The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-01-17
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.

We publish on our outside, con-
densed report of the message of Gov.
Geary. 1t is very lengthy document
and contains much matter that does
not properly belong to a paper of this
sort. We do not propose to review it
at length, but merely to refer to some
of its salient points.
The Governor is quite severe upon
the last Legislature. He says that it
passed certain bills in which large
numbers of citizens were deeply inter
ested, the responsibility for which, af-
ter the adjournment, but few members
could be found willing to assume, or
even to admit any knowledge of their
passage" What reflection upon his
own party friends who had almost two
thirds of that body! But the Govern
or forgets to state that he signed some
of those bills and that they are now
laws of the land. If they were wrong,
why did he not stop them with his We
to?
Again, His Excellency informs us
that sit was a matter Of common no.
toriety at the last session that num-
Der of subordinate officers, in both
branches of the Assembly, were ap-
pointed, to whom liberal salaries were
paid, and who were never seen at their
designated posts, and rendered no SER
vice to the State" Here is an open
confession that the Radical Legislature
oflast year, permitted its party friends
to steal from the public treasury! We
frequently charged this upon them,
but our asseverations were set down as
"copperhead lies" Now, that Govern :
or Geary admits their truth, we hope
our Republican" friends will give the
subject some reflection. 1t is a pity that
the Governor could not have made
some mention of this matter in his
proclamation concerning the supposed
reduction ofthe State debt, issued just
before the last election.
The Governor pitches into the Antie-
tam Cemetery Association with terri
BILE vim. Because, fOrsOOth, some of
the "rebel dead' are to be inferred
within the enclosure of this Cemetery,
he will have nothing to do with it. Is
the man afraid of ghosts ? Does he
fear that the bones of the dead South
rons will rise from their graves, and
under the banner of the ''lOst cause"
march across the border and burn
Chambersburg, or lombard the EXecu-
tive Mansion ? He must believe in
witches. Shame on him Such re-
Ientless malignity as prompted this part
of his message is disgrace to the char
acter of a Christian gentleman, and
could scarcely be found in the breast of
a digger Indian. But it is just like
Geary. He always preferred to fight
dead men.
National affairs" also, occupy a
place in the message. His Excellency
evidently imagined himself in the
Presidents seat, at Washington, when
he THAT is, his Attorney General) wrote
this part of the document. His lucu-
brations in this regard, are only re-
hash of the thread d-bare stuffthat usually
compOses Radical talk on "Reconstruc-
tion." Ne Sutor ultra crepiddm.
One thing, however, the Governor
says nothing abOut-1enpeTd1ace !
What has become of the Temperance
Cause, Bro. Templar Geary? Have
you not single word to bestow upon
this all-important subject? What al
ready weary in well doing? You talk
about "gas," and "history," and "agri-
culture" and "grave-yards," and 'taX-
es," and insurance and 'penitenti-
aries," and "fish," subjects that are so
dry that they naturally suggest some
thing to drink, and after thus placing
temptation in the readers way, you
don't even hint to him not ''to oindulgew
But, we forgot. His Excellency has,
doubtless, reserved his temperance
thunder, until that committee, of which
J. Cessna, of Bedford, is chairman,
shall report that "ProhibitOry Liquor
Bill" which it was appointed to draft.
Until then let us possess our souls in
patience.
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