BEDFORD GAZETTE.'
3.F. MEYERS, EDITOR.
ERISA* t SEPTEMBER 22, ISC3.J
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
STATE TICKET.
AUDITOR GENERAL.
(30L. W. W. H. DAVIS,
Of Bucks County
SURVEYOR GENERAL.
L'T, COL. J. P. LINTON,
Of Cambria County.
RERKESE.IT.VTIVEL,
A J COLBOKN, Somerset Co.,
GEORGE A. SMITH, Fulton Co
COUNTY TICKKT.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
JOHN CALMER, Bet ford Borough.
ASSOCIATE JUDOS,
W G. EICIIOLTZ. S. Woodberrr
i
TREASURER,
GEORGE MARDORFF, Bedford Bor.
COUNTY SURVEYOR,
B DONAHOE, Southampton-
JURY COMMISSION**,
I KEXSINGEIf, Liberty.
COMMISSIONER,
M. S KITCHEY, Snake Spring.
ROOR DIRECTOR, 3 years,
D. B ANDERSON, C Valley.
YOOR DIRECTOR, 2 vests,
SAMUEL BECKLEY, St. Clair.
AUDITOR,
JAMES MAITINGLY, Londonderry.
CORONER,
JOHN FILLER. E Providence.
1111
Is Negro Suffrage an Issue?
The Republican* in all the Hew England Stateg, in
lowa, and Minnesota, have directly, and in Pennsylvania
and Ohio, by implication, taken ground in favor of Negro
Suffrage. Ihe following are sentiments uttered by load
ing men in their organization and echoed by the Bedford
Inquirer:
"NOW COMES THE CRISIS, WHAT IS THE NE
GRO ? WELL. I SAY, IN THE FACE OF ALL PREJ
UDICE, 3HAT AMID IH£ GALLANTRY, 1 HE PA
TIENCE, THE HEROISM OF THIS WAR IHE NE
GRO BE ARS THE PALM."— Wendell Pkittipr
"WE NEED THE VOTES OF THE COLORED PEO
PLE; IT IS NUMBERS, NOT INTELLIGENCE. THAT
COUNTS AI THE BALLOT BOX."-// Wtnfr Davir
"WE ARE PLEADING EARNESTLY WITH THE
STATE TO ABOLISH THE DISTINCTION OF CASTE,
BY UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE WE SEE THAT THIS
WILL INEVITABLY LEAD TO THE EQUALITY OF
THE BLACK WITH THE WHITE: THE ELEVATION
OP THE NEGRO TO THE GOVERNORSHIP. THE SEN
ATORSI!IP BY THE SIDE OF ULS WHITE BROTH
ER."-!/. IV. Be-cker
"WE KNOW OF SEVERAL DOZEN OF COLORED
MEN THAT WE WOULD RATHER SEE MARCH TO
THE BALLOT-BOX AND CAST THEIR BALLOTS
THAN A.N EQUAL NUMBER OF COPPERHEADS WE
"'AN NAME — Bedford Inquirer, June 2, 1863.
Owl-Notes from ''Norland/'
What is the matter with Aleck McClure,
the gay and festive Aleck, the jocose son of
Momus, the fellow of infinite jest, who could
make light of even hia own disgraceful flight
byway of "Rutherford's Lane," when Jen
kins' troopers thundered into Chambersburg?
The philosopher of "Norland" has lost hi 3
equanimity. Nay, he seems to have been
suddenly entirely transformed. The gay
bird which so comfortably lined its ne3t with
feathers from the back of Uncle Sam's goose,
has doflbd its gay plumage, ceased its hap
py carols, and now wears the sombre mot
tle, and shrieks the wildest, harshest notes,
of that most melancholy of the feathered
tribe, known in vulgar ornithology, as the
screech-owl. The shades of "Norland" no
more resound with gladsome chirpings; the
grounds of that classic spot are no longer
enlivened by gaudy hues and the flap of
glittering wings. All is gloom and sadness
in the home of the Abolition prophet, "Tu
whit! Tu hoo!" is the sad refrain that con
tinually proceeds from that domus Urroris.
Alas! Poor Aleck! '' Where be yonr gibes,
now? your gambols? your flashes of mer
riment that were won't to set the table on a
roar?" Thing 3 of the past, every one of
them! Nothing but the unrelieved, woe-in
spiring, sorrowful notes of the doleful owl,
nothing but a melancholy mockery or the
merry days of Government contracts, now
proceeds from the gloomy halls of "Nor
land." Even the columns of the Franklin
Repository are tinged with a shade of this
ineffable sadness. Its editor is so full of
grief that he not only bewails the prospec
tive downfall of his own party, but sheds
crocodile tears over what he affects to think
the alarm of the Democracy. In his issue
of last week, appeared a whole column of
"gushing" sympathy with the Democrats
of this county, inspired, no doubt, by the
prospect of his party spedfldy occupying
the same position, "out in the cold," which
has, during four years and a half been the
lot of the National Democracy. But we
doubt waether poor Aleck's, grief la ia any
degree caused by his solicitude far ths wel
fare of Democrats, iudiviiually, or collec
tively. We account for it only on the ground
that he ha 3 eeen the hand-writing on the
wall, which reads, to his mind's eye, in
plainest cliaracters, THE ABOLITION* PARTY
HAS BEEN "WEIGHED IN" THE BALANCES AND
IS FOUND WASTING." That is what's the
raitter with Aleck M'Clu'f. That is the
cause ot the gloom in the M.pository otfice.
Thatia the reason why tko ovvi hoot 3 in the
shades of Norland. Who can "minister
to the mind diseased," especially when the
malady i 3 that which makes the sufferer
"feel it in his bones," that he is fore-doom
ed politically to die? Who can heal the
rankling*wound pierced by the arrow of that
fate which dashes to the ground the Ambi
tion fed and sustained by the very life-blood
of the soul? For this there is no balm in
Gilead, no physician there."
"Not poppy, nor mandragora.
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world
Shalt ever medicine
the man thus smitten, "to that sweet sleep"
which once he "owed." That McClure has
fallen under this afflictive dispensation, does
not admit of doubt. His change of man
ner is as sudden, as it is complete ; his gloom
is as profound as his vivacity formerly was
striking. Our diagnosis of his case cannpt
be incorrect. It is based upon symptoms
which have never deceived us, and we are
continued> in our judgment, by the follow
ing which appeared, double-leaded, in last
week's Repository:
"They (the Democrats) will poll their full vote la the
North-east, they will do quite as writ as last year There
u not a "kulking conscript who will not now return to
vote in behalf of the remnant of the treason whoso trt
atnpn he sought to insure by deserting honor, home and
country lu defimce of the law justly disfranchising
tbcic, they wilt vote, and swell tho thousands of majority
which so nearly made Pennsylvania a suicide one year
ago Other thousands in Schuylkill, Luzerne, Carb n,
Lehigh, Northampton, Monroe, Pike and Wayne, who
have aoncealed or postponed their naturalization until
now, ju order to evade the defence of the government
•hoy have adopted, will now swarm upon the- assessments
and rejoice with the Hughes's, Reeds. Woodwards, Ac ,
when taeir immense majorities are announced.
In tho Southern counties—those South of the Juniata
and Susquehanna and East of the Allegtienies, we cannot
materially improve the October vote of last year. It is
possible to reduce the crushing majorities of York, Cum
berland, Adauts, Fulton and Bedford a thousand; but
more is not to he expected—less may be the result.
Philadelphia must fall off essentially iu her vote, be
cause the vast manufactuiing for tfre army has been al
most wholly arrested, and thousands of government em
ployees aad operatives on government work of various
kind*, have been scattered in other channels of industry
over tne country. Their reduction must diminish the largo
Union majority of last year from 2,500 to 3,000, and liio
adjoining county of Delaware can scarcely fail to be sim
ilarly affected by the same causes.
ihe success of the Union ticket depends wholly on the
organisation and full voteuf Lancaster, Dauphin, Somer
set. Bradford, Susquehanna. Tioga, Erie, Crawford. Indi
ana, Lawrence, Allegheny, Ac. It these Union strong
holds shall be systematically and thoroughly organized
and polled, ws sualtearry the State by a decisive major
ity. If ihey fail, as they did last year in October, the
State will inevitably be lost."
White Heroes of the War!
Remember that the Abolitionists call you
'•Copperheads," because you will not sub
scribe to their Negro Suffrage doet-ine;
and remember, also, that the Bedford In
quirer said, in its issue of June 2, lfebo,
that it knew of "SKYERAL DOZEN OF
COLORED MEN THAT WE (the edi
tors of the Inquirer) WOULD RATIIER
SEE MARCH TO THE BALLOT BOX
AND CAST THEIR BALLOTS THAN
AN EQUAL NUMBER OF COPPER
HEADS WE CAN NAME. I
White Men!
Remember that llenry Winter Davis, one
of the leaders of the Abolition party, said
in a speech on the Fourth of July last, at
Chicago,
"WE NEED THE VOTES OF ALL THE COL
ORED PEOPLE. IT IS NUMBERS, NOT INTEL
LIGENCE, THAT COUNTS AT THE BALLOT
BOX."
Veterans!
Remember that the Bedford Inquber, of
April 7, 1865, in announcing the fall of
Richmond, gave the credit of taking the
rebel capital to the negroes, in this lan
guage :
"NEGRO TROOPS OCCUPY RICHMOND—
THEY ARE WELCOMED WITH JOY BY THE
INHABITANTS !"
Bear In Mind
That the Abolition platform contains a res
olution declaring that the Southern States
"must be held in subjugation," which
would require a standing army of 150,000
men, which would cost the Government
hundreds of millions of dollars every year.
We say let those States come into the
Union, as they now want to do, and let
the loyal people raise their own militia, as
they are no w doing in Mississippi, and pre
serve order at their own expense.
Soldiers
Remember that the Abolition Platform does j
not eay one word against Negro suffrage, i
but that THIRTY Abolition papers, in
cluding the BEDFORD INQUIRER, havej
declared, in favor of that infamous doc
trine f
It is False!
It h untrue that the Democrats of Bedford
county voted, as a party, against the amend
ment to the Constitution permitting the soldiers ;
to vote iu the uriny. Some of them voted for
it; some against it. This shows for itself. The'
Democratic majority, last fall, in this county
was upwards of 600. The umendment had
about 400 majority in this county, showing that •
a large number of Democrats must have voted
for it. We defy the Inquirer, as we have
done several tiroes already, to publish the "yeas
and nay a" in the House, on the passage of the
amendment. We also defy it to PROVE that
any candidate on the Democratic ticket voted
against the amendment. If it cannot do this,
let its editors bold their pence, for shame!
Ths Fifty-Fifth Siightad'
The Bedford Inqwrtr has not notice I 1 re
turn of this glorious old regiment whose bat
tle-scarred veterans were mustered out of the {
service somo weeks ago. Our attention was
called to this fact by a member of the regi- '
ment Doubtless, the Inquirer does not relish t
the return of the 55th, as a large majority of |
its tnamoers are Democrats
Compare Tliem I
Compare the Democratic and Abolition tick
ets and what do w find ? Col. Davis, Demo
crat, for Auditor General, a hero of two ware,
with his right hand shot off at the siege of
Charleston; Gen. Hartranft, Abolitionist, for
the same office, hangman of Mrs. Surratt, af
ter stating to the President that he believed her
an innocent woman. Next, for Surveyor Gen
era!, Col. Linton, Democrat, suffering from
paralysis occasioned by a dozen wounds re
ceived in battle; Col. Campbell, holiday sol
dier, without a single scar upon his body.
Then, we have for Representatives two of the
ablest lawyers, (Messrs. Colborn and Smith) in
this legislative district. Against these the Ab
olitionists have pitted Messrs. Ross and Arm
strong, noted only for what they didn't dr, when
members last year. As for rhe county ticket,
we challenge comparison, from beginning to
end Citizens of Bedford county! The Dera-
ocrats offer you a splendid ticket, from Auditor
General to Coroner 1 Vote it from top to bot
tom, without a name erased, or a letter altered.
Remember that SOLID SHOT make a hole
wherever they hit!
Mark the Difference!
Tfce Abolition St.ite Convention declare,"
I'hat bating conquered Ibe rebellious States, they
should be held in subjugation," dec. Now, it j
is one thing to suppress an insurrection, or re-1
bellion, and quite another to conquer a state. —
The former pre-supposes a foreign enemy—tie
latter a domestic one. Was then our recent wtr j
a conquest of foreign temtorg, or was it the sup-1
pression of rebellion against the Government !
by a portion of the American peojile t The j
Abolitionists s;ty that it was a conquest of for- j
eign states, and, therefore, admit the right */'se-.
cession. For, if those states, had not the right (
to secede, how could they have become foreign?
Now, what citizen who is opposed to reccgniz- 1
ing the light of secession, can vote for the Ab-!
< li ion candidates, who are placed upon a plat-.
form which does recognize it?
Cheating.
We have reliable information that the Abo
litionists are planning a scheme to cheat, on an
■extensive scale, at the coming election. Qio of
their games is, if possible, to buy up me t. who
will not he suspected by Democrats to giot out
Abolition and mixed tickets! He on ; our
guard ! We are on ti.e track of the scoundrels
who are trying this game of corruption. If
they attempt to put it in practice we will not
only expose them, but the law will be rigidly
enforced against them.
Look at the Record.
The Demcraiic party have now in the Jteld
as candidates, Maj. Gen. Sloeum, for Secretary
of State of New York, Maj. Gen. Rnnyon.
for Governor of New Jersey, Maj. Gen. Mor
gan, for Governor of Ohio, Col. T. H. Benton,
for Governor of lowa, and Cols. Davis and
Linton, for Auditor General and Surveyor
General of Pennsylvania. Can socii a party
be unfriendly to the Soldiers?
"Skulkers," "Cowards," (tec.
The A i lolitioni.sts cal thesoldiers "fkulkera,"
"cowards," and other hard names, because
they are opposed to Negro Suffrage. This is
the reward they give the bravo men who did
the fighting, whilst these admirers of the e
--gro remained snugly at home.
Secession !
The Abolition state Convention admit the
right of Secession. Their candidates, Hartrauft
and Campbell, stand upon a platform admitting
it. Tliaddeus Stevens, in his recent speech at
Lancaster, admits it. But Andy Johnson and
the Democrats do not admit it. Every nan
who votes the Abolition ticket, as sure as there
is ag un tn heaven, votes to endorse the right of
secession /
Assess the Soldiers.
Kemember that SATURDAY, SEPT. 30,
is (lie last day on which any votep can be le
gally assessed. 'Canvass your neighborhood and
see whether any Democrat is not assessed, and
if so, have his narue at once placed upon the
Duplicate of the Assessor of his district. Be
particularly careful to hate the soldiers assess
| ed, as they cannot vote on the soldier tax paid
! by them last year.
Beware!
:!s are now being circulated by the Ab
olitionists, with all the Democratic candidates,
names upon them, except that of John Palmer
fur District Attorney; others, with all except
that of George Ifurdorff, for Treasurer: others
! with all except the natne of W- G Ewholtz,
for Associate .fudge; others, with all except the
nartie of 'Patrick Donahoe for County Surveyor;
others with all except the name of Michael S..
Ri'chey, for Commissioner; and other mixtures, |
from the State Ticket down to Coroner. Be- ;
ware of these boguß- tickets! Take no ticket j
from any man unless you know him to be a ]
; sound and reliable Democrat,
$30,000!
liemembcr that the Democratic Commission
ers have paid off within three years, the boun
ty debt of nearly $25,000 and the John Briee
luAu oi #}-,t>OU!—thirty thousand dollars Of
debt paid tn three years I Awarding to this
ratio,, in a year and a half more, under Demo -
cratic management, -the whole county debt will
jbe paid. Lbcreiore, vote for MiCfiA&£' &■
i RITCHEY, for Commissioner, who is an bon
ed und efficient business 'man and will do hit,
; he can to get the cuunty out of debu
"JUSHOE " —The article of our triend "Jus
j tiee," from C. Valley, eaipe to hand after our
"tonn was made up and we are compelled to
deter it till next week. WQ will always be
j glad to hear from "JuEtice "
| Address of the Democratic State Com
mittee,
HON. W. A WALLACE, Chairman of the
Democratic S'ate Committee, has issued an R
ble ana admirable address to the people of Penn
sylvania. We have not room f ."the whole of
| it, but make the following - -.ion ri.na it, to
which ve iaiitn the close attention of the rea
ders.
NLQRO EQCALITY AND NEGBO SETT RAO E.
Negro equality and negro suffrage are no
longer a mythical issue, but are part of the
j vital, practical realities of tiic present hour. —
i They are demanded by the black ma?i; they
are advocated by white men in power in the
j National Government, and we charge that they
! are endorsed and sanctioned by a large majori
: ty of the Republican party of the North, in*
; eluding those who govern and control that par
ty in Pennsylvania. Let us examine some of
J the evidences upon which we found this charge.
! The States of Maine, New Hampshire. Ver
mont, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, by
j constitutional provision, give the black man
the unrestricted right of suffrage. These States
. are all under Republican control, and their
politicians lead the van in the crusade they hope
is to result in the degradation of the white race
to the level of the black,
j The Senate of the United Slates, on the 81st
] of March, 18t54 (see Cvn<p\S3ional Globe, p
1391), had betore it a bill for the construction
of the territory of Montana. Mr. Wilkinson
moved to strike from the second line of the fifth
j section (which defined the qualification of vo
{ ters) the words, "white male inhabitant," and
! insert the words, "male citizen of the United
{ States," Ac., which was agreed to as follows:
J YEAS: Messrs. Brown, Chandler, Clark,
I Collamer, Conncss, Dixon, F-sserxlen, Root,
j Foster. Grimes, Hale, Harlan, Harris, How*
| ard, Howe, iVlorgan, Morrill, Pomeroy, Sumner.
i Wade, Wilkinson, 22.
NAYS : Messrs. Bucknlew, Garble, Cowan,
; Davis, Harding, Henderson, Johnson, Lane,
1 Nesmith, Powell, Riddle, Saulsbtiry, Sherman.
1 Ten Eyek, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Wiltey, 17.
Those who thus voted to place black men on
! an equality with the white in one of the rich
■ est territories of the Union, will readily be re
; cognized as the leaders of the Republican party
I in the Senate.
This subject came up in the House of Rep
.sesentatives on the loth of April, 1861, (Con
gressional Globe , n. 1655), the motion pending
being the appointment of a Committee of Con
ference on the disagreement between the Sen
ate and I louse on striking out the word "white."
Mr Webster moved "that said committee be
instructed to agree to no report that authori
zes any other than free white male citizens to
vote '' In the question of the adoption of
these instructions, tiie following named Kepub
lican Congressmen from Pennsylvania voted
SAY: Messrs. Broomall, Kelley, Myers. O'N. ill,
Stevens, Thayer, and Williams. No Petio-y 1-
vania Republican voted YEA.
The Republican Stale Convention of Maine,
lately in session, in the Bth resolution, declares
in favor of negro suffrage, as follows: " 1 hat
the emancipation proclamation of President
Lincoln, the enlistment of over 100,000 color
ed troops, the good faith of the colored race a
mid treason, and their being paid like whites
and placed in the most dangeiou3 places, has
pledged the national honor that these people
shall have in fact, as well as name, conferred
on them all the political rights of freedom, and
that the people of the United States will redeem
this pledge."
The Republican Conventions of the States
of lowa and Vermont have emphatically en
dorsed the doctrines of negro equality and ne
gro suffrage, and placed their candidates square
ly upon that platform.
H. Winter Davis of Maryland, at Chicago,
Baiu:
We need the votes of the colored people • if a
numbers not intelligence, thd counts at the
bollot-b x—it is the right intention, and not
the philosophic judgment, that casts the vote
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in the Indepen
dent of recent date, says:
We are pleading earnestly with the State to
abolish the distinction of caste by universal
suffrage. We.see that this will inevitably lead
not to the end the present Governor of Louisi
ana declares—the surrender of that country to
the black man, — but to the equality of black
with the white; the occupancy of office without
regard to color; the elevation of the negro to
the governorship, the senators hip, the j udtrs hip
I by the side of his whiter kindred; the obliter
ation of all marks of distinction and separa
tion between men and men.
These are representative men of the Repub
lican party, and they have fully endorsed this
doctrine. Crawford county, at her convention
! held at Mcudvillc, Juno '27, 1865, resolved
! that
! Loyalty to the goverumeut should be the
; only test of the right of suffrage—those who
haVe fought to preserve the Union on the Held
of battle, whether white or black, are certain
!ly worthy and fit to protect it through the
ballot-box —it is unworthy the age in which we
live to deprive men of voting who sustain the
government by their treasure abd blood.
The Republican County Conventions of North
ampton, Union and Alleghany have aiso broad
ly endorsed these doctrines.
The question of the right of the negro to so
cial equulity was before the Legislature of Penn
sylvania at its last session. On the Bth day
of Feb., 1865, the bill to prevent any passen
ger railway company from excluding colored
people from their cars came up in the Senate
ami finally passed that body. Seventeen Re
publicans (all who voted) voted for the bill,
and fourteen Democrats against it. It was
sent to the House for concurrence; and on the
"23d of March, 1865, it came up in the House
on a motion to discharge the committee. Forty
six Republicans voted yea, and twenty-eight
Democrats voted nav (See Leg. Rec-, pagee
210 and 712)
Nearly all ihe prominent Republican news
papers of t fie State have also avowed them
selves faVorahle' to negro suffrage and negro
equality,.arid yet, strange to say, the Repub
lican State Convention failed to meet the is
! sue, and seek to conceal their true; sentiments
beneath the ambiguous wording of s resolu
tion. third resolution declares that the
Southern people safely be entrusted
with ihe ■political rights which they forfeited
by tlieir treason', until they have proven their
acceptance of the results of the war by incor
porating them in constitutional provision#, and
securing to all men within their borders their
; inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pur
suit of happiness."
\ Who so blind as not to see that this may or
| so#7 not be a declaration in favor of negro
suffrage? Can ncy rnnn doubt what this mean 3
when he remembers tliat Thaddeu3 Stevens,
th • radical leader of the last National House o!
Representatives, was a prominent member oi
that Convention? Canary man doubt what
Henry C. Johnson, the President of that Con
vention, meant and expressed when he declar
ed the passage of this two-faced resolution, it
he remembers that Mr. Johnson received his
credentials from that very convention in Craw
ford county which declared that "loyalty siiou'd
be the only test of the right of suffrage U ;
I'crmsj Ivamars! the Serb us import trice of :! e
issue involved- rnd a just regard for your to
telligence, demand a manly declaration of opin
ion upon thi? subject; but the leaders of the
Republican party kr.ow your detestation ol
their degrading doctriues. and they seek to ob
tain by double dealing your support to senti
ments i hey dure not avow.
The problem of the capacity of man. the
white man, for self-government i-< be'ng solved
in the hisiory of the American Republic, and
if? the face of the recent exhibition of Ihe phy
sical and mental qualities ot the Caue i-ian race,
in view of the mighty power of the nation n
displayed in the heroism, endurance and in
domitable energy of the white soldier of our ar
mies, and in the stupendous sacrifice of the
blood and treasure of the people, the Democra
cy of Pennsylvania unhesitatingly announce
their belief ir its successful result. "We will
not acknowledge the incapacity of our own
race to govern itself, nor surrender the <l. tiny
of the country into the hands of negroes, in>r
put ourselves under tiieir guardianship, rmr
give up to them the political privileges which
we inherited from our father? Whether the
blood of the Anglo-Saxon, the Celt or the Teu
ton flows in oui veins, there are but few -
motig us who du not feel it tingle with a thrill
of just skorne when it is pronounced lo be only
the equal of the negro ot Dahomey or of Con
go. Call thij prejudice, or what you may, it
exists, ana'he statesman who desires the peace,
the happiness and the prosperity of both race*,
cannot ignore it. Give the black man equal
jioliticai rights in our country and you give
!ilm equal social right*. Give him equal pol
itical rights and you multiply the points of
contrast betwt; n ilie races, and the weaker and
inferior mu*t j it'l l place to the stronger and
superior. The law mn.<t recognize hi* equali
ty or hi* inferiority: there is no middle ground
We believe in lite superiority of our race, and
we are unwilling to degrade ourselves either
socially or politically.
RETRENCHMENT.
'iiie Democratic party have ever been zeal
ous for the preservation of the national credit,
and this hour demand rigid economy ir. the ex
penditure of the public money and a prompt
revision of our cumbrous and inquisitorial sys
tem of taxation; a just regard for an already
burihened people demands that a horde of Fed
eral office-holders, assessors and tax-collectors
he dispnrscd with, and the machinery of the
Stale Governments used in their army, whist
the private soldier is discharged and sent to iiis
hotre, also imposes additional and unnecessary
burdens upon the people. Can the people ex
pect these reforms to come whilst the men who
ereated the abuses remain in power ?
The Democracy of Pennsylvania have no
reply to make to denunciavon or invective
They refer with pride to their record during
the past four years. Like the historic people
of the Scriptures, whilst engaged in the repair
of the walls that protected their H.'ly City,
they have with one hauu engaged in earnest
toil in protecting and preserving the Constitu
tion and laws of their country, whilst the oth
er grsspes the sword that aided in destroying
those who violently assailed them. Amid the
blandishment" of power, the persecutions of of
ficial tyranny and the corrupt and reckless use
of trie public money, they have been evre bold
in the expression of their opinions, and have
unswervingly maintain'd their principles and
their integrity. During that time they have
once elected their ticket, twee carried the
State on the home vote, and at the last elec
tion polled over 267,000 votes for the candi
date of (heir choice.
Such a body of men, tried, determined, and
organized, a unit in support of their glorious
principles, must ever be in power in the Suite,
and will be feared by its enemies, and respect
ed bv nil.
Men of Pennsylvania! the issues are before
you. fraught with the greatest consequences to
yourselves, your country, and t our r ice Weigh
well your action, cud decide as white freeman
should.
By order of the Ocaoc-atie Statu Central
Committee.
WM. A. WALLACE,
Sep 8. 1865 Chairman.
Guata Buzz : ng Around Gol. W, H. H.
Davis and aro Crushed— Tne Colonel
id Tempted to Shoot at Some Very
Small Game—But He Brings it Down,
DOYLESTOWN, PA , Sept, ItSth, 186.0.
EDITORS OF rue AGE:
My attention has been called to the following
article, published in the Press, cf your city, ot
| the 15ih insi., viz:
"The flarrisburg Te,lf graph savs: Col. W.
W . if. Davis, tiie Copperhead candidate fur
| Auditor General, has now resumed full charge
[of the Doylealown Ihmorrat, a newspaper
which he has owned for many years, and which
heretofore and now sympathizes with the reb
' els. The peculiar force of the Democat, since
Col. Davis has returned to preside over its col
umns, consists in asserting that the rebels have
not been whipped; that they should be received
back to the Union with ail their righ's restored;
that slavery is not and never can be abolished,
and that, in justice to the rebels, the debt which
they incurred in struggling for their "rights" is
as legal as the debt which was piled on the
people by the national authorities while waging
a crusade on the peopb of the Sonth; and if
the national debt is to be paid, so also must the
debts of the Southern States be liquidated."
Mendacity cannot go beyond this. All that
is printed above is a stupendous UE, from be
ginning to end. I never thought, uttered, or
j advocated such sentiments, nor were they ever
published in the Demoiral. In a late issue* of
the Harrisburg Telegraph that paper also char- }
pes me with opposing the amendment to the j
Constitution giving soldiers the right to vote, j
This is as base a ire as the other. At the time J
of the election I was at Danville, suffering from ,
a severe wound, but made it my business to go :
to Dojlestown to vote, and voted for the amend
ment. The Backs County Intelligencer of the
9th of August, 1004, said:
"Gen. John Davis, of Southampton, and his
son, Col. W. VV. H Davis, both voted open
ly for the amendment "
The Doylestown Democrat did not oppoeo 1
: lie tjmor.dtnrtt. Tie Bvtfc* County IaiSLMKI
' ORNCEH, the Republican organ of this county
I is the only newspaper in Rucks to ray knowl
j edge that ever opposed the right of soldiers to
! vote. The following article is Irom that paper
I of November 1 'I, 1861, v iz;
J "The State law of l'eiiris>lvania, providing
for Xlie holding of elections in military eucsttup
ln'-nts, though doubt lean enacted with good mo
tives, has been productive of great evil and
contention. Until trie October election, there
had never been an opportunity of testing it,
operations. \ oting v.- .s then carried on in ccott.
<>fthe Pennsylvania regiments at the scat o
war. or encamped el-e where at a distance frora
home In many cases the votes were honest
ly received and counted, and the result properly
certified and returned to their legal authorities
In others and particularly in the regiments par
t! v or wholy farmed in Philadelphia, the elec
tions were conducted in a most shameful and
i rascally manner. Some of the regimental ro
i turns show hundre s of votes for candidates on
! one ticket, whiD those of opposite politics receive
■ lew or none. As the result in the *eitv itself
j was duubtiul. and the candidates were likely
|to be elected or defeated by the array vote,
j there were strong inducements off-red for cor
; rupt politicians lo practice their villanuus art?,
i h now sceuis probable that the ditKcuitieg thus
raised will have ta be settled by the courts, nt
ilieco'-t >f great iabor and much time We
! hope the Legislature will prevent such EVIL
iin future by the TOTAL AUOLITION OF
jEi.ixi JONS IN UA.MIV
I cannot account fur the malignant hostility
jof the editor of the Hurriehurg Telegraph
j ward me, except because my gran Ifather tv°;
one of the soldi rs that captui-'l toe Hos-i.,nj
jat Trenton in 1 770. .Mr. B rgner is very loth
i to forget old grievances. *
W. W H. Davi?
'"Notice to Skedadlers."
| Under the above caption we notice that the
Abolition papers are taking particular puins to
i frighten certain p. rsuit* from attending the e
lection. Let no man be frightened or deterred
j from attending the election by any threat that
the Abolitionists may make. Persons who
the draft, if they fie otherwise qualified are
ju-t as legal voters under the Constitution and
laws of Pennsylvania as any other persons.
, A- the Abolitionists have published a great
deal and talked a great deal about preventing
•skedndit r ," as thev call them, from voting ,u
: the corning election, we desire to give notion
that if any Judge, or Inspector, or eh-clion
, board shall reject the vote of any qualified vo
ter. he or they will be prosecuted n. the full
extent of the law. VVe do not mean this as
any idle threat, but as what we know to be
firm and settled resolution. And in order that
no man may plead ignorance on the sublet, we
give be ow tlie law regulating the qualification
of voters rod the punishment for rejecting tba
votes of qualified electors :
Section 1 of A ticie 3d, of the Constitution
f Pcnnsvlvani i read- as follows : "In elections
o\ the citizens every WHITE freeman of the age
of twenty one years, having resided in this State
one year, and in the election district where he
offers to vote, ten days immediately preceding
such elecii HIS. and within two years paid a
Stato or County tax, # w-BVcb Btl Uvc lie
sesse 1 at least ten days before the election, shall
enjoy tlie rights of an elector."
This is the supreme law of Pennsylvania
regulating the qualification of voters. Now
fhr the penalty of rejecting the vote of a qun
ified elector :
The 103 rd Section of thp Act of Assembly
of July 2d, 1830, Pardon's Digest, page 381,
reads as follows : "If any Inspector or Judge
of an election sbail knowingly reject the vote
of any qualified citizen, each of the persons ?t>
offtnding shall, on conviction, be fined in any
sum not less than fifty, nor more than twohun
dred dollars "
The law i clear, and Judges and Inspectors
arc foquired to take notice of its provisions.—
We say to every man who is qualified to vote
under the Constitution of Pennsylvania, go to
the polls and off r your vote. If it be rejected
the election board will he indicted and punish
ed according to law. This may be depended
upon and all persons interested are requested In
take notice of this announcement. — Oehtvs of
i Liberty.
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i it a UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT STAMP
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• September I—lno.
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AUDITORS NOTICE. ~~
The ander.-ignedappointed by the Orphans' Court
; of Bedtord County, to distribute the balance in '!>•
hands of Wilson Nycum, Administrator of the E
| tare of J. N) cum, lateof Monroe township, dscsswh
• will attend ror that purpose at his office in Bedford*
! on Friday, Oct. 13th, !Sdflat2 o'clock P. M. woe®
. and where ail persons interested can attend if th??
think prcp-r. M. A. POINTS, Auditor.
AUDITORS NOTICE
j The undersigned appointed by the Court cf'Ctw*
; mon Pleas of Bedford County, to disfributs ksl*
ance in the hands of John Cessna, Esq., trusts? fot
certain specified creditors of H. S, King, will s! "
tend to the duties of his appointment at hi*
in Bedford on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 1983, at ii> 0 '
clock A. M., when and where all persons intsre*t
ed may attend, if they thtak proper.
M. A. POINTS.
• - , Au'iMT
ITIII.IO SALEI
j . ' JoSfN AISIF< AOOTIOSTSIS-
The aebseriber will offer at public !• at i !
' resides -p in St. Clair township, 011 Wednesday Oct-
I tober ilth, 186 ft, Two Head of Horses, Oao PW
j born Wagon, Buggy & two sete Harness. Seven
: Ml lob Cows, Ten bead of fat Cattle, Six fat
and a lot of Sheep. Windmill, Cutting box andStee.
Beds, Bedsteads aad bedding,"four Cupboards, t<* l '
Bureaus,
Dining tables, Breakfast fable br ebairs, two CT
per Kettles, a lot of Carpetinz together withagre a
variety of Household and Kitchen furniture n
, other aiticle too ntiTrooi to in.eit—dale to cp
j mence at 9 o'clock of said day.—A reasonable creu*
lit will be giren. NATHAN 11. W'OLu-
September 2®nd, JSbft.