The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-09-20

the Superior Courts of every loyal State
in which the question has been raised,
have sustained the power of Congress.
1t requires, therefore, but little
knowledge of either arithmetic or law,
to estimate the imminent danger of
putting any moremen of Judge SHARs-
WOODS opinions on the Supreme Bench
of the State!
Ifyou believe the present Congress to
be a01L0lCfuI, or desire our National cur
rency and Government Bonds to be de-
clared MptaaCtM, vote for GEORGE
SHARswOOD.
If you believe the present Congress
to be la,cfM, or desire their action on
Currency and Bonds TO stand good, vote
to sustain them,-for the party that
created the Greenbacks and the Bonds,
the party that sustained the war, and
compelled submission to the National
authority, y,-and that stands pledged to
keep faith with the BOndholders, and,
to maintain the National credit-vote
for HENRY w. WILLIAMS, the worthy
honored nominee of this party.
Look at the Other Side.
When secession came, Democrats sus-
tanned the Governments shed theirb blood,
invested their money in 5-20's, 1905,
and 10-40's, sent their members to Con-
gress and obeyed the laws that a Con-
gress of twenty-three States enacted.
That was their Government and they
loved it, they defended it, and many of
them, died for it.
During the war, eleven States were not
represented in Congress, and they refNs-
ed to be-. That was a lawful Congress,
all obeyed it and all of its laws are bind
ing under the Constitution.
When the war was over the South,
submitted, then the Radicals kept them
ont to give the negro power. Then
"hey acted outside Of the Constitution"
as Thaddeus Stevens says.
If it be true, that the Democrats are
trying to destroy this Government, how
strange it is that they should hold its
bonds and notes, and fight and die for
it. Their object is to preserveit, to bring
it within the Constitution, to govern
according to law, to economise its re-
sources, and to pay its debts.
Are your bonds and greenbacks safer
inside of the Constitution or outside of
it? If we have no Constitution, ds Ste
Uel1s says, what security have you for
your debt? The Constitution is the title
deed to the property that yotT debt is a
lien upon.
In the case of Borie against Trott,
Judge Sharswood decided that a man
a0ho agreed to pay debt in gold should
pay it in gold. Was not thisright? He
didn't decide the question of the pow
er of Congress.
You hold a $40 or a 1910 bond, the
interest payable in gold. The Gov
ernment agreed to pay you in gold,-
The Radicals and their Judges say the
Government may pay you in paper.
Judge Sharswood holds that contract
to pay in gold should be enforced.
Which best suits you? Which is the
more honest?
Do you see where this Radical doc
trine leads you? They already say that
the principal of the Bonds may be paid
IN paper. If Judge Williams decides
that your interest is payable IN paper,
is your contract with the Government
carried out ? Will he not so decide?
They WjW pay in paper; their ertraUa-
gdace makes it necessary. The interest
on our Stale Bonds a0as payable IN gold,
the law made it so (See act Of 1840.)
In 1861, when gold was 1.66, the Radi-
Gals in the Legislature passed a law ma
king it payable in paper, on the ground
that they could save money, (See Leg
isyatiUe Rec. 1861 Are you any more
secure than the BOndhOlders of the
State?
The expenses of the Government are
more than its income. The Radicals
are expending t,O0 hundred and t,Centy-
fce millions of your money for this year.
The Democrats spent sirty-tlCO millions
the last year they were in power, for
the same purposes. Can you sustain
this extravaganza? Does not the secu-
rity of your debt consist in prudent
management, economy in public busi-
ness, and in nourishing and developing
our resources? Are the Radicals pur-
suing this course?
Ifyou wish your bond and its inter
est paid IN paper and your contract with
the Governmentvi violated, vote for HEN
RY w. WILLIAMS.
If you want contracts between man
and man, and between the government
and yourself carried out, vote for
GEORGE SHARswooD.