The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-10-07
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Things to be Remembered when
You go to the Polls.

Things to be Remembered when
You go to the Polls.
We are disposed to regard the unu-
sual calm which has prevailed through
out the present political campaign in
this State as a favorable indication.
We believe the people of Pennsylva.
MIA are quietly thinking over the is
sues of the day, and preparing to vote
intelligently and independently at the
coming election. They cannot be car
ried away by whirlwind of passion,
as they have too often been heretofore.
They will not be forced to vote as par
ty leaders may dictate; but will go to
the polls in October as freemen should,
prepared to break the ties of party, if
they believe the best interests of the
nation and the State demand it. Be
lieving that to be the present temper
of the people of this Commonwealth,
we respectfully ask each voter to re-
member certain prominent facts and
political occurrences when he goes to
the polls.
DENTENTpEp
That the Union is sstill divided; that its
restoration has been delayed for the
sole purpose of continuing certain per-
sons in office; that the material inter
ests of the North and the South have
been alike impaired by the partisan ac-
ton of Congress that the burthenS of
taxation have been thereby increased ;
that business in both sections has been
prostrated and that complication of
evils has been produced which has di-
sastrously effected every producer and
consumer in the nation.
REMEMBER,
That States which have complied with
every demand of Congress, unjust and
oppressive as many of them were, are
still deprived of representation in the
councils of the nation, not only in vio-
lation of the Constitution of the United
States, but even in violation of the en-
actments of a Radical Congress.
REMEMBER,
That Grant was no sooner elected than
a Radical Congress passed the Fif-
teenth Amendment, in violation of the
pledge given to the country in the see
ond article of the Chicago Platform !;
that an effort is now being made to force
upon the peopleof this State, by fraud,
negrosuffrageand negro equality which
have been established in the South
by military violence; and John w.
Geary is responsible for the refusal of
the Radical Legislature to permit that
question to be submitted to vote of
the people, though thousands of citi-
zens, without respect TO party, petit
toned for that right
REMEMBER,
That host of useless officials have been
appointed to eat out the substance of
the people, who swarm all over the
land, like locusts of Egypt, while the
masses pay tithes of their toll to sup
port them in luxurious idleness.
REMEMBER,
That the Secretary of the Treasury has
made false exhibits of the national in
debtedness for a partisan purpose, de-
clining to count the bonds given to the
Pacific railroad as part of it, and una
nipulating his monthly statements in
other respects to deceive the people.
REMEMBER,
That tariff has been so framed by
Yankee monopolists as to greatly en-
hance the price Of the necessaries used
by the masses, while luxuries for the
rich are admitted at comparatively
low rates of duty.
REMEMBER,
That Grant has shown utter unfitneSs
for the position that he occupies; that
he has disgraced the nation by appoin-
ting to the highest offices men who
gave him large presents; that he has
used his Office to enrich his relations
regardless of the public interests; that
he has spent his time in idlene 5 at
fashionable resorts, and in Swinging
round the circle" of first-class hotels as
first-class dead head, while grave
questions demand the consideration of
himself and his cabinet.
REMEMBER,
That the election of Geary and Will
liams will be regarded as an endorse
ment of all the acts of the Radical Con-