gltt |h(ltal ferlte. Friday Morulas' Nrplrnibor 21. is. Democratic and National Union Nominations. STATE TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR, Hou. HIESTER CLYMER. OF r.KKKS cor.NTV. DISTRICT TICKET. * FOR CONGRESS, J. McD. SI I All PE, of Franklin co'y. FOR SENATOR, B. F. MEYERS, of Bedford county. FOR ASSEMBLE. 11l BAM FINDLAY, of Somerset co. COUNTY TICKET. PROTHONOTARY, O. E. SHANNON, of Bedford Bor. SHERIFF. ItOBT.STECKMAN, of Bloody Run. ASSOCIATE JIRGB. GEORGE W. GUMP, of Napier. . COMMISSIONER, DAVID lIOWS A RE, of Sontham pt< >n POOR DIRECTOR, MICHAEL DIEIIL, of Colerain. AUDITOR, JOIiN I). LUCAS, of Bloody Run. jt ELECTION, TUESDAY, Oct. 9. FOR ASSF.HBI.Y. We arc authorized to announce Col. John H. Filler of Bedford county, as an independent can didate for Assembly, subject to the decision of the people on the second Tuesday of October next. gilt (I'lirabcr. A CAMPAION PAPER. The undersigned are publishing a campaign paper entitled "The Climb er," the first number of which was issued on the 7th of July inst., and which will be continued until the Gub ernatorial election in October. This publication is devoted to the support of President Johnson's Resto ration Policy and the election of such eandidatesas are openly in favor of -u— --tabling that policy. It contains -ix teen columns of matter and is filled with racy editorials and the spiciest articles of the campaign. No conser vative politician should be without it. It will be embellished with POR TRAITS OF PRESIDENT JOHN SON, Hon. HIESTER CLYMER and other eminent patriots and statesmen, and will contain a number of humorous political illustrations. REDUCED TERMS: Ten copies toone address, cash in advance. §4.00 Twenty " " " 5.00 Less than ten copies to one address, 40 ets per copy. Get up your clubs and send in your orders at once. No attention paid to any order unless accompanied by the cash. Person- getting up ehiljs should 156 particular to specify In thVir orders th' name of the person to whom they wish the package addressed, as all the papers in the club will be sent to one person for distribution. Addr< MEYERS & MENDEL, Bedford, Pa. ORGANIZE! Democrats! But u little over two wvks remain in whieh to do the work which will insure us victory. There is much yet to be done. Appoint your election committers., (let ready to man the polls! Make your arrange ments to yet out every vote. Let ev ery man have his particular duty as signed him and in order to have this done, let the working Democrats of each election district meet together and appoint the "right man for the right place." Don't delay this a single day! Have the polls properly man ned on Election-day! See that there j> no cheating! Attend to the doubt ful and wavering? Appoint a chal lenger for every poll! Clear the decks and strip for action ! Til IKV US AM> Hill. KOIIREKS. There are a few Radical Postmasters in this county who will most probably i>e prosecuted for robbiny the mails. — Several hundred National 1*11:011 Doc uments that were carefully directed to parties who knew they were coming, could not be had at the proper otiiee, when enquired for. The time is not far off when a few of these double-dyed scoundrels who can violate their oath of of lice and rob the mails of campaign documents to gratify their partisan ma lignity, will be culled to account for their crimes and be punished as they deserve. __________________ a OKsemt i if, <;vni:: Trfulhiiigr of Tickrln! ! The Radicals have settled down on one or two of their candidates, for whom they will make an effort to trade off the balance. Democrats, of course, will Ik* on their guard. Make no trades. When a Radical approaches you with a proposition that he will vote for one of our men if you vote for one of theirs, tell him you "can't see it!" for, the Democracy of Bedford county have the power, and intend to elect their whole ticket by an overwhelming majority. Ar 11.nail the Radical blowing about Vermont, the Democrats have really gained *>u per cent on their vote last year, and the same is true of Maine. Why don't the Rad*. toll their people aliout California, Idaho, Colorado, Kentucky alld Washington ? Kb? KOO! IIOO! HOOt Filler I'luylnir in(n 51<> H.'omlh of Ihr C|i]M'rli<'a<ls !"* W hat A IMty ! • ! Those wonderfully particular friends of the soldier, the scribblers for the Bedford Inquirer, indulge, in their last issue, in a most pitiful jeremiad in re lation to the course of Col. Filler in of fering himself as the independent- can didate for the legislature. We are no apologist for Col. Filler's past politir.d conduct, neither do we deem it necessa ry to defend his presenteourseasacan didatefor public office, lie is an inde pendent man, as well as an independent candidate, and is abundantly able to take care of himself. But the Inquirer lugs in our name as a bug-a-boo to frighten away timid people from the sup}rt of Col. Filler. Oh! "B. F. Meyers!" this "B. F. Meyers!" what a terrible thing ii. is that "it. F. Meyers" should be in favor of any body's elec tion! "B. F. Meyers" who "opposed the war and the soldiers!" "15. F. Meyers," who played the devil with every thing in general and the editors of the Inquirer\n particular! <>f course, the soldiers will be frightened at the very idea and will give Col. Filler the ; widest berth possible! But, Durbor rowfe Lutz, what's thense to lie? You know that this terrible follow, "B. F. Meyers," never, nerer "opposetl the soldiers." You know thathecontribu ted hundreds of dollar- to the bounty fund of Bedford borough, you know that he went out with Capt. Lyons, Capt. Met/gar, Capt. Baughmunand others, and helped them to recruit, you know that this same "B. F. Meyers," j when in the Legislature, got up a Com ! in it tee, of which he was chairman, to | improve the condition of Camp Curtin, ! so that it might be lit for the reception of the returning veteran-, you know that he offered a resolution in the House 1 of Representatives to instruct the mem bers of Congress from Pennsylvania to : vote for an increase of the pay of pri ; vale soldiers, you know that he voted for the Amendment to give the soldiers the right to vote in the army, and know ing these things, why do you wilfully state the contrary and pervert a record which is better than yours ever was, i toward the soldier? Why? Not be cause you hope to injure "B. F. j Meyers." Your lies about him are an old song and nobody pays any atten tion to them. But, because by associ ating him with Col. Filler, you hope |to strike at a gallant soldier, whose popularity you dread, and who, you j fear, will not, if elected, do your bid ding, or that of the. clique in Bedford j borough, to which you belong. That lis all! But howl away, and blow a wav, and lie ahead ! You can't hurt a I hair of Col. Filler's head, and a-for ! "B. F. Meyers," you can lather away : at Aim just as much as you please, for ten years service upon the battle-fields j of politics has made him bullet-proof, at least as against the paper pellets of such Lilliputians a- thos • who do the scribbling and lying for the Bedford Inquirer. AI. IIIUII its I.EAIU E. Ml. :".*• I'fir Hoys in Black: Aiioliicr (i.-aiiil Kaciical "lass flvcliii!."! i;i<inct SpcccUcs by H<■. rs. < V>ona and ulhrrs! A While Man ISriCalS.i I'ralcn ! On Thursday last the eyes of the good people of Bedford wore opened to | the fact which we have often announ ced, that tiie colored people in this neighborhood have a secret hu/ue, the ! object of which is to obtain eijual jo --! litical and social rights with the white I man. On that day the negroes of this ' neighborhood belonging to the league, j hold a meeting in the woods above town, whither they marched in proces sion, wearing paper badges bearing the inscription, "E<|ual Rights League, No. gs." Their meeting was addres-- jedby J. T. Keagy, J. i. Cessna and . others of the Radical spouters in this ; neighborhood. Toward evening the | colored gentlemen became ipiite dem j onstrative. Captain Whisky having as- I sumed command of their forces, and as I our old friend, Nehemiali Fleegh-, a re spectable white man, was driving up | the turn-pike, they came out, attacked ! and beat him terribly. Such i.- llieten ! deney of Radicalism. Such are the 1 fruits of Tliad. Stevens' speech in Bed ford. Keagy, Cessna and company . haranguing negroes! Their hearers attacking and brutally beating a white man, who, by the way, is a "good Re publican!" What do you think of it, people of Bedford county? nun: AWAKE: SATURDAY) SERT. At, is the last day on which you can he assessed. See that all returned soldiers ami all per sons who voted on aye last year, lie as sessed. Don't neglect this. Tin. President lia.-> been making a grand tour of the Northern States. Evi rywhere lie met with the most enthusiastic popular demonstrations. The Radicals strive in vain to check the tide of popular opinion in hi-favor. HOW THE TICKETS A ICE TO HE VOTED. Komi Hits <'arefiill.V. The Legislature, last winter, passed a law which changes the manner of vo ting. All State officers voted for will he voted on one slip, labeled "State;" all county officers and members of Con gress, Senators, and members of the Legislature voted for, will be voted on another dip. labeled "Countyand all Judges of Courts voted for. will he vo ted on still another slip, labeled "Judi ciary;" which divides the ticket, at the present election into three. xli/M. All ticket.* should l><' read;/ ml, folded and tied, before elect ion-daj/. Let Democrats attend to this everywhere,and see that all the Held is included in their ballot. The ticket will be printed as follows: STATE. (l< tree nor, 11 i ester Clymer. COUNTY. Cone/re**, J. Mel)owcll Sharpe. Senator, !>. F. Meyers. A snembt}/, Hiram Findlay, John 11. Filler. I 'roihonotar;/, Iteyi.sh r and I in-order, Clerk of the Court*, <t*\, (). E. Shannon. Sheriff, Robert Stock num. (tommi*xiomr, David Ilowsare. Poor /brer/or, Michael Diehl. A ud if or, John D. Lucas. JUDICIARY. Asxoei<ite Jml'jc, G. W. < lump. The ticket must he cut apart at each of the wide spaces, with the words '•State.'' "County," ami "Judiciary" J'oklc.d out. *OI.III;K.V E.XTR V R.oivn I:s. Another It lUical Canard. ♦*l,r<!! I.ortl! Hon this World's (iivcii to I.yliis!" The Iladicalsof the last ("engross pass ed a bill giving an extra bounty to the soldiers. To be sure, it is an extra boun ty, nay it is an extraordinary/ bounty! Fifty dollars to some, a hundred dollars toothers! whilst thisameCongri-s- pass ed a bill giving the negro soldiers thr<- hundred tlollars bounty ! Now this is 110 electioneering trick. !t i-the (tod's truth, and if any body has any money to bet on it, we are his man. Rut the law giving the small bounty to white soldiers was so indefinite tiiat it was doubted wneth< r any money could be paid out under it. The Radicals find ing a good ileal of grumbling among the soldiers about thisluw, have discovered itneecessary to defend them selves some how, and, therefore undertake to lay the blame upon the President. Why, every body knows that the President has signed the bill, that it i.- now a law, and that all that is to he done is for the proper Department to decide whether under its provision- it I-authorized to pay out these bounties, and when it xvillpay them. After the bill was sign ed by the President , he had no further control over it, as it passed out of his hands and took its place among the statutes of the United States. How shameful and how atrocious, then, is the effort to hold the President responsible for what not he, but Congress alone, should be blamed. But such is the mode of electioneering adopted by the Radicals. THAT F.ARI.E. The Bedford Inquirer, of last wreck, ha- a most astounding tale about a bird which llew ovcrthe St. Clair and Union delegation to the Radical meeting, and then perched on a tree and eyed the motley procession. The Inquirer is in | formed that is was an AW'//".' and there upon permits itssupcrtitious feelings to carry it into eestaeics over the wonder ful bird! Well, "there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous." We are informed by a farmer who lives near where this remarkable bird made its singular flight, that the carcass of a dead horse, iies not far from that place, that a number 01 buzzards had been feeding upon it and that one of these, smelling the- corruption of Radicalism, was induced to leave, for a moment, his savory feast, with, a view of fora ging upon the Radical delegation. Our informant states that he saw the bird Hying over the delegation, and that it was really one of the buzzards that had been feeding on Iho dead horse. Bully for the eagle! PRACTISING—-J. B. Cessna, J. T. Keagy, and other radical slump ora tors, before the "Negro U jual Rights League." AfbTtln ••••( if- i.r speeches to the da m 1 ! r "p-i.C* tin y will deliver them b .'ore ;lc ir white"briul ders." KEM I Cli V.NERRMKA.CALIFORNIA, !OA HO AMI lOI.UItIOO AGAINST VERMONT Ai l* MAINE. The black States are getting blacker. Vermont and Main*, where one half the people don't knoiv what a negro is, and the other half bdieve in "spooks," have given large Radical majorities. They have been doiig this from time immemorial. But the white States are getting whiter. Kentucky, Califor nia and the Western terrltorus, voted largely in favor of the 1 >emoerats and C< mservat i ves. Kei t ucky, gave nearly •70,000 ;igai nst the Radicals. Idaho e lected an almost noun mous ' iemocratic Legislature. Calitoriia made a clean sweep, except in Sar Francisco. Tlie Middle States are uituraily con erva tive, and they will follow Kentucky and ('alifornia in giving unprecedented majorities against Radicalism. I)KEAO'IL *iISKK?KESK STATION. Horrible ( |)|)i rl'iiil ottrsrc ! The Negro Suffrage organ complains that we garbled Mr. Stevens' speech. In order that our readers may judge for themselves we give leiowthe Infjitirer\- artiele comparing oir version and its own. If we did Mr. Stevens injustice in any thing, it was in this, that we did not make his speech quite as black as Hie liH/ttirer reports it. See for your selves: In the last Gazi/fe it undertakes to re port a sentence from Mr. Stevens' speech which it does in thiswise: "NEGRO IS THE ISSUE. GER MANS, IRISHMEN AND AFRI CANS WERE ALL EQUAL. SO LONG AS I LIVE i WILL MAIN TAIN THIS DOCTRINE" The capitals are tiio Gazette's. Here is what Mr. Stevens did say: "As I said before the great issue to be me" at this election is the question of negro rights. J shall not deny but ad mit that a fundamental principle of the republican creed is that every being po s-e-sing an immortal soul is equal be fore the law. They are not and cannot be equal in strength, height, In auty, in tellect ucd and moral culture, or -ocial ac quirements, these are accidents which must govern their condition a<vording 10 circumstances. BUT IN THISRL- I'UBLie TILE SAME LAWS MUSI AND SHALL APPLY TO EVERY MORTAL AMERICAN, IRISH MEN, AFRICAN, GERMAN OH TURK. It is written by the linger o the Almighty law givkk; •Yl- SHALL I i A VE "< >N E M A N NEIIO I LAWS, AS WELL FOR Till STRANGER AS FOR ONE Oh YOUROWNCOUNTIIY; F()R IAM THE LORD Yol R GOD.'" No man could honestly misrepreseul another is this manner. But the man whocandeny protection to live million.' of human "beings because they are a shade darker than fie is, can simply bi guilty of any tiling. A ( VUI). Wo copy the following from the Bed ford Inquirer, of last week. The "Rad icals" can'; hear to -ee the soldiers get along; hence this-piteful attack m>on one of the "linys in Blue" who hap pened to he.employed at the Court House. The card speak- foi itself: I J J-I. Mossii.- . Ein rou. 'he following appeared in the la-t week's fnq<'rrr: "WANTKI) —-A few more returned 'soldiers to work at the Court Uou-e; none hut tiiose who will support Cly nu-r and the "<b ad dog" need apply. Any soldier bei ;g suspected of mt : ny as he *//</•, will be immediately muster ed out of "J/7/ Polic.tr service! Inquire <it the Clymer Headquarters." As i theoidy "returned soldier" at work at the Court House, the above is undoubtedly intended for me. The writer intends to convey tin* impres sion thai I am in the political market, ready to take the highest hid; and as such I unhesitatingly pronounce it a wilful and deliberate untruth, and the author thereof—whom 1 very well know —a malicious falsifier. I was em ployed to work at the Court House for no other consideration than money for my services, and no one about the Court House, or a? ly one connected with the "Clymer Headquarters" ha ever approached me as to how 1 would vote this fall. 1 have never—like the author of the above -professed to belong to a party for whiLi he had no sympathy, ill order to procure work. <)f myself I do not wish to speak, but ifany persons are desirous to learn more of the man who furnished you with the above item, I would refer them to A. B. Carn, or others with whom he has had dealings during his stay in town. If he has nothing else to do than to invent such miserable falsehoods ;ts the above, I would advise him to migrate to some other community, where his services inav be better appreciated. M. I*. SPIDLE. Bedford, Sept. 1 !. 186(1. \I:(;:TO RIOT. .\i'w Orlouiis on > Kr<t;tl! < >ii Thursday afternoon hist the col ored population of this neighborhood— the "Equal Rights League of Bedford, No. :js" had a celebration, which they wound up in a riot, they attacking and beating almost to death, Mr.Neheniiah Fleegle, of Napier (p., wim was it riving his team quietly along the public road. Jonathan B. Cessna, Chairman of the Radical county committee, had deliver ed a harrangue before these colored ri oters, and the legitimate result of his teaching, was the beating of a white man. l)o Republicans approve of the conduct of their chairman, and will they follow such leaders? LKT the federal oHiee-holders in this county beware! Some of them are playing fast and loose and others are assisting the radical- with all their might. Not a man of them who doesn't -upport the President will remain in oltice after the. election. Democrats ami Conservatives, keep an eye on those gentlemen! —The cholera has got its match—it has seized the Freeduten's Bureau. LETTER FROM A GALLANT SOLDIER! ('•I. IHrh<i, of thf 7(ih. (>ivn his Opin ion. We give with pleasure the letter of i Col. Hicks, late of the 7<ith P. V. Wo j are informed that Col. Ilieks has hith erto been a "Republican." Bicncaxsvilu:, PA., 1 f?ept. Jl, 18GG. i En's GA/.i:TTI": Gni/innit: i thai j it! a perusal of your paper, that my old . friend and e unrado, Col. John li. > .i-J lor, lias announced him elf as an inde pendent candidate to rojiresent your district in our State Legislature. It would be forgetting those ties that ; bind us together as comrades in arms ; •for the suppression of the Rebellion,' ' and tin.' associations formed while to- j pother, did i not wholly endorse hi -! I coursi and sincerely hopi for his elec tion. He is the man for the place, by nat ural intelligence and education ; he is : entitled to it, for the services he ren dered his fellow citizens during the i war, for a more gallant fellow than ] | Filler never set a batallion, or wore i shoulder-straps. 1 speak from person al knowledge of the man. 1 never ! knew him until I made his acquaint ance on the "tented field," and I am! convinced of his fitness for, and right to the position sought. If could not hi* 1 expected that he, or any other soldier, would get a nomination in any conven-, tjon which. Ilad'nntfx controlled, if they j j had an old civillian ]o! itical hack" to I serve. It is the same in this county as 1 in Bedford. Soldiers have been over slaughed always, only when common ! : decency and a slight observance of their professed principles (V) demanded ' : it. In fact, the soldier is "played out" j ' among that class, and no soldier need ' expect any preferment- at their hands, i 1 hope to hear, when the returns of; the !)th of October are counted, that; . ! my old friend, Filler, is elect oil. Jus-j i tice and a recognition of his services j -1 demand it, and if defeated, the blame j ; will lie at the hands of the Radicals, who love office better than they do their country. Soldiers! stand for a brother soldier; desert not the man who never deserted you! Vote and; work for the principles for which you j ! fought. 1 am, very respectfully, jno. w. hiuks, Late i.t. Col. 70th P. V.and Brv't Col. j J u.s.v. *- ' ni:F,i.zEi!n!',s I ? SII,I JOA\ ! \uulher (icjirt l*:jor Strikes its S'liis. We notioo that the Juniata Itepubfi ' can published at Mitllintown, Pa., by W. M. Allison v Co., has taken down , Geary's name from its masthead. Sure ly Satin's kingdom is tumbling down! | Every day weakens the Geary forces ! and adds to the number who will vote j for the patriot and statesman, Iliester ("lyjner. Slill The Tit us vi lie < -V//. edite<! by Jerome j 15. Close,aild II : tolore:. B;si!e;ti-h . , has changed its nana to that of I'.mtimf j Jonni':and,mere important still, has ' changed its oolitic* from Radical Lm to ! ' i 1 >emoeracy. i -I —.—-——~ n:r. aoreiass. I The Itadieai ticket for this county, j-, i placed upon tin-; Negro Suf.'raue plat • form of til'- "Loyal Convert*.ion" at ! Philadelphia, of winch FRED. I><)UG ! LASS. THE NEGRO, was a member, by the following resolution, passed at the Itadiea! meeting, lathi iu this place, on 'l'uesdity evening of Court week, (see Bedford In'/idrcr of Sept. 7, 1st)!!): "Jicsofred, That this meeting cordial ly endorses and most heartily u eleomes the Convention of Loyal Union men of tlie South, now sitting in the city of Philadelphia," Ac. rii ti). sri;vi:\s. The Radical county ticket is placed ; upon Thud. Sieven.-' platform, by the j following resolution of the meeting j held here on Tu.-sday evening of Court week (see Bedford Inquirer of Sept. 7): 'rmlrrd, That the thamc- of the friends <,f Hi.. Hy and equal rights throughout the world and espeeially of i the people of the United States are em inently due to the noble and patriotic ami intrepid legislator, Hon. i'liaddeus Stevens, for theuneompromisingstand whieii he has taken in favwrof the op pressed and against usurpation and des potism." GK.V. • LEANT rebuked the Radicals at (lincinnati,tlie otlierday, declaringthat he was greatly annoyed a! their eHurts to insult the President. Already it is computed that during and Anee the war, one-fourth part of these who worn in bondage are in their grave:-. And tiio process of distraction wiil go on as long as the agitation is kept up, and until tiio race for which the Radicals affect so nuieh regard lias become partiallyexb.net. lliis is their liuiuauily. —Would not every workingmon, la borer, and artisan like to vote himself seventeen months hack pay;and increas ed sixty percent, at that? That is what tiiis Radical Congress lias done. And, what is more every workiiigmen, la borer and artisan will have to pay iiis share of the tax reipiired to make up this extra compensation. —The lending spirits of the llth of} August Convention were Senators Cow- J an, Doolit-tle and Revenly Johnson,) and < ienerals Steedman, < 'uslar and I >a vis. The orators of the late Radical Convention were Fred. Douglass, Ben jamin K. Butler, I'arson Brownlow and Annie Diekerson. —The law t we >d me- ling "yor i held ill \ (>rk >e ut\ wa b at by Ihe : Democracy at Ia ,v .vi hi •• it ■ slh inst. The procession was o\vt two mil- - long. C 1 I t MHT3RIJANT>, MD., I Sept. 11, 1806. ] MR. EDITOR: On yesterday, for the first time, Mr. H. Clay Shipley was at my house and read to me a communi cation from this city to the "Bedford Inquirer," -igncd "Justice," which Mr. S. seemed very much to enjoy. The article to whi h I am about to advert, would have, escaped my notice , (as no one having any pretensions to! respectability in thiscoimminity would j suffer o vile and filthy a sheet as the ; "Bedford In eider" to be received in their family) had not thiscommuniea- ! tion been sent to Mr. He.vt, one of my boarders, expecting tlicroby that it j would reach my eye. The writer of! the letter affixes the signature of "Jus tice," most inappropriate for an article so devoid of truth and embodying so; much malignity and venom; indeed the malice of the writer is only equal- i <sl by 11i- arrant cowardice. Some short time since,! addressed to vour ]i per a communication detailing the proceedings of the Disunion Abo lition Convention held here, which ev- i ery citizen knew was a ridiculous fail ure, indeed the fidelity of the account and the extreme sensitiveness of the correspondent of the"lnquirer," attest the truth of my narrative. No read ier of my former letter to your paper 1 will be deceived by the denial of this correspondent, who fears to commit his name to his own production. 1 am authorized, then, in inferring that this nameless correspondent, conscious of tiu; many falsehoods contained in his communication, was unwilling to com mit even his cowardly name to the tis sue of lies, with which it abounds, and I therefore contented himself with a reckle-s a*nd general denial of my ac count of the Disunion meeting held in this place. This scurrilous and cow ardly writer makes a personal attack : on me. Jfe felt the sting of the article j and feared the effect, or else he would i have attempted to show its falsity and | not have resorted to scurrility and a ! buse and then sheltered his cowardly i carcass under so inappropriate a name ; I as that of "Justice. 1 j As the "Bedford Inquirer" has no circulation in this city, the letter from ; Cumberland would have fallen still born; but it owe- its currency and cir culation solely to a disappointed Ab olition office-seeker who is sojourning l ; in our midst. But to the letter signed | "Justice." This nameless knight of : the quill indulges in choice and elegant | phrase- ; he says that I am "an igno ; ramus and could not write a single sen tence correctly if it were to save my j neck." As to the truth of this I leave i the public to judge. He says further, ! that Jam "blessed with just about as ! much brains as is necessary to make a ! good Copperhead Rebel sympathizer." ! Adopting his peculiar and gentloman ! ly stylo of expression, I could retort by | saying that he has brains -ufiicient to 1 make a "niggerhead," but certainly • has neither the brains or honesty to 1 make a "copperhead," or a gentleman. 1 wa- induced by curiosity, a- 1 -ta j I<ml i:i nn former letter, to be present I at ihel>i union meeting and gave what ! 1 believed then, and still do !■•■ iieve, to ! be a faithful ver.-ion of its prove, dings. ; I did not shelter my rc.-ponsibilily ua | der the signature of "Justice," as the correspondent of the "Beuiord luqui j rer" has done,but appended my name, prepared for any kind of re.-ponsibilhy which it might evoke, f now a--ert j and would be willing .0 wager any ! thing in rea-on, that if the name of 1 the correspondent of the "Bedford In • quirer" here, could be ascertained, that I he would turn out to have been an Al>- olilion oiiice-holder, who was, doubt less, removed by the (Government be cause of lii- Abolition and Disunion proclivi ties. With reference to the gentleman to whom tli# authorship of my letter to you Ims been ascribed, and who has been so ruthlessly and malignantly as sailed by the "Inquirer's" correspond ent, 1 have outv this to sav, that 1 have known him for twontv years, and that he woulddisdain to assail any man un der a fictitious signature. It was for the fearless expression of his opinions and for the bold avowal of his princi ples, that he was arrested and held for months by the preceding Administra tion, and 1 am sure that I eeho the sen timents of every man in this commu nity, whose opinions are worth regar ding, that the fidelity with which that gentleman clung to opinions which, he deemed to he right, would receive their approbation, not their censure. 1 would add, too, that the gentleman to whom this slanderous correspondent alluded, was not present at the Disun ion meeting; indeed, since he has re turned to this community, where iie once before redded, he has not inter fered, or engaged, in the polities ol the day, notwithstanding the wishes of his friends that lie would do so. I was present at the Disunion meeting in this place, and for the letter and its eon tents addressed to your paper, I alone <iu) res/Hinxibh'. As the former impris onment of this gentleman lias been al luded to -tiuery—would not the Pres ident he justified in punishing those traitor* who are now guilty of disloy alty in opposing the Government and striving to thwart him in his efforts to restore the Union ? The i'resident, however, relies upon t!ie people of tin* I uited States to sus tain him in his wise, merciful and ben eficial policy. 1 feel confident that lie may rely on the people of the old Key stone State in ( k'tolier next, yt vioy him their powerful support, for the united action of all conservative men is now essential for the preservation and per petuation of ;he"l T nion" which we ail love and cherish. ! have devoted more space than i in tended to the contemptible and malig nant correspondent ot the "inquirer," and con: . iiiieiiiis u ii: !.:• unahleto;,i ve you an account of our "l>arbecu< " last Thursday, i mu ' content inyseil with savlny, that in numbers and en- th usi asm, it far exceeded anything of the kind that has ever lieforebeen lu id in tiiis city. The reporter of the AV tionnf hde'li'/vactr was present and a full account wih appear in tiiat jour nal. Truly Yours, .JACOB SNIDF.R. A \o i iIKK sof.o; r.n Ar V o:t 03 -; v Oneby one the bra re-okliers of t Union army are putting on record their views in v ■iutioaio tlicin -uisnecessary ~ to save the country from the design* .. tiie Radical disunioni-ls. The j; HI and jxiinted rebuke administered by (Jenend (Irani■ to*the Radical- in Cin cinnati who wished to insult the i*r -i --t dent, and the action of the gallant n -n : who, in all part.- of the country, aivdc : nouncing the mad attempts of the di— uruonists, show unmistakably the!' !- | ings of the soldiers at this crisis. We j now add the name old ieh'-ral Stoiicuiau to the supporters of .-tied a wise, hu mune, and Christian policy as that a dopted by President Johnson. The ' following speech wa recently delivered by that gallant officer in Memphis: FRIENDS AND FKELOW-COCNTUY MKX : You have iic fore you, not a par ti-ait or politician, but a simple citizen of thegoveriiment of the United State-, knowing no North, noßollth. no Ka-t, no West. The war in whiehtbenecade of this greatest of all great countries lia beeu engaged during the past e.\entful years i- eralml, the issue upon which this war was based have been settled. I f there is anything to forgive, let it lie forgiven; if there is anything to be for got, let it be forgotten. Let us all rec ollect that we have but one country and one flag. The object for which you are all as sembled together here to-night is, as 1 understand it,reconstruction and reun ion; but let us all remember tiiat recon struction must be based upon reconcili ation. You may force a -<-parated man and wife to live i:i the same house, lodge in the -ame room, but they will never bo reunited as man and wife un til the" - nave first become reconciled. I say cm war is ended. As we were enema - in war, let us again be friends, ! an . in this sentiment J know thai 110 • one wi, join me more heartily than the : gaiiac s and distinguished President of I this a.-.- uibly. The bravery that was displayed dur ing the past by each one engaged in the war, let it he the pride and common property of all. We soldiers who did the lighting are reconciled and want peace and harmony, and we call upon you editors and orators of the land to aid us with your pen- and tongue-. Preacher- of the gospel, whose solemn obligation it is to preach peace and good will, we ask your prayers and in vocations, and from you politicians we demand that you shall cea-e your wrangling and allow the good work to go 011, until your object is attained. And you, fair maidens and noble matrons, who, during the fighting, cheered u-with your smiles, and fright ened 11s with your frowns, lend us the potency ofyour power in the accom plishment of a work so laudable and so As I tun notim applicant for your suff rages, nor over expect to be, nor ever cast a vote for President in my life,, you will not expect me to define my position; but this much will 1 say: ! have been a member .-."a club for noni ■ a quarter of a century, and which v, organize- 1 tlrve • {miners of a century age. By tin* constiuu ein ol that club , its i 'r- -iflent i- e'e< (( tievery fou i year- . its first President v. u-(4eorge Washing • to:;; its pnsent President is Andrew Johi'-on, whom tin people call "oui* An,,y< Kf.-om noxs i'MKotxTKc ro 'ru : Prksi dkxt. —The Soldiers' Conven • lion, held on the f-th inst., at Coluin • !ins, in the S veath Congressional l>is • trier-of Ohio, pas-e-l ,i scries ot rcsolu ■ tious, as follows: That wo hold the Union of thesi ■ States to be as perfect and complete now' a- before the rebellion, and that, in th • words of Andrew Johnson, "Xioya 1 men from the Southern s it.- slioun 1 be at once admitted to seats in the Con - gross of the United States; that tie* negrodiii not save the Union, but :t was saved by white soldiers and sailor - for white men : that the eonstitutiona 1 amendment, having for its object th ; degradation of the whites to the lew ! of the blacks, meets our hearty con - detonation ; that the action of Uot - gross in relation to the equalisation of bounties, has been from liie beginnin of last session in-an and tricky, an ; each soldier and sailor should by Ins vote show the Ohio delegation that we know how to condemn; and ihat we approve of the principles of the Phi 1- adelphia Pkuform of August 11, and the restoration policy of Andrew John son, anil believe that in no other wa y than that proposed by liini, can w'e gather for ourselves and for our chil dren the fruits of our privations, our sutiering and wounds, and of our suc cesses. These resolutions were to-nig! it presented to the President, who, attur reading, said he approved them. Tiik deaths resulting from the falling of the platform at the railroad station at Johnstown, on tiio 14th, nuinhur i thirteen —seven of the victims being women and giris. The badly wound* <i ! number about ninety, and the slight! y - injured about one hundred more, i'ny | sicians from Pittsburgand all the tow j - ! along the road, east and west, arc i n attendance upon the sufierers. llt a whole town is in mourning over this terrible calamity, One of the Pre- - dentiai party detailed to remain says : "The scene was one of indescribable horror. The groans of the w< uiidi i and the screams and tears of mothers, wives, sisters and daughters was the ■widest sight I ever saw." The same person adils: "The President and Gen. < J rant were exceedingly distressed, an< i were very anxious that the special train should stop overall hour to aiior-1 as much aid as possible, but the con ductor stated that arrangements mad fur meeting trains on the road prei la ded the possibility of carrying into ei fect the President's humane wish, ami after a few minutes the train starlet i off." The President has contribute,i iV'.uiKo the relief of the sufferers. - flie teachers of the negro school- i" Richmond, who are loyalists ol the Radical stump, are abusing and ma ligning th" President in the most si ut derous terms, and one of the copies which most frequently graces the-kites and writing i >ooks of their negro pup'Js is. ' Andrew Johnson is a traitor. ' —Tin liellefoute Watchman records tiie conviction of two members of the Klertion Board of Snoe-hoe townslnp, i Voire enmity , Jbr ille .ally vein in ;' to receive the vote of an alleged deserter at -the eii viion n I The- presiding judge of theeounty is a "Republican.
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