and thriftless negroes whom this most unhappy war has deprived of home and friends ! Look at those creatures, tiie vi aims of the mad folly of a wicked, unscriptural, in ppnstitutional fanaticism, Have you any pity left in your hearts ? I do not mean for the Southern white man, for this I am sure you have not; and I make no appeal on such ground HA that, knowing it to he utterly useless —hut for the negro. He is hungry; he is naked; he is homeless, he is friendless. AH lliis has been brought upon him by you and your confreres; ; and yet you are not satisfied. "Agitate, agi | fate," is your cry and will be until you agitate j the negro out of existence. RemcmW, Mr. Davis, that this spirit which ! now moves you and others of the same politic i al school, made its uppearaiice very early in the j world's history. The firs; preacher of the doc ! trines which you now advocate was the father of lies in the garden of Eden. He deel God to be a f:i u; fier and deceiver, ar>d advoca ted the total abolition of his moral government. Freedom of Thought and Opinion. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1863. Alas! how fearfully well did he succeed! And j from that moment commenced all the troubles of tbi:, world. Then was stirred up that spirit j of unrest which, from that day to this, has ; reigned supreme in tlieunsanctified human heart, i Read Generis. chap. .'3. I am fully aware that with many of you the teachings and plain precepts of the Bible would have no more weight than would the Constitu tion of the U. S. If it should happen to ac cord with your own self-teachings, we'll and good: otherwise, it is a letter, and belongs to a past dispensation. Vou declare that you owe aileg-ance to a "higher law" than even a Divine one, viz: that of your own unassisted and unenlightened conscience. Vou follow ; indly v.hat in the jargon of your party j'ou are pier. 1 to ea'.l "the instincts of your bet ter natur '" without any reference to flic rights i " opinions of others, who may perhaps have iia.d equal opportunities with yourself of deci ding as to the justice and accuracy of these great questions. So long as you have the power in your own hands of enforcing your own views, you are utterly oblivious to the fact that others have any rights, any voice in the matter. I\r myself i can only now declare, as I have 'ever done in the past, the Bible to be, religiously, my only rule of faith and practice, as the Con stitution is, politically, my standard in the dis charge of my duties as a ehizea of this nation. I am new and always will bo a Constitutional Gates' Rights 1 :•(>•) Democrat. I have from pri dole ever excluded : 'itics from my pulpit. If others choose to soil their hands and degrade their sacred office by bringing into the sacred ' desk war and party polities, it is upon their own conscience and not nnae. My skins are at least clear of sueb sin, such shame. I chal lenge any man to put his fingers upon any act or word of mine contrary to the Constitution and letter of the law of these United States, noT have T ever aided or abetted the same In others- For this reason the men who have been (lie principal movers in subverting and destroy ing the liberties of 'bis country —in openly and avowedly violating and setting at naught the j stipulated and guaranteed rights of men who were equally entitled to the protection of the i£ verr.njent, have found no sympathy from me; and it is now too kite to attempt to eah.st any. I was entirely sutiriied with the government and country as we obtained thera from our la thers. With God's blessing resting upon them, and as we had prospered for nearly eighty years as no nation ever did before; and would to bi; 1 that we to-day basked in the same Divine fan light, arod that the dews of God's favor fell upon us i.ow as they did five years ago. that it would be so I firmly believe but for that spir- j it of unrest to which I have referred; that ele ment of interference and love of meddling; that desire to he the keepers of ail men's conscien- ! ccs, which led the descendants f the so-called ; Pilgrim Fathers to born witches, whip Qua- j kets, and hunt like wild beasts such man as Roger Williams, and others who dared to ex ercise the heaven granted prerogative of wor th: ping God in their i -vn way. Hie same love of gain, and all n'. -orbing | iv-sion for univer sal possession of all men and all things, which iebbed the poor Indian of bis native soil, dis pnt <1 every inch of gi.-und with him until it led to his Anal extermination, still lives in the bosoms of the men who would persecute to the eery death all who differ in opinion with them. In expressing these opinions, sir, f feel perfect ly at liberty from the tact that in your printed circular you evince no hesitation in advancing ; and urging attention to your own political dog ma.-; and I am constrained to take .-tunc notice of the one addressed to myself. In allowing l such a tiling to pass unnoticed, and without making protest in the name of truth and liu nianity, I should consider myself derelict of du ty; and my honest and firm convictions of jus tice and right forbid my remaining rilent when f thus see all 1 hold so dear jeopardized, nay, ; 1 fear, almost irretrievably destroyed. In conclusion, let me say to you and all oth ers who maj' have any humanity left in them, that if you will join with me heart and hand in endeavoring to restore peace and happiness to this distracted and unhappy land, you will have the undivided piayers of my heart and con stant effort of my life. Bui to aid you in your mad 'anatici-iu—your attempts to join what God lias made and designed ever to be separate —I will not. You ought HI be satisfied with the miseries you have already brought upon the . negro. Amalgamation you cannot effect. Ar.y attempt at interference with the fundamental laws of nature can only be attended with dis ! tcr - But if you are bent, upon tluS, at least be , consistent. Come oiit then and avow your sen timents boldly and put into practice yourhate ' ful theory. Throw open the doors of your : house to the negro. Make him eligible for the Presidency, and ail other political posts of hon or and emolument. Make hitn Minister I'leni ; potentiary to the Court of St. James. Cheer fully grant him the lily white hand of your I daughter to be joined with his in the bands of i wedlock, and let yonr cards of invitation to ' your evening drawing room b? equally distribu ted between black and white. When all this is done, sir, I riinil believe you and your party to !be sincere, and not till then. But of one thing yon may be assured, that / shall have tieither : part nor lot in a movement calculated to coin . piete the ruin of our nation. j CAThe hurricane of the war has passed.— | The winds are still. The lightning and thun der arc past. Rut, alas! the myriads of good ly trees swept down by the storm can never more lift their heads toward the beautiful sky. Cm an address dehverc ! it Sheph T Istowri, West Virginia, < Tune is;, t. day of nation al mourning, by '■ v. Lewis P. W. Raich. The pastors of the Episcopal churches of this city will not need to be te'd who he is. I uey will recognize him at -ne as one of the most prominent, and. eloquent members of their or ganization. The se-m-n we fin! p ibiished in lull in tire Baltimore American, iae discourse is verv decidedly loyal in tone throughout, an i this should be sutP -ient to relieve the extract we make from any odium that might otherwise attach to it. It is full of wisdom, and we beg the clergy of this city to read it carefully, to ponder over its teachings, and to apply its unc tion to their consciences. By so doing they may in time make amends- for any evils they may have wrought, either willingly or through inadvertency, Here is what Rev. Dr. Baleh says to them. Lot theiu hear it and heed it. I begin with the Clergy. I need not tell my reverend brethren ot ev ery name that a scripture truth always involves ; a scripture duty. If the clergy obey not God's law, how can the people be expected to main tain human law? Arid if a man observe not the highest of laws, unchangeable and perfect, how .-n we keep those of human origin, neith er perfect nor unchangeable T Tart of the ord'hrtlon how is this: "The Lord being my Helper as much as lietii in me, I will maintain ana set forward quietness, peace and love among a!! Christian people." And the original commission of the Prince of Peace reads thus: "As the Fat Her hath scot me, even so send I you." But did the Father send the Son to preach nulilical sermons —to stir up strife—to sanc tify war—and to baptize men in to the spirit of Cain? The Prophet says : "How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of them who publish peace!" Could lie have said this if those her alds Lore in their bands the bloody torch of war ? Our Redcemei came to bind up the broken hearted, to give liberty to the captive, to com fort those who mourn, not to break the bruised reed or quench thesmoking flax. Can Kis min isters then be foremost to urge men to battle, the source of many of the most frightful calami ties which can afflict our r ace? When, m the history of nations, this fatal and dread necessity arises, there are men whoso dutv it is to engage in and promote war. But these men are not the clergy. I have seen a prosecuting attorney weep in 1 court when painful duty compelled him to press conviction on the panel unto death. Those tears touched all hearts and proved that he had the noble attributes of ,i man. Hut how should we feel to See a minister of religion, with eager zeal, volunteer io prosecute the felon arid shriek for justice on .1 io-d brother ? It is, indeed, cause for sadness on this mourn- j ful day, to think that much of this terrible war, j may be fairly charged to the mistaken views of j the very men sent to preach only peace, good j will and forgiveness among men. The office of the clergy* is at all times one of j love. God has given to rulers, and those in ' civil or military authority, the stern duty of j being a terror to all evil doers. To thom it j rightfully belongs: not to the clergy. What i a strange perversity of function it would he, j to see the public executioner administer the sac rament of the Lord's Supper ? And yet, far more shocking to any sense of propriety, to sav noth ing of the higher sanctions of Christ's com- | raand and the ministerial oath, is the sad spec tacle of Christ's embassador hounding on men to kill and be killed ! Wha f an amazing fact do we behold. Our late President, cloth 1 with great power, and sworn to administer the law and its penalties, ; leaning to mercy, drawing the hearts of all men to him by his goodness, and the clergy, the sworn servants of mercy, clamorous for strife | and vengeance! Hon can , a explain the fact! Our brave and nook. General- and naval heroes who have challenged the admiration of the world, so mild, patient and g dlant in battle, so humane in the J hour of victoiy always anxious to spare blood ! shedding, and the clergy, by peaceful profession, | bound to teach men to forgive their enemies j and to return goou for evil, crying for more | blood! j Alas! No wonder the churches languish, ! missions die, and sin prevails. If the clergy j break God's law of love, if they set the cxam ! pie of disobedience to Christ's command "ovcr ' come evil with good," what can you expect of the people! Yes, my reverend brethren great need have we on this mournful day to inquire whether much of it may not fairly be charged | Hatca of Slirotrttsirtg. ! One square, one insertion, $1 f>o : One square, three insertions, 1 50 One square, each additional insertion 50 3 months. 6 months. 1 year. | One square, $4 50 $0 00 $lO 00 Two squares, 6 00 9 (10 16 00 ! Thme squares, 800 12 00 ' 20 60 1 Half column, 18 00 25 00 'lO 00 One column; 30 00 45 00 SO 00 Administrators and Executors' notices. $3 00. I Auditor's notices, if under lOline*, $2 50. Sheriff' ■sales, $1 75 per tract. Table work, double the j above lates; figure work 25 per cent, additional. EstraySjCautionsand Notices toTrespassers, $2 00 | for three insertions, if not above 10 lines. Ma liage notices, 50 cents each, payable in advance. Obituaries over five lines in length, and Resolutions i of Beneficial Associations, at half ad veiUsing rates, ' payable in advance. Announcements of deaths, gratis. Notices in editorial columns, 15 cents per ! line. [fJ*~No deductions to advertisers ot Patent Medicines, or Advertising Agents. VOL. 9, NO. 5 to otir mistaken views of duty- Let every one ; of us bearing the sacred commission dilligently ' inquire if during the past time, a$ much as ■' I'i't.h in us, we have promoted peace,\puetness and love among all men. True loyally to the State cannot consist ir disloyalty to Christ.— But the bust .patriot and the most loyal clergy man. is he who, by example and precept, most resembles "Him who goes about doing good." '— * SHODDY SWARMING. It seems that Saratoga is swarming this sea son with codfish and shoddy an-tocracy. Even the Jenkinses ot the Herald, /mutt and Tribune j have been much disgusted with the pretension ; and ostentation of these jay birds and peacocks and gobblers, who rube themselves in such gaudy nlunmgc, and strut and swell at all the hoi eh j and prominent promenades of the locality. A i correspondent who lias been recently nauseated j by these ridiculous displays, writes, ' that the ' shoddy aristocracy at Saratoga have great dif . fioully in wearing their usual advancements. — Some of them make most ridiculous work of ; it—re minding beholders of prominent > attle 1 bedecked for agricultural fairs. One unfortu nate dunce of oleaginous development, actum. i went through the martyrdom of dressing fifteen times before ■•upper on Tuesday. A young damsel at table in one of the fig hotels yester day, "astonished the crowd" by exclaiming, | "Lot," mar! I've dropped my diamcnt into the gravy !" A vigorous search for the lost jew ei—a stomacher pin—was made in the kitchen refuse, but unsuccessfully. It iz only worth §I2OO, and "papa" comes within Toadies' definition of a gentleman. He "don't care a darn." Another correspondent writes that last week, on the occasion of General Grant's visit, the group wlrch gathered around the military chief tarn were greatly shocked by a bouncing girl of nineteen, who was literally blazing with jewels and covered with furbelows and flounces, asking aloud, "if that was sure' miff gold on the uniform of the stair" officers." And the sister of this girl, hut two years her junior* in sisted upon lieggiug the General, then and there, if he wouldn't dance with her that night. The correspondents nil agree-that there is a greater crowd at and Cape May now than ever before at this time in the season ; but more pretentious snobbery urvl less of real re fined gentility. A "Union with modern Improvemant?" —White Veterans Parading in search of Employment. A few days asro a procession composed of discharged veterans, who were unable to pro cure work, marched through the streets of New I York, carrying a banner upon which was in scribed the following suggestive sentence : fi Our L.aST occupation was the destruction of Ihe rebellion and the re-edablishmeni of the i'nion with all the J\!ODERJV fMPßOVE jlffi'.'lTi." The New York Daybook makes a brief and succinct summary of the "improvements," as follows : crA debt of three or lour thousand millions of dollars! igj-Taxes upon everything we eat, drink, taste or smell! USrThree or four millions of lazy, idle non-pro ducing negroes! eafCotton shirtings, fifty cents per yard !