Ikbforb Inquirer.
BEDFORD, PA., FEIBAI, OCT. 5, I>*66-
UNION KEPrBLKIS STATE TICKET.
FOR GOVERNOR,
MAJ, GEN. JOHN W. GEARY,
OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
DISTKICT TICKET.
CONGRESS,
Gen. WM. H. KOONTZ, of Somerset.
.SENATOR,
Hon, ALEXANDER STUTZMAN, of Som
erset county.
ASSEMBLY.
Col. JOHN WELLES. of Somerset.
JOHN T. RICHARDS, of Fulton.
COUNTY TICKET.
PROTHONOTARY,
J. W. LI NGKNFELTER, of Bedford Bor.
SHERIFF.
Caj<t. N. C. EVANS, of Colerain.
ASSOCIATE JUDGE,
('apt. A. WEAVERLING, Bloody Run.
COMMISSIONER,
SAMUEL SHAFFER, of Union.
POOR DIRECTOR,
HENRY H. FISHER, South Woodberry.
AUDITOR,
JAMES R. O'NEAL, of Monroe.
UNION POLICY OF RECONSTRUCTION.
"Rctolccd, Bv the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of the United States of Amori-u. in
OongTesr assembled, two-thirds of both Houses
concurring, That the following article be proposed
to the legislatures of the several States as an
amendment to the Constitution of the I nited
States, wbich, when ratified by thrce-fonrths of
the said Legislatures, shall be valid as a part of
the Constitution, namely:
"ARTJCXB —, Section 1. All persons corn or
naturalised in the United States, and subject to
the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United
States, and of the State wherein tbey reside. No
State ,hall make or enforce any law whieh shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizen? 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. Representatives shall be apportioned
among the several States according to their res
pective numbers, counting the whole number of
persons in each State, excluding Indians not tax
ed; but whenever the right to vote at any election
for electors of President and Vice-President, or
for United States Representatives 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 eitizens of the United States, or
in any way abridged, except for participation in
rebellion or other crime, the basis of representa
tion therein shall be reduced in the proportion
which the number of snch 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, elector of President
and Viee-Presidect or hold any office, civil or
military under the U- S., or under any State, who,
having previously taken an oath as a member of
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.t?tate, to sup
port the Constitution of the United States, shall
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
'he United States authorized bylaw, including
debts incurred for the payment of pensions and
bounties for service in suppressing insurrection or
rebelyoß, shall not be guastioned, but neither the
lor the loss er emancipation of any slave,
but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall
be held illegal and void."
ONE DAY TO YOUR COUN
TRY.
One of the first duties of the American
citizen, is that of voting. The voice of the
people as expressed by the majority at the
ballot box is the law fff the land. It is at
the ballot box that we declare who shall
make our laws and upon what measures or
principles they shall be founded. How im
portant then that every man who has an
opinion, (and every man should have one,)
on the great questions at issue, should go to
the polls and give expression to it, and cast
the weight of his ballot as well as his per
sonal influence in favor of the enactment
and administration of such laws as seem to
him most likely to be conducive to the pub
lic welfare. We are in the midst of a fear
ful crisis. The President attempting to
usurp the legislative powers of Congress has
placed himself in direct antagonism to the
representatives of the people and is un
scrupulously and unblushingly prostituting
all the power and patronage of the Govern
ment in his control to corruption and bri
bery for the purpose of defeating the will
$ the loyal masses.* He and his satellites
boldly declare that no Constitntional amend
ment nor any legislation affecting the lately
rebellious States shall be passed without the
participation and consent of those States.
Thus for the first time in the history of this
or any other nation, it is proposed to make
conquered rebels the arbiters of their own
punishment. When was it ever before
proposed to place a criminal in the jury box
or on the judge's stand to try his own case?
Yet this is what President Johnson and his
supporters propose to do in disposing of the
question of reconstruction. But this is not
all. The principles laid down in the plat
form of the address of the 14th of August
Convention, would invalidate every act of
Congress since the withdrawal of the South
ern members in 1861. If such a policy is
sanctioned by the people, our national cur
rency will be made worthless, our Govern
ment bonds mere waste paper, the glorious
emancipation act null and void and our gal
lant soldiers, maimed and crippled in defence
of the national life, will be made beggars
while the widows and orphans of our saint
ed dead will be cast upon the meroy of an
uncharitable world.
let to such a policy the President is not
only fully committed, but has himself openly
declared that unless it is Adopted we will
have another oivil war. This threat is also
incorporated into the Philadelphia address
and has been frequently repeated by his fol
lowers and the newspapers of the party in
all parts of the country. They have further
declared that nothing but an overwhelming j
majority against them in the coming election j
can deter them from inaugurating another
civil war not in the Southern States but in
our midst, in our own homes for the pur
pose oftceomplishiug their diabolical aims.
How much easier to give one day to the
country in peaceful attendance at the polk,
than to give years of time, millions of mon
ey and thousands of precious lives to put
ting down a hew rebellion. Let every loyal
man then on next Tuesday leaving every
thing else for the day. go to the polls and
not only vote the whole Unidn ticket him
self but exert himself to the utmost to have
every Union man in his district do the same.
Let every man remember that on the decis
ion of the people at the ballot box on Tues
day next may depend not only the value of
every dollar of National cunency or bonds
he possesses, not only the legality and bind
ing force of all acts of Congress since 1861,
but the question of peace or war : and that
: his vote on the side ol loyalty and peace,
may save his country from the devastation
and blood shed of another civil war. In
view then of this fearful contingency let
evcrv man come forth and do his whole du
ty. Let every man be at his post and all
will he well. If we let the golden moment
of opportunity pass unimproved, before the
people aie again called upon to express
J their sentiments at the ballot box, a traitor
ous Presidential usurper may plunge us into
another civil war more terrible than the ODC
from whkh we have just emerged, and the
result of which no human being can foretell.
To work then while time and opportunity
are given and the people on next Tuesday
will declare, that loyal men alone shall rule
the country, by such an overwhelming ma
jority as will make the President and his
fellow-conspirators shrink in terror from
the very contemplation of their nefarious
schemes, and secure to the country for all
future time Peace, L T nion and Prosperity.
J. WILKES BOOTH.
The disclosure of the real sentiments of
the leaders of the Copr-erhead party, in re
gard to the act that has rendered so infa
mous the name and memory of the GREAT
ASSASSIN, which was made by the President
of a Democratic meeting in this Borough,
on the evening of Saturday, the 22d of Sep
tember last, may well awaken serious ap
prehension, for the future of this country,
if thai party should succeed at the coming
elections. We will then discover that what
was uttered by Col. Tate, on that occasion,
will be a common sentiment with every foe
of the Republican party, although they
would now have us believe that this most
scandalous and traitorous declaration was
but the expression of the opinions of a sin
i glo individual. We remember the exclama
tions that escaped the lips of bitter parti-
that, but a short time before, they had de
nounced him in their public resolutions and
speeches, and in the press, as a tyrant and
usurper, and thus incited the enthusiast
Booth to the perpeiration of this horrid
crime. Should the time ever unfortunately
come, when this party shall obtain complete
control of the General and State Govern
ments, we may expect to hear Booth ap
plauded as another Brutus that had rid his
country of a tyrant and find his words, "sic
semper tyrannis, '' as he leaped upon the
stage after firing the fatal bullet,emblazoned
upon all their badges and bannerg. Even
now CoL Tate is not alone in speaking out
on this subject. The last number of the
"Old Guard," a copperhead magazine pub
lished in the city o£ New York, and which
has a number of subscribers in this Bor
ough, in its editorial table contains a para
graph, worse, if possible, even than the ut
terances of this accredited leader of the
Democratic party in Bedford. Can we be
wrong, with such evidence before us, in as
cribing these nefarious sentiments to the
leaders of the party ?
NOT THE OXLI ON E.
The Copperheads are making a great ado
about Col. Tate's innocent blunder, in blurt
ing out in an unguarded moment his honest
admiration of the assassin Booth. Their
disapproval is not because of the sentiment
expressed, but because of the damage the
enunciation of their true sentiments will do
the party. As an evidence of thus we cite
the following from the La Crosse Democrat,
(Brick Pomeroy, editor) published a few
months before the assassination of the la
mented Lincoln:
"IF LINCOLN IS ELECTED FOR
camFiPtW years, we trust
mo HAND WxLL PIERCE
HIS HEART WITH A DAGGER
POINT FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD"
Was Pomeroy ostracised by the Copper
heads as they profess to wish to CoL
Tate ? By no means, instead of suffering
political ostracism his diatribes have fre
quently adorned the columns not only of the
Gazette but of nearly all the Copperhead
papers, and Pomeroy himself was recently
invited by the Copperhead State Central
Committee of Indiana to canvass the State
for the Johnson party. Col. Tate spoke
the sentiments (not of true Democrats) but
of a large portion of the Copperhead party
throughout the country and prudential con
siderations alone prevent the party leaders
and their organ from endorsing them.
A 3fEW REBELLION.
By reference to our news columns it will
be seen that the rebels of Texas, reconstruc
ted after the "My Policy" style, have com
menced a new rebellion. This comes a little
sooner than Andy Johnson and his followers
intended when they made their threats.
But it comes none too soon to warn all lovers
of peace and union, all loyal men of what is
in store for us as a nation if the President's
reconstruction policy is not promptly and
sternly rebuked by the people. Remember
that on Tuesday next will decide whether
oyai man are to rule the country in peace
as proposed by Congress, or whether a
Presidential traitor shall be permitted by a
new rebellion to place rebels and traitors in
authority over us.
A Few Things tobe Remembered
We desire to.keep a few facts relative to the
status of the Copperhead party in this county
before the people. We wouW have the
people
REMEMBER, that the leaders, one and
all, ardently sympathized with the traitor
ous rebels, and that they now plead for
those in the custody of the I cited (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 <
and supplanted by the "red white and red,'*
the emblems of organized treason.
REMEMBER, that the "Star Spangled
Banner," "Red, White and blue, Ac.,
were forced to give way to the favorite airs
of the rebels. Yes, who does not remember
how night was made hideous by the singing
of "Maryland, my Maryland,' "The
Bonny Blue Flag,' Ac.?
REMEMBER, that hundreds of pistols
and other deadly weapons were imported
into Bedford eou jjty, and carried by the
members of this saaie party, to shoot Union
men for no other reason than that they were
in favor of suppressing armed treason.
REMEMBER, that the barns of Union
men were burned, their lives threatened aad
their families intimidated because they asked
the Government to assert the supremacy ol
the laws, and were willing to give 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
were shot at, and narrowly escaped with
their lives because they undertook to enforce
a national edict.
REMEMBER, that no let a than GOO of
this party refused to report when drafted,
and skedaddled to the mountains, skulked
away in caves or fled to Canada.
REMEMBER, that every barn-burner
who, in the deep darkness of the night stole
up to and applied the torch to the property
of Union men, is a rabid Cop pel head.
REMEMBER, that the heathenish in
cendiary who under cover of darkness,
prompted by the spirit of the devil. health
ily kindled the fire which consumed the
house of God. if living to-day, is a traitor
and a Copperhead.
REM EMBER, 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 skeedaddler
who secreted himself for months in the
"pine clad hills" of the old Keystone State
is to day a living, breathing, blathering
Copperhead.
REMEMBER, that every skulker who
found his way to the caves of our rugged
mountains, with loads of weapons, who
threatened death and destruction on all
hands, and then ran away from his shadow,
is a blatant. Copperhead.
REMEMBER, that of the gos
pel were reviled, condemned aud pui -ccuted
because they prayed for the preseivation of
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 rcsistcnce
to the draft in Napier and St. Clair town
ships are to-day, true to their instincts, in
the Copperhead ranks.
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 k reproach.
REMEMBER, that the men who are now
flattering the soldier, wore, during his ab
sence in the army, the Copperhead badge,
the emblem of sympathy and treason. The
Gazette under date of May 8, 18t53, 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
ice will wear ichatcver ornaments ice please.
REMEMBER, that the individual who
identifies himself with the Copperhead or
ganization is as much responsible for the
party as if he were a principal acor.
SOLDIERS WILL REMEMBER, that if
they vote the Copperhead ticket, they will
stand side by side, with the distinguished
parties whose record we have above enumer
ated. Oh soldiers, can you mix with such
an array of treachery and traitors.
THE SHERIFF PROSECUTED
Election Officers who disregard the law
to be similarly treated—A change
of venue to be secured and
the trial to be transfer
red to some other t
County.
The Copperhead Sheriff of Bedford coun
ty has refused to insert the preamble and
four sections of the Disfranchising act, en
joined by the same act to be published in the
Sheriff s Proclamation for the holding of a
General Election. and he has been very
properly prosecuted for it. The same pen
alty will be visited upon every election offi
cer who violates the law, and we have no
hesitation in saying that the next Legisla
ture will be very strongly Republican, to
which we will make successful application
for a change of venue and the trial shall be
transferred to some connty where Copper
head jurors will not be on hand to save their
friends.
CO UNTERFEIT TICK ETS.
We have had handed to us a great bundle
of counterfeit Republican tickets with the
name of Mr. Shannon instead of J. W.
Lingenfelter. This is only one of Mr.
Shannon s small jokes, but we consider it a
disreputable business* However, Mr.
Shannon's chances are so low down in the
scale that nothing but fraud can elect him.
Beware of counterfeit tickets! Examine
every ticket thoroughly before it is voted,
and see that the name of every candidate
on the Republican ticket from Governor
down to Auditor is upon it.
CLYMER'S RECORD.
The record of Heister Clymer and his
claims to the suffrages of the loyal men of
Pennsylvania, as gathored from his political
acts and associations may be set down as
follows :
He declared there was no Constitutional
right to coerce a State.
He discouraged enlistments in the
Union army.
Ho denounced the conscription act as un
constitutional.
He opposed every measure devised bv the
Government for th< vigorous prosecution
of the war for the preservation of our na
tional integrity.
He opposed the extension of the elective
franchise to the soldiers in the field.
He encouraged deserters and bounty
jumpers to the irreat detriment of the I nion
cause and thereby aided the rebels, prolong
ed fhe war and increased our national debt.
He declared the war a failure and aide'd
all the efforts of his party to make it so. in
order to bring about an ignominious peace
and the destruction of our national Union.
lie opposed tlie establishment of our na
tional currency.
He rejoiced over rebel victories and
mourned over Union triumphs.
He with his whole party called Abraham
Lincoln a "buffoon,' "a tyrant' and a
"usurper" and our gallant soldiers "Lip
coin's hirelings," Lincoln pups," "blue bel
lied yankecs" See., See.
lie opposed and now opposes the disfran
chisement of deserters and bounty jumpers.
He is ar ardent advocate of Andrew
Johnson's policy of making one rebel equal
to two loyal men and placing rebels and
traitors in authority over u.s as a reward of
their treason and rebellion.
He opposes the Constitutional amendment
that makes white men equal and places the
national debt beyond the possibility of re
pudiation.
Such is but a partial review of the polit
ical record of Heister Clymer. Let ali good
citizens ponder well before they cast their
votes for such a man and against the soldier
statesman, the gallant General Geary.
"NATIVE MODESTY."
JSr. Kliaunon's Scare.
We received the following latter end of a
letter written by Mr. Shannon to some good
Republican, the other morning. We have no
knowledge as to whom it was sent, butwc are
quite sure the portion of the letter received
by us was written by Mr. Shannon.. This let
ter runs thus:
"Inclosed find YOUR TICKETS WITH
MY NAME and some pasters for you to use
either if any. On business and person
al relations I am going [to] throw off my ua
Hut modesty and ast y.u to do me the favor
of VOTING FOR ME. Of course this is in
strict confidence. Respectfully,
0. E. SHANNON.
Who ever dreamed that Mr. Shannon had
any modesty ! This is about the hundredth
letter of the kind that we have heard of. Mr.
Shannon asks everybody to vote for him. but
we have every confidence that our people will
laugh him to scorn as he laughed the Union
cause to scorn during the rebellion. If he is
mare mis. we Fay to you emphat
ically cast no complimentary votes for indi
vidual friends, for this is not a contest over
men. Every man on the Union Republican
ticket is competent aud able to discharge the
duties of the office tor which he is a candi
date. and by his ftiuuiphant election we will
best show onr earnestness and sincerity for
the overwhelming success of the Union cause.
v JOKER!
Mr. Shannon Jxtnghhnj hi* I'gly
Record Away !
Mr. Shannon, in his peregrinations
about the county, has hit upon, what; he
thinks to be, the happy expedient ©{"laugh
ing away his record, fie rises before an
audience with ail the assurance of a polish
ed demagogue, descants upon -the merits of
the "Nigger, speaks in glowing terms of
his election, (in a horn and then with a
flourish proclaims his opponents to be dis
unionists, and to prove it, he seizes a poster
circulated by the Republicans, containing
extracts from the record of Col. J. W. Tate,
B. P. Meyers and O. K. Shannon. himself,
reads his own assertions made in 1861, and
endeavors to palui them off as the senti
ments of the of this paper. This
Mr. Shartnon considers a huge joke, and a
very pleasant way of getting out of an un
pleasant difficulty. We know one instance
in which the joke didn't take. If Mr.
•Shannon can gull the people in this wav, we
arc very much mistaken. The 9th of Oc
tober w ill satisfy him of that fact.
SUPPRESSING THE STARS
AND STRIPES.
Ihe Copperheads held a meeting at
Rainsburg on the Ist inst., in which their
Old hatred of the Stars and Stripes, was
conspicuously displayed. A National flag
with the name of (Jen. Geary inscribed was
found suspended across the street from the
house of a good Union citizen. If some
treasonable device had polluted its folds it
might have been tolerated, but because the
name oi one of Pennsylvania's bravest and
most distinguished soldiers, was inscri
bed thereon, it was not to be endured.- A
committee therefore, waited upon the gen
tleman from whose premises it-was suspend
ed and by throats of personal violence com
pelled him to take it down. Soldiers what
think you of such proceedings? The party
that defiantly display rebel flags in Maryland
cannot tolerate the Stars and Stripe- in
Pennsylvania.
"CONSISTENCY, TIIOI ART TRILY
A JEWEL I"
WHO CO FOR NEOlto SUFFRAGE ?
The Copperehads have only ouc inex
haustible hobby, a very old one, which they
have almost ridden to death a dofon of
times, that of "Niggw!" "Nigger Equali
ty ! and "Nigger Suffrage!" and which
they lain would make their ignorant adhe
rents believe is always in is-ue. However
they are not over remarkable for consisten
cy. They howl piteously against all the
above clap-trap and support Col. John H.
tiller for the Legislature, the embodiment
ofad dogmas. Republicans are impor
tuned to join the Copperheads, because
they are down on the Nigger, but they must
not fail, when they do go over to vote for
Col. Filler, who a short time ago was the
most Radical of Radicals.
HOW COPPERHEADS TREAT
SOLDIERS I
A ONE LECtED SOLDIER
BADLY BEATEN!
Yoifng LadieN Insulted and
Injured!
At a meeting of the terrified at Center
ville on last Saturday, several who traiu in
that crowd, filled with liquid strielinine, fell
upon Capt- W. Ilafer, a one-legged soldier
and beat him badly. 'Shame ! Shame ! On
Sunday night following, some fifteen or
twenty of the same party attacked Mr.
Doremer and Mr. Brunner. two gallant
young soldiers on their way from church, in
company with two young ladies, the daugh
ters of Levi Hardinger, and treated them
outrageously. In the melee which ensued,
one of the young ladies was struck by one of
the wretches, knocked down and badly hurt.
Both the young ladies weic more or less
hurt, one of them fainted away from the
effects of the injuries received, and alaruied
her friends very mneh. The gentlemen
were obliged to seek shelter in the woods.
These soldiers were all thus brutally attack
ed because they have the manliness to stand
up for the same principles at home that
they contended for in the field. Soldiers,
can you vote for such a party ?
ESTIMATED VOTE OF BEDFORD
COUNTY !
Geu. Geary's majority 148!
Below will be found a careful canvass of
the vote of Bedford county, as returned to
ibe County Committee, which will give
| Gen. Geary and the Republican county tick
et a very handsome majority. These figures
i arc reasonable and will be made in every
district, if our friends do their whole duty.
Make it a point, friends, to bring our ma
jority up to the figures below indicated and
the Copperhead majority down correspond
ingly. We have a clear thing of it ahead
of us.
GEARY'S CLYMER'S
DISTRICTS. Majority. Majority.
Bedford borough 5
Bedford township
Bloody Run borough 50
Broad Top township 95
Cumberland Valley ''s
Coleraio 52
Coaldale borough T5
Harrison township 10
Hopewell 0
Juniata 120
Londonderry 15
Liberty .' 5
Monroe 06 •
Napier '*
Providence East 12~>
Providence West 80
"Southampton 12-
St. Clair 10
Snake Spring •_>
Sehellsburg borough 1"
Union 10
Wo jdbcrry Middle 100
Woodberry South 36
iO3 054
554
Geary's majority 148
XO TKADI.\(i OFF !
arc traded oli. l'lie CopperfreadsTrave giv
en up Clyuier, Sharpe, Meyers, Filler, and
Fin lley two weeks ago, and will endeavor to
trade off some of this dead timber to secure
the election of some of their county ticket.
Mr. Shannon, it is presumed, will be guilty
of this little business. He is bound to be
beaten from one to tico hundred in the coun
ty beyond a peradventure, if Republicans
will only follow their political convictlbns
and recollect that he is now running as a
politician, who during the war was as
disloyal as he could safely be.
ANOTHER GRAND SKEEDADDLE!
THE LAST SWINDLE !
The Copperheads frightened to death at the
prospect of defeat, have resorted to the swin
dle ot transferring all the deserters from Re
publican districts to Copperhead districts.
We have the names of a number that have
skeedaddled from one district to the other.
Republicans, watch all new-cotncrs, challenge
then J and make them swear that thej did not
remove into the district for the purpose of
voting. If they did, the Board is liable to
prosecution for receiving them !
READ THE ADDRESS OF //.
GEIGER IX AXOTHER
COH MX !
was written a year ago, but
the reasons which prompted it are fully as
potent now as they were then. We ask ev
ery member of the Punkard, Menonite and
other non-resistent churches in this county
to give it a carefnl perusal. Doctor (ieigor is
known to all as an earnest and sincere man,
one who loves his country and despises trea
son. There are but few non-resistcnts in
this county that do not enjoy his personal
acquaintance and all know him to be a
Christian and a patriot. Read his address
and then go to the polls and vote.
ST. CLAIR ASI> THE
HEItItIES IX A It LAZE.
These districts are determined to come to
time. A week or two ago we had some fear
but now we are satisfied that our friends are
down to.it, and old St. Clair will be redeem
ed with a handsome majority, and we would
not be surprised if the Wood berries would
do what they did in 1860, cross the moun
tain with 150 majority for Geary and the
whole Republican ticket. Stick to it until
the close of the polls on Tuesday next.
WATCH THE DESERTERS!
\Y hen a deserter, skccdaddler, or bounty
jumper presents himself at the polls, chal
lenge his vote and ask him the question
whether he is not a deserter; if he will not
swear that he is not, or will not present a
discharge from the army or other.good and
sufficient evidence to the Hoard it is hound
to reject hiin under the law. Watch the
deserters !
WEOHO SUFFRAGE !
The last Gazette , as it has done for sev
eral previous campaigns, says that Negro
Suffrage is the issue. Now we propose this,
if the Republicans are successful, on next
Tuesday, will the Gazette adcept the
triumph, as the triumph of Negro Suffrage?
If it does, we hope it will have
the manliness to say nothing on the sub
ject in the campaign of 1867.
the Soldiers' platform in anoth
er column.
TO TN.
READ ! READ / / READ !! !
The importance ot the jssues involved in
the approaching election is the only reason
which induces us to address the present ap
peal to our fellow-citizens who believe and
practice the doctrine of non-resistance.
While it is generally believed that a large
number will absent themselves from the
polls, it is at the same time well known that
their sympathies %re with ns. In their pri
vate relations, by their example and pre
cepts, they strongly inculcate the principles
of honesty, industry, economy and general
good order; governed by these principles
they necessarily wish that our rulers should
be men ot a similar character. But wish
ing is not sufficient. If good wishes could
have been effective, the past four years of
fearful bloodshed, with all its attendant
evils, would have been avoided; we must
work. In the ordinary pursuits of life, we
not only wish to have good mechanics to do
our work, and good hands to labor on our
farms, but we make an effort to secure them.
We do not always succeed, hut our failure
does not discourage as, we try again.
Because bad men often get into office is no
reason why we should not trv to put good
incu in their places; and we firmly believe,
if that large and influential class of our citi
zens( who do not vote on account of conscien
tious scruples) would lend their assistance,
that a much greater number of honest men
would be elected. No one will deny that
civil government is of Divine origin. The
Scriptures teach this doctrine most fully.
The entire history of the Jewish dispensa
tion is an illustration of this fact. Under
the new dispensation we are brought to sub
mit ourselves to every ordinance of man for
the Lord's sake. We are told that out, rul
ers are a terror to evil doers, and a power to
them that do well. We are also comman
ded to pray for those in authority. These
truths bcine -elf-evident, how important it
is that v. . uouTd have good rulers, who
would make good ordinances for us to obey;
and bow can we have good rulers if we
allow wicked men only to elect them? Will
they not select men after their own hearts?
Does not 'iki l.eget like, both temporal and
spirit oat? <ied could, if in his wisdom he
saw fit, us with good rulers, as he did
the people in the days of Israel, but be does
not work so now.
He could feed us with manna, as he did
our fathers in the wilderness, and could
. make grain grow without our tilling tjie soil.
But he dws not will it so. He works in bis
spiritual kingdom by His own sovereign
power, but in His temporal kingdom he ex
pect us, nay he commands us to effect
human ends by human means. If we want
ju-t ruler- who will protect us in our rights,
diminish'i he burdens of government, afford
to u- the rights of conscience, and enhance
the general well being of society, we our
selves must select the men who shall be
placed in authority; we cannot expect to
grow grain in our streets; we cannot expect
to get i ■ . I .-■ i■■ ants unless we look for them.
We cnuii >t and should not expect to find
where we do not seek, nor reap where we
our opini.-n- upon you, lut we make this
appeal tojou in all sincerity and earnest
ness. \\ e know there are many honest
Democrats among the masses, but at the
same time we beg leave to remind you, that
the late fearful and bloody war was the work
of Demo r itjc leaders, was prolonged by the
so-called Democratic sympathy, and in too
many instances received the direct as well as
indirect support of Democratic politicians.
Should su<h men be again placed in power,
what can we expect from them? They are
not changed. They do not acknowledge
their former wickedness, nor say that they j
j Lave repealed, touch do they bring forth
fruits meet lor repentance. We do Dot
wi.-h to en :ourage auy feeling of vindictive
ness against those who have brought the
terrible suffering upon our country through
which wc have passed, we entertain towards
thorn only feelings ofdeep pity for their past
errors, but as long as they show no evidence
of contrition we feel that the beat interests
of the country demand that we should not
place tbcm in positions where they can do
further mischief. In this we hope to have
your assistance at the ballot box. THE
DANGER IS NOT YET OVER: WE
HAVE .M AN V TROUBLES TO OVER
COME BEFORE PEACE AND HAR
MONY ARE RESTORED THROUGH
OUT THE LENGTH AND BREADTH
OF OUR ONCE HAPPY COUNTRY.
FIVE YEARS AGO, FEW OF US
DREAMED OF WAR; THERE WERE
FEW Oil NO SOLDIERS TO PROSE
CUTE A WAR. WICKED POLITI
CIANS MADE THE WAR, AND THE
WAR BROUGHT FORTH THE SOL
DIERS, AND TIIE SQLDIERS
FOUGHT THE BATTLES, BUT IF OUR
OFFICES HAD NOT BEEN FILLED
WITH UNSCRUPULOUS POLITI
CIANS THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN
NO BATTEES FOR THEM TO EIGHT
UPON YOU, AND UPON US AN IM
PORTANT DUTY RESTS: WE CAN
PREVENT FURTHER TROUBLE
LET US BE WISE IN TIME. LET US
KEEP BAD MEN OUT OF OFFICE
AND PI T GOOD ONES IN; AND OUR
INDIVIDUAL PEACE, THE GEN
ERAL WELL BEING OF SOCIETY,
AND THE FUTURE PROSPERITY OF
OUR COUNTRY WILL BE JUST AS
CERTAIN AS IT IS CERTAIN THAT
THE LORD HELPS THOSE WHO I
HELP THEMSELVES.
I havj given the views contained in the
abov; a careful consideration. I KNOW,
FROM PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE
THAT THEY MEET WITH THE COR
DIAL APPROVAL OF MANY OF THE
ELDERS A N D BISHOPS OF THE DUN
KARD. MENNONITE AND OTHER
NON RESISTANT CHURCHES. I
NEEDS( ARCELY SAY THAT I FUL
LY ENDORSE THEM, AND HOPE
THAI' OUR FRIENDS WILL FEEL
THEMSELVES FREE TO GIVE THEM
AN EARNEST SUPPORT.
H. GEIGER.
PHILADELPHIA, October 2d r 1865..
have received several communi
cations iu regard to our county politics,
u hich, owing to their length, we are com
l>clled to crowd out to get in more valuable
matter.
WILKES BOOTH A HERO AXI) PA
TRIOT.
ITin Axsaxxination of AbrahnmlLin
coln "a virtuous, generous and
heroic act."
We ask the attention of the people to the
following article taken from the "Editor's
Table" of "The Old Guard a monthly maga
zine edited by C. Chauncy Burr." This pe
riodical is a Democratic magazine and sev
eral copies of it are taken in Bedford by
prominent copperheads. The article to
which we refer is in the October number aud
reads thus:
a western editor speaks of
" W likes Booth as a 'hero and patriot' a Re
publican editor flies into horrors of horrors
"and declares that never before since the
"history of man was a wretch found to
"praisean assassin. Read, O. stupid! the
"instructions of Jehovah to His people in
"the Old Testament and learn how tyrants
" were to be treated. How many years has
"the name of Brutus been synonymous with
"patriotism and virtue? When Henry IV
"was assassinated one of the first men of
"'France wrote an apology for John C'hatel,
"the assassin, in which he said : "This par
"rieide is a virtuous, generous and heroic
''act, comparable to the greatest, either in
"profane or saered history and none bat an
"atheist will doubt it " Among many an
"cient nations those who dispatched usurp
"ers and tyrants were worshipped as Gods.
'"Others bad a law that whosoever killed a
"bad King should be King himself.
In the same number |of this delectable
"first class Democratic magazine" Stanton
is spoken of as a wretch and there is a poet
ical artiele headed ''a tribute to the beast '
meaning General Butler. The whole work
is the most villainous publication with which
we have ever met and yet it is subscribed lor
and read by men in our town who claim to
be decent citizens. We would suggest to
the editor that he ought to employ Col.
Tate as an assistant editor. It would give
the Colonel an appropriate field to elaborate
his opinions about America's Booth to
whom in his speech before the' Democratic
meeting he said a monument would be rais
ed higher than the one erected to the memo
ry of Abraham Lincoln
THE BOOTY LIE.
We have received from several of our
soldier readers requests to refute the con
temptible falsehood uttered by ANDREW
JOHNSON and re-echoed by follower.-, to
the effect that Congress had voted twice as
much bounty to negro soldiers as to . white.
The following extract from the New York
Tribune refers to this subject:
The World says:
Some of our Radical friends don't seem to
relish this little item of ours, but we publish
it again in hopes it may yet do them good.
Congress has appropriated pay for two years'
service as follows:
For each negro soldier cKK)
For each white soldier -50
For each member of Congress 4000
Let us breifly e spose the ineffable silliness
of this impudent lie. Congress enacted
that every I nion s oidier in our war who
has been honorably dischargedaftcr three
years' faithful service should receive an ex
tra bounty of SIOO, while those likewise dis
charged after tw-> years" service should re
ceive but SSO. Now. the enlisting of blacks
to put down the rebellion was not fairly be
r *:il i- o.N-utunl uiuu*!l lugef
proportions in 1864 ; while the fighting
ended in April. I*6o. Of course,* most of
the blacks served less than two years, and so
were entitled to DO extra bounty ; while
scarcely a handful of them served three
years, so as to entitle them to SIOO. On the
other hand, there are many tens of thou
sands of whites who served through three
years or over, and another larce number
who served oyer two years. Why utter
falsehoods which every one who reads or
reflects must know to lie such?
The above is clear enough, but to leave
no room for doubt let us briDg it to light in
every' detail :
Soldiers of 1861 (when all were white)
received no bounty at first, but in 1864 they
were asked to re-enlist, and received—
/ ■ >7, SIOO bounty (by subsequent enact
ment) for their three years' service.
Second. lor their additional service they
received S3OO, bounty and from cities,
States, counties and boroughs, sums rang
from 8 300 to SI,OOO, as UD extra douceur.
These men served until the end of the re
bellion.
Soldiers from 1802 received SIOO bounty
from the Government, and, in few cases,
bounty from home.
Soldiers of 1863, white and black, receiv
ed $ 100 bounty from the Government, and
additional bounties ; and
Soldiers of 1864 received s3uo bounty
from the Government, and additional boun
ties.
Some black soldiers received no bounty
whatever, particularly those who had been
slaves. The law is to correct the neglect of
the Government and to equalize the status
of the soldiers of 1862 and 1863, and the
blacks who received no bounty. Their right
to such bounty must be shown by their dis
charge papers.
Infamous and contemptible as the mix
ture of brazen [falsehood and shabby quib
hie has been with which the Copperheads
have set forth the bounty law, it is still their
strongest card. Let all our readers do their
best to refute it— Pkda. Pre*#.
TEXAS.
A Portion of the State Rebellious
I iiite<l State* Troop* Delicti
and the People in Arm*.
GEN. |{ ID v.N GONE TO THE
B<*ENfc OF DIFFICULTY.
WASHINGTON, Monday, Sept. 24, IS#'
Your special New Orleans correspondent
sends the following dispatch to this bureau :
NEW ORLEANS, Monday, Sept. 24th I.sfiG.
The Tyler (Texas) Reporter of the 12rh
inst., says that a detachment of United
States troops, under command of Capt. Tup
per were fired into by an Arkausian who was
not aware that the war was over. Official
information received from Benham, Texas,
shows that place to be in a state of insur
rection. The citizens are all armed and
patrol the streets to prevent the soldiers
from coming into town. The Mayor or
Sheriff is reported to have telegraphed to
i the Adjutant-General of the State, to know
how many men he could furnish to drive the
\ ankeesoff. A reply is said to have * lieen
received, offering 500 well armed men, and
more if necessary. The officer in command
of the detachtuent of Lnited States troops
numbering abobt tk) men, has intrenched
and othewise fortified his position. After
receiving a large supply of ammnnition
from Galveston, ne expressed confidence in
b, ing ablo to withstand an attack. Gen.
Sheridan left for the sceue of action this
morning.