Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-08-27

AN ONO paper remarks that ''Democfacy
and ignorance are inseparable. Destroy
ignorance, and you destroy Democracy. i
Weare acting upon that principle in Penn
sylvania. Our free schools are doing the
business, and the most thoughtful Democrats
are setting their houses in order.
SINCE the nomination of Asa Packer for
Governor the Democrats OF this State have
concluded to dry up the cry about 'rieh
bondholders;'' but since the deelination Of
Rosecrans, in Ohio, and the nomination Of
Pendleton in his stead, they intend 10 60
their length in harping on that string there.
II any Democratic stumper should, during
the canvass appear in both States, he will
have to be careful to provide himselfwith two
speeches inst the opposite Of each other
beforehand.
FATHER ABRAHAM says that Asa Packers
record may be briefly stated as follows
First, appointed associate judge in North,
ampton county; second, elected to the Legis,
lature third, elected to Congress, in 1852,
and re.elected in 1854, and fourth, and lastly,
was delegate to the Democratic National
Convention held at Charleston, in 1860, from
which he bolted and united with the Southern
secessionists in nominating John c. Breck-
enridge as the secession candidate, to defeat
Stephen A. Douglas, the regular Democratic
nominee.
TIE Reading Times is ventilating Asa
Packers love (?) for the poor man. The
TGiaes says that Mr.. Packer amassed col
ossai fortune by grinding the faces Of the poor.
Years ago he made heavy contracts for boating
eosl to New York, and got kind of monopoly
Of the business. He carried his oppression
of boatmen so far that they rebelled against
him, and resorted to a strike. He went to
South, Easton, where the boatmen had con
gregated, to compel them to continue in his
service; ''but so violent was the feeling against
him that he was seized by the men, thrown
into the Lehigh, and would have been
drowned but for a timely rescue. So ex-
asperated were the men against Packer, that
they drove the man who had saved his life
from the ground with stonesl''
DEMooRArIo OPINION on NEGRO SUFFERAeE.
The Green Bay AdUocate, one ofthe Oldest,
most consistent and reliable Democratic
journals published in Wisconsin, in which
the negro now enjoys the right of suffrage,
in its issue of the sth inst, says
The whole subject is dead issue aud in
passing from theory to practice, we are glad it
is so near solution. If the African race in
the Southern States were on par with the
colored people as we find them among us, We
should have little fear Of the result. We have
no more prejudice against man on account
of the color of his skin than the color Of his
coat. He hare tcatched acith interest The
course oflfe Of the eolored people Of this
State, and so far as zee hare been able to de-
termine, they are t7sH qualified to rote and
are clearly entitled to that prioilege. Theg
are industrious; temperate, la,g abiding and
intelligent.
WHAT IT CosTs.-The people of the United
States are plundered of ttceaty millions o.
dollars a gear by the tariff on coal, and oi
taoeaty three millions Of dollars gear by the
tariff on iron.
Forty three millions Of dollars year thus
goes straight from the pockets Of hardwork.
ing people into the pockets of only these two
classes of monopoIists and the Congressmen
who eonspire to pass the laws which authorize
the plundering. y. World.
One ofthe most extensive and successful
of those 'monopolists' is Mr.. Asa Packer o.
Carbon county, who has amassed Twenty
Millions of Dollars by his operations in coal
&C., and whom The World is trying to make
Governor of Pennsylvania We do moi
charge him with making this fortune By
robbing the poor but The World clearly does
Ought it not to stop supporting or stop de
flaming him?-N. Y Tribune.
PERHAPS a reason for Asa Packers un.
popularity throughout the Lehigh region
may be found in the proyerb, 'No man i:
hero to his own valley"
Ex.GoyERSoR BIGLEE is to stump the State
of Pennsylvania for Mr.. Packer.