The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-09-25
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SOLDIER. A WORD WITH YOU

We met you on the bank of the
James in 1864. Have you forgotten it ?
1t was in October of that year; the
steeple5 Of Richmond and Petersburg
were in sight; it was the night after
an attack on the Danville Railroad.
! AS there was but one attack in that
month, of that year, you cannot fail to
recollect the time. You were one of
the slightly wounded, and lay in hos
pital when we met you. We had a
onversation-relative to the war, and
its management.
You said you were fighting for the
Union. We said that you would new
er get Union save at the hands of the
Democratic party You said there
would be Union the moment armed OPP
position to the government ceased
We said that the party in power cared
nothing for the Union. That they
went into the contest for negro suprem-
acy, and the spoiis OF war. That there
was no hope of a cessation of hostili-
ties, as long as the radicals ruled, and
there should be spoils to get, and ne
groes to evalate(?).
You said you believed we were de-
ceived, and that if it proved otherwise
you would come over square and pat
upon the democratic platform.
We said that the RAIDS cared more
for the negro than for you, and that
you would discover it sooner or later.
You said that the government would
take care of its soldiers.
We said that the abolition helI-born
government didn't care a nickel cent
for its soldiers, only to use them for its
own aggrandizement.
How is it?
Don't say you won't talk with us.
Stand fare and square on your declar-
alton.
Look the facts in the face.
You were told that there would be
Union the moment armed opposition
ceased. Armed opposition ceased
| more than three years aro. Is there
Union?
You were told that the rights of the
StatrE were to be left intact; that the
general government would not seek to
subiugate, it only sought to conquer
armies. How has the promise been full
filled?
What of freedmen's bureaus? What
of enacting negro suffrage by the gen.
eral government? What of interfer-
ing in elections? What of removing
officers which the people had elected?
1t was comparatively of little mo-
ment whether negro suffrage carried in
Ohio and other Northern States or not.
Vet the people voted it down. Yet,
did not the Radical representatives of
these same people impose, force, thrust
negro suffrage on the South at tiIGe,
and in such manner as to make ne
gro suffrage negro supremacy?
What shall we call suhjugation
What deed was ever done on earth
more damnable, more hell-impregna-
ted, than this?
Will you sanction it?
Will you have anything further to
do with men who can conceive such a
monstrosity
Another thing.
1t concerns yOu.
How does the government take care
of its soldiers?
You cannot be rich.
You were in the ranks.
You have little home of your own
it may be. Perhaps you work from
morning till night, for the necessaries
of life. You trusted the Radical tyrans
to take care of you. Surely you had
some reason. But how stands the
case?
Negroes are cared for. Those aoho
staid at home and cheated you, are ear
ed for.
But you are left out in the cold, now
that you have been used. You umustpay
taxes, to support the elegant equipage,
and luxurious harder of the bondhold-
ing aristocrats. The kind of money
that is good enough for you is not good
enough for them. So say your Jacobin
! friends.
Now, soldier, this is land Of lib
erty. Every man who has been wrong
ed, has a right to turn upon those who
wronged him, and demand justice. 1t
is no disgrace to man that. he has been
deceived. There is an opportunity now
to get D."
Satisfaction for the past.
A perfect Union.
White mans government.
One kind of money for all.
Equality of States.
Taxation to all alike
by voting the straight Democratic tick
ct.
Ifyou wanted the Union enough TO
fight for it, you do assuredly continue
to want it enough to vote for it. Vote
for HORATIO SEYMOUR and y0u aciU
hare it.
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