M $ 'Il fHf Il Hfit t! if * BY MEYERS & MENGEL. (flection PR ESI DEN T I A I. ELECTION PROCLAMATION. —WHEREAS, inandhy an act of General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. entitled -An Act to regulate the Ge neral Elections within this Commonwealth." it is enj-ined upon mo to give public notice of said c le lions and to enumerate in said notice what offi cers are to bo elected, I. ROBERT STECKMAN, Sheriff of the county of Bedford, lo hereby make known an 1 give this public notice to tbe electors f the county of Bedford, that a General Election will beheld in said eountv.on the TUESDAY r.U) DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1.-oi-v at the several election districts, viz : The electors of the Borough of Bedford and township of Bedford, to meet at the Court House in said borough. The electors of Broad Top township and Coal Dale borough to meet at the school house in said borough. 'I he elector? of the borough of Bloody Run to meet at tbe House of Daniel B. Ott, in said bor ough. The electors of Coleraio township to meet at the house of And w Pennellin Rainsburg in said town ship. The electors of Cumberland Valley township to meet at the new school house erected on the land owned by John Whip's heirs in said township. The electors of Harrison township to tncet at the house of Jacob Feightner. in said township. The electorsof Juniata township to meet at Key ser's school house in said township. The electors of Hopewell township to meet at the school house near the house of John Dasher in said township. Tbe eieo:ors < f Londonderry township to meet at tbe li use now occupied by YY'ui. H. Hill as a shop in Bridgeport in said township. The elector-of Liberty township to meet at the sclo ol house in Stonersiown in said township. The electorsof Monroe township to meet at the hou-e lately occupied by James Cornell in Clear ville in said township. The electorsof Sehellsburg borough to meet at the brick school house in said borough. The electors of Napier township to meet at the brick school house in the borough of Bchel sburg. The electors of East I'rovideuce township to meet at the bouse lately occupied by JohnNyeum. jr.. in said township. The electors of 3nake Spring township to meet at the school house near the Methodist church on ilie land of John G. Hartley. The electors of West Providence township to meet at the house of Philip Hollar in said town ship. The electors of St. Clair township to meet at the s.-h'-'l house near the residence of Joseph Griffith i: .-aid township. The electors of the borough of St. Clair.-ville to meet at the school-bouse in said borough. The electors of Union township to meet at the -eliool house near Mowry's mill iu said township. The electors of South Woodborry township io meet at tbe house of Samuel Oster, near Noble's mill in said township. The electors of Southampton township to meet at the house of Win. Adams in said township. The electors of Saxton Borough to meet at the school house in said borough. The electors of Mid lie YVoodberry township to meet at the house of Henry Fluke in the village of Wood herrv. The electors of YVoodberry borough to meet at the house of YVm. M. Pearson in said borough At which time and place* the qualified electors will elect by ballot : TWENTY-SIX RERSONS to be E letors.f PRESIDENT and VICE PRESIDENT of the United States. Norn r. is HKREBV GIV EN. That every person excepting Justices of ihe Peace who shall hold any office or appointment of profit or trust under tbe United States, or of this State, or any city or cor pora ted district, whether a commissioned officer ••r otherwise, a subordinate officer or agent who is or shall fee employed under the legislative, execu tive or judiciary department "f this State or of ai v city, or of any incorporated district, and also, that every member of Congre-s and of the State Legislature, and ot the .-elect or common council of any city, or commissioners of any incorporated di.-tri is by law incapable of hoi ling or exercis ing at the time, the office or appointment of Judge, I inspector or Clerk of any election of this Common wealth. and that no Inspector, Judge or other of ficer of such election shall be elegible to be then And the said net of assembly entitled "an act relating to elections of this Commonwealth," passed July 2. 1819. further yrovi-l '■* ns follows. ■■That the Inspector and Judges shall meet at the respective places appointed fur holding the election in thedistrict at which they respectively belong, before S o'clock in the morning of the SECOND TUESDAY OF OCTOBER, and each said inspector shall appoint one eleik, who shall be a qualified voter of such district. ••In case the person who shall have received the second highest number of votes for inspector shall not attend on the day of any election, then the per son who -hall have received the second highest number of votes for Judge at the next preceding election shall act as an Inspector in his place. And in case the person who shall have received the highest number of vote- f r Inspector -hall not at tend. the person elect d Judge shall appoint an Inspector in his place; and in case the person e leclcd a Judge shall not attend, then the Inspec tor who received the highest number of votes shall appoint a Judge in his place : and if any vacancy shall continue in the hoard for the space of one hour after the time fixed by law for the opening of the election the qualified voters of the township, ward or district for which such officer shall have been elected, present at the place of election, shall e leet one of their number to fill such vacancy. ••It shall be the duty of the several a-- \ssors rc sp etively to attend at the place of holding every general, special or township election, during the whole time sueh election is kept open, for the pur pi seof giving information to the Inspectors ami Judge, when called on, in relation t> the right of any person assessed by them to vote at sueii elec tion. and on such other matters in relation to the a essuient of voters, as the -aid Inspectors or ether oi them shall from time to time require. No person shall be permitted to vote at any election as aforesaid, than a white citizen A the age of twenty-one or more, who shall have re-i le i in this State at least one year, and in the election district where he offers to vote, ten days immedi ately preceding such election, and within two yeui-paid a State or County tax. which shall have been assessed at least ten days before the e lection. But a citizen of the United States who has previously been a qualified voter ot thi- State and removed therefrom and returned, and wlio shall have resided in the election tistriet and paid taxes aforesaid, shall be entitled to vot af ter residing in this State six months. Provided That the white freemen, citizens of the United 8 .lies, between tbe age of twenty-one aud twen ty two years who have resided in the election dis trict ten days as aforesaid shall be entitled to vote, although they shall not have paid tax. No person shall be permitted to vote whose name is not contained in the list of taxable inhab itants. furnished by the Commissioners, unless : First, he produce a receipt of payment, within two yeI? of State or County tax assessed agreea bly to the Constitution, and give satisfactory evi dence on his own oath or affirmation of another that lie has paid such a tax. or in failure to pro duce a receipt slntil make oath to th payment thereof: or second, if he claim a right to vote bv being an elector between the age of twenty-one and twenty-two years shall depose onoathorat li runt lion, that he has r -i led in the Mate at least o. e year before bis application, nnd make such proof of resilience in the district ic i required by tiiis act, and that he does verily believe from the a Hunt given him that he is of the age aforesaid, and gives such other evidence a- is required by thi- act, whereupon the name of the person so ad mitted to vote-hail be inserted in the alphabeti ic tl li t by the Inspector, and a note made oppo i'f thereto by writing the word "tax.' if he shall h admitted to vote by reason of having paid tax, an t the word "age" if he shall be admitted to vote by reason of age. and in either case the reason of sti".i a vote shall be called out to the clerks, who shall ti.ake a like note in the list of voters kept bv them. "In all cases where the name of the person claiming to vote is not found on the list furnished by the Commissioners, or bis right to vote wheth er found thereon or not. is objected to by Hnv qualified citizen, itshailbe the duty of the In spectors to examine such person on oath a- to his qualifications, and if he claims to have resided within the State for one year or more, bis oath shall be sufficient proof thereof, hut he shall make nroof by at least one competent witness, who shall be a qualified elector, that he has resided within the district for more than ten days immediately preceding said election and shall also swear thHt liis bona fide residence, in pursuance of bis lawful calling is within the district, and that he did not remove within the district for the purpose of to ting. "Every person qualified as aforesaid, and who shall make due proof if required, of his residence and payment of taxes aforesaid, shall be admitted o vote in the township, ward or district in which he shall reside. ••If any person shall prevent or attempt to pre vent any officer of an election, under this act from holding such election, or use or threaten any vio lence to any such officer, and shall interrupt or improperly interfere with him in the execution of APPROVED —Tbe fourth day of June, Anuo Domi ni one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six A G. CI'KTIN." pence of such election, or shall use or practice in timidation, threats, force or violence, with the design to influence unduly or overawe any elec tor, or prevent him from voting, or to restrain the freedom of choice, such persons on conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, to he imprisoned for any time not less than one nor more than twelve months, and if it shall be shown to the court where tbe trial of such of fence shall be had, that the person so offending was not a resident of the city, ward or district where the said offence was committed, and not entitled to vote therein, on conviction, he shall be sentenced to pay a fine not less than one hun dred or more than one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned not less than six months nor more than two years. (■'ilcttiou i'lodaitution. "If any person or persons shall make any bet or wager upon the result of an election within the Commonwealth, or shall offer to make any such bet or wager, either by verbal proclamation there of, or by any written or printed advertisement, or invite any person or persons to make such bet or wager, upon conviction thereof he or they shall forfeit and pay three times the amount so" bet or offered to be bet. And the election laws of the Commonwealth further provide that "The Inspectors, Judges and clerks shall, beforo entering on the duties of their offices, severally take and subscribe the oath or affirmation hereinafter directed, which shall be administered to them by any judge, alderman or justice of the peace, but if no such magistrate be present, ono of the inspectors of the election shall administer the oath or affirmation to the other judge and inspector, and then the inspector so qualified shall administer the oath or affirmation to him. "The inspectors, judge and clerks required by law to hold township and general elections, shall take at: I subscribe the several oaths and affinna tii'ijs. required by the 19th. 20th and 21st sections of the act of the 2d day of July 1339, entitled "An act relating to the elections of this common wealth," which oaths or affirmations shall be prepared and administered in the manner prescrib ed in the 18th aed 22d sections of said act, and in addition to the power conferred by the 18th sec tion of said act, the judgft, or either of the inspec tors. shall have power to administer the oaths prescribed by said aat. to any clerk of a general, special or township election. ■The following shall ho the form of the oath or affirmation to be taken by each inspector, viz : 'I A B i do that 1 will duly attend to the en suing election during the continuance thereof, as an inspector, and that I will not receive any tick et or vote from any person, other than such as I shall firmly believe to be, according to the pro visions of the constitution and the law* of this commonwealth, entitled to vote at such election, without requiring sueh evidence of the right to vote as is directed by law, nor will I vexatiously delay or refuse ti receive any vote from any per son who I shall believe to be entitled to vote as aforesaid, but that I will in all thiDgs truly, im partially and faithfully perform my duty therein, to the best of my judgment and abilities, and that I am not directly, nor indirectly, interested in any bet. or wager on the result of this election.' "The following shall be the oath or affirmation of each judge, viz : 'I (A. B.) do that I will as judge duly attend the ensuing election during the continuance thereof, and faithfully assist the inspectors in carrying on the same; that I will not give my consent that any vote or tieket shall be received from any person other than such as I firmly believe to be, according to the provisions of the constitution and laws of thiscommonwealth, entitled to vote at such election, without requiring such evidence of the right to vote a* is directed by law, and that I will use my best endeavors to pre.- vent any fraud, deceit or abuse, iu carrying on the same by citizens qualified to rote, or others, and that I will make a true aud perfect return of the said election, and will in all things truly, im partially and faithfully perform my duty respec ting the same, io the best of my judgment ami abilities, and that lam not directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager on the result of this election.' "The following shall be the form of the oath or affirmation to be taken by eachclerk. viz : '1 (A. ii.i do that I will impartially and truly write down the uameof each elector who shall vote at the ensuing election, which shall be given me in charge, and also the name of tlvo township, ward or district, wherein such elector resides, and care fully and truly writedown the number of votes that shall be given for each candidate at the elec tion, as often as bis name shall be read to me by the inspectors thereof, and in all things truly and faithfully perform my duty respecting the same to the best of rny judgment and ability, and that I am not directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager on the result of this election The qualified electors will take notice of the following act of Assembly, approved 12th day of March, 18t>; AN AT, Regulating the mode of voting at all elections, in the several counties of this Commonwealth SECTION 1. Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Geueral Assembly met, aud it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the qualified voters of the several counties of this Commonwealth, at all general, township, borough and neoil . - - i.e. f t..,. ouinorized and required to vote, by tickets, printed, or written,or partly printed and partly written, severally classified as follows : One tick et shall embrace the names of all judges of courts voted for, and to be labelled, outside, "judicia ry. one ticket shall embrace the names of all state officers voted for, and be labelled, "state one tieket shall embrace the names of all county officers voted for, including office of senator, mem ber. and members of assembly, if voted for. aud members of Congress, il voted Cor. and be labell ed. -countj " one ticket shall embrace the names of all township officers voted for, and be labelled, "township;" one tieket shall embrace the names oi all borough offi >ers voted for. and be labelled, ■•borough;" and each class shall be deposited in sepi rate ballot-boxes. Ski riu.N 2. lhat it shall be the duty of the Sher iffs. in the several counties of this Commonwealth, to insert in their election proclamations, hereafter issued the first section of this act. JAMES R. KELLEY. Speak r of the House of Representatives. DAVID FLEMISH, Speaker of the Senate. Ai'PKOVEO—the thirtieth day of March. Anno Domini ono thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. A. tl. CI'RTIN. Election officers will take notice that the act entitled "A Further supplement to the Election Laws of this Commonwealth." disqualifying de s. rters from the army of the United States from vo ting.ha ? recently been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, is now null and void, and that all persons formerly disqualified theteuuder are now lawful voters, if otherwise qualified. The act decided unconstitutional by tne Supreme Court provided as follows : "A FCKTBKK SIOPLEWENf TO THE ELECTION LAWS OF THIS COMMONWEALTH. YV hereas, By the act of the Congress of the U nitcd States, entitled "An Act to amend the sev eral acts heretofore passed, to provide for tho en rolling and calling out ihe national forces, and for other purposes," and approved Man>h third, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, all per sons who have deserted the military or naval ser \ ice of the United States, and who have not been discharged, or relieved from the penalty, or disa bility therein provided, are deciued, and taken, to hate voluntarily relinquished, and forfeited, their rights ot citizenship, and their rights to be come citizens, and are deprived of exercising any rights of citizens thereof : And whereas, persons, not citizens of the Uni ted States, are not, under the constitution and laws of Pennsylvania, qualified electors of this commonwealth : Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and llouse of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pen lsylvania in General Assembly met. and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That iu all elections hereafter to he held in this commonwealth, it shall be unlawful for the judge or inspectors of any such election to receive any ballot, or ballots, from any person, or persons, embraced in the provisions, and subject to the disability, imposed by said act of Congress, ap proved March third, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and it shall he unlawful for any sucli person to offer to vote any ballot, or ballots. -eetion 2 That if any such judge a? 1 inspec tors of election, or any one of them shall receive, or consent to receive, any such unlawful ballot, or ballots, from any such disqualified person, he, or they, so offending, shall be guilty of a misdemean or, and. upon conviction thereof, iu any court of quarter sessions of this commonwealth, he shall, lor each offence, he sentenced to pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment, in the jail of the proper county, for not less than sixty days. Section 3. That if any person deprived of citi zenship, and disqualified as aforesaid, shall, at any election, hereafter to be held in this common wealth, vote, or tender to the officers thereof, and offer to vote, a ballot, or ballots, any person, so of fending. shall be deemed guilty oi a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, in any court of quarter sessions of this commonwealth, shall, for each of fence, be punished in like manner as is provided in the preceding section of this act, in the case of officers of election receiving such unlawful ballot, or ballots. Section 4. That if any person shall hereafter persuade, or advise, any person, or persons, de prived of citizenship, and disqualified as afore said, to offer any ballot, or ballots, to tbe officers of any election, hereafter to be held in this com monwealth, or shall persuade, or advise, any such officer to receive any ballot, or ballots, from any per- oi deprived of citizenship, and disqualified as aforesaid, sueh person, so offending, shell be guil ty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, in any court of quarter sessions of this common wealth. shall be punished in like manner as is pro vided in tbe second section of this act, in the case of officers of such election receiving such unlawful ballot, or ballots. JAMES R KELLEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. DAVID FLEMING, Speaker of the Senate, his duty, shall block up or attempt to block up the window or avenue to any window where the same may beholden, or shall riotously disturb the And the Judges of the respective districts afore said, arc required to meet at Bedford, on the Fri day next following the holding of said election, then and there to perform those things required of them by law. Given under my band, at my office in Bedford, this 9th day of Oct., in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and in the ninety-third of the Independence of the United States. ROBERT STECKMAN, Sheriff. Sheriff's Office, Bedford, | Oct. 9 1868. j rjpHS BEDFORD GAZETTE is the X best Advertiriag Medium n Southern Penn sylvania 3tooflatt(fs tfohtmn. you ALL HAVE HEARD Of HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS, AND HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC. Prepared by Dr. C. M. Jackson. Philadelphia. Their introduction into this country from Ger many occurred in 182A. THEY CURED YOUR FATHERS AND MOTHERS, And will cure you and your children. They are entirely different from -j- -y the many preparations now in the country cal I—l led Bitters or Tontes. Tht-v are no tavern-"- "-preparation, or any thing like one ; but good, honest, reliable medi cines. Tbev are The greatest known, remedies for Liver Complaint, DYSPEPSIA, Nervous Debility, J A UNDUE, 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. Fallnes 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 y-% Heart, Choking or Suffocating Ser.sa f 1 lions when in a Lying Posture, Dimness of Y-F Vision. Dots or Webs before the sight. Dull Pain in the Head, Defi ciency of Perspiration. Yellowness of the Skin ami 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 Spirit? All these indicate disease* of the Liver or Di gestive Organs, combined with impart blood. HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS is entirely vegetable and contains no iiqu ir. It is a compound of Fluid Extracts. The Roots, Herbs, and Barks from which these extracts are made, are gathered in Germany. All the medi cinal virtueus are ox s traeted from them by a scientific Chemist. I I These extracts are then forwarded to this a e country to be used ex pressly fur iho aianutacture of these Bitters There is no alcoholic substance of any kind ifset} in compounding the Bitters, hence it is the only Bitters that can he used in cases where alcoholic stimulants are not advisable. HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC is a combination of all the ingredients of the Bit ters, with pi ns Santa Cruz Rum, Orange, etc. It is used for the same diseases as the Bitters, incase where some pure alcoholic stimulus is required. Yoa will bear in mind that these remedies are en tirely different from any others advertised for tbe cure of the diseases named, these being scientific preparations of medicinal extracts, while the oth ers are mere decoctions of rum in some form. The TONIC is decidedly one oi ttie most pleoeont and agreeable remedies ever offered to the public. Its taste is exquisite. It is a pleasure to take if, while its life-giving, exhilarating, and medicinal quali ties have caused it to be known as the greatest of all tonics DEBILITY There is no medicine equal to lloofiand's Ger man Bitters or Tonic j y in cases of Debility. Tbey impart a tone |q 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 blool. give a good, sound, healthy complexion, eradicate the yellow tinge from the eye. impart a bloom to the cheeks, and ohange 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 are Family Medicines. They can be administered with perfect safety to a chil 1 three months old, the most delicate female, or a wan of ninety. These irm*di' r tire the best Blood Purifiers ever known and will cure all diseases resulting from had blood. Keep y >ur blood pure ; keep your Liver in order, keep your digestive organs in a sound, I healthy condition, by the use of these reme J .lies, and no diseases will ever assail you. The best men iu the country recommend them. If years of honest reputation go for anything, y.m must try these preparations. FROM HON. GEO. YV. WOODWARD, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylva nia. Philanxl i' il Ia , March Iff, 18fi7. I find that "Hoofland's German Bitters" is not an intoxicating beverage, but is a good toni:. use tul 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. YV. WOODWARD FROM JION. JAMES TAOMPSOX. Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, April 2S, 1366 T consider "H xifland's German Bitters" a valua ble medicine in ease . of attacks of Indiges tion or Dyspepsia. I A can certify this from my experience of it. •* V. Yours, with respect, JAMES THOMPSON. FROM REV. JOSEPH 11. KENXARD, D I>., Pastor of the Tenth Baptist Church, Philadelphia. Dr. Jackson Dsau Sir:—l have been fre quently requested to connect my name with rec ommendations of different kinds of medicines, but regarding the piaetioe as out of my appropriate sphere, I have in ail cases declined; but, with a clear proof in various instances, and particularly iu my own family, ol 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 r- plaint, it is a safe and valuable preparation. In sotie cases it may fail ; hnt usual -Ex ly, I doubt not, it will be very beneficial to those who suffer from the above causes. Yours, very respectfully, J. H. KEXNAKB, Eigth, below CoatesStreet. CAUTION. lloofiand's German Remedies are counterfeited. The Genuine have the signature of C. M. Jack son on the front of the outside wrapper of eaeh 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 $6. Price of the Tonic, $t 50 per bottle ; Or, a half dozen for £7 50. The tonic i 3 put up in quart bottles. Recollect that it is Dr. lloofiand's German Remedies that arc so universally used and so highly recommended; and do not allow the Druggist to induce I lyou to take anything else that he may say-l_/is just as good, be cause he makes a larger profit on it. These Reme dies will he sent by express to any locality upon application to the PRINCIPAL OFFICE, At the German Medicine Store. No. 631 ARCH STREET, Philadelphia. CHAS. M. EVANS, PROPRIETOR. Formerly C. M. JACKSON A Co. These Remedies are for sale by Druggists, Store keepers aud Medicine Dealers everywhere. Do not forget to examine the article you buy in order to get the genuine. may29'6Byi EVERY VARIETY AND STYLE OF JOB PRINTING neatly executed at low lates at The Bedford Gazette office. Call and eave year orders. BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, 1868. HO! Hl~Kit VII ! Her the cry for Seymour and Blair. Hiring and swelling and filling the air ' Hear it go down the Atlantic const, Like the solemn inarch of a dauntless host ! Up the sparkling Potomac's shore, Up the Valley of the Shanandoah, •O'er the hills and far away," Over the graves of Blue and Oray Over the coal fields, fierce and fast, Over the prairies hroad and vast; Up through Niagara's sullen roar, Along the Erie and Michigan shore, Down to the waves of Mexico ; Hear it rush and roar and go ! "Ho! hurrah for Ssvitorn AND BLAIR !" The people are shouting it everywhere THE AH ERICA X CONSTITUTION. September Seventeenth! Eighty-one years ago to-day, nine years after the Declaration of Inde pendence, and just as the three millions of devoted souls, had passed through the dark hours and severe trials of sev en long years of war, the convention of noble patriots and heroes, fresh from the battle-fields of the Revolution, an nounced the adoption ofoform of gov ernment, and the formation of a Con stitution, under which the several States could live in Union and har mony, hut uuder which they all re tained their sovereignty. Eighty-one years ago to-day the hal lelujahs of three millions of freemen went up to Heaven, and their rejoic ings signalled the birth of a new mem ber into the family of nations—told of the inauguration of the American Re public, a Republic destined to he great er in its power and might than the greatest empires of ancient or modern times. Our retrospective thoughts on this day spread out before our wandering eyes scenes of unexampled magnifi cence. It is with wonder and admiration we contemplate the grandeur of our Re publican system of Government, and the wisdom which led to the forma tion of that great charter of freedom— the AMERICAN CONSTITUTION. Searching through the record pages of all history, we find the greater part of governments the deformed offspring of force and fear, unworthy the consid eration of an American. Rut there are those which claim a higher regard. The greatest establishments which his tory boasts were those of Sparta, of Athens, and of ltome. So conceited were these peoples in the enjoyment of their supposed liberties that they con ceived themselves far above the rest of the human race, which they designa ted with the degrading title of barbari ans. But in all their pride and pomp of liberty, did they furnish such an ex hibition to the astonished world, as we to-day contemplate? The far famed establishment of LY curgus was introduced by deception and fraud. Under the specious pre tense of consulting the oracle concern ing his laws, he induced the Spartans to make a temporary experiment ofthem, and to swear they would suffer no al ternation until his return.—Taking an advantage of their scrupulous regard for their oaths, he prevented his return by a voluntary death, thus seeking to secure a proud immortality to his sys tem. Even Solon, so far from considering himself as employed only to recom mend such regulations as might seem necessary to promote the welfare of the Athenian commonwealth, made and promulgated his laws with ail the haughty airs of despotic power, and he was afterwards frequently found boast ing of his liberality because he did not establish a disposition in his own fa vor, and reduce his equals to the hu miliating condition of his slaves. And so with Nuiua. His institu tions were uot submitted to the free investigation and judgment of Rome, but were received in special communi cations from the goddess Egeria, and imposed upon the easy faith of Un people as the dictates of an inspiration that was divine. Such was the origin of the most splendid establishments that had been hitherto known, and such were the arts by which they were introduced and made successful. How different with the American Constitution. Delegates were appoint ed to deliberate and propose. The re sult of their deliberations was submit ted to the people, who criticised it in the fullest, freest and severest manner, it was discussed by Individuals, by public bodies, and by the press—by its enemies and by its friends. The voices of nearly all were in its favor, and State after State fell into line, ratify ing, almost unanimously, the Constitu tion of that Republic which has shone brightest among all in the constella tion of nations. For more than half a century, through peace and war, through sun shine and shadow, through day and through night, under the benign influ ence of the grand old Democracy, that Constitution lias been the life light of the Republic—our guiding star to peace, happiness and Union. Rut there came a change. The Constitution of our forefathers, the great A merican charter of liberty and bond of Union, found its enemies in a traiforous mob of fanatics, who — Burned it ! Spat upon it! Trampled it under foot! Tore it in shred!s at public meetings ! And pronounced it a covenant with death and an agreement icith hell! These traitors and fanatics were put in the high places of power, and they have brought our great government to the verge of destruction, and left but little remaining of the old Constitution We may look about us this anniver sary and see the ruin Radicalism has accomplished. We can see our blessed America, as it was in years agone, safely guided by the Constitution and the Democracy in the way of peace, of prosperity and hap- piness.—Now, whe have seen the fair face of our country despoiled, the tem ple of our liberties torn to the ground by Radical outlaws, the Constitution buried, the Union destroyed, and a military despotism arising l upon its re mains. We see honest men driven from places of trust and responsibility, and replaced by thieves, plunderers, and petty politicians possessing not the slightest qualification to administer the law or the office to the benefit of any but themselves. These are thethings we contemplate: In theplaceofUnion wehavedisunion; in the place of the Constitution we have the will of an illegal Congress, in the place of the will of the people we have the will of military despots ; in the place of peace we have war and anarchy ; in the place of prosperity we have desolation ; In the place of free Republican government we have the commencement of a despotism that is to fix the American people on the point of the bayonet, and destroy the last vestige of civil liberty in the land ! Men of America! As you contemplate these things to day—the past and the present—as you reflect upon the beauties of free gov ernment, upon the glories of the Con stitution, the old Union, and the old flag, do you not feel it your duty to preserve for the corning generations, for their happiness and enjoyment, what was so carefully preserved to you. Then let us again, on this day, re new our pledges of fealty to them all, and swear by the Eternal, come peace or come war, that Union, that Consti tution, and that flag'shall go down to posterity, as it came down to us, with not a State nor a star torn from the bright galaxy! THINK OF IT. Who that studies the history of our country for tho last eight years, exam ines the state of society, and has ob served the progress of public events, can deny that there has been in that brief period of time a fearful decadence in till tho elements that go to make up the character of a great and noble peo ple ? A marked change has come upon us. We are pervaded by almost universal public and private demoralization. We have lost respect for law. We have become corrupt in nearly all things. Our legislative halls are hot beds, in which are grown schemes for plundering the public treasury, for swindling stockholders in railroad cor porations, for enriching rings of public robbers in cities, forgiving legality to gigantic systems of fraud, and author izing almost every species of bogus en terprise and confidence operation. It is well understood that anything can be carried through that has money enough in it to warrant the necessary expendi ture to meet the modest and virtuous expectations of the people's represen tatives. Their votes are always in the market in sufficient numbers to enable the highest bidder to control legisla tion. Seats are sought in this branch of the government on account of tho money that is to be made out of them in this way. As in the legisla ture, so in every other department of the government where advantages can be gained by the bribery of public of ficials ; and the same susceptibility to the enann of money can be found in the executive and administrative branches as in the legislative. Even the courts, and the officers of the courts, are subject to similar influences, and confidence is essentially impaired in the purity and uprightness of the ad ministration of justice. Going down into business circles, fraud and siwnd ling, defalcation and stealing, prevail to an astounding extent. And in pri vate life, secret vice, and open and shameless depravity, are fostering each other, and making fearful strides to wards introducing universal debauch ery, and destroying the last hope-of society—the purity and sanctity of the home circle. These things exist to an extent and in a rankness that no pen can describe. They have grown rapidly. They are still growing and as never before. What has brought this great moral ruin upon us? Beyond all doubt, the Jacobin par ty • It has debauched the public mind, and spread infidelity and lawlessness throughout the whole land. It denounced the Bible, because it was a slaveholders' Bible ! It defied the Constitution, because it wasa slaveholders' Constitution! It trampled on the laws, because they were slaveholders' laws ! It severed the bands of the Union, because it was a Union with slave holders ! It set on foot armed invasions of States, because they were slaveholding States! It licensed stealing, robbery and mur der, because the victims were slave holders ! It permitted the most brutal outrages upon the persons of delicate, refined, and high-bred females, because they were the wives and daughters of slave holders ! It has administered the Government "outside of the Constitution," to in sult, degrade and oppress slavehold ers, enrich themselves upon what they are robbing from a tax ridden people, and perpetuate their political power! It has prostituted the Northern pul pit to the preaching of politics, and the denunciation of slaveholders ! It has turned congregations of pre tended religious worshippers into Jaco bin clubs, where the voting of the Rad ical ticket has been the only test of orthodoxy and fellowship, and any de gree of moral pollution is overlooked, if this one great essential be not lack ing! It has canonized Jqiin Brown, the horse thief and murderer, and made "Christ, and him crucified," secon dary, in their worship, to John Brown, and him hung! All this it has done to persecute aud hunt down slave-holders! Aud they the same class of men who were the chosen of Israel's God ! Whom Christ received into his church! Whom the Apostles gathered into the little congregations of 1 i is folioYvere in its curly days! And such as these Yvere Washington and his associates, the founders of the Republic which we once so happily en joyed ! Is it any wonder that the example and influence of a great party, predom inant in the country, and wielding all power, inside and "outsi e of the Con stitution," manifesting the spirit, and pursuing the conduct which we have described, have wrought the change that is before us, and which all good men must deplore? This party has set the example of lawlessness and violence; it has foster ed corruption, it has destroyed the purity and moral sense of the people, it has patronized brutality and crime! We are reaping the bitter fruits of its wicked reign! Let it perish, that it may do no more evil in the land ! TWO MORE WARS. The Jacobins have already inflicted upon the American people one war, and that the most gigantic and de structive in all history, in which was engulfed the political liberty of the country. A Ifar of Seel ions ! Their triumph in the coming elec tions will duplicate the public calam ities for which they will make them selves responsible. It will precipitate upon us tYvo more wars, either of which may be more direful iu its ef fects, upon persons and society, than the last, and both combined prove more pregnant with horrors than aught which the mind can conceive, or any age of the world has ever experienced. A War of Races ! This cannot be avoided, if the Jaco bins remain in power. It is not pos sible for them to enforce their policy upon the South, without bringing into conflict the two races, which they are endoavering to mould into their new, composite system of society. Men may theorize as much as they please, and indulge in ideal speculation, forming in imagination the most beautiful fabrics, and working out, upon paper, the most harmonious and happy re sults, But when tbey come to encounter hard, stubborn facts,the structure which they haveso deftly built, often falls to the ground, carrying with it destruc tion to all the interests which it was de signed to foster and sustain. Such will he the fact of the Jacobin negro policy in the South. It aims at impossibili ties. It encounters invincible obsta cles. It attempts what never has been accomplished in the history of the worid, the combining in one society, upon terms of civil and political equal ity, two races of men, the one the highest among all GOD'S creatures known to this earth, and the other almost the lowest, without leading to conflict, and the extermination of one race or the the other, or worse still, the mixing of tne two, producing an order of hybrids, partaking of the worst qualities of each and the better quali ties of neither, and ending in the low est degradation, and the final extinc tion of the mongrel breed in which the two races have been merged. One of these two results must neces sarily follow if the present order of things is to be maintained at the South. It can he the former only. Such a peo ple as the men and women of the South, can never fall so low as to be come mongrelized. Whatever else may happen, they will remain distinct and pure while they exist. Then the case to he met, under Jacobin rule, is one of political equality, and a mutual struggle for power, between the two races. They cannot permanently com bine in political parties. Rivalry and jealousy would soon produce division and separation so as to make it a ques tion of race against race. It is already operating in that way at the South.— Notwithstanding the great body of the Southern whites have opposed the en franchisement of the negroes, and the formation of the reconstruction govern ments, constituting a distinct, white man's party of themselves, while only a meagre minority of whites, including those who have gone from the North, have joined with the blacks, in making up the dominant political parties in those States, already, in the face of a formidable political organization of white men, ready to take advantage of their divisions, the mixed party of whites and blacks, is losing its cohesion, the whites wanting all the offices, and the blacks demanding their share, and the consequence is that the blacks are separating themselves from their car pet-hag and scalawag associates, and resolving to claim all the offices for their own race, and no longer be used as tools by these white renegades and adventurers who have been professing friendship for them only to get office and power. If these white men and black men who had combined together, cannot remain united, and not even the presence of an active, vigilant, de termined anil powerful foe, can restrain them from quareling among them selves, how can any ono hope for any other resu't than the separation of the two races into two distinct parties, each contending for ascendancy over the o.her. When it comes to this the collision cannot he far off. Then will ensue a struggle in which one race or the other must perish. This is what it will come to, and all who sustain the Jacobin party make themselves respon sible for the horrible consequences which will grow out of a persistence in VOL. 64.—WHOLE No. 5,464. the enforcement of this criminal policy of negro equality. A War of clauses ! This is another War which the Jaco bins will bring upon us. Their deter mination to legislate so as to grant monopolies, privileges and exemptions to capital, and oppress, plunder and starve labor, will drive the la'ter to take up arms in self-defence,should all other remedies fail. Youeannot reason with a starving people. You cannot restrain them. Nothing will make meu so desperate as to fee! the pangs of hunger themselves, and see their wives and children starving around them. To this condition is the domi nant party bent upon reducing the la boring classes of this country. As things are going on, and if they con tinue to go as now, the day is not far d'stant when the issue will be made up between capital and labor, and the struggle will commence. Then will be completed the catalogue of calamities which the Jacobins, if destined stiil to hold power, will have inflicted upon the country. A War of Section# ! A War of Races ! A War of Cfasses ! THE OM.Y ltO.il> TO IKO.HI*EKITY. Every intelligent businessman must see, that this country cannot be restor ed to the prosperity which the num bers of its population, the enterprise, ingenuity and skill of its people, the vast nessof its territory, the the fertility of its I soil,thediversitiesof itselimate, and the varity of its productions, ought to pro duce, until that largesection which,pri or to the war, furnished in its great sta ples. the chief basisofour foreign and do mestic exchanges—giving employment to our shipping, business to our mer chants,occupation to our mechanics,and taking in return for its own exports, or purchasing with the proceeds of their sale our manufactures,the produeeof the dairies of the middle and Eastern States, and the horses, mules, meat and grain of the West shall be restored to con tentment and order, placed upon a ba sis of permanent peace, and given an opportunity to establish a system of industry which shall be efficient, re reliable and successful. Unless these conditions can be fulfilled, there can he no return to the prosperity of former days. What hinders the restoration of the several sections of (he country to their former business relations, and the re establishment of the system of recipro cal exchange and mutual advantage and profit, which in better and hapier times i gave our country a golden era, and car ried us forward upon a flood-tide of bu siness enterprise and success, such as made all men marvel and admire, and as the world never before saw? No man can doubt the cause. It is as evi dent and indisputable as the existence jof the great globe itself. The Jacobin party has destroyed the system of in dustry formerly existing at the South, which was the source of the marvelous production of that section, and contrib uted so largely to the building up and successful prosecution of the business enterprises of the whole country, and will not allow the mischief it has done to be repaired by the adoption of any wiseand practicable measures. Wheth er or not the relations between the whites and the negroes of the South, which the Jacobins have broken up, were better or worse than the best sys tem of free labor which can be estab lished between the same two parties, we have our own decided opinion.— Hut it is a question which need not now be discus-ed. it is enough to say, that the Jacobin party is preventing the re- I sumption of steady, contented, and re liable labor, on the part of the negroes, without this, the crops of the .South cannot be successfully cultivated and harvested. Until this end can be se cured, there can be no improvement in the material interests of the country. The Jacobins are not satisfied with having emancipated the negroes. That could, perhaps, have been got over without any serious interruption to la bor. or shock to business. We have our doubts about it. But we will as sume that this could have been done, for the sake of going on with what we have to say. Had the two races been left to themselves, and allowed to ad just their new id.nions as they could mutually agree, it is very likely that a reasonable amount of labor, and a fair yield of agricultural staples, might have been got out of the new order of things. But the Jacobins have not re garded the negro as a 'aborer. Their policy has no reference to him as a la borer. They ignore his existence as a laborer. They have other uses for him. They are operating upon him and fixing his status, solely as a political agent, for their use and bene fit. And in doing this, they spoil him as a laborer. In making him a politi cian, and in several States placing him in a position to rule the whites, and in all of them converting him into a poli tical equal and co-ruler with them, they have putfed him up, given him an undue sense of his importance—an im pression which the negroes, of all races are the most ready to take on—led him to spurn the idea of taking em ployment as a servant under men over whom he is taught that he has become the political master, and utterly de moralized him for all useful purposes in the general enconomy of society. This it is which keeps the South un settled, and prevents the resumption of her industry and production. It will continue to have this effect so long as the Jacobin experiment of reconstruc tion shall be continued. It will keep the blacks too self important, irregular and unreliable for laborers, and the whites discontented, hopeless of mate rial improvement, and determined to resist and throw off the system of usur pation and oppression which has been imposed upon her, at the earliest posi ble moment, and by whatever means she can make available to that end. The election of Grant will not re move, hut will only continue and in tensify the evils and disorders growing out of this condition of things. Tin re is but one remedy open to us in this e mergency. Sot aside the reconstruc tion policy, and let society at the South settle down into its natural order. Then we shall have peace and prosperi ty. We can secure them no other way. Let no man be deceived by representa tions to the contrary. From the very nature of things a Jacobin triumph can only perpetuate the abominations which Jacobinism has produced. It is as true in public affairs, as it is iu na ture, that like produces like. Let thoughtful men take heed.
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