The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-02-15
The Congressional Revolution
lists hear from the People.
Cs,ESTITUTlONAL GOVERNIENT TO
REMATNTAISED AT ALL A2AKARDS

evening. The attendance was very
| large. On motion of J. w. DickersOn
ESQ, Chairman of the County Com
mittee, JACOB BOWSER, ESQ, OF
/ Colerain, was appointed President;
I Mai. A. j. Sansom, Lieut.. John Keeffe,
w. w. Barclay, Esq, John Feaster,
Hon. ". T. Daugherty, Peter Morn
ingston, Sol. Reighard, Hon. G. w.
! Gump, Hon. w. G. Eicholtz, Michael
/ Nawgel, VIM. EgoIf, J. \. Gump, Esq,
were appointed Vice Presidents; and
II. f. Smith, Hayes Irvine, III. p.
Diehl and w. B. Lambright, Secreta-
rics.
On motion of f. f. Kerr, Esq, the
following were appointed a committee
! to draft resolutions: W. G. Schaeffer,
John Amos, Jere. Thompson, John
Figard, John A. Corl, A. ZemboWer,
Asa Duval, a. w. Shoemaker, Stephen
Winner, Casper Stroup, Isaac Kensig-
er, Cornelius Devore, b. B. Steckman,
Joseph Souser, ID. n. L. Black, A. j.
Morgart, Andrew Mortimore, VIM.
Rock, David Howsare, B. f. Horn,
Francis Beard, Solomon Barley, Levi
5. Fluke.
Thecommittee havingretired, HON.
f. NJ. KIMMELL, of Chambersburg,
was loudly called for to address the
meeting. Judge Kimmell responded
in a speech Of great power, carrying
conviction to the minds of all who
heard him. o. Z. SHANNON, ESQ.
was then called upon, and addressed
the meeting in very forcible speech,
which brought down the house in
bursts of applause. The meeting was
further addressed by B. F. MEYERS,
and after the adoption of the resolu-
tions, which were reported by w. G.
SCHAEFFER, ESQ. the meeting adj
iourned with three cheers for Andrew
Johnson and the Supreme Court. The
resolutions are as follows:
ReSOIced, By the Democracy Of Bed
! ford county in Mass Meeting assem-
! bled. That in this crisis Of our pub
| lie affairs it becomes the people to speak
| out in terms that cannot be miSunder-
stood, in regard to the character of the
public measures by which the country
is kept from paciticatiOn and in regard
to the conduct of the public men who
advocate such pernicious measures; !;
and, therefore, we now proclaim our
unqualified condemnation of the course
of the majority in Congress, in defeat
ing the wise and patriotic purpose of
President johnson to restore the Union
of the States.
Res0lCed, That the party in power
have proved themselves to be, as they
were charged with being, a DisuniOn
party. Nearly two years have elapsed
since the last armed rebel bowed in
submission to the authority Of the Fed
eral Government, yet, owing to the
Vaccinations of that party, the Union
is even now, in point of fact, broken
in pieces, and the Republic is consider
ed by the majority in Congress as con-
sisting Of bat ttCeaty-Si.r States.
ResOLUed, That the Union never was
broken in point of law, and that we
are in favor of its immediate restOra
ton in point of fact. For such reStO-
ration the country was loaded with
billions of debt, the cities, plantations
and homes of one half the Union, laid
waste, and more precious than all, the
blood of hundreds of thousands Of our
braveSt and best pOuredO in sacrifice.
To prOlOng DisuniOn, as the majority
in Congress are doing, is to wrong the
taxpayer, to break faith with a con-
quered foe, and mOreheinOus, infamous
and eXecrable than all beside, to insult
the memory Of the heroes who gave
their lives to make our Union imper-
ishable.
ReSO(Ced, That we will sustain Pres
ident johnson in every proper effort to
restore the excluded States to their
places in the Union; that we believe
the present movement for his impeach-
ment by the Radical party in Congress,
W NC a u llCGSOilSiDiC COliSl piracy " NJGCl
him from his office by fraud and force;
and that if the conspirators undertake
to drag him from the Presidential
Chair before he shall have been c0nsti-
tutionally convicted of high crimes and
misdemeanors, by the L. S. Senate, in
which every State shall have its lawful
representation, we deem it his duty, as
the Chief Executive officer of the Con-
stitutiOn and the Laws, to call upon
the people to prevent by force of arms,
if need be, the overthrow of C0nsti-
tutional Government, and in such e.
vent, we pledge him our humble aid
at any time andat all hazards.
ResOiCed, That the cour of the ma
jOrity in Congress, in forcing Negro
Suffrage upon the people of the District
of Columbia, in the face of the fact
that those people almost unanimously
protested against it, is an act of tyran-
nv which should receive the Condemna-
tion of every friend Of civil liberty.
and proves that the party in power
have determined to confer suffrage up
on the negroes, though il be in defiance
Of the popular will. so that they may
use that element tom maintain themselv :
in Office.
ReSOtUed, That the present Represen-
tative in Congress from this district,
Mr.. kOOntZ, in voting to force Negro
Suffrage upon the unwilling people of
District ofCOlumbia, and in advocating
upon the floor of Congress the doctrine
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