it* .jgtifsxi fmjiiitw
IS PUBLISHED
I.VERY FRIDAY MORNING,
BY
J. R. IHTRBORROU AXD JOIIFi LI TZ,
ON
JULIANA St., Opposite the Hcnget House
BEDFORD, PENN'A
TEBSS:
IM.OO ii year if paid strictly in advance.
ll' not paid within six months £2.00.
Sf not paid tviUiiii the year $3.00.
ATTOIL\ EIH AT Li W.
B. F. MEYKHS J. TV. DICKERBOX.
MEYERS & DICKERSON.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Bedford, Pebx'i,
Office same as formerly occupied by Hon. W. P.
Sehcll, two doors east of the Gazette office, will
practice in the several Courts of Bedford county.
Pensions, bounties and back pay obtained and the
?urrb.i*e of Real Estate attended to.
May 11, '(l6—lyr.
I OH.Y T. KEAGY,
FJ ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Bedford, Pesn'a.,
Offers to give satisfaction to all who may en
tru t their legal business to bim. YVill collect
moneys on evidences of debt, and speedily pro
cure bounties and peusions to soldiers, their wid
ows or heirs. Office two doors west of Telegraph
office. aprll:'6s-ly.
I B. CESSNA,
O . ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office with Johx Cessx.a, on Julianna street, in
the office formerly occupied by King A Jordan,
and recently by Filler & Keagy. All business
entrusted to bis care wiil receive faithful and
prompt attention. Military Claims, Pensions, Ac.,
speedily collected.
Bedford, June 9,1865.
M'H. su vnrK .'.... E. F. KEKR
QUARPE t KERR,
IO -4 TTORNE rS-A T-L A IV.
V/ ill pructiou in the Courts of Bedford AND ad
j iiuing VJ. unties. All BUSINESS entrusted to their
e:ire will receive careful and prompt attention.
Pensions, Bounty, Rack Pap, Ac., speedily col
lected frotn the Government.
' 'NICE on Juliana street, opposite tho banking
house offte< U & Schell, Bedford, !'a. mar2:FF
IOHS PALMER,
Attorney at Law, Ectlford, Pa,.
IVill promptly attend to_all business entrusted to
his care.
,■>, Particular attenlion paid t> the collection
<•: Military claims. Office on Juliacna St., nearly
ositc the Mongol House.) jane 23, '65.1y
J. P. DL 11B0BR0W JOIIX LVTS.
S'YURBORRQW A I/TTZ,
1 I .ITTOR.VE \'S JIT
BEITORH, PA.,
V, 1 attend promptly to all business intrusted to
• v care. Collections made en the shortest no-
Ilu y are, also, regnlarly licensed Claim Agents
r,:.J will give special attention to tho jtrosecution
oi ims against live Government for Tensions,
1! k Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac.
Office on Juliana street, ono- do r South of the
'Mengel House" and nearly opt- tc the Inquirer
office. April 2s, 1865:t
IAS FY M. ALSIP,
El ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.,
Will faithfully and pr raptly attend to all BU.si
j: l entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin
iug counties. Military claims, Tensions, back
! ~y. Bounty, AC. speedily collected. Office with
M 'in A Spang, on Juliana street. 2 doors soath
•>fthe Mengel House. apl 1, 1854.—TF.
U- A. POINTS,
Al ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.
Respectfully tenders his professional services
the pu Ac. Office with J. W. Lingcnfelter,
Kf ~ .v Juliana street, two doors South of the
"Monitlc IToarc." * Dec. 9, 1854-tf.
Ir~ TWI AI . i .TJ .irvr r.x;- ....,
K " .MTORHEY- .£ I.A4Y, BEDFORD, PA.
Have fv'-oU a partnership in the practice <d
' Raw Office on Juliana Street, two doors South
the Mengel House.
aprl, 1864 —tf.
J OHN MOWER,
- ATTOIiNEi AT LAM.
BBDIORP, PA.
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R - " OESWSTS. "
C. -t. V.J. o. *n*!*icn, s*.
DENTISTS, BEDFORD, PA.
OjJict (• i the Btml Building, Juh tua Nireet.
All operations pertaining to Surgical or Me
et anical Dentistry ca r r TWRM I s cySlf
lormcd and warranted. TERM- .. .
Tooth Powders and Mouth Vt a.-b, exccnont
tides, always on hand.
jan6'Bs-ly-
DFNTTBTRV.
I N BOWSER, LLESIDFT-vt DENTIST, >'< oou-
BIPBT , Vu„ Tite Bloody San three day*
m'-nth, commencing vrl'h the wcond Tuesday o.
the month. Pr- pared to perform all Dental ope. -
ationa with which he may be favored. 7Vm
,ntlAi the reach of all and tnctlycan\ exceptbn
■,, rial contract. Work to be sent by mail or oth
wise, must be paid for when impressions aro taken.
augs.
PIIYSICIASS.
11TM. W. JAMISON, M.D.,
YY BLOODY 1U , PA.,
Respectfully tenders his professional servicesto
the people of that place and yicmity. [decS.lyt
Dlt. 11. F. HAKRY,
Respectfully renders his profe*onal ser
vices to the citiiena of Bedford and v.Mntty.
Office and residence on Pitt fcTrcet.in the building
formerly occupied by Dr. J. 11. llofiua.
Ayril 1,18M —tf>
T L. MARBOURG, M- I>.,
si . Havine permanently located rcapectiu.iy
coders his polcssionnl services to the cititens
of Bedford and vicinity. Office or. dohana _rcu,
opposite the Bank, one door north of Hall A
mer's office. _ _ April 1, leCi-tf.
bask| ,,^
G. W. RI PP O. E- STTASSOS F. EENRHICT
RUPP, SHANNON A CO., BANKISRB,
BEDFORD, PA.
BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT.
COLLECTIONS made for the Ka.-t, West, North
and Scuth, and the genera! business of F. x.ehat3,
transacted. Notes and Accounts
Remittances promptly made. U.AL LBiaio
bonght and sold. apr.lo,- l tf.
JEWELER, *&<•-
ABSALOM GLARLICK,
Clock A Watchmaker aud Jeweller,
Bi.oonv RES. PA.
Clocks, Watches,. Jewelry, Ac., pronely re
paired. All work entrusted to Lis care, warranted
to give satisfaction.
He also keeps on hand and for sal* jfd ' 1
ES, CLOCKS, and JE WE LB. Y.
Office with Dr. J. A. Maan. my*
JOHN REIMVND,
CLOCK AND WATCII-MAKER,
in the United States TelepraidijOffiee,
Clock", watches, and all kinds of jeweiry
prcaptlv repaired. All work entrusted to his we
warranted to jfiv* entire patisfaeti n. L l *°* •>- r
DBBTANIEL BORDER,
PITT SMEAR, TWO noons WEST T" RUA ATI>-
FOIID HOTST, BEBFOET, PI,
TCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL
RY* SPECTACLES, AC.
He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil
ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin
ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold
Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best
quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order
any thirrg in his line not on hand,
apr. 28, 1865—u.
DW. CROUSE *
. WHOLESALE TOBACCONIST,
On Penn street a few doors west oi the Court
House, North Bide, Bedford, Pa., is now prepared
tosell by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All
orders promptly filled. Persons desiring anj thing
in his line will do well to give him a call.
Bedford, Oct. 26, '65.
DFKBORROW A- LFTZ Editors and Proprietors.
liebforb Jntjuirtr.
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, OCT. 5, 1860.
TRUE DEMOCRACY!
ELOQUENT EXTRACTS.
A meeting of the True and Tried Democ
racy, was held in the Court House, in Bed
ford, on the evening of Saturday, Sept.
—d, 1866. That firm and reliable -
crat, Cot. JOSBTH W. TATE, was unani
mously chosen President of the meeting.
After several able and eloquent addresses
had been delivered, on motion of Hon.
BEN.T. F. MEYERS, Editor of the Bedford
Gaz&tc, and present Democratic candidate
for Senator in tbiß District, Col. TATE was
called upon to address the meeting. The
Colonel responded in his usual able aud
eloquent manner. After the discussing the
issues of the day the Colonel eloquently
exclaimed :
"I believe that Providence had
a hand in the removal of Abra
ham Lincoln. I believe that the
name of J. Wilkes Booth will
live; that lie laid down his life for
his country, like Winklcreid.
Switzerland had her Winklcreid
and her Win. Tell; Scotland had
her Robert Bruec, and America
her Booth. THE TIME IS COMING
WHEN THERE. WILL BE A MONU
MENT ERECTED TO BOOTH, HIGH
ER THAN THE Si'IRE OF LINCOLN,
who sleeps beneath the sod of
Illinois."
. "I am one of those men of an
other country, who wjear on their
Coat of Arms the HAND and the
DAGGER."
The Colonel countinued at . onie length in
the same eloquent and patriotic strain, ut
tering only sentiments of a truly Democrat
ic character, and retired in the midst of
great applause.
In tLe Bedford Gazette of Jan. D6l. O.
E. SHANNON. Esq., Democratic- candidate
for Prothonotaiy, in a card published over
his owu signature, in speaking of a debate
n the Bedford Lyceum, uttered the f'ollow
ng patriotic and truly Democratic send-
■I distinctly said, however,
that I would not light at all in
such an unnatural war—that I
was like some of my Republican
friends, I would prefer staying at
home; but, IF I WERE COMPELLED
TO PULL TRIGGER, I HOPED IT
WOl LD BE WHEN THE MUZZLE OF
MY GUN WAS POINTED NORTH."
Speakin? of the abolition of Slavery in
the District of CAtimlin. B. F. Meyers
said :
"Congu is, truly, already in
sane. The conduct of that body
would have made a Secessionist
'of Job, il lie luu| been a slave
holder. — Gazette*, April 18,1862.
Speaking of the Draft he aid :
"But let not Congress and the
Administration build false hopes
upon this patriotic submission.
Let it not be expected that Penn
sylvania wi'l again uncomplain
ingly respond to a similar call for
conscripts. The people ot this
State have given their last man
to this bloody, though Utopian
crusade, and until the President
and Congress revoke their aboli
tion programme, a demand from
them for more troops from this
State will be worse than useless.
—Gazette, Jan. 2a, 186.3.
OB the same subject Meyers said :
"We say to Congress stay your
encroaching hand, lest you wake
the sleeping lion of Pennsylvania s
pride! W c say to the 1 resident,
make not <■ Dionysius oi yourself,
for there are yet Damons among
the people (if the North, who will
dare to resist any usurper.
Bedford Gazelle, Feb. 21, 186 d.
In speaking of the Provost Marshall
Myers said:
"When the President shall see
lit to undertake an enforcement
of the Conscription, we shall look
with some anxiety and more cu
riosity for the nameol the wretch
who will not scruple to disgrace
himself, and the community in
which he lives, by accepting this
odious office. Let that man, whom
ever he may be, mike up his mind
hat he ran not live a peaceful life,
nor die an honorable death" — Ga-m
zctte. March IS, 18GS.
In the speech of ll'.bier Clyim r at Un
ioutuvni, as reported for the I'isi burgh
Post, the D; ;3txsratic Org.su of Aikghany
county- Pa., we find the following passage :
"By the assassination of Abra
ham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson
became President of the United
States. If, under his administra
tion, harmony should come again
to the land, who will not sec in
A 1 : OOATJ ANR> GENER AL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS.
THE AUSPICIOUS EVENT the spirit
of God moving over the troubled
waters."
'•I AM GLAD OF IT."
In his specdh at Niggra Palls, President
Johnson said :
"I have always had an exalted
idea of the position of Senator;
but notwithstanding I was placed
upon the ticket for the Vice Pres
idency, I am free to say that I
did not seek the place. But
friends of the country, friends that
were personal to me, were anx
ious that 1 should be on the tick
.et. I was placed there. I ac
cepted it; the race was run, the
victory was obtained, and I was
made Vice President of the Uni
ted States. Can't you see the
graduation comes along regularly?
And. then by the Constitution of
the country, I have been made
President. lam glad of it."
THE DESERTER LAW.
\\ e would call especial attention to the
following provisions of the Disfranchising
act which Sheriffs are required to publish in
their Election Proclamation:
\\ HEREAS, By tlfe act of the Congress of
the United States, entitled, "An act to
amend the several acts heretofore passed to
provide for the enrolling and calling out the
national forces, and for other purposes,"
and approved March third, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-five, all persons
who have descried the military or naval ser
vice of the 1 nited States, and who have not
been discharged or relieved from the penalty
or disability therein provided, are deemed
and taken to have voluntarily relinquished
and forfeited their rights of citizenship and
their rights to become citizens, and are de
prived of exercising any rights of citizens
thereof; and
WHEREAS, Person- not citizens of the
United States are not, under the constitu
tion and laws of Pennsylvania, qualified
electors of this Commonwealth:
SECTION 1, Be it. rnactcd, etc., THAT
IN ALL ELECTIONS HEREAFTER
TO BE HELD IN THIS COMMON
WEALTH, IT SHALL BE UNLAW
FUL FOR THE JUDGE OR INSPEC
TORS OF ANY SUCH ELECTION TO
RECEIVE ANY BALLOT OR BAL
LOTS. FROM ANY PERSON OR
PERSONS EMBRACED IN THE PRO-
N '~I -II YYAYO V SAID
ACT OF CONGRESS, APPROVED
MARCH THIRD. ONE THOUSAND
EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE
AND IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR
ANY SUCH PERSON TO OFFER TO
VOTE ANY BALLOT OR BALLOTS.
SEC. 2. TH AT IF ANY. SUCH JUDGE
AND INSPECTORS OP ELECTION, OR
ANY ONE OF THEM, SHALL RECEIVE,
OR CONSENT R .I'O RECEIVE ANY SUCH
UNLAWFUL BALLOT OR BALLOTS
FROM ANY SUCH DISQUALIFIED
PERSON, HE OR THEY SO OFFEND
ING SHALL BE GUILTY OF A MISDE
MEANOR, AND UPON CONVICTION
THEREOF IN ANY COURT OF QUAR
TER SESSIONS OF THIS COMMON
WEALTH. IIE SHALL. FOR EACH
OFFENSE BE SENTENCED TO PAY A
FINE OF NOT LESS TH Y' ONE HUN
DRED DOLLARS. AND TO UNDERGO
KN IMPRISONMENT IN THE JAIL OF
THE PROPER COUNTY FOR NOT LESS
THAN SIXTY DAYS.
Sep. 3. THAT ANY PERSON DE
PRIVED OF CITIZENSHIP, AND
DISQUALIFIED AS AFORESAID,
SHALL. AT ANY ELECTION HERE
AFTER TO BE HELD IN THIS COM
MONWEALTH, VOTE OR TENDER
TO THE OFFICERS THEREOF, AND!
OFFER TO VOTE, A BALLOT OR
BALLOTS, ANY PERSON SO OF
FENDING SHALL BE DEEMED
GUILTY OF A .MISDEMEANOR AND
ON CONVICTION THEREOF, IN
ANY COURT OF QUARTER SES
SIONS OF THIS COMMONWEALTH,
SHALL. FOR EACII OFFENSE, BE
PUNISHED IN LIKE MANNER AS
IS PROVIDED IN THE PRECEDING
SECTION OF THIS AIT IN THE
CASE OF OFFICERS OF ELECTION
RECEIVING SUCH UNLAWFUL
BALLOT OR BALLOTS.
Sr.c. 4. THAT IF ANY PERSON
SHALL PERSUADE OR ADVISE
ANY PERSON OR PERSONS, DE
PRIVED OF CITIZENSHIP AND DIS
QUALIFIED AS AFORESAID. TO
OFFER ANY BALLOT OR BAL
LOTS TO THE OFFICERS OF ANY
ELECTION HEREAFTER TO BE
HELD IN THIS COMMONWEALTH,
OR SHALL PERSUADE OR ADVISE
ANY SUCH OFFICER TO RECEIVE
ANY SUCH BALLOT OR BALLOTS
FROM ANY PERSON DEPRIVED
OF CITIZENSHIP, SUCH PERSON
ISO OFFENDING SHALL BE GUIL
TY OF A MISDEMEANOR.. AND
UPON CONVICTION THEREOF IN
ANY COURT OF QUARTER SES
SIONS OF Tins COMMONWEALTH.
SHALL BE PUNISHED IN LIKE
MANNER AS TS PROVIDED IN
THE SECOND SECTION OF THIS
ACT, IN THE CASE OF OFFICERS
OF SUCH ELECTION RECEIVING
SUCH UNLAWFUL BALLOT OR
BALLOTS.
TF THERE TS A SOLMEIi
FEELS DISPOSED TO VOTE
FOR MR. SHANNON LET
■ HIM LOOK A T THIS
PICTUREI
• "1 DISTINCTLY SAID, HOWEVER,
THAT I WOULD NOT EI OUT AT
ALL IN SUCII AN UNNATURAL WAR
—THAT I WAS LIKE SOME OE MY
"'REPUBLICAN FRIENDS I WOULD
PREFER STAYING AT HOME, BUT
IF 1 Wr.RS COMPELLED TO PULL
TRIGGER I HOPED IT WOULD lIE
WHEN THE MUZZLE OF MY BUN
WAS POINTED NORTH."
The*? are Mr. Shannon's very words.
How fortunate it was for you, Boldier, that
Mr. Shannon was not I 'COMPELLED TO
PULL I'MOOER," 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 ?
BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 5. 1866
SE YD IN THE ELECTION
RETURNS !
Lest our paper next week should not reach
all the districts in the county before election
day, we would take this opportunity 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, however, to send full
returns in all cases. Those districts Ijing
contiguous to Bedford will send their re
turns directly to the Chairman of the Coun
ty Committee, while Bloody Run, West
Providence, Monroe and East Providence
had better report to T. B. Williams, at
Bloody Run ; and those of Middle Wood
berry, South Woodberry, Hopewell, Broad
Pop, Liberty and Coal-dale, to C. W. Ash
om, Esq., at Hopewell. 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 got in the
vote of Southampton and Londonderry.
Give us the returns as full as possible and at
the earliest moment.
TAXES! TAXES ! ! TAXES !! !
Remember that the Republioan Legisla
ture last winter abolished the State tax on
Real estate, but that through the bad man
agement of Democratic Commissioners Bed
ford county owes the State nearly $20,000
and the people of this county are still op
pressed with a burdensome State tax.
Remember that the quickest way to pay
off this Copperhead legacy, is to put at least
one good Republican into the 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 the
county debt.
LOOK OUT FOR DESERTERS!
ThcDis franchising act will be found on page
1107 of the Pamphlet Laws of Pennsylva
nia for the year, ISG6. Every Justice of
the Peace is entitled to a copy of these
laws, and wp would advise them to send to
the Prothonotary and secure the copy to
which they are entitled and furnish their
respective election Boards with it on fhe
day of the election. Let this matter be
attended to promptly.
f Froip 'be American Republican.]
AN APPEAL.
BY H. V. Q.
SODS of freedom, boys in blue,
Yc of honest hearts asicl true.
What do you propose to dc ?
Turn your backs to Uncle Sam ?
Join the Copper-Johuson clan ?
Thus strike hands with the rebel clan ?
Are you indeed prepared to say
To traitors on election day,
•"Come, again resume your sway ? '
"You were right, and we were wrong.
Freedom falsely led us on —
Love for the old flag was strong.
"We'll not submit to loyal rule,
But to ye of Calhonn's school.
Take us, we will be your tool.
••The four years' war was all a joke,
To day we wear again your yoke ;
Thus we have through the ballot spoke.'
Sons of freedom, boys in blue,
Have ye honest hearts and true.
And can you such a course pursue ?
No ! such doubts of you are wrong,
You will not join the traitor throng,
Your love for the old Flag is strong.
They have trailed it 'ncath their feet,
Think of 'Orleans' bloody srreet,
Such the rulers you would greet.
N
Think of your comrades starving cry,
While in prisons they did lie,
Was it for naught they had to die ?
Hear ye not that mournful strain,
From the trenches of the slain ?
"Has your blood been shed in vain ?'
Sous of Freedom, boys of right,
Another battle you must light,
Let all traitors feel your might.
At the ballot make them feel
You rule it as with steel,
And still the same with rebels deal.
Sons of Frecdptn, blue,
Loyal hearts lpok up to you :
God reward ye as ye do.
ADDRESS
OF THE
NATIONAL OIOX COUHITTEE,
TO TIIE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Fellow -Citizens : A ery grave differences
having arisen between your immediate Rep
rcscntatvics in Congress and the President
who owes his position to your votes, we are
impelled to ask your attention tlieieto, and
to suggest the duties to your country which i
they Vender imperative, j
We shall avoid the use of hard words. ;
Of these, there have already been too ma
ny. And, that the matters in issue may be ;
brought within the narrowest compass, let
us first eliminate from the controversy all
that has already been settled or has never
been in dispute.
The republic has been desperately assail
ed from within, and its very existence serf
ously imperilled. Thirteen States were j
claimed as having withdrawn from the
Union, and were represented for years in a
hostile Congress meeting at Richmond, fen
of those States were, for a time, wholly
in the power of a hostile confederacy , the
other three partially so. The undoubtedly
loyal States were repeatedly and formidably
invaded by rebel armies, which were only
expelled after obstinate and bloody battles
Through four years of arduous, desperate
civil strife, the hosts of the rebel confedera
cy withstood those of the Union. Agents
of _ that confederacy traversed the
civilized world, seeking allies in their war
against the republic, and exciting the rapa
cious and unprincipled to fit out armed cor
sairs to prey upon her commerce. By State
authority, and in the perverted names of
patriotism-and loyalty ; hundreds of thou
sands of our countrymen wore conscripted
into rebel armies and made to fight desper
ately for our natioual disruption and rain.
And though, by the blessing of Hod and the
valor and constancy of our loyal people,
the rebellion was finally and utterly crushed,
it did not succumb until it had caused the
destruction of more than half a million of
precious human lives, not to speak of prop
erty to the value of at least five billions of
dollars.
At length the rebel armies surrendered
and the rebel power utterly collapsed-and
vanished. /What then ?
The claim of the insurgents that they
either now reacquired or had never forfeited
their constitutional rights in the Union,
including that of representation in Congress
stands in pointed antagonism alike to the
requirements of Congress and to those of
the acting President. It was the Executive
alone who, after the rebellion was no more,
appointed provisional Governors for the
now submissive, unarmed Southern States,
on the assumption that the relxdlion had
been "revolutionary.' and had deprived the
people under its sway of all civil govern
ment, and who required the assembling of
a " 'convention, composed of delegates to be
chosen by that portion of the people of said
State who are loyil to the United States,
and no others for the purpose of altering and
amending the constitution of -aid State."
It was President Johnson who, so late as
October last—when all shadow of overt
resistance to the Union had long since dis
appeared—insisted that it was not enough
that a State which had revolted must recog
nize her ordinance of secession as null and
void from the beginning, and ratify the con
stitutional amendment prohibiting slavery
evermore, but she must also repudiate
"every dollar of indebtedness created to
carry on the rebellion." It was he who
ordered the dispersion by military force of
any legislature chosen under the rebellion
which should >ume power to make laws
after the rebellion had fallen. It was lie
who referred to Congress ail inquiries as to
the probability of representatives from the
States lately in revolt being admitted to
seats in either house, and suggested that
they should present their credentials, not
at the organization of Congress, but after
ward. And finally, it was he. and not Con
gress, who suggested to his Gov. Sharkey,
of Mississippi, that
"If you could extend the elective fran
chise to ali persons of color who can read
the Constitution of the United States in
English and write their names, and to all
persons of color who own real estate valued
at not less than $230 and pay taxes thereon,
KUUTpuld complete!v disarm the. aiJvprsarv
If, then th'-re he any controversy as to
the rieht of the loyai States to exact condi
tion.- and t mure i uara'.i o- of those which
plunged uiadiy iz to sects .-ion and rebellion,
the supporters respectively of Andrew
John >n and of Congress cannot l>e antago
nize parties to that contest, since their rec
ord p' t*" tin in on the same sides.
lib" big thus agreed that conditions of
rust oral i >s am! -U'; unties against future
rebel'i •; may be cxifcted of the States late
ly in revolt, the right of Congress to a voice
iii prescribing those conditions and in sha
ping those guaranties is plainly ineuntesti
ble. Whether it take the shape of law or
of t constitutional amendment, the action
f Congress is vital. Kvcn if they were to
b settled by treaty, the ratification of the
< unto, by a two-third* t >te would be indis
pens dfle. There is nothing in the Federal
Constitution, nor in the nature of the case,
that countenances an 'Executive monopoly
of this power.
What then, is the ground of complaint
against Congress ?
Is it charged that the action of the two
Houses was tardy and hesitating. Consider
how momentous were the questions invol
ved, the issues depending. Consider how
novel and extraordinary was the situation.
Consider how utterly silent and blank is the
the Federal Constitution touching the treat
ment of insurgent States, whether during
their flagrant hostility to the I. nion or after
their discomfiture. Con ider with how many ]
embarrassments and difficulties the problem
is beset, and you wilt not wonder that
months were required to devise, perfect,
and pass, by a two-thirds vote in either
House, a just and safe plan of rcconstruc
tion.
Yet that plan has been matured. It has
passed the Senate by 33 to 11, and the
House by 13S to 30. It is now fanly before
the country, having already been ratified by
the I .legislature of several State- and reject
ed by norte. Under it, the State of Ten
nessee has been formally rcstorod to all the
priviligcs she forfeited by rebellion, inclu
ding representation in either House in Con
gress. And the door thus passed through
stands invitingly open to all who still linger
without.
Are the conditions thus prescribed intol
erable, .or even humiliating? They are in
substance these:
I. AH persons born or naturalized in
thi.-*country are henceforth citizens of the
United States, and shall enjoy; all the rights
of citizens evermore; and no state shall have
power to contravene this most righteous
and a ee -av provision.
11. While the States claim and exercise
the power of denying the elective franchise
to a part of their people, the weight of each
State in the Union shall be measured by and
! based upon its enfranchised population. If
aav State shall choose, fot no crime, to de-
Ny political rights to any race or caste, it
; must no longer count that race or caste us a
basis of political power in the Union.
111. He who has once held office on the
strength of his solemn oath to support the
Federal Constitution, and has nevertheless
foresworn himself and treasonably plotted to
j subvert that Constitution, shall henceforth
hold no political office till Congress, by a
two-thirds vote, shall remove or modify the
) disability.
IV. The National debt shall be in nowise
| repudiated or invalidate ]; and no debt in
i curred to support of the rebellion shall ever
■ i bo assumed or paid by any State ; nor shall
payment be made for the the loss or eman
cipation of any slave.
V. Congress shall have power to enforce
these guaranties by appropriate legislation.
Such, fellow-citizens, arc the conditions
i of reconstruction proposed by Congress and
: J already accepted by trie loyal legislature- of
! Tennessee. Arc they harsh or degrading r
Do you discern therein a disposition to tram
ple on the prostrate, or push an advantage
>i to the uttermost? Do they embody aught
' ; of vengeance, or any confiscation but that ol
1 slavery? We solicit your candid, impartial
'! judgment. ~ ,
> | What is intended by the third section u
YOKJME 39; XO 14
simply to give loyalty a fair start in the re
constructed States Under the Johnson
policy, the rebels monopolize power and
piace even in communities whore they are
decidedly outnumbered. Their generals are
governors and members elect of Conaress ;
their colonels and majors fill the legislatures
and officiate as sheriffs. Not only are the
steadfastly loyal proscribed, but even stay
at-home rebels have iitlte chance in compe
tition with those who thought to subvert
the Union. When this rebel monopoly of
office shall have been broken up, and loyalty
to the Union shall have become general and
hearty, Congress may remove the disability,
and will doubtless make haste to do so.
\V e do not perceive that the justice or fit
ness of the fourth section —prescribing that
the Union public debt shall l>e promptly
met, but that of the rebel confederacy nev
er—is seriously contested.
There remains, then, but the second sec
tion, which prescribes in substance that po
litical power in the Union shall henceforth
be based only on that portion of the people
of each State who are deemed by its consti
tution fir depositories of such power. In
other words; A State which chooses to hold
part of its population in ignorance and vas
salage—powerless, uneducated, unfranchis
ed, count that portion to balance
the educated, intelligent, enfranchised eiti
*2ons of other States.
We do not purpose to argue the justice of
this provision. As well argue the shape of
a cube or the correctness of the multiplica
tion table. He who does not feel that this
is simply and mildly just would not be per
suaded though one rose from the dead to
convince him." That there are those among
us who would not have it ratified, sadly de
monstrates that the good work of emancipa
tion is not yet complete.
"But,' say some, "this section is design
ed to coerce the South into according suf
frage to her blacks." Not so, we reply;
but only to notify ber ruling caste that we
will no longer bribe them to keep their
blacks in serfdom. An aristocracy rarely
surrenders its privileges, no matter how op
pressive, from abstract devotion to justice
and right. It must have cogent, palpable
reasons for so doing. We say, therefore, to
South Carolina, "If you persistently restrict
all your power to your 300,000 whites, we
must insist that these no longer balance in
Congress and the choice of President, 700,-
OOu northern white freemen, but only 300,-
000. If you keep your blacks evermore in
serfdom, it must not be because we tempted
you so to do and rewarded you for so doing.
Fellow citizens of every State, but espe
cially of those soon to hold elections; we en
treat your earnest, constant hcod to the
grave questions now at issue. If those who
wautonly plunged the Union into civil war
shall be allowed by you to dictate the terms
of reconstruction, you wiP. have heedlessly
sown the bitter seed of future rebellions and
bloody strife. Already, you are threatened
with a recognition by the "President of a
sham Cougress, made up of the factions
which recently coalesced at Philadelphia on
ILuliitfacw fif jAKnaAiugpi—a ( jirvarracs
from the White House, and appealing to the
sword alone for support. So glaring an at
tempt at usurpation would be even more
criminal than absurd. Happily, the people
by electing an overwhelming majority of
thoroughly loyal representatives, are ren
dering its initiation impossible.
We cannot close without a most deserved
tribute to the general fidelity wherewith, in
view of the President's defection, the great
body of the peopie, and even of the federal
office-holders, have stood fast by their con
victions and their principles. The boundless
patronage of the Executive, though most
unscrupulously wielded against those to
whose voces he owes it, has corrupted very
few, either of those who shared or of those
who would gladly share in its enjoyment.
Not one of the twenty-two States which
voted to rc-elect Abraham Lincoln has given
in its adhesion to the President's policy;
while New-Jersey—the only free State that
voted against him —has added herself to
their number. *
Our great war has taught impressively
the peril of injustice; and the lesson has
sunk deep into millions of hearts. The
American people, chastened by suffering,
are wiser and nobler than they were, with a
quicker and more open ear for every gener
ous suggestion. The fearful lessons of
Memphis and New Orleans have not been
' lost on them, as is proved by the result of
the recent elections in Vermont and Maine.
We cherish no shadow of doubt that Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana and lowa first, then
New-York New-Jersey, Illinois, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Kansas and .Minnesota wiil do
likewise, and that a true restoration, a gen
uine, abiding peace, will thus be secured to
our country —a peace that will endure,_ be
cause based on the everlasting foundations
of humanity, justice and freedom. Yours,
MARCUS L. WAKI), New Jersey, Chairman.
JOHN" D. DEFK.EES, Indiana, Secretary.
nORACE GREELY, New York,
S. A. PURVIANCE. Pennsylvania,
WILLIAM CLAFFLIN, Massachusetts,
X. B. SMOTTERS, Delaware,
11. W. HOFFMAN. Maryland,
H. H. STARKWEATHER, Connecticut,
It. B. COWAN, Ohio,
JOnN B. CLARKE, New Hampshire,
SAMUEL F. HUSSKY, Maine,
ABRAHAM B. GARDNER, Vermont,
J. S. FOWLER, Tennessee,
BURTON C. COOK, Illinois,
M ARSH GIDDIXGS, Michigan,
D. P. STUBBS, lowa,
A. W.CAMPBELL, West Virginia,
JUD*. Wisconsin,
D. R. GOODLOE, North Carolina,
8. H. BOYD, Missouri,
W. S. CORNING, Virginia,
THOMAS SIMPSON. Minnesota,
C. L. ROBINSON, Florida,
NEWTON EDMUNDS, Dakota.
A BLUNDERBUSS.
The Johnson party, having picked up ev
ery badly beaten man in the country, from
Dick Taylor to Yallandigham, and gathered
in all the fag-ends of all the beaten and ex
tinct political parties, started out with flying
colors to sweep the country. By adding up
no end of ciphers, with the great I of Mr.
Johnson at the head, it was hoped that a
pretty large positive quantity would be pro
cured. It tui ns out that J ohnson is a nega
tive quantity. The party of all the failures
has a still greater failure to lead it. And
the results thus far havo been very unsatis-
factory.
The concern was launched with good news
from Colorado. It was a "symptom.*' Not
a large thing at all, but haded by all the
I failures with excusable enthusiasm— it was
so long since they had heard of a victory !
| Mr. Able piously telegraphed, "Glory to
i Cod!" Other pious men drank much whis
j ky. The first victory of the long anticipated
i series was duly "wet." But subsequent in
telligence that it was not a victory, at all, but
; a verv ugly defeat, slightly moderated their
I transports. Then enmo a grand victory in
' Kentucky—a real victory, and a very large
one, NY ho can blame the poor creatures for
| their ecstatic felicity ? V lctories were so
| new to them! Like starving men they rush
ed at the inviting dish, devoured it, and
' were happy. But it will not do for starving
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people to eat too much at once. In Ken
tucky Johdson had too much victory. Forty
thousand m ajority for Jeff. Davis in "a South
ern State did not set well on the stomachs
of Northern Johnsonists, and bad pains
have followed, with mam- remorseful glances
at the empty plate. Kentucky was worse
than a defeat.
Then came another victory of the same
sort —the victory in New Orleans. It was
an overwhelming triumph of "my pohqy."
Radicals were served iust right, for once,
was the first jubilant ejaculation of every
Johnsonite. But a moment's reflection, and
the cry of horror that went up from the
whole North, satisfied them that they
had punished things too fast. The people
were not prepared for so much of a Johnson
victory as that! An<l ever since, by sup
pression or mutilation of dispatches, and by
no end of lying, they have been trying to es
cape the consequences. *
' We will make an Imperial tour through
the provinces," they said. Let the Sover
eign show himself, and appeal to the devo
tion and personal attachment of his subjects !
Let the papers be full of his triumphal pro
fross! Let immense enthusiasm be created
y taking Grant and Farragut along, as a
bad circus often provides itself with an ele-
Ehant and hippopotamus, to draw a crowd,
et the cheers, and the throngs, and the
enthusiasm, be appropriated to His High
ness and to "my policy." The experiment
promised well.
But it has not resulted well at all. The
sight of his Excellency has not impressed
people with any very stunning affection for
his person. Perhaps being called traitors
has cooled the ardor of the people. Perhaps
they ieel ashamed that they ever voted for
so ignorant and vulgar a man for anything.
But, somehow, the reception has been chil
ling, aud the Humble Individual, losing his
temper, has proved himself a near relation
of Mrs. Partington's friend who "never
opened his mouth but he put his foot in it."
Ilis speeches—well, no defeats that these
veterans in defeat have experienced have
ever hurt them so much as Johnson's "vic
tories" in vulgarism over the street mobs of
the North. Ilis progress has been the
disaster of disasters—enough to kill a dozen
parties."
Then the fall elections begin. "Johnson
may be failure, but are there not the offices
and the Conservative Republicans, and the
"grand reaction?*' Let us hope for gains in
A ermont and for at least one member of
Congress from Maine! Vermont thunders
out a tremendous gain for the other side.
Discouraged Johnsonism concludes that
there were not removals enough in Vermont ,
and plies the power of patronage vigorously
in Maine, and especially in the First Dis
trict Fancy the feelings of these veterans
in disaster at the news from that State. A
Republican victory again, larger than ever.
A Radical gain of two thousand in the First
District, where the "reaction" was greatest!
The party of all the failures begins to sus
pect that by getting together sll the beaten
mLii in the country they have not "changed
auaea'to'iiim t te £ discover, is a
vista of "crushing
absolute arid utter annihilation in Novem
ber. . '
"My policy" is an old fashioned blunder
buss. It .kicks frightfully. The heavier
vou load it, the more horrible the recoil.
It is not dangerous to anybody but the hol
der, but with such a desperate charge of
powder as Johnson puts iu, the thing
knocks him over at every discharge.—Mis
souri Democrat.
The Rain Storm in the West—Resnmp
ti< nof Railway Travel—A Portion of
Itayton submerged.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 20 —With the excep
tion of slight showers, this afternoon,'
the rain has ceased. There
are indications, however, of more rain. It
is estimated that twenty million bushels of
corn have been destroyed by the freshet in
the Miami bottoms.
Reports from the northwest represent the
flood as general, with immense destruction
of property. It will require four or five
I weeks to repair the Ohio and Mississippi
bridge across the big Miami. Iu the mean
time connection is made with Lawrenceburg
by boats. '
A dispatch firm Indianapolis says : The
Bellefontaine. and Reno and Indianapolis are
the only roads that have been running trains
regularly from that city. The Jenerson
villc railroad bridge, four miles south of In
dianapolis, is washed away, and it is report
ed that the track at Edipburg and Columbus
Indiana, is submerged. The Columbus and
and Indianapolis road is badly damaged.
Four bridges are washed away between
Indianapolis and Richmond. The Terre
Haute and Indianapolis road is not so badly
damaged. The regular St. Louis train went
out on tbis road to-day. The Lafayette
lost one bridge, but trains go. through by
transferring passengers. _ There have been
no trains over the Cincinnati road since
Tuesday. Heavy raius fell fast last night
and this morning. The prospects are more
favorable now, with indications of clearing
up.
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 20. —The corn crop
in the low lands along the rivers and streams
in this section is greatly damaged by the
flood. Trains on all railroads entering here
will run regularly to-morrow, except the In
diana Central and Louisville. Both the
latter suffered severely, and it will be sev or
al days before communication will bo fully
established. The weather is clearing np.
CINCINNATI, £ept 21.—Railroad oommu
nication is somewhat improving, All trains
on the Little Miami came in on time this
morning. The Marietta and Cincinnati
road is also in running order. The Cincin
nati, Hamilton and Dayton, and Atlantic
and Great are in operation to
Hamilton, several hundred feet of embank
ment being washed away at that place.
The Ohio river hero is about twenty-eight
feet and still rising.
A disratch from Dayton says that at five
o.clock, on Wednesday, the canal bank broke
at the mouth of Mad river, the water sweep
ing away frame bouses, shops, groat piles
of lumber, and other property. The water
rushed through St. Clair, Jefferson and
Ludlow streets, submerging part of the main
business portion of the town, and reaching
the first floors of manv dwellings and stores.
The hack water enbroajhed on the sou them
part of the city, and at midnight, on Wed
nesday, the greater portion was under water
in some places four feet deep. The whole
country in the neighborhood has beon devas
tated. The loss of standing corn, fenoes and
stores enormous. There is no railroad con
nected anywhere from Day ton except by the
Little .Miami route via Xeuia.
The Louisville Democrat of yesterday says:
The rain on Tuesday night pouTed. down in
perfect volumes, and the whole city was
thoroughly submerged, causing great dam
age to the city. Telegraph communication
has been considerably li terrupteci, but con
nections are maintain with the prima pa
points of the coontn 7.