Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-09-28
TRUE DEMOORACYI
ELOQUENT EXTRACTS

| racy, was held IN the Court House, In Bed
ford, on the evening of Saturday, Sept.
22d, 1866. That firm and reliable Demo-
crat, Col JOSEPH w. TATE, was unani-
mously chosen President of the meeting.
After several able and eloquent addresses
had been delivered, on motion of Hon.
BENZ. f. MEYERS. Editor of the Bedford
Gazette, and present Democratic candidate
for Senator in this District, Col TATE was
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
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 Winklereid
Switzerland had her Winklereid
and her VIM. Tell; Scotland had
her Robert Bruce, and America
her Booth. THE TIME is COMING
WHEN THERE WILL BE A MoNU-
MENT ERECTED TO BooTH, HIGH
Err THAN THE SPIRE OF LINCOLN,
who sleeps beneath the sod of
Illinois. "
Il 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 truly Democrat
ie character, and retired in the midst Of
great applause.
In the Bedford Gazette of JAM 1861, 0.
E. SHANNON. Esq, Democratic candidate
for Prothonotary, in a card published over
his own signature, in speaking of debate
in the Bedford Lyceum, uttered the follow
ing patriotic aud truly Democratic senti-
ments
a distinctly said, however,
that | would not fight at alt in
such an unnatural war-that |
was like some of my Republican
friends, | would prefer staying at
home; but, IF WE'RE COMPELLED
TO PULL TRIGGER, ! HOPED IT
WOULD BE WHEN THE MUZZLE OF
MY GUN WAS POINTED NORTH. "
Speaking of the abolition of Slavery in
the District of Columbia, B. F. Meyers
said
Congress is, truly, already in
sane. The conduct of that body
would have made a Secessionist
of Job, if he had been a slave
holder. "-Gaeette, APrill8, 1862.
e Speaking Of the Draft he said
"But let not Congress and the
Administration build false hopes
upon this patriotic submission.
Let it not be expected that Penn
sylvania will again uneomplain-
ingly respond to a similar call for
conscripts. 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 will be worse tnan useless" "
Gazette, Jan. go, 1868.
On the same subject Meyers said:
eve say to Congress stay your
encroaching hand, lest you wake
the sleeping lionof P Pennsylvania $
pridel We say to the President,
make not a Dionysius of yourself,
for there are yet Damons among
the people of the North, who will
dare to resist any usurper. >
Bedford Gazette, Feb. 81, 1868.
In speaking Of the Provost Marshall
Myers said:
"When the President shall see
fit to undertake an enforcement
Of the Conscription, 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 in
which he lives, by accepting this
odious office Let that man. aUho=
euer he mag be, mnhe nn his mind
that he can not iUe q peaceful life,
nor d5e an honorable death. CD
eette, March 13, 1868.
| In the speech of Hester Clymer at I'm
iontown, as reported for the Pittsburgh
Post, the Democratic Organ of Alleghany
county, Pa, we find the following passage
''By the assassination of Abra-
ham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson
became President of the United
States. If, under his administra-
ton, harmony should come again
to the land, who will not see in
THE AUsPICIoUs EVENT the spirit
of God moving over the troubled