Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-09-17
DFORD, PA, FRIDAY, SEPT. n. 1869.

1t may be urged that | amt known.
That's the very reason why [ shood be nom
mated. What wood Yallandygum give eff
he wusn Mt known? We never succeed with a
known candidate. We kin say in counties
where they prefer men whose hands wuz
dreneht in gore that l killed my Thousands;
~ counties where they went for peace, BY
KILN Provo Marshals and sich-that wood
hov died in my door yard, eff I'd had one,
sooner than hay gone South.
My other puts are ez follows:
1 kin hold more nv the Dimocratie party
strato in traces than any other man in the
State. / wuz originally Democrat
voted for jackson and for every Dimocrat
nominee from that date on to the present
1t Is my proudest boast, wich | wish m
scribed on my tombstone when ! hev gone
hence-I neye scratched a ticket. Nv war
record Is clesr. At the brealSin ont uv th-
war, l opposed everything the Government
did | did not stun the Massachusetts, sol.
icrs in Baltimore, bccoz I wuz not there
but | slung up my hat when I heard NV it.
and wept bitter teers bccoz Wuz not there.
/ din not volunteer On the contrary. when
drafted, | made the best NV my way to Can
ada to join }alIandygum, and only failed to
make my escape thro the treacherv nv a
Abolishnist who wormed hisself into my
confidence having a copy NV the Moo York
Dag Book aud pint bottle NV sod corn
shiskey in bis hind coat pocket. Thought.
in my innocence, that one so equipped Good
not be anything but a true Dimocrat. hut I
found TO my sorrow, that wolves often nut
on sheep s clothing so perfcLly ez 70 deceive
the very elect Arrested and taken to a
camp Nv Liukin hirelings, I vuz clothed in
oius bloc, a musket woz f5rst into NY uu-
wiling hands and wuz transported south
ward to dip my hands in the g9ar nv my
friends. Did doit? Nol Idesertcd the
first mite, aud o-e.red to the Dimocratic
hosts, with whom served tiH battle wua
imminent, when [ made my way North
agin
Rooiucd by this unlawful seezeura, for
the bars at wieh wunst he'd creditrafoosad
to open accounts with me aaia, ( devoted
myself to aboosin a tyrannicaI government
engaged in prosecooin an uuc9nstoooshuel
war ! headed the Holmes county patriots
who resisted drafts, I organized the Kuites
Of the Golden Chkle IN Ohio aud Inilny,
and I organized more riots than any one
man in these tWo States. I kin say trooly
that doOrin chat short time, 10 less than
twenty two young men, trained and edjica-
ted by me. who had Mt the descreshen to
get out Gt the proper time, wuz iucarcorated
in Basteels, were they languisht months.
My career since the mouTnful endiu NV
the war is well known. I supported An
drew johnson the moment he deserted the
Ablishnist. wuz with him IN his triumph
al progress thro the North I held up his
hands dooriu the impeachmen strl9gla and
/ bought up three nv the Union Senators
wieh voted for acquittaL I assisted also in
the Slaughter NV niggers in Memphis and
Moo Orleans.
/ am, NV course, acceptable to the strate
out Dimocracy. sz [ hold views entirely in
consonance with them. am inhexibIy op-
posed to the payment NV the nashnel debt
| am opposed to the fifteenth amendment
and my dawters, if he'd sich, shood never
marry niggers. On these questions no man
in Ameriky is more sounder than am L
The Dimoeraey NV Ohio owe me this, for
services rendered. hev bin dragged throo
horse rofs for hurahin for Vallandygum. |
/ hey bin pulled out Nv my bed in Janooary
by soliers and compelled to take oaths nv
allegiance, and / languished once in a Bas-
tile for my steadtasness to Dimocisy.
These things [ ounht not to dwell onto, but |
Huo one else win I must
hev made other sacrifices. When torn
from my peeceful home to fte our friends
uv the South I he'd a wife which I loved. |
Life woz a pcecaful sucom and we foated
calmly along. She took in washiu aud I
talked politics al a neighbor grocery, invest /
IN the proceeds NV her labor in the susie
nance afforded at the bar When 1 return
ed what met me2 The KILN Of men outrile /
wuz not the most hart rcndin incidents Nv
that irasrisidle struggle It wuz the sevrin |
NV domestic tics-the tearin down nv do |
nestle al,ars, and separation uv families.
When I returned I wuz col5ly mot. Looiz /
er Jane wuz washin as yoosual, only harder |
than ever. and [ notist tho children he'd new |
lIocks and shoes. The fust afternoon I waz
at home I askt her in my old familyer gay
for a dollar and half, ez l wanted to go |
down street.
That's played /" she remarkt
Haven't 700 got It ?'' askt
81 hev, she replied, "and I perpose to
keep it. I hev diskiycred suthin since
yoove bin gone 1 hev found that's it's
easy enufF to support myself and the chill
dren, washin at a dollar dozen, but add to
that a huIkin man with a nose ike yoors,
and its harder than I keer. This house is
mine-yoo kin vacate
And she camly rung out a shirt ez tho
wat she sad wuz a common place remark in
sted NV a practikel diverse.
l left her. A feenlish Ali. hnisl he'd |
put this idea into her head and she he'd act
id onto it. Since that time I hey Wended |
my way alone, subsistin by CHARGE AbIish-
nism owes me the Hkker ought to hey he'd, |
uut Nv what that woman has earned sence |
that crooeI day. o what fearful debt to
pay
The acoot Demokrat may ask wat l want
uv nominashen when defeat is certain.
It's suthiu to be a candidate. I shood make
a vigorous companc. The masses in the
rooral dastgikes don't often see candidate
for so high an offs, and | shood beam onto
EN- all Uy course I sbood from this date
to the second Tuesday in October hev free
ikker The rank and file wood esteem it
az, b,uor 70 1ri1E with mo and I shnad /