Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-08-14
POLITICAL ITEMS.

that he is satisfied with Seymour rnd Blair.
We should now like to see a Democratic
letter saying the Democracy were ever sat
isied with the acts which give Hancock
prominence.
The tender Of the Commissionersbip Of the
Revenue Bureau to Governor Cox of Ohio, by
the President, last week, is accepted by the
Democrats as certain indication that the
patronage Of the Administration viii be used
against Seymour and Blair
A DENocRAnc paper, more honest than
polite, says. ''We might have triumphed
with Chase and Hancock, but the Convention
preferred to be beaten with Seymour and
Blair. Perhaps four years more Of adyersity
may teach US little wisdom.
II is stated on reliable authority that Mr..
Seward, previous to his departure for Auburn
informed one of his confidential friends that
inasmueh as he could pot support the New
York nominations, he would embrace an early
opportunity to declare for Grant and Colfax.
ANDREW Johnson is Of the opinion that the
S September session of Congress means bust
ness, and he is apprehensive ofimpeacbment,
with Senate not in the control of Ross,
Fowler, Henderson Co. He doubts the
susceptibility of the newly-elected Senators,
and would not like to stand another trial.
The Hon John S. Carlisle, formerly Of West
Virginia, and United States Senator under
the restored government, now residing in
Baltimore, declairs emphatically fo7 Grant and
Colfax, and viii take the stump for them.
There are few more effective popular speakers
in the country than Mr.. Carlisle
MANY prominent Democratic politicians
are in Washington city on business at the
Presidential mansion They are there with
the purpose of mani pulating Mr. Johnson and
his Cabinet officers, so as to secure ways aud
means to carry on the pending political cam
paign
CONSERVATIVE CoIoRED MEN' are held
in high esteem by the ex-rebels Of the South.
March in professions and sit side by side with
white men, and none are offended. Our
"black feIlow-citizens' are very we'll as long
al they promise to vote the Copperhead tick
ct. The Republican "niggers are the ones
who stink
Ir is ascertained that during his recent trip
to Richmond, Chief Justice Chase remarked,
that the Republicans ia Congress we're need
lessly alarmed over the necessity of passing a
bill to interfere with the jurisdiction of the
Supreme Court in reconstruction matters, as
the majority Of the court were favorable then,
and are now, to a decision sustaining the con-
stitutionality Of all Of the reconstruction acts
Hon JosHuA HuL, the new Senator from
Georgia, who was claimed as a Democrat by
the Atlanta correspondent Of the Associated
Press, but who has since declared for Grant
and Colfax, was a Union member Of the
Thirty sixth Congress, and q strong opponent
Of the rebellion. He withdrew from his seat
with the rest of the Georgia delegation in 1861.
but always sympatbized with the Government
He is an amiable gentleman, a fair speaker
and rather conservative in his sentiments.
Il LIKE Grant, said a German shoemaker
the other day, because he don't blow. He
minds his own business, and makes no fuss
about it. There are some men that blow and
blow, and are all the time telling what big
things they are going to do, and how they are
going to serve the people, and be economical
and all that and they turn out just as big
rascas as any ofthem Bat Grant, be says
nothing about It, but goes 10 work aud does
whatever he thinks ought to be done, and the
first thing we know it is all over with: it and
whathe does is always the right thing The
opinion was unsolicited, but is not less yalua-
bic for that
The pirate Semmes is in Washington-a
a living monument OF the sparing grace Of
the American Government Had justice
been done him he would have been hung for
his piracy. With the ingratitude which is
common with low wretches of the snake order
this Semmes is now rabid with Bairism. He
declares that the Southern whites are armed
to a man, and were anxious to have Congress
send arms down there, so that there might be
an outbreak Ifthey are all as cowardly as
the runaway commander OF the Alabama, the
only outbreak would be a general break
for some safe retreat beyond the range of
Federal or militia gnns.
GEoRGE WILKES says that ''the reason why
the one-term amendment to the Constitution
cannot be put through Congress, though every
man, woman and child in the country is in
favor of it, is, that every member of both
Houses of Congress expects to be elected 20
the Presidency, and to enjoy the place two
terms; while the members of the Judiciary
Committee, in which all the one-term bills
are regularly drowned, are not willing to
accept the Office for shorter period than
life" We fear that Mr. Wilkes takes too
limited view Of the subject The ambition
to be President is not by any means confined
to Congressman and judges.
We SEE it stated that the partisans Of
Democracy at the South are busy in organizing
themselves into clubs called the aBlair
Guards" When we call to mind the peculiar
way the Southerners have of softening the
final ''ra in their words -pronouneiug
"Blair," for instance, something ike "Blah"
we cannot help thinking the name they have
chosen for their clubs very unhappy one
We, ofthe North, have not got the length
yet of calling Democrats bIackguards, - but
if they call themselves that, who can objects?
We only hope their deeds in louisiana and
Tennessee may not be such as to earn them
the name.
The best evidence that the nomination Of
Seymour is distasteful to a large portion of
the Democracy is the fact that Hancock has
been written to to know whether be viii |
support the ticket. Hancock replies that I
he viii, but that Seymour is knave and
cheat, Has anybody thought it necessary |
to ask Hamliu or Curtin or Fenton how he
viii vote Has It occurred to anybody to |
write letter to Ben. Wade to inquire if he
means to support the Chicago nomination
We should as soon think of sending note