The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-05-29

| IDefe was never q gTeaLer man pfeScn-
| ted than him; as a statesman he is
good, safe, sure, prudent, and patriotic.
! There is not dissenting voice in the
! land that fit speaks from the heart,
can say he is not so.
( If Grant should ''slip up" on Radicalism, &c.
If any accident should happen to the
| head of the ticket we have in him one
| whom it is safe to rely on, who viii adj
! here to the principles of the Republican
party. 1t would not pe as when the la
mented Lincoln was assaSsinated, that
fatal scheme that gave us the man who
causes thousands to hang their heads
with shame-a man whom | proved
here, in this city, last fall, was a rebel
! before the war, and only became Un-
! ionist because he could not be second
in the government of Jefferson Davis.
| know him and know what | say. l
challenge any man in the United States
to deny it.
He exhumes the corpse of Jim Lane and reviles
the dead.
There is also another circumstance
that makes us bow our heads in humil-
iatiOu. to think that we have III our
! household, men who betray their fam
lilies. \ few years ago, James Lane, of
Kansas, came with all the dignity Of
his State to the United States Senate,
and there shamefully abused the con-
fidence that the peoplereposed III him
recreant to every trust, he became in eV
cry sense of the word bad man. When
| he went back, no voice sounded Il well
come, no friends came to greet him,
and what was the consequence? He
took pistol and blew his brains out
"a most fitting termination for his
| treason.
Terrible treason 1--WE must have discipline in
the Republican party or it will fall to pieces .
We have had in the late impeach-
ment trial such terrible treason as to
make Us trembIe to think that we must
trust our lives, cur honors, and our
fortunes to such men. We must have
a discipline in the Republican party, or
! it will fail to pieces. Itis like an army.
! When Senator is elected, he is to the
! people just as a general officer is to his
! brigade or division. What would we
think If we saw seven or eight gener
ais back out of an engagement or de-
sCrt to the enemy? Ifthey were caught
again they would be tried by drum
! head cOurt-martial, and shot
An honest confession "For six or seven years we
/ (Geary and his party have been poarng out
the blood of the nation like water"
/ For six or seven years we have been
pouring out the blood Of the nation
like water; three or four hundred
/ thousand Of our people have laid down
/ their lives.
! The people have quit the shooting business, but
the Radicals still carry the War.
/ The din Of arms has now ceased; the
musketry no longer rattlcs yet the
war has not ceased. 1t still goes on,
and you have placed your cause in the
I hands of your members Of Congress.
| suppose they go over 10 the enemy,
what punishment should be inflicted :?
/ There is not man here who would not
condemn them to be tried by drum
/ head cOurt-martial and shot.
Two years ago when was a candidate for Gov
ernor" Geary is safe
Think OF the consequences of their
acts. Shall the people continue to
mourn forever? Shall the great repub-
lican party be disintegratod, Wheneve
any recreant chooses to go off? | feel
that the people are ready and willing
to punish traitors, and in the language
of the arch traitor himself, ''make them
| take back seats" Two years ago,
when ! was candidate for Governor,
| people wanted to know if John w.
| Geary was safe. VIII he go over to the
enemy? was the question. | told you
then that the Allegheny mountains
would fly from their base before that
would happen.
The humble Geary made California a free state !;
| he was lin the Democracy a spy and a trail
tor. The Democracy murdcrers.
| fought against the bad principles Of
| the Democracy twenty years ago, on
ly in different form. In California
in 1919, if the truth was told, your
| humble servant was the principal in
strument in causing the State to be
free State; although | was in the De
mocracy, | was fighting against the De-
mocracy-thOse who profess to be Dem
ocrats but have not the first principle
of Democracy Applause They
were called Fire-eaters then. In Kan
sas they were called Border Ruffians.
There are men in this room who can
tell you that what | say is true, when
! | call them murderers.
He fought them as rebels tat Snickersville) and
now they are the fearful Ku Klux who are to
| assassinate ''the good men,, such as Butler
Bingham, Stevens, and last but not least, Geary
! WeneXt fought them as rebels, and
now we find them under the name of
Ku Klux KIans. Applause and
laughter. 1t is all the same; an asso-
ciation to destroy the liberties of the
country and assassinate the good men.
| am astonished when / think how
reasonable men, who can read and
write, continue in such company as
| that. | cannot understand how any
sensible man can remain in the De-
mOcracy when he knows the fact to be
! true 1t seems to be a determination
to stick to the name the name of a
party that has given us good Presi-
! dents, but which has no longer any
principle about it. | really believe
that if they got control Of the Govern
ment they would not know what to do
with it.
If that speech doesn't carry Pennsyl-
vania for Grant and Colfax, we would
like to know what will?
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ANOTHER BREAR-DOYyN IN THE IIE-
PEACHMENF FARCE!
The President again proved Not GHiI-
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