BEDFORD GAZETTE. B. F. MEYERS. EDITOR, FRIDAY t x : t" JUL* 7, 186'.. j DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. DISTRICT ATTORNEY, JOHN I'ALMEIi, lied ford Borough. j ASSOCIATE JUDGE, W. G. EICHOLTZ, S. Woodberry. TREASURER, GEORGE MARDOUFF, Bedford Bor. COUNTY SURVEYOR, P DONAHOE, Southampton. k&¥ COMMISSIONER, I KENSI™EIi, Liberty. COMMISSIONER, M. S. EITCHEY, Snake Spring. POOR DIRECTOR, 3 years, I), fi. ANDERSON, C. Valley rooß DIRECTOR, 2 vears, SAMUEL BECKLEY, St. Clair. AUDITOR, .LYMES MATTINOLY, Londonderry'. CORONER, JOHN FILLER, E. l'rovidenee. KTISCOPAI. SERVICES NEXT SUNDAY.— There v 111 , be Cisiue service tvnd preaching by an Epis pal. clergyman, at the Springs, on Sunday morning next, j at hall pßst ten o'clock, and in the afternoon in the I Lutheran church at four o'clock. Negro Suffrage. The "Republican" State Conventions of' lowa and Vermont, have adopted resolu tions in favor of negro suffrage. The Leg islatures of New Hampshire and Connect icut have done the same thing. Wherever the so-called "Republican" party, is pre sumed, by its leaders, to be strong enough, this question is made the issue. In this State they fear defeat, and,'therefore, will hardly venture to insert the "black oak" plank in their platform. Many of the lead ing spirits, however, are in favor of doing so. In Allegheny county they have adopt ed it; at Blairsville they have started a journal expressly with a view to sustain the white and black equality; and many of their papers throughout the State, including their organ in Bedford, have published ar ticles favoring it. It is jusk m much the issue here now as anti-slavery was a short time ago. Every man who will vote the "Republican" ticket this fall, will, indirect ly, if not directly, assist in building up a negro suffrage political party. What say the old Democrhts who went with Mr. Lin coln's administration, only, as they said, to strengthen the Government ? Now, that the rebellion 13 suppressed, they are thrown back upon a choiee between the two parties —the one, conservative of the Government aiul all its institutions, the other radical and revolutionary, threatening opposition to President Johnson's restoration policy, and aiming at the leveling of the white and black races, trom which must result social amal gamation and a hybridizing and degenera ting ot ti.e people. The "war democrats," so called, can certainly never affiliate with this latter organization. No man who lias at heart tho peace and prosperity of the country can mingle with them. We, there fore, look for all patriots, e.<q>ccially all Democrats, by whatever name they style themselves, to rally to the standard of the •conservative party. SLIGHTLY MIXED. —Our old St. Clair friend, who was for many years the onlv siuion pure Abolitionist in the county, and who used to be a conductor on the Hub-train' on the Underground Railroad, was convert ed to the true Union.faith, on the Fourth. • ft course his conversion didn't last long, but lie worked fianl for the cause whilst at tached to it. The tiling happened in this wise: Benjamin drove into town just as the grand procession was forming to march to Mann's Ilill, and having heard his party talk a great deal about the soldiers and tho Hag, he at once looked around for these two features peculiar (as lie supposed) to the Abolition "►Splittdrs," and seeing an inter minable string of carriages, with a long col umn of returned soldiers in front, and sol drerson horseback, and the stars and stripes wav ingover them, he at once concluded that these must belong to the Abolition proces sion. So in he wheeled and drove his team along, little dreaming of the company lie was keeping. After considerable driving around, he happened to get a glimpse of that ok! St. Clair banner, when, presto! around went his horses' heads and he struck a "bee line," in a procession by himself, tor the "Splitters*" stamping ground. I low end that so white a spot should have acci dentally gotten upon his political record! tat' V\ ondc.r it lilt lo John told the negro suf frage iiicn in the woods, tlm other day, that he -/I •••ti/i a /trmotttU " Too much one hided we presume, for ruth a speech, that day DISGRACEFUL —The reception given the 13Sth P. \ The time of the return; of this regiment was studiously kept from the knowledge ot the Democrats of this place, or there would have been a reception given them worthy of those battle-scarred veter ans. ihe manner in which the Fourth-of .Tuly-Splitters received them disgusted the "boys," and no wonder. "SPLITTERS." —The opponents of the Democracy used to pride themselves on vo ting for a "rail-splitter;" by so voting they tweame Union-splitters; and by refusing to celebrate Independence day with the Democrats, they have Income "Fourth of July Splitters." Among tho thousands who vrere in at tendance, at the grand Union celebration, on Mann's Ilill, we observed many crippled soldiers, representing the true and solid pa triotism of the army. Their appearance was characterized not by mere "fuss and feathers," or shoulder bimp-, or ifvnt and swagger, but their maimed limbs and sear red faces, spoke of that stern business the performance of which alone seals the title of true soldier. There at least two hundred returned veterans on Mann's Hill. We printed one hundred and thirty soldiers' badges and they were not near enough to supply the demand. The rank and file, the bone and sinew, of the soldiery of the coun try, are conservative and true to the Con stitution for the supremacy of which they shed their blood. ©-Compare the behavior of the people who attended the Union celebration on Mann's Hill, with that of the party of ' 'Fourth-of-July-Split ters,'' who assembled in Defibaugh's woods. Note how decently the Democratic Union men conducted them selves, interfering with no one, insulting nobody, moving on in the even tenor of their way, without indulging in even a partisan remark. Then, recall the fact that the night previous to the Fourth, a band of drunken "Splitters" went around the town, groan ing at the doors of peaceable citizens, howl ing and yelping and making night hideous with their orgies; remember, also, that when the Berlin Brass Band came into town, the effort to drown the "Star Span gled Banner," which the Band was then playing, by the groaning and drumming in front of the Washington House, and the ringing of the Court House bell by a "wool ly-head," and to crown the infamy of these devils in human shape, the throwing of stones at the Band (inoffensive strangers) as they drove through town. Make the comparison and draw your own iuferenee. girVfo are informed that John Cessna made a very hitter attack upon the Demo crats, in his speech on tire Fourth, and that he read garbled extracts from our paper, with (lie purpose of inciting the rowdies in his party against us. Now, our columns will show that we have counseled peace and harmony, that we urged drafted men to re port and that we did what we could to allay strife at home. But our efforts in this di rection have been and are, now, scouted by Rome of our political opponents in this town. John Cessna is among that number. His object is to keep the people divided, not only politically, but socially. A pretty Union man is he, indeed! Well, we don't | wish to be understood that we deaire his friendship. We would as soon think of having a friend in the gaunt and starving wolf, as in this ungrateful tvretch. lie de ceived us once; he shall never betray us again. But since he seems determined to keep up the war, we say, war let it be! Onco for all, we tell him that wo are ready to meet him in any manner in which he may choose to fight us. 3-A complete answer to the tirade of abuse indulged in by the last Inquirer to ward the Burgess and Council, is, that the litter offered the "Republicans" exaetlv the same rights and privileges as to speak ers and committees as the Democrats were to receive. The excuse tramped up by the Inquirer , that a meeting of citizens had been called prior to the action of the Bur ge33 and Council, shovrs the foul play in tended by the "Splitters," as none but a select few knew any thing of that call. All their wriggling and squirming cannot avail to get them out of the bad predicament in which their folly and bitterness have placed them. Fain would they have us forget that they ig nored the "stars arid stripes" and flaunted the "red, white and red."— Bedford Inquirer. At the breaking out of the war, we pla ced the .Stars and Stripes upon our office before any Abolitionist in Bedford thought of showing his colors, and it floated there until wind and weather tore it to atoms.— We never called it a "flauntinglie," as did the poet of the N. York Tribune. Who "flaunted the red, white and red?" No cit izen of this county that we ever saw. That charge is a lie out of the whole cloth. ©"Thanks to the Berlin Band for the serenade given to us and others on the night of the 4th. THE BERI IN BRASS BAND. —We bad the' pleasure of listening to the eloquent music dis coursed by this excellent company of musi cians, at the Union Celebration on Mann's Hill, on Independence Day. Although all the members of the band were not in attendance, in common with all the people who heard their performance, we can testify that they acquit ted themselves most handsomely. Besides be ing good musicians, the gentlemen composing this band are all clever fellows and their com panionable disposition and gentlemanly beha vior lias made them many friends in oar town and county. As they did the people who par ticipated in the Mann's Hill Celebration, a spe cial favor, by giving their attendance, we feel it our duty to print their names, so that the gratitude of the public may be rendered to them individually, as well as collectively. The Berlin Brass Band is composed as follows: [<ea der, Gershora B. IlelUey; Second Soprano, Wm. lleflley; Solo Alto, M. Meyer; First Ten- j or, I). H. Fisher; Baritone Bass, A. Heflloy; E. Bass Tuba, J. G. Gardill; Snare- Drum- J rner, M. A. Zorn; Side Drum and Cymbals, j 3 T i r ,f t!,o Hand Wagon, vv . j A. l'owell. T-ong may they all live, is the j wish of thousands of their friends and admi rers in Bedford county. VOCAL MI.SIC. —Robert A. McCluro is now prepared to give instructions in Singing, Music al theory. Notation, Thorough Base, and De velopment of the Voice, by the use of the Ital ian Method, to classes and single pupils. A meeting of the citizens and ladies and gentle men, will be held in the Court House, on Fri day evening (July 7). For the pleasure of the audience, Mr. McClure will sing several Bal lads and Italian songs. A large attendance is requested. PRACTICAL AMALGAMATION. —Tho political meeting licit! in Defibaugh's woods, on tiic Fourth, w.'is especially devoted to the interest of the negro. The speeches, we are informed, took ground in favor of negro suffrage, the crowd was composed irt great part of negroes, whites and blacks mixed together at the tables, and the soldiers were compelled to stand back until after the negroes had eaten. Such is the practical effect of Abolition radicalism. NORMAL SCHOOL.—Attention is called to the advertisement of the Normal School, in nnoth er column. Persons wishing to qualify them selves for teaching should, by all means-, attend this school. "Did they stand by t/.cand comfort t is in our trials — Kditors Inquirer. Do you mean when you skulked off to the East to get the Borough relieved from the draft in order to save your own bacon, and cheated some of tho poorer districts out of the men, as your friends allege, or was it when, time and again, you travailed between Harrisburg and Philadelphia and Chambersburg and Bedford, till you were pale and sick, to bring forth sub stitutes. Poor fellows! what trials you have had in this war. C3~We are glad to chronicle the safe return of man yof the glorious 138 th. Among other officers of this regiment, we noted the gallant bearing of Capt. Bortz. who earned his promo tion by bard service in the field. The Captain is a resident of C. Valley tp., and a son of our old friend, Geo. Bortz. ©3"We were happy to take by the hand, our old friend, Scrgt. Daniel Beard, of the 138 th, who returned to his home, in this place, on Friday last. The Sergeant looks well and is as good a Democrat as ever. ®rThc ''Splitters." seeing how greatly the ; Union procession on the Fourth, exceeded their j own in numbers, placed all the darkies they could muster and little children not more than I five years old, in their ranks. Notwithstanding this, the former was at least three times as large &s the latter. ©s~Uieut. Eicholtz, the Democratic nominee for Associate Judge, was in town, on the Fourth, and made many friends. The Lieutenant is a sound Democrat and one of the best men in the county. behalf of the people who attended the Grand Union Celebration on Mann's Hill, we return thanks to the ladies of Bedford and vi cinity, for their energy and laborious attention in preparing the splendid dinner served up on that occasion. SPLENDID MARTIAL MCSIC.—The martial music at the celebration on Mann's Hill, was excellent. With Laury Defibaugh and Sim. Smouse as fifers, and Wayne, Joshua and John Mower, as drummer-, wc defy tho county. fcarThe lumber used at the Celebration on Mann's Hill, will be sold on Saturday, at the Court House. * For the Gazette. "We would like to know if the Star Span gled Banner was too political for a clmreh fair, how it oanies to be just the thing for a ith of July celebration." — Kditors Inquirer. We wouldn't expect much from the Editors in the way of ingenuity or capacity, bat would have supposed that even they might have blun dered upon an answer to such a question. Church politics, political churches and politic al church fairs, being the invention of the Devil, the National emblem, not being a "flaunting lie," (as Greeiy has it) is too sacred a trust for such abuse. COUNCILMAN. For the Gazette. Black, or White. A gallant Colonel said to a private the oth er day : "Are yon going to this copperhead af fair on the 4th." "Well," said the private, "I am going to the white celebration —don't know what you call it." The Grrand Celebration! __—. fhe Glorious Fourth on Mann's Hill! 5,000 People in Council! A Procession of Carriages a Mile and a half in Length! S< ldlers, Citizens and Ladies endorse the Old Fashioned FourlU 0* July! The Political Meeting Iu Defibangh's woods, Cast in the Shade ! 'fee Bedford "Split 1 ' Clique Terribly Rebuked! The natal day of American Independence vas ushered in, by the tiring of cannon,Ting kig of bells and the shouts and cheers of the jubilant people. Early in the morning the del egations from the country began pouring into tio town, preparatory to the grand march to tie place of rendezvous, on Mann'a iuu cm.., berlnnd Uic lu)m0 nud I,urwl T P ftln ols sent a large and well arranged delegation Si Cb" Ali d Union poured in their faithful whilst glorious old Napier, Juniata and Harrison, came thundering iu with :i crowd that struck terror into the hearts of tho Bed fcrd "Splitters." Colerain, Snake Spring and the Providences also came in with a strong delegation, and even the distant Wood berries, Southampton, Monroe, Broad lop, Liberty and Londonderry were represented. The proces sion of carriages alone was a mile and a half iu length, and many carriages drove to the grounds before and after the procession. There wtts a continuous stream of people going afoot, from town to Manu's Hill, for an hour and a half. These it was found impossible to ar range in the procession, as the delay in getting to tho grounds would have been too great. The best judges estimated the crowd at Mann's Hill, nt 5,000 people,* and some placed it as high as 6,000. HON JAMBS BLUSS was Chief Marshal of the day. Lieut. W. Hafer, £apt. V. G. Morgart, John W. Beeler, A. E. Schelly G. W. Guinp, Esq-, David Barclay, Simon Gump, and others whose names were not re ported to us, acted as Assistant Marshals. The procession was headed by the Berlin Brass Band. Next came a wagon beautifully wreath ed, drawn by eight horses, with bells, and dec orated with tiny Hags, and red, white and blue , six little girls, dressed in white, with coronals of flowers upon their beads, and red and blue sashes thrown across from one side of the waist over the shoulder, each hearing in her hand a little Hag, emblematic of the Union and the sev eral States. A prettier sight cannot be imag ined. The Union wagon was driven by Mr. Jonathan Bowser, of Colerain tp., whodesrrves great credit for the manner in which he dis charged his part of the performance. In sup port of the Union and the States, came a large procession of returned soldiers. In this pro cession wa3 a pretty silk banner, beautifully wreathed with evergreen, bearing on one side the inscription, "Our Whole Country,' on the other, "Ft. Wagner," "Gettysburg," "Monoc acy," "Cold Harbor," "Petersburg." This ban tier was carried by Mr. James Gibson, one of the brave boys lately returned from the ar my. Another banner in this procession, was a large Sixth Corps Badge, encircled by a pret ty wreath, carried by George R. Imler, another returned veteran. This part of the procession was under charge of Sergeant Alex. Boor, who suffered a long imprisonment in the South, and Sergeant Daniel Board, one of the veterans of the 138 th P. V. This was a most interesting and gratifying episode in the history of the pro ceedings, serving to show the intelligence and fidelity to principle, of the returned soldiers. After the soldiers came a large troop of horse men and ladies on horseback, and then the va rious delegations from the country, with flags and banners conspicuous among the latter, be ing the beautiful one carried by our patriotic old friend Capt. Welsh. After the vast assem blage bad gathered upon the Ilill, the little girls representing the Union and tire States, were placed upon the stand, which was a most tasteful structure hung with wreaths and fes toons of evergreens mixed with flowers, having suspended in the centre front a large picture of Washington. The Band and the Glee Club were also disposed upon the stand. The meeting was then called to order by the appointment of the Chief Marshal of the day, as President who acknowledged*the compliment in a neat little speech. Kev. S. Kepler then addressed the Throne of Grace in a most fervent and touch ing prayer. The Glee Club saug the patriotic sung, "lied, White and Blue." The Declara tion of Independence was read by Mr. W Hartley. The Glee Club sang and the Band played the Star Spangled Banner. Then came the oration by G. 11. Spang, Esq., an address couched in most beautiful and eloquent lan guage, entirely free from all partizan allusions, and purely of a patriotic character. "The Prisoner's Hope" was sung by the Glee Club and after some excellent music by the Band, tlie meeting adjourned for dinner. The tables were 300 feet in length yet it was almost im possible to feed all the people present, though food had been prepared in abundance. After dinner the toasts given below were read by O. E. Shannon, Esq. The afternoon was then spent in pleasant recreation, but many persons having come from a great distance, started home at an early hour. At night there was singing and dancing and music by the Band un til a late hour. On the whole this celebration was the grandest success ever known in Bed ford. It was an awful rebuke to the "Fourth of-July-Splitters" in this place, casting their mechanically arranged concern completely in the shade. There were at least three times as ! many persons in attendance at Mantis Hill as j ! tliere were at the political meetingin Defibaugh s j ! woods The toasts were as follow 1 : UKOI I.AU TOASTS. •1. The Union—-oneami inseparable, now and 1 forever. ■J. The Constitution and the enforcement of the laws. iL 'i he President of the United States The Governor of, P ennsylvania. 5. A free arid independent judiciary. y. The Army and Navy. 7. The Ladies, Clod's first, best gift to man 8. The Anvil and the I'low. 9. The heroes oi "76. 10. The I'ress. 12. Commerce —the tie that binds the eon j tinents together. 13. Peace —the end of civil strife, "Glory be to Gtd in the highest, Peace on earth and good will toward men." VOl.l NIEKR TOASTS. Lieut John Nelson offered tho foi o\\og , toasts; Uncle Sam —begotte" amidst the storm of | the sixteenth eeiuury. its infantile movements i were dim and distinctly seen 011 board ot the May Flower, on therock of Plymouth, at Jarnes ! j town, on the plains of Monongahe'u and [ion the iieights of Abraham. The canri- I j ctous squalls of its infancy were heard in liie 1 Tea party of Boston, in Faneuil 11 all, on the I plni 11s of Concord, Lexington and Bunker Hill. I ifn his boyhood he ran barefooted, and hare ; i headed, over the fields of Saratoga, Trenton, t Princeton, Monmouth, and Y orktovvn. \Y bip- I | ping Lis Mother and turning her out of doors, in his youth, lie strode over*the prairies of the j boundless west, and called lltcnt his own, raid s ! tribute to the despots of Barbery in powder and hall, spit in 111 < l 1 fit bet's face from behind cotton bales at New Orleans, whippet the j mistress of the ocean, reveled in the halls of . Montezuma, straddled the Kocky Mountains, I I and with one foot upon golden sand, and the " 1 other upon codfish and lumber, defied the ; world. In his Manhood clothed in puiijpe and | fine linen, he rides over tl-.e continent in cush ioned cars, over tic ocean in pa! > •: steamer?, : sends his thoughts of lighting to the world a round, thundering at the door ot the celestial empire, and at the portals of distant Japan; j slaps his poor old decrepit father in the face, i and tells iiim to be careful how he pecks into his ' ; pickeroons, and threatens to make sheep pas ture of all tho land that joins him. What lie ' | will do in old age God only knows. May he ' evcrUherUlt the principles of old maids, always ; ready and willing for a I nion. . j The Constitution of the United States—-a ■ monument of wisdom reared by our patriotic Forefathers. Let not folly seek to destroy its 1 j beauty and symmetry, nor wickedness attempt " to tear down what virtue has built upon the s solid foundation of truth and justice. Legislature and Judiciary—like the Siamese t twins, distinct and independent in their separ ate functions, but so intimately connected that 1 the bond of Union, cannot be severed without - involving the destruction of the body jvoiitie. - ! The following were otfered by a guest. Gen. Sherman—His military gcirtuseut the Gordianknot of our civil war. May he live to see the day when he shall be rewarded accor ding to his great merits. The patriots of'76—may their descendants grow in love for and admiration of the institu tions which they established. Tire fortresses of our country —may the time soon come when they will be no longer a terror to any but our country's enemies. Woman—A clear proof of nature's last and best work. The theme of artists and poets, but all the gifts of both are unequal to the task of protraying her graces and her worth. For the Gazette. THE CELEBRATION. [The following is from a gentleman who did | not take part in the celebration of the Fourth on Mann.s Hill, but was merely an observer:] As an independent spectator of the grand cel ebration ot the late Fourth of July, on Mann's liiil, I counted, in procession, upwards of 50 horsemen, upwards of !)0 carriages, and a mul titude following after "that no man could num l>er." The Democrats —that is, as the name ■ originally,, according to its Greek origin, signifies "the power or strength of the people " —turned out in all their might and right—yet not so overwhelmingly, as they would have done, if tlicy had suspect ed that "the copper-faces" and j "the woolly-heads" would have turned out to a man, yes—and to a girl and to a boy. Yet on the whole it was a glorious day for i the Democratic Union men of Bedford county. 1 —They as good citizens wished to have but one celebration in which all might participate. They as christian people wished all to join with them on the groat re-nnion day of the Nation's birth, the grand national holiday, but their wishes were not accepted—their desire for a real union of hearts and minds was rejected by the so calle<l lovers of tho union. Yet on the whole, it was a glorious day, wor thy of the faithful Democrats of Bedford coun ty. It was a celebration at which aristocracy, and negro-cacy or woolly-head-ism might trem ble and we have every reason to be sati-iied with the result of our celebration of the Fourth in Bedford.—Democracy has done its dutv. SPECTATOR. VERMONT. The "Republicans" of Vermont have just had their State Convention, at which they resolved in favor of Negro Suffrage. This makes the third State where the Negro has been formally established on the Republican platform,—Con necticut by Legislature, and lowa and Ver mont by convention. Of course thejlatter state will give Sambo full welcome; they scarely know what a negro is, up among the Green Moun tains, and they want something to worship and swear by. The Republicans of Ohio dodged the question, as a stroke of policy, but made it the party issue by nominating a candidate for Governor from the Western Reserve, who is not suspected of any sympathy for the white man. IMPORTANT DECISION.—Judge Miller, of the United States Supreme Court, rendered a very important decision tho other day, in St. Paul, Minn. He discharged a man who aided in se curing fraudulent exemptions, and who was in dicted therefor, on the ground that the provis ion of the|draft law was void, as it did not fix a certain term of punishment. The penalty pro vided was imprisonment during the exiseence of the rebellion, and the court held that it was impossible to ascertain any definite length of time of imprisonment under such a law.— Lan. Intelligencer. Platform of tlie Vermont Democracy, The following series of resolutions was unsn in tons! v adopted by 11 J< ■ late Democratic State (Convention of Vermont: Ifcolmt, That we have renewed confidence in, and veneration for, I >einocrat io principles. Because those principles were disregarded we have been afflicted with one of the worst civil wars that the world has ever known, destroy ing probably ball a million of our citizens in the prime of life and the vigor of health, arid oppressing us and our posterity with a national debt of more than four thousand millions of dollars and the consequent taxation to provida lor the same ; and, deploring these and other e vils to the country which have come upon it in consequence of a disregard of the principles of the national Democratic party, we have to-day renewed devotion to that party and its. princi ples as the only basis of national liberty and self-government. ]£. ■/!•■■ . That armed resistance to the gen cral (iovcrninttit having ceased in till the States, civil law should immediately be restored, not only ji the States which have been true to tiie genera! government, and which have been arbi trarily and unjustly deprived of it. but through out the whole country. That this being the military condi tion of the country, the control of the several States, as they existed before the rebellion, ; should at once be given to the white citizens | thereof who have borne true allegiance* to the i general government, and those who will now take an oath to hereafter bear true allegiance j to the national government. /■>.<„/red, That believing with the immortal 1 Douglas that the government of the country i was organized for, and should I>e controlled by ; the white race therein and the good of all will be-; I, ■ promoted by confining the right of suf frage to the white citizens thereof, we are ui m I let ably opposed to conferring the right of I suffrage upon the ignorant negroes of the coun- I try. JWSIJCM, That we congratulate the men com pose the Democratic party upon their patience and patriotism during the crisis through which the country has passed. They have done their duty ns good citizens, and no amount of party -epresentation will prevent the country and the world from extolling a misrepresented and oppressed party for those virtues. Mewl Led, That in the wise and constitutional policy of Pqpo lent Johnson to restore all tho States to their constitutional position, reinvest ing them with right- and corresponding duties, nnd cementing anew the integrity of the Gov ernment. we discern a most happy augury that the malignity which strife and collision have engendered may he utterly supplanted by the fraternity which enabled our fathers to form the Constitution and create the Union ; and if with .Tacksonian firmness ho will maintain his policy against the plot tings of treason on the one hand and the raving and ribaldry of fanat icism on the other, we tender to him our earn est and undivided support. Retailed, That our grateful thanks arc due, and are hereby tendered, to the gallant soldiers of the army, who, by their bravery and self-sac rificing labors in the field, have subdued tire re bellion, and thereby have nobly vindicated the declaration made by the immortal Jackson— "The Union must and shall be preserved !" Speech of Governor Wells of Louisiana, Governor J. M. Wells of Louisiana, who was heralded to the world as a good Union man when elected, has brought down upon his head the wrath of Greely, by a speech which he re cently delivered at New Orleans. The speech is so little complimentary to the radical Aboli tionists, and so truthfully severe upon them, that we do not wonder at the ire of the white hatted philosopher, lint, while Horace fumes and frets, the conservative masses of the coun try will indorse the view? of Governor Wells, fie said: "It must be perceptible to every one who is at all conversant with the political history of the country, that the radical abolition party is broken up. disorganized and demoralized, des pite their apparent success during the present war. "The official corruption, unequalled by any party which has ever preceded or may ever suc ceed it, has rendered them obnoxious to the A merican people. "The heavy taxation which mart necessari ly follow to pay the enormous debt of this war, and which must continue for the next linlf-cen turv. fixes an odium upon that party which will out-iive the party itself. "Then to whom are we to look for the heal ing of the national wounds ? Ts it not to those who have taken national conservative grounds, and who have ever, during this war. advocated conservative principles—those principles advo : on tod in past years by the old Whig partv, and more recently by the conservatives of the Re publican party ami of the Democracy, and un der whose benign teaching wc have grown and prospered as a nation ? "Our President, Andrew Johnson, lias ever been a conservative Democrat. In his hands is placed the destiny of this nation, and from him we have nothing to fear, but everything to hope. I bespeak for his Administration one of the brightest pages in our history ; and under this Administration, fellow-citizens, looking to him for protection and taking his policy as our guide, must we organize our State Government. Every effort will be made by the radical Abo lition party to prevent the return of power to the the South, and all tho ele ments of opposition will combine to prevent their success ; and one of their formidable auxil iaries, as they suppose, is to extend the right of suffrage to that class of persons recently in pos session of their freedom. "This has been too clearly fore-shadowed by the political adventurrcs who havo come among us to have escaped attention. "This, then, will be a question for your fu ture action; and if, after having taken this * country from the Red man, and holding it for more than a century, you have become so char itable as to give it to the hlack man, I can only submit, and bow to the will of the people. The power granted to the several States by the Con stitution of the United States to regulate this question of suffrage is plain to aJJ. "It clearly belongs to the people, and I shall abide their decision." (RV-Wendell Pbiliips announces the new Re publican platform—"Negro suffrage; or, Repu diation." The war, lie says, was so purely for the negro that if the negro fails to get voting power, then the North has been cheated, and he declares for a repudiation of the war debt.
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