Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-10-05
8eoforo gnqulrer.
BEDFORD, Pa, FRIDAY, OCT. 5, 1866.
TRUE DEMOCRACY
ELoQUENT EXTRACTS.


BENZ. +. MEYERS. Editor of the Bedford
: Gazette, and present Democratic candidate
for Senator in this District, Col. TATE wa.
called upon to address the meeting. The
Colonel responded in his usual able and
eloquent manner. After the discussing the
issues Of the day the Colonel eloquently
exclaimed
Il believe that Providence had
a hand in the removal of Abra-
ham Lincoln | believe that the
name Of J. Wilkes Booth will
live; that he laid down his life for
his country, like Wnklereid
Switzerland had her Winklereid
and her VIM. Tell; Scotland had
her Robert Bruce, and America
| her Booth TIE TIME Is COMING
WHEN THERE. WILL BE MoNU-
3IENT ERECTED TO BooEH, HIGH
ER THAN THE SPIRE OF LINCOLN.
who sleeps beneath the sod Of
Illinois. "
4 am one Of those men of an
other country, who wear on their
Coat Of Arms the HAND and the
| DAGGER.
The Colonel continued at some length in
the same eloquent and patriotic strain, ut
tering only sentiments Of atruly Democrat
ic character, and retired in lhe midst Of
great applause.
| In the Bedford Gazette Of Jan. 1861, o.
e. SHANNON. Esq, Democratic candidate
for Prothonotary, in card published over
his own signature, in speaking of debate
| in the Bedford Iyceum, uttered the follow
ing patriotic and truly Democratic scnti-
u distinctly said, however,
that l would not fight at all in
such an unnatural war-that |
was like some Of my Republican
friends, / would prefer staying at
/ home; but, IF | WE'RE COMPELLED
ITo PULL TRIGGER, [ HOPED IT
WOULD BE WHEN THE MUzZLE OF
IMY GUN WAS POINTED NORTH
Speaking of the abolition Of Slavery in
the District Of Columbia. j. T. Meyers
said
Congress is, truly, already in
sane. The conduct of that body
would have made a Seqessionist
Iof Job, If be had been a slave
holder. ''-Gaeette, April18, 1862.
Speaking Of the Draft he said
But let not Congress and the
| Administration build false hopes
Qpon this patriotic Submission
4 Let it not be expected that Penn
sylyania win again uncomplain-
/ ingly respond TO a similar call for
consc1ipts. The people Of this
State have given their last man
to this bloody. though utopian
crusade. and until the President
and Congress revoke their aboli-
ton programme, a demand from
them for more troops from this
State viii be worse than useless.
Gazette, Jan. %, 1868
On the same subject Meyers said
eve say to Congress stay your
encroaching hand, lest you wake
the sleeping lion of Pennsylvania $
pride! We say to the President,
make not Dionyslus Of yourself,
for there are yet Damons among
the people Of the North, who viii
dare to resist any usurper. =
Bedford Gazette, Feb. q, 1868.
In speaking of the Provost Marshall
Myers said:
"When the President shall see
tit to undertake an enforcement
ofthc Conscrlption, we shall look
with some anxiety and more GU
rIosity for the name of the wretch
who will not scruple to disgrace
himself, and the community II
Z which he lives, by accepting thus
= odious Office. Let that man, a0ho=
eUe' he mag be. make up has nina
hat he can not hUe a peaceful hte,
: nor die an honorable death CD
zette, March Is, 1868.
!, In the speech OF Hester Clymer at Tn
2 2 ioptown, as reported for the Pitlsburgl
. R5st, the Democratic Organ Of Aileghanl
county Pa, we find the following passage
"By the assassination Of Abra.
ham Lincoln, Andrew johnson
/ became President of the United
4 STATES. IL, under his administra
s tioa, harmony should come again
to the land, who will not see il