The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-03-23
HARRISBURG LETTER.
Twenty thousand PennSyIvanianS 10 be
DisfrRmchised: The infamous desert
er" bill; Election at Harrisburg: Great
Democratic success; The vote of NesSrs.
Ross and Armstrong on the Supplement-
TO the charter of the c. & y. II. IL. X. 90.
HARRISBURG, March l9, 1866,


HARRISBURG, March 10, 1866.
Editor Gazette:-The Legislature still
''drags its slow length along" doubt
not, however, that it will soon bring its
herculean labors TO a close. That it
would have adjourned ere this, had not
a certain sinister purpose kept the par
ty in the majority from cOnsenting to
such adjournment, is fact well aScer-
tanned in legislative circles. That pur-
pose was to pass an unconstitutional en-
actmentdiyranchiSipg some hrc]jtg tt0jt-
sand citizens Of the ,Sycte, and to do it in
such a manner that the Supreme Court
would not be likely to get a chance to
knock the bottom out of it before the
October election. Only think Of il!
Twenty thousand free 2chite citizens Of
Pennsylvania to be degraded, bya sim
pie act Of the Legislature, to the level
Of negroes! Yet a bill Of this kind has
passed the Senate, every Republican"
in that body voting for it, and will in
evitably become r law, unless vetoed
by the Governor. This Infamous bin
proposes 10 disfranchise every man
whose nameis found upon the books of
any provost marshal, as not having re-
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