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Aug. 14, IMW J>l'lLDEliS and CONTRACTORS! TAKE NOTICE ! Sealed piopesals for the erection of the Bedford county Poor House will be received at the office of the county commissioners in Bedford, until SATURDAY, THE 15TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, NEXT. when the contract will be awarded, to the lowest and best bidder. The Commissioners reserving the right to reject any or all of the bids. The building to be erected upon the present Poor House property, to bo two stories and a base ment in bight, large enough to accommodate one hundred and twenty paupers, and to be comple ted. and ready for use. on, or before, the Ist day of October, 1869. The Commissioners will furnish the bricks AH the labor, and all other materials must be supplied by the contractor. The plan, with detailed specifications, can be seen at the commissioners' office, on. or any day afier the 21st inst. The plan and specifications will bo made part of tbe contract, and the contractor will be held to a strict compliance therewith. All proposals should be addressed to Jno. G. Fisher, Commis sioners" clerk, Bedford, Pa. MICHAELS RITCHBY, DAVID HOWSAKE. PETER M BARTON, jul 17m2 Commissioners. £cflal iloturs. CtOURT PROCLAMATION. —To ) the Coroner, the Justices of the Peace, and Constables tn the different Townships in the County of Bedford, (Arreting KNOW RE, that In pursuance of a prooept mc direct nit. under the hand and seal of the Jlon ALEXANDER KING. President of the several Courts of Common Pleas, in the Itith District, consisting of the coun ties of Franklin. Fulton. Bedford and Somerset, and by virtue of his office of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery for the trial of capital and other offenders therein, and the Gen eral Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace; and G W GI MP, and WILLIAM G EICHOLTZ. Judges of the same Court in the same County of Bedford, You and eaeh of you, are hereby required to be and appear in your proper persons with your Re cords, Recognizances, Examinations, and other Remembrances, before the Judges aforesaid, at Bedford, at a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery and General Quarter Ses sions of the peace therein to be holden for the eoun tv of Bedford, aforesaid, on the Is/ Monday of Sept.. (being the "th day.) 18(58, at 10 o'clock in'the forenoon of that day, there and then to do those things to which your several offices appertain. Given under my hand and seal the If th day of August, in the year of our Lord, 1868. ROBERT STECKMAN, SHERIFF'S OFFICE, i Sheriff. Bedford. Aug. 14, IS6S. i w4 1" IST OF CAUSES, put down for j trial, at Sept. Term. 1868. 7th day. Paul S. Mock vs Josiah Burk S S Fluek et al vs James Bowser ltiddlesburg CAI Co vs Broad Top CAI Co Joseph Williams vs Solomon Williams Thomas Ritchey vs Jac Lingenfelter et al Fredolin Smith et al vs John Cavender et al John Peterson vs James Heffuer A Co Mary Jane Holsinger vs Josiah Holsinger Sophia Hook et al vs Thomas Growdenet al Elizabeth Beeler et al vs SSRusseli Trustee.Ac John Metzgar's ad'mr vs Dry Ridge Church John Cessna vs Jonathan Bowser Fredolin Smith et al vs Alexander Fletcher Joseph Garlick vs Abraham Garlick John B P.inard vs D B Kockendazfer B W Garroston vs Philip Little et a! Susannah C. Taylor vs William Colvin Peter Cramer vs William Darns et al Thomas Growden vs Archibald Blair et al vs Mary Wigfield et al Certified, August 10th, 186 S. aug.l4w4 0. E SHANNON, Proth'y. 1) K< 1 ISTER'S NOTK E.—All per- V sons interested, are hereby notified that the following accountants have filed their accounts in the Register's Office of Bedford county, and that the same will be presented to tbe Orphans' Court, in and for said county, on Tuesday the Bth day of Sept., next, at the Court House, in Bedford, for confirmation : The accounts of Samuel L. Hamaker and J. Piper Smith, adm'rs of the estate of John Smith, late of Scbellsburg borough, dee'd. The account of Duncan McYieker, Esq., trustee for i he sale of the real estate of Samuel liull, late of Napier tp., dee d. The aeconnt of Isaac L Snyder, adm'r of tho estate of Samuel Snyder, lateof Middle Woodbury tp., dee'd. The account of J. II Dilling and George Hoover, adm'rs of tbe estate of Martin Hoover, late of Lib crtv tp., dee'd. The account of John P. Ake and Abraham Hull, adiu'rs of ihe estate of John Akc, late of Union tp.. dee'd. The account of Michael S. Miller, adir.r'. of tho estate of John 11. Miller, late of St. Clair tp , deed. The account of William Gephart, adm'r of the estate of Eve Siuckey. late of Bedford tp., dee'd. The account of John Louderbaugh, guardian of Joseph Catharine and Peter Garlick, minor cnildren of Kachael Garlick, dee'd. Th" account of John G. Smith, guardian of Franklin Kcgg, minor son of John Kcgg. dee'd. Tho final account of Levi Uardinger. adm'r of the estate of Jonathan C. Dicken, late of Cumber land valley tp., dee'd. The account of Peter 11. Shires and Samuel Stahl, adm'rs of the estate of Wm. Stahl, late of Bedford borough, dee d. The account of P. F. Lehman, Esq . Executor of the last will and testament of Mary iiyssung, late of Londonderry tp., dee'd. The account of Lewis M. Statler, adm'r of the estateof Joseph Brinkey. late of Juniata tp , dee'd. The account of Geo. 1). Shuck, one of tbe execu tors of the last will and testament of Josiah D Shuck, lateof Bedford borough, dee'd aug.l3wl O. E. SHANNON, Register. ITTATERSIDE WOOLEN FAC- V V TORY !—3O 000 LBS WOOL WANTED! The undersigned having leased the Large New Woolen Factory, erected recently at Waterside for a number of years, respectfully informs the old customers of the Factory and the public generally, that they will need at least the above amount of wool. They have on hand a large lot of Cloths, Casimeres, Tweeds, Sattinetts, Jeans, Blankets, Coverlets, Flannel, Ac., which they will exchange tor wool, as has been thecustom heretofore. Carpets will be made to order, at all times. Stocking yarn of all kinds always on hand. Our Peddler. W. ii. Ralston, will cll on all the old customers, and the public generally, in due time, for the pur pose of exchanging goods fur wool The highest market price will be paid for wool in cash. N. B Wool carding spinning and country Full ing will be done in the best manner and at short notice. JOHN I. NOBLE A BRO.. may22m3 Waterside. Pa. rpilE Local circulation of the BEI>- I FORD GAZETTE islargerthan that of any other paper in this section ol country, and therefore of ersthe greatest inducements to business men to fdvertise in its columns JiooUatuls (folumn. YOU A LL HAVK HEARD or HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS, AND HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC. Prepare,! by Dr. C. M. Jackson. Philadelphia. Their introduction into this country from Ger many occurred in 1825. THEY CI'RED YOUR FATHERS AND MOTHERS, And will cure you and your children. They are entirely different from JT the many preparations now in the country cal l—l led Bitters or Tonics. They are no tavern A-1 preparation, or any thing like one; but good, honest, reliable medi cines. They are The greatest known remedies for Liver Complaint, DYSPEPSIA, Nervous Debility, JAUNDICE, Diseases of the Kidneys, ERUPTIONS OF THE SKIN, and all Diseases arising from a Disordered Liver, stomach, or IMPURITY OF THE BLOOD. Constipation, Flatulence, Inward Piles. Fullncs of Blood to the Head, Acidity of the Stomach, Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust for Food. Full ness or Weight in the Stomach, Sour Eruc tations, Sinking or Fluttering at the Pit of the Stomach, Swimming of the Head, Hurried or Difficult Breathing, Fluttering at the Heart, Choking or Suffocating Sensa | I tinns when in a Lying Posture, Dimness of V 7 Vision, Dots or Webs before the sight. Dull Pain in the Head, Defi ciency ot Perspiration, Yellowness of the Skin and Eyes, Pain in the Side, Back. Chest, Limbs, etc.. Sudden Flushes of Heat, Burning in the Flesh. Constant Imagi nings of Evil and Great Depression of Spirits. AH these indicate diseases of the Liver or Di gestive Organs, combined with impure blood. HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS is entirely vegetable and contains no liquor. It is a compound of Fluid Extracts. The Roots, Herbs, and Barks from which these extract* are made, arc gathered in Germany. All the medi cinal virtueus arc ex / . tracted from them by a scientific Chemist. I ■ These extracts are then forwarded to this V 7 country to be used ex pressly far the manufacture of these Bitters There is no alcoholic substance of any kind used in compounding the Bitters, hence it is the only Bitters that can be used in esses where alcoholic stimulants are not advisable. HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC is a combination of all the ingredients of the Bit ters. with PI RK Santa Cruz Rum, Orange, etc. It is used for the same diseases as the Bitters, in case where some pure alcoholic stimulus is required. You will bear in mind that these remedies areen tirely different from any others advertised for the cure of the diseases named, these being scientific preparations of medioinni .. L;I >V, -VTV ois are mere decoctions of rum in some torm. liie TONIC is decidedly one of the most pleasant and agreeable remedies ever offered to the public Its taste is exquisite. It is a pleasure to take it, while its life-giving, exhilarating, and medicinal quali ties have caused it to bo-known as the greatest of all tonics. DEBILITY. There is no medicine equal to Hoofland's tier man Bitters or Tonic -w in cases of Debility. They impart a tone Id and vigor to the whole system, strengthen A the appetite, cause an enjoyment of the food, enable the stomach to di gest it, purify the blood, give a good, sound, healthy complexion, eradicate the yellow tinge from the eye. impart a bloom to the cheeks, and change the patient from a short-breathed, emaci ated, weak, and nervous invalid, to a full-faced, stout, and vigorous person. Weak and Delicate Children are made strong by using the Bitters or Tonic. In fact, they arc Family Medicines. They can be administered with perfect safety to a child three months old, the most delicate female, or n man of ninety. These remedies are the best Blood Purifiers ever known and will cure all diseases resulting from bad bload. Keep y>ur blood pure; keep your Liver in order; T keep your digestive organs in a sound, I healthy condition, by the use of these rente 1 J dies, and no diseases will ever assail you. The best men in the country recommend them. If years of honest reputation go for anything, vou must try these preparations. FROM HON. GEO. W. WOODWARD, Chief Justice ot the Supreme Court of Pennsylva nia. PHILADELPHIA, March 111. 1867. I find that ' Hoofland's German Bitters" is not an intoxicating beverage, but is a good tonic, use ful in disorders of the digestive organs, and of great benefit in cases of debility and want of ner vous action in the system Yours Truly. GEO. W. WOODWARD. FROM HON. JAMES TAOMPSON. Judge of the Supreme Oonrt of Pennsylvania. PHILADELPHIA, April 28, 1866. I consider "Hoofland's German Bitters" a valua ble medicine in case of attaaks of Indiges tion or Dyspepsia. I \ can certify this from my experience of it il Y'ours. with respect, JAMES THOMPSON. FROM REV. JOSEPH H. KENXARD, D D., Pastor of the Tenth Baptist Church, Philadelphia. DR. JAOKSOX—DEAR SIR:—I have been fre quently requested to connect my name with rec ommendations of different kinds of medicines, but regarding the pi actice as out of rny appropriate sphere, I have in all cases declined; but with a clear proof in various instances, and particularly in my own family, ot the usefulness ot Dr. Hoof land's German Bitters, I depart for once from my usual course, to express my full conviction that for general debility of the system, and es pecially for Liver Com y plaint, it is a safe and valuable preparation. In some cases it may fail ; bnt usual i.l ly, I doubt not, it will be very beneficial to those who suffer from the above causes. Yours, very respectfully, J. II KENNARD, Eigth, below Coates Street. CAUTION. Hoofland's German Remedies arc counterfeited. The Genuine have the signature of C. M. JACK SON on the front of the outside wrapper of each bottle, and the name of the article blown in each bottle. All others are counterfeit. Price of the Bitters, $1 per bottle; Or, a half dozen for $5. Price of the Tonic, $1 50 per bottle; (>r, a half dozen for *7 50. The tonic is put up in quart bottles. Recollect that it is Dr. Hoofland's German Remedies that are so universally used and so highly recommended; p-, ami do not allow the Druggist to induce I lyou to take anything else that he may is just as good, be cause he makes a larger profit on it. These Reme dies will be sent by express to any locality upon application to the PRINCIPAL OFFICE, At the German Medicine Store. No. 6 •'! 1A R Cll STR EET. Ph I lade/pit in. C'HAS. M. EVANS, PROPRIETOR. Formerly C. M JACKSON A Co. These Remedies are for sale by Druggists, Store keepers and Medicine Dealers everywhere. Do not forget to examine the article you buy in order to get the genuine. may2SF#Byl III? ?. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL NOMINEES. FOE PRESIDENT, HORATIO SEYMOUR. OF NEW YORK. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, FRANCIS P. BLAIR, OP MISSOURI. I TAXES! 11 X I.N ! ! BY SPENCER \V. CONE. ; Taxes ! taxes ' nothing but taxes! ] Taxed upon all that a man can eat; j Taxed on our flour, and taxed on our meat ; i Taxed upon all that covers his back, From his cotton shirt to his broadcloth black ; Taxed on whatever is pleasant to see, To hear, or to smell, to feel, or to be, Taxes ! taxes! nothing but taxes! Grinding our noses as sharp as axes. And what are the taxes for? Why. to feed all the Radical rascals fat, i And buy Horace Greeley a new white hat. ; Taxes ! taxes! Jacobin taxes ! | Taxes on whisky, and taxes on beer ; | Bat there's nothing in those kind of taxes queer, | For whisky and beer are the poor man's drink ing, j And he swallows them down to keep from think ing ! ; How taxes ! taxes ! beggaring taxes ! : Are grinding all noses as sharp as axes. And what are the taxes for? | Why ! —the Frccdmen's Bureau to keep in repair, j So that Radical loafers can each have a chair, And a chance for the pickings and stealings there ! Taxes! taxes! REPUBLICAN TAXES ! Taxed on the coffin, and taxed on the crib, On the old man's shroud, and the baby s bib, ! To pamper the bigot, and fatten the knave; j xnxearrom tnc cradle plump into tiic e ,. T .. And what are the taxes for ? j Why, to buy all the rogues they can find, far and near, And give S. M. Clark half a million a year. I Taxes! taxes! REPCTBLICAX TAXES ! For rich men to shirk, and for poor men to pay, ! From the pittance they earn by tho work of tbe day, | By the strain of the muscle, the sweat of the brow, j By the spade and tho trowel, the axe and the plough. And what are the taxes for ! ; Why, tbe old Constitution to knock all to smash, j And fill every place-holder's pockets with cash. j Taxes ! taxes ! BOXDHOLDERS' TAXES ' That's what the taxes are for ! . Hurrah ! for the taxes, the jolly old taxes ! Come, men, get your noses all ground sharp as axes— Cry Sumner and Stevens, Bon. Butler and Wade, | And all our tax Bosses that taxes have made ; ; You "mud-sills'' to Yankee philanthrophy sold, j Be quiet —obey ! —and your saucy tongues hold i The Bondholder's Bonds, and his Interest in Gold, I We don't tax, and won't tax, for fools, don't you I seo > i An Aristocrat bondholder's party are we ; ' And as soon as we've finished the Southern con cern j We'll settle you Northern white trash j So pay up your taxes; no growling ; be hearty, , And vote for our upper-crust BONDHOLDERS' PARTE. I For that's what the taxes are for ? j The nose-grinding Taxes ! The Republican Taxes ! ! The Radical Taxes ! ! ! | The Jacobin Taxes! ! ! ! j The Bondholder's Taxes !!!'.! j That 's just what these taxes are for ' i The age we live in—Bond-age. Grant's life Is not insured. He has "no policy." Seymour is too Tam-many for the Republicans. Notwithstanding his lonely Western tour, Grant is said to lie in good spirits. Grant's home is in Illinois. That accounts for his being such a great Sucker. The reason of Grant's taciturnity is j because lie is generally "too full for i utterance." It is said that "Silence is gold," j which is the reason, why the bondhol i ders support Grant. Grant is taking a tour toward Salt ! Lake. Next Fall he will take trip up Salt River. There is a great deal of action in the . Republican camp, but, unfortunately j for them, it is prefixed with re. ——————— Next Fall the Republican candidate | for the Presidency will he an Emi i GRANT—to Salt River. The total aggregate of ex ports for the last fiscal year, in specie value,amount | to $.'{52,016,000, an increase over the I previous j ear of $18,141,81)0. The net imports for 1868 reached $'J48,903,81!t, a decrease since the previous year of $41,215,777. This includes gold receipts and shipments as well as merchandise. The Southern negroes are being ; taught that Seymour always dines off 1 roast black baby, mulatto sauce. —A fellow in Nashville has trained a | rat to steal bonds from Brokers' win ! dows, BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 21, 1868. THE PRESIDENCY. Mr. Seymour's letter Aeeepting the Nomination. The following is Horatio Seymour's acceptance of the Democratic nomina tion for the presidency: UTIOA, August 4,1868. —Gentlemen: When, in the city of New York, on the 11th ultimo, in the presence of a vast multitude, on behalf of the nation al Democratic convention, you tender ed to me its unanimous nomination as their candidate for the office of Presi dent of the United States, I stated I had no words adequate to express my gratitude for the good will and kind ness which that body has shown to me. Its nomination was unexpected. It was my ambition to take an active dart, from which I am now excluded, in the great struggle going 011 for the restoration of good government, of peace and prosperity to our coutry. But I have been caught by tbe whelm ing tide which is bearing us on to a great political change, ft*id 1 find my self unable to resist its pressure. You have also given nie a copy of the reso lutions put forth by the convention, showing its position upon all the great questions which now agitate the coun try. As the presiding officer of that convention, I am familiar with their scope and import; as one of its mem bers I am a party to their terms, 'i hey are in accord with my views, and I stand upon them in the contest upon which we are now entering, and I shall strive to carry them out in future, wherever I may be placed, in political or private life. I then stated that 1 would send you these words of acceptance in a letter, as is the customary form. I see no reason, upon reflection, to change or qualify the terms of my approval of the resolutions of the convention. 1 have delayed the mere formal act of communicating to you in writing what I thus publicly said, for the pur pose of seeing what light the action of Congress would throw upon the inter ests of the country. Its acts since the adjournment of the convention show an alarm lest a change of political pow er will give to the people what they ought to have, a clear statement of what has been done with the money drawn from them during the past eight years. Thoughtful men feel that 'here have been wrongs in the fi nancial management which have been kept from the public knowledge. The congressional party has not only allied itself with military power, which is to be brought to bear directly upon the election in many States, but it also holds itself in perpetual session, with the avowed purpose cf making such laws as it shall see fit, in view of the elections which will take place within a few weeks. It di<l MotajMu-vfore ad journ, but took a recess, to meet again if its partisan interests shall demand its reassembling. Never before in the history of our country has Congress thus taken a menacing attitude to wards its electors. Under its influ ence, sorno of the States organized by its agents are proposing to deprive the people of the right to vote for presiden tial electors, and the first bold steps are taken to destroy the rights of suffrage. It is not strange, therefore, that thoughtful men see in such action the proof that there is, with those who shape the policy of the Republican party, a motive stronger and deeper than the mere wish to hold political power ; that there is a dread of some exposure which drives them 011 to acts so desperate and so impolitic. Many of the ablest leaders and journ als of the Republican party have open ly deplored the violence of congression al action, and its tendency to keep up discord in our country. The great in terests of our country demand peace, order, and a return to those industrial pursuits without which we cannot maintain the faith of our government. The minds of business men are per plexed by uncertainties. The hours of toil of our laborers are lengthened by the costs of living made by the di rect and indirect exactions of govern ment. Our people are harassed by the heavy and frequent demands of the tax-gatherer. Without distinction of party, there is a strung feeling in favor of that Hue of action which shall re store order and confidence, and shall lift off'the burdens which now hinder and vex the industry of the country. Yet at this moment those in power have thrown into the Senate chamber and congressional hall new elements of discord and violence. Men have been admitted as representatives of some of the southern States, with the declaration upon their lips that they cannot live in the States they claim to represent, without military protec tion. These men are to make laws for the North as well as the South. These men, who, a few days since, were seeking as suppliants that Con gress would give them power within their respective States, are to-day the masters and controllers of the actions of those bodies. Entering theiu with minds filled with passions, their first demands have been that Congress shall look upon the States from which they come as in conditions of civil war; that the majority of their populations, embracing their intelligence, shall be treated as public enemies; that mili tary forces shall be kept up at the cost of the people of the North, and that there shall lie no peace and order at the South save that which is made by ar bitrary power. Every intelligent man knows that these men owe their seats in Congress to the disorder in the South ; every man knows that they not only owe their present positions to disorder, but that every motive spring ing from the love of power, of gain, of a desire for vengeance, prompts them to keep the South in anarchy. While that exists, they are independent of the wills or wishes of their fellow-citi zens. While confusion reigns, they are the dispensers of the profits ami the honors which grow out of a govern ment of mere force. These men are now placed in positions where they can notoLly urge their views of policy, but where they can enforce them. When others shall be admitted in this manner from the remaining southern States, although they will have in truth 110 constituents, they will have more power in the Senate than a ma jority of the people of this Union liv iug in nine of the great States. In vain the wisest members of the Republican party protested against the policy that led to this result. While the chiefs of the late rebellion have submitted to the results of the war, and are now qui etly engaged in useful pursuits for the support of themselves and their fami lies, and are trying by the force of their example to lead back the people of the South to the order and industry, not only essential to their well-being, but to the greatness and prosperity of our common country, we see that those who, without ability or influence, have been thrown by the agitations of civil convulsion into positions of honor and profit, are striving to keep alive the passions to which they owe their ele vation. And they clamorously insist that they are the only friends of our Union—a Union that can only have a sure foundation in fraternal regard and a common desire to promote the peace, the order and the happiness of all sec tions of our laud. Events in Congress since the adjourn ment of the convention have vastly increased the importance of a political victory by those who are seeking to bring back economy, simplicity and justice in the administration of our na tional affairs. Many Republicans have heretofore clung to their party who have regretted the extremes of vio lence to which it has run. .They have cherished a faith that while the action of their political friends has been mis taken. their motives have been good. They must now see that the Republi can party is in that conditon that it cannot carry out a wise and peaceful policy, whatever its motives may be. It is a misfortune, not only to a coun try, but to a governing party itself, when its action Is unchecked by any form of opposition. It has been the misfortune of the Republican party that the events of the past few years have given it so much power that it has been able to shackle the executive, to trammel the Judiciary, and to carry out the views of the most unwise and violent of its members. When this state of things exists in any party, it lias ever been found that the judgments of its ablest leaders do not control. There is hardly and able man who has helped to build up the Re publican organization who has not within the past three years warned it against its excessses, who has not been borne down and forced to give up his convictions of what the interests of the country called for, or, if too patriotic to do this, who has not been driv en from its ranks. If this has been the case heretofore, what will be its action now with this new infusion of men w ho, without a decent respect for the viewsof those who had just given them their positions, begin there legis lative career with calls for arms, with demands that their States shall be re garded as in a condition of civil war, and with a declaration that they are ready and anxious to degrade the President of the United States when ever they can persuade or force Con gress to bring forward new articles of impeachment? The Republican party, as well as we, are interested on putting some check upon this violence. It must he clear to every thin king man that adivisionof political power tends to check the vio lence of party action and to assure the the peace and good order of society. The election of a Democratic executive and a majority of Democratic members to the llouse of Representatives would not give to that party organization the the power to make sudden or violent changes, but it would serve to check those extreme measures which have been deplored by the best men of both political organizations. The result would most certainly lead to that peace ful restoration of the Union and re-es tablishment of franternal relationship which the country desires. lam sure that the best men of tiie Republican party deplore as deeply as I do the spir it of violence shown by those recently admitted to seats in Congress from the South. The condition of civil war which they contemplate must be ab horrent to every right-thinking man. I have no mere personal wishes which mislead my judgment in regard to the pending election. No man who has weighed and measured the duties of the office of President of the United Sates can fail to be impressed with the cares and toils of him who is to meet its demands. 11 is not merely to float with popular currents without a policy or a purpose. On the contrary, while our Constitution gives juM weight to the public will, its distin guishing feature is that it seeks to pro tect therightsof minorities. Its great est glory is that it puts restraints upon power. It gives force and form to those maxims and principles of civil liberty for which the martyrs of free dom have struggled through ages. It declares the right of the people "to be secure in their persons, houses and pa pers against unreasonable searches and seizures. That Congress shall make 110 law respecting an establishment of re ligion or the free exercise thereof, < r abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people to petition for redress of grievances. It secures the right of a speedy and pub lic trial by an impartial jury." No man can rightfully enter upon the duties of the presidential office un less he is not only willing tocarry out the wishes of the people expressed in a con stitutional way, but is also prepared to stand up for the rights of minorities. Ho must l>e ready to uphold the free exercise of religion. He must de nounce measures which would wrong personal or home rights, or the relig ious conscience of the humblest citizen of the land. He must maintain, with out distinction of creed or nationality, i all the privileges of American citizen ship. The experience of every public man who has been faithful to his trust teaches him that no one can do the du ties of the office of President unless he is ready not only to undergo the false hoods and abuse of the bad, but to suf fer from the censure of the good who j are misled by predjudices and inisrep | resentations. There are no attiactions | in such positions, which deceive my i judgment, when I say that a great i change is going on in the public mind. { The mass of the Republican party are i more thoughttful, temperate and just than they were during the excitement which attended the progress and close lof the civil war. As the energy | of the Democratic party springs from their devotion to their cause and not to their candidates, I may with propri ety speak of the fact that never in the political history of our country has the \ action of any like body been bailed with such universal and wide spread ! enthusiasm as that which has been ! shown in relation to the position of ! the national Democratic convention. With this the candidates had nothing j to do. Had any others of those named been selected, this spirit would have j been perhaps more marked. The zeal and energy of the conservative masses I spring from a desire to make a change of political policy, and from the confi ; denee that they can carry out their i purpose. In this faith they are strengthened by the co-operation of the great body ! of those who served in the Union army and navy during the war. Having i given nearly sixteen thousand eoinmis | sions to the officers of the army, I know their views and wishes. They demand the Union for which they fought. The ' largest, meeting cf these gallant sol diers which ever assembled was held in New York, and endorsed the action of the national convention. In words instinct with meaning, they called up on the government to stop in its policy | of hate, discord, and disunion, and in ' terms of ferved eloquence they deman ded the restoration of the rights and | liberties of the American people. When there is such accord between those who proved themselves brave and self-sacrificing in the war, and those who are thoughtful and patriotic in council, I cannot doubt we shall | gain a political triumph which will re ! store our Union, bring back peace and prosperity to our land, and will give us once more the blessings of a wise, economical and honest government. I am. gentlemen, truly yours, Ac., HORATIO SEYMOUR. To General G. W. Morgan and others, Committee, Ac. Ac. I.ETTER OF GEN. FKVN'K I*. m.AIR AiVEPTIXU THE NOMINATION FOR VICE I'KKSIDCXI. WASHINGTON, July 21,1868. The following is a copy of General | Blair's letter of acceptance of the Dem ocratic nomination for Vice President, which has just been received here: General George IP. Morgan, Chairman of the Committee, of the National Dem ocratic Convention. GENERAL: I take the earliest op portunity of replying to your letter notifying me of my nomination for Vice President of the United States by the National Democratic Convention recently held in the city of New York. I accept without hesitation the nom ination tendered in a manner so grati fying, and give you and the committee my thanks for the very kind and com plimentary language in which you have conveyed to me the decision of the Convention. I have carefully read the resolutions j adopted by the Convention, and most : cordially concur in every principle and sentiment they announce. * My opinion upon all the questions which discriminate the great contend ing parties have been fully expressed 011 all suitable occasions, and I do not deem it necessary at this time to reit i erate them. The issues upon which the contest turns are clear and cannot be obscured or distorted by the sophistries of our 1 adversaries. They all resolved them selves into the old and ever recurring I struggle of a few men to absorb the po litical power of the nation. This ef ; fort under every conceivable name and disguise, has always characterized the j opponents of the Democratic party, but at 110 time has the attempt assumed I a shape so open and daring as in this i contest. The adversaries of free and | constitutional government, in defiance | of the express language of the consti tution, have erected a military despo tism in ten States of the Union; have taken from the President the power vested in him by the supreme law, ; and have deprived the Supreme Court of her jurisdiction ; the right of trial by jury and the great writ of right, the habeas corpus—shields of safety for every citizen, and which have descen ded to us from the earliest traditions of our ancestors, and which our Revo lutionary fathers sought to secure to their posterity forever in thefundanaen ttl characters of our liberties, have been ruthlessly trampled under foot by J the fragment of a Congress. Whole I States and communities of people of oar race have been attained, convict ed, condemned and deprived of their rights as citizens without presentment of trial or witnesses, but by Congress ional enactments of ex post facto laws and defiance of the constitutional pro hibition denying even to a full and loyal Congress the authority to pass any bill of attainder or ex post facto 1 law. The same usurping authority has substituted as electors in place of the man of our own race, thus illegally attained ami disfranchised, a host of VOL 64—WHOLE No. 5,456. ignorant negroes who are supported in idleness with the public money, and combined together to strip the white race of their birthright through the management of Freedman's Bureaus and emissaries of conspirators in other States, and to complete the oppression, the military power of the nation has been placed at their disposal in order to make this barbarism supreme. The military leader under whose prestige this usurping Congress has taken ref uge since the condemnation of their schemes by the free people of the North in the elections of the last year, and whom they have selected as their can didate to shield themselves of the re sult of their own wickedness and crime, has announced his acceptance of the nomination, and his willingness to maintain their usurpations over eight millions of whites at the South fixed to the earth with his bayonets. He exclaims:—"Let us have peace." "Peace reigns in War-saw" was the announcement which heralded the doom of the liberties of a nation. "The empire is peace," exclaimed Bonaparte when freedom and its defenders ex pired under the sharp edge of the sword. The peace to which Grant in vites us is the peace of despotism and death. Those who seek to restore the constitution by executing the will of the people, condemning the Recon struction acts already pronounced in elections of last year, and which will I am convinced, be still more emphati cally expressed by the election of the Democratic candidate as President of the United States, are denounced as revolutionists by the partisans of this vindictive Congress. Negro suffrage (which the popular vote of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Connecticut and other States has expressed against the letter of the constitution) must stand because their Senators and Representatives have willed it. If the people shall again condemn these atrocious measures by the election of a Democratic candidate for President, they must not be dis turbed. Although decided to be un constitutional by the Supreme Court, and although the President is sworn to maintain and support the constitu tion, the will of a fraction of a Con gress, reinforced with its partisan emissaries sent to the South and sup ported there by the soldiery, must stand against the will of the people and the solemn oath of the President to maintain and support the Constitu tion. It is revolutionary to execute the judgment of the Supreme Court; it is revolutionary in the President to keep inviolate his oath to sustain the Constitution. This false construction of the vital principle of government is the last resort of those who have their arbitrary reconstruction sway and su persede our time-honored institutions. The nation will say the Constitution must be restored and the will of the people again prevail. The appeal to the peaceful ballot to attain this is not war, is not revolution. They make war and revolution who attempt to arrest this quiet mode of putting aside military despotism and the usurpations of a fragment of a Congress, asserting absolute power over that benign system of regulated liberty left us by our fath ers. This must be allowed to take its course. This is the only road to peace. It will come with the election of the Democratic candidate, and not with the election of the mailed warrior whose bayonets are now in the throats of eight millions of people in the South to compel them to support him as a candidate for the Presidency, and to submit to the domination of an alien race of semi-barbarous men. No per version of truth or audacity of misrep resentation can exceed tiiat which hails this candidate in arms as an an gel of peace. I am, very respectfully, your most obedient servant, FRANK P. BLAIR. BONDHOLDERS. What an appropriate name! They hold, with a tightning grasp, the bonds which bind the laboring man to a life of slavery—of unremitting drudgery for the payment of the inter est in gold on securities that were bought in greenbacks. Bondholders! They are true to their name, and to the principles of their illustrious prede cessor, SHY LOCK, in demanding their pound of flesh, in the cutting out of which the life-blood of the laboring man is drawn from his viens. Bondholders! Like their great prototype of the Bi ble, PHAROAH, they know no feeling of mercy, and although they see the sun shine shut out irom the poor man's house, the army of tax-gathering lo custs devouring the substance of the land, they relax not their grasp upor. tne bon Is with which they have bound the people. They refuse to recognize in the voice of the people the voice of GOD. Bondholders! The bonds with which they have en slaved the energy and industry of the nation wore lightly at first, then they galled, and now they cut deep in the flesh, but the bondholders heed not the groans of those they have enslaved— the jingling music of the gold, as they count over their interest, drowns all unpleasant sounds which might disturb their peace. Bondholders! The monied aristocracy, whose dain ty hands cannot be polluted with the greasy greenbacks handled by working men.' Bright jingling gold is their cur rency. Bondholders I The pure patriots who refuse to ac cept the currency of their country in payment of its obligations—who rejni diate the promises to pay of the Gov ernment. Bondholders! A precious set of harpies who, un der the guise of patriotism, took ad vantage of the necessities of theireoun try to swindle it and enslave their fel low-countrymen. Bondholders! The people demand that the name shall 110 longer be the synonym of a privileged class—a monied nobility whom the people must support in lux ury and idleness.
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