The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-03-15
of the Bedford Gazette.
HARRISBURG, March II

HARRISBURG, March II.
MIR. EDIToR:-The world moves and
the legislature of our State with it. A
''free railroad law has just passed the
Senate, that is law which permits any
seven persons to construct a railroad,
provided ten thousand dollars of stock
for every mile shall be subscribed and
ten per cent. of such stock paid up, be-
fore application is made for permission
to build; provided, also, the parties
interested become individually liable
for all responsibilities. Some people,
doubtless, consider this a free railroad
law. For my own part, l can't exact
Iy see it in that light. I presume the
House will also pass the bill and then
we shall have railroads in abund ance.
Apropos of railroads, / have been in
formed upon the best authority and in
the most positive manner, that it is the
intention of the eCOnnellSVilleandS South
ern Pennsylvania Railroad company,
to begin the construction of their road
during the coming summer. | am in
clined to think that there is some truth
in this, and, therefore, counsel your
people not to despair of this line OF
railroad so important to their interests.
Since the passageof the Constitutions
al Amendment, political excitement
has been at an ebb in the [ agislature.
1t was hardly worth while for the So
Ions of that body to waste so much
breath upon the said Amendment, as
| the Radicals themselves have already
repudiated it. 1t was intended to be
cheat and snare, and having served
its turn, it is now cast off by those who
used it, as Worn-Out shoe. The Mill
tary Reconstruction Bill, now general
Iy known as the Force Bill, recently
passed by Congress, has taken its place,
and hereafter all who would be in good
standing in the Radical Church, must
swear by that bill. Your readers will
understand that it (the Force Bill) com
pels the Southern States to adopt Ne
gro Suffrage, or remain out of the Un.
ion and under the government of mil,
itary satraps. One of these inevitable
propositions the South must accept
Are the Republicans" of your county
so attached to their party leaders that
| they will endorse indiscriminate Ne
gro Suffrage in the Southern States, on
the one hand, or Disunion and Military
| DespotiSm on the other? The people
of Bedford county, | take it, irrespective
of party, are too sOundly patriotic, too
conservative and magnanimous, to be-
lieve in such monstrosities as these.
Even here the Force Bill of Congress
causes wry faces among the Radicals.
marked, in my hearing, a few days
since, that it was an outrage and he
could not approve it. But 1 presume
the petty leaders of the Radical party
will swallow it, as they have swallow
ed every other dose prescribed by the
Congressional doctors. | only hope it
will physic their party out of the coun-
try.
1 observe some legislation for your
county, can act to change the place OF
holding the election in Harrison tp.,
from the School House near George
Elders, to the house of - FeigRt-
ner." In such cases the court have ju-
risdiction, and the Legislature has no
business to interfere). | also notice q
bill to regulate the fees of the Poor Di-
riectors of your county. This last has
passed the Senate.
The Democracy of Harrisburg met
on Saturday last to make their nomina-
tions. The nominees are good men,
and the capital city will give us q
grand victory on Friday next.
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