Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1858-07-30
OUR CONVENTION, AND THE RE-
SPONSE

SPONSE-
Il affords US great pleasure 10 inform our
readers that so far as we have heard or been
able to learn, there is not single press 10 the
whole State, opposed to sham democracy, which
has not endorsed the action Of the late State
Convention, and huisted the names of John M.
Read and William E. Frazer, as Standard
bearers in the coming campaign. This single
fact speaks volumes in favor Of onr success,
and the defeat of lecofocuism at the coming
election; and if further evidence ON the sub
ject be needed, We have it in the bad temper,
and desperate writings of not few of the
lower class Of so-called democratic editors. =
Afraid TO publish the Platform, for fear of
spelling all their criticisms upon il, and unable
to state single fsct derogatory to the charac-
ter of the Convention, Or the fitness Of its
nominees, they manifest their chagrin and vent
their spleen By calling names, accompanied BY
the usual quantity OF deliberate lying. This,
as might be expected, is the msgnanimous
course adopted by our cotenporary down
street. He could not but see and envy the
characters Of the men who composed the Con-
veniiou, and the harmony and enthusiasm of
their action; and more than this, the cordial
response from all who are honestly opposed to
free trade and slavery ex ensi9n, and the gari-
Gus otLeE iniquiiies Of spurious demooracy
These were all uupalatatie bat fixed facts,
which could neifLer be prevented nor explain
ed AVA; and in this dilemma the editor Of the
Gazette, like whipped sehoolboy, without the
candor TO admit the truth, aud too jealous 10
be just, resorts to the congenial and harmless
pastime of calling names, and making fspocts. :"
Children, and espoeally bad ones, and some-
times, tor, very large ones, are sadly addicted
to here bad habits, notwithstanding the most
commcndable efforts Of their parents and
friends TO teach them better manners; and es-
pecially will they indulge in such things, when
their '.,Dammas don't know they are out. -
Hence it Is that Convention composed ofsuch
men as Judge Bauks, of .Berks, Judge Jessup.
Of Susquehanpa, VIM. B. Mann, Morton Nc
Michael, Jos. R. Flanagan and ex-Mayor Gil
pin, of Philadelphia, James Yeach, Of Fay
cite, William McKennan, Of Washington, ex-
Governor Reeder, of Northampton, David Tag
CART, Of Northumberland, Jas J Lewis. of
Chester, and host of others like them from
this and other districts, is.sneerngly character
ized as a "Muatto Convention, :" aud fippantly
branded as Set of unprncipled "abolition,
ists.'' When such men as Douglass, Wise,
Forney, Walker, Bancroft, Stanton and others,
whose name is legion, are at open war with the
Buchanan administration, on its most iuip9I-
tant measures; and when the influence of these
men threaten TO defeat Lecomptun demoesaey
in almost every Congressional district 10 the
North and great west, we may perhaps indulge
our Somerset friend in his Juvenile pss,ime
above mentioned, merely reminding him las We
doubt not his mother has often done before)
that it is high time for him to abandon this IN
fantie relic of bad manners-to quit calling
names, making 'snoo,s," and telling lies
That the size, character, and unanimous action
OF our Convention should foreshadow defeat to
our friend, aad thus occasion distress, is not
much 70 be wondered at; but We do hope, for
tilie credit of the fraternity, that he will fall
back for roIief on that maxim of adult philos
oply which informs Us, that "what can't be
cured, must be endurel''