Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-08-21
POLITICAL ITEMS.

ne cannot De statesman Dy experience.
The Democracy Of Baltimore have resolved
to drop the name conservative as applied to
their organization, and rely hereafter on what
is purIey Radical (Which means trsason) in
their creed.
The Democrats imported rebels from the
South to stump the North against Lincoln,
and initiate rebellion. They are now
importing the same class Of men to stump
the North against Grant and initiate reyolu-
ton.
a private letter from California, referring
to the revival Of political interest as the
Presidential election draws near, says it
seems like old times again. The German
vote win be given to Grant and CoIfax, which
viii ensure the State for that ticket.
GoyERyoR FENroN has appointed General
Patrick H. Jones, present clerk Of the Court
OF Appeals, Register of the city OF New York
in place of General Halpine, deceased. It is
understood the fees of the Office until the lst
Of January win be passed over to Mrs. Hal
pine by Gen. Jones.
A MEETING of men, heretofore known as
Conservative Republicans, IN Maryland, was
held in Baltimore, Tuesday night for the
purpose of inaueurating movement in favor
of Grant and Colfax. The meeting was ad-
dressed by a number of the gentlemen pres
ent, and it was resolved to prepare an address
to the whole country.
IT is officially reported from Texas, that in
the three years ending with last. no less than
nine hundred and thirty nine homicides we're
committed within the State. The murderers
were, with few exceptions, either confeder-
ate officers or soldiers, or bushwhackers dur
ing the late war, and now constitute one of
the legitimate entailments of secession aud
rebellion"
WHILE Western Democratic papers attack
the Funding bin as scheme Of ''bloated
bondholders," the Democratic papers in the
East denounce it as a proposition ''to depIete
bondholders to the tune of one.third of the
income deriyable from their fye-twentes y
So it is that the Democracy, without any
settled financial policy of their own, hope to
profit by playing fast and lose.
MnuGAN, the notorious Indiana Copper
head, in a recent speech delivered near Lo.
gansport, after arguing the entire equality of
the Confederate soldiers with the boys in blue
proceeded to justify the reputation of our
own war debt, under the same constitutional
provisions which forbid the recognition Of the
rebel obligations, That is about what the
arguments of the Pennsy lvania Copperheads
will sift down to.
0UR Democratic exchanges are publish
ing a list Of fifteen Union Generals who
support Seymour and Blair. Two Of the
number have already pronounced for the
Republican ticket. Five more were retired
in disgrace during the war One Of the
number has been court martialed and punished
since the close Of the war. Two were never
in any engagements; one is dead, and of the
remaining four the country never heard,
unless it be Slocum
MR. RoBERr TooBs before thewar declared
the purpose of the South to call the roll Of
slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill Monument.
He has just made,a speech at Atlanta, in which
he makes the following indisputable state
meut II viii tell you another fact, which is
enough for this tme-that as the late war was
produced by the defeated Democratic party Of
1860, we shall never have peace til it is
restored in 1868"
IT is officially reported from Texas. that in
the three years ending with June last, no less
than nine hundred and thirty nine homicides
we're committed within the State. The mur-
derers were, with few exceptions, seither
Confederate officers or soldiers, or bush
whackers, burning the late war, and now
constitute one ofthe legitimate ebtailments Of
secession and rebellion.
A DEMOCRAT of over forty years standing
in Annapolis remarked the other day: f'The
nomination at New york are the most popular
nominations ever made in this country .
Upon being asked to give his reasons; be re-
piled: "Becanse those nominations please
all the Republicans and nearly halfthe Demo-
Gratis.
During the war, to encourage the rebels,
the Democracy insisted it was Constitutional
for State to secede. Now that secession
has been defeated, to conciliate those who
sympathised with treason, the Democracy
insist it is legal and right to repudiate the
war debt. Such is the record Of party
protesting to the faithful to national life and
integrity.
WADE HAMPTON, the rebel General who
nominated Frank Blair for Vice President
in a late speech declared: "The cause for
which jackson (Stouewall) and Stewart fell
cannot be in vain, but in some form will e.
triumph" OF course Hampton knows Of
what he speaks in view of the present CON
duct Of Blair, who is pledged to restore trai
tors to their rights"
LOOK AT THIs.-The flag with which Frank
Blair now marches, at the head of the Demo
cratic column, is not the one under which he
fought few years ago, but It is the black flag
Of discord and civil war for the country and
a war of races for the South. He filings forth
the banner of a strange revolution in behalf
of Southern rights, in which "the warmest
men are the men Of the North who are seek
ing, not the redress of wrongs, but the graft
feation of their love Of power at the hazard of
the ruin Of their country.
CoEsIsTEST, yERY.-Some Of our semi
rebel exchanges are terribly exercised over
the fact that a company of colored soldiers
was allowed to watch over and guard the dead
body of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens. These
same fellows were glad enough to have colored
soldiers protect their property from the en-.
eroachment of their Southern friends, and
to have the colored man go into the army as
substitute, ard thus keep their unhallowed
carcasses out of the range of rebel bullets.
we know Of no coIored man so low as 10 ae.