BEDFORD GAZETTE.
B. F. MEYERS. EDITOR,
FRIDAY t x : t" JUL* 7, 186'..
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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!
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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.