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BY MEYERS & MENGEL.
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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
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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.