The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-08-17
From the pntsbnrg Gsret,e. tII-l.
POLITICAL ASSURANCE.


things the eastern end ofhe State their equals
in that ue, least. il not their superiors. The Har
Tsburg Telegraph, now before us edited by one srE-
Mrlsg, contains the following, which we cite
as an illustration Of our remark;
esAt meeting of the WuIG SrArg COMMITTEE,
held pursuant public notice at Philadelphia, on
Tuesday, the 9th OF July, it was, uotion Of Ste
phsn Miller, and Fl. d. Maxwell. Esqrs., unanimous
Resofped, That convention of Delegates Of the
Wing party be held at Harrisburg, TUESDAY, The
4. G. CURTIN, Chairman.
John Fl. Dehl, SECRETARY.
Here, now, are four iadivlduals-Stepheh Miller
and II, ID. Maxwell, A. @. Curtin and John II. Dieh,
not OF whom is NniG, gravely resolving 10 cali
solennly ahiuFed all connection with the Nhig party,
have enrolled themselves IN another and hostile
ganizaton, and sworn vote for none hHt nominees
OF their party yet cody assuming 10 themselves
the task OF directing the affairs OF party which dts
owns them ifis the coolest manifestation OF effron
terry we have witnessed.
But let us not stop here. This Sir. stephen Mil
Ter, who thus moves 10 call together Wing State
Convention, has editorial article IN column ad-
Joining that from which this was taken which CON-
mences thus;
at requires argument 10 prove that the Wing
and Democratic Parties Potent political bodies,
aLoat dead JAii9v Cesar"
Say you so, Stephen Then Why did you, mosi
as Julius Cesar 10 hoId State Convention Can
you the dead 10 life Or do you intend 10
'.gIve spirit Tapplnss from The other world Of poll
rica PARTIES Tor ne delecaon OF the surviving re-
lalives?
The useful stephen, Who like the little busy bee
improves each shining honr is net, however, content
with calling conventions OF the dead He wants still
another gathering. Hear him.
'sAfter consultation with gentlemen of standing
whom know to belong, reSpeeuveIy, TO the Old
tn ilruau i'm md
10 the Anti-N ebTaska or Republican movement. we
feel auhorZedt suggest an informal meeting OF such
opposed 10 the present National AdmlnIstTa-
tion At HARRISBURG ON THURSDAY, THE 9TH
OF AUGUST, [instant,l for the purpose OF consult
ing TO the propriety OF calling Union Convention
al subsequent day, 10 nominate candidate for Ca
nal Commss oneT. Let fifty hundred OF our pro-
mnent citizens. from the different sections OF the
Stale, representing all the elements OF opposition 10
the National Administration, assemble al harrisburg
suggest programme, and call a Convention and
onr word for II, outraged people will TO the rest
Bravo Aud alter the Wing convention, and this
one, what then! Will the obIisng and industrious
Stephen betake himself 10 Know Nothing colVen-
ton, and so ENJOY the blessing OF slipping honey from
every dower?
If Mr.. Stephen Miller and those for whom he
speaks, will tell what party he and they really
bflong, shall know how appreciate all tins dis
iuterestetnes,. Let them acknowledge, AT once,
that they are Know Nothngs, and care only for the
success OF the Know Nothing cause and, knowing
the utter inability OF that party elect lis State
ddate this fall they propose and urge these two con-
veniions, auxiiarie 10 otherwise hopeless
/ That would be the plain truths and although
that truth Is apparent if il had been frankly
confessed, should be able award them the
dat OF eandor even II we had 10 deny them the pos
session OF any other virtne. As things are: beg
10 assure the brazeufaeed convention callers of the
east that The people not too dull 10 understand
their schemes, however unwilling they may be, tor
the present, to bak them. They may be able o
very far into the political millsione but the time
IS coming ben they Will lie it, with good grare,
around the necks Of the conspTators and cast them
headeHg into the
CC-The following whitening rebuke of Know No.
thingism is from the New York Times of Friday last
"a paper edited by a member of the dark lantern
| Ogder. Read it:
| The Elections at the South.
| The result of the Philadelphia Council of Know
Nothngs, and lis resolutions, has been watched for
/ with more than common interest for these days OF
political lukewarruRess. Ii ascertained at
I the North. That action, where ii confined it.
self TO repetition OF toe ritual, repuated quite
generality appreciation OF the PTo-SlaveTy sentiment
embodied in the twelfth resolution being limited in
! extent handful Of laundering and incompetent
politicians mainly of This State Ii was naturally
gued that the disgust here insured enthusiastic salts
faction at the South and that the August elections
sown in MAY.
| The elections have been had, and the harvest is
slowly coming in. But o all sparse, shabby, rusred,
sproued, worthless crops. this crop of victories in
the Slave States out the shabbes and meanesl.
| Tennessee, upon which everything was staked-
where the party had recruited some of the very
best talents and leadership of the old; where GENTRY
''delyed" and CULLAI ''spaH, and about which so
iumnltuous an excitement IN anticipation OF a Know
Nothing triumph was raised here, 10 seduce the
! clancy into enormous Wapers the now Nofhiu-
Governor:-fennessee, with the fate of Virginia be-
fore its eyes, and the tonic ohiladelpha panaceas to
strengthen Its heart, IS conessedly in the hands OF the
enemy 1t matters very l:ttle whether the Admins
traton independent interest succrssful; the
so-caed Americans Ignominiotsly fogged. The
few candidates for Congress who, like General ZoL-
LIKoFFER in the Eighth Disirict have been elected,
are so far we al present, chosen by old
party vote and would have been chosen unquestioma-
bly,, had they quite omitted the Know Nothing cog
1 nzaRce.
The fact cannot help resarding as decisive oi
! the Know Nothing problem. The party has already
| ceased 10 be national The measure count ed
upon 10 conCIiiate that partalIfY the South whc h
| should more than compensate tor the alienation at
the North, appears 10 have been wholly unprouc
and III leaving the precedent OF Virginia uncontraic-
ted has propbesled fatally for the presidential cleo
! ton The consideration must impress itself strong
iy on every mind If the party at the climax of lis
prosperity, with the most ultra pro-saverY basis
ever wrung from the North 10 stand upon with ma
tive, tried assuref pro-slavery candidates vote
for, fails to divert the OF the people from old
partisan attachments, what be anticipated in a
contest where the candidates shall least be SILENT
If not hostile, on the great absorbing question To
have grounded any hope for national the par
/ ty, with its extraordinary aids, should have swept
4 the whole South like whrlwind. Anything short
OF splendid triumph would not serve the momen-
tum woud not suffice 10 carry them along over the
dTeary, falnting interval between to-day and Noven-
| Der, 1885,. But they have only achieved spleEdId
defeat; they have shown how little he best helps at
| the best moment can DO for them, and that nothing