The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1864-02-12
DEMOCRATIC MEETINGl
An Immense Gathering!!


Pursuant to notice the Democracy of Bed
ford county assembled, in vast numbers, at the
Court House, Oh Monday evening last. The
meeting was called to order by the Chairman Of
the County Committee, John P. Reed, Esd
On motion, Col. F. D. BEEGLE, of St. Clair,
was chosen President. The following named
persons were selected as Vice Presidents:
VICE PRESIDENTS.
Samuel Davis, Hugh Moore, Geo. Rhodes,
James Burns, Archibald Blair, Jacob Bowser,
Andrew Crisman, J. G. Devorc, w. A. Powell,
Moses McIlwaine, JOS b. Noble, ]. B. Fluke,
Philip ]. Shoemaker, Thomas Donahoe, Daniel
Fletcher, VIM. States, William Pearson, John
Fulton, Solomon Steele, Samuel Whip, D. A
T. Black, John s. Schell, Richard Langdon.
SECRETARIES.
j. T. Gephart, George Reimund, Jacob B.
Anderson, James NJ. Reynolds.
On motion a committee to draft resolutions
and select a representative delegate and recon-
mend senatorial delegate to the next Demo-
cratic State Convention, was appointed. Tho
Committee was composed of two persons from
each election district, as follows: T. l.. Kerr,
j. ii. Rush. w. 0. Leary, ]. d. Earnest, Wm.
States, Johnson Hafer, John c. Figart, J. A. J.
Pearson, W. S. Beegle, Samuel II. Feather,
James Cessna, John Blair, G.. w. Horn, j. G.
Miller, Caspar Stroup, VIM. Keyser, Solomon
Steel, ]. b. Fiuke, B. Voluntine, Levi Devore,
L. Housarc, B. b. Steckman, Joseph Black, L.
Otto, ]. II. Koontz, D. A. T. Black, +. Friend,
f. Foster, John S. Schcll, Peter Dewalt, N. n.
Koons, j. G. Hartley, Hugh Wilson, E. North
craft, Jacob Walter, Samuel Beckley. George
Beegle, Francis Beard, w. H. Eurns, w. M.
Pearson, j. I. Noble, Aaron Reed.
During the absence of the committee the meet-
ing was ably ind eloquently addressed by Henry
G. Smith, of McConnellsburg, W. j. Baer, Esq,
of Somerset, VIM. Lyon, Esq, and others.
E. +. Kerr, Esq, chairman Of the committee
on resolutions reported the following:
Resolred, BY the Democracy Of Bedford coun-
ty in mass meeting assembled, that to labor for
the restoration of the administration of the Fed
eral Government TO the principles and policy of
the Fathers of the Republic, which gave TO all
the States just and equitable status within the
Union, which erected strong and vigorous ma
tionality, yet preserved the liberty of tho cii-
zen to degree before unparalleled in the histo-
~ Of civilization, is the paramount duly Of cv-
cry man who loves his home, bis country, OF his
civil freedom.
Resolyed, That We are now, as We have al
ways been, Internationally for the restoration Of
The Union that, unlike the Conditional 'sUnion-
ists," who declare their unwiilingncss TO consent
to tie restoration of The Union, except upon
condition that negro slavery shall be totally aban-
dencd by the people of the States in revolt, we
are willing TO receive those States back into the
Union, whenever their people shall return to
their allegiance to the Constitution, regarding
the fundamental law of the land and the enact
ments made by Congress, in accordance there
with, as the only authority to which we can
ask obedience, and as providing the sole but
amply sufficient punishment for the crime Of
treason.
Resotvea, That the greatest danger, The most
imminent peril to our country, growing out of
the present unhappy civil war, is the tendency
of our civil rulers towards despo5sm. The war
is question of months, or years; civil liberty
ia a question Of centuries of The past, and if
disturbed, must asitatc the ages of the future,
till Eternity itself shall dawn.
Rcsolcea, That we will uphold and defend, at
the cost Of life itself, the free institutions pur-
chased by the blood OF tho Revolution and trans
mitted to US as the most precious legacy that
could be bequeathed to their posterity by the
heroic fathers of the Republic Among these
VIC hold especially dear the rights Of Freedom
of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Freedom of
the Ballot and The right Of each State to regu-
late and control its domestic affairs in. its own
way, subject only to such restrictions as are inn
posed by the Constitution of the United States.
Resolred, That in the future we MUST and
WILL HAVE fair and free choice of our
civil rulers; that we will no longer tolerate the
system of fraud, intimidation and corruption,
which has been inaugurated by the party now
in power, and that we feel it our duty not mere
lY to our party, but to our country, to rid the
people of this incubus upon the will of the ma
joriiy.
Resoh'ed, That we will always sustain the
Government, rs defined by the organic law OF
the Republic, and we will uphold the oilm;ais-
t,ution Of the Government when we think it right
and condemn it when no think it wrong.
Resolrsd, That we rejoice in the co,rse pur
sued by tho State Treasurer, Hon. w. V. Nc
Grath, and by the Democratic members Of the
Legislature, in resisting the attempt of the Gov
ef;,or and his Abolition advisers to repudiate
the honest obligations of Pennsylvania, by re-
fasing TO pay the interest on the State debt in
coin.
Resolced, Tha. we approve Of the efforts made
by the Democrats in Congress and in our State
Legislatures to increase the pay of volunteers,
believing it far better to give the money OF the
Government to the faithful soldier, than to per.
nit it to be stolen by contractors, or what is
worse, used by the Abolitionists in briting vo-
ters.
Resohed, That we hail with pride and salts
faction the noble stand made for law snd right
and against usurpation and wrong, by the gal
liant sixteen Democrats i'm the State Senate and
we send them words Of cheer, bidding them to
remain firm to tho end, standing as they do, IN
the Thermcpyla of Pennsylvania's State Sovc-
reignty.