The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-05-01
THE DEMOCRATS IN COUNCIL


IL -NObiNs l-t'sAN IN A''IA' -. '1'1 "'N~
Beckley, Esq, Thos. Fisher, Caselton
AXE, w. NJ. Pearson, Esq, James
Cessna, Esq, J. b. Anderson, ESD,
H. P. Diehl, George Baughman, David
Howsare, Daniel Fletcher, Henry
Fluke, Esq, Caspar Stroup, James c.
Devore, Esq, John Ko0ns, and John
B. Fluke, Esq, and by j. VI. Gephart,
j. NJ. Nanhorn, Esq, Henry W. Reed,
Jacob Kensinger and Richard Sill, as
Secretaries.
The meeting was then addressed by
b. +. MEYERS and o. f. SHANNON,
EsQs., who discussed the issues before
the people, at length, and handled with
out gloves, the revolutionary and des-
perate men who lead the Radical par
ty.
Che meeting was enlivened by choice
music discour5ed by the Democratic
Brass Band, to which the people of the
county are indebted for frequent and
very fine musical entertainments.
The following resolutions were unan-
imously adopted and the meeting adj
iourned with three cheers for the Con-
stituti0n and the Union, and three
more for General w. 5. Hancock, the
man who saved Useless Grant at the
Wilderness:
Reso{red, BY the Democrats Of Bed
ford county, in Mass Meeting assem-
bled, that in this mUmentOuS crisis in
public affairs, when the Constitution
is set at naught, when the Executive
and Judicial branches of the Govern
ment are made subservient to plot
ting faction in the legislative branch,
and when that faction is declared to be
"a law unto ITSELF" it behoOves each
and every citizen to reflect with calm
ness, and decide with patriotic SOlici
tude, upon proper remedy for the
evils which beSet Us.
ReSOIred, That the impeachment and
threatened removal of the President of
the United States, for DO other alleged
reasons than that he attempted to re-
move an odiOus member of his Cabi-
net, and that he exercised the privilege
Of publicly expressing his opinions on
great political issues, privileges eXer-
ciScd by the best of presidents, is an
outrage unparalleled in the history Of
any civilized country, and will cover
the nation with unutterable and eter-
nal shame.
ResOired, That we, the people, plain
ly perceive the motives Of the men who
are plotting to remove the President,
to be simply greed for the spoils Of
office and the sore necessity of reck-
less party which is determined to keep
itself in power, though it be at the
cost Of the honor, the peace and the
liberty OF the people, but which is
doomed to disaster and defeat, even by
its own desperate and despicable meas
ures to save itself from annihilatiOn.
The assassination OF Lincoln was the
deed Of Il misguided enthusiast; the
impeachment of Johnson is the delib-
crate and malicious act Of corrupt and
INSCRIPTIONS politicians. The I'm
DGdtHCIS are toSSSS@luo ttCNOolCNl ny
malice prCDcnse.
ReSoiced, That we call upon the peO-
pie to rebuke the greediness for office
which seeks toremOVe the lawful Exec
utiVe, which thrOttles the Supreme
Court by partizan legislation, which
forces Negroes to vote at the point Of
the bayOnet, which disfranchises thOuS
ands of intelligent White Americans,
and which stops at no outrage upon
law, liberty, decencv, or right, to salts
fy its Unsuitable and beastly lust.
ReSOtred, That we are in favor of
reducing the Army and Navy to a
peace establishment, thereby saving at
least one hundred millions Of dollars to
the GOUeynmeJlt, annually, and that we
are, furthermore, i'll favor Of the dis
continuance Of the National LOating
School for Southern Negro LaZZarOni,
commonly called the Freedmen's Blu
reau, thus saving millions more of the
peoples taxes, and at the same time
causing the Idle blacks to earn their
bread and to assist in rebuilding the
wasted prosperity OF the South.
ReSOired, That we are in favor of
equal taxation of all species Of proper
.ty, that we are opposed to all legisla-
tiOn for the benefit Of class, at the eX
pense of the many, that we believe the
financial system which enables the Ma
tiOnal Banks to draw compound inter
est upon their bonds, to be wrong and
dangerous in principle, and we are
anxious that the Revenue laws be SO
modified that the burdens Of Govern
ment shall be equally distributed in
proportion to the wealth of indiVidu-
ais, and that the National Debt may
be paid at the earliest possible period
and in the manner least hurtful to the
interests ofthe people.
ReSOtred That we condemn and
hold up to the eXecration of the public,
the reckless and eXtravagant apprO-
priations made by the late State Legis-
lature, attacking as they did, even the
Sinking Fund Of the Commonwealth,
and that the thanks Of the aXpayers
are due to Hon. W. y. Wallace, and
other Democratic members of the Leg
islatUre, who, by their sleepless |igi-
lance, obtained a reduction in the APP
preparations to the amount of three
hundred thousand dollars.
ReS0lred, That the country needs y
CHANGE in its LaWgivero; Com
merce cries out, from coast to coast,
for \ CHANGE; the Manufacturing
Interest calls, with the voice OF ten
thousand starving operatives, for n
CHANGE; the Farmer, as he plOughs
his land mOrtgaged for the payment of
the increasing Public Debt, demands a
CHANGE; the Mechanic, as he counts
the cost of the necessaries of life and
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