BKDFOKD PA., FRIDAY, SKPT.Ti. tfi6s. UNION STATE TICKET. TOR AUDITOR GKNBRAL, Hen. JOHN F. IIAKTKAXFT, Montgomery. pgr surveyor gbnbral. Col. JACOB S. CAMPBELL, of Cambria, I'NHIN COUNTY NOMINATIONS. POP. THB LEGISLATORS, Hon. D. B. AKMSTKOMI. of Bedford eo. (•I'D. MONKS V. SCONS, of Somerset CO. DISTRICT ATTORNEY, J. T. KKAtSI . Esq.. of Bedford. ASSOCIATR JIDGK, t.p. Vllilt WKiVEHM.W. Bloody Run. TREASURER, SIMON OM'KKRHOOF, Bedford. COY STY SI RVKYOR, DAN I El. SAWN, Went Trovldenee. Jill* COMMISRIONKR, WILMAM KIRK. St. (loir. COMMISSIONS.!:, II ESRI' J. RRWER. t'oinlM-rlund Volley. POOR DIRECTORS, lOllJt S. lIKTKK K. :Cyr.. M. WooOherry, I.KONABO BITNKK. 4ym.. Jimintß. AI'DITOB, JAM KN llXinOX, Napier. CORONER. t'npt. AMOS ROBIN' ETT, Sonthampton ASSESS TIIK SOI-niERS! ASSESS THE t'I VII.IANS ! ! See that the soldiers in the field and those at home are as-cssed at once. The election takes place on the 10th day of October and you cannot be ready for it at too early a moment. Pee to it that every Union voter is properly assessed before it is too late! Oil ! HOW THEY L.OVE HIM. The tenth resolution of the Democratic platform bids for the soldiers vote in the following flattering and endearing terms: "J?<w olved, That the gallant soldiers of the Republic, who so nobly risked their lives in detente of the Union and the Constitution merit and will receive the undying, gratitude of the American people. Living, they shall live in our warmest affections —and, dying their memories will be cherished for all time to come. To say—as our political oppo nents do—that they fought and bled ami died mainly lor the freedom of the negro, is a gross insult on their patriotism, and an out rage which will le indignantly resented by their surviving comrades through the ballot box.''' What flattery and compliment they have for the -oldier now in the hour of victory, in the day of his glorious triumph. But what did they say in the dark arid dread hour of peril and uncertainty, when the life of the nation was trembling in the balance, and the brave boys in blue were offering up their own lives to save that of the nation. Here it is; 'Resolved. That inasmuch as the policy of the President and party in power, by managing and conducting the war, has not Iteen consistent with, but in palpable and criminal violations of the spirit and letter of the Crittenden resolutions of July. as avowed by them and conveyed to the peo ple. that tee ore relieved from ejTrtnrfit any SUPPORT, AID OR SYMPATHY, believing that to do so voluntarily, would he to give a ted" ling hand in mthrtriing th> Constitution rind destroying the Union.'' This resolution was passeH at a Democrat ic meeting in the Court House on the 2d of May, 18f>4, and was offered by John Palmer, Ksq., who, in opposition to a gallant soldier, is now asking the votes of the men who, ac cording to his resolution, were then giving willing hands in subverting the Constitution and destroying the Union. The following specimen of tho gratitude of the Democracy to the soldier, we com mend to the speeial notice of the gallant boys of the 138 th P. V., and to all the mem tars of the glorious 6th Corps. It was in tended to ridicule the rejoicings of the Union men of Bedford over the brilliant vic tories of Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley in September, 1864 : "The loyalists of Bedford, were determin ed, on last Wednesday, to let the people know that if the Confederates had taken all Grant's cattle that there were still some bells left. The clappers will not make Lincoln votes. Try some other place than the tem ple of God, when you wish to gloat over the carnage of friend or foe. n —Gazette, Sept. 30, 1864. ' The general Bounty Bill has at last be come a law. I enclose you a copy. Please lay it before your readers at an early day, so that the people of Bedford county may behold the to which they are in vital. I hope the bill will be satisfactory to all con cerned. In my opinion it compares favora bly with that other paragon of legislative wisdom, the Conscription Bill."-— B. F. Meyers Letter to the Gazette, March 28, 1864. Here we find the editor of the Gazette en deavoring to make odious to the people, a bill to provide bounties for the brave men who went forth to fight their country's bat tles, now he has the brazen impudence to try to palm himself and his part}" upon the soldiers as their friend. This same profes sed friend of the soldier again showed his friendship when he said in the Gazette, Jan. 22,1864 We must say,that laying aside all political prejudices toe areopposed to theprineipleof al lowing men to rote mit of the State on any pretext whatever. We believe in the doctrines of our earliest statesmen: that a standing ar my is dangerous to a republic. AND FUIt- TfIER BftLIEVE THAT HIVING SOI, PIERS THE POWER TO VOTE ONLY DOUBLES THE DANGER. Tho whole party showed their gratitude when, on the Bth of August, 1864, they cast 1696 votes in this county against permitting the soldier to vote and in favor of degrading him to the level of the negro. They also showed theirgratitudetothe soldiers friends by kicking out of their party the only three men in Bedford Borough certainly known to have voted for the amendment. Soldiers and friends of the soldier what do you think of such fawning, cringing, ly ing, hypocritical sneaks as the men who are now trying to make you believe that they are your friends by crying nigger, nigger, nig ger, white man'sgovernment, Ac. Remem ber they are the same men who mourned over your victories, rejoiced over your de feats, who called you "blue bellied Yan kees," "hired Hessians," "old Abe's hire lings," "Lincoln's myrmidons," "Lincoln's slaves," who perastently tried to make out that you were fighting, not to preserve the Union, but to set the negro free, and who would now hayo you believe that it was not they, but the Union men who did it, and call upon you to resent it by voting against the men who stood by you and the Union until victory, glorious and triumphant, orowned your arms. A PEW THINGS TO BE REMEM . UERED. We desire to keep a few foots relative to the states of the Copperhead party in this e<wintjylefore the people. We wqold have the pgpple ✓ RKM EMBER, that the leaders, one and all, ardently sympathized with the traitor ous rots-Is, and that they now plead for those in the custody of the United States with all the earnestness of their souls. REMEMBER, that the stars and stripes, the emblem of our nationality, was scoffed at by them, torn from appropriate places, and supplanted by the "red white and red," the emblems of organized treason. REMEMBER, that the "Star Spangled Banner. "Red, White and Blue, &e., were forced to give way to the favorite airs of the rebels. Yes, who does not remember bow night was made hideous by the sing ing of "Maryland, mv Maryland," "The Bonny Blue Flag." &o? REMEMBER, that hundreds of pistols and other deadly weapons were imported into Bedford county, and carried by the members of this same party, to shoot Union/ men for no other reason than that they were in favor of suppressing armed treason. / REMEMBER, that the barns of Unioii men were burned, their lives threatened, and their families intimidated because the; asked the Government to assert thesuprem aey of the laws, and were willing to givd to it their assistance. REMEMBER, that Churches and school houses were burned because men who loved] their country, met there to worship God. REMEMBER, that enrolling officers wen shot at, and narrowly escaped with their live.- because they undertook to enforce a national edict. REMEMBER, that no less than 600 of this party refused to report when drafted, and skedaddled to the mountains, skulked away in eaves or fled to Canada. REMEMBER, that every barn burne* who. in the deep darkness of the night; stole up to and applied the torch to the property of Union men, is a rabid Copper head. HEM EM 80, that the heathenish in 4 ccndiary, who under cover of darkness,! prompted by the spirit of the devil, stealth ily kindled the fire which consumed th# house of God, if living to-day, is a traitor and a Copperhead. REMEMBER, that every deserter who fled to Canada to enjoy the protection of a foreign Government, is and ought to be a Copperhead. \ REMEMBER, that every sk33bddler who secreted himself for months in the "pine clad hills" of the old Keystone State is to-day a living, breathing, blathering Copperhead. that every skulker who found his way to the eaves of our rugged mountains, wifK-loads of weipons, who threatened death and destruction on all hands, and then ran away from his shadow' is a blatant Copperhead. REMEMBER, that ministers of the gos pel were reviled, condemned and persecuted because they prayed for the preservation of the institutions of our fathers. REMEMBER, that the Copperhead party in a body voted to exclude the soldier from the right of suffrage, and that they kicked men out of the party, who had the manliness to disobey the order of the lead ers and vote the soldiers this privilege. REMEMBER, that every man who has desired the success of the rebellion, who aided, abetted and countenanced it in any manner, shape or form is a Copperhead leader to the extent of his intelligence. REMEMBER, that those who secretly met for the purpose of organizing insist ence to the draft in Napier and St. Clair townships are to-day, true to their instincts, in the Copperhead ranks. REMEMBER, that the /life of Lieut. Josiah Baughman was takerf while perform ing his duky, in strict accordance with the secret tcacnWs of the Copperhead leaders, and that if H.he creatAre who murdered him were to-dsty arrested and lodged in jail for this heinous Crime he would be feasted by the treason worshipping portion of the community. . REMEMBER, that Deputy Provost Marshal Jacob Crouse was murdered in obedience to the dictates ©f these same lea ders who said "Let that man, [the Provost Marshal] whoever he may bd, make up his mind that he cannot live a peaceful life, nor die an honorable death." , REMEMBER, that the/ Copperhead managers of tKe monetary affairs of Bed ford county have become indebted to the State of Pennsylvania in the sum of $16,000. REMEMBER, tW/$755.24 was added to this debt in one da**pecause the Copper head county Commissioners refused to make provisions to pay it REMEMBER, that under the adminis tration of this party the Poor House of Bedford county, which ought to be a decent asylum for the aged and infirm, has become a bye-word and a reproach. REMEMBER, that the men who are now flattering the soldier, wore, during his absence in the army, the Copperhead badge, the emblem of sympathy and treason. The Gazette under date of May 8, 1863, says: " We wore, when in Philadelphia, a Demo cratic badge,—a head of liberty, cut out of a copper cent. And, now, we give notice, that we trill wear whatever ornaments we please." REMEMBER, that the individual who indentifies himself with the Copperhead or ganization is as much responsible for the party as if ho were a principal actor. RKMEMBEH, that every truly loyal man has been driven frchn the part* We cite a few' prominent nahms, Hog. John M. Hall, fW, Jfohn W. Lingeafelter. Esq., Moses A. Points, Esq., Hewfy J. Bruner, Esq., and oh tire are any number of others which we chn rituue. SOLDIERS WILL RESUftIBER, that if they vote the CoppcrheaAicket, they will stand side by side, witfcithe distinguished parties whose record above enumer ated. Oh soldiers, can you mi* with such an array of treachery and traitors. tew" Let the soldiers remember, that when the Copperhead return judges of this district met last fall, to count the votes for Congressman, .Judge and members of the Legislature, they threw away, and rejected hundreds of the soldiers votes, while they accepted and counted the votes of the pau pers in Bedford and Adams oountie,— vmt Hernld and Whig. ~ PRJSACIUN<i v. PRACTICE. The following is the preaching of the 6th resolution of the Democratic platform adop ted at Harrisburg: "That the effort now muking by certain persons to use the power of the Geucral Government with a view to force negro suf frage on the States against the will of the people and contrary to existing laws, is not only a high crime, against the constitution but a deliberate aud wicked attempt to put the States of this Union (all of them more or less and some of them entirely j under the domination of negroes, to africanize a large portion of the country and degrade the white race morally and socially as well as political ly to the low level of the black. \\'e will not acknowledge the incapacity of our own race to govern itself, nor surrender the des tinies of the country into the hands of ne groes, nor put ourselves under their guardi anship, nor give up to them the political privileges which we inherited from our fath ers anu we exhort our brethren in other States to take up the same attitude and maintain it firmly.' Contrasted with the above we give the following record of Democratic Practice on the nhgro question : Who said that all men are created equal? Thomas Jefferson, the father of Democra cy. Who gave the negroes the right of suf frage in New York? The Democratic Par ty- Who presided over tho Convention which fave this privilege to negroes? Martin Van luren, a Democrat. Who afterwards elected Martin Van Bu ren to the Presidency. The Democratic Part}'. Who married a negro woman, and bv her had mulatto children? Richard M. -John son, a good Democrat Who elected Richard M. Johnson Vice President of the United States? The Dem ocratic Party. If President Van Buren had died ; and Richard M. Johnson had become President, who would have become the Democratic mis tress of the White House? The same ne gro woman. Who made the negro a citizen of the State of Maine! The Democratic Party. Who enacted a similar law in Massachu setts? The Democratic Party. Who permitted every colored person owning i*23o in New York to become a vo ter ? A General Assembly, purely Demo cratic. Who repealed the laws of Ohio which re quired negroes to give bonds aud security before settling in that State? The Demo cratic Party. Who made uiulattoes legal voters in Ohio? A Democratic Supreme Court, of which Reuben Wood was Chief Ju. tioe. What beoame of Reuben Wood? The Democratic Party elected him Governor three times and he is still a leader of the Demo cratic Party. Who helped to give free negroes the right to vote in Tennessee, under her constitution iof 1796? General Jackson. Was General Jackson a good Democrat? He generally passed as such. Who, with the above tacts, and many oth ers. staring them in the face, are continual ly whitining about "negro suffrage" and ne gro equality ? The Democratic Party. "Such is the record of the party whose cry is Rally for the White man's Government in Pennsylvania. In New York the same party preaches an entirely different doctrine. The Daily Nan thus dinCtfoses the ques tion. ' The conflict at arms is over, and now com mences the struggle for political ascendency, with the weapons of political antagonism sanctioned by republicanism. If the South ern people have profited by their exjierience, if they have learned a lesson of prudence from their adversaries, they will, without sacrificing principle, give a little more heed to the suggestions of expediency. The South must learn to use the weapons that have been used against it; and the first ad vantage to Vie gained is the conversion of the negro population into an element of politic al power. The manufacturers of New England, who have not hesitated to realize pecuniary prof it from civil strife upon contracts for milita ry supplies, have been sagacious enough to employ their dependents as instruments of political supremacy. At every election where their interests were in question, they march ed their employees in their factories in solid phalanx to tne polls, never scrupling to make the relation between capital and labor avail able to control the exercise of the elective franchise among those who depended more or less upon their volition for daily bread for themselves and families. This agency of po litical power has hitherto been withheld from the Southern people by the peculiar nature of their industrial system: it is now within their grasp. \\ ill they permit a fatal pride, a traditional prejudice, a weak deference to caste, to stand in the way of their resump tion of political equality, perhaps of politi cal supremacy? We have no fear of that. The strength and self-reliance, the indomitable will and fertility intellectual and moral resources of the Southern character have been too well demonstrated in their struggle for indepen dence to leave us now in doubt as to their capacity for good management in the war fore of mind against mind that is to come. The question is, can the Southern whites control the negro vote ? It is for themselves to Judge. The abolitionists of the North will, undoubtedly, make every effort to edu cate the freedmen to Black Republican prin ciples, and to that end their emissaries will labor diligently, and with the system and proverbial cunning of New England's polit ical apostle. Are the native Southerners equal to the task of confronting and defeat ing these influences ? We do not pretend to know better than themselves their resour ces to maintain such a contest. Let them consider the subject for themselves, in View of the advantages they possess, through their familiarity with the character of the negro, and decide whether they can control the political action of the inferior race. If t hev cannot, let their opposition to negro suffrage be firm and energetic. But, if they have faith in their power to direct the polit- M?" organization of the blacks, their first step should be to put a vote in the hands of every adult negro, trusting to their own sagacity and natural advantages to render that ballot the servant of their wishes and of their in mterests. It is a simple question of policy, and as such wc have suggested its consider ation to the Southern people. For the sake of the supremacy of Democratic doctrines, we desire that every element of Democratic strength shall be brought into the field. It is a matter for the late slaveholding States '?, a T upon; and we would have tnem de cide in accordance with their own conception of what is best for themselves and for the Democracy." Here we have the true animus of the Democratic party. Their case is a desperate one and they get up a cry about negro equal ity wherever they think they can deceive the people and gain a few votes by it. Where there is a hope of gaining votes by favoring negro equality, they are not only ready and willing but eager advocates of negro equali ty , and they take to it as naturally as ducks to water, because as seen by their record it is their ancient faith and they are the party, as they claim, that never changes. We commend the above, to the gentleman who gets up letters for soldiers about negro suf frage. — i ■j-j The Wisconsin Democratic State Convou. tion open*, on the 20th at Madison. "CESSNA vs. CESSNA." Beneath this caption the (roaette of hurt week undertook to show great inconsisten cy in the political course-of the Hon. John Cessna, and for this purpose, published the following resolutions qf a Democratic coun ty meeting in September, IX6I, which the editor informs us were written by Mr. Cessna: csohrJ, That we hereby approve, en dorse and ratify the platform of Democratic principles adopted by our late County Con vention and cordially recommend the ticket nominated by that convention to the support of tlie people. " </, That the civil war, by which our country is at present distracted, is the natural offspring of misguided sectionalism, engendered by fanatical agitators, North as well as South, and that the Democratic par ty have equally opposed the extremes of both sections, and having, at all times, zeal ously contended for the administration of the General Government, within its consti tutional limits, that party is in no way re sponsible for calamities that have resulted from a departure from its doctrines and a disregard of its warning and advice. '' That the following resolution of the Hon. John J. Crittenden, of Ken tucky, lately introduced into Congress by lim and adopted almost unanimously by that body, so far to the objects oF the war, uieotirmtß the approbation of the Democracy of Bedford county: "Re solved, that the present civil war has been forced on us by t he disuiiioni.stsuf the South ern States now in rebellion against the Gov ernment of the United States ; that in this matronal emergency, Congress, banishing all feelings of passion and resentment,-will rcc bollect only their duty to their- country, that the war is not waged for conquest or subju gation, or interfering with the tights or es tablished institutions of the states, but to maintain and defend the supremacy of the Constitution, with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several states under it un impaired, and that as soon as these objects shall be accomplished the war ought to •cease." In contrast to this it publishes the follow ing one of the resolutions of the late Repub lican State Contention, of which Mr. Cess aa was a distinguished member: "That, having conquered the rebellious J:ates, they should be held in subjugation, nd the treatment they are to receive, ami the laws which are to govern them, should f be referred to the law-making power of the nation, to which they legitimately belong." Now where is the remarkable inconsisten cy in all this? The editor might accuse all the members of Congress of the same incon sistency who afterwards supported the emancipation policy of President Lincoln. The doctrine of the above resolutions was She doctrine of the entire Congress of 1861, sfml of the people generally. It is the doc trine of loyal men to-day. It is true, there js in these resolutions a little unnecessary glorification of the late jDemocracic party, Especially in the light of its history of four tears, but that was quite natural for one in *lr. Cessna's position. He believed that the Democratic party would sustain the government in the prosecution of the war, and labored earnestly, with the late lamen ted Maj. Tate, to bring the party in Bedford county up to that mark. How well be suc ceeded for a little while, the above resolu tions will show. The Democracy of Bedford county have not passed any resolutions with that ring in thciu since. They have all had a coppery jingle, but Mr. Cessna lid not write them. When the Democratic party ceased to exist, and degenerated into a trai torous copperhead rump, and under the con trol of Vallandigliaiu, Long and Ben. Wood at Chicago, resolved the war "ci fuilurr," Mr. Cessna left the concern. There was no other course left him. The editor has no eed to asseverate that Mr. Cessna wrote the above resolutions. For jqst this one time we shall take the edi tor at his word, and shall not call to see the manuscript. Let him take good earc of it; it is a valuable and interesting nouvenir of the better days of the Democratic party. The internal evidence of the authorship .s quite sufficient for us. Who else could have written these resolutions? While Mr. Cessna was inditing them, the other leaders of the party, with one or two well known exceptions, were loud in their denunciations of the war, and in their denial of the right to coerce the rebellious States. And such was the doctrine they held up till the day when Lee surrendered. THEY RALLY ! The Democracy rallied at Sehellsburg on the Kith, mutant to celebrate the adoption of the Contestation of the United States, and to protect it from tho dangers . with which it is supposed to be encompassed. This is certainly extremely kind of them, and whatever else the Copperheads may be charged with, they cannot bo said, without gross flattery, to display any bashfulnos. It is true that during four years of terrible war, when the treasure and the best blood ot the country were required to maintain the Union of the States, without which the Constitution would have had no more prac tical value than a Roman palimpsest, these gentlemen hadn t time to rally. When the Government ordered a draft to reinforce our brave soldiers in the field, the Copperheads rallied to resist it, denonnced it on all hands, and burnt the barns of the officers charged with its execution; and when it was propos ed to enlist negro troops so as to avoid this very conscription, the Copperheads rallied again with repiarkable unanimity in opposi tion to this measure. How enthusiastically they rushed to the front to deprive the sol dier of the right of suffrage who was per illing life and limb in defense of that very Constitution which they now profess so deeply to revere! They rallied again at Chicago to denounce the war as n failure and to demand an immediate and unconditional cessation of hostilities. In short, there is not one measure which the Government un dertook daring this four years war, for the purpose of maintaining and defending the constitution, that these. Copperheads did not violently oppose. By their unreasoning clamor and threats they often succeeding in postponing measures that were necessary for the public defense. But no sooner had the war ceased by which Constitution, Union, Law and all that we hold dear as American citizens were preserved, than these fellows hurried forward with supersejyiceable zeal to show their devotion to the Constitution. The eleciionof delegates to the South Caro lina State Const i tutional Assembly came ofT on the sth. About a quarter of tfap names on the "Lnion"' ticket are elected. The major ity are Conservatives. Wade Hampton and several officers of the late Confederate armies hav Uea if turned by large majorities. THE SOLDIERS' VOTE. Some of our friends are annoyed when they occasionally meet a returned soldier who will not vote the Republican ticketr-his own ticket—but clings in spite of reason to his old political associates. We cannot expect the votes of all the soldiers. That wjuld be requiring too much of poor, weak human na ture. Philanthropists and philosophers who have zealously labored for the emancipation of their race, are not so sanguine as to im agine that a man will leap atone bound from slavery iuto the very front rank of intelligent freemen; nor need we expect that all sol diers merely by wearing the badge of the Union will be transformed from negro-hating democrats into genuine Republicans. It would require a longer time, and a mightier war than the last to uproot the prejudices that have been implanted in the hearts of men by modern democracy. A man does not always change his opinions because he wears the insignia that are supposed to indicate a revolution of sentiment. Prejudice and •servility to party are not so easily overcome. The tyranny which a false democracy so long exercised over the ininds of the multi tude, making a failure to vote "the ticket, the whole ticket and nothing but the ticket," a high crime and misdemeanor, which rarely failed of its punishment, has not entire y lost its sway. There are many yet so com pletely under the thraldom of party that they would consider themselves guilty of an unpardonable sin if they did not vote the ticket lal>eled "democratic." The Demo cratic party was for many years an inexora ble despotism over the minds and conscien ces of men, accepting nothing short of a blind, implicit obedience to its dictates; until at last, the people in their indignation, hurled it from power. To its discipline and drill it owe J its great success ; and to its despotic spirit is due that intolerant fanati cism which has so long signalized our politi cal conflicts, employing against the man who dared act and think for himself all the en gines of pi ivate and party persecution. It is no cause for wonder then, that there are yet many who yield unthinking obedience to I its behests. What shall we say of these soldiers who tamely and submissively, under the orders of party drill sergeants, march up to the polls and vote for the very men who sought to disfranchise them ? Why, only this, that they do not value the right of suffrage, the dearest that an American citizen owns, high enough to resent the flagrant insult, or that they wished in their hearts the successof the Copperhead paity,atthe very time that party denounced, as a disgraceful failure, the war in whi'di they were imperiling their lives. While they were battling for country, up holding her sacred cause on the very point of their bayonets, the Copperheads were plot ting at home to degrade them, and yet from mere force of habit, or for the causes we have mentioned, there are some soldiers who will continue to VQte for those who sought to inflict upon them this gross outrage. That soldier must have a hide as thick at that of the elephant Hannibal who would not have eagerly resented this political out rage had it been consummated. Those who attempted it should not so easily be permit ted to escape the consequence of their acts — the refusal on the part of every soldier to have any political association with them. But as we said already, we cannot expect the vote of all the soldiers. We have heard of some who wore the collar so meekly that t hey went to the polls and voted to disfran chise themselves! Party obedience could!go no further. While there are a very few soldiers who will vote with this Copperhead party, we are rejoiced to know that the groat majority of them are right. The Democratic leaders know it, and are very industrious just now iu looking up the small number of thes3 who have returned from the army still calling themselves ''Democrats." and who will gra ciously and condescendingly consent, out of pity for old associate® in distress to act as Vico Presidents and Secretaries of a Cop perhead meeting. REPUDIATION. One of the speakers at the Democratic meeting on Monday evening of Court week openly advocated repudiation, another while not openly advocating it, did advocate the taxing of United States bonds, which he very well knew would be a breach of faith on the part of tho Government and a pre liminary step toward repudiation, and the one which the more cunning Democrats ad vocate because it is more plausible and they know that in the end it must lead to repu diation. Yes, the Democratic party now favors repudiation of the National debt, a debt in largo part incurred for money to pay our gallant soldiers. The Democratic party opposed the borrowing of that money to pay the soldiers, and now they propose to rob the patriotic men who came forward in the darkest hours of our country's peril and lent, many of them, their all, to the Government to pay her soldiers in the field* Besides this thousands of brave soldiers have themselves accepted United States bonds in payment of their wages from the Government, many thousands more are de pendent upon their pensions for support. The Democracy profess love for the soldier and in the same breath, by repudiation, pro pose to rob not only the soldier, and take away his pension, but to rob the men who gave their money to pay tho soldier. Men who fought and hied for your country, for her glorious flag, for her free institutions, for national unity, for the preservation of civil and religious liberty, what do you think of the men, who would not only disgrace our national character by repudiation, hut while professing friendship for you, propose to rob not only you, but all those who stood by you in the darkest hours of the rebell ion ? The election in California, on the tith, pas sed off quietly, and the vote was light. The principal counties return Union men to the Legislature. The constitutional election took place in Colorado on the sth. The Constitution is carried by a large majority. The Massachusetts Republican State Convention meets at Worcester on the 14th. The Democrats meet at the samejdace on the 28th. The Republican State Convention of Wisconsin met on the 7th. Charles R, Gill was nominated for Attorney (Jenml of the st*u>. MRS. HURRVTT AND HER FRIENDS. In the discharge of his official duties, Ma jor Genera) Hartranflt hanged this modern Meenlina, and the Copperheads, naturally enough, are in agony over it In their rage they declare that they will not vote for him. While everybody admires his gallantry as a soldier, and speaks in high terms of the truly valuable services he has rendered his coun try, it is not to be expected that he will re ceive the suffrage of the Copperheads after hanging one of their friends. Although the public generally are agreed that the punish ment fell far short of that due the infamous crime of which she was convicted, and that the execution was in the discharge of high official duty, it can hardly be expected that the near relatives and sympathizing friends, who may have an uneasy sensation about the throat themselves should pay honors to the executioner. We agree with the Gazette, that is ashing a little too much, and shall not, therefore insist that these afflicted mourners shall vote for the gallant soldier. With Yellow-plush, we can "phansy their phcclinks."' •'.No wretch e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law," or, we may add of its officer, and the opinion entertained by the late Mrs. Surratt of her executioners is sympathized in by the whole Copperhead family. Let them wipe their eyes, and be comforted ; we shall not insis on their votes. It would be sad, indeed, if there were not enough loyal men just now in Pennsylvania, to elect the gallant hero of Fort Steadiuau iu spite of all the venomous Copperheads in creation. THAUDEUB STEVENS' SPEECH. To the exclusion of the usual variety of matter on our outside page, we this week publish the speech of Hon. Thaddeus Ste vens, at Lancaster, Pa. The New York Tribune, while dissenting from some of the views of the venerable statesman, pays the following high tribute to his honesty, integ rity and ability : "The Hon. Thaddeus Stevens is one of the ablest living statesmen of this or any country, and his opinions bear the weight which is commanded by unquestioned hon esty and ripe experience. A native of Ver mont, he has given nearly all his adult life to Pennsylvania, to her signal advantage and his own lasting renown. He will be re membered with affectionate gratitude as the author of her Common School system after a score of Presidents shall have been utterly forgotten. As the master-spirit of Governor Ritner's administration, inaugurated thirty years ago, he contributed signally to its use fulness aud its unpopularity. As a member of the State Convention which soon after re vised, but did not improve, the Constitution of Pennsylvania, his votes and speeches proved hini in advauecof the greater num ber of his ootemporaries. And it is a truth which will long serve to keep green his mem ory, that, through the darkest hours of gen eral abasement at the toot-stool of the Slave Power, though living on that Southern bor der of the Free States Where that servility is most general and explicable, he never dis sembled nor qualified his intense hostility to the infernal "institution," with all its ad juncts and belongings. Mr. Stevens is one of the few intrinsically great men now left in public life, where he, in the natural coarse of events, must soon be known no more. As one of that small number of our able politicians who were nev er bewitched by a misleading view of the White House as the predestined goal of their ambition, he speaks with unusual freedom, and is heard with a trust which the mob of Presidential aspirants neither command nor deserve. A PARDON. The Hon. Alex. H. Coffroth has just re turned from Washington with a pardon for Magel Kecd, whose case was to have come up for trial before the United States .District Court at Pittsburgh on the 21st inst. The Gazette scoffed at the very thought of charg ing him with treason. Whence comes then the precipitate haste with which Mr. Cof froth is sent to Washington to make inter cession for him? Is this the way in which injured innocence asserts itself? By no means. Conscious and notorious guilt, on the other hand, seeks.'an agent in Mr. Coffroth whoisknown to possess influence in Washing ton, by reason of his support of the great emancipation amendment. Of course, we shall have aoine silly at tempts on the part of the Gazette to explain this away, which with genuine copperheads are .altogether unnecessary and hypocritical, because they largely participated in his guilt. They have no influence with loyal men. We expect of course, that we will also be charged with persecuting an innocent youth, who saunters out of the courts of justice, with a previous presidential pardon in his pocket. Let that be a salve for all the wounds that we may inadvertently inflict in calling the atteution of the public to his case. Let him console himself that it is much better to have the pardon of the government which he ha ted, than to have had a loyal bullet lodged in his heart on the tield of Gettysburg. The Chambcrsburg Rcpitsitory say* : The President has pardoned Mr. Mengel Reed, of Bedford, who was recently arrested on the charge of treason and convoyed to Pittsburgh for trial. It is worthy of notice that he was not discharged from arrest by the legal authorities of the government, nor liberated by taking the oath of allegiance, as must have been the case had Mr. Mengel lleed applied for relief as a citizen of the North whose fidelity was unjustly assailed; but he sought pardon under the act of Con gress as an enemy—one who had taken up arms against the government, and the par don recites that he is pardoned as a traitor —or in other words, that he is justly charg ed with treason ana the President gener ously relieves him of its fearful penalties. Thus while the Democratic papers of Bod ford, Fulton and Franklin have been pro mulgating all manner of falsehoods to save Mr. Heed from punishment —insisting that he had no sympathy with the rebels and was their unwilling captive—when the ques tion is about to be tried in the United States Court, before a Democratic Judge, Mr. Reed sends Gen. Coll roth to Washing ton and applies for pardon, just as every other repentant rebel has done who wants to escape the just penalty for his crimes. If Mr. Reed is henceforth censured for both treason and falsehood, he must not feel aggrieved, tor his own record, as made by himself, or by his ant homed representative, stamps him as guilty of both. We do not complain of his pardon—indeed we think it lsst that it should be so, for the government has certainly more important duties to per form than to try such half-flcdgud traitors as Mr. Reed, who was too faithless to be loyal and too cowardly to be a traitor with any de gree of manhood. He is very properly dis missed as that class of game that is not worth the powder. If in this article we do injustice to Mr. Reed, he must return his pardon and correct his own record before he can deem himself wronged. It is but fair M judge bun by his self-assumed position to e cane ilu avenging power of the law. Cer Utility aii innoww limn would htte prefer red a fair trial to" a previous pardon, which closes the door to investigation, lie could still he arrested tor treason against the State and his pardon would be conclusive testi mony against him ; but we presume that his arrest was designed mainly to establish the fact that he was a voluntary recruit in the rebel service, and as he has now yielded the whole issue and regains his citizenship by the President s clemency, it is likely that no further proceedings will be instituted. Wo think that be has inflicted upon himself a degree of punishment never contemplated by the most vindictive of his alleged perse cutors. If he is satisfied, surely they will be content. BEDFORD DEMOCRACY INV>RIEF We deeply, indeed profoundly, sympa thize with the Bedford Gazette and the Bedford Democracy generally. They have more than their share of sorrow. They have lost elections; they have lost a war; the}' have lost agonizing conscripts; they have lost offices; they have lost the loaves and fishes; they have lost hopeful sons for a sea.-sm in the rebel armies; have lost upright, emi dently order-loving citizens from their social circle for the mere eccentricity of murdering a Deputy Provost Marshal and enlisting in the rebel army to devastate their own homes; and to crown their deluge of grief, the fithio pian now threatens to arise from his abject degradation, marry their daughters, confis cate their lands, and crack the master,s whip about their loins as they go forth from day today to unrequited toil. Wc keenly sympa thize with them, for — "Like warp and woof ail doitinie* Arc woven fast." And when the dark day of Ethiopian do minion shall come, none can escajH; the ter rible doom —"the paining jar through all will run." Well does the 6 lasette proclaim the danger. '"Arouse! arouse!'" it thunders to iteiiuperiled readers, and decide 'wheth er ytju .-hall continue to be the dominant race in thiscountry. ' Whether the historic hills and fastnesses of Bedford, which have beeu hitherto sacred to bounty-jumpers and skul king conscripts, shall henceforth resound the broad, deep, sonorous voice of the lordly African calling his Meyers's, Shannons and Reeds —his unwilling but yet subdued anil obedient serfs —to their daily ta.->ks; or whetherthey shall remain, as now, the recip ients of the priceless, religious, civil and so cial blessings conferred on them by a govern ment they have rewarded with the deepest hate and the most persistent efforts to des troy it. Such is the issue—so fraught with weal or woe; so pregnant with the question of dominion between the sable and the pale faces of our Western citizens. The Gaztte has read Jefferson —the father of .Democracy —and it remembers that, in consequence of Slavery, ho trembled for his country when he reflected "that God is just;' that lli-< justice cannot sleep for ever; that consider ing numbers nature aud natural means only a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible eveuts; that it may become probable by supernatural interlereuee, ' and that "the Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest! Well has the Gazette trembled, aud it and its sorrow stricken followers— '•Thus roving <m In confuse'il march forlorn, th' adv>nt'ruui hand, With shuddering horror pale, aud eyes aghast, Viewed their lamentable lot, aud found— No rest The Ethiopian is omnipresent with them, j Their dreams are shadowed by .-able night mares; their waking hour.- are made hideous by dark apparitions ever flitting betore them; the lash and chains are ever clanking and whirling in their ears, and they are at last driven to that d qth of despair where "hope ne'er dawns and pleasure never smiles. In starless midnight of their grief they cry to themselves and to their followers to "Arouse! Amuse!'' for the African is at their doors, and with grimly smile he rattles the dead bones of a million of his sleeping race, cur sed, brutalized and benighted by man, each one crying for that vengeance which t hid has "no attribute to interpose aud break its fearfui sweep. In charity wo would whisper philosophy to the palpitating hearts oft he Bedford De mocracy. How much they merit the fearful nooin that makes them utter the cry of des pair, lest the Airman may win distinction over those so sparingly endowed as the Dem ocratic leaders of Bedford, wo do not pretend to decide; but we assure them that all need ful protection shall be awarded them. Hit must be so, we shall favor statutory interdic tion to protect the Gazette from the compe tition of a better aud abler Democratic organ being published by a sable son of the South, or even one of mingled African and lordly Democratic blood. If they fear that the disenthralled slave shall outstrip them in the learned professions; shall make their fields to blossom with still richer fruits; shall shame them into the support of truth and justice as voters at the polls; shall win popu lar elections by honest suffrages rather than by manipulating election returns: shall gather their daughters in marriage over their paler rivals, and, in short, make Demo cracy and the Gazette forget their cunning, and draw them step by step from power to the voluntary surrender of dominion —if these are to bo the inevitable fruit- of the freedom of the benighted bondman, when his untuned chords shall strike in painful melody with the finestrung social strains of his oppressor, then must there be law to save the Gazette and its race from the une qual struggle. Rest easy, tender, trembling Gazette. Jefferson's appalling prophecy will fall short of fulfilment, for the reason that the God ofjustice did not sleep until the slave worked out his own redemption His proud, insolent, traitorous lords, and their cowardly, coppery serfs of the North, hasten ed the triumph of Freedom, though they marked its victorious path with river- of gore. The slave is free, but he rules not. His fidelity and his bayonet, turned the tide of the terrible conflict when loyal hearts were dismayed with agonizing doubts, and when the Gazette and its treacherous sato lytes demanded the c#fjfession of treason s supremacy. He has won the right to be a man; to own himself; to protect the purity ol' his hearth; to shield his children from the auctioneer's block and a nia-ter's bru tality and lust No more, u iess. is bis victory; and having consigned hint to a bon dage that made him hut aetiatlei, a thing, a stranger to light aud koowlc'Lc, we now condemn bin: because he ha - i>->t defied all statutes and moral and social i,..rriers, arid fitted himselfforcitizenship, lb !-commit ted to Our care for atoncmem -not a-the prey of the fears and prejudices of' the igno rant, who tremble at the pro-poet of his progress, and demand protection from his probable intellectual, social au,i poiit.cal power. Tlte Gazette, and like organs and orators, who dare not be ju-t test the degraded bondman shall teach tin ui humili ty, will lie faithless still; but theem glitened, the patriotic, the christian sentii.. Nt of 'he Nation will in due time vindicate i soil, and labor to elevate an abject nice, made -o by our crimes—not theirs. Ret tin- dinette quiet its fears, let it learn to accept the inevi table logic of events, for — "The uiowcr mows on though the •! lor i®.V writhe, And the copperhead coil round the blade of ha scythe!" Chum. AV; J'iie \ ermont election for Stale and Cuunly officers and members of the Legislator* • '">•* place on the ">tb, resulting in the so etc - *>• the Republican ticket. The New York Democratic State Conven tion met on the 7th. Major Gen. Slocum was nominnated for Secretary of Stale. The Republican State Copvention of Mitmc. sola cwtvi oi| tiie ( tli ; (*t'H. V, lf ( Mf'i shall H.V iihßtiiialwl Wr Guvfcruor.
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