The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-09-06
GREAT ENTHUSIASM, GOOD
FEELING AND INVINCIBLE
DETER RMINATION!
Speeches. Resolutions. Music. &c.

-AClANStJ NNSiAALo Aet't3 'ONPS' - 49,
though no effort had been made to get
out a crowd, the meeting was large, the
Court House packed almost to suffoca-
ton, and the meeting was in every
particular decided success, The en-
thusiasm and harmony manifested au-
CUR well for an overwhelming Demo-
cratic success at the coming election.
The meeting was organized by the ap-
pointment of JAMES c. DEvORE, Esq,
of Londonderry, as President, assisted
by the following named Vice Presi-
dents, John p. Reed, David Imler, Jos.
Wills, Jesse Wright, Jere. Thompson,
A. Mcclellan, VIM. Wertz, John Dick
en-, VIM. Foster, Geo. Elder, w. Cor
such, G. r. Baily, Uriah Adams, John
C. Neary, Geo. Vonstine, Geo. w. Bow
ser, Thos. Ii. Grove, Michael Ritchey,
John Koons, John Aldstadt, Peter De
walt, Esq, Jacob Kensinger, Denton
Stephens, Hugh Wilson, Geo. Beegle,
w. NJ. Pearson, Daniel Barley, Josiah
Ritchey, and Col. ]. C. Everhart, Of
Blair county, and Capt. T. Weimer, of
Somerset, as Honorary Vice Presi-
dents, with VIM. Spielman, Tobias
Shaffer, y. d. Coontz, d. A. T. Black,
and Capt. S. B. Tate as Secretaries.
Loud calls were then made for
JUDGE KIMMELL, who responded
in an eloquent and powerful speech,
which frequently ELECTED the most up
roarious applause. The meeting was
subsequently addressed by O. E. Shan
non, Esq, Hon. w. 2. Schell, and B.
f. Meyers. After the conclusion of
the speeches, the following Resolutions
were unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, The people Of Pennsyl-
vania will soon be called upon to de-
eide, by the exercise of the ballot, GER
tain important issues affecting not only
their own Well-being, but the very eX-
istence Ofthe Republicitself, and Where
as it is eminently proper that those is
sues be fairly stated and correctly placed
before the public, Therefore,
ReSOlUed, That there is and can be no
lawful Government outside Of the Con-
stitution
Resolced, That, in the language of
ThaddeuS Stevens, Congress, in the en-
actment of the Reconstruction meas
ureS, acted outside Of the authority of
the Constitution, and
ReSObred, therefore, that Congress, in
the enactment of those measures, u
surped powers not Inherent in the Gov
ernment.
Res0lCed, That the Reconstruction of
the excluded States, by DISTINGUISHING
the great body Of the white people of
those States and making voters, Off
GERS and jurors of the negroes, is not
only unconstitutional and oppressive,
but must inevitably bring disaster and
ruin to the social and material inter-
eSts Of those States and of the country
at large.
ResOLCed, That the effect of the "COn-
gressiOnal plan" is to throw the gov
ernment of the eXclud q States into
the hands of the late Negro slaves, as is
shown by a majority of the blacks over
the whites in the registration OF each
and every one of those States, and we
call the attention of the people to the
great central FACT in the Radical Re
construction policy, that TEN NEGRO
STATES are about to be erected by
that policy as integral parts of this Re
public.
ReSOired, That the so-cailed 'Repub-
lican" party has abandoned the prin-
ciples it profeSSed to hold before and
during the late war, and is now keeping
without the Union the States and peO-
pie which it declared to be its purpose
to bring back into the Union, by force
of arms, and that it has even abandoned
its platform of last year, the COnstitu
tiOnal Amendment, which, according
to the doctrine ofits own leading poll
ticianS, it had the power to engraft up
on the Constitution.
ResOLred, That the notorious cOrrup-
ton Of the late State Legislature, ac-
knOWledged even by the Radical press
of the State, calls for Il cleansing of the
Augean stables at Harrisburg, and
makes it the duty of the people to
change the political, as well as the per-
SOnal, character of their Representa-
tiVeS.
ReSOlred, That we commend the NOM
inatiOn of Hon. George SharSWOOd, for
Justice Ofthe Supreme Court, as one
eminently fit to be made, and that we
recognize in the opinion of that emf
nent jurist, in the famous legal tender
case of Borie VS. TrOtt, the simple truth
that Congress cannot coin paper into
naOney, and that unassailable dictate OF
common honesty, that when a man
contracts to pay gOtd, or sHcer, he can
not repudiate his contract, by forcing
his creditor to take instead of gold, or
silver, uOOd, or stone, or paper.
Res0ired, That we regard with utter
and condemn as completely
of the supremacy Of law
and the independence of the Judiciary,
that resolution of the Radical Platform
of this State, which demands that ''the
Supreme Court shall be placed in accord
with the political sentiments of the
and epledge Judge >hars-
wood if elected, to decide according to
Id,C all questions which may be brought
before him, whether such decision ac-
cords or not with the political opinions
of the majority, or any body else.
ResOtued, In the language of the
Bedford Inquirer, that the candidates
on the Democratic ticket, are ''sound
practical men and will make good and
officers. 1t will be credit to
the Republican candidates to be defeat
ed bY such memo and we will do all