Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-10-05

| people to eat too much at once. In Ken
| lucky Johds0n had too much victory. Forty
| thousand majority for JEFF. Davis in South
ern State did not set well on the stomachs
Of Northern Johnsonists, and bad pains
have followed, with many remorseful glances
at the empty plate. Kentucky was worse
| than a defeat.
Then came another victory of the same
sort-the victory in New Orleans. It was
an overwhelming triumph of my policy"
Radicals were served Just right for opce
was the first iubilant ejaculation Of efery
Johnsonite. But moment 8 reflection, and
the cry of horror that went up from the
whole North, satisfied them that they
had punished things too fast. The people
were not prepared for so much of a johnson
victory as that And ever since, by sup
preston or mutilatiol of dispatches, and By
no end OF lying, they have been trying to es-
cape the consequences.
We viii make an Imperial tour through
the provinces, they said. Let the Sever
eign show himself, and appeal to the deYo-
ton and personal attachment Of his subjects
Let the papers be full of his triumphal pro-
gressI Let immense enthusiasm be created
by taking Grant and FarFagut along, as a
bad circus often provides itself with an ele-
Ns
Let the cheers, and the throngs, and the
enthusiasm, be appropriated to His High
ness and to my policy" The experiment
promised well.
But it has not resulted well at all. The
sight of his Exeellency has not impressed
people with any very stunning affection for
his person. Perhaps being called traitors
has cooled the ardor of the people. Perhaps
they feel ashamed that they ever voted for
so ignorant and vulgar man for anything.
But, somehow. the reception has been chill
ling, aud the Humble Individual losing his
temper, has proved himself near relation
Of Mrs. Partington's friend who never
opened his mouth but he put his foot in it, y
His speeches--wel, no defeats that these
veterans in defeat have experienced have
ever hurt them so much as Johnson's ''vic-
tories in Yulgarism over the street mobs of
the North. His progress has been the
disaster Of disasters enough to kill dozen
parties.
Then the fall elections begin johnson
may be failure, but are there not the offices
and the Conservative Republicans, and the.
grand reaction" Let us hope for gains in
Vermont and for at least one member Of
Congress from Mainel Vermont thunders
out a tremendous gain for the other side
DIeCuufdBGu CDIIcubAsu GDICluQes lll1b
there were not removals enough in Vermont
and plies the power of patronage vigorously
in Maine, and especially in the First Dis
trict Fancy the feelings Of these veterans
in disaster at the news from that State A
victory again, larger than ever.
a Radical gain of two thousand in the First
District, where the reaction was greatest
The party Of all the failures begins to sus-
pect that By getting together all the beaten
men in the country they have not changed
lIea 70 MN hFRaaR maze tBeee eeg 9ig discover isa
vista of crushing deTeats iHaisasster greaffrs'
absolute and utter annihilation in Noyem-
Der.
''iy policy" is an old fashioned blunder
buss. It kicks frightfully The heavier
you load it, the more horrible the reeoil.
It is not dangerous to anybody but the hol-.
der, but with such desperate charge of
powder as johnson puts in, the thing
knocks him over at every discharge. e.-Mls-
souri, Democrat.