Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-09-25

sense sIrishmen, in American politics,
must work from the American standpoint,
and remember that it is their citizenship that
entities them to vote and shout, and not the
fact of their being born in Ireland. -
BEAR in mind that, except General Grant
had conqured the rebellion, there had been
no United States, and no President of the
United States to elect. The Office belongs to
Grant, therefore, on principales Of commonest
gratitude.
IT is impossible to chronicle all the outrages
Of the Ku. klux at the South. Our Southern
exchanges are full of them. Ii Seymour and
Blair are elected, the South will be as unsafe
for Union men as il was at any time during
the war. A year or two of that sort Of
civilization viii make Dahomy of it,
POSTMASTER General Randall has prepar.
ed circular of instructions to postmasters,
requiring them to enforce the provisions of
the new postal law, which will be issued as
soon as printed. Postmasters are directed to
stop all letters aud circulars relating to lot
teries and gift enterprises.
A TEUroSIc friend contributes the follow
ing epitaph on
sHIEF YoosTICE sHAsE.
Ven / links wat now / is,
And vat | used to was,
tink | trowed myself away
Mitout sufficient cause.
Ahti-Slarery Standard
SUPPORTERS of Grant-Sherman, Sheridan,
Thomas, Meade, Farragut and eight out Of
ten other loyal officers and men who fought
under the stars and stripes during the re-
belion. Supporters of Seymour -Beaure-
gard, Forrest, Hampton, Semmes, Toombs,
and nine-tenths of the rebels who fought
under the stars and bars. This fact needs no
comment.
The Louisville Journal sounds the long
roll and says; democrats, stand to the
polls If that will not do, stand to your guns!"
and the spirit of these words breathes throgh
mad speech and raving editorial from the
Ohio to the Gulf, The only hope of quench
ing these flames is by smothering them under
the overwhelming ballots cast for Grant, Col
fax, and Peace.
GEORGE WILLIAM Curtis closes a political
letter eloquently and impressively as follows
May God give the country grace to lift up
its eyes to behold the bloody years from
Sumter to AppomattoX, TO reflect who and
what made those years, then to move forward
to bring the rebellion at the polls, as it has
already brought II in the field, to an 'uncondl-
tional surrender
A FEW days ago the Hartford Times pro-
fessed authority to announce that 0rville L.
Grant, brother of General Grant, bad declared
his intention to vote for Seymour The
EUentag Post, OF Hartford, on Saturday ex.
tracts from letter of o. l.. Grant, pronounce
ing the statement false in every particular.
Mr.. Grant says he is strong in the Republican
faith, always has been, and always intends to
be.
The man that told Noah there f'wouldn't t
be much of shower" when the great deuge
overlook him in his sinful days, must have
been an original Cop. With only three ewes
and ears sticking out above the surging Re-
publican tide they gulp out the same defiant
prediction. The antediluvian Cop went down
nevertheless, and was never heard of after
wards, and SO will the Cops of the presen
day.
A RICHMOND correspondent of the Boston
Irareller, writes 'If you fail to elect Ger.
Grant, you may prepare to receive largely Of
the negro population. 1t will be impossible
for them to live here in peace. / have already
been told if Seymour is elected ! will have to
leave Richmond. Loyal men have not been
so badly used since the war as now.'
A CORRESPONDENT, writing to the N. Y. TTi.
buHe from Niagara Falls, says ''You may be
interested to hear that in our town, which
polls about 500 votes, there were over 90
voters who intended to vote for Mr.. Chase
had he been nominated by the New York
Convention, but have decided to vote for
Grant and Colfax since the nomination of
Seymour Quite number OF them were War
Democrats. They will not touch anything
tinged with copper"
AMONG the many good hits made by the
Hartford Post, the following is the latest and
best: "1he great reaction so often referred
to by our Democratic orators, and which was
to have been illustrated by the falling off Of
Republican majorities in the late election in
Vermont, proved somewhat like the cannon
which was exhibited before military COM
mittee at Washington, by its inventon-a
very sanguine old man. From its peculiar
construction, it was objected TO by the com
mittee as likely TO irecoir badly when fred
oh. no, getlemen, said the old man, mot so;
if anything it recoils leete ahead
GEN. GEO. H. THOMAS, the honored lead
er of the army of the Cumberland, thus de-
clares for grant in letter addressed to Hon.
John Coburn, who in war times commanded a
division of the Fourteenth Corps, and who
now writes to his old chieftain, inviting him
to attend Republican mass meeting at Indi-
annapolis. He boldly and frankly says
Though | take no part 10 politics, permit
AAS w G@A RAGsS tuE EtGdb piGdSutC 4 nave nC'
rived from observing the firm and almost
ufiUersaI support offered by the soldiers and
sailors throughout the country to all measures
calculated to restore it to a condition of
peace and quiet"
TENNESSEE doesn't do as well in the way Of
murder as either Texas or Louisiana. But it
can show some proofs Of pacifeation. There
were one hundred and sixty. one murders in
that State for the year ending last July. Of
these victims S5 were white, 81 colored, and
10 were unknown. East Tennessee, being
loyal, had but ! Middle Tennessee, more
mixed, had 81, and West Tennessee, where
Forrest is at home and the rebel faction is
strong, had 81 murders. We can't classify
the murdered into loyalists and rebels, but it
is pretty safe to allow one hundred and fifty
FIVE for the former. The half dozen left are
easily accounted for by family differences and
accidents. ''Let us have peace.
WHEN a good old Democrat Ike Reverdy
johnson gets into the presence of a British
audience, it is refreshing to see what patri-
otic Republican be becomes. Thus, he is re-
ported as saying TO a number of Englishmen
at dinner in Sheffield
The war had this compensation: it ended
Slavery. None now but freemen tread the soil
of America, and history will say that blood
was well spent in erasing this blot, transmit
ted from a common ancestry, furnishing our
fame and belying the Declaration on In
dependence.
All OF which we highly approve. We don't
think that Reverdy could pronounce senti
ments more in harmony with the Republican
party if he tried.
The State Guard puts the recent patriotic
action of Gen. j. B. SwEITzER in very
forcible and just light, as follows:
We doubt if any political campaign ever
exhibited grauder spectacle than that pre-
sented in the attitude of this bold and truth
-tul soldier. He has carefully considered the
situation. He has put into one side of the
scales his Democracy and in the other his
country, and finds that the latter is worth the
most, and therefore does not hesitate to re-
uounee the former. He has tested, in the
most thorough manner, the honesty of the
leaders of the Democratic party and says that
81 al AZ.