iWorti Inquirer. z.-jr : L -—_-rrrr r BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, SEPT. I, 1800. GEARY. UNION AND LIBERTY. THE FIRES OF 1861 REKINDLED. The Hills of Bedford eountj Reverberate with the Shouts of Freedom. THE "BOYS \\ BLVE" EVER TRI E. OVATION TO THADDEUS STEVENS. The "Great Commoner" delivers the initial Speech of the Campaign, and boldly proclaims himself in favor of Human Liberty and the Universal Brotherhood of Man. Thrilling Addresses by Col. A. K. Mc- Clure. Hon. John Cessna, Hon. Juhn Williamson and others. 5000 Freemen in Council. Music, Flags, Banners, Enthusiasm, Patriotism and Ladies. HOW iRE YOt! MONTGOMERY BLAIR? TREASON MADE ODIOUS. ♦ One of the largest political demonstra tions ever witnessed in this part of the State came off last Tuesday evening. The morniDg was cloudy, but soon the sun burst forth in his majesty, presaging auspiciously the glorious afternoon that was to come. At early dawn people came flocking to town, but it was not till about the middle of the afternoon that the vast delegations began to pour into the place. Ail became a scene of indescribable excitement when the imposing delegations from the Eastern pari of the County entered the place. It was a sub lime spectacle and sent a thrill of joy through many a patriotic breast, to behold the "Boys in Blue" mingling in mighty prtcession with it. Sturdy yeomen of the County- St. Clair and Union sent forth their hundreds, and "Little Berks" was represented. Colerain did not fail, while Bloody Run seemed to send forth her entire population. The Woodberries were on hand with a splendid delegation. We feel that wc would be derelict in duty did we fail to speak of the admirable manner in which those entrusted with the management of the meeting, performed their several duties. The Chief Marshal of the Proces ccssion, Mr. George McDanieT, who fought nobly for his country during the rebellion, attired in his Country's Blue, riding a gaily caparisoned steed , received the highest commendation. Our gallant soldier boys, D. S. Elliot, Writ. G. Riffle, Jas. A. Gilchrist, Howard H. Welsh, David Prosser, and John H. Cook, deserve great credit for the assistance which they lent to the chief Marshal. The Union Republican Brass Band nobly sustained, its reputation, and many were the beautiful and inspiring airs which it discoursed. Our friends of the band, E. M. Alsip, Esq., Messers, John Arnold, John Reimond, John Miller, and all have the thanks of our appreciating public. The meeting was held in the public square, public stands tastefully decorated with flags, emblems and devices, having been erected near the residence of Hon. S. L. Russell. The meeting was called to order by J. B. Cessna, Esq., Chairman of the Union Coun ty Committe. The following is the list of officers : On motion of J. B. Cessna, GEORGE W. WILLIAMS was called to the Chair : VICE PKESiI'EKTS. Andrew E. Dibert, Alvr Williams, Thomas L. Rea, Capt J. S. Stuckey, Br J. Henry, Uapt. G. S. Mullin, Wm. Masters, I). Spark?, Albert Smith, Jos. Fisher, Esq. Lieut W. Hafr, Capt- Wm. Gravy, Col. J,. A. May, Jno. W. Sums, Michael Gillam, H. C. Rasbley, W. R. tireel), Jeg. Penrose, G. W. Figart, W. Kirk, Capt. W. McViokcr, As* Stuckey, Hi'zekiah May, B. R. Aehcom, ('apt. J. Eichelberger, C'apt. .(no. Kwartz, Edmund Trimbath, (feo. W. Shaffer, Jacob Ccrley, F. Weaver, Adam Geller, E. A. Fockler, Jacob Tharp, Jos. U. Griffith, Jaeob Evans, Peter Itnlcr, Dr. I. O. AiUrmnn Geo. K. Barndollar, D. S. Berkstresser, I). Strickier, J.M. Kinkcad, D. F. Buck, Wm. Rogers, W. Aaron. Jos. S. Messersmith, SECRETARIES. M. A points, Lt. W. Wilkinson, Lt. W. P. Barndollar, Scott W. Hughes. Hon. THADDEUS STEVENS was then in trodueed to tlie audience amidst tremen dous cheers and spoke as follows : It seems to me that I ought not to hare accepted the invitation to speak before a meeting assembled mainly to discuss State issues, and State candidates. Being recently from Washington, I feel it to be proper in my tirst public speech to examine the State of National affairs: glance at some of the acts of the President; aud candidly and im partialy examine the acts and omissions of Congress, with a view rather to the beuelit of the Country than of party. This will necessa rily make my remarks tame. The vivacity of the meeting roust be left to younger men who will discuss State and local issues, and can didates. For the last live years the Congress of the United States has been charged with more difficult duties than erer fell to the lot of any other deliberative body. It was charged with the defense of a nation riven, in twain by the most gigantic rebellion, which ever happened in a civilized nation; a rebellion more form idable than was ever before reduced to un conditional submission. The nation was found distracted by parties; a very considerable portion of which North as well as South sympathized with the rebels ; who in the loyal States, if they did not give them material aid, encouraged them with hopeful promises , and assisted them by voting against supplies of men aud money to carry on the war. But there were fouud brave men enough in Congress to overcome their opposition; aud there were found brave and noble men enough amongthe people to sabdue Southern traitors and Northern Copperheads. While we are remembering the patriots who have achieved these things, we must not forget the maimed ar.d wounded heroes who are among us, nor the graves of those who have fallen. The arras of the Union triumphed. Freedom unfurled her banner over that land which for centuries had been cursed and disgraced by slavery That triumph brought with it difficulties even greater than the war itself. To rebuild a shattered empire ; to remove the old foun dations which had become so corroded by the sweat of slavery, as to be unfit to bear the proud temple of universal Freedom : to plant deep and solid the corner stone of eternal Justice, and to erect thereon a superstructure of perfect equality of every human being before the law ; of impartial protection to every one in whose breast Gon bad placed an immortal soul, without regard to nation or race or color : to overcome the prejudice and ignorance and wickedness which resisted such reform, required more than the wisdom of Solon or Lycurgus, the patience of Job, and the meekness, humility and philanthro phy of Socrates and the GIiEATEIt than Socrates. You may perceive how difficult it was to find all these qualities combined among the recent defenders of slavery; the apologists of secession, the timid conservatives, and the ardent, impulsive, sincere but halting radic als. Notwithstanding the large majority which the Republicans nominally had, the unexpected apostacy of their chief perplexed some ; and the lightings which were hurled at them from the NVhite House shocked oth ers. The jesutism, the imbecility, the impu dence, and vacillation shown by the cabinet ministers perplexed, and for a while paralyzed Congress —reluctant to make war upon the Executive of their choice, they sought every expedient to avoid it. But when it became inevitable they accepted it with a courage and unanimity, which does great credit to their bravery and honesty. There were a few tremblers and a few apostates : but they were so few that *heir absence in the next Con gress will not be noticed, and is very desira ble. Pennsylvania 1 think had the fewest number. When the war ended the work of recon struction would have been easy had all the Departments of Government confined them selves to their legitimate spheres. The reb els were submissive and asked only to be allowed their forfeited lives. Having lost all by treason and the fortunes of war. Having destroyed their State governments under Urn Constitution and voluntarily severed their connexion with the United States, and there by lost all claims to protection under the con stitution: having declared themselves alien enemies, and in that character having waged a war of savage ferocity against the Union : having slaughtered nearly half a million of our citizeus, and inflicted a cost of more than five billions of dollars ; they were willing to surrender the government of their conquered territories to their conquerors to be governed by such laws as they chose to impose ; to surrender their estates to reimburse the expenses and damages of the war ; to suffer such further fines and imprisonments as their great crimes deserved. The harmonious action of the government would have secured all these, so far as policy and justice required : and by this time the several State* would have been in the Union with constitu tions perfectly free. A portion of the prop erty of the great criminals would have been applied to pay our national debt ; to pension our soldiers and to pay the damages suffered by loyal men. Some of them would no doubt have been in the penitentiary for a term of years. A few and but a few would have suffered the extreme penalty of the law; for our law is a mild one, and mildly administered. The blood of half a million of onr citizens would hardly have been avenged : but peace and returning good will would be now spread over the whole land. But the ambition and folly of a few weak and dishonest men have reversed this whole picture. All the powers of our government are lodged in three departments, whose duties are wholly distinct from each other— neither can encroach upon the other without disturbing the harmony of' their workings and endangering the liberty of the country—The Constitution says 4 'ALL legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives." The President is the Executive but has no Legislative or Judicial powers—The Judiciary must adjudge all con troverted legal questions which arise—that is their whole duty. By the Constitution the power to create and admit new states and to guarantee re publican forms of government belongs to Con gress alone. Neither the President nor the Supreme Court can do either, or any part thereof So are the decisions. No well in formed man doubts it; no honest man denies it. lieiico it follows that to Congress alone be longs, not only the right, but the duty to re build the States; to give them republican fovernments: and to admit them into the Jnion, if they should be judged lit, to resume the privileges which they renounced and sought to destroy. The President as Com mander-in-Chief of the army had a right after the conquest to appoint Military Governors and hold them in military subjection until the law-making power had an opportunity to act. Instead of calling Congress together or awaiting their regular session he usurped all the duties of the law-making power and proceeded to give constitutions atid civil gov ernments to the conquered States, directing in the most arbitrary manner the terms Of their organic laws, and controlling the action of their bogus conventions. Notwithstanding the change in the number of free citizens pr®- duced by the war and the acts of Congress he confined the rights of citizenship to the reb els excluding ail the new made loyal citizens. He distinctly informed the rebels that they had lost, all the rights of citizens of the Uni ted States; but when they had adoptedin'con vention, his governments, he declared them admitted into the Union, and directed Con gress to admit their representatives, express ly declaring that Congress had nothing to do; but that each House separately was simply to judge of the regularity of the elections and qualification!' of the members who presented them-sclves. He said that he had admitted the States. He had declared their relations to the Union restored. He had guaranteed republican forms of government to the disor ganized States. Of their status, of their right to representation, Congress had nothing to say. When it is remembered that all these acts are merely legislative; that the consti tution places all legislation in Congress; that the President form no part of the legisia tive power, it must be admitted that these acts we-e the most high handed usurpations that lawless ambition could exercise. If sub mitted to by Congress this government would no longer bo a republic subject to the will of the people but a despotism in which one ty rant would rule over a nation of slaves. A Congress elected by the people to resist arm ed traitors were not disposed to cower before the usurped sceptre of a single apostate. I say a single apostate; for the scurvy, merce nary, apostale republicans who have since joined him are so few and despicable that they need not be included in any enumeration of political forces. Congress met aad calmly proceeded to recon struct the government. It propesed amend ments to the constitution;*not only abolishing slavery but placing all men on a perfect equal ity before the law. Every human being is de clared to have equal civil rights, and Con gress is invested with power to enforce a remedy. This does not touch social cr polit ical rights. They are left to thefuture action of the people of the States, and ultimately of Congress; the proposed amendment now pending, changes the base of representation in Congress so that the vote of a white man in the North will be equal to a vote of a white man in the South, now a white man's vote iu the rebel States counts nearly as much as two white men's votes in the free States. This amendmeut meets with the violent opposition of the President. Congress passed a civil rights bill to guard the rights of all—the President vetoed it— Gongiess passed the freedman's bureau bill — the President vetoed it. He preferred to let the freedmen, and refugees starve, and re main exposed to mobbing and murder. Con gress passed a law to admit Colorado. He vetoed it because it would give two more Senators opposed to his "policy." Congress passed an act to admit Tennessee. He dis approved of it, and sent a message with his objections, but kept the bill and signed it (an unconstitutional act) because it admitted his son-in-lav; as a Senator. Congress passed a law liberally increasing the pensions of the wounded soldiers; the increase was not all I desired. 1 tried to make the least pension twelve dollars in stead of eight per month. The committer thorght they had done all they could afford ; but I doubt not it will prevail at the next session. No disabled man can support his family on eight dollars a month. Congress passed a law to equalize bounties. Not such a law as I approyed of, because it was partial. But it was a beginning and so far good. It would have been better had it not been for the administration. Early in the session a bill was reported giving equality in bounties. The Secretary of the Treasury wrote a letter to the Senate saying that it would take from the Treasury two hundred and sixty or three hundred millions of dollars. The Provost Marshal General Fry wrote a still more frightful letter saying it would cost six huncred aud eightty millions of dol lars. The commissioner of internal revenue declared it would destroy the public credit. Ilcnce Congress was deterred from making, what 1 considered a just ar rangement of the bounty question : still some justice was done, and complete justice will be done to our gallant soldiers when this ad ministration shall be removed, which now sits like an incubus on the breast of the nation. As a further enumeration of some of the acts of Congress, I would refer you to a speech of the lion. Schuyler Colfax lately made to his constituents. No sounder patriot than Mr. Colfax exists. And I will take this oc casion to say that as speaker I believe r.c abler officer ever presided over a delibera tive body. In criticising Congress I will try to be im partial. I will not ask you to bestow unmin glea praise. I feel that we omitted some important things which we ought to have done and for which omission we deserve the censure of the people. While it was impos sible, obstructed as we were by the President and the Copperheads, to make this a repub lic of "-liberty and equality,"' we might have approached it more nearly than we <bd. Wo might have treated the rebel States as what they are in fact conquered provinces and aota rr Q eonl / I hn'o f! vol tVo qualifications ot voters so that every loyal man could participate in the formation oftheir organic laws. We should thus, with entire ceitainty have secured the government to loyal Union men have formed in every one of those States constitutions giving equal privileges to all ; and which would have curb ed the rising spirit of rebellion, which is now rampant in every one of those States. For I assure you, from irrefutable evidence, that traitors are now triumphant in every Confed erate State. No republican doubts the pow er of Congress to do what I have stated. No sound constitutional lawyer believes any one of the organizations now existing in those States to be legitimate governments. Form ed by the decrees of a military conqueror, without consulting the people, they can be tolerated only as tcmpon"" arrangements until the law-making power provides ihem permanent laws and forms ot Government. They are so considered by the rebels them selves. Chief Justice Ruffin of North Carolina, one of the ablest and fairest of secessionists, has lately given the following opinion : The Chief Justice says: "I consider that this is no Constitution, because your convention was not a legitimate Convention, and had no power to mako a Constitution for us, or to alter that which we bad and have: and that it cannot lie made a Constitution, even by popular sanction. If these positions be correct, it ought to bo rejected by the people as the easiest, simplest, and most efficient method of setting the points at rest, and avoiding many perplexing and dangerous questions before the Judiciary. I object to the organization of your body as a Convention, because it was called without tba consent of the people of North Carolina by the President of the United States, or under his orders; an act of clear and despotic usurpation, which could not givo the body any authority to bind the State or its inhabitants. If it be said the President, or his.satrap—his Govern or of a Province—did not call, or rather constitute the Convention, but the delegates were elected by the people, and thereby the body was duly con stituted, I deny it directly and positively. Mr. Johnson required tt Convention to peform certain specific acts; to annul the ordinance of secession and tendera return to the Union, or claim its continued existence under the Constitution of the United States: to emancipate the slaves and ordain that Slavery shall never hereafter exist in th : s State, and to repudiate the state "war debt." All these were done; tho two first promptly and in satisfactory terms; and the third at the last mo ment, under subjection and in conformity to orde.s after having once refused to adopt the measure. All was done, I say, that wa* required, und Mr. Johnson proclaimed that ho had. got all ho wanted: that we were back as a State und might choose our Representatives in Congress in conformity to our rights as a State, and to our law regulating elections. Wa- there anything more for that Con vention to do? Wore they chosen for any other purpose, even by those who were allowed to vote for members? How dare they, then go on to frame a Constitution, a law for ail" time, which is to be binding on those who elected tliem for the ends, and also on that large poriion of the patriots and heroes—"unpardoned Rebels"—wl;o were not allowed to vote at all? The pretension is without parallel or precedent, until the present term of Radical assumption of power in a dominant mili tary or numorcial majority, without respect for rights or the Constitution. As far as they safely can, and whenever they can, tho people ought to resist that pretension. This they can peacefully do, when called on and allowed to vote; aid I trust they will do so on this occasion without commotion, in support of the great principle of human liberty—that a people have the right to make their own Constitution, and not be made sub ject to one imposed on them by force or fraud, by an extraneous power, or by a fraction of their fel low citizens," _ The Chief Justice is right. Not a rebel {State has this day a lawful government. They are more territories conquered by our .irnu- from tlio "Con federate States of America.'" Why then did not Congress give thein cither territorial governments or enabling acts so that they could form State governments, and ooine into the Union with con stitutions securing equal and impartial rights to every human being within their limits? Early iu, the session I introduced a bill to give tbem ena bling acts on the true principles of republican government. It met with but little countenance. The republican mind hr.d not examined, and was not ready to accept so radical a proposition. And so the session was spcji- jn inaction. Vou muy tind ury propositi mi together with the reasons lea it in the lastnumber Of the fl/ribc, T *igh it might be copied into your excellent paper so Jhat you may judge of it. T trust you will examine it well, so that you eari Inform us of its propriety. I shall renew it at the next session. In my opinion Congress was derelict in another particulaft I have always held that while but few of the belligerents should suffer the extreme penalty of the law, yet that a sufficient fund should be levied out of their property to pav the expenses and damages of the war. Congress in July, 1882, declared all their property forfeited, and direct ed the President to seize it for the benefit of the United States; more than ten billions of property tt *s became vested in the United States. Proceed ings against mo-e than two billions of property in eluding the abandoned estates, had been instituted and were in progress. The President has rosto:- ed to the traitors nearly the whole of it. Thus has he illegally given away half enough to pay the national debt. He has enriched traitors at the expense of loyai men. And yet Congress, bold as it was, had not the courage to reverse these proceedings and compel the executive to do his duty. I trust that our constituents will give us more courage, so that at the next session we may compel the President to do his duty and exe cute the laws. These are omissions which I frankly confess and sincerely deplore. But our erovrning sin was the omission to give homesteads and the right of suffrage in the rebel States to the freedmen who had fought our battles. We h&vo left them the victims of the rebels who every day shoot them down in cold blood. At Memphis forty-eight were murdered under the direction of the municipal authorities, and not a man prosecu ted. Behold the awful slaughter of white men and black—of a convention of highly respectable iron, peaceably assembled in convention at New New Orleans, which Gen. Sheridan pronounces more horrible than the massacre of Fort Pillow. Even the Clergyman who opened the proceedings with prayer was cruelly murdered. All this was done under the sanction of Johnson and his of f"* holders. Jt is the legitimate consequence of his "pol-cy." L a'.mit Congress became demagogical in the last hot days, when all manhood was melted out of every body. They did some things to seduce the remans into our rann?. ruo right, and so I veted for them. I will speak plainly on this subject. The most effective argument (if argument it can he called) which will be used by our opponents is the effort made oy the Republicans to give equal rights to every human being, even to the African. We shall hear repeated, ten thousand times, the cry "Negro Equality"! The radieals wouldthrust the negro into your parlors: yo.ur bed rooms, and the bosoms of your wives and daughters. They would even make your reluctant daughters marry black men. And then they will send up the grand chorus from every foul throat, "nigger," "nigger," "nigger!" "Down with the nigger party, we are for the white man's party." These unanswerable arguments will ring in every low bar-room, and he printed in every blackguard sheet throughout a land whose fundamental max im is "AT.L MEN ARE CREATED EQT'AL." The ohief promoters of this slang consist of two or three differeat classes. The unprincipled brawl ing demagogue, possessed of some cuning but no conscience. Among those who hare an unequal mixture of rogue and dupe, are the low, ignorant, illiterate natives, as well as foreigners, who dwell about the purlieus of cur towns and cities, and live by pilfering and "odd jobs." The protestant will listen to a devout sermon from the text "Of one blcod made he all the na tions of the earth," and go forth to the next poli.- ical meeting to shout "down with the negro!" The Catholic will listen annually to the reading from the altar of the Pope's Bull denouncing slave ry, and go forth to support the slavery party,and shout "hows with the negro." TV hat a shame that the countrymen of the Dec- ■ • laration of Independence; what a shame that the countrymen of the Immortal O'Connell, should ever cast a vote on the side of human bondage!! The President is not only using his high pre rogative to obstruct the action of Congress, but he is attempting to corrupt the nation so as to render them unfit for self-government. A kingly gov ernment may stand with a corrupt ruler, but re publics are founded on and supported by the vir tue of the people. Demoralise them and the re public must fall. The appointment to office was vested in the President by the constitution, to be used for the proper administration of the execu tive branches ef the government. It was nevr in tended that it should be used to influence legisla tive or judicial proceedings. Whenever it is used for the purpose of supporting political theories; of compelling the people to abandon their p ir.ei pies and adopt new ones, or to form a new party, it becomes an abuse of power; a prostitution of the patronage of the goverrment, which was vest ed in the President for the good of the whole na tion, and for no personal or party purposes. When envious death performed the horrible pur pose of placing Andrew Johnson in the executive chair, all the offices were filled by persons selected by Abraham Lincoln. They were mostly selected rrom the parry that elected him ard Andrew Johnson, because nono others could properly un derstand and carry out the principles on whieh ho was elected, and according to which he bad de termined t administer the government. When Johnson came into power their principles were unchanged. But when he determined to betray t hose principles and discard the men and the par ty which had elected him, he required of those officials the same pro."'itutiuu of character and abandonment of honest... The penalty of disobe dience was removal from office. Hemade this a rule with the lowest and most trifling offices. A coL league of mine from Pennsylvania informed mo that having presented a petition of the neighbors fer the appointment of a post master to a hundred dollar post office, he went to the clerk to ascertain why the appoincment was delayed, and was shown an order on file, signed by Andrew Johnson, di recting that no appointment should be made un less it was directed by Ed. Cowan! Jndas Isear iot dispensing patronage through Judas the younger!! The Executive of a nation of thirty millions of people; the commander-in-chief of the army and navy, going to a country post office worth less than one hundred dWlars a year, to punish the post master because ho would not apottacise! In Home and Greece, to "corrupt the people" was held to be a capital crime. It was one of the •charges in the prosecution against Socrates, of which being found unjustly guilty, he was sen tenced to death. That the infamous use now made of the patronage of the government is a high official misdemeanor I have no doubt. "Whether it will be prosecuted as such will depend upon the courage or the mercy of Congress. The present crisis is exhibiting man in America in an extraordinary light. In other nations, when the King, the court,become debauched and corrupt, the mass of the people become demoralized. But the people of America, high and lew, from the center to the circumference, remain untouched, notwithstanding the foul corruption and debauch ery which disgrace the centre. Notwithstanding all the blandishments of power and patronage; not withstanding the tender of fat offices, not a single genuine republican has been seduced from his allegiance to principle. Not ono has consented to supercede ono honest office holder, and renounce his own faith as the price. I know there are a few soldiers of fortune who hung upon the skirts of the party, who have consented to take office under Cowan and company. But they wore men who were never trusted by the party; or who for years past have become so bankrupt in principles and fortune as to bo ready to jojn any conspiracy that furnished rations. They arc the army of Cataline. Nor have I the least fear that any respectable man will be found to take service in their ranks. I do not here speak of copperheads. I see no rea son to prevent their accepting office without loss of honor. They would violate no principle. They would stab no fiicnd. Iftit T warn you to keep on eye on any professed republican who consents to fill an enforced vacancy. However be may have stood before there is viliiany wrapt up in his com position. lie is a moral Leper whom you should not touch. He should be socially ostracised as ua fitfor decent society. Let hiin flit about in the twilight, and hide his averted countenance from the light of day. The President and his squad (it does not deserve the name of party) contend that the war made no changes in the condition of our under the constitution. That the rights and liabilities of all our former citizens rebels as welTas loyal remain unchanged. This exhibits a most deplorable ignorance or cul pable treachery. _No great war between acknowledged belligerents ever left the con dition and rights of the parties after the same as before, unless it were so stipulated by the treaty of peace. _ The war leaves them with out compacts, without rightsexcept the rights of war. When it is ended new treaties are to be made j or if one party submits the conquer or prescribes the future relative condition of the parties without regard to their relative condition before tho war. The vanquished have no rights except what the conqueror grauts. This is much more so, when ono of the belligerents was composed of rebels. You are aware that a convention of traitors, was lately held in Philadelphia. Most of them had actually borne arms against the United States, and helped murder half a million of our citizens, A few sympathizers from the North who ought to have been South met with theai. They extinguished the Democratic party aud blotted its name from the vocabulary of parties. No demo cratic party can henceforth exist. They laid down an elaborate party creed or platform of principles for this conglomerate mass. Being traitors they of course adopt ed the 11 jsioent's views. Here is their fundamental ariieia which nil the others conform. Mr. Raymond's address says': "The constitution of the United States is "to-day precisely what it was before the war "the supreme law of the land, any thing in the "constitution or laws of any State to the con trary notwithstanding. And to-day also "as before the war all powers not "conferred by the constitution on thegeneral "government nor prohibited by it to the "States are res served to the several States or "the people thereof." "The United States acquired no new pow er ; no rights either territorial or of civil authority which it did not possess before the war broke cut. This strange, wild and wicked doctrine was unanimously adopted by the couclave. What! Six millions of rebels who had renounced the constitution, who had murdered live hundred thousand of our citizens, who had loaded the nation with debt and drenched it with blood, when conquered had forfeited no right; had lost no jurisdiction or civil author ity ; and these co.nquerors had acquired none because there was a constitution which while they obeyed, protected, but which they had discarded and torn to pieces by war! Was there ever before a human brain frenzied enough to engender such folly : or a human front brazen enough to utter it. No princi ple in national la w is dearer than that when beUigcrant* inaugurate a war which is acknow ledged to be a public war all the former obli gations, treaties and compacts between the parties become null and void ; and after the war are to be reuewed or repudiated as the parties agree, or as the conqueror decrees. If either party is utterly subdued his life. ca.~—x r — J.-.UJ- tne disposal J>T the victor. Why does not the Emperor of Austria say to the King of Prussia "I lay down my arms, and all things will remain as before the war." The Prussian would an swer, "you are as big a fool as the President of America or the traitor's league." No sir. The war has changed everything—old treat ies and leagues have ceased. Venetia is no longer yours Hanover and the Duchies are mine ; and beside you must pay the expenses of the war, forty-five millions. Who denies that this is the law of nations except tbe ad vocates of treason, who deny our right to make them pay the expenses of the war. They cry out against confiscation for crime, as if it were inhuman. hiod willing, I shall try it again, and see if they do not pay part of the cost and damages of the war be fore they help to make onr laws. The constitution unchanged ! Then slavery exists ; then all the provisions with regard to the rendition of fugitives from labor remain—then every traitor has a right to fit down in Congress, as the representative of three fifths of all the slaves besides the whites. We can easily forgive the aimablo and facile author of the declaration as he is no lawyer ;is totally ignorant of the law of nations or the laws of war ; but what shall we say of those able jurists who sat by and acquiesced ; unless we put it upon the same ground that one of the ablest and best of them did when he advised to take a falsa oath to get a vote and then to break it. But fellow citizens I am occupying too muck ground. As I said before the great issue to be met at this election is the question of rcgro rights. I shall not deny but admit that a fundamental principle of the republican creed is that every being pos sess ing an immortal soul is equal before the law. They are not and cannot be equal in strength, height, beauty, intellectual and moral culture, 01 social acquirements, thesa are accidents which must govern their condition according to circumstances. But in this republic, the tame laws must and shall apply to every mortal, American, Irishman, African, Ger man or Turk. It is written by the finger of the ALMIGHTY uxvv GIVER "Ye shall have one man " ner of laws, as well for the stranger as for one "of your own country; for I am the LORD your " GOD." I need not be admonished that the support of this doctrine, on the ove of an election is danger ous, especially in counties bordering on the slave States. A deep seated prejudice against races has disfigured the human miud for ages, for two centuries it has oppressed the black man and held Urn in bondage after white slavery had Ceased to BaisU Nvb it deprivea hiiu of CTCty right in the Southern States. We have joined in inflicting those wrongs. How has the FATHER of this blameless race rewarded this prejudice; treat ed this despotism!" Lot the scarfs upon yourg. r mcnts, and the gory graves that dot a thousand blood) battle fields give the sad answer. This doctrine may be unpopular with besotted ignorance. But popular or unpopular I shall stand by it until I am relieved of the unprofit able labors of earth. Being the foundation of our republic, I liavo lull faith in its ultimate triumph. I may not live to see it. I may not be worthy of such happiness. If it is to be finally defeated, and the hopes of man thus extinguished, I pray God that, when it happens, I may be insensible to human misery; that my senses may be locked in "cold obstruction and in death." Fellow citizens, I have detained you too long to allow me to discuss State affairs. But you need no exhortation to go forth one and all, and support at the polls your gallaut standard bearer, Maj. Gen. Geary. A purer patriot never breathed the air. A braver soldier never faced a foe. He risked all to save the country. He led a gallant son to to battle and to death. For us he gave his own body to the bullets and the steel of the enemy. . Such a man knows no defeat. When on the second Tuesday of October he shall unfurl the banner of the Union there will be such a rush from every hill-top and from every valley as to overwhelm all opposition. lion. A. K. MCCLLHE of Pennsylvania followed with a powerful speech. He spoke for tjvo hours and during that entire period he held his hearers spell-bound by the mag ic influence of the eloquent truths which he boldly enunciated'. spaec forbids even a synopsis of what we report as one of the ablest speeches delivered within the last four years. At the conclusion of Col. McClure'a speech, M. A. Points, Esq., read the following llesolutions ; WHEREAS, in the opinion of this meeting, the stability at least,if not the life of this Government, is irnperilled by the recreancy of the present chief magistrate to every principle of Governmental policy upon which he was elevated by the people to the Vice Presidency of the nation, therefore Resolved, thnt we cherish and venerate the memory of our late President, the lamented Abra ham Lincoln, and confide in the virtue and intel ligence if the people to vindicate and maintain, by their ballots, the "true principles of Govern ment" as professed and practised by him and the pwbiic men who sywpaihizod with and sustained hts ndministunion—hut which are now insanely disregarded and wickedly frustrated by his acci dental successor, whose treachery to the great Republican Party is only equalled by his base ingratitudo to a too confiding, loyal constituency. /?<wo red, That tho Congress of the United States is the people's true Representative branch of the Government —that in it is vested, and with it rests the Uiir-makiiiy power—and that any attempt to interfere with the proper functions of Congress, or any efforts on the part of the pres. cnt President to wiench from that Department of the ijtivrrnuient any constitutional right or pow- in fact, despotic in tendency, irtjd'irijf not he tolerated by a free Repnblican pmMwt, That we cheerfully acknowledge our thanks as duo to the Congress that has, thus fai "labored to restore the Union of tho States on the true principles of right, liberty and jtiotico—that the Peace, conquered by our bravo and noble "Boys in Bine," may be made permanent and hon orable— a v ictory to tho loyal arms by which it was won, and not a triumph of Rebels of the South and sympathizers of the North who aimed to t/e --atroy the unity of the Government. Reaoß-ad, That we heartily and cordially en dorse, and will ratify at the polls our endorsement of the nomination of thnt gallant soldier, success ful general and eminently faithful civilian, in va rious capacities, Major General John IV. Geary, as the candidate of the Union Republican Party for Governor of Pennsylvania. Resolved, That, in our nominee for Congress, Gen. IV. II- Koontz, and also in our nominees for the State Legislature, and the various County of ficers, we recognize men of sound intelligence unquestioned loyalty, to whom we pledge an earnest and undivided support on tho second Tuesday #f Oet&ber next. Rwdred, That the administration of Governor Andrew G. Cmrtin, deserves and commands the admiration and confidences of the people. Clear in his office, his eminent patriotism and abili ty have been illustrated by his wise and states nmnlifce administration of tin u/rnu during the tr ring and embarrassing peril of the late rebellion —Higher Honors yet await him. Rttolrtd-f That this meeting cordially endorses ai id most heartily welcomes the Convention of L oyal Union men of the South, now sitting in the C ity of Philadelphia, not as muzzled conspirators aj ;;iins-t the peace and liberty of the Country, bat us- the Representatives of the loyal millions of trie redeemed United States of America. R'Mlvr.d, That the thanks of the friends of libctry and equal rights throughout the world and especially of the people of the United States ar6 eminently due to the noble patriotic and intrepid legislator, the Hon. Thaddcus Stevens, for the uncompromising stand which he has taken in fa wor of the oppressed and against usurpation and despotism. Rttuloed, That we the Union Republicans of Bedford co., hereby express our obligations to lion. Thaddcus Stevens, Hon, A. K. McClure and Gen. John Williamson, of Huntingdon, for the eloquent speeches which they have delivered to us this evening. Gen. JOHN WILLIAMSON of Huntingdon followed with one of the most humorous, withering and sarcastic spemon c? that we have ever listened to. He wa? greeted with round after round, of applause. Our own townsman Hon. John Cessna, made the closing spcoch. It was midnight but not a man of the vast multitude left during the half hour that he spoke. Like all his speeches, this was admirable, and it always seems that his latest effort is the best. SACRAMENTAL SERVICES will be held in the Methodist Church, in this place, next Sab bath (9th inst.,) at 10* o'clock A. M. B®Special attention of Merchauts and others invited to Card, in this issue of Howell k Bourke, Manufacturers of Wall Papers, etc, etc BST'Hoop Skirfs, Hopkin's own make,' 028 Arch Street Philadelphia adv. in this issue, give universal satisfaction. Ladies note the fact. W ESTMIXSTER REVIEW for July comes to us as usual freighted with the choicest of English Radical Review literature. It pre sents the views of such men as Bright, Mill, Hughes, SL C. eu the political questions now agitating English politics. Published by the Leonard Scott Publishing Co., 38 Walker st., New York. BOUNTIES. —The act equalizing bounties has become a law. Persons who enlisted in 1861- 2, and who were only entitled to, and receiv ed SIOO, are now entitled to another SIOO in addition. The heirs of all deceased soldiers of this class are entitled to SIOO. All appli cations to DVRBORROW & LTJTZ. Bedford, will be promptly attenden to. tf. THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY contains an able political article on ''The Johnson Party." An important social question is discussed in an attractive style in the inimitable "Chim ney Comer Papers" of Mrs. Stowe. In the continuation of "Hawthorne's Notes" will be found much pleasant reading in the lamented author's happiest vein. These, with theusuaj am ount of miscellaneous matter and contin ued tales make the present an unusually inter esting number. Tieknor & Fields, Boston TOE HERALD OF HEALTH for September contains: Unsympathizing Nature; Muscula r Christianity; Medical Men and Christianity: Health, Habit and Amusement; Self-Govern ment in Diet end Doctoring; Culture of the Lungs: Gymnastics: Yia Medieatrix Nature; Athletic Sports; Health of Girls: The Dog Days; A Lesson for the Day; Study of Phys iology: Happy Homes: Botany for Invalids: The Mermaid's Story of the Atlantic Cable; Notes for the Mouth; Home-Treatment of Intestinal Colic: Saratoga Mineral Waters, etc. Published by Miller, Wood & Co., 15 Laight st., New York: $2 per annum: 20 eta. a number. THE SEWIJTG OF THE FUTURE. —The days of hand-sewing are numbered. The Sewing Machine, in a wonderfully short space of time, considering the magnitude of the change, and the number ofinterests involved, has won its way to a foremost position among the recog nized forces of the social and material world, and will very soon have as entirely displaced hand-sewing as railroads have driven out the stage coaches offiity years ago. Only a short time ago hand-sewing was still held by many to be superior to machine-sewing, and certain kinds of clothing were sometimes advertised as possessing superior claims to public favor, because executed entirely by hand; but we never hear this now. A good Sewing Machine is expected to last a lifetime, and it is most important in making the purchase that the right kind should be selected, aud additional trouble and expense thereby saved. The best machines are those which use two threads to form the seam, and of these the GUOVER & BAKER Machine deservedly occu pies the foremost rank, ou account of its firm and elastic stitch, its simplicity of con struction, and its superior adaptability to all kinds of family sewing. The strength and durability of the work done by the GROVER & BAKER Machine have materially helped to in spire the confidence which the public feel in the work of all good Sewing Machines. La dies now everywhere prefer to have their sew ing executed by machine, provided it is prop erly done, and especially if done by the.GRO VER & BAKER Machine. THREE MONTHS FOR NOTHING.—A Valuable Offer.—The enterprising Publishers of the American Agriculturist offer that valuable journal free for the remaining three months of this year to all new subscribers for 1867 (Vol. 26), who send in their subscription du ring this mouth of September. The cost of the Agriculturist is only $1.50 a year, or four copies for $5, so that $1.50 (or sl-25 for each of four persons), will just now se cure the paper for fifteen months! We advise everybody to embrace this opportunity. The Agriculturist is a marvel of value and cheap ness, and in no other way can one so well invest $1.50 or $1.25. The paper is adapted to all classes of readers in city, viPage and country. Its Household and Children's De partments are exceedingly valuable and in teresting everywhere. Each number contains 32 to -14 large double size magazine pages, filled with original, instructive, aud interes ting matter. It is splendidly illustrated with mauy large, first class Engravings, which are both pleasing and instructive and alone worth far more than the cost of the paper. The Agriculturist is diligent and unsparing in its expoiures of all kinds of swindling and hum bugs, and in this way alone saves the country hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. Take our advice and send your subscription at once to the Publishers, Orange Judd & Co., 41 Park Row, New York City. Subscriptions left at this office will be forwarded fVee of charge. j BEDFORD MARKET. [CORRECTED WEEKLY.] BEDEOBD, P., Sept. 6. 'lour $13.00, Coffee 33 Corn 75|Hams 25*30 Rye.... 1.00 Shoulder 16 Oati 15 Sides 18 Flaxseed 1.50 Bert Syrup per gal. 1.60 Butter 20 Molasses 62a1.00 Eggs 15 Tallow 12 Soap Balo Wcol 4550 Potatoes 2.00 Feathers. 67 White Beans 2.00 Dried Apples per lb 12 Lard per lb 18' Dried Peaches " 20 MARRIED In Sohellsburg, on the 23d ult., by Rev. B. H. Hunt, Mr. JOSEPH ETTIEN, of Martin eburg, \ a., and Miss ANNIE KEMERER, of the form er place. DIED. In Duncansville, August 14th, HOWARD GRANT, son of James W. and Mary J. Reed, aged 5 months and 20 days. On the 22d inst., AMBROSE LINCOLN, in fant son of Jacob and Mary Barnhart, of Bedford, aged 1 year, 0 months and 19 days. The infant's grave, Which men weep over, is meant to save. It is this thought which enables the Christian parent to say, at the open grave of his child, "Thy will be done." Ho knows that the child, being included in the Christian covenant, belongs te Christ, "whether living or dying." So this jaßu tne pnue 01 their hearts, has been rescued from the trials and sufferings of life, and "Early, bright, transient, Chaste as the morning dew, He sparkled, was exhaled, And went to Heaven." lie on the Alert! Danger is at Hand. This has been a sickly season. The medical faculty prophesy evil in thfc future. They think pestilent eis on the wing for America. Suppose this to be true, what is the best defense against it? REDOUBLED NERVOUS VIGOR. This is the only protection against PANIC, as well as against the PRINCIPLE OF INFECTION. Why do not those who predict the epidemic pro pose an adequate preventative? There la one; a tonic, nervine and alterative, competent to shield the syßtem against the subtle elements of disease, whether they float hither on the winds from dis tant lands, or rise like vapor from oar own soil, or are incorporated with the universal fluid. This ONE PREVENTIVE, of which there is no du plicate among the compounds either of the Old World or the New, is IIOS TETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS. Remember that it is a specific for all the com plaints whioh lay the system open to visitations of deadly epidemics. If you are dyspeptic, it re news the vigor of your digestive powers, gives you appetite, and restores your cheerfulness. If yon are nervous, it invigorates every fibre of your nervons system, from the base of the brain, where it begins, to the'extremities, where it terminates. If you are bilious, it disciplines your unruly liver and brings the action of that organ into harmony with the laws of health. It is, in short, an invig orant and alterative so powerful that Nature, with Hosteler's Bitters for her ally, may bid defiance alike to native malaria and foreign infection. If this enemy we hear of, this disease which is deso lating Europe, is really bound hitherward, it be hooves the prudent to put on their armor, to clethe themselves with invulnerability as far as human means will permit, by preparing the system for resistance with this pure vegetable antidote. fep7,lm LIST OF LETTERS remaining in the Post Office, at Bedford, Pa., Sept. Ist l&bfi. Persons calling for letters in this list will please say they are advertised. Atkinson Caroline Mrs Ingraham Prentiss 3 Booty E. P. Ickes Jacob Blackburn. Geprga Koontz John G Brunt, John S. LamourensoßaptistJean Bowser, J. Latshaw Kate Miss B enford, T.L. A Bro Lockhart Robert Brown, Patrick Rev. Lines Frank Burk, Ann E. Mrs. Lier Elizabeth Mrs Carr Jennie Miss Musser Christian Cullman Oliver Morrison Mary Mrs Clark A Murphey Mallott John W Chevalier Mad or Dr Mock Michael Cutting John F Prioe Sarah Miss Coop er James Prescott W H Defibr.ugh George PoorßM Delp John M Ream L E Mrs 2 Do as on Elizabeth Miss Ramsey M&hal'i J Mrs Davis Mary E Smith Samuel Ellis N M Shaffer Peter En slow Mary J Mies 2 Shoemaker A D Ealy A E Sheckey Enline Mrs Frazer Fredrick Stanley Clara Miss Fisher Harriet Savage O H Rev Frazier J M Sparks Pheobe Mrs Fuller J C Tobias Mary A Miss Gordon Uriah Trout Juliann Mrs Graham L P Rev Taylor M P Gardner Richard L Theakston Mary BMis Gord on Oliver K Wade Lucinda E Mrs Hardman J A Wilscn James II ols inger Joseph Witna Folicr Herehelroth John Woodcock Milton 2 Hagne E Williams Mr. (Pho) Hardie Thomas Weisel Wn H G. LOYER, P. M. 1866. PHILADELPHIA 1866. WALL HPAJFIEIRS. SEW FALL STILEI. HOWELL &BOURKE, Manufacturers of and WINDOW SHADES, Corner FOURTH ahd MARKET Sts, Philadel phia. N. B. Always in store, a large Stock of LINEN A OIL SHADES. sep7:3m QRP BANS' COURT SALE OF VALUABLE TOWN PROPERTY. By virtue of an order of the Orphan?' Court of Bedford County, the undersigned, administrators of the estate of John Smith, Esq., late of the Bor ough of Schellsburg, dee'd, will sell at public sale on the premise.*, the real estate of said deceased, situate in said Borough, on TUESDAY the 2d day of OCTOBER, 1866, at 10 o'clock a-iu., consist ofLOT No. 13, fronting 60 feet on Pitteburg street, and extending back 240 feet to an alley, adjoining an alley and lot of Sam'l Corl on the west, having thereon erected a two story briok MANSION HOUSE, BRICK STORE HOUSE and Stable, Wash House, Carriage House, Wood shed and Granary, a well of good water and a cis tern, and a variety of fruit trees on the premises. Also, LOT No. 14, adjoining the above, and of same dimensions, having thereon erected a Large two story Brick BLACKSMITH SHOP, a Frame Offlee, and Stable. The shop couid readi ly be converted into a dwelling. This is a very pleasant property, in good repair. Terms Cash, or part cash and part on time as may be desired. For particulars call upon J. P. REED, Attorney, at Bedford, or at the premises. J. PIPER SMITH, SIMON L. HAMAKKR. sep7:4t MS. HOOP SKIRTS, 628! HOPKIN S "OWN MAKE, NEW FALL STYLES! Are in every respect KIRST CLASS, and embrace a complete assortment for Ladies, Misses, and Chil dren, of the Newest Styles, every Length and Sues of Waist. OUh SKIRTS, wherever known, arc more uni versally popular than any others before the pub lic. Thay retain their Shape better, are lighter, more elastic, more durable, and really Cut, AUK a, than any other Hoop Skirt in the market. The springs and fastenings are warranted perfect. Every Lady should Try Them! They aro now being extensively Sold by -Merchants, throughout the Country, and at W HOLESaLE Jt REx.AIL, at MartiAatory and Sales Room No. 628 ARCH Street, below 7th, PIIIL'A. Ask for HOP KIN'S *S>wn make," —buy no other! CAUTION,—None genuine unless Stamped on each Kid Pad—"Hop kin's Hoop Skirt Manufac tory, No. 628 Areh Street Philadelphia." Also, Constantly cm hand full line of New York made Skirts, at very low prices. TERMS NET CAf !H. ONCE PRICE ONLY, sop 7:4 m
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