Slit grtlfortl ('Vasttic.
Friday Morning-, September 7, ISflO.
Damocratic and National Union
Nominations.
STATE TICKET.
FOR GOVERNOR,
Hon, HIESTER CLYIER,
OF BERKS COUNTY.
DISTRICT TICKET.
FOR CONGRESS,
J. MoD. SHARPE, of Franklin co'y.
FOB SENATOR,
B. F. MEYERS, of Bedford county.
. FOR ASSEMBLY,
HIRAM FINDLAY, of Somerset eo.
COUNTY TICKET.
PROTHQXOTARY,
O. E. SHANNON, of Bedford Bor.
SHERIFF,
ItOBT. STECKM AN, of Bloody Run.
ASSOCIATE AC DUE,
GEORGE W. GI MP, of Napier.
COMMISSIONER,
DAVID HOWSARE, of Southampton
POOR DIRECTOR,
MICHAEL DIEHL. of Colerain.
AUDITOR,
JOHN D. LUCAS, of Bloody Run.
I Oil ANSEMBGY.
We are authorued to announce Col. John 11.
FiCer of Be If >r I county, as an independent can
(l 1 ite for Assonb'y. "abject to the decision of the
people on the second Tuesday of October next.
a he a'!imbcr.
A CAMPAIGN PAPER.
The* undersigned are publishing ''
campaign paper entitled "The Climh
er," the first number of which was
issued on the 711 of July inst., and
which will be continued until the Gub
ernatorial election in October.
This publication is devoted, to the-1
support of President Johnson's Resto- ;
ration Policy and the election ol such
candidates as are openly in favor of sus- j
finning that policy. It contains six
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. HI ESTER CLYMEIt and
other eminent patriots and statesmen,
and will contain a number of humerous :
political illustrations.
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person for distribution. Address,
MIIYERS & M ENGEL,
Bedford, Pa.
subvert the law of the land as decided
by the Supreme Court of the State.
They are striving to resist the right of
thousands of citizens to exercise the
privilege of voting. They aim at the
disfranchisement of a large portion of
the people upon the pretext that they
are guilty of an offence of which they
have not only never been convicted,
but for which they have not been, and
never will be, tried. These new Reb
els against the laws, these despicable
enemies to the freedom of the white
man, had better not undertake to put
their contemplated fraud into practice.
They must remember that the law is a
gainst them; the highest judicial tribu
nal in the State has declared that no
man run he deprived of his right to rote,
simply because his name is found on o
Provost Marshal's list of "Deserters.'"
The Supreme Court has decided that a
man must have been tried for and con
victed of desertion, and the punish
ment of disfranchisement adjudged by
the proper tribunal, before he can he de
prived of the right to vote as being a
deserter. That Court has also further
decided that Judges of Election cannot
try am-tn for desertion, but arc bound to
(at:* bis vote, unless evidence of his con
viction as a deserter and tlit? adjudica
tion of the penalty of disfranchisement
by the pro/n r tribunal , iti iiis case, are
laid before them. Hence, we warn all
election boardsagainst lieing influenced
by the foul schemes of t he Radical Reb
els who are plotting to overturn the
laws of the State. We say it in all ear
nestness and with a full determination
to make good our words, EVERY E
LE("IT UN OFFICER WHO WILL
DISFRANCHISE ANY SO-CALL
ED DESERTER WHO IS OTHER
WISE QUALIFIED TO VOTE,
WILL BE PUNISHED TO THE UT
MOST EXTENT OFTIIE LAW.
(iK.Mtv madca -|K><>< h at Hunting
don on the tli uit., in which he used
the following language:
"I have been asked whether I would
ttyn traitor iike Andrew Johnson, be- |
cause i was a Democrat. I will make
noplcfbjcs, as pledg & make no dill'er- j
eiice."
That is to say, Geary, the" Democrat, j
without prefix or affix," as he styled :
himself in his Maguire letter, willturn
traitor to Ue "Republican" party if it
profits him to do so. Should the De
mocracy get into power, Geary expects ;
to hang on to its skirts, llenee lie "will
make no pledges." If that is satisfac
tory to "Republicans," we have no
right to complain.
EARTHQUAKES!
TItIJIP. TROII'. TRAMP. THE BOYS
are marching.
Fuion. Pence and Elberty !
Grand Popular Deinonslmtian in Fa
vor of Restoration!
By tin* Eternal, the Cnlon Must and
Shall be Preserved I"
I>eot or ruts. Kepnhlieans and Hie Peo
ple generally in Council!
Elnroln's Pimtmaster General. lion.
JfoMtKomery lilair, Makes a Great
Speech in Favor of the Right!
It.'liealisin and In Its Collin!
The largest political gathering that j
ever assembled in Bedford, was held
in the Public Square, in front of the j
Court House, oil Monday evening last, j
Sept. :M. Notwithstanding the fact
that the day had been inclement, the
rain pouring down all afternoon, large
delegations, gotten up by the people
themselves, without any drumming
from the town as was the ease with the
Radical meeting on Tuesday evening,
came filing into the town until the
streets were literally jammed with
people. A stand was erected in front
of the Court House, and the vast as
semblage gathered in the square im
mediately opposite. We will not pre
tend to give an estimate of the num
bers present, but the oldest citizens as
sure us that it was the largest po
litical meeting ever held in Bed
! ford. The meeting was organized by
! the appointment of Hon. .IDS. B. NO
BLE, of South Woodberrv, President;
Maj. L. Taliaferro, Samuel Reighard,
Capt. T. 11. Lyons, Capt. S. S. Metzgar,
Richard Langdon, Win. Faster, John
K. Hedges, Jeremiah Thompson, B.
! F. Morgart, Geo. W. Deal, W . S. Bee
! gle, Tiios. Fislier, Adam /.embower,
t '
Geo. Eider, Geo. W. Horn, Geo. Steel
i W. A. Grove, Isaac Ivensinger, Geo
Roades, Wm. Keyscr, Win. Gillespie,
J.C. Devore, Daniel Fletcher, George
Vonstine, John Sill, Emanuel Stat
ler, Christian Darr, 1). A. T. Black,
Christian Myers, Homer Noice, Geo.
Ba ugh man Jar. Waiter, Sam't Beck
lev, J.G. Hartley, Andrew Mortimore,
I * -
| Tims. Dona hoe, John Cavender, Au
| thony Clingeriuan, \Y. B. Lamhright,
; Sam'l Duhhs, Thus. C. lleighard, W.
; M. Pearson, Simon Brumbaugh, John
I S. Brumbaugh, John Ditiner, and Jas.
Sill, Henry F. Smith, Lawrence Defi
baugh, John Wills, Lieut. John Nelson
Saml. Diehl, and Peter F. Lehman, Sce
| retaries.
I HON. J. MCDOWELL SIIARPE,
of Chanibersburjr. was then imr/Muecd
Mr. Sh rpe made a most chaste, elo
i quent ami argumentative address,
i which was enthusiastically received by
i the audience. A man of talent and
education, he made a decided impres
sion. As the Democratic candidate for
Congress, lie will make a most excel
lent run in every community in which
! his eloquent voice is heard. After the
I conclusion of his speech, a rousing
: cheer went up for J. McDowell Sharpe,
the next Congressman from this dis
i trict.
: The Bedford Democratic Brass Band
1 then escorted HON. MONTGOMERY
| BLAIIt, Postmaster General under
j Mr. Lincoln, to the stand, who was in
| troduced as the next speaker. .Mr.
Blair made a speech replete with argu
ment and containing statementsof vast
j importance to all who desire to make
j up their minds honestly in regard to
| the great issues before the people at the
i coming election. Among other tilings
j Mr. Blair said that Thad. Stevens' poi
| icy was embodied in a bill passed by
; Congress in .Mr. Lincoln's time, which
| was gotten up by Ren. Wade and 11.
Winter Davis. This bill, said Mr. Blair,
Mr. Lincoln )>ut in his pocket and kept
it there without his approval, but issued
| a proctamafion declaring that hi could
j not endorse H. 51 r. Blair then appealed
to all Lincoln men to stand by Presi
i dent Johnson's policy, as it was iden
i tieal with that of .Mr. Lincoln. Many
old Lincoln Republicans went away I
satisfied that it was their duty to stand
!by President Johnson. Mr. Rlair wa
j loudly cheered during his speech and
! at it- end the applause was deafenim*. i
I i
The meeting was further addresses! !
by HON. A. 11. 00 FF ROT 11, of Som
erset, and R. F. MEYERS. (Jen. Cof
froth made a very able and logical j
•peech, which was received vvi*h great i
applause by in- hearers. (Jen. C'ofi'roth
is working hard for the Democratic
cause, as he hits always done, and the
Democracy honor him for Hi— noble ef
forts.
During the speaking the large crowd !
remained standing, though the grouud
was very wet and occasionally a driz
zling rain de-cendt*l. We never saw
so attentive an audience before in all
our life. The people seem to ie in ear
nest and determined to stand up for the '
right. The ladies were also out in.
force and graced with theirpresemv the
splendid scene of upturned faces.
J. (J. Fisher, Ivs<p, then read a series'
of resolutions which were unanimously j
adopted. After the adoption of the'
resolutions the mooting adjourned with
three cheers for IliesterClymer and tlie
Democratic, ticket. Notice was given
that HON. F. M. KIMM ELL will ad
dress the people at the Court House, on
Wednesday night. The resolutions a
dopted areas follows:
Whereas, It is the privilege as well
as the duty of the people to make
known to their agents in public office,
their will in regard to the issues before
the country, and the principles and
policy which should govern those a
gents in the exercise of their official
functions, and wu EKEAS the present is
especially a time in which the position
of public atl'airs demands the anxious
and patriotic attention of ail good citi
zens, therefore,
Remleed, That we regard with great f
alarm tiie eltorts of those men who are
striving to keep up the sectional feud .
which so lately culminated in civil
war, by refusing to permit the restora
tion of the Union, and defeating the
consummation for which so much
blood was shed and so great treasure
expended.
Resolvol, That we believe now, as
we have always maintained, that the
Union consists ot att the Sidte-i, and not
of any part of them, and we recognize
110 liag as ours save that on whose folds
the stripes are iilumim d by Thirt</-*ix
Stars; unmutiiated bv the hand ol
Southern Secession and unuiarred by
the heel of Northern Disunion.
Rexo/cat, That we deplore the con
tinued agitation of the Negro question,
so fruitful of evil in the past, and so
portentous of trouble in the future; and
we hoid the Disunion party in Con
gress, led by Sumner in the Senate and
Stevens in tiie House, responsible lor
whatever difficulties may result from
that agitation hereafter.
RtsuieeU, That we are for the whole
I 'inon, as our lathers established it, a
our soldiers fought for it, auti as the
patriot Andrew Johnson is now striv
ing to restore it, and we hold all men
to be enemies of the Uuionand traitors
to the Government, who believe in a
dissevered country and a mutilated
llag; a country such as That Ulcus Ste
; veil- and the Radicals in Congress
' would make lor u , with ten Sinter striek
\ en from tax f itiou, a llag with ten A urn
j oiottoil out of the c■omletUitinn.
lhsotml', i'hat the uninterrupted and
! persistent legislation by Congress, in
! beltallOf the negro, to the neglect ot
| the interests of the white people, and
I especially of the soldiers 01 the coun
try, i- an outrage to be tolerated only
by the lunatics who would reverse the
taws of Nature and of God, by mixing
die races and making white black and
black white.
Hcxo'ccd, That we recognize in Hies
ter Clymcr, the nominee of the Deiuo
cratie party ol Pennsylvania for Gover
nor, a gentleman who possesses ail tiie
qualities which could be desired in a
candidate for the Gubernatorial office,
ills honesty and capability are luily
avouched by the testimony of the lead
ing presses which oppose him on polit
ical "grounds, whilst in the rank of the
Democracy bis talents and worth arc
universally acknowledged and respect
ed, facts that render morally certain
ais triumphant election.
Resolved, That in the Democratic
nominations for the several district ot
ficeswe recognize gentlemen worthy ol
thecordiai support of ail National I nion
men and we recommend them to the
people of their respective districts with
the assurance that Bedford county will
give them a most overwhelming en
dorsement at the polls.
fi< *olved, That a.- to the past, we are
aim mat we recognize as tne gicat o
vershiulowing issue of the present day,
\ the restoration of the Union as against
\ the continuance of Dissolution by the
I machinations of the Radical leaders in
! the present Congress, and we invite all
j men, without regard to previous polit
j ical predilections, to unite with us in
! favor of Restoration and against Disso
; (ution.
Jieso/red, That we endorse the Plat
i form and Address of the great Nation
' ai Union Convention which assembled
| in Philadelphia, on the 11th of August
I last, and that wo especially commend
: its re-announcement to the American
; People the deathless doctrine of the
j Declaration of independence, that "Tax
| at ion without Representation is Tyr-
I at ny."
Itesofred, That we most heartily sus
j tain President Johnson in his noble ef
j forts to restore the Union, and return
. our hearth It thank- to Hon. Edgar
| Cowan for his gallant championship of
j the Right in his place in the Senate of
! the United States.
Resolved, That we call upon the peo
' pie of this Senatorial and Kcpresenta
i tive District to elect the Democratic
nominees for Senator and Reprcsenta-
I tive, it being acknowledged bv the "He
| publican" presses that the "Repuhlic
; an" Senator and Representatives soid
j the people in the lu.-t Legislature on
I the Railroad question.
Htsfjtrexl, That we will go to work
| and labor from this day forward until
I the second Tuesday ol October, with
: out one backward look, without one
! laggard step, hut animated by one glo
mus common purpose and nerved by
i ilie conviction that we are right, to
bring victory to that untarnished flag
j which symbolizes Constitutional Lib
erty, which i- the emblem of an un
i broken 1 nion, and which hears upon
it.-, ioids for everv Stale a .- tar.
CKAUY commanded ono of the di
vision- of the llOtli Corps, which Corps
wus commanded i>y Maj. Geo. 11. NY.
8 LOCUM. Now, Uen.SLOUUM, dea
ry's oldeommander, Gen. NYi LLIA MS
of tie* Ist Division, (Jen. *\VA RD, of
tho;{<i Division, and OVn. Rorssiwr,
of tiie Kh Division, are all in favor of
the I'resident's policy and opposed to
the election of O'earv. The liero of
Sniekersvillo alone, of all the division
commanders of tiie old 'Jt'th Corps,
stands upon the Disunion platform of
Stevens, Sunnier A Co. Who would
not rather follow the lead of Sloeuui,
Williams, Ward and Rousseau, than
that of the Sniekersville Skedaddler?
"Ft'ss and Feathers!" Tliis was the
exclamation of an old "Republican"
who doesn't believe so much in flags
and brass horns as in the former prin
ciples of his party, as he looked on, the
other evening, when the Radicals were
engaged in marshalling the faithful.—
The people can't he dealeued by "noise
and confusion," or blinded by gaudy
'displays, to the truth as it is in the Na
tional Union policy of President John
son. They \vi i make up their minds
deliberately and vote accordingly.
THAD. STEVENS!
Negro Equality! I
BLACK! BLACK! BLACK!
Thad. Stevens, Aleck, MeClqre and
John Williamson made speeches last,
Tuesday night, and each one of them
spoke for NEGRO SUFFRAGE and
EQUALITY. Old Thad. said the
COLLARS. Ac.
i
Also, my article*! in the Stationery line, such a.'
Pencils , Si eel-Pens, Penholders, <C-e.
Also, my VARIETIES, such as*
Spices of <dl kiwis,
Table Salt, Essence of Coffee. JU imblctop's Hair
MeClure said he would never agree
t< the restoration of the Union UNTIL
THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE PUT
THEIR NEGROES UPON A PER
FECT EQUALITY WITH THEM
SELVES. Williamson said, "A NE
GRO HAS AS MUCH RIGHT TO
VOTE AS AN IRISHMAN, ANI)
MORE." Now, here is the doctrine
of the Radicals. Republicans cannot
deny this. We can prove it by a hun
' dred witnesses. In the name of heav-
en, can any decent man endorse it?
Mt-CEI UK'S fiI'EECII.
By our special Reporter.
.Montgomery Blair —old Blair -Blair |
—Blair—Blair—Rebels—Traitor
blood-stained Rebels back to power— !
Blair —Bloody .Scoundrels —Ghastly— j
(Jhastly—Wasted—Treason—Rebels—- j
('opperbeads—Traitor- —Treason—U n
re,,entant Rebels—'Wretches—'Traitors
—Treason —T rea—Scoundrels —Ghastly
—Anderson ville —Sharp©—Blair
Treason—Treason—Treason —Negroes- j
Equality—Traitors—Traitors — Bloody
Traitors—Rebels—Treason —Tren—etc. I
Oir.
I'EKKEI'T E4U"AMTV-
McClure said at the meeting on Tues
day night: "THIS NATION CAN-
N (>T SU R VIV E Tll IS Si IA MEL ESS
DISCRIMINATION ON ACCOUNT
OF COLOR AND RACE; THERE
MUST BE PERFECT EQUALITY
BEFORE TIIE LAW."
Who wants more to convince hitn?
NOW I'OK TIIE NIEH :
Every man who clings to the Radical
party stands on Thad. Stevens' plat
form, announced on Tuesday night
last— NEGRO EQUALITY. This is
now beyond dispute.
STATE SEN ATOR.
We take pleasure in announcing the
nomination of our friend B. F. Meyers,
editor of the B. <lf rd (fazrtie. as the
!>r irtt Ci ulll niiu .ntinuMi unm
candidate for the State Senate in the
Fulton, Bedford and Somerset district.
Mr. Meyers has served with distinc
tion in the House of Representatives,
and is widely known as a man of abili
ty and of sound constitutional princi
j pies.— Gettysburg Compiler.
The impatient haste with which John
T. Richards rushed to the betrayal of
his own party in this county, and the
selling out of his party'.-? unanimous
choice for Senator, is rendered more
naked and shameless in its baseness by
the fact that he and his conferees re
i muinrd in Bedford until after the Serui
j (orialnomination was made —though his
pitiful excuse for hurrying on his nom
ination WILS, that he waited longenough
and enuldidf iruil any long r [f Ricli
ards should ever get into the Legisla
j ture, who doubts that he would sell
j out the dearests interests of his con- j
I stituents, or Fulton county itself, if
' thereby he could advance; his own sel
■ fish interests.— Fulton Democrat.
THKIIK ran IK 1 no mistaking theissue
of the day—Union or no Union. It is
not difficult for a man to decide for the
Union, if lie only throws aside his prej
udices against the people of the South.
The rMtels of the South fought for dis
union, and shall we now gratify them
by the ballot, after we have defeated
them by the bullet? The honest peo
ple of tin; South want to get back into
the Union, and they are only the secret
traitors in the South who aid the Radi
cals because they know them to bcDis
unionists. They are the Unionists of
the South now who met in the Phila
delphia Convention, and they will be
the Jlisunionists of the South who will
meet in the Radical Convention in the
same place on the lid of September
next.— Huntingdon (i'/übe.
Chi uott, Radical, has not been elec
ted a delegate to Congress from Colo
rado, as fal-ely stated by some of the
Disunion papers. Hunt, Democrat,
was alvad at the last accounts. His
majority is stated by the telegraph to
he ;:0. ( lost, but enough to elect. Col
orado has heretofore given about 1,">00
to 2,000 Republican majority.
Tine National Union Party is "weep
ing over the whole Union like the
bright sun in a cloudless day. This is
tin- last year of Radical Republicanism.
The platform is giving way-—we don't
Intend to lie hurt when it falK--Hun
tingdon Gtobe.
OSIY SEVKM JIII-UOSN.
.
For Klift, < tin* voted nearly
Seven Hill ion* <>r llollur* to *uj
jMirl tile I'reedoien'* lliireaii.
AH Follow* :
For Officers and Expenses of
Officers—for N"i groes, £ 332,3(30 00
For Clothing and Fire
wood—for Nkgkoes, 1,185,9(X> 00
For Provisjeas and Medi
cine—for NEOROKs, 3,606,250 00
For Railroad and other
Fare—for nkg hobs, 1,320,000 (X)
For Asylums and School
Houses—for XEGItOKS, 500,000 00
TOTAL, $6,944,450 00
Pennsylvania pays about one-oigth
of the taxes of the country. Her share
of this, for the present year, is about
$850,000 on. She has never polled more
votes than about FIVE HUNDRED
AND SEVENTY-FIVE THOU
SAND.
This gives each voter to pay for LA- j
j ZY NEGROES, in 1866, about ONE |
DOLLAR AKD A HALF.
| The Tax Collector does not call for
this money, but you PAY IT TO THE
| STOREKEEPER on the goods that
: you use.
The Government imposes duties on
j SI'GA R, COFFEE, TEA, and all oth-.
er articles, of daily use.
j YOU MUST HAVE TIIEM, and
! you are M VDE TO PAY to keep up
j the FUEKDMKN'S BUREAU, by
| your Coffee, Tea and Sugar being dear
! er; and your children must go bare
footed, and your wife have fewer dress
es, so that THE NEGRO MAY BE
KEPT IN IDLENESS.
I A
Did they ever vote any money to
keep the POOR WHITE MAN ?
Why have they flooded the country
with As.-es-ors and Tax gatherers to
SUCK OUT THE SAVINGS OF EV
: ERY HOUSEHOLD?
Why are the people taxed, and :
THEIR lIA RT> EAItNINOSTAKEN
FROM THEM, to keep up this unne- !
cessary cloud of officers, when the j
whole could as well be collected through
the State and County Officers.
THE NATIONAL DEBT MUST |
BE FA 11 ), and as it increases, the in- ■
terest to be paid, increases.
As debt and interest increases, TAX
ATION INCREASES.
increase of debt to the Government
means increase of toil, and IN
CREASE OF LABOR TO POOR
WHITE MEN.
It is the question of the comfort of
every boy and girl, of every wife and
mother, and affects the ability of every
father to provide food and raiment for
his wife and children.
CONGRESS HAS INCREASED
; ITS OWN PAY for the last Session
almost TWICE what it was when it
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
DO LL A IIS of your money are s wallo w
ed up.
EECISEATJ VE t'O VI EREXCE.
The Deniocraticconfereeafbrthe Leg
islative district composed of the coun
ties of Bedford, Fulton and Somerset,
, "
met at the Bedford Hutal, iu Baiiford,
on Saturday, Sept. !. The following
conferees were present:
Bedford —M ij. Law. Tadaferro, John
Sill and Lewis Salipp.
Fallon— Not! tep r<.-sen let 1.
Somerstl —James Wigle, G. 11. Heff
ley.
On motion Maj. L. Taliaferro was ap
pointed President and G. B. Hefliey,
Secretary. On motion, adjourned till
6 o'clock p.m., to await the arrival of
the Fulton conferees.
SECOND Sl-XBION.
Conference met pursuant to adjourn
ment. On motion, IL>N. IIIRAM
FINDLAY, of Somerset, was unani
mously nominated as one of the candi
dates for Representative in the Legisla
ture.
roR
CO A R CF.n T S A XI) B XII IB ITIuNS,
.
ARE UNSURPASSED.
j 0:1 motion the Conference adjourned
i sine die. 1,. TA LI AFKRBO,
<i. 15. Hi.i'fXKY, See'y. Pros't.
"We were positive when we left
i the Democratic organization in '(JI, be
cause as we believed, it sympathised
j with the Disunionists —and we aire just
as positive now in leaving what was
the Onion party during the war, be
' cause we believe it is in sympathy with
| the Disunionists, Thad. Stevens, Sum
ner A- Co. As parties now stand, (with
ton States asking for recognition,) the
i Democrats and conservative republicans
are (heUnion men, the Union party—
tiie Republicans as an organization, are
| the Disunionists. We simply stand
now where we stood during the w ar—
j.fbr the Vnioft— vfrith a National Union j
organization.— Huntingdon Globe.
IXOVOMIKE ASB I'AV TOIR DEBT!
Restore the I'iiion iiml Inert-use
your Kesonrees.
Our National lebt I* to he Paid.
An individual upon whom debt,
p esses, will curtail his expenses and
economise in order to free himself from
the incumbrance. Is not this the true
course of the nation? The President
affirms that it is, and he vetoed the Civil
Rights and Freedmen's Bureau Bills,
and refused the immense patronage
they bestowed upon hint; among other
reasons, because they were enormously
expensive to the people. Congress
votes money without regard to the
payment of the debt.
The President has always been known
Jas an advocate of economy in the ad
| ministration of the Government.
Congress, under the load of Stevens,
: is extravagant acid reckless, and will
! load the people with additional debt.
He, who would have a productive
i farm, must keep up the fences, nour
| ish the soil, and strengthen and invig-
orate it where it is weak. So the Gov- j
eminent, if it would be rich, mighty
and prosperous, must encourage indus- !
try, develop its resources and in every |
section stimulate the people to coin j
wealth from Minerals, Agriculture, j
Commerce, Trade and Manufactures.
The President would develop the :
great resources of the South and cause j
them to aid in paying the National !
Debt, by administering the Constitu- i
tion and the laws.
Congress imposes new conditions,
i and will not allow those enormous re
! sources to he fostered, but from a love
I of power and a spirit of hate, retards
j the growth of wealth in that section,
and by renewed agitation endangers
the security of our debt.
Which is the better policy?
Shall we economise, and increase our
' resources; or shall we be extravagant,
i and continue to agitate?
The President says the former; Con- j
| gross suys the latter.
Stewart, Vanderbilt, Astor, and oth
!er New York capitalists, who hold
| more of the National debt than the
! same number of men anywhere, are
i for the President and against Congress.
They are business men, and believe
j that the same rule applies to the Re
| public that applies to the individual;
if he would get rich, he must econo
mise and footer his resources.
Do you hold a Government Bond?
Is it safer under Stevens and agita
j tion, or Johnson and the Constitu
i tion? _____
ILEMOCHVRIC L\ ION MEETING IN
HOMEKSEF <NV C'V.
The largest Mass Meeting of Demo
crats and Conservative Union men ever
held in Soraer-ot county, came off in
the borough of Somerset, on Monday
evening, August 27th. The Court
House was jammed and crammed with
people, while many were outside una
ble to effect an entrance. DR. H. BRE
LIKTK over the meeting, as
sisted by a large number of Vice Presi
dents and Secretaries. Speeches were
made by HON. IIIESTER CLYMKR,
Democratic candidate for Governor,
lion. J. MCDOWELL SHARRE, Col. J.
P. LINTON and B. P. MEYERS. The
speeches w re enthusiastically receiv
ed, and the best feeling prevailed.—
The Bedford Democratic Brass Band
and the Berlin Brass Band were in at
tendance and enlivened the occasion
with most excellent music.
On Tuesday evening, Aug. 28, an im
proniptu meeting of the Democracy
and Union Republicans of Berlin Bor
ough was held in the large new school
house, at Berlin, which was attended
by a large and enthusiastic audience. J.
Parker Philson, Esq., presided.—
Speeches were made by lion. J. Mci>.
Sharpe, B. P. Meyers, and Hon. A. 11.
Ooffroth. Mr. Sharpe made a most
excellent speech, and was loudly cheer
ed. Mr. Ooffroth made one of his best
efforts, and everything passed off splen
didly. Old Berlin will give a rousing
Democratic majority this fall.
II\R ON ST INTO\.
The Bedford Inquirer lias a cut bor- j
rowed from the Franklin Repository, 1
which that office borrowed from King j
A Baird, Philadelphia, illustrating the I
j sufferings at Andersonville, as com pa- '
[red with those of Jeff. Davis. It is too I
bad that the lnquirer should "go back"
on its friend Stanton in this style.
Stanton wouldn't exchange the Union j
prisoners at Andersonville, hut let
them remain thereto starve and die.
But the Bedford Inquirer ought not to
print such caricatures of his complici
ty with WTrz. Why should it libel its
own friends?
TUK price of the Campaign "Climb
er" has been reduced to* correspond
with the length of time for which the
series is yet to run. There ought to bo
at least 500 additional copies circulated
in this county. As the subscription
price is now almost nominal, the Item- •
ocrats in the various districts can easi
ly raise contributions to enable us to
circulate 500 additional copies. Lett
this be done, if possible.
THE DESERTER LAW.
E* ays the Fulton Democrat, Col. A.
K. MeClure, who in the hey-dey of
Radical power played dignifiedly and
majestically "on the great moral idea"
string, has, like Greeley, since the
clouds of political desperation and
hopelessness have begun to gather a
round Radical aspirations, got down to
the character of a low demagogue. 1I
is out in this week's Repository in a
raw-head and bloody-bones article in-
I tended to upset common sense and the
' decision of the Supreme Court, and
i frighten Democrats who fall under the
j ban of the null, void, iniquitous and
• unconstitutional "Deserter I jaw," from
| their just right of suffrage! Does Me-
Clure take u- Democrats all to be so
j downright soft about the cranium as to
( pay the slightest heed in the world t*
1 ins senseless clamor? Dots anybody
; really think wo were born in the woods
;to be frightened by this Repository
! owl ?
We know just thus much about the
decision of the Supreme Court in the
deserter case of Huber vs. lteilly. We
know that that decision went right to
the marrow and essence of the whole
question. Briefly stated, it is thus:—
The forfeiture of the right of suffrage
"must be adjudged to the convicted
person, after trial by a court martial
and sentence approved" Under no
other circumstances can the forfeiture
become effectual.
We know also tha: this same princi
ple laid down by the Supreme Court
applies equally (for it is rudimental
and e--"dial in its character; to the
Aa ni Assembly triumphantly refer
r<>! to by MeClure, and equally to any
other A sof Assembly that have been
or ma.." >c passed relating to the sub
ject. Buf that Act of Assembly is void
j and dead for another reason; it is clear-
I ly, unquestionably an ex pod facto law.
| But why be led into a discussion over
j the rotten carcass of this misbegotten
i spawn of Radical injustice and malev
i
1 olence? Let it rest in the dishonored
! grave to which an upright judiciary
has consigned it. It is more to the
point to say that, u~e don't intend to be
cheated out of a single rote this fall, by
i this Radical deserter swindle! We
shall treat every officer of election who
refuses a vote on that ground as an en
emy to the sacred right of suffrage—as
a violator of the law —and we shall hoi
him responsible accordingly. That i
all.
GRANT ALL RIGHT.—Major GeneraT
! Grant, it will be seen by reading the
| President's speech, stands "shou'der
to snouiaer *virn JrUvsident Johnson.
The Radicals can claim any General
they may, but such solid men as Grant,
Sherman and Sheridan, know very well
j what the war was for, and how the
I South should be treated now that it has
j been subdued. The same position as
taken by General Grant is being taken
by a large majority of the solid Union
officers and soldier*. You cannot get a
| true Union soldier, unless he is of the
I Thad. Stevens school of politicians, to
i denounce President Johnson, but you
! can get any number to denounce Cong
! ress for its radical course against peace
and harmony.— lluntlnq<lon Ulobe.
! Tin:desert ions from the Radical ranks
■ now-a-days are as numerous as those
I from the lines of Lee to the army of
| Grant just before the fall of Richmond.
| Bread and Butter have a good deal to
| do with politics, and those articles are
i getting a little scarce with some of the
Radicals, just as they did with Lee's
; men before the surrender at Appomat
j tox. The "Bread and Butter brigade"
i is getting stronger daily.
j B. P. MEYERS, Oftite Bedford <ia
: zette, who was lately nominated as the
1 Democratic and National Union can
didate for the State Senate, in the Bed
' ford and Somerset district, will be tri
umphantly elected, as he deserves to
■ be. This will be one stroke against
Thad. Stevens and darkey suffrage.—
! Pat. <(• Union.
> IIKXRY WARD RKECIIER has left
| the "Republican" party because it is
I now controlled by men who are deter
mined to keep ten States out of the
j Union, lie lias written a letter ex
plaining his position. lie thinks that
all good men ought to stand by the
' President.
MRS. HAXXAH RIDKXBAI:H, wife
of WM. RIDEXOAUDii, Esq., formerly
; of this county, long Clerk of the Buch
anan-County Circuit Court, died at St.
j Josephs, M0.,0n Friday morning, Aug.
17th, of typhoid fever. She was a la
dy of much energy in good works, and
■ greatly esteemed in the social circles in
i which slie moved.
i .
SACRAMENTAL SERVICES will bo
held in the M. E. Church, in this place,
on next Sabbath, (9th inst.) at ltd
a. m.
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