Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1856-02-15
4 GREAT WRONG.
WILL THE PEOPLE RIGHT IT :


We arc about to record another ease Of
Loeofoco Prescription and Snbserviency TO
Ronanis,n. which we venture 10 assert, has
never been equalled within the limits of oar
broad Union---a ease which should awaken
to immediate relnediatoty action the dor
mant patriotism and republlcanism of every
.4merican into whose bands this article may
come. Read the facts
On the day proceeding the last General
Election in this State, the hands at the De-
pot and and Boat Slip in this place we're
Motif, d BY James Pennell, Superintendent
of the Depot, to appear at his office, then
aud there to answer certain interrogatories
touching their aoiiticai opinions. Accord
ingly. tho individuals thus summoned
about twenty-five in nunsber--repaired to
Pennell's Office, where they met Pennell and
Esquire Shannon, Of Conemaugh Borough.
Shannon held in his bands copy Of the
Bible or New Testament, AID Pennell two
manuscript documents in the handwriting Of
John u. Gilmore, Assistant Superintend-
ent Of the Portage Railroad, which be pro-
cceaed to read TO his audience. They we're
of the following tenor:
The FIRST announcement set forth the fact
that the Democratic party was the Domi-
nant party of the Commonwealth, and that
the Portage Railroad was controlled By IFS
agents. Then followed the assertion that
srsry employer of those agents should like
piSe b. Dgmocrafs, and TINT those toio were
DEPE.N'DE.a'T upoa the Democratic par
ty for tAsir DAILY BRED should uni
formiy cote The Democratic ticket.
The second document presented the form
of an OATH which the Assistant Superin.
tendent commanded should be administered
to the Depot and Boat Slip hands. Those
who refused to SWEAR we've to be imme-
diatsfy discharged. Sutjoined is literal
copy Of the Oath.
'sYou do swear that you never belonged
to any secret political organization, known
blythe name of '.know Nolhings,7 'sStar
| Spangled Banner" or .'Sons of the Sires of
Serenty-Six.'
This Oath was then administered hy Es-
quirc Shannon to a majority of the twenty
Eve who were thus asked to become the
yassals of Locofocoism aud Rome. 4 por-
ton were qualified upon the Book and tie
remainder by the uPliffed hand. Those
whe refused 10 come under the yoke were
John Hite, j. NJ. Hackenberg, John Title,
G. w. Singley, David Lucas, Josiah Slater
| and Morganzie Brnwn-all Americans hy
birth and all Protestants in religion. All
of those who were sworn were either For
eigners or Catholics. And TINS the IN
quisitorial proceedings ended. In few
days, the seven Protestant Americans were
duly discharged.
Davis Lucas, one of the segen, IS an old
man of sirty-seuen Siniers; an honest and
respected citizen, and the son of a Soldier
of the Revolution. His father served
through FIVE years of War of Independence
was at The stormine of Ticonderoga and
Stony Point, aud with Washington at Mou-
mouth, Brandywine, and MorriStown. He
received several wounds while thus disehar-
ging the duty of a patriot soldiar. And
yet hls son must stand aside tha, For-
eign-born Papists may be preferred over
! him
Because these seven men refused to swear
fealty to the Church Of Rome; because they
refused TO submit to the tyranny over mind
and body imposed by hand of corrupt
Office holders, they we're told to go their way
that their places might be filled by some
humble servants of the Pope and by men
who could swear with ,rath that they were
mol the sous of Revolutionary Sircs.
! As a matter of curiosity, We subjoin a
cl assifcation of the serfs new employed a,
the Depot and Slip; a majority of whom
were sworn as aforesaid, while the remain
der have since been selected to Gil the situ-
ations made vacant by the decipa,ion Of the
'fsevcn Protestant Americans.
/ Cathotic Foreigners, Y
| Catholic .aasricans, l2
| Protestant Foreigners, a
! .americaa Nom cozamitsal, I
Not one Protestant American. Eol
lone.
| We need not comment further upon these
facts. americans of Cambria, do your du.
| ~. Remember the 7th of October!
4 Cambria Trlbune.
| 'CufFee you see. dem two ladies OBJ cole,
cross de street darl'
| Eyes see de dear angels, Pompey
/ Swell, don't dey look 'nlazngIy like onl,
anodere''
"True, Pompey, ] rib you credit for you,
nice Dendu,na tinn. Cav tts.s f1aan,,,trl s,s,,.