The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-11-15
ALIVELY CORRESPONDENTS.


ALIVELY CORRESPONDENTS.
The following genuine correspon-
dence between a Chautauqua New
York; Deputy Postmaster and the Re
publican State Committee is both anus
ing and instructive:
REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN, 1867.
Cow. ROOMS, METROPOLITAN HOTEL,
NEw-YoRK, OCTOBER 9, 1867.
To John 7. Wilson, Esq. Jamestoacn, ". Y.
DEAR SIR: For the purpose of de-
fraying the proper and legitimate eX-
penses of the approaching election, the
State Committee solicits contributions
from the friends of the Union cause
and the beneficiaries Of the Republican
Union party. The amount which we
have deemed it proper to ask you to
contribute to aid in conducting the
campaign is sixty dollars, which you
will please remit to Waldo Hutchins,
Esq, No. 40 Wall Street, New-Y York.
In view of the shortness of the can
vass, an early response is requested.
Yours very truly,
HAMILTON HARRIS, Chairman.
Luther Caldwell, Secretary.
THE REPLY.
JAMESTOWN, New-Yo ork, Oct. 10,
1867.-MY DEAR HAMILTON: Your
affectionate letter of the 9th was duly
received, and in reply l would say that
[ am very well, never was better; have
heard from Pennsylvania and Ohio
Have you heard from them, Hamilton,
and how is your health? Your friends
here don't like it, and say, quite dis
gustedly, that this trading off white
votes at the North, for niger votes at
the South, "dont pay" Do you re-
gard it as a profitable investment,
Hamilton, and how much more of the
stock do you want? 1t is for sale very
cheap among the members of the u
Mon Republican party in this locali-
ty.
But in regard to that sixty dollars
don't you wish you may get it?) which
you so persuasively expect me to fork
over, as one of "the benefciaries of the
Republican Union party" Twill own,
Hamilton, that have derived many
and great benefits from the party last
aforesaid. [ don't deny it. For ms
tance, they have benefcently accumu-
lated for me in common with the rest
of the people of the United States, a
great National debt which, we all adj
NIT, is National blessing.
They havereplaced the base and cum
brous metallic currency that used to
weigh man down and impede locomo-
ton, to say nothing about wearing
holes in his pockets and disappearing
inconveniently in the Innings of his
trousers, by light and airy currency
that costs but little to manufacture,
and nothing to redeem, and which a
man can carry around with ease in
large amounts if he can only get it.
(Oh! if you could but get $50 of mine }
They have granted me the glorious
privilege of helping furnish board and
clothes to my odoriferous brethren of
African decent in the Southern States,
which blessed privilege they have
wrested from the hands of their late
oppressors. They have multiplied otfi-
GERS and Office-holderS, and raised all
their salaries and enriched contractors,
and by thus adding to the wealth OF
each individual, have increased the
aggregate of national treasure. Don't
you see it, Hamilton? | don't.
They have done away with the slow,
solemn and cumbrOus forms and cere-
monies of constitutional and civil law
in the administration of the govern
ment, and adopted the more eXpedi-
tious and jovial ways of military COM
mission.
They have given the odoriferous, &C.,
as aforesaid, choice to vote, sit on ju-
ries, hold office, and do everything but
work and get an honest living-that
is, in the Southern States. (They did
go back on him in OhiO.)
Now, in view of these and countless
other benefits | have received at their
hands, don't you think you were alto
gether too modest in asking for only
$50? l assure you, Hamilton, if you
had asked for twice or even ten times
as much, it would have been sent you
just as cheerfully, and you would have
got it just as soon.
Please give my love to Waldo, and
tell him when he gets this $50 l shall
expect him to spend it all in pulling
down corruption, as you advertised to
do at Syracuse the other day.
Tell him also in "view of the short
ness of the campaign,P not to unneces
sally fatigue himself by going too of
ten to the post office after that $50, for i
he will only wait patiently a few days