The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
For the Gazette.
MIR. MEYERS:


As quiet citizen of old Napier, / have
thought proper to troubleyou with few thoughts
and facts which passing events have called me
to notice, and which / consider that the Dem
ocrats of Bedford county generally should
know.
by accident happened to see the two last
numbers of the Bedford Inquirer, and having
heard it stated that my neighbor and friend, Mr..
Andrew Crisman, had been spoken of in that
paper as being anything but an honest, upright
man, l was induced to read the filthy sheet to
see what the editor kno,cs about Andy, as he
calls him. The Inquirer of the 10Th inst, asks
the question, "Is there man in Bedford coun-
ty personally acquainted with Andy Crisman,
who knows him to be a loyal MANI" l have
been resident of Bedford county for fifty years,
and have been intimately acquainted with An
dy Crisman ever since was little boy, and
have never heard his ''loyalty'', or good charac-
ter as citizen doubted until he became can
didate for County Commissioner, and only then
by the Editor of the Inquirer, for l am conf
dent that no honest man in the county who is
as well acquainted with Crisman as l am, has
ever had the slightest cause to doubt his loyalty
in any way
The Inquirer again asks lis there man
in the county who knows that Andy Crisman
was not at the meeting specified ANDY was
at meeting referred to by the Inquirer, but
not for the purpose which he (the editor) would
fain have the people believe was the object in
view. for there was, in reality, no meeting there,
unless the coming together of a few citizens
who met together at place and talk over the
sspassino tidinas Of the times' can be called a
meeting, for there was no organization, and they
were not in any house that night for the pur-
pose of holding meeting, and know that An
dy Crsman is too good q patriot to take part
in any meeting contrary to the laws OF the land
But the editor says:-''We do know that he
was at the meeting" "Wc do knoac that he
,Vas Merei" We kno,r, too, that lie has been one
of the leading clements Of resistance !" Now |
would like to know where the editor of the
Inquirer was at the time of that meet
ing, that he kno,cs these things he certainly
must have been very close, or he could not kno'c,
for unless he saw Andy Crisman there, he Ger,
tainly could not knoW that be was there, and l
would like to know what the editor of the In
qurer would be doing, or what business called
him to the West side of the Chestnut Ridge,
at that time in the day
In the Inquirer of the 10Th inst, find the
following sentence in an article under the cap
ton of candy Crisman" ''We know he is
terrible subject, so is jeff Davis, and there is
quite an analogy between them" Now permit
me to ask the editor of the Inquirer when and
where did you become acquainted with Mr.
Clisnan? l doubt very much whether You ev-
er saw the man, much less become acquainted
with him. And hno,v that you are unac-
rtnt 81 n n
statements respecting him that you have made
No man can be acquainted with Andrew Girls
man and not respect him, for his uprlghtness and
good citizenship will make him esteemed By cr-
cry honest man, and the tongue OF the siander-
er can do him no injury. Mr. Crisman has
Years; aho 1o~t.fe T. ,aif diqsKnshlp ter many
brought before the public as a candidate for Of
fee, his character was without q bemish, but
no sooner than his name is announced, his char
acter is assailed, and that, too, by men who
have no knowledge of his virtues. But let them
90, their reports cannot injure Mr.. Crisman in
the parts he is known, and [ trust the people
of Bedford county have too much respect for
virtue, to be led astray by any assertions which
the editor of the Inquirer may make. l should
have thought it useless, Mr.. Editor, to notice
the Inquirer at all, but being a neighbor of Mr..
Crisman's, I thought it no more than my duty
to let the people know the true character of the
man at home For many years Mr.. Crisman
and were opposed to each other in political
views, but then, as now, we were true ''loyal"
friends, and if am spared until the 18th of
next month, I intend to vote for my neighbor,
let the Inquirer say what it will, and l think
that the vote Mr.. Crisman will receive in Ma
pier township will convince the people through
out the county that the Inquirer man hs,o,cs
but little about him.
NAPIER.
Sept. 29,lS62.