The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-02-15
'.GEARY A LOAFER--AN IGgOR A,Tys A
MISERABLE APOLOGY OF 7gAN,

The Erie Dispatch, the ablest Repub.
lican paper of the Northwestern section
of the State, ''goes off," as follows, at
Geary, Cameron, and the rest of the
unwashed and unregenerated Radicals
who now have control of the State
By the way, what is therein said are
not "copperhead lies" Read:
The State is emphaticallyin the hands
of the most despicable and degraded
class of knaves that ever disgraced q
Commonwealth, and the timeis not far
distant when the names of Cameron
and Geary will sound so much like Ben
Wood, Vallandigham, and Raphael
Semmes that no one will be able to JUS
tly classify them in a different cata-
| logue.
We do not know but that we are Civ
ing too much prominence to Geary, as
he is such an ignoramus, and such a
miserable apology of man, such a
complete loafer, who is allowed to
| sponge subsistence from his more
prosperous neighbors, that he alone is
not able to gain distinction as a knave,
or even as loafer. The promises which
he has already made and violated, the
influence which he consented to have
used to effect his election, and the man.
ner in which he is dovetailed with men
in the State who are known to be
knaves, ought to be sufficient to keep
him from being inaugurated as Govern
or ofthe State. But they will not. He
will be placed in the office of Chief Ex-
ecutive with howl oftriumph, amidst
a tournament Of sin and corruption.
Our uninitiated readers may wonder
why we have not before given our opin-
ions upon this subject, if they were
held from the beginning. Wehave in
timated them before; and have warned
the people of the State in general, the
Republican party in particular, that
they were egregiously sold on John w.
Geary; but we hoped that the manage
ment which had him in charge would
be sufficiently prudent to cover up a
portion oftheir nakedness, and manifest
by subsequent events that it was their
desire to foster the principles as we'll as
the interests of the party. But they
have done nothing of the kind. They
seem to sacrifice every principle to pol
icy, and bury not only the honor and
power of the party, but all it's adherents
in a grave of dishonor and oblivion.
The power of the Republican party in
Pennsylvania is for the present used
up. The imbecility and inefficiency of
our next Governor, as man within
himself, will disgust every member of
both parties. and the great public of the
Commonwealth will not dare trust the
party with the selection ofanother man
to rule over them. The term of John
w. Geary will be the era from which
will date the decay of the Republican
party in Pennsylvania, and which will
furnish examples of folly to be guarded
against in thefuture. 1t will constitute
q severe, and, we hope, beneficial les
son to the party, which will teach it
that honesty and consistency must not
be sacrificed to the policy of the time
being. Or, in other words, that avail
ability will avail nothing when it does
not bring with it an amount of brain
and legitimate power sufficient to con-
troll at all times an honest majority in
the party. The people are already dis
gusted with Geary. Their expressions
are loud and unmistakable, and though
they may be smothered for time, it
will be but a little while before they
will flame out all over the State in all
their truth and power.
We are not disposed to award him so
much honor as to give him the benefit
of having created this dissati sfaction
himself On the econtrary, we know he
has not the ability to do it. 1t has been
brought about by the knaves and dem
agogues who have had the management
of him. The party has allowed these
men to deceiveand swindle it, to barter
it off for a mess ofpottage which has not
the merit of being either palatable or
digestibIe, andit at once gives the De-
mocracy the advantage of the sympa-
thy of the dissatisfied, and an opportu
nifty ofregaining poverty offering men
whom the people are willing to accept
on account of real merit. The conclu-
sion is, that the Republican party in
Pennsylvania must either be washed
and regenerated, or conclude to hereaf-
ter suffer defeat.