The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1857-09-25
VOTERS OF BEDFORD COUNTY.

REMEMBER That on the second Tuesday OF
October next, you will be called upon to decide
whether VIM. F. PACKER, the nominee Of
the National Democratic Party, the representa-
tive of the popular will of the Nation as ex
pressed by the people at the late Presidential
Election, shall be Governor of Pennsylvania, or
whether DAVID WILMOT, or ISAAC
HAZLEH URST, the former being the stand
ard bearer of AboIitionism and bastardzed
Know Nothingism, and the latter the embod-
ment of pure Know Nothingism, shall be eleva-
ted to the highest office in the gift OF the peo-
pie of our State.
REMEMBER That you will be called upon TO
vote for Judges Of the Supreme Court, and that
you must choose between the Democratic candi-
dates who are able lawyers and experienced men
lone of them having been long Judge of the
court of Common Pleas and both having been
members of the law making bodies of our state
and of the nalion) and their opponents who have
had but comparatively limited experience, some
of them having never been heard Of outside OF
their own immediate neighborhood, before their
nomination. Likewise, in this connection,
REMEMBEE That it was the decision of the
Supreme Court TALL of the Judges except one be-
ing Democrats) that last Winter saved the peo-
pie Of this Commonwealth from being sacrificed
10 the interests of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company and from being made 10 pay the taxes
now so Justly imposed upon that Company.
REMEMBER That Canal Commissioner. is
TO be chosen at the coming election, and that
your choice must be made between HoNEsr
NlMRoD STRICKLAND, the nominee of the De-
mocratic party, a man who bears an unspottea
name, and an untarQished chaGacetis4Ess alAlR w
of whora has shown himself TO be mere poiti-
cal weathercock turning before the breath of
every wind that blows ofice-ward, thus plainly
exhibiting his greed for the spoils, and the last
of whom has hitherto been allowed TO remain in
such profound obscurity that the question in
voluntarily rises to our lips-"who is John F.
Lindernan!" Furthermore, in relation TO your
choice for this office of Canal Commissioner,
REuEMBGE That il was owing to The vigil
ance Of Democratic Canal Board that the sub
ject of the repeal Of the Tonnage Tax Of the
Pennsy ylyania Railroad Company, was brought
before the Supreme Court, and that to their fl
deity and honesty IS public officers, the people
of Pennsylvania are indebted for their prrserva-
ton from the burden of a largely increased taxa
ton.
REMEMBER That DAVID WILMOT, is an
Abolitonst, and that be proved himself to be
such by his speech at Bedford, on Tuesday eve
ming, of Court week, when he said that he
>''desired q pider feld for free labor, Htaa The
present one" as also, when he declared that
'treedonl'' and "s laceyy" hare come in direct
c0ntact oiih each other, and ttqt one is bound to
give aeag to the other.
REMEMBER That every man nominated on
the same ticket with Mr.. Wmot and who al
lows his name to be placed under Mr. Wilmot's,
represents the doctrines of Aboitionism, be he
candidate for State, or County offices.
Remember these things, fellow citizens, and
all that we ask of you on next election day, is
to render fair, candid, honest verdict, given
with these facts we'll pondered and without
leaving one ofthem out OF your consideration,
when you are making up your minds for whom
to cast your votes.
ROBERT nj. TAYLOR. ESQ.