The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-14

ally, Tor seymour, bar ana LlpeT-
4 J. w. DICKERSON,
Oh. Dem. Co. Com.
GRANT AND GRABTAX GATHERING.
-PtuuQace speaks a piece.-Ball0on
Ascension Of Tom -HarShaH-We will
not adopt the lying style of the report
er Of the Inquirer by saying that the
Radical meeting in the court house, on
last Saturday evening, was the "com-
pietest fzzle ever held in Bedford"
but admit at once that, in point of
numbers, the meeting was respectable.
Taking away, however, the ladies, the
bows, the "cOIored brethren" and the
Democrats who came to hear what
Tom Marshall had to say in answer to
the irresistible logic Of Gen. Miller
! and Mr.. Speer, on the Saturday before,
there would have been but few Radi
cal voters left. The boys were there
i'm full force, and were well drilled on
applause, having practiced outside of
the court house, just week before,
when the Democrats held their meet
ing. Their peculiar, shrill whistle, for
which the Junior RAIDS of this place a
lone are famous, always gave notice
when Tom Marshall said something
astonishingly brilliant, and was hearth
ly responded to by the seniors.
The ''manhoods," being there by spec
faI invitation, no doubt, came in such
force that objects around became al
most indiscernable and were seen as
through smoked glass, dimly. The
first speaker was Purvianee, OF Pitts
burg. who started out with what he
knew to be a deliberate falsehOod,
namely, that if Seymour and Blair
would be elected there would be anOth-
er civil war. Having delivered him
self of this "whopper" he, like another
Rip Van Winkle, just arisen from a
long sleep, commenced talking about
slavery and slave drivers, secession and
rebels. which furnished the theme for
the rest Of his speech. If he would
read the Democratic platform he would
there learn that these subjects are a
mong the things of the dead past, and
none but dreaming old political fogy
would male them a subject for an
hours talk to an intelligent Bedford
audience. One Of the most wonderful
things that he said, was, that during
the time of slavery, no new State was
admitted into the Union, If she pre-
l.. II 4, h1
had foIlowt Il history little further he
might have added that no State is now
admitted nnless she comes in as black
a Erebus! His speech throughout
was the tamest affair we have ever
listened to. one thing he forgot 10 tell
his audience about, and that was, why
he left Curtin's cabinet in 1851.
While Purviance was speaking, Mar
shall was out initiating his balloon for
the grand ascension the audience WAS
to witness a. soon as the former would
be done speaking. Purvierce finish
ed the Band played Silver Moon" or
some other delightful production
touching the great financial questions
of the day; somebody said Marshall, :"
the boys whistled Marshall bat the
''hid of freedom" could not be mar
shalled, 50 the band played another
piece Of soul-inspiring music, which
brought the tardy speaker to sense of
his duty. lie stepped iutO the room
with an air of Make way for Libertyn'
planted himself before his audience,
struck an attitude, and the balloon was
ready TO 90 up. The ropes were cut
and Marshall went up into the clouds,
down he comes with lightning speed
to terra lirma, up he goes, round and
'r0und with such reck klessness that we
wouldn't have taken much stock in his
insurance for further existence. But he
survived. lie told us hat at a certain
period Of his existence he was born in
Ireland, and that he came across the
deep blue sea. in female garments.
We felt deep interest i'm the dear lit
tie infant, when we heard this state
nent, and wondered whether it was
afflicted with sea-sickness. He told
how he had grown up and learned TO
hate his own race, aud cursed his very
existence because the sun did not shine
upon him and make him black He
raved at everybody in the room that
wasn't black as jet. Snuff-eolor would
not suit him, it must be as black a
midnight, yea, blaCker than the SCOT
on the door-hinges of perdition That
was his style, and he did not care
whether his Radical friends in Bedford
liked it or not. He considered his
niger that blacks his boots, as good as
any Democrat in the land, and little
better than the editor of the GAZETTE !
lie would come into this Congressional
District and elect J. Cessna to Congress
on that issue! This created a sensation,
and frightened the clique, for Johnny
was not yet quite prepared to swallow
this unpalatable dose of manhood -