The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-01-30
Letter from an Indiana Democrat.

late election in the State of Indiana, and we
had intended to lay it before our readers ere
this, but its publication, owing to its length,
was deferred from time to time until now wo
have determined that it shall be no longer de-
layed. We owe our Indiana friend an apology
for our apparent neglect, but we hope he will
write often, and we will do him justice in the
future.
~ GOSHEN, INDIANA, 1862,
j. F. MEYERS, ESQ.,
Dear Sir: Your paper is received by me
weekly, and assure you is quite welcome
visitor.
am happy to see that the Democracy of
,"Old BEDFORD are at work. 1t is indeed high
time that the Democracy every where were up
and doing. No man who takes an impartial
view Of the events of the past year can fail to
arrive at The conclusion that the party in pow
or, from the President down, have proven them
selves utterly incompetent to administer the af
fairs of the Federal Governments; and that the
country cannot be brought safely out of the
dangers which menace its destruction until that
party is;rcinstated in power under whose wise
administration and able counsels we had grown
to be the proudest and most powerful nation of
people on the face of the earth. That the con-
servative men of all parties are awakening to
realization of this fact is becoming more mani
fest every day.
But my purpose in inditing this letter is to
give you a few items of news from Hoosierdom
The Democracy of the Hoosier State are all
right; and will at the coming election render in
thunder tones against the present Administra-
ton, the verdict: Tried, and fond soa,stmg.-
Every Democrat seems to feel that there is an
individual responsibility resting upen him which
it is his duty to discharge. 1t is not office seek
ers and political tricksters who are doing the
work here this fall, as far as the Democratic
partv ;s co,,eo,,,,,I uuIrvsv yvvnarrIy VI
the country, the men who feel that the hard
earnings of years are to be forced from their
pockets to fill the Golfers of set Of unscrupu-
lous demagogues aud corrupt politicians.
have attended our Democratic State, Con-
gressional and several county conventions, and
noticeable feature 1 observed about them all
was that they were composed OF the solid and
substantial men of the State; men whose coun-
tenances indicated that something else than the
anticipation of holiday spree had brought
them together; that they fully realized the ex-
tent of the dangers impending over our once
prosperous and happy land. The determination
and earnestness with which they acted sent the
conviction to the hearts of political wire work
ers that they were among men who would not
be trihed with nor imposed upon.
The Republican, or so-called Union Conven-
tions, present quite a different feature. / have
noticed that those which have attended have
been made up of Office seekers and noisy politi-
clans from the several towns in the county
mea who care not how soon the country goes to
ruin; who would be willing to see this glorious
structure of ours, reared by the hands of noble
patriots and wise statesmen, rent in twain if
that event would secure to them the patronage
of some petty county office.
The opposition are making strong effort to
stem the tide of conservatism which is rolling
in upon them, and which threatens to sweep out
of existence every vestige of fanaticism and alb
olitionism remaining ir the State. Every mea-
sure is being resorted to, no matter how foul
and unfair, to keep their rotten vessel from sink
ing. One Of their lodges is the assumption of
the name of Union party.C) What sacrilegc
But that dodge won't work. They will be found
in about the same predicament in which ccr-
tain animal was that attempted to disguise it.
self by putting on the lions skin-its long ears
would stick out. The 'nigger" will stick out,
no matter what name this "Republican" party
assumes. They can put on no disguise that will
hide that gentlepan's woolly head.
Another move& this INSCRIPTIONS organi-
cation is their attempt to foist upon tie shoul-
dcrs of the Indiana Democracy the sins of Jesse
ID. Bright. The Sth of January Convention is
stigmatized as the Convention of the Jesse d.
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barren of any beneficial results to the party
which has set it on foot, have not the slight
est doubt. The fact isl speak positively,
having been delegate to the convention-that
every man on the ticket nominated at the 9Th
of January Convention voted and labored for
our gallant standard bearer in the contest of
1860, Stephen A. Douglas; while the one or
two Democrats on the ticket nominated by the
pseudo Union party on the 18th of June, voted
for Breskinridgs and with Jesse d. Bright
were co-laborers with the Republican party in
its efforts to defeat Douglas. The Democracy
of Indiana are to-day neither Douglas men nor
Bright men. They are laboring for no partic-