BEDFORD INQUIRER. BEDFORD, Pa, Friday Sept. 23, tss9. "FEARLESS AND FREE."" 15. OVER—Editor and Proprietor. FOB PRESIDENT IN 1860, HON. SIMON CAMERON, OF PENNSYLVANIA, (Subject to the decision of the National Convention.) STATE" NOMINATIONS. AUDITOR GENERAL: THOMAS E. COCHRAN, TOHK COUNTY. SURVEYOR GENERAL. GEN. WILLIAM H. KEIM, BERKS COCNTT. PEOPLE'S COINTV TIIKET. ASSEMBEY, GEO. W. WILLIAMS, of Bedford Co., GEO. G. WALKER, of Somerset Co. ASSOCIATE JUDGE, JOHN TAYLOR, of Bedford Borough. COUNTY TREASURER, HAMULI. J. WAY, of Bedford Bor. COUNTY SURVEYOR, JAMES ALLISON, of Napier Township. - COMMISSIONER, | JOHN B. MILLER, of M. Woodbury, Tp. POOR DIRECTOR, SAMUEL SHAFER, of Union Tp. AUDITOR, H. 0. LASHLEY, of Southampton Tp. MORE SL4XDERS. A leading object of our neighbor of the Ga zette, appears to be to so slandsr, and villify, and misrepresent tie Americans and .Republi cans, as to make ignorant people believe that the opposition to sb?m democracy are made up of abolitionists and disunionists. Not satisfied wity lyiog about our public men and tbeir speeches, it is in the habit of getting some ex tracts from fanatical abolitionists, liko Wendell Philips and Klizur Wright, who are neither Americans nor Republicans, and never were, and attempting to make us responsible for their doiDgs. Of this character is an article in last week's Gazette, under the title of "Does the Republican Party propose to interfere with .Slavery in the States," purporting to give the icntimeuts of sundry persons, as contained in •extracts from their letters aud speeahes.— Among other alleged extracts in other Locofo co papers, is one purporting to be from a letter or speech of Mr. Dennison, at present the American and Republicau candidate for Gov ernor in Ohio. The Locofocos represent Uiui as expressing the following sentiments: "That be would -use the bayonet to resist the execu tion of the Fugitive Slave Law." The untruthfulness of this will appear by an article, which we copy from the Baltimore American, of the 13th September, inst.,as fol lows: "Mr. Dennison, the candidate for Governor in Ohio, said, during his discussion with Mr. llanney at Tiffin, -I will here state, incidental ly, that the siily story about my having de clared that I will use the bayonet to lesist the execution of the Fugitive Slave Law, is utter ly false, and without 'he slightest foundation in truth. So long as the law stands upon the statute book I would not resist its execution, but do my duty under tho Constitution.' Yet this story has been trumpeted all over tho coun try as a fair specimen of the eeniimeuts of Northern men, and doubtless believed implicit ly by nine-tenths of the deluded masses who worship the Slaveecracy." The Gazette is also in the habit of slander ing Horace Greely in like manner, and charg ing upon him tbe desire to interfere with slave ry in the slave States. In tho article of last week, is given what purports to be two extracts, one from tbe Tribune, and one from .Mr. Gree ly in some other way, a3 follows: "The time is fast approaching when the cry will become too overpowering to resist.— RATHER THAN TOLERATE NATIONAL SLAVERY AS IT NOW EXISTS, LET THE UJYION BE DISSOLVED JIT OJTCE, AND THEN THE HN OF SLAVERY WILL REST WHERE IT OK LONGS."—JV. Y. Tribune. "I HAVE NO DOUBT BUT THE FREE AND SLAVE STATES OCGHT TO BE SEPARATED. * THE UNION IS NOT WORTH SUPPORTING IN -CONNEXION WITH TIIE SOUTH."— Horace Gree ly- Now the utter want of all truth and fairness in tbe extracts just copied above, and all simi lar charges, can tie made apparent from the fol lowing extract from a speeeh delivered by Horace Greely in California, on the 6th of Au gust, last, at a Republican meeting. Mr. Greely, in talking about tbe Republican party, 4J which he belongs said: "I will say, in the first place, that though it •'is a new party, it presonts no now principle or •'motive to action. It demands that the policy "traced out by the fathers of this American "Union for the government of this Union, "should to-day be recognized and pursued by "the rulers of the nation. That is its demand. "It has no new doctrine to teach respecting "slavery, liberty or aoy other question wbat . "ever. Its positiou is a cjascrvative one. It "attacks DO rights: it wars upon no establish- ] "ed institution. It says simply that where the j •'earth has hitherto been free to any man to ••labor on, and has not been polluted by the "tread of cbattolized negro slaves, that there "freedom shall bo the law of labor, and slave "ry shall be inflicted only for crime. Such "was Jefferson's principle enunciated and fortn "ed into a bill intended to be a basis of law in "1784. Such was the principle adopted by "the Congress of 1787, and re-affirmcd by that "of 1789. On that principle the Republican *'party plants itself, and asks to go no fur "ther. It wars not on S/avtry in the States, "though any republican, as 1 trust all coosid "erate men must, regrets that slavory exists in "any American State—deeply regrets it, and "desires that it should come to an end. We "have just the same right to remonstrate "against slavery in V rgiuia, as inteiupcrknee "or any other evil, Rut, we have no power to "lessen or affect its existence there. We claim "Mo/te, and desire none. We desire ODly that '"the common Territories of this Union, as they "were won by arius ; bought by the blood, and "puichased by the treasure of freemen, shall re 'main free—their free soil to be the homes and "nursing places of frcemco, to the end of "time." Suoh are the principles of Horace Grcely, as plainly aDd clearly set forth by himself, and published before the world. There is no dis union in them, no abolitiou in them, and no sentiment which can, except by wilful perver sion, be tortured iuto anything objectionable,— except to those who desire to spread slavery over territories now free. They are simply the old doctrines of the non-extension of slavery, as advocated by Clay and Webster all their lives. Did space permit, we might go over the whole array of extracts in the last week's Ga zette, and show that they are all false, and as libellous as those in relation to Messrs. Denni son and Greely— except, perhaps, as to the ab olitionists named, who do not, and never did, beloDg to cither the American or Republican parties. (*eo. Vi . Williams and liis Slanderers! We Lave so often refuted the lies of the Lo cofocos, and explained the vote of Mr. Wil liams on the bill in relation to the intermarriage of the whites aud black*, that we hardly deem it necessary to say any thing further in rela tion to it, but the Gazette's persistent efforts to misrepresent him, probably, renders it ne cessary. The bill is in the following word; : SECTION 1. Beit enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth oj Pennsylvania in General Assembly met and it is hereby enact J by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of 'Lis act, it shall be uulawful for any black, colo, td or yet. low man to marry a white woman, or black colored or yellow woman to marry a white man. SEC. 2. That any person or presons who shall marry in this Commonwealth contrary to the first section of this act, and any justice of the peace, alderman, clergyman, minister or other person, who shall join in marriage any person contrary to this act, and every person who shall be present at such marriage, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor ; and shall upon con viction thereof in any court of quarter sessions having jurisdiction thereof, be fined at the dis cretion of said court any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars; which shall go, ono half to the prosecutor, aud the other half to such county as may have jurisdiction of this case : aod shall bo imprisoned in the county jut! of such county any time not exceeding one year. To show that this was not a party question we will insert the Dames of tho Locofocos who voted for the postponement of the bill, along with Mr. Williams. They are Messrs, Custer, Dismant, Galley, Goepp, Hill, Nill, Quigloy, Roher, Stoncbeck, Warden* Wilcox, Wolf and Woodnng—l3 ! —Those who voted against the postponement, were Messrs. Bertolef, Boyer, (Clearfield,) Fleming, Ulatz, Gray, Quitman, llottcnstine, Jackson, Laird, Oaks, Shields, Smith, (Berks,) aud Stuart—l 3 ! This is the vote for which Mr. Williams is censured by the Locofocos of this CouDty. It was not a party measure at all, as is clear from the votes of the Locofoco members upon the same question —l3, one half, voted as did Mr. Williams, and 13, one half, voted differently. If the bill was a party measure, why did not all the Locofocos, or at least a majority of them vote against it 1 The votes of the Locof; cos, themselves, then, clearly shows that there must have been some henest difference about it, aud that it was not looked upon as a party question. Besides, the loading Democrats of the House, Messrs. Nill, Goepp, Quigley and others, vo ted like Mr. Williams. Their reasons were the same as Mr. Williams'. To sea the absurdity of the law, it is only ueccssary to read it as above. According to its provisions, it is unlaw ful for a wbito person to mary a colored or yel low person, although the colored or yellow person may not haw one drop of negro blood in his veins It is well known that many persons of purely white blood have rather a dark skin, and yet bow absurd to prevent their marriages, as this hill would have done, by fine and im prisonment. MR. WILLIAMS IS OPPOSED AS MUCII AS ANT ONE TO WHITES AND NEGROES INTERMARRYING, but to seoure his vote as well as a great many others, Democrats and Opposition, the bill should have been gotten up in different style. Mr. Nill, Goepp, and. other Democrats, along with Mr. Williams, honestly believed the bill unconsti tutional, and having sworn to support to con stitution, regard for their oaths, compelled theiu to vote as they did. Others who voted for the bill, (for in fact the vote on the post ponement was the test vote on this matter,) might have honestly differed with Mr. Nill, Goepp and Williams, and wo do not fault them for their votes. BEBFOEB MMMM. Another principle objection of Mr. Williams I to the bill, and one which in fact helped much j to defeat if, and very justly too, is that part which says: "Every person who shall be pres ent at such marriage, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor;and shall upon convictios thereof in any ceurt of quarter sessions having juris diction thereof, be FINED at the discretion o* said court auy sum not exoeeding FIVE HUN DRED DOLLARS," "and sbuil be IMPRIS ONED in the county jail of said county any time not exceeding ONE I!EAR !" How ri diculous and unjust! According to this pro vision an innocent person can be fined FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS AND BE IMPRIS ONED ONE YEAR by simply beiug present at a wedding of "his kind MY ACCIDENT ! Who would like,suppose they went to Church, to a public or private house, along the highway, or anywhere else, where a wedding of this kind was going on, to he fined five hundred dollars and be imprisoned one year, yet by the provis ions of this act, he could be so punished, no matter whether he knew ttiat suoh wedding was going on or not ! With such faults to a 1 ill, can Mr. Williams be censured for vot.isg as he did. Let this question be properly ndeistood and Mr. Wil" liams will not lose a vote on account of it in Bedford or Somerset Counties. HISTORICAL. It is sometimes necessary to go back a few years in history for fitting illustrations of our every day topics of political discussion. Hu man life, indeed, is short, but not so exceeding ly brief, that a man cannot turn maoy summer sets and cut many fantastic capers therein, with a reasonable hope that they will not be notch ed up against him. The trouble is, that the memory hardly goes back as far as three years in ordinary matters; and it is essential there fore to occasionally make a review in order to keep tho current of history smooth and unbro ken. Esq. Nicodemus, for instance will thank us for not permitting the public to forget the importaut part he bore as one of the founders of tbo late Know Nothing party, and the fact that in leaving the party he carried the books and office of Secretary over to the Democracy with him. The editor of the Gazette has for gotten a few historical truths, or imagines his readers to have become exceedingly oblivious. One who did uot know better would suppose from readiug the Gazette from week to week, that the Know Nothing party never had a more sincere hater than the editor of that sheet.— All those sweet and endearing epithets in the anti-K. N. vocabulary, such as "Dark Lantern assassins," "Thugs," "Plug Uglies," drop so daintily from his pen that no one would* sup pose that he had ever struck hands with his brother under a culvert at midnight, and sworn to vote agaiust all foreigners and Catholics for ever. But History must be vindicated. Mr. B. F. Meyers was one of the earliest Know Noth ings in Somerset couunty, and was a leader so far as ho could be trusted. He organized lodges, and has more than once read the solemn formu la of the order, by the aid of a dingy lantern to a knot of novitiates, late m tho night by some lonely road side. But to read the Gazette, no ono would ever imagine that Mr. Meyers had ever been a "bloody minded" Know Nothiug. In the midst of the campaign of 1856—in tho very shock of tho conflict—Mr. Meyers i •uddeuly went over to the enemy. Shortly af- j tcr his mysterious desertion, he came here from • Somerset, on a political mission, ami iu a speech in the Court House, he undertook to give some reasons for his chaDge, the principal of wbiob was that the American party had abrogated their test against their Catholic fellow citizens ! While the great mass of the Americans opposod this odious proscription, there were many mem bers of the party, bigotod and intolerant, like the editor of tbe Gazette, who would be satis tied with nothing short of the complete uisfraa- j chisement of all Catholics, native as woll as j naturalized; and because they could not be gratified, thoy left tho American partv, and ' carried with them into tho bosom of tho De mocracy ail the malevolence and rage against Catholics which marked them as Know Noth ings. The American National Convention which nominated Millard Fillmore in 1856, ad mitted tbe Catholics from Louisiana, as dele gates, and for that reason this intensified K. N., Mr. Meyers, could tot voto for tho candi date. let he is now a model Democrat, and sets himself up to instruct people to vote against John Taylor. He was used as a de coy iu 1856, to allure ignorant and prejudiced Americans from the party, because it refused to leud itself any longer to proscription; ho did his utmost to fan into fury the existing pre judice against Catholics; ho refused to vote for a candidate for President because some of the men who nomiuated him were Catholics, and and now Le sturdily turns about, and reads long homilies to Catholics as to their duties as citi zens. Impudence has touched bottom. Poor House. Wo asked tbe Locofoces a few weeks ago a query in regard to the doplorable state of affairs now existing at tho Poor House. As yet they have not been answered. Do they not by their silenco give consent to the questions we asked. If this terrible condition of the poor unfortu nates who are in that institution be correct, should there not be a obaoge of rulers thcro? Is it not high time that this Augeun stable should be cleansed? Let the peoplo of Bed ford County answer at the ballot-boxes. General Soott has been orJered to the Island of San.Juan, to sustain American eights there. SI.A !S!>*:il! There is nothing meaner or more to be de tested than the vile spirit of slauder which is now so rife in partizan newspapers. If a man, no matter hov good bis character previously, happens to be nominated, by his friends, for an office, even if it be a small County office, his character is blackoncd, and he is maligned and abused to keep down his vote. We are glad, however, that this spirit is giving way before eulightened public opinion, but yet there is here and there a corrupt and unprincipled press, liko the Bedford Gazette, and they are generally oontrollcd by base and unprincipled men, who have only lately become converted to the side they at present espouse. OfteD they are mero hirelings, like the Hessians in the Revolution, who will fight on any side tor pay—on the samo principle as the traitor, who always is more malignant, aud fights more bit terly against the country he basely betrays, than its natural enemies, for the purpose of displaying his zeal to his uew made masters. T.te candidates on our ticket this fall aro all good and unexceptionable men, aad malice can present no spccifio charges against them - , yet the Bedford Gazette is weekly pouring upon the heads of several of these men tho vials of its i denunciation. We believe its party, at least the masses of it, frown upon its course. Ali honorable men of any party would. The ma > jority of those ou the Locofoco ticket are good men, yet there are some things that might be said in regard to some of tbem that would not sound so well. Politically, we oppose them, and so far as their private character is concern ed, the petty offices for which they are nainod has nothing to do with it. This is the stand now taken by the high-toned press of all political shades all over tho country. WALKER AND WILLIAMS. By an article in the Somerset Herald and Whig of last week, we find that our Locofncn friends are at their old tricks. Kuowing they have r.o chance, by any fair means, to elect ei ther of their candidates for the Legislature, they resort, as usual, to deception and misrepre sentation, iu the vain hope of making a few more votes for their candidates for tbe Legislature. The game is this: They represent in Somerset County that the Americans and Republicans of Bedford County a> o going to vote for Williams and Gump to tho prejudice of Walkor, and in like manner they represent in this County that the Americans and Republicans of Somerset County are going to uo on Walker and Oof froth, to the prejudice of Williams. In this ay appeals are made to our friends in both counties to desert one of,their candidates* and support one of the Locofoco caudidates, on the ground of County pride. This game of deception is too old, and too well understood to deceive any body. It was tried last fall, aud often before, and has mo. ; signally failed in every instance. Last fall our friends in Bedford County ran Mr. Walker fully up with Mr. Williams; and they will do it agaiu; and our friends in Somerset ran Williams as they did Walker, so that wo believe the difference in the two counties was less than twenty votes. With the Herald and Whiff we warn our friends in both counties against all such deception; and feel well assur ed that tbe game will be found to wholly fail in its object. Justice to Somerset, aud safety for ourselves require that we all vote for both Walker and Williams, and we will do it. is very important for the people of Bedford County that there should be at least one member of the opposition iu the Board of Commissioners. Tbe debts of tbe County amount to about 31C.000 or £>12.000. Elect, tbeu, an opposition member iu each nf the Boards of Commissioners and Poor Directors. John B. Miller, our candidate for Commissioner, and Samuel Shafcr, our candidate for Poor Direc tor, are both excellent men, and all who favor their own interests will vote for them. ARE YOU ASSESSED ? We again ask thin important question of eve ry p iitical friend in the County who expects to vote at the comiDg election. To secure your vote, this must be attended to on or before the first day of October next. Bear in mind also that it is the assessor who was elected iu the Spring of 1858, and not last spring, who can legally mako the necessary assessment. THAT FORGERY ! The Gazette some timo ago charged us with forgery. We proved that we were correct, by referring that paper to page 599 of House Jour al of last winter. By its silence it admits that it lied, and that it was itself that was guilty of forgery! Nobody of sense, however, believes, anything that appears in that corrupt slime pool. We call attention to the letter of Horace Greely, on the outside of to-day's paper, iu re lation to the Army in Utah. It shows how the Government is systamatically plundered by Federal officers of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Head it, and hand the paper to your neighbor. The public examination of teachers for Bed ford Borough, and Bedford Towuship, will take place on to-day and to-morrow, (Friday and Saturday,) iu the lecture room of the Presby terian church; beginning at 9 o'clock A. M. of each day. The public are invited to attend. James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New Fork Herald, is talked ot as the Democratic candidato for Mayor of New York Have you Heard the Stun from Maine ? Ail Honest and True. Such were the exclamations during the memorable Harrison Campaign, of which we were reminded very forcibly a day or two since when the first election returns were received from that noble little State. At that time the election news was scattered all over the UuioD, but since a few looofoco managers have charge of the Magnetic Telegraph lines the bare an nouncement is made that it is very probable that the State has again been carried by the Opposition ranks, when in point of fact there is scarcely a vestige of locofocoism left in the gallant granite State. The American Repub lican governor is elected by TEN thonsund majority, and out of thirty-one senators elected this year the locofocos have elected the im mense number of ONE; such has also been the result IU the little Yankee State, Connecticut, but the news has been coming so slow over the Telegraph wires that it has almost been for gotten. Americans and Republicans, such has been the glorious result in your sister States; and we hope that you will follow their example on the sec ond Tuesday of October next. The news from all parts of the State assures us that victory is certain: but we roust not rciy on this too much, but go to work aud briug a full vo ; o to the polls, and if that is done our victory will be equal to those achieved iu Maine and Connecticut. Iu 1858, (about a year since,) that paper (Somerset Democrat.) charged ou Gen. Coffroth, that be was "An ambitious aud reckless young man whose vanity outstrips his discretion," with being an "ASS"' whose treachery 1 would 'sink him into political oblivion," with having 'vio lated every promise made us,'' and with haviug "played the knave with us once, and never shall do so again;" moreover it twitted hiui with be ing a "dead cock in the pit who had gaffed him self' aud who had forfeited his political reputa tion and made himself odious to the party."— Not content with all this personal denunciation it even charged him with being "in collusion with the Know JYothings, the tool and catspaw of Scull £? C 0.," with attempting "to divide and distract the party through excess of vani ty," and fiually it read him out of the ranks, as " guilty of infidelity and treason to parly and treachery to friends," ns one who is "po litically damned to all intents and purposes,"