febforb Inquirer.
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, SEPT. 28, ISflO.
UNION HETUBUUAN STATE TIUKET.
FOR GOVERNOR,
MAJ. GEN. JOHN W. GEARY,
OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
DISTRICT TICKET.
CONGRESS.
Gen. WM. H. KOONTZ, of Somerset.
SENATOR,
Hon. ALEXANDER STUTZMAN, of Som
erset county.
ASSEMBLY,
Col. JOHN WELLER. of Somerset.
JOHN T. RICHARDS, of Fulton.
COUNTY TICKET.
PROTHONOTARY,
J W. LINGENFELTER, of Bedford Bor.
SHERIFF,
Cant. N. C. EVANS, of Coterain.
ASSOCIATE JUDGE,
Capt. A. WE AVERTING, Bloody Run.
COMMISSIONER,
SAMUEL SHAFFER, of Union.
POOR DIRECTOR,
HENRY H. FISHER, South Woodberry.
AUDITOR,
JAMES R. O'NEAL, of Monroe.
rsiOl POLIO' OF BEfOKSTtCtTIOS.
"Rtiohed. Bv the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of the United States of America, in
Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Hou?es
ci .neurring. That the following article be proposed
to the Legislatures of the several States as an
amendment to the Constitution of the 1 nited
States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of
the said Legislatures, shall be valid as a part of
the Constitution, namely:
"ARTICLE —. Section 1. All persons born or
naturalized in the United States, and subject to
the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United
■States, and of the State wherein they reside. No
State shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or fcimuniUes of cituers of
the United States. Nor shall any State deprive
any person of life, liberty, or property without
due process of law, nor deny to any person within
its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 3. Representative* shall be apportioned
among the several States according to their res
pective numbers, counting the whole number of
personsin each State, excluding Indians not tax
ed; but whenever the right to vote at any election
for electors of Pmilai t and Viop-~PToid#f, or
for United SUtes RepicscnUtives in Congress,
executive and judicial officers, or the members of
the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the
male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one
years of age, and citizens of the United States, or
in any way abridged, except tor participation in
rebellion or other crime, the basis of representa
tion therein shall be reduced in tbe proportion
which the number of such male citizens shall bear
to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one
years of age in that State.
"Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or
Representative in Congress, eleotor of President
and Vice-President OT hold any office, civil or
military under the U. 8., or under any State, who.
having previously taken an oath as a member oi
Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or
as a member of any State Legislature, or as an
executive or judicial officer of any State, to sup
port the Constitution of the United States, shajl
have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against
the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies
thereof: but Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds
of each House remove such disability.
"Section 4. The validity of the public debt of
the United Slates authorized bylaw, including
debts incurred for the payment of pensions and
bounties for service in suppressing insurrection or
rebellion, shall not be questioned, bat neither the
United state? nor any State shall assume or pay
any debt or obligation incurred in aid ofinsnrrec
tion OI Ile}Uon against LT-Ctotzxj.
claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave,
but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall
be hold illegal and void."
HOW TO TOTE PAUPERS! |
The Poor House the Copperhead Nur
sery !
HEAD! TAX-PA VERS, BEAD!
The Alms-hodsc for the last three or four
years has been the nursery in which Cop
perheadism has been most villainously dis
seminated. Men have been kept there for
the sole purpose of voting them, while oth
ers have been purchased at a few dollars a
head or been forced to vote as the Steward
has dictated as will be seen by the append
ed affidavits. We do not think that the
present Steward would be guilty of such
gross outrage, nor, knowing the majority of
the gentlemen composing the Board of Di
rectors, as we do, we have no hesitation in
saying that they would not be a party to
such a disreputable affair. The majority of
these latter gentlemen have become so much
disgusted with the manner in which the af
fairs of this institution have been conducted,
that their faith in the honesty of their par
ty has been most woefuljy shaken. Our
object is not, then, to hold up the present
Board and Steward as objects of censure,
but to call the attention of the people to the
facts, that they may provide against the elec
tion of men who will prostitute the institu
tion to the Copperhead party in the infa
mous manner in which it"!was. under the
Stewardship of George Widle, by the elec
tion of an honest and. upright man to the
position. For the purpose of showing the
public how things have been conducted, po
litically, at that place we publish, the follow
lowing affidavits of John Heltzel and James
Shceder, taken in the Koontz vs. Coffroth
Contested election ease, ami which vrill be
found on pages 22, 23, and 24 of the Con
gressional report of the papers in this ease :
John Heltzel sworn:
I was a pauper in the public poor-house of
Bedford county, in the fall of 18G4. I lived
ir. Union township before I went to the poor
house. I went there in June, 1864. I Knew
William Allen. He was a pauper in the poor
house. I also knew James Sheeder, John
V insel, Daniel Sherman, John Moyer. Rob
ert Clarke, Peter Mullen, Andrew Wolford,
Enoch Armitage, Patrick Dunn. Samuel
Maagh, Jacob Livingston, John Shoemaker,
John Miller, William Gorsuch, Michael Gal
lagher, James Thomas, Andrew Amick. They
were all paupers in the poor-house at the time
of the election in the tall of 1864. 1 think
they all voted. WIDLE GOT ME TO GO
TO SHOEMAKER S AND CALL FOR
LIQUOR FOR THEM. I GOT THE LIQ
LOR FOR THEM. IVidle gave them re
ceipts for their taxes, and gave them tickets
and sent them to the polls to vote. I came
up with them and saw most of them vote.
GOT NO pi-OR BEFORE
THEY VOTED; THLr WERE TREAT
ED AFTERWARD. WIDLE PROMISED
AT THE POOR-HOUSE TO TREAT ALL
WHO VOTED THE DEMOCRATIC
TICKET. I DID NOT CALL FOR LIQ
t L t 2ST FOR THEM AT SHOEMAKER'S
UNTIL AFTER THEY HAD VOTED. I
talked with the paupers in regard to their
votes. Daniel Sherman, John Moye.- and
John Heltzel (the witness) voted the Repub
lican ticket and for General Koontz. Wil
liam Allen, James Sheeder, John Winsel,
Robert Clark, Peter Mullen, Enock Armitage.
Andrew Wolford, John Miller, William Gor
such, Michael Gallagher, James Thomas,
Andrew Amick, Jacob Livingston, Samuel
Maugb, Patrick Dunn and John Shoema ;
ker —
Mr. Reed and others, counsel for General
Coffrotb. object to evidence of the decl^ 0 "
lions of these paupers in regard to the ticket
they voted.
-told me that they voted the Democratic
ticket amd for General Cdffroth. We talked
about it both before and after the election.
John Miller and James Thomas are since
dead.
Questions by Mr. Reed :
Andrew Atnick voted the Republican tick
et when he could, but M IDi.E MADE. 111.1
VOl B 1' Oil THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET
AT THAT TIME. Widle gave him the
Democratic ticket and told him to vote
it. He did not vote the Democratic ticket
all the time for the last three or five years; he
has been voting both ways. I know that 1
said I would vote for toe Democratic ticket
and voted for the Republican ticket. I
have no other home than the poor house.
his
JOHN X HELTZEL.
mark.
James Sheeder sworn:
I was S pauper in the poor-house in the
Jail of 1864; I voted at the general election
in October, 1864, aud voted the Democratic
ticket. I got one ticket from Mr. Beeler and
the other from Mr. Widle. It was the hr,t
time I ever voted the Democratoeticket; gen
erally voted the other ticket. MR. VY IDLE
PROMISED ME A PAIR OF PANTS
AND BEELER PROMISED ME A COAT
IF I WOULD VOTE TIIE DEMOCRAT
IC TICKET. MS. WIDLE GJ YE ME
THE PANTS AND BEELER GAJ E
ME ONE DOLLAR, BUT DID NOT
GIVE ME THE COAT. 1 came from
Broad Top township to the poor house
Questions made by Mr. Shannon :
No efforts were made to get me to vote the
Republican ticket. I MIGHT HAVE TOLD
SOME PERSONS THAT I HAD FOOLED
WIDLE AND VOTED THE DEMOCRATIC
TICKET. BUT I COULD NOT SM EAR SO.
THEY STOOD AT THE POLLS AND
WATCHED ME TILL I HAD VOTED THE
| DEMOCRATIC TICKET. SAUPP AND
! BUHER STOOD AT THE WINDOW . I did
tell Mr. Armitage that I had got the Demo
cratic ticket from Widle, but that I had fool
ed him and voted the Republican ticket. 1
WAS A PAUPER AND NEEDED A PAIR
OF PANTS. I asked for them, and lIE TOLD
ME HE WOrLD NOT GIVE ME ANT UN
LESS I VOTED THE DEMOCRATIC TICK
JAMES SHEEDER.
John Heltzelre called:
I know that Mr. Widle gave Sheeder a new
pair of pants; Sheeder may have needed a
pair : I heard Widle say that he would give
Sheeder a pair of pants if he would vote the
Democratic ticket.
Enoch Armitage re-called:
I know that Sheeder got a pair of pacts
from George Widle.
It is high time that the people of Bedford
county turned their attention to this insti
tution. The abcTe only exhibits the man
ner in which the political part of it has been
conducted. There has not been an honest
Democrat elected to the office of Poor Di
rector for the last ten years that has not
been entirely dissatisfied with the party and
threatened to leave it in disgust. If the
people knew how the Copperhead leaders in
this place are responsible for the mal-ad
ftinistration, they would rise up and over
whelm them. If the people will elect Hen
ry 11. Fisher, the candidate of the Republi
can party for the office of Poor Director,
with Mr. Daniel E. Anderson, one of
the present Directors, their interests
will be perfectly safe. Mr. Fisher is a
man in every way fitted for the position,
he is an excellent Mill-wright, and will prove
the very man to relieve the county of the ex
i traordinary and unnecessary expenses incur
j red in keeping up the Poor House-Mill. We
| are sorry that Mr. Moses is about to retire.
'Koic an oaoolJoofc Dirooicr. Mr.
creature of the Copperhead leaders in this
town, must be defeated. Tax payers, vote
for Mr. Fisher.
THE NEW MODE OF VOTING.
VOTEKSMI ST BE
The Legislature at its late session chan
ged the entire mode of voting in this county.
Heretofore all the party nominees of any
one party were voted for on a single slip of
paper by special act of .Assembly ;by the
late act the ticket must be voted in three
separate slips, headed respectively STATE,
COUNTY, and JUDICIARY, thus:
STATE.
Governor,
John W. Geary.
COUNTY.
Congress,
William 11. Koontz.
Senator,
Alexander Stutzman.
Assembly,
John Weller,
John T. Richards.
Protbonotary, Register & Recorder, Clerk
of the Courts, Ac.
John W. Lingenfelter.
Sheriff,
Nathan C. Lvans.
Commissioner,
Samuel Shaffer.
Poor Director,
Henry H. Fisher.
Auditor.
James H. O'Neal.
JUDICIARY.
Associate Judge,
Adam Weaverhng.
These must be carefully cut apart and
be voted in such a manner that the inspec
tors can put them in their respective boxes
at sight, as each division must have its par
ticular box. W hen the board comes to
count out, it will count out the division
headed State, which can be done in a few
minutes, and the news can be despatched to
headquarters at once, as the vote for Gov
ernor will be the test vote. Voters will be
very careful to sec that their ballots are com
posed of the entire ticket, STATE, COUN
TY and JUDICIARY.
THE HAS BEEN
PROSECUTED.
Election Officer*. Beware!
On last Tuesday a prosecution was com
menced against the High Sheriff of Bedford
county for misdemeanor in office, in not in
serting the preamble and four sections of
tbe Disfranchising Act of Pennsylvania in
his general election proclamation. The law
must be vindicated. Let election officers.
BEWARE!
THE RISE IX REBEL BOXHS COS
FIRMED !
Two weeks ago we called attention to the
following telegram by the Atlantic eable :
LONDON, Aug. 31, ISM'.. —Advices rtxdv
t/l here of the 'action, of the PhUaddplua
Convention haveLnd the ' feet to matrrvitJtf
advance the price in Rebel bonds-
This telegram was denounced, after the
Copperhead fashion, as an abolition He, and
remembering how cleverly the President
jixed Sheridan's despatch so as to screen the
rebel murderers at New Orleans, they ac
cused the abolitionists of having changed
the telegram and put Rebel instead of Fed
eral bonds, but it wouldn't work. The
very nest steamer brought the English
newspapers containing the following unmis
takable confirmation of the first telegram :
Says the London News of August 31st. :
"Confederate (American) bonds, which
"of late have been altogether neglected, were
"in demand to-day at an advance, they open
i -'ed a t 4| <§, i>\. It is surmised that there
"may have arrived favorable accounts of the
"Philadelphia convention and the consequent
"return of the Southern States to Congress."
This is amply sufficient to confirm the
truth of the actual rise in Rebel bonds, but
in further confirmation and explanation of
it, the kagnst&lGi&.)Con*titutionalid of the
14th instant, a bitter rebel contains
the following mysterious paragraph :
the "Kebel Bond ' Telegram. — The Lon
don Daily News, of August 21st. explains the
despatch which produced so much uncertain
ty the other day, by saying the action of the
Philadelphia National Union Convention had
caused an advance in "rebel" bonds. It was
thought this was a mistake, and United States
bonds were meant; but it appears that the
cable despatch was right, Confederate bonds,
which had bees, down to going up to
4JOSJ. The News, which is an English sheet
of strong Northern proclivities, says it can't
understand this rise, inasmuch as the "war
debt of the South has been repudiated : but
the London stock market knows what it is
about. If any one will take the trouble to
read the platform of the Philadelphia Conven
tion he will see what they hare already dis
cerned."
Let us closely scrutinize this platform and
see what it was that the London dealers in
Rebel Bonds discerned. The fact is, the
Philadelphia Copper-Johnson Convention,
while saying slavery is abolished and that
they regard as utterly invalid any obligation
incurred in making war against the United
States, did it for the purpose of catch
ing the public ear and deceiving the people.
In the 2nd article of the same platform they
declare that —
'•The war just closed has maintained the
authority of the Constitution, with all the
powers which it confers and all the restric
tions which it imposes upon the general gov
ernment unabridged and unaltered , and it has
preserved tbe Union with the equal rights,
dignity and authority of the States perfect
and unimpaired/'
Mark the unaltered. Here is a direct de
nial of the constitutionality of the amend
ment abolishing slavery and at the same
time an assertion of the old State sovereign
ly doctrine, which would prevent Congress
irom forbidding the Rebel States to pay the
Rebel debt. But they take care to have
more than one string to their bow in order
to secure the payment of the Rebel debt,
and declare in article Gth that
"Such amendment to the Constitution of
the United States may be made by the people
jbr-renf as they m&v deem expedient, but on
ly in the mode pointed out by its provbioog ;
and in ratifying the same, all Ike St at is of
the Union hate an equal and an indefeasible
right to a wire and a vote thereon,"
They first denied that any change had been
made and now declare that no change can
constitutionally be made until the Rebel
States consent, which they very well know
they will never do. This will leave the
Constitution unchanged and the rebel debt
ready to.be assumed the moment rebels and
copperheads get the majority in Congress
which they are now striving to-do.
Remember this when you go to the polls,
and if you wish to help pay off the Rebel
bonds held by british speculators, and have
your taxes doubled, vote for I leister Clymer
and the whole Copperhead ticket. If you
want the Rebel debt repudiated and its pay
ment forever prohibited by a Constitutional
amendment, if you want your taxes reduced
instead of increased, vote for Geary and the
whole Union ticket.
MEYERS VOTED TO GIVE THE SOL
DIERS TEE RIGHT TO VOTE
IN THE CAMP !
The last Gazette speaking of its editor,
says: "You know that he voted for the
Amendment to give the soldiers the right to
vote in the camp." WE KNOW NO
SUCH THING, AND WE DARE YOU
TO PRODUCE AN AFFIDAVIT,
SWORN AND SUBSCRIBED, SET
TING FORTH THAT YOU VOTED
AT THE POLLS IN BEDFORD TO
GIVE THE SOLDIERS THE RIGHT
TO VOTE. We know that you voted in
the Legislature to submit the amendment
to the people, lut did you rote at the polls
for its adoption ? In the Legislature
you couldn't avoid the record, but at
the pedis you could stab the soldier without
him knowing who did it, and you DTD IT.
And not only thio, YOU WOULD NOT
ALLOW DEMOCRATS WHO DE
SIRED TO INDUCE MEN TO
VOTE FOR THE AMENDMENT
TO USE THEIR INFLUENCE IN
lIS BEHALF, AND COMPELLED
THEM TO DESIST BY THREA TS.
Nor is this all, YOU PRINTED EV
ERY TICKET IN OPPOSITION TO
THE AMENDMENT WHICH WAS
PRINTED IN THE COUNTY AND
NOT ONE IN FA VOli OF IT. If
you will agree to successfully controvert the
above statements we are satisfied all the
soldiers shall vote for you.
CiITION TO ELECTION
BOARDS !
Vopjterheatte to vote on First Papers.'
The various election Boards of this conn
ty are eautioned against taking the votes of
Foreigners on first papers. The Copper
heads will try this dodge iu many of the
districts. The first paper is a mere decla
ration of intentions to become a citizen and
does not entitle the holder to a vote. The
second and last paper must contain this
clause, "THEREUPON THE COURT
ADMITTED THE SAID ( giving his name)
TO BECOME A CITIZEN OF THE
UNITED STATES." If the paper does
not contain this, the holder is not entitled
to a vote. He must be declared a citizen
under the act of Congress by a Court of
competent jurisdiction.
MIR. SUARPE GIVES UP I
The Mouey to be Invested Elsewhere I
The Copperheads undo up a neat calcu
lation several weeks ago, in wlfieh they fig
ured up Mr. Sharpe s majority in the Dis
trict to 75. Since the tremendous meet
ings in Franklin and Adams, the election of
Sharpe. like the election of C'ymer, is given
up. The foilowiug is about a fair estimate
of the result:
KOONTZ'S SHARPE'S
Majority. Majority.
Adams-.." ItK)
Franklin, 350
Fulton', 150
Bedford 100
Somerset, 1400
1050 150
150
Koontz's majority 1800
This is about vfhat the majority is bound
to be in the district, or all "signs fail.
The fight in Bedford county is simply for
the little offices, they have given up Sharpe
and Clymer; and Andrew Johnson, it is
said, will invest his money elsewhere. Do
you think you will sec either House, .dr.
Sharpe ? .
IF THERE IS -1 SOLDIER
FEELS IHSF OS ED TO TOTE
FOR MR. SHA NNON LET
HTM LOOK AT THIS
PICTURE!
"I DISTINCTLY SAID, HOWEVER,
THAT 1 WOULD NOT FIGHT AT
ALL IN SUCH AN UNILATERAL WAR
—THAT I WAS I.IKE SOME OF MY
"REPUBLICAN FRIENDS I WOULD
PREFER STAYING AT HOME, BUT
IF I WERE COMPELLED TO PULL
TRIGGER I HOPED IT WOULD BE
WHEN THE MUZZIE OF MY GUN
WAS POINTER NORTH"
These are Mr. Shannon's very words.
How fortunate it was for you, soldier, that
Mr. Shannon was net "COMPELLED TO
PULL .TRIGGER," or you might have
received the contents of his gun. He claim
ed to be consistent while the war lasted and
he refused to contribute a dollar to the sup
port of those who were left destitute by
their husbands and fathers entering the
service. It is your time now, soldier ?
JOIXED TO THEIR IJ>OLS.
"My Policy*' Illustrated.
A political meeting was held last week at
Fredrick City, Maryland, in favor of the
President's policy. The speakers and those
assembled appeared to havean idea that the
"Confederacy" still existed, or that it
woukl again from its ashes, like the
fabled phoenix. CEEERS, LOUD AND LONG,
WERE GIVEN FOR JEFF DAYIS, BEAU RE
GARD, LEE, FORREST, AC., AC. To add
eclat to the occasion, a six-horso wagon
from the country en" red the town with A
REBEL FLAG FASTENED TO THE HEAD OF
EACH HORSE.
Comment on such demonstrations is un
necessary. Copperheads would do the same
here if they had the courage to speak their
honest sentiments. A- it is, prudence com
pels them LO pretend loyalty at least until
after the election. But it won't save them.
The men who cheered for Jeff Davis during
the war, who rejoiced over the defeats of the
I'nion armies and mourned over rebel rever
ses. who wore the red white and red and
spurned the stars nrd stripes, arc still
remembered, and doomed to overwhelming
defeat.
SExn ix Tin: ELECTION
HETiUSS :
Lest our paper next week should not reach
all the districts in the county before election
day, we would take thisopportunity to urge
our friends to make all the necessary ar
rangements to forward the election returns
immediately after the result is known. The
Vote for Governor and Congress will be the
most important and the most sought after:
it would be advisable, hovever, to send full
returns in all cases. Those district- lying
contiguous to Bedford will send their re
turns directly to the Chairman of the Coun
ty Committee, while Bbody Run, West
Providence, Monroe and En t Providence
had better report to J. B. Williams, at
Bloody Run : and those of Middle Wood
berry, South Woodboriy, Ilopowell, Broad
Top, Liberty and Coal-dale, to C. W. Ash
om. Esq. atllopewclL These gentlemen will
telegraph them to Bedford. By this
arrangement we can know the result of the
entire county, with a few exceptions, before
eleven o'clock on election night. Special
arrangements should be made to get in the
vote of Southampton and Londonderry.
Give us the returns as full as possible and at
the earliest monien'.
HOW TO GET DP A COPPERHEAD
MEEIING.
The Copperheads having blundered sig
nally in getting up meetings in this place,
on last Monday morning drummed up, all
told, forty-six of their voters, two Republi
cans, and fourteen Leys, and took this formid
able display eleven miles down the Turnpike,
where they were joined by about twenty
more, to whom they spouted for several
hours on the merits of negro suffrage and
negro equality.
Query : Would it not have been cheaper
to have conveyed the twenty to Bedford
than to have taken the sixty-two to Mor
gert's? Be careful, Mr. Dickerson ; Andy
Johnson will stop the funds since you can't
elect Mr. Sharpe!
Til EGA ZE TTE QI O TES It Ili TZ.
The Gazette of last week pronounces the
eagle, which behaved so gallantly on the
appearance of one of the delegations wend
ing its way to this place, on the afternoon of
the 4th instant, a buzzard. Lest some one
might imagine that this grand discovery
was made by the Gazette, it is only necessa
ry to call the attention of those who read
newspapers to the fact that Demon Wirtz,
the Andersonrillc jailor, pronounced this
emblem of American Nationality, A BUZ
ZARD, and from thence springs the Gazette *
inspiration. We Lope after this that it will
show the usual courtesy by giving the name
of its author. It is no doubt a long time
since the editor of that journal saw an eagle,
and no surprise should be manifested at
his not knowing it from a buzzard.
ARE 10|TA KNE&W ED,
Saturday, the 2<Jth instant, is the last day
to make assessments. All not assessed on or
before that date will be too late. Are you
assessed ? if you are not, see to it at once.
BOOTH, THE ASSASSIN OF
LINCOLN. EULOCLISEI) AT
A cor PEl{ IFF AI)
MEETING.
In another column will be found a report
of a speech delivered by Col. Joseph W.
Tate before a Copperhead meeting, held in
the Court House, on last Saturday evening.
Col. Tate was the President of the meeting,
and on motion of Hon. B. F. Meyers, he
addressed the audience. A dispatch sent
to the associated press represents Mr. Mey
ers as having given utterance to the mon
strous sentiments in question. This is sim
ply a "mix" of the telegraph. Mr. Mey
ers only brought the Colonel forward, and
with others, sat quietly by, and manifested
no disapprobation at the infamous senti
ments expressed by the speaker. The Col"
onel is strictly honest and deserves the
thanks of his many political friends for his
frankness, though they feign to condemn
him HR all hands.
ANOTHER MASS A CUE.
In our news columns will be found the
report of another deliberate attempt, not
only to break up, but to massacre the mem
bers of a Union convention. Memphis,
New Orleans, Baltimore and Platte city are
significant indications of the spirit engender
ed by the workings of "My Policy." If
rebels attempt to murder Union men by
wholesale throughout the South in the mere
prospect- of being restored under the Presi
dent's policy, what will they do when re
stored with increased power ? How long
after will it be till they make good their
threats to carry fire and sword into our Nor
thern homes? All who want to try the
experiment, should vote the "My Policy"
ticket from Clymerdown to county auditor.
TAXESI TAXES .' / TA XES .' !.'
Remember that tbe Republican legisla
ture last winter abolished the State tax on
Ileal estate, but that through the bad man
agement of Democratic Commissioners Bed
ford county owes the Stale nearly $20,000
and the people of this county are still op
pressed with a burdensome State tax.
Rnntmber that the quickest way to pay
off this Copperhead legacy, is to put at least
one good Republican into tbe Board of
Commissioners, which you can do by voting
for Samuel Shaffer, who will see that the
hard earned money of the tax-payers is not
squandered in pensioning petty officers, but
appropriated to the speedy payment of tbe
county debt.
TOO Ml €ll TRITH.
Gen. Baird's Report of the facts connected
with the late New Orleans massacre, is a doe"
ument which will long be read with horror
and indignation. It fixes the guilt of the
municipal authorities of New Orleans —it
proves the criminality of Lieut. Gov. \ oor
hees. and without a doubt establishes the
connection nf Andrew Johnson in the bloody
transaction.
For the faithful discharge of his duty and
the fearless announcement of the facts in the
case the General has been relieved from duty
in New Orleans aud ordered to the Depart
ment of the lakes. Honest loyal soldiers
can't administer the laws under "My Policy".
They tell too much.
B. F. MEYERS A PATRIOT-ACCORD
ING TO HIMSELF !
If anybody has ever doubted the patri
otism of the editor of that loyal sheet, the
Bedford Gazrtte, let him read the last
number, and have all his doubts removed.
Every body will remember how the draft
frightened the poor creature, and how.
under its potent influence, several hundred
dollars and sundry draft speeches were
wrung out of him, which he now sets down
to the credit of patriotism. What a pity
it is that these thiDgs should be remember
ed !
HEADS OFF!
Since our last issue Booth's President
has relieved Assessor Harper and Collector
Scull of the 16th Revenue district of Penn
sylvania. and appointed A. H. Coffroth, of
Somerset, in the place of the former, and
an individual named Swopc, of Adams, in
the place of the latter. Go it Andy! The
only reasonable interpretation which can
bo placed upon those removals is that this
Congressional district is given up. Alas,
Poor Sh.irpe!
LOOK OUT FOR DESERTERS!
The Disfranchising act will be found on page
1107 of the Pamphlet Laws of Pennsylva
nia for the year, 1866. Every Justice of
the Peace is entitled to a copy of these
laws, and we would advise them to send to
the Prothonotary and secure the copy to
which they are and furnish their
respective election Boards with it on the
day of the election- Let this matter be
attended to promptly.
READ I REAU ! !
Don't fail to read carefully the "Rise in
Rebel Bonds," and see how the Copper-
Johnsons propose to saddle upon us the
Rebel debt. Having read it remember
when you go to the polls that Clyiner and
the whole copperhead ticket stand on that
platform.
Elf, GRANT OX ( LYMEK.
Gen. Grant in a recent conversation with
one of the editors of tire Chicago Ilepubli
can, said, that to ask any soldier to vote for
such a man asClymer, of at one time known
disloyalty against another who had served
four years in the Union army, with credit
to himself and benefit to his country, teas a
gross insult.
UNCHARITABLE, VERY.— The abolition
ists are actually opposed to letting the poor
oppressed Southern slave driver come back
from his little spree of a rebellion with two
votes to our one. They really seem to think
he is no better than a Northern white nun.
How very uncharitable ! The chivalry to
be brought to an equally with Northern
mud-sills ! The Democracy will never eon
sent to it. Didn't they always say a South
ern man was equal to two or three northern
men ? And are they going to desert their
friends in adversity ? Nary Democrat.
WOOL —The attempt of the Cleveland
Convention to pull Wool over the eyes of
the people, has proved a miserable failure.
THE NEW YORK TIMES REPIDI
ATES THE DEMOCRACY.
DMOiSCES CLYHEK.
Predicts Defeat for the Conservatives
is the remarkable article from the
New York Times , to which the telegraph
has made reference:
,Support in;; for Office Sen Who llnveKern
Disloyal
General Grant is reported by a correspon
dent of the Chicago Republican to have
made in a conversation with him the follow
ing remarks: "He said that without expres
sing any view ■< of his own for or against the
Johnson policy, he yet felt it to he a mis
fortune for Mr. Johnson that the advocates
of his policy inStates through which he had
just passed, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana,
had in some instance put on their ticket
men who in ISGI and I*l2 had been guilty
of known disloyalty to the Government; be
cause (and this was said in a very emphatic
manner) he felt that to ask men whose sons
had shed tSHr blood for the Union to vote
for men who had been disloyal to it was the
greatest insult that could be offered. South
ern men he could make allowances for, and
he could ride through the South and get
out on a platfiwm and shake hands in friend
ship with such men as Lee, Johnson or For
rest, because, though they had been almost
educated into secession, they were now truly
honest and loyal in their adherence to the
Union, and were seeking to strengthen it.
But he did not feel in that way toward Nor
thern men who had onoe been disloyal, and
neither desired to associate with them nor
have them for his friends. No such men
could have his support nor ought they to be
supported by Mr. Johnson's friends
throughout the Northern States. He par
ticularly instanced, as a specimen of this ob
jectionable class of men, Heister Clymer, the
Democratic candidate for Governor of Penn
sylvania. saying that to ask any soldier to
vote for such a man, of nt one time known
disloyalty, against another who had served
four years in the Union army, with credit to
himself and benefit to his country, was a
gross insult. If men desired to support Mr.
Johnson's policy let them, but at all events
let them vote only for such men as were true
to their country in 1861."
Nothing could be mqre just or sensible.
Nothing has contributed more, (and very
many things have contributed much,} to
ward alienating popular favor and support
from the just and liberal policy of the Pres
ident toward the South, than the action of
those who claim to be his friends in this re
spect. It lias proved, indeed, as Gen.
Grant styles it. "a misfortune for the Presi
dent." and wc may add. for the country
also. IN PENNSYLVANIA THE AD
MINISTRATION CANDIDATE FOR
GOVERNOR IS ONE WHO, IN HIS
POLITICAL ACTION, RESISTED THE
GOVERNMENTTHROUGHOUT THE
WAR. W1 It) MADE HIMSELF UTTER
LY OBNOXIOUS TO THE LOYAL
MEN WHO WERE STRUGGLING TO
SAVE THE NATION: AND HIS ELEC
TION. BY THE DEFEAT OF A GAL
LANT SOLDIER WHO FOUGHT
WITH HEROISM AND HONOR FOR
THE OVERTHROW OF THE REBEL
LION, IS HELD ESSENTIAL TO THE
VINDICATION OF THE PRESI
DENT'S POLICY. The same thing is
true, pdVhaps, in a less eon-picuous degree,
in nominations for members of Congress and
for State officers of various grades through
out the country.
The reason of it is clear. It has been
done Tecau.-e the Democratic party has
pushed itself into the foreground of the
Pi e,-idtit s supporters, and has seized the
occasion to reconstruct and strengthen its
own organization, rather than sustain the
President upon the principles which he as
serts and in the mode which he himself poin
ted out. President Johnson never hesita
ted to declare his purpose to stand upon the
principles of the Union party, to act within
its lines,to co-operate with ihojse of its me ru
bers who adhered to its platform, and to use
the patronage at his disposal to nationalize
and strengthen its organization. He never
concealed his conviction that the Democratic
Party, as an organization, destroyed itself
by its disloyal attitude during tire war: that
it had justly forfeited the confidence of the
people, and that the party which carried the
nation through the war was the party upon
which he relied for co-operation and support
in restoring the Union and securing the
blessings of peace.
THE GREAT BODY OF THE DEMO
CRATIC PARTY SEEMED CONSCI
OUS THAT IT HAD BEEN BETRAYED
BY ITS LEADERS INTO A FALSE
POSITION, AND THEY WERE QUITE
READY TO ACCEPT THE RESULT,
AND ACT IN GOOD FAITH WITH
THE UNION PARTY IN THE RESTO
RATION OF THE UNION, UNDER
THE GUIDANCE OF PRESIDENT
JOHNSON. If the Union Party in Con
gress had been less under the control of ex
treme men— if Naiional Union doctrines as
opposed to the violent sectionalism ofultra
ist. and malignants, had found a stronger
utterance and greater favor with Congress
and the country, and it the President and
the 1 niou party had been somewhat less
distrustful and more trunk in their relations
to each other, there would have been no
difficulty iu thus rallying to the Union plat
form and the I nion party an overwhelming
majority of the people, North and South,
throughout the Union.
Rut that opportunity was thrown away,
and both the President and Congress accep
ted an attitude of mutual distrust and hos
tility, with a readiness which in suspicious
minds begat the belief that both had sought
it.
Naturally enough, under the circumstan
ces, the leaders of the Democratic Party
took advantage of this state of things, and
made a bold push to regain their power.
Sheltering themselves front the odium in
curred during the war under the President's
policy of restoration, they put their own men
in nomination for office, set in motion their
old machinery, and demanded the support
of Conservative Union men for the rein
statement of the Democratic party in power,
ind when Union men, who never voted a
Democratic ticket in their lives, who always
held and advocated .the principles of the
Republican party, and who resisted with all
their might the attempts of the Democratic
party to thwart the Government in its eff
orts to quel! the rebellion, tail to respond to
these demands, they are very coolly accused
of treachery to the Democratic party, and to
the President for whom not a single member
of that party gave a vote. In all the States
where Governors are to be chosen they have
put prominent Democratic politicians—men
identified thoroughly with the party organi
zation throughout the war—in nomination
as candidates; and in nearly all the Congres
sional District® instead of accepting Con
servative Union men, they have nominated
candidates of their own—often from the
Copperhead wing of the j-rrty, and always
from men identified with its action in the
public mind.
Me have no hesitation whatever in saying
that this policy is fatal to the cause it pro
fesses to serve.land will end in its own de
feat. THE PEOPLE 01 THE NOR
THER N STATES WILL NOT HAND
OVER THE GOVERNMENT TO
THE CONTROL OF THE DEMO
CRATIC PARTY. UNDER ITS OLD
ORGANIZATION, AND ITS OLD
LEADERS. BOTH HEADER ED THEM
SELVES THOROUGHLY AND JUSTLY
OR SOX 10 US TO THE LOYAL, PATRIOTIC
SEX TIM EXT OF THE XA TIOX. Ii Y THEIR
HOSTILITY TO 'J HE POLICY OF THE
GOVERXMEXT DIKING THE WAR
The people will not, now that the war is
over, confide the control of public affairs to
their hands, and every effort they make to
secure this result will end in defeat, and
postpone the very object they seek to accom
plish.
General Grant was perfectly right in say
ing that men in the North who have been
disloyal "ought not to be supported by
President Johnson's friends:" and the same
is true of political organizations that held
an attitude of disloyalty during the war.
A CONTRAST,
son AND Til EX.
During his late visit to New York. Andy
Johnson made a speech in which he said :
'•Why should we distrust the Southern peo
ple, and say they are not to be believed '! I
have just called your attention to the Consti
tution under which THEY WRKK DESIROUS TO
LIVE, AND THAT WAS THE CONTITUTION OF
THEIR FATHERS. Having been defeated in
bringing about separation, and having lost the
institution of slavery, the great apple of dis
cord, they now, in returning, TAKE rp THAT
CONSTITUTION UNDER WHICH TIIEY ALWAYS
LIVED, AND WHICH THEY ESTABLISHED FOR
THEMSELVES EVEN in a separate Government.
Where, then, is the cause for distrust ? I
am one of those who take the Southern peo
ple WITH ALL THEIR HERESIES AND ERRORS,
admitting that in rebellion they did wrong."
On the 2d of March 1861 Andy Johnson
made a speech in which be made use of the
following language:
•• Were I President of the United States, I
would do as Thomas Jefferson did in 1806,
with Aaron Burr, srAo re as charged with
treason. I WOULD HATE THEM ARRESTED AND
TRIED FOR TREASON. AND IF CONVICTED. BY
THE ETERNAL GOD, THEY SHOULD
SUFFER THE PENALTY OF THE LAW
AT THE HANDS OF THE EXECUTION
ER. Sir, treason must be punished. Its
enormity, and the extent of the offense must
be made known."
Comment is unnecessary. Andy Johnson
stands arraigned by his own record as a
traitor to his party and his country.
GEN. GRANT'S POSITION.
One of the editors of the Chicago Re
publican recently had a conversation with
General Grant, which he details as follow.- :
" He went on to reiterate his determina
tion not to be used by those who sought to
commit him either for or against the Presi
dent's policy, or to attach any political sig
nificance to his presence on the President s
eject'/ si OH. He had also been much annoyed
at the use which had been made oj his name
by John 1 logon, who had presumed to state
that General Grant Icos politically with the
President, and on one similar occasion by
Mr. S ward. He felt that it was, above all
things, desirable for officers of the army to
avoid participation in ordinary political con
flicts. except that it was their duty as citi
zens to support only men who eould show a
record of consistent loyalty. Whether a
man s sentiments were Johnsonian or Re
publican, he said he felt it was an insult to
any loyd yuan to ask him to vote for any
candidate who was not a loyal man in 1861.
In this connection he said that, without ex
pressing any views of his own for or against
the Johnson policy, he felt it to be a misfor
tune for Mr. Johnson that the advocates of
his policy in the States through which we
had just passed, Missouri. Illinois and Indi
ana, had in some instances put upon their
ticket men who in 1861 and 1862 had been
guilty of known disloyalty to the Govern
ment , because (and this was said iu a very
emphatic manner,) he felt that to ask men
ichosi sons had shed their blood for the Union
to vote for men who had been disloyal to it,
was the greatest insult that coxdd be offered.
Southern men he eould make allowance
for, and lie could ride through the South
and get out on a platform and shake hands
in friendship with such men as Lee, John
son or Forrest, because, though they had
been almost educated into secession, they
come now truly honestand loyal in their ad
herence to the Union, and were seeking to
strengthen it. But he did not feel in that
way toward Northern men who had once
been disloyal, and neither desired t ass xciatc
\ with them nor hare them far his friends.
No such men should have his support, nor
ought they to be supported bv Mr. John
son's friends throughout the Northern
States. He particularly instanced, as a
specimen of this objectionable e!a.-.- of men,
Hiester Clyraer, the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Pennsylvania, saying that
to ask any soldier to vote for such a man, of
at one time known disloyalty, against anoth
er who had served four years in tlu Union
army, with credit to himself and benefit to
bis country, teas a gross insult. If men de
sired to support Mr. Johnson's policy, let
them, but at all events let them vote only
for such men a< were true to their country
in 1861."
ANOTHER ONION VICTORY
The Oregon Legislature Hat i ties the
Constitutional Amendment—
Another li< hake to the Johnsonian
Policy.
The People Everywhere Endorse Con
gress as the Only Hope and Salva
tion of the Country.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20.
A salcm (Oregon) dispatch of last night
says : ' The House of Representative- has
passed the constitutional amendment by a
vote of 25 yeas to 22 nays.''
|i®"Where was it ever known in the his
tory of the world, that after a great war the
defeated party was allowed to dictate terms
of peace. Andy Johnson has proposed to
put it on record, but the people say em
phatically No. See election returns from
Maine.