The Bedford Gazette

Henry Clay on Disunion.

Henry Clay had freely, on many occasions, denounced the schemes of Abolitionism and of a sectional party. He said in 1839:

"Abolitionism should no longer be regarded as an existing pose, succeed in their present aim of uniting the inhabitants of the free States as one man against the inhabitants of the slave states. Union on one side will beget union on the other, and this process of reciprocal consolidation will be attended with all the violent prejudices, embittered passions, and implacable animosities which ever degraded or deformed human nature. Virtual dissolution of the Union will have taken place, whilst the forms of its existence remain."

"One section will stand in menacing and hostile array against the other. The collision of opinion will soon be followed by the clash of arms. I will not attempt to describe scenes which now happily lie concealed from our view. Abolitionists themselves would shrink back in dismay and horror at the contemplation of desolated fields, conflagrated cities, murdered inhabitants, and the overthrow of the fairest fabric of human government that ever rose to animate the hopes of civilized man."

WHITE LABORERS LOOK HERE!

HENRY CLAY in a letter to Mr. Colton, dated Sept. 2, 1843, thus warns the white Laboring man of the dangers of Abolitionism: Mr. C. said:

"But the great aim and object of your tract should be to arouse the LABORING CLASSES in the Free States against Abolition. Depict the consequences to them of immediate abolition. The slaves being free would be dispersed throughout the Union; they would enter into competition with the free laborer, with the American, the Irish, the German; reduce his wages; be confounded with him; and affect his moral and social standing. And as the ultras go for both Abolition and Amalgamation, show that their object is to unite in marriage the laboring white man and the laboring black woman, and to reduce the laboring man to the despised and degraded condition of the Black man."

HENRY CLAY.

The Philadelphia News, a FILMORE paper, of Sept. 10, publishes the letter from which the above startling extract is taken, and says:—At this moment, when some of our best citizens who have been Whigs, are denounced because they will not join the Black Republican ranks, this letter from Henry Clay is most apposite. It points out briefly and clearly the baseful tendencies of Black Republicanism, its cruelty, its ungratitude, its falsehood, its hostility to the Constitution, its hostility to LABOR. And what would be the feelings of Henry Clay, if he were now living, and saw Black Republicanism making an open issue against the Union? Indeed he prophesies the present fearful state of things when he calls upon Mr. Colton to show that the agitation in the free States will first destroy all harmony, and finally lead to dissolution!

NOW LOOK UPON THIS PICTURE!

JOSHUA R. GIDDINGS, who is the acknowledged head of the FREMONT party, says:

"I look forward to the day when there shall be a servile insurrection in the South; when the BLACK man, armed with BRITISH bayonets, and led on by BRITISH officers, shall assert his Freedom, and wage a war of extermination against his master; when the torch of the INCENDIARY shall light up the towns of the South, and blot out the last vestige of Slavery; and though I may not mock at their calamity, nor laugh when their fear cometh, yet will I hail it as the dawn of a political millennium."

Anson Burlingame, now travelling the country making Fremont speeches, says:

"The times demand that we must have an anti-slavery Constitution, an Anti-Slavery Bible, and an Anti-Slavery GOD"

Seward, Wade, Banks, Spalding, Webb, Greeley, Garrison, Sumner, Erastus Hopkins, Addison, Foster, Beecher, Remond, Brewster, Emerson, Ross, Gannison, Wilson, Horace Mann, Phillips, and all the other prominent Fremont leaders employ similar language to the above, which we omit for want of room.

The Harrisburg Telegraph, the organ of Gov. Pollock, (edited by Col. M'CLURE,) of Sept. 1, contains the following savage sentiment in a letter from Wooster, dated August 29, giving an account of a Fremont meeting held in that place.

"Two CAMPAIGN companies of ferocious looking fellows, styling themselves "Buck Hunters" and "Rocky Mountain Rangers," paraded the ground. The latter (these two companies, were dressed in hunting shirts, after the fashion of pioneers, carried Rifles, and had Murderous looking KNIVES in their Belts."

The same paper, same date, says editorially:

"The South would not and DARE NOT dissolve the Union if the North in its majesty should elect Fred. Douglass (a NEGRO!!) President."

And these are the men and these the principles, which J. R. Jordan & Co. are so anxious to form a union with for the sake of the spoils. Honest Fillmore men of Bedford county, what say you to such a union—and more especially as Mr. Fillmore has assured you that the election of Fremont would result in a Dissolution of the Union!