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.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.