Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-10-09
ONE DAY to YOUR COUNTRY.

On the result OF next Tuesday election
may depend the Peace ofthe whole country,
The decision Of the peopleol Pennsylvania
on that day may determine the salvation or
ruin Of our free institutions. The result in
Pennsylvania will have potent influence
on the Presidential contest. If her vote
is cast for the candidates of Union and
Peace on the 18th, the election Of Grant and
Colfax will be assured beyond peradven-
ture. If on the contrary her vote is given
to the candidates Of war, Reputation and
rebellion it may impeGl or even defeat the
Union candidates in the National contest
No more dire calamity can possibly fall up
on the nation at the present time than the
election of Seymour and Blair There
scarce remains doubt in the mind of any
sane man, that the election Of Seymour and
Blair would be the signal for re-kindling
the flames Of civil war in every Southern
State. Already in many places, as at Cam.
lila, Union men, white and black are muir
dered in cold blood and shot down like dogs
The threats Of the rebels are now made
boldly and openly, that they viii revolution
ize the Government if they elect Seymour
and Blair and that, if need be, the sword
shall be brought into requisiton to accom-
plish their diabolical project The same
sentiment Is covertly contained in the Dem
ocratic alatform, where it pronounces the
reconstruction acts null and void True it
is couched in guarded language but it is
none the less there, and Is all the more dan
gerous, by reason Of its being somewhat
hidden and obscure As surely as the
Democratic party sympathized with the
raIcls during the war, so surely does it do SO
now, and so surely is it to-day fighting the
battles Of the rebellion in the political
arena. Frank Blair, Gov. Wise, Wade
Hampton, Gov Vance and scores of other
rebels who know whereof they speak, have
openly declared that by the election of Sey-
mour and Blair the Lost Cause will be
redeemed. LET NO MAN BE DECEIVED.
The ISSUE IS sQUABELY MADE and it is
PEACE or WAR. Elect Grant and Colfax
and PEACE is assured beyond doubt.
Elect Seymour ani Blair and from the dec
larations Of their own champions WAR is in
eyitable With such an issue before the
people, with the peace and safety of the
whole nation perhaps hanging upon our
decision, who can be Indifferent? Can you,
who have already given SON to your coun-
try, deliberately vote for new rebellion,
requiring new sacrifices of blood and treas.
ure? Can you, who served in the army,
who wore the Union blue, and risked your
life and health in putting down one rebel
hon, vote to inaugurate another? Can any
good citizen, booking upon the widows and
orphans, and the manned and crippled he
roes that are met at every street corner.
vote for new holocaust of the best and
braycst Of our land? Has there not been
enough Of bloodshed, enough of sorrow and
OF suffering? Is there not enough Of DEBT
upon the heads Of our people? Our land
IS even now darkened with the weeds of
mourning. Are there not enough Of wild
ows aud orphans? Yet he, who fails to
vote for the Republican State ticket. gives
his influence toward renewing all the untold
horrors Of a new civil war. He who stays
at home is but little better than ha who
votes against Us. The duty Of every good
c''l1en Is to go to the polls and vote for the
whole Republican ticket and give his whole
influence be it great or small, for the peace
and unity of his country. Deem it not a |
matter OF sAght moment. One day at the |
poIls may save years service in the army
one dollar spent in getting out full vote
may save thousands in taxes and debts Gre
ated by new war Seeing then the inn |
portant influence to be cxerted on the ma.
tional contest BY the State election let everv
man be at his post, A mere consideration
Of dollars and cents should cause every
good citizen to vote the Republican ticket
from Hart ani and Campbell down. But
mattersqf greater Importance are
y i F4En FoR rass1 Gace ofAhe nation
owning says thishe Once Witnessed n of /
arkable change produced on tho body Of :