The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-05-29
OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN!
GREAT GUNS FROM THE GTBERNA-
TOREAE GAS-WORKS!
GcGry Speaks! Let All the Earth Keep
silence Before Him!

Geary Speaks, let All the Earth Keep
/ silence Before Him!
/
On Friday evening last, Gov. Geary
addressed the National Union Club, of
Philadelphia, upon the subject of the
! Chicago nominations and politics gen
orally. The following report of his
remarks is taken rer6dtim from the
Philadelphia Press, Of Saturday. We
would like to see the man who, after
reading this luminous speech Of His
Excellency, will dare to endorse
theill natured remark Of John Coy0de,
that "Geary is the humbugge8t Gov
ernor weever had!" If any one doubts
Geary's ability to make such speech,
we refer him to the Press of the date
aforesaid. Forney may have doctor
ed" it a little, but we do not hesitate
to pronounce il original with the Gov
ernor. The Press reports him as fol-
lows, barring the headings Of the para
graphs, which are ours:
He Leaves Harrisburg, amid the Booming of Cam
/ non.
NJ. President and Gentlemen Of the
/ National Union (lt5: Please accept
my hearty and cordial thanks for this
| welcome to me. When | left Harris
burg | left it amid the booming OF can
/ non resounding on the banks of the
/ Susquehanna. On the way here | saw
glad, eyes, banners displayed, and the
/ hearty shake OF the hand in every vii
/ lage and hamlet. | say | feel glad
! when | hear the booming Of artillery
/ and saw the spirit that is in the peo-
/ pleOf Pennsylvania. ] felt that though
1 we had a willy foe to contend with, yet,
with the nominations that the cOnVen-
4 ton at Chicago has made, we have
nothing to fear while this spirit Is in
the people.
He concludes there is work for tie RAIDS, and
makes some ''sedentary remarks"
/ But it is true that we Have work be-
I fore US, even with the great hero,
/ Grant, at the head Of our national tick
ct. We must be up and doing, and
not tire either in the day or night
We are c0ntending with foe that has
been the enemy Of the country for
years, with whom many OF Us cOntcn-
tended on the tented field. You must
expect my remarks to be somewhat
sedentary, for | have had no time to
prepare a written speech or collect my
thoughts. Mr.. President, if ever the
Republican party had reason to con-
graduate itself and the country on
favorable movement, it is upon the
present occasion.
He has known Grant for twenty years and
testifes that there was "s,uf19 in him at Molino
Del Rey.
The Convention at Chicago has placed
before us a most acceptable ticket, one
that has not been eXcelled since the
days Of Washington and Jackson
What can be said of General Grant
that has not been said to every one
present already?
General Grant has been placed on
the ticket for the highest position
known to the American people, and
he is we'll deserving of it. 1t has been
my province to know him for twenty
one years. We were both young men
together in the Mexican war. He
was the same enduring hero then as
he proved himself to be in the late re-
beIiion. | knew aim when a second
lieutenant, when Moline del Rey PROV
ed that there was more stuff in him
than apparent upon the surface. He
was breVetted as a first lieutenant
there for gallantry. lie left some
time afterwards for home, but not be-
fore he had been made captain.
He gives the best reason why Grant should be
elected President, viz: His father was from
the Democratic county Of Westmoreland
We, as Pennsylvanians, have some
thing to say Of him. His father was
from old WestmOreland county, the
place Of my own nativity. | have
often stood on the ground where he
was born. | know Grant well. 1t
was my good fortune to serve under
him in the war just closed. L first served
under him at Wauhatchie. / first saw
then the power Of his mind as a mill
tarX man. Applause. He first di-
| rected the assault upon Lookout Noun
tain. He turned the cannon upon
Missionary Ridgean on Chickamauga,
| and obtained the victories at Taylor's
Ridge, near Ringgold.
Ee has dined with Grant and never saw any
thing strong upon his table, but thinks Ulysses
has been treated-ungenerously
/ want to show you what | know
of the man that he may be acceptable
to you. | know him well; | have
dined with him, and | never saw ANY,
thing strong upon the table. | never
knew him to touch spirits ofany kind.
/ believe there is no man who has
been more ungenerously treated on
that subject during the last few months
than Grant.
Grant spreads his maps before Geary and informs
the latter that he (Geary) and his divisions were
instrumental, &c.
On certain occasion, when dining
with Grant at Chattanooga, after the
cloth had been removed he called for
his maps, which he spread before me,
and said: "Sir, you and your division
have been instrumental in obtaining
the victories around this city. The
plan for the next campaign is already
formed, and it is proper you should
know it. | intend to concentrate my
troops around this place and pour them
on Atlanta, while strong attack is
made on Richmond. After Atlanta
falls a line will be taken for the sea-
shore, ending either at Charleston or
Savannah, and having thus made our
point, we will enter the CarOlinas and
take Richmond"
Justice must be done-Sherman stole Grants
thunder-Grant's talents shown by his name be-