The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-06-15
THAT SOLDIERS. CONVENTION.
A Transparent and Impudent swtndre.

I Cu, nelQ III Ile +ACduCTIN oi huSiC on
Tuesday was withoutquestion the most
/ impudent Abolition swindle ever at
! tempted by that infamous party. But
/ few soldiers ofany merit were in atten-
! dance at it: the great body Of it being
/ composed Of bunmerS and lOaferss ssome
of whom on Tuesday evening display
ed their valor in Lager Beer Saloons
| by abusing the bar tenders, and refus-
ing to settle for their beverages. These
fellows.
''Who never set squadron in the field
Nor the divisions of battle know
More than spinster,
have the incOnceivable audacity 10
speak for the thousands of meritOrious
soldiers scattered throughout our State.
This convention was not only an AbO-
lition gathering, but it was of the gen.
uine Radical stripe, as will be seen by
/ the following resolution which it pass
ed almost unanimously:
/ Resoired, That the loyal majority in
/ Congress deserves our gratitude, that
radical evils require radical remedies,
and that the nation should take no step
/ backward in its march TO the grand
/ destiny that surely await unfaltering,
persistent adherents to the cause Of g.
quail freedom.
/ The drawer Of this resolution pretaced
/ it with a speech. He said there was
/ not word in the resolutions offered by
( the Committee endorsing Congress-
! Soldiers were indebted 10 the loyal
members for support, and it would not
+ do now to go back on those members
/ for ANDREW JOHNSON or any other
man."
/ But the action of this miserable gath
ering in excluding and insulting Dem
Ocratic veterans who were regularly e.
/ Iected, was in keeping with their usurp-
/ ing partizans in Congress eXpelling reg
ularly elected Democratic Congressman.
/ In order to give our readers an idea Of
( the infamy OF these Abolition creatures
/ we will direct their attention to the
/ course pursued in regard to the delega-
! ton from Cumberland, Gen. Geary's
/ own county. lii pursuance Of the call
/ for a County Convention of Soldiers,
/ the meeting took place, and n we learn
from the Carlisle Volunteer, 'abOut one
/ hundred and fifty from the rural dis
tricts were in attendance" "It soon
became evident" says the Volunteer,
I ''T0 the astonished followers of Sum-
, ner and Stevens, who had expected to
/ have everything their own way, that
out of about one hundred and seventy
delegates present, fully one hundred
and fifty Of them repudiated the nOml-
nation of John w Geary, and enthus-
iasticaIIy favored the election of HES
ter CIymer. Five delegates were elect
ed to the Pittsburg Convention. every
one of whom is an ardent supporter of
F Mr.. Clymer; and resolutions We're a.
d0pted dcn0Uncing the radical disu-
nionist- in Congress, declaring that the
Southern States are entitled to imned
late representation, avOwing their op-
position 20 negro suffrage. and eIdors-
ing the policy of Andrew Johnson and
the nomination Of Hie>ter Clynrr.
The delegation elected from Cumber-
land county, came on to the Conven-
ton, and here is the way they We're
treated. This is their Own statement
which We have in their own hand writ
ing:
In pursuance of call by Mai. Gen.
uarranft. for a soldiers Convention,
the soldiers of Cumberland county met
in convention at Carlisle on Monday,
the 18th Of May, 1866 10 select delegates
to represent them at Pittsburgh, on
Tuesday the 9TH of June folloWlng.-
Their, were in attendance at this Con-
ventiou about one hundred and eighty
hOnorably discharged soldiers, many OF
whom had been veterans, and who Sc
iected ~ their delegates Captains \. 5.
Woodburn, :. C. Wagner. W. p. Floid,
j. \. Graham and Isaac II. Graham.
These delegates in accordance with the
wish of their fellow soldiers came to
this city, presented their credentials to
3rii.jt yltUpOrted 10 be q f0hreatiOa and
were ruled out in the following dis
graceful manner:
After the Temporary organization a
committee of one from each Congress
sOnal district was elected on Creden-
tials. When the fifteenth district,
which embraces Cumberland county
was called, instead of reading the COM
mittee men named by the delegation,
the Secretary read the name Of Colonel
Speakman, who was neither named or
selected by the delegation. This com
mittee on credentials was chosen by
those who seemed to have the wires
set, and who were playing upon them
for their own use, or to the interest of a
political faction. When the commit,
tee reported they gave seats to sell
constituted delegation, thus excluding
those whom thesoldierS of fCumberland
county had chosen to represent them
or in other words to those who had
been defeated in the Carlisle conven-
ton, and this for the simple reason
that the bona fde delegates would moi
1 ,,1oJun themselves IN StlpuOrt (fCary