?£ .OITOR. : JULY 28, J865. DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS DISTRICT ATTOP.NET, JOHN PALMER, Bedford Borough. ASSOCIATE JUDGE, W. G. EICHOLTZ, S. Woodberry. TREASURER, GEORGE MARDORFF, Bedford Bor. COI'NTT SURVEYOR, P DONAHOE, Southampton. JURY COMMISSIONER, I." KENSINGEH, Liberty. COMMISSIONER, M. S. RITCHEY, Snake Spring. POOR DIRECTOR, 3 years, F>. R ANDERSON, C. Valley POOR DIRECTOR, 2 ve&rs, SAMUEL BECKLEY, St. Clair. . AUDITOR, JAMES MATTINGLY, Londonderry. A CORONER, JOHN FILLER, E. Providence- THE BALL OPENED! Rally for the White Man's Government! G-azette for the Campaign! The BEDFORD GAZETTE, in favor of A Restored Union, "Freedom of Thought and Opinion," Free Speech, Free Press, the Personal Rights of Free men, Law and Order, Justice to the Soldiers of the Country, F.conomy, Retrenchment and Relorm in every department of the Government; in opposition to .Executive Usurpation, Federal Centra!izetiou, Negro Suffrage, Negro Legislation, Social and Po litical Equality of the Races, intermeddling with the Rights of the States, the placing of the black soldier above the White Heroes of the War, and all ;i. other heresies of Radical Fanatics, will be pub lished during the Campaign, at the low rate of Fifty Cents, in Advance. Shid in your names. Every man who takes an .merest in the political affairsof the country, should lake a newspaper. Let every Democrat constitute h.mself a committee to obtain subscribers for the Campaign Gazette. The prospects of the Democ racy are flattering, and it only remains for them to work to make their triumph overwhelming. The C'ssermnation of political truth, is one of the most efficient means for the accomplishment of Demo cratic success. To this end, therefore, let every Democrat bend his exertions. The whole people Dave momentous interests at stake. The issue, Shall u- have. a monprtl govtrnment and Ittome a mixed race, is being pushed upon us by New Eng land agitators and already there are leading "Repub iicaue" IU our midst who take the affirmative oi this question. We must meet this issue and we roust triumph. Rally, then, for the White Man's Gov ernment ! Trying to Raise a Dtist. The Negro Suffrage men are at their old j game. When they were about to start the ''Republican" party, the wire-workers de nied that they were "Republicans," vowed that they never would go with that {rty, oh! no! they only wanted to fuse with it for one election, so as to heat the dastard ''iocc-focos." Well, they did fuse with it and succeeded in doing just what they in tended to do ;'they carried over their follow ers into the arms of so-called "Republican ism," Very well. The Democrats, then, accused these leaders with a design to aha iitiordzethe "Republican"party. Oh! how vigorously and fiercely the}' denied it! How angry they became at the bare mention of the word Abolition ! What! They become Abolitionists? Never, never; and if their party would endorse the doctrines of Abo litionism, they would have "done with it" forever-. Such were their protestations; but, no sooner did they find it safe {politi cally speaking) to announce themselves Ab olitionists, than they did so, and to-day there are but few of them that do not glory in the shame of their inconsistency. Thus have the masses of the opposition to the Democracy been led, step by step, toward the accomplishment of the ultimate design of the plotters against the perpetuity of the Republic. From the very day when the independence of the colonies was establish ed, there were men in this country who op posed a republican form of government. — They wanted, and now clamor for, a strong, that is, a consolidated, an imperial govern ment. They have so far succeeded in their purposes, as to establish a military despot ism, which sets aside the Constitution and Laws of the country, and substitutes for j them the will of a tribunal, in the choice of which the people have not been permitted to take any part. In order to sustain this usurpation, they find it necessary to give the ballot to the ignorant colored people, whose votes they expect to control, and', ichcst enfranchisement, they believe, will i ' esidt m anarchy and the consequent jus- j t*fi cation of the permanent establishment of a 'monarchical form of government, j In order to lead their adherents into this j scheme of Negro Suffrage, they try to em titter tbem against Democrats, by getting vp take issues, by denunciation. faLsehpod and vilification. Thus they hope to raise a dust under cover of which they will be able to manoeuvre the whole "Republican" party into the lines of the Negro Suffrage men. In view of this deceit, we implore the people to be on their guard. If you wait fill the Republican leaders show their hand, you will bo- bound hand and foot.— Nou? is the time to defeat them in their ne farious purpose. Now is the accepted time for all men who love their country and hope for the endurance of the Republic, to strike hands and vow that the Negro Suffrage Anarchists shall not be successful. Fore warned is forearmed! Hon. J. S. Black. We had the pleasure, last week, of meet ing, at Bedford Springs, the distinguished | gentleman whose name stands at the head i lof these lines. As Chief Justice of the j J State and Attorney General of the United 1 ■ States, Judge Black became widely and j most favorably known, and to-day he is re- ; j garded, at home and abroad, as one of the I j ablest jurists in the United States. It is a i | positive pleasure to hear him talk upon le | gal and political topics. So clear and co- I gent is his reasoning, so apt are his illus j trations, so comprehensive and complete his j grasp of the whole subject under discussion, ! that his argument goes straight as an arrow 'to the mark, and the listener is ofttimeß ! convinced against his will, llow sad that ' so few men of this stamp are now to be , j found in public office. But, certainly, when | : men like Holt af!d Stanton govern the coun- j I try, "the post of honor is the private sta ! tion.*' A Parity of Reasoning. j The Black Copperheads who oppose "the; : Government," because it refuses to iriter i fere in behalf of negro suffrage, argue that ! the colored man should be given the right to S vote, because he "fought for the country." Well, then, why not give the right of suf frage to the white boys under twenty-one years of age, who served in the army? There are at least a hundred thousand of j these youthful heroes, who will not, accofd . ing to law, be permitted to vote for four or ; five years to come. Are they to stand back, i whilst negroes are allowed to march to the 'polls? Again, it there is to be universal suffrage, are not the white women of the country to be included ? Some of them fought more bravely during the late war than many of the sterner sex, and thousands of them endured greater hardships than the negro garrison soldiers whose claims to the sym pathy of the public are so vehemently urg ed by the radicals. An answer to these j queries U earnestly requested. Who are the Bism;ionists Now? After our heroic soldiery have at last suc ceeded in destroying the military power ar rayed against the government, and when the people of the States lately in revolt, have bowed to the superior strength of the conqueror and stand ready to return to the Union even at the sacrifice of negro slaverv, the radical Abolitionists refuse to allow them so to return, and demand that no state shall . be permitted to re-take Its place, in the (in ton without first giving the negroes the right to vote. Is not this disunion? Is net this prolonging and intensifying the effects . of secession? Is not this rendering nuga - tory the achievements of the brave men . who won the Anal triumph for the Union r arms ? Is it not cheating the country out , of the very fruit which it was to gather in . the event of the success of the war? Ver . ily, the men who will not Auffer the people * of the South to return to the Union, are as , bad as those who first took them out of it. . Nor is this to lie wondered at, for they are . the very men who by their encroachments upon the rights of the South, assisted the • Secession leaders in their conspiracy to dis , solve the Union. They are the Disunion . ists now, and the only cnes in the country. ' j esr A Richmond paper estimates that the i war has cost the South five thousand eight . hundred millions of dollars, to wit: Twen . ty-five hundred millions t>y the loss of slave ! property; nine hundred millions by the rav i ages of war ; nine hundred millions by the ! loss of staple crops; five hundred millions by property sunk in the Confederate debt, and one thousand millions by what the . South must hereafter pay as her proportion , of the principal and interest of the National debt. By the census of 1860, the entire ) property of the fifteen slave States was val- J ued at 87,000,000,000 —the slaves being i valued at 82,400,000. For the last year ' before the war the cotton crop was worth $250,000,000. The tobacco crop for 1860 was worth $40,000,000, and the rice and sugar crops for the same year were each worth $20,000,000. Wheat and corn were • subsequently planted in place of these, but ! the product was consumed by the rebel ar | inies and the slaves. The debt of the Con j federacy at the time of the collapse was at j least four thousand million, which had ab sorbed Say, one-eighth of this sum in gold • value. i c=r We are indebted to A. Zenibower, Esq., oi C. V alley tp., for a number of names for .the Campaign Gazette, accompanied bv the cash. * J EDITORIAL MELANGE. Finn thousand widows are receiving U. S. pensions. THE owner of the Sherman oil well is worth $5,000,000 IN five weeks 4,210,329 rations were served to Richmond families. H ALE- a million Northern money ha 9 been in vested in Maryland lands. SAD domestic explosion- —an injured wife lately buret into tears. BAKNUM estimates the recent newspaper no tices of his Museum as worth SIOO,OOO. AN inquiry was made at one of tho Glouces ter banks the other day for some treasury notes with cupolas upon them. MR. CHARLES JAMES JEFFRIES, the author of "Jeanriette and Jeanot," a popular song a doz en years ago, died recently in London. A NEW Democratic paper has been started at Lewisburg, Union eo., by J. E. Eicholtz, Esq., called The Journal. Success to it THE rush to the Springs is unprecedented.— j There are now about 700 strangers at that place 1 and the hotels and boarding-houses in town. A GENTLEMAN who died in Natick recently, left three widows, and they find a great deal of trouble in settling his affairs. Natick is in Puritan Massachusetts. THE best thing the writer of the toasts for the late Negro Suffrage celebration got off, was the dirty shirt in which he wrote them: that is, provided he isn't wearing it yet. COPPERHEADS —those who oppose the admin istration. So says a Republican paper. Very well ! Then, Sumner, Wade, Phillips and the j i other leaders of the Republican party are cop perheads. D. W. MOORE, ESQ., lias retired from the : editorship of that old arid able Democratic jour- I ual, the Clearfield Btjuublneav, and i succeeded ,byG. B. Goodlander, Esq. Both incoming and ! outgoing editors have our best wishes. A FIFTY barrel well lias been struck by the i Hopewell Oil Company, on their lands in Ve i nango co. As much of the stock of this com i pany is held in this county, our readers will be ; glad to hear this news. | THE VETERANS still continue to send us scorcher? : for the men who called them "bounty jumpers," | "deserters," &c. There's no use calling the ■ cowardly abolition slanderers to account. They | will not fight. They only skulk. A LADY in Indianapolis committed suicide be cause her husband refused to take her to an ice cream saloon. Probably she had heard of the one about to be started "down below," by the | reader of the toasts at Black Snake Hollow. 1 How do the Abolitionists like President John s en's appointment of Benj. F. Perry as Gov ernor of South Carolina 1 Why it's worse than Sherman's convention with Joe Johnston!— ' What do you think of it, black ies ? Humph' GEN. BUTLER and Guerilla Moseby have en tered into partnership in New York. Ben pats in some of his New Orleans gold and Moseby f gives as his share of the eapital, the greenbacks taken from passengers on the Baltimore and | Ohio Railroad. Par r.obile fratrum EMERSON ETHERIDGE, one of the staunches! Union men in Teimeseeo, Las been arrested by that old scoundrel Brownlow, for expressing his political opinions. Tennessee is a free State now; that is, as far as negroes and debauched preachers are concerned. THE Kentucky State election will beheld on August 7th. A majority of members of the Legislature favoring the adoption of the con stitutional amendment abolishing slavery, will, doubtless, le elected, as Gov. Bramlettc, James Guthrie ar.d other Democratic leaders support it. HON ISAAC SI.ENKER, Auditor General of the state, is at present stopping at the Washington Hotel, in this place. Hon.Jßeverdy Johnson, R. Bruce Pctrikin, Esq , and Thad. Stevens are at the Springs. Hon. J. T. Briscoe and Mr. Par an. of Maryland, are at the Bedford Hotel. BEDFORD COGNTY gave upwards of 300 ma jority for the amendment permitting soldiers to vote. It gave nearly 700 majority for MoClel lan. Now, if the Democrats, as a party, had voted against the amendment, (as the Abolition ists falsely allege) instead of 300 majority for the amendment, there would have been 700 against it, which would have made a difference of 1000 votes. isrLiF.rrr. J. C. GEYER. late adjutant of the gallant ooth, has been honorably discharged from the service and has returned to his home in this county. Lieut. Geyer rose from the ranks to the position he held at the time of his discharge. In his case we are sure, promotion, though unsought, was not unmerited. Soldiers like Lieut. Geyer are an honor to the country. ssyThe Ohio Statesman contradicts the tele graphic statement that General Sherman has endorsed the Abolition candidate for Governor in Ohio—-General Cox—and pronounced him the next Governor of that State. The story was entirely untrue. Cambria county Alleghanian, pub lished by A. A. Barker, Republican candidate for Congress in the 17th district, comes out unequivocally in favor of negro suffrage. Bark er iB a native of Maine, which accooals for his peculiar proclivities. J&rThe New York Kxprm says' John Covode has returned to Washington from New Orleans, "where he has been in consultation with Gen., Banks and B. li. Plumley, to upset the existing' State Government." Jt states, further, that "Covode reports the State Government must be upset, and a new one set up." This, it sup poses, is an inspiration of Banks, "who intends to reside permanently in Louisiana." What a valuable •'missionary" is this "Old Glory!" Can't be te next sent to Utah?— Pat not <j r Union A MODEL SOLDIER. —We had the pleasure, on Tuesday last, of taking by the hand our young friend, Capt. Francis M. Hafer, of the Second Pa. Cavalry, a regiment which, we are sure, saw a9 much hard service as any other uuder arms in the late war. Capt. Hafer went out as a private in the three months service, and upon his discharge, at once enlisted for three years in the regiment to which he was attached during the war. When his three years were up, he re-enlisted, and for good conduct, was made Lieutenant of bis company, and finally breveted, Captain. Four years and a half spent in such military service as Capt. Hafer underwent, en title the soldier to more than ordinary respect and in this instance we accord our meed of praise most willingly and un reservedly. PITTSBURG FEMALE COLLEGE. —We are in re ceipt of a catalogue of Students, &c., of this ex cellent institution. Four hundred and ninety pupils enjoyed its advantages during the past year. The Faculty includes twenty two pro fessors and every department is administered with the thoroughness of a speciality. Dr. I. C. Pershing, President of the institution, enjoys the reputation of being a gentleman of great scholastic acquirements, and liis excellence as a man, is as creditably known, as bis success as a teacher. In this regard, we clip the following from a recent number of the Pittsburg Chron icle : Dr. Pershing fully realizes the paramount im portance of moral training and discipline as well, and the refinement and elevation which comes .of good example and elevating associa tions. The antecedents of all applicants are closely scrutinized, and no one admitted where family history, social connections, or daily as sociations, have been such as to endanger tiie eolectie taste, refined habits and moral purity of the pupils. President Pershing and his amia ble wife keep their charge about them as a fam ily, from which all distracting or demoralizing influences are carefully excluded. Naturally enough parents feel greater confidence, as the benefit of this family government is secured to their dear ones. Full information in regard to the course of study, terms, discipline, &c., may be obtained by sending to Dr. Pershing lor a catalogue. Our citizens feel a just pride in the Institution, which it has always eminently mer ited. "'Numbers, Not Intelligence." Henry Winter Davis, in a speech delivered at a Republican meeting lately held in Chicago, ; used the following language: "We need the votes of the colored people; it is numbers, not intelligence, that counts at the ballot-box—it is the right intention, and [ not philosophic judgment, that casts the vote." That is, & petty oligarchy composed of the radical leaders, want to me the votes of a million negroes, to overcome the ballots of ;he intelligent soldiers of the country, the white j heroes of the war, who, having seen the negro for themselves, will vote against the men who would degrade them to his let el. "Numbers, not intelligence!" Was ever heard so infamous a declaration in this enlightened nineteenth century* What! Are we to go back to that dark and dismal era in the world's history, when might made right, when mind was crush ed out by physical force? Are we to have that V'andalic age over again which by "nara -1 bars, not intelligence," swept away the glory | and the beauty of Roman civilization? Alas! for this country, alas! for human liberty and the best hopes of mankind, if "numbers, not intelligence," control the destinies of the nation! Gov. Bradford on the Rights of ''Deser xers," &c. I Gov. Bradford, of Maryland, an Abolition ! ist in politics, has written a letter in which he 1 takes the ground that the act of Cungress of March, 1865, which declares that "deserters and persons leaving the state to avoid the draft, ; forfeit their right of citizenship," docs not pre | vent sueh citizens of Maryland from voting- We make the following extract: i'Tbe question has been suggested 'whether : the special pardons now being granted by the ; President to those participating in the recent | rebellion could not have the effect of restoring ! the right of franchise to those disqualified by I that act*' I answer no, and that neither the proclamation of the President, nor aa act of ! Congress could make any one a qualified voter |in this State who, by the Constitution of the j State, is declared to be disqualified. On ibe other hand, no such proceedings on the part of the General Government can deprive a citi zen of Maryland of the elective franchise unless the State Constitution has made a similar pro visions, and, therefore, though by an act of Congress passed in March 1865, and promul gated by a proclamation of the President of the ! United States, of the 11th of that month, it j was declared that deserters and persons leav ! ing the State to avoid the draft should forfeit | their right of citizenship; yet, inasmuch as our Constitution makes no provision for excluding such persons from the right of suffrage, they would still, if obnoxious to no Constitutional j prohibition, be entitled to registration.'' ! We learn from the Patriot and Union that the "Young Men's Christian Association" of Harrisburg "have procured five elegant walnut chess tables, the squares of which are inlaid with marble," as part of the furniture of their room. If to these means of grace they were to add several fast trotting horses, a pistol gal lery, a dozen game cocks, and a good pack of "blood-honnds of Zion" to hunt copperheads, we think they might count their calling and e lection sure. an occasional game of "Old Sledge" might afford rest, recreation and refreshment after a vigorous charge on "Old Scratch."— Lancaster Intel hgeneer Ob, pshaw, Mr. Intelligencer , you are too rural, and don't understand metropolitan usa ges. Don't yon know Brothers Beecher, Rob inson, Hay, Jackson, and other shining lights have put the Christian religion on a new basis* Tut, tut, man; you don't know but some of the things you stickle at are among the modern means of grace. Come cut of the woods—do. —Patriot f Union. Complimentary. The Bedford Negro Suffrage organ, of last week, compliments the men whose votes it would like to have for Capt. Diekerhoof, af ter the following fashion: The Copperhead party of Bedford county i j made up ol negro buyers, negro sellers, negro catchers, negro hunters, negro whippers. negro drivers, secessionists, deserters, Canada skedad- . dlers, Western skedaddlers, skulkers, hospital ; bummers, gnerrillas, bushwackers, barnburners, church burners, amnestied rebels, rebel sympa thizers, Knights of the Golden Circle, Sons of Liberty atul spies. Old Things. A couple of articles published in our paper, soinc years ago, on "provost marshals," &c, have been the texts of Abolition preachers, leg islators and editors ever since we printed them. The howling and roaring of these delectable creatures, occasioned by those articles, have fur nished us infinite enjoyment. To give a new impetus to their yelping, we say just now and right here, that we stand by every thing we ev er said on the subject of "provost marshals," and add that what we prophesied about them has come true. Such miserable man-catchers and sellers of human flesh and blood as offici ated in the capacity of township "provost mar shals" in this county, in the language of the Bkufohd Gazette of March 13, 1863, "will be a stench in the nostrils of every true friend of human liberty forever and forever! The people will brand them with shame, for to do so Is their only defence against the usurpations of power. They will put a scorpion's sting in to every pore of their bodies. Men will turn from them in loathing and disgust, shunning the con taminating touch of their political leprosy." This is one of the old things which the Ne gro Suffrage men delight in rubbing under our nose every few days, and as we don't want them to wear it out soon and thus deprive themselves of what they fancy enjoyment, we renew it in this form. Meanwhile we will give their olfac tories some of their own old things to snurl up. We copy from the Bedford Inquirer , of April o, 1801, the subjoined treasonable article, rec ommending that the seceded states be permitted to slide. The article was not original with the Inquirer, but was published in its editorial col umns, instead of original matter. Now, Negro Suffrage men, smell this: f-f F? 'F F? l S .1; t T, ..1 T [From tie Bedford Inquirer, April 5, 1861.] Is the Voluntaiy Eeturn of the Seceding States Desirable? This question, we think, has not been suffi ciently considered. It ought to be considered now, not only by the Government, but much more by the people. Unthinkingly, it seems to be assumed that, if those States will return vol untarily, in mere discontent with the growing ineonvenienccies and expenses of secession, all will be well. We are of a different opinion; and we are confident that thinking minds throughout the country are coining to the con clusion that the re-annexation of those States even by their spontaneous return, is not to be desired at present. Such & re-annexation is not to be desired, un less the principle is first established, by prece dents never to be forgotten, that secession is treason, and that treason is a crime to be pun ished. The leaders of the present secession have levied war against the United States. Af ter employing themselves in this way for six months, shall they be permitted to return, and to remain within the reach of Federal marshals and the jurisdiction of Federal courts, without being hanged for their treason? If we live to see this, why may we not live to see Toombs and Wigfail again adorning the Senate, and Jefferson Davis the successor of Washington ? Why shall not Twiggs be restored to his rank jin the army? Why shall we not assume all | the debts of the Montgomery Government, and i pension all those who have served more than ! ninety days in the revolutionary army ? A "re j construction," even by the voluntary return of i the secessionists, presumes that there will be, j on the part of the United States, a full amnesty j .of the treason. Such an amnesty would be a i virtual destruction of the Government. There i fore, we say that the return of the seceded j States, even voluntarily, is not to be desired, ! unless some of the leaders in the treason are to I receive the due punishment of their crime with i the full consent of the South and North. Nor is it to bedesired, unless the cause which | has produced this secession is removed. Less I than ten years ago the Union of these States seemed, to us, indissoluble. The balance be tween internal self-government in the several States, and a more than imperial strength and benificence in the Union, is so inarvelously ad justed by the arrangements of the Constitution, | —the benefits which the Uniou confers on every j state are so very important, so numerous, and ; so cheaply purchased,—that it seemed impossi ble for any English-speaking republic to exist j in proximity to this Union without falling into i it, as Texas did, by a gravitation too powerful to be resisted; and especially impossible for any state, after the experience of those benefits, to tear itself away from its place and orbit in the system, and make itself a "wandering star for which is reserved the blackness of darknes for ever." —We knew indeed the chronic insanity of South Carolina, but we did not admit the possibility of the same insanity in other states. Our mistake was that we did not adequately consider the fact (obvious even then) that in the cotton states the structure, genius, and all the tendencies of society, are controlled by the bar barous and barbarising institution of negro sla very It is the distinction of those states that there the interest of slavery predominates over every other interest in society, and the influence of elavery over every other influence. There is no impossibility of permanent union be tween states in which slavery exists and states in which all men are free, if slavery may be re garded as an abnormal, accidental and temporary inconsistency, an evil which must be endured till the progress of civilization shall remove it. But when, in any portion yf such a union, the in stitution of-slavery has become paramount— the idea of >ljkvary, as intrinsically right and good., ,coit,cohng H legation and public poli cy, all -social and public morality, ail religious doctrine, and mingling with all the impulsesand aspirations of patriotism—then it is no longer possible, for those states to be comprehended with free states in one nationality. To such a Union the providence of God has said "Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall he separated from thv bowels." We must accept tlm fact It is no accident that has caused this .-.•<.--< ; on. The DTBdominante of slavery in the t >tton states has produced tl ,r ' . u ti nikity, mist*the came OJ the present secession can he removed, the re turn of the seceded states io their place in the Union is not to be desired. "Let the Seceding States go! Flow evident is it that, God, for a great and beneficent purpose of his own, has permitted this insanity to come upon them. Let them go to work otrf their own destiny bv themselves ! And if the dwel lers on the Atlantic slope of North Carerhr.z and Virginia rhoof that destiny, tet them too go.' The policy of Coercion is impolicy. The boundary between the two inevitable national ities will be most wisely determined by the elec tive affinities of the population. Wherever that boundary may lie established, it will be moveable, southward, if Eastern Virginia, or Virginia entire, chooses to go with secession. Virginia will return whenever the interests of freedom there shall predominate over the slave breeding interest. Till then let her go, if she will. For the Gazette. Poor Men and the War. The Junior Editor of the Bedford Inquirer, has often said that the poor men of the country ought to go to the army ; that if they were killed it would be less loss to their families and the country than if rich ones were. What think you of this, returned soldiers? | is not life as sweet to you as if you owned a ! carding mill ? Remember, this is one of the leaders of the Negro Equality party in this i county. ' SNAKE SEEING. SOLDIERS! Heads Up ' ■ Eyes Front ! / At the Aboli | lion convention recently held in Massachusetts, i Wendell Phillips, their great orator, let off the ! following: "NOW COMES THE CRISIS, WHAT IS THE NEGRO 1 WELL. I SAY, IN THE FACE OK ALL PREJUDICE, THAT AMID THE GALLANTRY, THE PATIENCE, THE HEROISM OF THIS WAR THE NEGRO BEARS THE PALM." (Great Applause.) Now, we call upon you, returned soldiers, to read and reflect on the cri-is which the IE-pub ! lican party of the United States have deterroin icd to force upon you. We appeal to the blood i of your ancestors, which courses through your i veins; we call upon 3011 in behalf of ourc-lit dren. to come forth at the approaching election, and by your votes vindicate the truth of his tory. Let it rot be cast up to your children j that the negro has displayed more gallantry, more patience , more heroism m this war than tke , while soldier. Wipe out the foul aspersion!— | Pat. cj- Union. [From the Ohio Statesman.] Soldiers' Letter to General Cox--They Ask Mm to Define Ms Position. Some days ago we learned, incidentally that a number of officers and soldiers, who have seen service during the late war, had addressed a letter to General Jacob Dolson Cox, the Re publican candidate for Governor asking him certain cpjgstions as to his views about Restora tion and Negro Suffrage. We have succeeded in procuring a copy of the letter, which we print below. We understand that it was hand ed to the General the day it was written; but it has not yet been answered, as we are inform ed. It is as follows: SOLDIERS' LETTER TO OEN. COX. COLUMBUS, 0., July 3d, 1805. MAJ. GEN. COX, Commanding 23d. Army Corps: DEAR SIR—As your fellow-soldiers and fel low-citizens, we congratulate you upon your nomination as a candidate for Governor of Ohio; and as comrades desiring your success, if there be a concurrence of our views on certain public questions of great interest, we address you this note. We are only soldiers, and know nothing of the tricks and schemes of politicians; and we therefore regret that the Convention which placed you in nomination failed to give expres sion of the views of the party on the subject of Reconstruction of the Union and Negro saf frage. It is true that the Convention in general terms indorsed the policy of Frcsident Johnson, but :t is equally true that a few hours after the | adjournment ol the Convention, GenoralScbenck. , declared in a speech in front of the Capitoi j that he was opposed to receiving the represen ( tatives of the Southern States into Congress, until they had shown their loyalty by giving the right of suffrage to the negro. He further said that "there were three c!as i ses of persons in the South—the arristocrats, | who were secessionists; the "white trash,' mean ; ing those loyal whites who have the misfortu nute to be poor, and "the negroes, who were loyal to the core." And if suffrage wasexten ped to either of these classes, he wished it to bo given to the negro. It is charged, General, that you are in favor of placing the negro apon a political equality with white soldiers, and white citizens. In order, therefore, to give you an opportu nity to vindicate yourself from charges of so I damaging a character, we ask you the follow ! ing questions: Ist. Are you in favor of restoring the South ;em States to all their rights in the Union, as proposed by President JohnsoD, even If the right of suffrage is not extended to the negro? 2d. Are you in favor of giving the negro the right to vote in Ohio, and to confer upon him all the other privileges of a citizen, either now, or at any future time! We feel it to be due to you to say that weare in favor of President Johnson's plan of recon struction; that we believe it to be the duty cf all loyal citizens to snstain the Government, and that wo are opposed to negro suffrage now, or at any fatnre time We are, respectfully, your comrade and fel low-citizens, F. S- PARKER, Capt. 88th 0. V. I. A. L. ANDERSON, " 14 " LW. NICHOLS, " " •' D. C. PATRICK, Adjt. " " M. G. W. SMITH, Sergt, 18th U. S- A A. 11. POTEN, late Lt-Col. Inv. Corps. J. V. CHILTON, Ist Lt. 88;h O. V. I. J. D. WILSON, IstLt. 44 " £D. LANE, late Sorgt. Ist Cov. U- S A J. H. PATTERSON, Ist Lr bf'i O P. Ivovr, Ist Lt. 88.ic ~- L. R. MARSHALL, J. M. WINGPRGIAR, ' " person who will advocate negro suf frage and negro equality, should be willing to ear. drink, and sleep with the negro.
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