The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-01-13
The Fraud Oonsummated.

The Fraud Uonsummated.
As was expected, the abolition majority IN
shs House Of Representatives. have denied the
people of Bedford, Fulton and Somerset their
rights in that body. By a majority of 200,
the voters within the district composed OF those
counties, decided that Messrs. Meyers and Find
lay should be their representatives IN the State
Ies;slature, whilst the same decision is shown
By tie whole vote, home and army, as return
sd 10 the Secretary of the Commonwealth by
f,eo Of the three district return judges. lhis
was certainly pruna foce evidence OF the cleo
ton Of .hase two candidates, and nothing short
of an investigation by a committee raised upon
a petition for contest, could legally have rebuff
ted this evidence The priHaa facte case made
ont so clearly by Messrs. Meyers and Findiay,
entitled them to seats in the House, until their
opponents, by the course prescribed by law,
disproved their right to such seats. But greed
Of Office, personal spite and chsgrin at the e.
lection of Democratic representatives in dis
trict especially carved up for the benefit of alb
olitionism, animated the majority to usurp The
pewer. without investigation, TO place Messrs
Ross and Armstrong in the seats which right
fully belonged to Meyers and Findlay. There
is no lawyer in Pennsylvania, who has the slight
cot regard for his professional reputation, who
will say shat the Democratic candidates were
not entitled to their seats. There is not an
honest man in the country, who, when told that
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once declare that their names should have been
placed upon the roll of members. But what :
care the shoddy spoil-hunters for law or hon
eaty? They do not go to the legislature for
lawful or honest purposes. Men who are worth
a hundred thousand dollars and who have been
20 the House, for the sake of either 800 saIa-
ry, or the less distinguished honor connected
with the Office. They 60 there to levy black
mail and to steal. There is no sense of right
In their sordid souls. Avarice, cunning, of the
lowest order, conspiracy and fraud characterize
their secret legislative life, though their exter-
OF glitters with the false sparkles of a specous
ingenucusness, which presents them to the OBJ
saints Just dropped from heaven. In these days
of civil war, when men and women are i'm
prisoned and expatriated for speaking i'll Of the
powers that be, people are disinclined, out of
every fear, to scrutinize closely, the conduct of
their rublic servants. This is fact which !
will be recorded In history to the shame of the |
party at present in power and to the disgrace
Of the American people. We are 10th to ad- |
nit it, but it is nevertheless, true. Hence, the
scoundrels who rule the roast in our national
&nd State legislatures, go unwbipt of justice,
and are encouraged to continue and to aggra-
vate their crimes against the rights and inter-
cannot last forever. The long, long night of !
civil slavery must sooner, or later, be succeeded
BY the bright and glorious day of constitution |
al liberty; and when that day dawns wo 10 the
conspiratorI who have defrauded and plunder-
ed the people wo to the men who have tram !
pied under foot the Constitution and the laws,
to maintain themselves In power!
To the people of Bedford, Fulton and Som
@kDSe1 w o0y1 hnfS P01Su~S' O1A AtNC |
been wrssted from you BY most outrageous
usurpation, you have been basely cheated and
wantonly insulted by the abolition majority in |
the House of Representatives but these out |
RACES upon your civil privileges, win only
strengthen the Democratic cause and give you /
the weapons with which to slay the monster
that tramples you down. Be vigiant, be de- |
termined and your yindieaiion Is certain.
aB-Why is President Lincoln the best bene-
factor Of all the clergyf Why-bscause he
makes them truly apostolic by keeping them /!
strictly up to the orders of their Master: PRO
szds zeithe sod sllrer, nor brass in your pQr-
saf.'' Malt. leth ch,. 9th verse. Ali which /
have lately disappeared under the benign rule
Of our said good father Abraham.
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