The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-06-05
CORRESPONDENCE.

J TGdNlN W JOO tlAuO IIlN 1OAIl-
holders have triumphed? How are
the mighty falIen-Greely, Wendell
Phillips, Anna Dickerson, Esq, and
others noted, yet not so potent, of less
er note, yet mighty in "Loil'' Con-
claves. in Union Leagues, in Dorcas So
cieties, Patagonian Missions, Borioboo-
lah Cha and Kansas Aid Associations,
all set aside, yea spurned, spurned ig-
ANONYMOUSLY, and for what? =? Tell it
not in Gath-for the "National Cigar
Smoking Humbug," as Anna D., Esq,
calls him. For that stolid, drunken
creature Grant, whom Wendell has de-
nounced in strains of indignant elo-
quence from the rostrum and through
the columns of the Anti-Sldue1y Stan
o2ard for months past; and H. S. dam
ming with faint praise in the Tribune,
yet working like beaver for Chase or
any other man except "Lyssus." But
yesterday their words might stand a.
gainst a world, now none so poor as do
them reverence. Anna, having
strengthened the backbone of the Late
Lamented, could mount the stump,
and traitors, Rebs and Copperheads
fled from her burning elOquence. Did
she denounce one of them as "disloil"
the Secretary's little bell jingled, the
brave, chivaIrous Baker summoned
his minions, and soon the unhappy
wretch disappeared in some Bastile
that darkly yawned for him, and his
place was vacant, his name blasted, his
substance stolen, his children wander
ers and beggars, and the truly Coil"
rejoiced at his summary snuffing out.
Did things at the Capital drag too
slowly, did the backbone of the L. L..
show signs of weakness, then Boaner-
ges Phillips would hurl his whitening
sarcasms, or his more dreadful threats
at all concerned, President, Cabinet,
Congress, Courts, all hastened to obey
his behests, to hurry forward the
schemes in which he cOndescended to
avow an interest, and then his God
like wrath appeased, he magestically
returned to Boston and the Nation was
tranquilized. Did he from the rostrum,
in language that was an outrage and
insult to Americans, hold UP the saw
age, butchering Negro Chief Of st. Do
mingo as the superior of the great and
good Washington, all the decency
party shouted Yea, and Amen! To
doubt was reasonable, to differ, dam
gerous. Now he may roar himself
hoarse, he may denounce Grant as a
fool, as drunkard, as one whom the
negro-lovers dare not trust, and it has
no effect; Loilty, Manhood Suffrage,
Reconstruction, even the 40 acres and
the mule are lost sight Of, the Bond
holders have told them they must be
recreant to all former professions,
must follow new prophets AM new
creed, must eat dirt, and they cry
"KiSn1et." 1t is fate.
''Truth is stranger than fiction"
Doubtful things uncertain" every adj
age bearing upon the instability Of hu-
man affairs is more than verified in
the action of the Chicago Convention
and the conduct of the Republican par
ty.
During the reign Of Lincoln, every
move of a partizan character, every
thing remotely bearing upon politics,
was carried with high hand. Wheth-
er the Ucase originated in Boston or
Washington did not matter, when
once issued the serfs bowed to and
obeyed it. Did any disaffected person
question its wisdom and justice, were
there not subservient Courts,
Military Commissions organized to
convict, Secret Spies, Provost Guards,
and local Police, all willing and anX-
ious to seize upon and punish even be-
fore trial.
What do we now see? What is the
present state of that arrogant, all-gras-
ping party? Sitting in sack cloth and
ashes at the feet of Grant, all its nigh
ty men land women) cast aside, the
polished Wade, the chronic Sheridan,
the eloquent Phillips, the philoSophic
Greedy, the chaste Dickinson, all thrown
aside for one who never believed or
acted with them, who refused to an
sWer questions, even when prOpound-
ed by Niger Delegate from Virgin
ia. Who with studied contempt has
treated their ralIying cries, their Ora
tors, Mongrel Conventions, in fact all
the usual party accessories. So des-
perate was their strait that they had to
tamely bear it all, even his avOWal be-
fore the Smelling Committee that he
had favored Lee and other pestilent
Rebels, had interposed between them
and punishment, which, when they
thought was done by Andrew John
son, was treason, was violation of
pledges, &C., &C., but when done by
Grant, although overfowing with
spite, malice, venom, all the devilish
passions that they had nurtured during
the war, they dare not complain, but
forced in silence to swallow doses that
sickened their souls, and added ten
fold malignity to every New England
insult to Almifihty God, offered in the
guise of prayer. Sich is life!
What an affecting thing it must have
been, when the news was received in
the Grant family that "'I IIVSsus was a