The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-07-31

county, and hear the issues of the
campaign fairly, fully and intelligent
Iy discussed.
GRUNT AND PoLLTAx! GRAND
RADICAL FIzzLE On Saturday last,
at O'Clock, p. IN. thescattered remnants
the Radical faction in this County,
assembled in this place, for the pur-
pose of holding q grand mass meeting
in behalf of Grant and ColfaX, or, 'as
the disgusted taxpayers called it,
"Grunt and Poll-taX." Although
hand-bils announcing that Gov.-A. q.
Curtin, Col. Mcclure and the noted
clown. Tom. Marshall, would address
the meeting, had been freely distribut-
ed throughout the county; although
word had been sent to the faithful in
all parts Of the county, beseeching
them to attend; although every poss-
ible appliance was made use Of to get
upa crowd; it turned out the slimmest,
sickliest, sloWest and saddest-looking,
political gathering we ever saw in Bed
ford. 1t was intended, originally, by
the managers, to hold the meeting out
side of the court house, but paucity of
numbers compelled them to "hide
their diminished heads" within the
court room, which contained quite a
number of empty benches during the
entire proceedings.
U1horo xr,oc ,,o1,oh cf 20 in inn Of nnalyC
and eyes to see Gov. Curtin, but the
sharpest optics were insufficient to de-
tect his presence. The Governor, al
though at the Springs, had refused to
speak. When this fact was discovered,
number of the disappointed and dis
gusted, made for the door, and not
withstanding the be5eeching looks of
one of the managers, they incontinent-
Iy left the meeting.
A clown by the name of Marshall
and A. K. Mcclure, formerly of "Ruth-
erford's Lane" now of Philadelphia,
made the speeches" And such
'speeches J" We will put up any
Democratic school-boy, fifteen years
old, to speak against such staff as COM
posed the talk of these two eminent
Radicals. Marshall told few old an
ecdotes and declaimed about trebels," "
"lost legs" and "lost arms" and COM
pairing the returning SOutherners to
the Prodigal Son, said they did not
wait for the fatted calf to be slain, but
demanded of us at once "tO bring on
the veal" Some of his hearers were
annoyed at this, as they imagined that
he was driving at ex-rebel Joe Brown,
the founder Of AndersOnVille Prison,
who was a member of the Grant Con-
vention, or at Sawyer, the South Caro-
lima Blockade-runner, who is now a
Radical member of the u. S. Senate,
or at a certain rebel Captain, who is
nova Radical memb mber of Congress from
South Carolina, and who was denOun-
ced on the floor of Congress, the other
day, by Mullins, ofTennessee, (another
Radical) as not only "diSloyal," but a
murderer at that loyal Radical, Gen.
Longstreet, or at all the ''rebel'' seal
aWags in the South who have been for
given by the Radicals because they are
willing to vote their ticket and sleep
with "niggers." These ex-rebels are
now fattening upon Uncle Sans
veal, dished out to them literally by
their Radical brethren in Congress.
Marshall ought not to be so hard on
his own friends.
Mcclure, in his usual sanctimoni-
Gus, clerical, oily-tongued style, at
tempted to prove that black was white
and white was black. He said that
the Supreme Court had decided in the
Dorr case that Congress had the right
to determine whether the government
of a state is Republican in form or
not. This was news to his Radical
hearers, as they hadn't heard speaker
of their party quote decision of the
Supreme Court, since the foundation OF
their organization. But the deft and
learned Mcclure failed to tell his audi
ence, that the Supreme Court did moi
decide, in the Dosr or any other case,
that Congress has the right to force Ne
gro Suffrage upon the people of a state,
at the point of the bayonet, and he al
so conveniently forgot to state that his
party in Congress gagged the Supreme
Court so that they could not render a
decision in the McArdte case, which
involves the question of the constitu-
tiOnalitV of the Reconsideration ootc
Mcclure, furthermore, was severe up
on his former favorite, Chief Justice
Chase. In order to illustrate his nnin-