Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1858-09-24
RgDFOnD INQUTR Err.
From the Somerset Herald and WAiy.
THE BEDFORD GiZETTE,

This organ OF the "l4ecompton Niger De-
mocracy" publishes in its last issue, para
graph copied from this paper, and rs us cop
led from the Philadelphia North American, sta
ting that Hon. Frank Blair and Senator 1rum-
bull addressed meeting at Alton, H., in the
yery place where, twenty-oue years ago, Love-
| joy was slain. The paragraph adds: 'sNo,s
! tie people flock an thousands 10 hear his breth-
er proclaim the doctrines for nshich TINT blood
DnS she'd"
| 1t will be remembered that Lovejoy was kill
1 ed in iiot created by the pro-slavery men who
/ denounced him as an abolitionist, and the North
| american cites AS an evidence of the change
! of public sentiment iC that community, the fact
that Blair & Trumbull who are opposed 10 The
erifnSion Of StaUsry, particularly into Kansas,
should have been welcomed and listened to by
thousands. From this paragraph, Mr.. Benja-
min Franklin Meyers, editor of tho Bedford
Gazette with that profundity Of ratiocination
! for which he is so remarkable, proves that the
! North .fmerican is an abolition sheet, that the
! Herald 8. Whig is also an Abolition organ, that
the said Herald g. Whig is The organ, not only
Of the Abolitionists OF Somerset, but of Bedford
County ergo, the Republican must be iieniif.
ed with the Abolition party" To such pro-
| found logic, We must of course bow with all
due Difference, not even daring TO plead in ex-
! tcnuation an editorial record of ten years, or
the fact that the article was merely copied by
US as an item Of news. we can but throw our
selves upon the mercy of the court. As spe-
cial plea in mitigation of damages however, we
crave leave to set forth the following facts
/ Iu June Of 1856 business called us from home,
and not liking 20 trust the old Herald to edit
itself during ou: temporary absence, we called
in the assistance of one Benz min franklin
| Meyers, then at that time a hanger Oh TO the
skirts Of the Know Nothing party in this good
" town, since promote! lin consideration Of his
/, services 10 a:.emntipQ Juias like to bctray
and sell ou, the American party Of the Ccun-
| ty) 10 the editorial chair of the Bedford Ga
zette. During our absence Aforesaid the Gin.
cinnati Convention met and brought forth its
nominees. On this momentous event, our tenn
porary substituted the Benz amin Franklin Mey
ers aforesaid, produced AMI published, in our
columns, as editorial, the following delcciable
article
/ THE L0C0F0C0 NOMINATIONS.
The mountain has labored and brought forth
Ten Cent jimmy and 10l .Niggrs That is
to say the long talked of '.Domoeratie National
Convention has come off and james Buchanan
v.
ted Tor President and Vice Presidfrt--so far
50 good = but le; Us look at the modus opsrandt
by which these gentlemen received their nomi-
nations. a wholesale and unbfuShing trucking
10 the Sou.h, marks the whole course of the
procedure A platform enlbodyng tue
inlquity Of Douglas, eyinces their love for the
peculiar ,Rsfaiufion, aud tiuie- serving spirit
that pervades the entire deliberations of the
die 4hBscasaqa HE Is shaesjed RaEiy
for a ticket in the National political lottery, for
the fall of 1856 be II So Douglas and Pierce
have doubtless long been weary of bearing the
Kansas burthen themselves Let one wfo has
dtfeady botosd to the hideous image, and seko
acalt be ably assisted in iaggiag the enormous
Toad, BY has partners glossy skinned. -l0l-let
him take upon him the weight hat has sunk his
colleagues so irredeemaby 10 The mud of politi-
cal dlshonor. Everything that has been done
10 which the South has objected, will OF course,
be studiousIy avoided BY these ne'c champion
pqnderers to fAe institution of Stsrers. All
the shouts that have gone up from the awaken
ing North for Freedom III new Territories, will
be disregarded. AT least so the signs we gath
ef from the sttings of the Cincinnati Conveu-
tion, force US to believe. More On this subject
anon"
How the pure Buchanan Democracy OF Bed
| ford County may view this effuson from the
pen of the editor of the Gazette, we cannot sur
nise, but We DO know that it was denounced
by their brethren of this town as rank .fboLi-
fton'Sm at the time it appeared, and in our
opinion approaches much nearer to il than any,
thing that ever appeared in the columns of this
paper.
And this defendant pleads as further plea
10 this BEHALF that at time and place and in
the paper aforesaid, to wit, the "Herald &
Whig," Benjamin Franklin Meyers (now of the
Bedford Gasettel being then temporary editor
of the "Herald & Whig," printed and publish
ed in the editorial columns of the newspaper
aforesaid, accompanied tOitA remarks purportiag
to be editorial, the following choice and senten-
tious platform. purporting to be "a SUITABLE
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM" which said article
he then and there copied from tie " Y Her
aid, aud which tbeing concluded by his own
reasonlng) he then and there adopted as his
own.
''Resoiued, That niggers, pistols, bowie
knives. aud bludgeons, are the fundamental
principles of Democracy, as re-cons tructed
under the warlike administration of Franklin
Pierce, by our dear friends the Southern Mig
ger G4:,;tters.
''Resotved, That The killing OF contemplate
Irish waiter, holding the position of nigger,
for neglect of duty or impudence to Demo-
cratic guest coming down late to breakfast, is
proper warning to the whole Irish race that
they can no longer expect to rido rough shod
over the democracy of this Union.
"ResoLUed. As the Constitution, as interpre-
ted by our Southern teachers the nigger dri-
GERS, has already established African slavery in
all the territories of the United States, that