The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-08-27
IMPORTANT QUERIES" !"

Under this caption the editors of the Aboli-
ton organ, in their last issue, ask number Of
questions concerning The indebtedness of our
up our public buildings, &C., &c. They pretend
TO be very much exercised for the economical
administration of our county affairs, thinking,
10 doubt, that by raising the cry OF extrava-
will be able TO make a vote, or two, for their
f>hy candidate, Trout at the coming election.
The game Is very sharp one, hut it is also one
at which none but men Of truth and honor can
play successfully. Editors who do not hesitate
10 publish such deliberate falsehoods as that
which lately appeared IN the Abolition organ,
charging the Democratic party with being oPpo-
sed to Christianity, and thus writing themselves
down not 9uiy as wilui, unbusbing faisiferT,
but also as the most consumTlsfe fools alive, bad
better not take hand in this game. They are
not only too reckless, but they are too awkward,
! 10 lay hold of the pdge-tools with which il
must be played. But, as they have rashly at
tempted 1t, and that, TOO, without any banter
fIom any person, or party, they can blame none
but themselves if they gst their fingers cut
before they are through with it.
I@~"We are asked by these pinks of economy,
''how many thousands of dollars were borrowed
| last Spring" If they mean 10 ask how n4och
money was borrowed by the County, at that
tim-, we can tell them without the least oiffi-
Guilty. II ,eaS just enough to pay off he in
debtsdness to the State, Of the late .9bolHion
County Treasurer, who is one of the immaccu-
late economists that set up this piteous ulula-
ton about the County expenses. Had this
bungling fellow done his duty and managed the
County Treasury in proper manner during his
term, the County would not have been compelled
pay S250000 TO the State, as it was forced TO
do, few weeks before he went out ofoffice, and
which it could do only by rrsorting to loan.
The reason for the borrowing of money by the
Commissioners, last Spring, lies at the door OF
this model Abolition Treasurer and all his bare
faced falsehoods cannot shift it anywhere else
Our Abolition querists also PROFOUND some
questions concerning repairs that are being made
to the Court House, Jail, &c, and Insinuate that
they are made only to ''pension off, certain
gentleman who saw 6t 10 desert their organiza-
ton and join the Democracy. Now these re-
pairs are ali necessary, and on ;he principle that
ga stitch 10 time saves nine" there will be mo-
ney saved to the County, by having them made
now. The AboIitionists, no doubt would ra-
their use the vaults OF the Court House offices
rendezvous of secret political societies, than
keep the public buildings from becoming roof
less and rotten, as the Democratic Commission
ers are trying'to do. As to pensioning any bod-
y, the Democratic party has no pensioners
neither has ii any Tom Fords 10 act as its agents
IN purchasing venal Know Nothing E4itors.
We beg pardon of our readers for thus refer
ring at length to these vsry''important qupries;'
they really did not require an answer at our
hands, but they gave Us such a good opportunity
of showing up the hollowness of Abolition pre-
tensions TO economy, that We could not resist
giving them full broad-side.