The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-10-03
WM. GRIFFITH!
HIS FORCED DECLlNATION \!

~ One OF the most extraordinary political FEATs
ever witnessed by ''Osdest lnha bitant>, came
oil IN Bedford on Wednesday last week, when The
delegates selected two wears ago. by the mltHgh ht
Lodges, met tor the FOURTH time 10 Bedford. On
hi, occasion they went through the farce OF Teceiy
ing and accepting the declnatIon OF Nm. Griffith,
which every body knew had beeh violently forced
from him. lie was Their regular nominee Tor ASso-
ciale Judge. and bad been held up model of per-
fection by Fr. Jofdan 4 Co.-aud yet, III the abb
Of airy chgrse preferred against hm by his op
ponents, the X. Ms arraign hin-try him--execute
hm->lrke him from their ticket--thus disgracins
hH.fer life. To add 10 tie degradation inflicted
upon him, they insult him wiIhth declarations that
he ''stands higher in their estimation now than he
ever did before, and that they view hm Al man OF
THE highest s'prncipie and integrity IS1in4y be-
lieve this, what better Recommendation could they
desire 10 defend him before the public against the
attacks OF his most bitter enemies But this is only
intended soap make Griffith and his friends
WORK for his ENECUTIONERS. To give the
matter The backeSt kind OF impress, they speak of his
declinaton "a most unpleasant condition OF
things" They DO not tell why he was stricken
from the ticket, leaving the people 10 form whatever
conjecture their negotiations may suggest. Why
not specify the charges and put in the plea OF de-
fence which all OF ''priucipe and integrity
hava a right TO cxpcci-ysa, 10 demand
From what we can learn from Mr. GriHith's poll
teal friends, he is guilty Of having aid some very
hard and Indecent things Of the Methodist Church.
Nnte, this is either true ial,e.H true, he de-
serves The contempt OF all honorable me1--f false
every principle which b nds man 10 his lellnw man
demanded -n honest defence az the hands oil his
friends. But the summary manner in which th-y
hurled him from their ticket is the best evidence IN
the world that they consider him guilty ~ manner
and form MIR. WM. COOK, Of Bloody Run, de-
cared the Indictment, Threatening him with los of
100 votes III West Providence township alone Now
if guilty, (aiid h> party say he is) conid Mr..
Jordan y Co. offer more deliberate Insult 10 the
Methodist Church than they have in uakina the pro-
camation that ''Griftth stands higher IL, their c>ti-
nation NOW than he ever did before - We have
heard Of men ''eaving their country for their coun-
tIy's good and now we have to record the Grand
High SacbPm Of Know Nothngism IN Bedford coun-
y Iraving his ticket for the ''good OF bis pariyla
William first tried 10 check the progress of Me-
thodisn-then OF Catholocism--and ended his poli-
cal wItchery in the annihilaton OF hmself!-he fl
nal reward OF all denagosues.
How much better has E.the party made matters
by-faking BARNHART-wi'h the nagrant dpclara-
ton staring the people IN the face that che FOI,JN-
TARILI permitted himself 10 be SACRIFICED
two years ago. to carry ont the reasonable midnight
plots Of the Know Nothing>! Whilst this humilia-
ting confession is made in his own parry organ il is
well known To most o. orr citizens that man in
Bedford denounced the Know Nothmgs with more
severity han did Adam Barnhart, aud now we a7e
told by his friends that this was all a TRICK 10 de-
ceive Democrats, many Of whom voted for him thfo'
the preparation oi this gross moral fraud. He ve-
lanteered 10 say 10 Democrats that he would not
JOIN tAe daFk-aElern OrdeF Tor all The Oces the
cou0iy--that it disgrace and cnfse to the
conGtry-that he most heartily despised il, &c &c.
facts which can be proved by such men as Hon.
John Cessna, Mr. Lawrence Jamison, Mr. Wm.
Chenoweth, and many others Of the same standing in
society. Who, then, is willing 10 endorse the as
sertion of Mr.. Jordan that Mr.. BarnLart is a stric-
ly moral and upright man." with such violations of
morality fastened upon him? Above all things in
the world the asprant TO Jadge-hip should be
man Of TRUTH. Voter, remember that whilst A.
dam Barnhart protesting the greatest hostility
to Know Nothings, be was a SWORN member OF the
oTdrr-and Zeaious he for lis success that he
VOLUNTEERED personal SACRIFICE FOR the
GOOD OF THE CAUSEp' VIII honest freemen,
oi any party, sanction such conduct as this1
We told that Know Nofhingism is made M of
both the old partes whilst every that ticket
except an Auditor, is of the old Whig Party. When
Griffith 10 be struck off. who had been Demo-
crat, why not take Daniel B. Wisegarver or some
man good him? Because il would not do TO
take any who had ever been tainted with DE-
M0CRACl? Let Democrats look al this, and come
home.
THE GREAT TRIAL ToR TRFasoN.-The black-re-.
publican party stands aFra gned before the people on
the charge Of attempting 10 revoIuiionze The gov
ernaeut. OF ieVyiuu civil war and pIofins treason