The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-05-18

S,,ss Republicans among uS "--- 4 b0uf The
New York Herald amd the people of
rss'-- in favor of equality and Il new race
Of -'cOpperl2eads.H &C. dc.
BEnF0RD, Pa, May Il, 1856.
Mr.. EDITOR: 1T Il fact that is pas
sing strange. that in these natter-Of-
fact times. matters of fact should be 50
lightly regarded. Of course people
viii not always tell the truth; nay, it
cannot be expected that they viii but
when | say people, ! mean the rWg"S
0rO,oalfp. the '0ut~ide harbarians," ,"
those whudo rot belong to church, or
have not joined lately; l certainly do
moi rpier to the godly. and. therefore,
must not he understood as ailuding, in
any way. to the editors Of The Bedford
I4qtircY. / make no charges OF false
hood against those gentlemen; indeed
+ ] indulge IN no insinu&tions ~ to their
veraciry. For the present, / leave
/ those grave matters in the hands Of the
federal ottice-hoiders in this county,
With this simple question, addressed to
I them, Is Hb'"e, as the ''BeGfD5d b1q,fi-
.e,'." q last ueek, states, that .tbere is
mai Siagle ReOubijcU7jR the co,H,ty thai
. does not julY e1td0rSe COngress, and cor-
sexpogdi0gly cypress his contempt for the
Sec2,1d gWer ?" How is this, Mr..
Thomas Hughes, Mr.. j. X. BoWles and
. therest of yOu2 DoyO"' fully endorse
. Congress and express" your contempt
for the second Tyler Somebody at
Washington would like to know. If
. you answer this in the negative, as /
presume YOU will, it will not be worth
while to call public attention to the
brazen impudence Of the same sheet in
denying that the New York Her0id Is
a Republican" paper. Pray, did not
i the Herald support Fremont in 1896,
Lincoln in 1860 and again in 1861?
Next, / suppose, we will be told by
this pink Of veracity, that the ". J.
. Tribune is a Democratic paper and that
! Thad. Stevens is a leader of the john
son men in Congress! As for the fling
at the people of southampton town
shin. it will be remembered by the lat
ter when election day comes. Never
mind the honest yeomanry of South
amptOn, Mr.. Inquirer! They know
/ how to resent an insult and you will
hear from them in due time. But l
will leave this subject and ''hitch on"
to another one, by making a quotation
from the last issue OF the Bedford In
q,drer. Says that sheet, in an editorial
on Equality" I'VE do believe that
the Government should know neither
white nor black, rich nor poor, high
nor low, in the application Of the law
: and the guaranteeing to her citizens of
all the rights of person and property"
That sounds very well. but how would
such a policy operate? If all are Sc
quail before the law" black and white
labOrerS must associate together in the
same field, black and white women
must sit together on the same seat in
the same car, and in all the relations of
: life controlled by law the two races
: must commingle, if either of them de-
| sreS to mingle with the other. The
one cannot run away from the other.
And to what will this inevitably lead
: Why. to the intermarrige of whites
and blacEsand 10 the breedingOf anon
grel race verify a race Of c0pDerhe0CIs.
! Wherever the doctrine Of equality
r. before the law has been taught, we
= find also the tenets of the Amalgama-
J tioniSts put into practice. Look at our
I own c0l0red population? How many
r of them are of pure African blood
! Not one in twenty. Many of these are
> the issue of white and black intermar,
: riage some of them are illegitimateS
but even now whites and blacks are
living together as man and wife, in this
neighborhOod. But afew days ago the
daughter of a Mr.. Griffith, of Somer.
, who was a labOrer upon her father,
= farm. Mr.. Griffith was an apostle O
t the doctrine Of equality before the
law,' and his child washis disciple and
an apt scholar she proved herself to be
Now, does the Inquirer want to make
a Mexico, or South America OF this
: country? If so, let it continue to adj,
t vocate the equality" of the races, and
o with the help of the Radicals in Con.
E, gress, it Wiilsucceed soon enough. But
there is no dangerof hepeople approx,
ing this equality doctrine. There
: are many of the Aaguirer's party who
: loathea and despise it, and who will, al
( the coming election, vote accordingly
=, Stick pin there. OLD SALT.
BLOODY Run, May T., 1866.