The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-07-24
A FEW WORDS WITH OUR SOLDIER
CITIZENS.
Chairman.

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stead of reason, to hate, instead of love.
They call upon the people of the North
to revive the strife and bitterness of
the war and to rekindle the feud be-
tween the North and the South which
fell to ashes with the surrender of the
Southern armies. AS a part of this
trick, they ask the soldier citizen to
vote for Gen. Grant, because of his SER
vices during the war. By this means
they hope to screen from observation
the hideous record they have made
during the past three years; to hide
The. fact that they have forced Negro
Suffrage, nay, NEGRO DONNA
TION, upon ten States of the Union, to
conceal the .fdct that they are keeping
up Standing Army of $4,000 men to
enforce their Negro policy at cost of
one hundred millions per annum, to
cover from sight the fact that they are
maintaining the Negroes of the South
in idleness, through the agency of the
Freedmen's Bureau, in order to use
them as voting machines, at an expense
of millions annually, to blind the peo-
pie to the fact that since the close of the
war, TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED
MILLIONS of dollars have been col
lected in taxes and raised in loans, and
yet the public debt, instead of decreas-
ing has increased, and to cause men to
forget the fact that they have conspired
to overthrow the Supreme Court and
to usurp the Presidential office by an
unwarranted impeachment. To enable
them to perform this trick, Grant has
consented to become their tool. He ac-
cepts the platform made for him at
Chicago, aChich pledges him to maintain
NEGRO SUFFRAGE and NEGRO
RULE in the ten States in which it has
been established. He is no longer
Grant fighting for the Union and the
Constitution, but Grant, the candidate
of party which has placed the heel
of the Negro upon the neck of the
White Man; the candidate of a party
which has, in the Senate of the United
States, REJECTED OVER TWO
THOUSAND OF THE BRAVEST
AND BEST SOLDIERS that ever
drew blade, to make room for scOun-
drels like the notorious Callicott, who
are now eXpiating their crimes in the
penitentiaries of the country; the cam
didate of party which taxes the sol
dier who received but $I3 per month
and a paltry bounty, in greenbacks, in
order to pay the bloated, aristocratic,
nabOb Bondholder his interest in gold.
And who is Grant? Who made him
what he is? Who gave him his repu-
tation as a general? The hundreds Of
thousands Of common soldiers aOhOSe
bones lie bleaching IN a0ildeyness, on rock
and IN raUi,1e, the LegLesS and GrnaLeSS he
rOeS aOlbO 6led upon the CORY field, the
brdUe SurUiUOrS to aOtOn1 the appeal Of
hatred and reve1lge nO10 comes from the
Radical DemdgOgueS, these put the
three stars upon the shoulders of Ulyss-
es. You, soldier citizens, you and your
dead and MANNED comrades, made
Grant what he is. You gave him sue
cess. His generdIShip consisted in
hurling you recklessly againstthe forti
fications Of the enemy. Being in favor
with Stanton, he knew that if you
were slain, two recruits would fill your
place. Did he care for your life? Did
he, byskillful manoeuvres, strive save
his army from the necessity of charges
like that at Cold Harbor, or Fort
He'll? No, he had chosen "a line,"
and on that he "wOuld fight it Out,"
though he had in the end to take Nc
CIellan's route, which he could have
done without the losses at the Wilder
ness, Mine Run, SpOttsylvania, Cold
Harbor, and the numerous fruitless
battIe-felds on "that line"
What claim, then, has Grant upon
your support? Have not you who
risked your lives to place those three
stars upon his shoulders and those
twenty thousand dollars per annum in
his pocket, greater claims upon him
than he possibly can have upon you?
He is no statesman, all admit. He is
I'm the hands of WAsHBURNE, the
most contemplate of Radical small
beer politicians. Shall, then, the mis-
erable appeal to your passions, to hate
and vengeance, mislead you into the
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