Ikbforb Inquirer. BEDFORD, PA., FEIBAI, OCT. 5, I>*66- UNION KEPrBLKIS STATE TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR, MAJ, GEN. JOHN W. GEARY, OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. DISTKICT TICKET. CONGRESS, Gen. WM. H. KOONTZ, of Somerset. .SENATOR, Hon, ALEXANDER STUTZMAN, of Som erset county. ASSEMBLY. Col. JOHN WELLES. of Somerset. JOHN T. RICHARDS, of Fulton. COUNTY TICKET. PROTHONOTARY, J. W. LI NGKNFELTER, of Bedford Bor. SHERIFF. Caj<t. N. C. EVANS, of Colerain. ASSOCIATE JUDGE, ('apt. A. WEAVERLING, Bloody Run. COMMISSIONER, SAMUEL SHAFFER, of Union. POOR DIRECTOR, HENRY H. FISHER, South Woodberry. AUDITOR, JAMES R. O'NEAL, of Monroe. UNION POLICY OF RECONSTRUCTION. "Rctolccd, Bv the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of Amori-u. in OongTesr assembled, two-thirds of both Houses concurring, That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the I nited States, wbich, when ratified by thrce-fonrths of the said Legislatures, shall be valid as a part of the Constitution, namely: "ARTJCXB —, Section 1. All persons corn or naturalised in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and of the State wherein tbey reside. No State ,hall make or enforce any law whieh shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizen? of the United States. Nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Section 3. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their res pective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not tax ed; but whenever the right to vote at any election for electors of President and Vice-President, or for United States Representatives in Congress, executive and judicial officers, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and eitizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representa tion therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of snch male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in that State. '•Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, elector of President and Viee-Presidect or hold any office, civil or military under the U- S., or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any.t?tate, to sup port the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof: but Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House remove such disability. "Section 4. The validity of the public debt of 'he United States authorized bylaw, including debts incurred for the payment of pensions and bounties for service in suppressing insurrection or rebelyoß, shall not be guastioned, but neither the lor the loss er emancipation of any slave, but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void." ONE DAY TO YOUR COUN TRY. One of the first duties of the American citizen, is that of voting. The voice of the people as expressed by the majority at the ballot box is the law fff the land. It is at the ballot box that we declare who shall make our laws and upon what measures or principles they shall be founded. How im portant then that every man who has an opinion, (and every man should have one,) on the great questions at issue, should go to the polls and give expression to it, and cast the weight of his ballot as well as his per sonal influence in favor of the enactment and administration of such laws as seem to him most likely to be conducive to the pub lic welfare. We are in the midst of a fear ful crisis. The President attempting to usurp the legislative powers of Congress has placed himself in direct antagonism to the representatives of the people and is un scrupulously and unblushingly prostituting all the power and patronage of the Govern ment in his control to corruption and bri bery for the purpose of defeating the will $ the loyal masses.* He and his satellites boldly declare that no Constitntional amend ment nor any legislation affecting the lately rebellious States shall be passed without the participation and consent of those States. Thus for the first time in the history of this or any other nation, it is proposed to make conquered rebels the arbiters of their own punishment. When was it ever before proposed to place a criminal in the jury box or on the judge's stand to try his own case? Yet this is what President Johnson and his supporters propose to do in disposing of the question of reconstruction. But this is not all. The principles laid down in the plat form of the address of the 14th of August Convention, would invalidate every act of Congress since the withdrawal of the South ern members in 1861. If such a policy is sanctioned by the people, our national cur rency will be made worthless, our Govern ment bonds mere waste paper, the glorious emancipation act null and void and our gal lant soldiers, maimed and crippled in defence of the national life, will be made beggars while the widows and orphans of our saint ed dead will be cast upon the meroy of an uncharitable world. let to such a policy the President is not only fully committed, but has himself openly declared that unless it is Adopted we will have another oivil war. This threat is also incorporated into the Philadelphia address and has been frequently repeated by his fol lowers and the newspapers of the party in all parts of the country. They have further declared that nothing but an overwhelming j majority against them in the coming election j can deter them from inaugurating another civil war not in the Southern States but in our midst, in our own homes for the pur pose oftceomplishiug their diabolical aims. How much easier to give one day to the country in peaceful attendance at the polk, than to give years of time, millions of mon ey and thousands of precious lives to put ting down a hew rebellion. Let every loyal man then on next Tuesday leaving every thing else for the day. go to the polls and not only vote the whole Unidn ticket him self but exert himself to the utmost to have every Union man in his district do the same. Let every man remember that on the decis ion of the people at the ballot box on Tues day next may depend not only the value of every dollar of National cunency or bonds he possesses, not only the legality and bind ing force of all acts of Congress since 1861, but the question of peace or war : and that : his vote on the side ol loyalty and peace, may save his country from the devastation and blood shed of another civil war. In view then of this fearful contingency let evcrv man come forth and do his whole du ty. Let every man be at his post and all will he well. If we let the golden moment of opportunity pass unimproved, before the people aie again called upon to express J their sentiments at the ballot box, a traitor ous Presidential usurper may plunge us into another civil war more terrible than the ODC from whkh we have just emerged, and the result of which no human being can foretell. To work then while time and opportunity are given and the people on next Tuesday will declare, that loyal men alone shall rule the country, by such an overwhelming ma jority as will make the President and his fellow-conspirators shrink in terror from the very contemplation of their nefarious schemes, and secure to the country for all future time Peace, L T nion and Prosperity. J. WILKES BOOTH. The disclosure of the real sentiments of the leaders of the Copr-erhead party, in re gard to the act that has rendered so infa mous the name and memory of the GREAT ASSASSIN, which was made by the President of a Democratic meeting in this Borough, on the evening of Saturday, the 22d of Sep tember last, may well awaken serious ap prehension, for the future of this country, if thai party should succeed at the coming elections. We will then discover that what was uttered by Col. Tate, on that occasion, will be a common sentiment with every foe of the Republican party, although they would now have us believe that this most scandalous and traitorous declaration was but the expression of the opinions of a sin i glo individual. We remember the exclama tions that escaped the lips of bitter parti- that, but a short time before, they had de nounced him in their public resolutions and speeches, and in the press, as a tyrant and usurper, and thus incited the enthusiast Booth to the perpeiration of this horrid crime. Should the time ever unfortunately come, when this party shall obtain complete control of the General and State Govern ments, we may expect to hear Booth ap plauded as another Brutus that had rid his country of a tyrant and find his words, "sic semper tyrannis, '' as he leaped upon the stage after firing the fatal bullet,emblazoned upon all their badges and bannerg. Even now CoL Tate is not alone in speaking out on this subject. The last number of the "Old Guard," a copperhead magazine pub lished in the city o£ New York, and which has a number of subscribers in this Bor ough, in its editorial table contains a para graph, worse, if possible, even than the ut terances of this accredited leader of the Democratic party in Bedford. Can we be wrong, with such evidence before us, in as cribing these nefarious sentiments to the leaders of the party ? NOT THE OXLI ON E. The Copperheads are making a great ado about Col. Tate's innocent blunder, in blurt ing out in an unguarded moment his honest admiration of the assassin Booth. Their disapproval is not because of the sentiment expressed, but because of the damage the enunciation of their true sentiments will do the party. As an evidence of thus we cite the following from the La Crosse Democrat, (Brick Pomeroy, editor) published a few months before the assassination of the la mented Lincoln: "IF LINCOLN IS ELECTED FOR camFiPtW years, we trust mo HAND WxLL PIERCE HIS HEART WITH A DAGGER POINT FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD" Was Pomeroy ostracised by the Copper heads as they profess to wish to CoL Tate ? By no means, instead of suffering political ostracism his diatribes have fre quently adorned the columns not only of the Gazette but of nearly all the Copperhead papers, and Pomeroy himself was recently invited by the Copperhead State Central Committee of Indiana to canvass the State for the Johnson party. Col. Tate spoke the sentiments (not of true Democrats) but of a large portion of the Copperhead party throughout the country and prudential con siderations alone prevent the party leaders and their organ from endorsing them. A 3fEW REBELLION. By reference to our news columns it will be seen that the rebels of Texas, reconstruc ted after the "My Policy" style, have com menced a new rebellion. This comes a little sooner than Andy Johnson and his followers intended when they made their threats. But it comes none too soon to warn all lovers of peace and union, all loyal men of what is in store for us as a nation if the President's reconstruction policy is not promptly and sternly rebuked by the people. Remember that on Tuesday next will decide whether oyai man are to rule the country in peace as proposed by Congress, or whether a Presidential traitor shall be permitted by a new rebellion to place rebels and traitors in authority over us. A Few Things tobe Remembered We desire to.keep a few facts relative to the status of the Copperhead party in this county before the people. We wouW have the people REMEMBER, that the leaders, one and all, ardently sympathized with the traitor ous rebels, and that they now plead for those in the custody of the I cited (States with all the earnestness of their souls. REMEMBER, that the stars and stripes, the emblem of our nationality, was scoffed at by them, torn from appropriate < and supplanted by the "red white and red,'* the emblems of organized treason. REMEMBER, that the "Star Spangled Banner," "Red, White and blue, Ac., were forced to give way to the favorite airs of the rebels. Yes, who does not remember how night was made hideous by the singing of "Maryland, my Maryland,' "The Bonny Blue Flag,' Ac.? REMEMBER, that hundreds of pistols and other deadly weapons were imported into Bedford eou jjty, and carried by the members of this saaie party, to shoot Union men for no other reason than that they were in favor of suppressing armed treason. REMEMBER, that the barns of Union men were burned, their lives threatened aad their families intimidated because they asked the Government to assert the supremacy ol the laws, and were willing to give to it their assistance. REMEMBER, that Churches and school houses were burned because men who loved their country, met there to worship God. REMEMBER, that enrolling officers were shot at, and narrowly escaped with their lives because they undertook to enforce a national edict. REMEMBER, that no let a than GOO of this party refused to report when drafted, and skedaddled to the mountains, skulked away in caves or fled to Canada. REMEMBER, that every barn-burner who, in the deep darkness of the night stole up to and applied the torch to the property of Union men, is a rabid Cop pel head. REMEMBER, that the heathenish in cendiary who under cover of darkness, prompted by the spirit of the devil. health ily kindled the fire which consumed the house of God. if living to-day, is a traitor and a Copperhead. REM EMBER, that every deserter who fled to Canada to enjoy the protection of a foreign Government, is and ought to be a Copperhead. REMEMBER, that every skeedaddler who secreted himself for months in the "pine clad hills" of the old Keystone State is to day a living, breathing, blathering Copperhead. REMEMBER, that every skulker who found his way to the caves of our rugged mountains, with loads of weapons, who threatened death and destruction on all hands, and then ran away from his shadow, is a blatant. Copperhead. REMEMBER, that of the gos pel were reviled, condemned aud pui -ccuted because they prayed for the preseivation of party in a body voted to exclude the soldier from the right of suffrage, and that they kicked men out of the party, who had the manliness to disobey the order of the lead ers and vote the soldiers this privilege. REMEMBER, that every man who has desired the success of the rebellion, who aided, abetted and countenanced it in any manner, shape or form is a Copperhead leader to the extent of his intelligence. REMEMBER, that those who secretly met for the purpose of organizing rcsistcnce to the draft in Napier and St. Clair town ships are to-day, true to their instincts, in the Copperhead ranks. REMEMBER, that under the adminis tration of this party the Poor House of Bedford county, which ought to be a decent asylum for the aged and infirm, has become a bye-word and k reproach. REMEMBER, that the men who are now flattering the soldier, wore, during his ab sence in the army, the Copperhead badge, the emblem of sympathy and treason. The Gazette under date of May 8, 18t53, says: " We wore, when in Philadelphia, a Demo cratic badge,—a head of liberty, cut out of a copper cent. And, now, we give notice, that ice will wear ichatcver ornaments ice please. REMEMBER, that the individual who identifies himself with the Copperhead or ganization is as much responsible for the party as if he were a principal acor. SOLDIERS WILL REMEMBER, that if they vote the Copperhead ticket, they will stand side by side, with the distinguished parties whose record we have above enumer ated. Oh soldiers, can you mix with such an array of treachery and traitors. THE SHERIFF PROSECUTED Election Officers who disregard the law to be similarly treated—A change of venue to be secured and the trial to be transfer red to some other t County. The Copperhead Sheriff of Bedford coun ty has refused to insert the preamble and four sections of the Disfranchising act, en joined by the same act to be published in the Sheriff s Proclamation for the holding of a General Election. and he has been very properly prosecuted for it. The same pen alty will be visited upon every election offi cer who violates the law, and we have no hesitation in saying that the next Legisla ture will be very strongly Republican, to which we will make successful application for a change of venue and the trial shall be transferred to some connty where Copper head jurors will not be on hand to save their friends. CO UNTERFEIT TICK ETS. We have had handed to us a great bundle of counterfeit Republican tickets with the name of Mr. Shannon instead of J. W. Lingenfelter. This is only one of Mr. Shannon s small jokes, but we consider it a disreputable business* However, Mr. Shannon's chances are so low down in the scale that nothing but fraud can elect him. Beware of counterfeit tickets! Examine every ticket thoroughly before it is voted, and see that the name of every candidate on the Republican ticket from Governor down to Auditor is upon it. CLYMER'S RECORD. The record of Heister Clymer and his claims to the suffrages of the loyal men of Pennsylvania, as gathored from his political acts and associations may be set down as follows : He declared there was no Constitutional right to coerce a State. He discouraged enlistments in the Union army. Ho denounced the conscription act as un constitutional. He opposed every measure devised bv the Government for th< vigorous prosecution of the war for the preservation of our na tional integrity. He opposed the extension of the elective franchise to the soldiers in the field. He encouraged deserters and bounty jumpers to the irreat detriment of the I nion cause and thereby aided the rebels, prolong ed fhe war and increased our national debt. He declared the war a failure and aide'd all the efforts of his party to make it so. in order to bring about an ignominious peace and the destruction of our national Union. lie opposed tlie establishment of our na tional currency. He rejoiced over rebel victories and mourned over Union triumphs. He with his whole party called Abraham Lincoln a "buffoon,' "a tyrant' and a "usurper" and our gallant soldiers "Lip coin's hirelings," Lincoln pups," "blue bel lied yankecs" See., See. lie opposed and now opposes the disfran chisement of deserters and bounty jumpers. He is ar ardent advocate of Andrew Johnson's policy of making one rebel equal to two loyal men and placing rebels and traitors in authority over u.s as a reward of their treason and rebellion. He opposes the Constitutional amendment that makes white men equal and places the national debt beyond the possibility of re pudiation. Such is but a partial review of the polit ical record of Heister Clymer. Let ali good citizens ponder well before they cast their votes for such a man and against the soldier statesman, the gallant General Geary. "NATIVE MODESTY." JSr. Kliaunon's Scare. We received the following latter end of a letter written by Mr. Shannon to some good Republican, the other morning. We have no knowledge as to whom it was sent, butwc are quite sure the portion of the letter received by us was written by Mr. Shannon.. This let ter runs thus: "Inclosed find YOUR TICKETS WITH MY NAME and some pasters for you to use either if any. On business and person al relations I am going [to] throw off my ua Hut modesty and ast y.u to do me the favor of VOTING FOR ME. Of course this is in strict confidence. Respectfully, 0. E. SHANNON. Who ever dreamed that Mr. Shannon had any modesty ! This is about the hundredth letter of the kind that we have heard of. Mr. Shannon asks everybody to vote for him. but we have every confidence that our people will laugh him to scorn as he laughed the Union cause to scorn during the rebellion. If he is mare mis. we Fay to you emphat ically cast no complimentary votes for indi vidual friends, for this is not a contest over men. Every man on the Union Republican ticket is competent aud able to discharge the duties of the office tor which he is a candi date. and by his ftiuuiphant election we will best show onr earnestness and sincerity for the overwhelming success of the Union cause. v JOKER! Mr. Shannon Jxtnghhnj hi* I'gly Record Away ! Mr. Shannon, in his peregrinations about the county, has hit upon, what; he thinks to be, the happy expedient ©{"laugh ing away his record, fie rises before an audience with ail the assurance of a polish ed demagogue, descants upon -the merits of the "Nigger, speaks in glowing terms of his election, (in a horn and then with a flourish proclaims his opponents to be dis unionists, and to prove it, he seizes a poster circulated by the Republicans, containing extracts from the record of Col. J. W. Tate, B. P. Meyers and O. K. Shannon. himself, reads his own assertions made in 1861, and endeavors to palui them off as the senti ments of the of this paper. This Mr. Shartnon considers a huge joke, and a very pleasant way of getting out of an un pleasant difficulty. We know one instance in which the joke didn't take. If Mr. •Shannon can gull the people in this wav, we arc very much mistaken. The 9th of Oc tober w ill satisfy him of that fact. SUPPRESSING THE STARS AND STRIPES. Ihe Copperheads held a meeting at Rainsburg on the Ist inst., in which their Old hatred of the Stars and Stripes, was conspicuously displayed. A National flag with the name of (Jen. Geary inscribed was found suspended across the street from the house of a good Union citizen. If some treasonable device had polluted its folds it might have been tolerated, but because the name oi one of Pennsylvania's bravest and most distinguished soldiers, was inscri bed thereon, it was not to be endured.- A committee therefore, waited upon the gen tleman from whose premises it-was suspend ed and by throats of personal violence com pelled him to take it down. Soldiers what think you of such proceedings? The party that defiantly display rebel flags in Maryland cannot tolerate the Stars and Stripe- in Pennsylvania. "CONSISTENCY, TIIOI ART TRILY A JEWEL I" WHO CO FOR NEOlto SUFFRAGE ? The Copperehads have only ouc inex haustible hobby, a very old one, which they have almost ridden to death a dofon of times, that of "Niggw!" "Nigger Equali ty ! and "Nigger Suffrage!" and which they lain would make their ignorant adhe rents believe is always in is-ue. However they are not over remarkable for consisten cy. They howl piteously against all the above clap-trap and support Col. John H. tiller for the Legislature, the embodiment ofad dogmas. Republicans are impor tuned to join the Copperheads, because they are down on the Nigger, but they must not fail, when they do go over to vote for Col. Filler, who a short time ago was the most Radical of Radicals. HOW COPPERHEADS TREAT SOLDIERS I A ONE LECtED SOLDIER BADLY BEATEN! Yoifng LadieN Insulted and Injured! At a meeting of the terrified at Center ville on last Saturday, several who traiu in that crowd, filled with liquid strielinine, fell upon Capt- W. Ilafer, a one-legged soldier and beat him badly. 'Shame ! Shame ! On Sunday night following, some fifteen or twenty of the same party attacked Mr. Doremer and Mr. Brunner. two gallant young soldiers on their way from church, in company with two young ladies, the daugh ters of Levi Hardinger, and treated them outrageously. In the melee which ensued, one of the young ladies was struck by one of the wretches, knocked down and badly hurt. Both the young ladies weic more or less hurt, one of them fainted away from the effects of the injuries received, and alaruied her friends very mneh. The gentlemen were obliged to seek shelter in the woods. These soldiers were all thus brutally attack ed because they have the manliness to stand up for the same principles at home that they contended for in the field. Soldiers, can you vote for such a party ? ESTIMATED VOTE OF BEDFORD COUNTY ! Geu. Geary's majority 148! Below will be found a careful canvass of the vote of Bedford county, as returned to ibe County Committee, which will give | Gen. Geary and the Republican county tick et a very handsome majority. These figures i arc reasonable and will be made in every district, if our friends do their whole duty. Make it a point, friends, to bring our ma jority up to the figures below indicated and the Copperhead majority down correspond ingly. We have a clear thing of it ahead of us. GEARY'S CLYMER'S DISTRICTS. Majority. Majority. Bedford borough 5 Bedford township Bloody Run borough 50 Broad Top township 95 Cumberland Valley ''s Coleraio 52 Coaldale borough T5 Harrison township 10 Hopewell 0 Juniata 120 Londonderry 15 Liberty .' 5 Monroe 06 • Napier '* Providence East 12~> Providence West 80 "Southampton 12- St. Clair 10 Snake Spring •_> Sehellsburg borough 1" Union 10 Wo jdbcrry Middle 100 Woodberry South 36 iO3 054 554 Geary's majority 148 XO TKADI.\(i OFF ! arc traded oli. l'lie CopperfreadsTrave giv en up Clyuier, Sharpe, Meyers, Filler, and Fin lley two weeks ago, and will endeavor to trade off some of this dead timber to secure the election of some of their county ticket. Mr. Shannon, it is presumed, will be guilty of this little business. He is bound to be beaten from one to tico hundred in the coun ty beyond a peradventure, if Republicans will only follow their political convictlbns and recollect that he is now running as a politician, who during the war was as disloyal as he could safely be. ANOTHER GRAND SKEEDADDLE! THE LAST SWINDLE ! The Copperheads frightened to death at the prospect of defeat, have resorted to the swin dle ot transferring all the deserters from Re publican districts to Copperhead districts. We have the names of a number that have skeedaddled from one district to the other. Republicans, watch all new-cotncrs, challenge then J and make them swear that thej did not remove into the district for the purpose of voting. If they did, the Board is liable to prosecution for receiving them ! READ THE ADDRESS OF //. GEIGER IX AXOTHER COH MX ! was written a year ago, but the reasons which prompted it are fully as potent now as they were then. We ask ev ery member of the Punkard, Menonite and other non-resistent churches in this county to give it a carefnl perusal. Doctor (ieigor is known to all as an earnest and sincere man, one who loves his country and despises trea son. There are but few non-resistcnts in this county that do not enjoy his personal acquaintance and all know him to be a Christian and a patriot. Read his address and then go to the polls and vote. ST. CLAIR ASI> THE HEItItIES IX A It LAZE. These districts are determined to come to time. A week or two ago we had some fear but now we are satisfied that our friends are down to.it, and old St. Clair will be redeem ed with a handsome majority, and we would not be surprised if the Wood berries would do what they did in 1860, cross the moun tain with 150 majority for Geary and the whole Republican ticket. Stick to it until the close of the polls on Tuesday next. WATCH THE DESERTERS! \Y hen a deserter, skccdaddler, or bounty jumper presents himself at the polls, chal lenge his vote and ask him the question whether he is not a deserter; if he will not swear that he is not, or will not present a discharge from the army or other.good and sufficient evidence to the Hoard it is hound to reject hiin under the law. Watch the deserters ! WEOHO SUFFRAGE ! The last Gazette , as it has done for sev eral previous campaigns, says that Negro Suffrage is the issue. Now we propose this, if the Republicans are successful, on next Tuesday, will the Gazette adcept the triumph, as the triumph of Negro Suffrage? If it does, we hope it will have the manliness to say nothing on the sub ject in the campaign of 1867. the Soldiers' platform in anoth er column. TO TN. READ ! READ / / READ !! ! The importance ot the jssues involved in the approaching election is the only reason which induces us to address the present ap peal to our fellow-citizens who believe and practice the doctrine of non-resistance. While it is generally believed that a large number will absent themselves from the polls, it is at the same time well known that their sympathies %re with ns. In their pri vate relations, by their example and pre cepts, they strongly inculcate the principles of honesty, industry, economy and general good order; governed by these principles they necessarily wish that our rulers should be men ot a similar character. But wish ing is not sufficient. If good wishes could have been effective, the past four years of fearful bloodshed, with all its attendant evils, would have been avoided; we must work. In the ordinary pursuits of life, we not only wish to have good mechanics to do our work, and good hands to labor on our farms, but we make an effort to secure them. We do not always succeed, hut our failure does not discourage as, we try again. Because bad men often get into office is no reason why we should not trv to put good incu in their places; and we firmly believe, if that large and influential class of our citi zens( who do not vote on account of conscien tious scruples) would lend their assistance, that a much greater number of honest men would be elected. No one will deny that civil government is of Divine origin. The Scriptures teach this doctrine most fully. The entire history of the Jewish dispensa tion is an illustration of this fact. Under the new dispensation we are brought to sub mit ourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake. We are told that out, rul ers are a terror to evil doers, and a power to them that do well. We are also comman ded to pray for those in authority. These truths bcine -elf-evident, how important it is that v. . uouTd have good rulers, who would make good ordinances for us to obey; and bow can we have good rulers if we allow wicked men only to elect them? Will they not select men after their own hearts? Does not 'iki l.eget like, both temporal and spirit oat? <ied could, if in his wisdom he saw fit, us with good rulers, as he did the people in the days of Israel, but be does not work so now. He could feed us with manna, as he did our fathers in the wilderness, and could . make grain grow without our tilling tjie soil. But he dws not will it so. He works in bis spiritual kingdom by His own sovereign power, but in His temporal kingdom he ex pect us, nay he commands us to effect human ends by human means. If we want ju-t ruler- who will protect us in our rights, diminish'i he burdens of government, afford to u- the rights of conscience, and enhance the general well being of society, we our selves must select the men who shall be placed in authority; we cannot expect to grow grain in our streets; we cannot expect to get i ■ . I .-■ i■■ ants unless we look for them. We cnuii >t and should not expect to find where we do not seek, nor reap where we our opini.-n- upon you, lut we make this appeal tojou in all sincerity and earnest ness. \\ e know there are many honest Democrats among the masses, but at the same time we beg leave to remind you, that the late fearful and bloody war was the work of Demo r itjc leaders, was prolonged by the so-called Democratic sympathy, and in too many instances received the direct as well as indirect support of Democratic politicians. Should su<h men be again placed in power, what can we expect from them? They are not changed. They do not acknowledge their former wickedness, nor say that they j j Lave repealed, touch do they bring forth fruits meet lor repentance. We do Dot wi.-h to en :ourage auy feeling of vindictive ness against those who have brought the terrible suffering upon our country through which wc have passed, we entertain towards thorn only feelings ofdeep pity for their past errors, but as long as they show no evidence of contrition we feel that the beat interests of the country demand that we should not place tbcm in positions where they can do further mischief. In this we hope to have your assistance at the ballot box. THE DANGER IS NOT YET OVER: WE HAVE .M AN V TROUBLES TO OVER COME BEFORE PEACE AND HAR MONY ARE RESTORED THROUGH OUT THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF OUR ONCE HAPPY COUNTRY. FIVE YEARS AGO, FEW OF US DREAMED OF WAR; THERE WERE FEW Oil NO SOLDIERS TO PROSE CUTE A WAR. WICKED POLITI CIANS MADE THE WAR, AND THE WAR BROUGHT FORTH THE SOL DIERS, AND TIIE SQLDIERS FOUGHT THE BATTLES, BUT IF OUR OFFICES HAD NOT BEEN FILLED WITH UNSCRUPULOUS POLITI CIANS THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO BATTEES FOR THEM TO EIGHT UPON YOU, AND UPON US AN IM PORTANT DUTY RESTS: WE CAN PREVENT FURTHER TROUBLE LET US BE WISE IN TIME. LET US KEEP BAD MEN OUT OF OFFICE AND PI T GOOD ONES IN; AND OUR INDIVIDUAL PEACE, THE GEN ERAL WELL BEING OF SOCIETY, AND THE FUTURE PROSPERITY OF OUR COUNTRY WILL BE JUST AS CERTAIN AS IT IS CERTAIN THAT THE LORD HELPS THOSE WHO I HELP THEMSELVES. I havj given the views contained in the abov; a careful consideration. I KNOW, FROM PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE THAT THEY MEET WITH THE COR DIAL APPROVAL OF MANY OF THE ELDERS A N D BISHOPS OF THE DUN KARD. MENNONITE AND OTHER NON RESISTANT CHURCHES. I NEEDS( ARCELY SAY THAT I FUL LY ENDORSE THEM, AND HOPE THAI' OUR FRIENDS WILL FEEL THEMSELVES FREE TO GIVE THEM AN EARNEST SUPPORT. H. GEIGER. PHILADELPHIA, October 2d r 1865.. have received several communi cations iu regard to our county politics, u hich, owing to their length, we are com l>clled to crowd out to get in more valuable matter. WILKES BOOTH A HERO AXI) PA TRIOT. ITin Axsaxxination of AbrahnmlLin coln "a virtuous, generous and heroic act." We ask the attention of the people to the following article taken from the "Editor's Table" of "The Old Guard a monthly maga zine edited by C. Chauncy Burr." This pe riodical is a Democratic magazine and sev eral copies of it are taken in Bedford by prominent copperheads. The article to which we refer is in the October number aud reads thus: a western editor speaks of " W likes Booth as a 'hero and patriot' a Re publican editor flies into horrors of horrors "and declares that never before since the "history of man was a wretch found to "praisean assassin. Read, O. stupid! the "instructions of Jehovah to His people in "the Old Testament and learn how tyrants " were to be treated. How many years has "the name of Brutus been synonymous with "patriotism and virtue? When Henry IV "was assassinated one of the first men of "'France wrote an apology for John C'hatel, "the assassin, in which he said : "This par "rieide is a virtuous, generous and heroic ''act, comparable to the greatest, either in "profane or saered history and none bat an "atheist will doubt it " Among many an "cient nations those who dispatched usurp "ers and tyrants were worshipped as Gods. '"Others bad a law that whosoever killed a "bad King should be King himself. In the same number |of this delectable "first class Democratic magazine" Stanton is spoken of as a wretch and there is a poet ical artiele headed ''a tribute to the beast ' meaning General Butler. The whole work is the most villainous publication with which we have ever met and yet it is subscribed lor and read by men in our town who claim to be decent citizens. We would suggest to the editor that he ought to employ Col. Tate as an assistant editor. It would give the Colonel an appropriate field to elaborate his opinions about America's Booth to whom in his speech before the' Democratic meeting he said a monument would be rais ed higher than the one erected to the memo ry of Abraham Lincoln THE BOOTY LIE. We have received from several of our soldier readers requests to refute the con temptible falsehood uttered by ANDREW JOHNSON and re-echoed by follower.-, to the effect that Congress had voted twice as much bounty to negro soldiers as to . white. The following extract from the New York Tribune refers to this subject: The World says: Some of our Radical friends don't seem to relish this little item of ours, but we publish it again in hopes it may yet do them good. Congress has appropriated pay for two years' service as follows: For each negro soldier cKK) For each white soldier -50 For each member of Congress 4000 Let us breifly e spose the ineffable silliness of this impudent lie. Congress enacted that every I nion s oidier in our war who has been honorably dischargedaftcr three years' faithful service should receive an ex tra bounty of SIOO, while those likewise dis charged after tw-> years" service should re ceive but SSO. Now. the enlisting of blacks to put down the rebellion was not fairly be r *:il i- o.N-utunl uiuu*!l lugef proportions in 1864 ; while the fighting ended in April. I*6o. Of course,* most of the blacks served less than two years, and so were entitled to DO extra bounty ; while scarcely a handful of them served three years, so as to entitle them to SIOO. On the other hand, there are many tens of thou sands of whites who served through three years or over, and another larce number who served oyer two years. Why utter falsehoods which every one who reads or reflects must know to lie such? The above is clear enough, but to leave no room for doubt let us briDg it to light in every' detail : Soldiers of 1861 (when all were white) received no bounty at first, but in 1864 they were asked to re-enlist, and received— / ■ >7, SIOO bounty (by subsequent enact ment) for their three years' service. Second. lor their additional service they received S3OO, bounty and from cities, States, counties and boroughs, sums rang from 8 300 to SI,OOO, as UD extra douceur. These men served until the end of the re bellion. Soldiers from 1802 received SIOO bounty from the Government, and, in few cases, bounty from home. Soldiers of 1863, white and black, receiv ed $ 100 bounty from the Government, and additional bounties ; and Soldiers of 1864 received s3uo bounty from the Government, and additional boun ties. Some black soldiers received no bounty whatever, particularly those who had been slaves. The law is to correct the neglect of the Government and to equalize the status of the soldiers of 1862 and 1863, and the blacks who received no bounty. Their right to such bounty must be shown by their dis charge papers. Infamous and contemptible as the mix ture of brazen [falsehood and shabby quib hie has been with which the Copperheads have set forth the bounty law, it is still their strongest card. Let all our readers do their best to refute it— Pkda. Pre*#. TEXAS. A Portion of the State Rebellious I iiite<l State* Troop* Delicti and the People in Arm*. GEN. |{ ID v.N GONE TO THE B<*ENfc OF DIFFICULTY. WASHINGTON, Monday, Sept. 24, IS#' Your special New Orleans correspondent sends the following dispatch to this bureau : NEW ORLEANS, Monday, Sept. 24th I.sfiG. The Tyler (Texas) Reporter of the 12rh inst., says that a detachment of United States troops, under command of Capt. Tup per were fired into by an Arkausian who was not aware that the war was over. Official information received from Benham, Texas, shows that place to be in a state of insur rection. The citizens are all armed and patrol the streets to prevent the soldiers from coming into town. The Mayor or Sheriff is reported to have telegraphed to i the Adjutant-General of the State, to know how many men he could furnish to drive the \ ankeesoff. A reply is said to have * lieen received, offering 500 well armed men, and more if necessary. The officer in command of the detachtuent of Lnited States troops numbering abobt tk) men, has intrenched and othewise fortified his position. After receiving a large supply of ammnnition from Galveston, ne expressed confidence in b, ing ablo to withstand an attack. Gen. Sheridan left for the sceue of action this morning.
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