The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-07-11

teachers Institutes later with political COM
munication, finely spiced with the nigger. And
now we have before us q TRADE of abuse pour
ed upon nearly every one, both right and left ;
what the next will be my imagination fails me
when | attempt to conceive. / would just state
here, Mr.. A, that it is very ungeritemanly in
you to be railing at persons that have laid moth
ing in your way. My writing is NO clique busi-
ness; SO, if there is any fling in it you don't
like put your slang at me. Yes, friend A, there
is great deal of truth in the saying, ''lie down
with swine and get up with feas; and no per-
son knows it better than your distinguished self;
for l suppose you speak from experience. You
certainly are full of them. BE careful, son, that
you don't get one in your ear. You say that
my previous letters are Misrepresentation of
your sentiments and those of other Republicans
of your section of the country. Now, sir, in
answer to this accusation, / would say that to
make an assertion is quite different thing from
substantiating it, and an assertion unsubstanti-
ated Injuries none but the person who makes it..
So, sir, you are a downright falsifer in saying
that said aught concerning any Republican in
your vicinity excepting yourself. AS for you,
we will now proceed to inspect you little more
closely and sec if all is sound in Denmark. Let
me see AS for the wife, Well, if you do want
dingy consort, you will not be- likely TO ac-
knowledge it under present circumstances AS
this is a mere matter of conjecture, | will pro-
ceed to facts. You say you are no advocate of
the social or political equality of the negro So,
Of course, you are no Abolitionist But you
are Black Republican, or Turncoat. Ihope
you will not be so regardless of truth as to deny
this. Did you not some seventeen or eighteen
months ago, make speech in your own town
ship, which you announced beforehaMl to be
Black Republican speech9 Did you not in that
speed lembody the doctrine of the ''irrepressible
conflicts" Did you not substantiate this dochipe
by extracts from the notorious Helper Book
and speeches Of some of the avowed Abolition
lists in the country? Now, then, Mr.. A, this is
not exactly advocating negro equality; but when
man does this, what will he not do if an op.
portunity presents itself? Besides this speech,
your letters show your principles. You could
not write short essay upon the weather and
crops without splicing 1t with the everlasting
niger" 'sNigger' is your tune--and ''nigger"
is your song, and it's Niger with you all along.
Haven't you forgot the "jug" of sixty-one, that
you must be heaping your pretty epithets. upon
boy of some thirteen or fourteen years of age?
Truly, consistency, thou art a jewel! and now
important that big guns, like A, should bear
this in mind. You ask what the constitutional
rights of the traitor are AS you seem so con-
ident in expressing your belief that l do not
know it is with equal confidence that l believe
you to be too much of an ;gnoramus to under
stand did l explain. You ask me how I am 60
ing to settle the war. Well, friend A, this is
big question, indeed, but as old Abr'm. Lincoln
is President, instead of your humble servant,
Timothy Swipes, it so happens that have not
got the settlement of it. Again, you ask who
are to pay the expenses of the war; In this
case, Mr. A, unless you reckon the paltry sum
OF few millions against the lives of thousands
of our best citizens, we are all paying for it, at
dear rate. You speak very confidently of the
downfall of Democracy. This is worse than
the silliest nonsense. What! The party which
has 50 galantly met and dispensed an the d3Ss-
gerous isns of the past half century, tobe oyer
come by the filthy intrigues of party founded
upon the infdelity of Tom Paine and the cor
ruptiens of the worst of all the revolutionary
cabals that ever existed!
have no reason to doubt your saying, Mr..
A, that small minds imagine themselves great,
and that bank cartridges do no harm, for if that
article of yours, of the 23d of June, had con-
tanned tho special thunder which you intended
for one Timothy Swipes, it certainly would have
blown him out of existence.
TIMOTHY SWIPES.