The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-03-06
DOWN WITH THE IMPEACHERS
Great Meeting toProtest Against
the Revolutionary Action Of
the RumD Congress.
THE PRESIDENT CALLED Upon no
10 MAINTAIN His POSITION All
ALL WARDS!

AhE- FhtSIDENE GAHSIIED EpN RtE
10 MAINTAIN His P0Sif fH0N AZ
ALL HAZARDS!
On Monday evening last, the largest
imprOmptu meeting ever held in Bed
ford, assembled at the Court House to
protest against the revolutionary and
outrageous conduct of the Rump Con-
gress in impeaching and striving to
remove President johnson. JOHN
FULTON, ESQ, of Saxton was APP
pointed President with Michael Reed,
Esq, John A. Mowry, John Yont,
Henry w. Reed, VIM. Bowles, Henry
2. Diehl, James Corboy, ST., Geo w.
Cessna, James Sill, John Flas' er, Jacob
Bolinger and Michael Wyant, as Vice
Pre- residents; and Daniel l.. Deihaugh,
VIM. Fyan and Thos. Jamison, as Sec
retarieS.
On motion of f. F. Kerr, Esq, Il
committee Of. five was appointed to
draft resolutions expressive of the
sense of the meeting. The Chair az
pointed the following named gentle
men: John p. Reed, Esq, John b.
Fluke, Esq, J. I. Gephart, Peter NJ.
Barton, and Josiah Ritchey, with L
F. Kerr, Esq, as Chairman.
The meeting was then addressed by
o. Z. Shannon, b. L. Meyers, and w.
G. Smith, Esqs., in sp eches strongly
c0ndemnatOry Of the course of the Rad
icals in Congl ess and appealing to the
people to stand by the President. Whilst
it was not claimed that Andrew John
son is Democratic President, or that
the Democratic party is any way res
pOnSible for his action, but that it is the
duty of every good citizen to support
the President in his struggle with the
RevOlutiOnists.
E. F. Kerr, Esq, Chairman of the
Committee on resolutions, then repor-
ted the following which were unani-
mously adopted, after which the meet
ing adjourned with three times three
for the Constitution and the Union:
ResOiUed, That we behold with a
maZement and horror the raSl: and deS-
perate attempts Of the Radicals i'm Con-
gresS, to override the Constitution ana
plunge the country into anarchy ami
civil war, and can ;iScribe their cNnduci
to nothing else than the impulses o.
parIiZan hate and fanatical nIadnrs>.
ReSOiUed, That the most shameless
farce that ever WAS enacted in the ALI
mails of politics, the most diabolica
etf'rOntery that ever was exhibited in
the history of human governments,
the most rOWardiy scheme to ShackIe
the popular will that ever Was r0nc0c
ted in free country, the most malic
iouS, devilish and damnable u>urlatiOH
that ever was attempted by ambitious
viIlainy, il the cau>e s indecent and
partiZan Impeachment of the faithful.
patriotic and COnstltutiOn-lOVing Pres
ident Of the United States, by a band
of malignantS, who, by their own con-
fessiOn have viOlated the Constitution,
who, following in the Footsteps OF
George the Third, of England, have
set the military above the civil power,
who for three years have kept ten
States out of the Union at the point OF
the bayOnet, and who deserve, not to
be inIpeached, but to he ScOurged
from their diShOnOred seats in Con
gress az the changers were driv-
Ell from the temple.
ReSOtUed, That the Rump House and
The Rump Senate enact lucS OnLy GY the
sufer0Hce Of the people, that ten States
are excluded by the action of those
fragmentary bodies from representa-
tiOn therein aS guaranteed them by the
Constitution, and therefore, those bod
les are not such Congress aS il con
tempIated by the fundamental law of
the land, and hence not competent To
impeach and try the President of the
United States. The RunIp Senate is IA
packed jury, which excludes one third
Of the Jurors from the panel, 4 tribunal
organized and resolved 10 convict, and,
therefore, we demand Of the President
that he shall no Surrende. the EXecu-
tive office into the hands Of this band
Of cOnSpirat0rS without first eXhausling
every meauS of resistance at his com
mand. The Constitution. the Re
public must be preserved at the hazard
| of life Itself.
ReSofred, That Governor Geary, by
his offer of troops to dispose The consti-
tutionHl Executive OF the United SlalCr
Government, has exhibited trea-
sonahle purpose e%cuSabie only
by that imbecility Of nind which
makes the purpose alortive, and we
| rejoice that the uncallAd for effort of
| this eXcelency to hOuId ON civil war,
has provoked only The contempt and
derision OF the people.
| HORSE -EATING.-M Geufi'rey ST.
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