The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-08-25

The &C, eat Winnebago," atlas cold Kicknpoo"
pays the Indians IN .Hiddtetown Paper
He has disgfaced Tie Democratic, tie KaoO
! Nothing aud Republican Pqrfles-Wlth
CeaSeieSs .fssiduily He HuRtS Jobs, Offices
| and Contracts lie d1rsS not Present his
name Before the People He Grawts to the
! Feet of the .AppOiatlng P0t0Pr-Hs BUYS
| Three DemocratS-He Bids $40, 900 for
| One Vote to elect Himself and Fa,ts-BV
| Corrupt Bargaining he imposes Hims.lf
| upon President LinC0ia-Congress Rebukes
! has Grimes by tWo-third Vote-W1nts
| Kelley to Vote to E1 punEe-Keitey Refuses,
| because "to Stir Foul Matter wouJd BE- to
| Produce a Stencil" and makes an Enemy o.
| @Old KickapoO'-8rc., &C., &c.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug IA.
| 10 the Union Men Of the Fourth Congress-
/ ionaL DiStrict:-A long and successful career
| in crime emboldens the guilty. A recent Illus
| tration of this law of human nature impes me
! to violate my lifelong rule of conduct, and for
4 once to notice political slauderer | do not,
| however, address you for the purpose Of repel-
r,g his inuendocs or falsehoods. My life has
been passed among you, and if its record, fam
liar to vou all, does not repel them, l have
lived in vain My purpose is simply to pierce
the mail Of i'll gotten gold in which the SANDER
ar has clothed hitqself, and give you a glimpse
at tbe loatbsone obk ct it protects.
The papers of Friday announce that Simon
Cameron. Of Dauphin equity, was serenaded
by his friends on the precedlog evening al III
Girard House in this city, and t.,'arad himself
Of the occasion TO Willy NJ co.iea7 ~59 ''''" 40.
SELF ''lhe Congressman o! Pal,4deipn'"' =" L
speech to the assembage.
was but youth when 1 first heard the
name of Simon Cameron, and It was as lie
ucrpetratur OF "a crime. He had been uIaae the
agent 0t th- g ,,-rupr.d Eo efu. .. .a-. go
mouat IF u.a.v i,e garH la .n
Indians. tui u,I .ta-u sI.-. s...
ranc. and he .pie,sue,s t. earira .J.a, ,.. ...
ut you who had then attained 10 auanhool,
though YOU may net, after the lapse vt 50 many
years, revive the 5eraiug indignation with "hish
you regarded the Infamous s"indler Of the
Indian, will doubtless remember that instead
of paving then the specie which the Govern
nent confded to him for that purpose, he re-
tanned it and gave them the notes Of the Mid
dletown Bank, Of which he was owner. At
their encampment in the remote wilderness,
these notes were utterly worthless. The lndi-
ans could not use them for any purpose there
ton. But what was that to Simon Cameron!
Was not their loss has gain, and was he not 50
much the richer by every note that tailed to
come home for redemption, though they did
suffer and staryel And those OF you who are
No. old enough 10 remember ali this, now know
why this bold, bad man l. sometimes spoken
of by your seniors as the great "luneoaso,"
and sometimes as odd kicKapJo.'
hsf-a grg}n
the tortuous career OF this man aud nave never
seen reason to abandon my first impression OF
his character. Whether acting with The Dem
ocratic the Know knothing, Or tie KepuOl-
can partv, for be has in turn disgraced them
all. he has never been false to his criminal Ia
stincts He has endeayored to turn them all
TO profitable account. His ambition IS sordld
and panders to his avarice, and he measures
honors by the perquisltes they expose to his
grasp. He has no confidence N the people and
is aware that they Gi5trust him. His speech ot
Thursday evening was not characteristic ot lIm
for he IL prone to the use OF Instruments. Ills
habit is to point the gGietto, bat TO employ an
other hand to drive it home. though an &C
tive participant in the politics ct his county
and State for more than halt century, dur
ing which long period he has pursued the profits
of office, of jobs, of contracts, with eager and
! ceaseless assiduty, he has never dared to per
nit his name to be presented to the people OF
county or State as candidate for ar elective
office. He craw Is to the feet OF the appoint
| ing power. He cares not who may be King
| so that he may ''still be Vicar of Bray" and
to that end he chaffers with and coTupt5 weak
! and needy members CT conventions and the Leg
| islature of both parties.
| need not recite the disgraceful facts atten-
| ding his several canVasses for the United States
| Senate Their nauseous odor fingers in your
nostrils to this hour. In the first he bought
| the votes Of three Democratic members. and IN
the last bid twenty thousand dollars for the one
vote which would have elected him. This last
! transaction was so fragrant that the Legislature
was ompeed to take cognzanceof IT, and Ii
iustic be not lame as well as blind, the law and
, honor Of our State will yet be vlndcatcd
The evil report of his deeds pervades the
country as reproach to our State Yes, un-
happily for Pennsylvania and her great inter
uests the buzzard- winged fame of Simon Camer-
I on is national. BY months of agcct @Ss't7tl.sa-
ton and corrupt bargaining he procured = mass
of letters certificates and Fecanta.i0ns, that la4-
nosed him upon President Lincoln as lhe rsp-
resentative man OF the keystone State That
was an evil hour for Pennsylvania. You also
remember how he organized the Navy Agency
= in this city, and feel the neffable reproaeh he
thus brought on oar Nav Yard IA g-a r.
cial and other business n-@
his nqa39u and il.-ua4e- a.,45a
-eIa ,lg a.4aE -lWa ue.useI q. Congress
from .4Go. pax. od.d l4Vo D,.I ,u.ll~len. Ia
fuence to have carried his point the estab-
lishment Of Naval Station at League lsland)