Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-09-11

Drums are now OTuamented with the like
ness Of Grant 1t spoils the drum, however,
for he cant be beat.
A CNcINSATI paper suggests that the Re.
puhlicans appoint day Of thank sgiving for a
happy riddance of the Blair family.
WESTERN paper says 'Mr Seymour
is said to be strong with the Democratic party;
but luckily, the party is not strong with him. ;"
BLAIR is going to stump Ohio. The PEN
dleton pall-bearers are preparing To give him
an obsequious reception.
A ST. ALBAvs Democrat, ia his disgust at
Seymour and Blair, vows that be viii vote an
old Bell and Everett ticket
To the 'flast words of distinguished men
may be added those of Horatio Seymour
"But your candidate / cannot be.
THE late Democratic convention has
brought into vogue the phrase, "retring for
consultation, as synonym for going to
drink.
DEsPATcHEs from Chicago state that Geuer-
al Grant and family reached their home in
GaIena on Tuesday. The General proposes
to stay in Galena until some time tn October
HEREToFoRE THE DEMOCRATS have objected
to the Republican party on the ground that it
was sectional-that it had no members in the
south. Now they complain that il mas siese
members in the South than it ought to have.
NELSON Ceilings, Esq, prominent Demo.
cratic politician in Baltimore.county, aud
me nber of the Democratic Executive Com.
mittee has announced his intention Of voting
for Grant aud Colfax Still they come.
The new rebellion proposed by Blair and
inaugrated by his followers iQ the South by
the murder of Union men, has met its Wa.
terloo already. Vermont sounds the loyal
keynote of the nation, ''Let us have Peace.
NEARLY all the Democratic candidates for
Congress in Indiana, have declined the chal
lenges of their Republican competitors to
jointly canvass their respective dist ricts.
They can't stand fair discussion before the
people.
CARPET BAGGERs.- Albany Journal
gives list of forty Democratic members of
the last Legislature of that state whom it
desiguates as "carpet- baggers. Ten ofthese
were born in Ireland, two in Germany one in
France, and the balance out of the State.
The Washington Star learns that Mr.. See
retary McCulloch, though he denounces the
financial plank in the Democratic platform,
and declares that if carried out 1t viii certainly
bring financial disaster upon the country, has
yet determined to support Seymour and Blair.
VERMONT has spoken in thunder tones for
freedom. for public order, for peace. Maine
will follow on the l4th with fully double her
majority OF last year, and in October Penn
sylyania, Ohio, and Indiana will speak
million tongued for grant "Let us have
Peacel''
THE Democrats are urging, against ele-
waiting soldier to high civil Office, while
Major General Blair is candidate on their
ticket for the second highest Office in the
country, with prospect "a poor prospect,
it must be admitted,) of the Presidency.
Major General Mcclellan was their last
candidate.
SENATOR Joshua Hill, Of Georgia writes as
follows: SIT is very well known to the read.
ing public that am the friend of Grant and
Colfax, and nothing has transpired with me
to diminish my desire FOR their success.
Southern men who we're loyal in the war are
all for Grant; it is only the Rebels who sup
port Seymour and Blair.
SENATOR Fowler reached Nashville, Tennes
see, on Thursday. A special telegram from
that city announces his purpose to canvass the
State for Grant and Colfax, and declares his
conviction that the success of the Democratic
party would be the resuscitation of the rebel
lion. The Presidents friends are reported to
be greatly disappointed by Senator Fowler's
course.
The Southern Democracy did not send
single loyal man to the New York Convention.
Every delegate from the South was Seces-
sionist. Is any further evidence of the ami
mus of the party wanted? Did it need a
Confederate platform to tell US that the party
advocate the lost cause and sailed under the
stars aud bars, when every delegate wore the
gray?
SOME of the Democratic leaders are finding
out that abusing General Grant is unpopular.
In speech delivered at Augusta, Maine, Mr.
PendletOn paid a high and well-deserved
compliment to the General who, said the
orator, ''hss been entrusted with great powers
and never betrayed his trust" VIII the
World take lesson in courtesy and truthful.
ness from Mr.. Pendleton.
Ex-Gov. Seymour says: s'Sever before in
the ''history of our country has ongress
taken a ''menacing attitude toward its elec-
tors" 1t is certain that the Democratic
electors for whom Mr.. Seymour speaks have
often taken a menaeing attitude toward
Congress. they did so in 1860, when they
voted their States out of the Union, and dur
ing the entire Rebellion, until their ''menac-
ing attitude" was taken out of them by Gen.
Grant.
The Nashville Press says: ''Few men are
accomplishing more for the Grant and Col
fax ticket than Generals Forrest and Pike.
The earnestness with which they support Sey-
mour and Blair is good index of the
earnestness with which all patriotic men who
have been Of late acting with the Democratic
party win drop them. They did not fight on
the Forrest aud Pike side during the war,
and they will not allow themselves to be
found upon that side in fighting out the
closing issues of that war. If Forrest would
only ''toot his horn, as he promises, the
way such men would ''git'' would throw any
skedaddling done in the late war into the
shade"
BosH Mr.. A. H. Stephens has recently
had talk with New York Herald reporter
He admits that General Grant is neither a
bogus soldier nor butcher" but man
of remarkable military genius, and possessed
of indomitable energy and determined will,
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