The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-04-19

tor formerly, and nominally edits
paper in Somerset; the Collectors Office
effectually shut his mouth as long as he
could hang on to it, and until he was
kicked out, he was perfectly obllvlous
OF the treason of Andy Johnson, and
the base treachery of his good friend
Cowan. At the beginning of the pres
ent session of our Legislature he was
called to Harrisburg on urgent Rdlt
Road business and after whole Win
ter of railroad making at Harrisburg,
(he may have made something but we
don't see the railroad,) it seems the
same pressing duty has drawn him to
Washington. We hope the Senate will
never consent to confirm the nomlna-
ton OF a dumb dog that will neither
bark nor bite as long as he is fed, as an
| offset to Meyers. If we are to have
trade off, by all means give us as un-
fiinching Republican as Meyers is a
Copperhead. We protest against any
| such bargain and sale, but if it must
come, let US have Qujd pro quo and
not a nullity."
My absence from home has prevent
ed an earlier reply to the above rare
norcedu of malignity which appeared
in the Bedford Inquirer of the 29th
March last.
Had such base and calumnious insin-
uations been preferred by political op-
ponents, sOmel palliation might have
been found, some excuse urged on ac-
count of the embittered feelings fire.
quently engendered by the partizan
warfare into which my position as the
editor of a political paper has necessari-
ly drawn me. But must do my po-
litical opponents the justice to say,
that during an editorial experience of
more than seventeen years have new
er met with such treatment at their
hands.
The petty exhibition of malice to-
wards the politicians of this county,
displayed in the charges of ''trickery
and scaly performances" comes with
bad grace from those who SO lately ev-
| idenced their appreciation Ofndelity to
! principle, and gratitude for party SER
vices, by basely repudiating a lifelong
opponent Of the Democracy, a Republi-
can who had borne the heat and bur-
then of the day, gentleman Of talent
| and virtue, who Tor years had led the
| party against the overwhelming ma
jOritieS fOurOpponents, for One-a pO-
| litical adventurer-WhO came into our
| camp after the battle was won, and at
tempted to appropriate the fruits Ofour
victory. 1t ill becomes such cogging
knaves, Whoare as full of scurvy tricks
| as beggars jacket is scanned with ver-
min, to talk about Somerset pollI-
clans.
The atrocious charge, that the office
of Collector withheld me from zeal
Gus advocacy of the principles of the
| Republican party, needs no denial a
| mong those to whose doors the Herdt0
was a weekly visitor. 1t was while l
was engaged in canvasSing Tor address
! ing) the people in behalf of the Constl-
| tutional amendments that L received
| information Ofmy removal, which was
based upon an article written against
the Presidential policy. | was at the
time a member of the State Central
fGomiftef ~ and M Ghhirtmaan III ta na9tftaF 9ftthe eca6ac a
ty, the result of my labors-shared with
others-Will compare favOrably with
| that of those in Bedford county, who
have so eagerly rushed to my defama-
tion.-But, because l could not, viper
| like, turn upon personal friend, after
our political paths had parted; nor
would not before my removal join in
! the caluminous assaults upon the per-
sonal character ofthe President, noYaf-
! terWard exhibit my wounds and whine
] like mendicant for sympathy, these
| slanderers have not hesitated to call my
| party fidelity into question. | am "a
ware that such sentiments will meet
with no appreciation from those who
| have never been suspected ofentertain
| ing a generous feeling, or manly self
respect, but the facts show, that rather
| than surrender my Judgment upon the
great political issues of the day gave
| up an office, the emOlumentS of which
would have more than purchased
leash of such NANCY Whitfits as have
yeIped to this assault.
A further scoundrelly intimation
is made that while at Harrisburg last
winter, | betrayed the Railroad inter-
ests of this county, and made some
| MinQ" thereby. For more than fifteen
years have iabOred, in season and out
| of season, for the completion of the Con-
nellsville road. At the entire sacrifice
| of my private interests, | spent the
| greater portion of last winter at Harris
| burg without fee or reward, striving
! for this rOad-Which if completed to-
morrow would not advantage me a
| IdI llllllS, OtllSI llldi IL NOuIN ehN POOi
est man in our midst, by infusing gene
raj prosperity into the community
and there found, one of the insuperable
obstacles to success, the acquiescence
| of Bedford county pOliticians-one OF
them then our Senator-in the repeal
of its charter. 1t is only the thief at
heart, who guages the honesty OF
others, by their opportunity TO steal.
| Hence disdain further answer to this
dastardly calumny.
Now as to the k kernel of truth in this
tissue of falsehood, malice, and misrep-
resentatiOn. After the rejection of
Messrs. Swope and COffroth, Mr.. Meyers
was nominatcdforC Collector. Some two
weeks afterwards went to Washington
on other business, and without previous
consultation with me, a personal friend
not a resident of this district-reques-
ted the Secretary of the Treasurer to
send my name to the President for
nomination as Assessor. As it was
well understood that the President
would not nominate two Republicans
nor the Senate confirm two Democrats
for these offices, Except in rare instan-
ces) and as Mr.. Meyers was thenat home
and knew nothing of my nomination,
the ''bargain and sale" had this extent;
no more. That the confirmation of
Mr.. Meyers would have prevented sub
sequent bargains by others, is true, and
it is equally true that radical democrat
as he is, in the many editorial encoun-
ters have had with him, Phavea always
fonnd him a manly ODpOnent and