The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-07-18
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
ST. CLAIR Tp., July IL, 1862.


see by looking over the Bedford Inquirer
OF the 4th and 11th inst, in each of those num-
bers, short, but utterly false statement con-
cerning the projected new township, which was
to have been formed out of parts of Bedford,
st. Clair and Union. Now, Mr.. Editor, in Or
der to give your readers an idea how this pro-
ject was gotten up, and how it was defeated in
the end, the writer Of this will give you cor
rect and true statement from the beginning.
In the first place, as the Inquirer calls it, "the
project" was not a Democratic one, but really
gotten up by certain Justice of the Peace and
certain other gas-bag, both black republicans
who made and framed the plan for new town.
ship, stating to'the writer if he would agree to
take hold of this ''project', and have the peti-
tions, &C., gotten up, that they would not let
the writer stick, but would agree to help him
pay all costs that might be made in the matter,
whether we got the new township or not. They
also agreed to get every republican in that part
of Union which would fall into the new town
ship, to go for the division, if the writer would
agree to get the Democrats of his parts of Union
and st. Clair to do so, and in this way we could
get one of the best townships in the county, and
they in Union would be cut off from the ridge
and mountain tax payers, who paid very little,
and had nearly all the roads and schools to be
kept up by the Taxpayers Of the lower end, and
stated that the upper end had nearly all the chill
dren and they might sec how they got them
schosled. SO the writer went to work and got
all arranged to hold the election When Ia
and behold what did this Squire and his gas
bag coadjutor and few more of the Republi-
cans do, but go to work and make a calculation
how the politics of the township would stand if
so divided, when they found the old part of
Union would be Democratic, as well as the new
township. Well, this began to make them feel
uneasy, and the said Squire cast u look ahead
and got frightened at what he supposed to be
cutting a stick to have himself well whipped
with some day, seeing that his lease of office
was not fixed for life. So the Squire and the
gas-bag and certain William, who was last
spring badly beaten by the Democrats of old
st. Clair, for School Director along with few
more who are every spring looking up for some
little township office from fence inspector to the
justiceship, went to work, rode the township,
saw every Republican, told them how matters
might work some day if this project would sue
coed, and urged every ono to be up and doing,
day and night, to defeat this division. They
even held night meetings, appointed men to go
and see every Democrat at the upper end, urg-
ing on them not to go for the division, stating
to them that their road and school taxes would
be more than double, and they in the lower end
felt for their interest, and hoped and prayed that
they would not make political matter cut of
1t In any way; and thus the Democrats in the
upper end, nearly all, were induced to vote a.
gainst the division. And now they claim the
defeat OF project started by themselves as q
great Republican victory. So ends the getting up
OF the project by the Esquire and gas-bag of the
new township.
The Writer will also ask you, Mr.. Editor, to
The Democrats never did ANIL hope % never viii viii,
desire toput black, sinking negro on an equal
lty with the white man. But, Mr.. Editor, we
like to see the whtes have equal rights let them
be poor or rich, and Mr.. Bradley is not negro
and will agree to have him come into open
court and let him sit side by side with certain
Republicans who objected to him voting and let
the judge, jury and the whole court say which
is the whitest or looks the most like n negro.
The writer knows those persons well, and iude.
ing from the looks, say lips, nose, blue eyes,
STRAIGHT hair, white skin, red cheeks, &C., MIR.
Bradley would stand A No. i and the only
iooooh tilO iscpuDuSttuo tiy W ulSlFdnclllSe
this youth and his father, is that they are Dem
ocrats and nothing else. Yet, Twas told few
days ago, that there might be another reason
given by one person for his opposition to young
Bradley's vote. 1t appears that this person
wanted to marry young Bradley's mother when
girl, but Mr.. Bradley being much the best
looking man, of course succeeded, to the great
disgust and disappointment Of his very white
rival. Mr.. John Bradley, the father of this
young man, was a regular voter, to my own
knowledge, in st. Clair township, until one fall
when the whig politicians began to think there
was going to be tight election, and hence OBJ
jectedto his vote. No one being by, at the time,
to investigate the case for him, and being poor
man, they scared him away, and he has never
since offered to vote. The Inquirer also states
that the Democrats pulled the nenita5le niqqer
up to the polls to vote on the division of the |
new township. This is lie of the deepest dye |
No one asked MIR. Bradley to go, or to vote, but |
he went of his own free will He asked me for
a ticket and said that was going to be his first
vote, as he was going to vote on age
MIR. Editor, desire through your columns,
to ask the Inquirer to copy this, so that its read
ers may see correct history of the now town.
ship ''proect," and the Bradley case as it stands.
THE WRITER.
The following letter from highly valued
correspondent, should have appeared in our last,
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