The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-08-19
A CHANCE FOR FREEDOM


the people may be timely.
Upon these results will hang, not
only the questions at local issue, of
which the people in the respective
States are themselves the best judges,
but there will also be the vital ques-
tions that divide the two great politi-
cal parties.
The Democracy are engaging in the
canvass without sembance of fear or
Encouragement.
The members of that grand old Or
ganization are increasing in number,
spirit and confidence, while its enc
mics are disheartened, disgusted, de-
jected
Ratiicatisna Is on the defenSive.
For many long years have they
pushed the Democracy to the corner.
For many long years they have kept
the Democracy constantly on the de-
fensive, while it needed no Defense
It had record clear and bright as the
nood-day sky. 1t could point to that
record as the record of the party that
brought greatness, and power, and
wealth to the American people and
the American nation.
In contrast with this, how is the re-
cord of the Radical mob that during
these late years has controlled the ad-
ministration of the Government.
That record is a record of crime, of
outrage, of destruction.
1t is a record of imbecility, of ignor-
ance.
1t is record of humiliation for the
proud people of America, who saw
their nation hurled from its high po-
sition of greatest among empires to a
depth so low as to have heaped upon
it the indignities, insults, and jeers of
all the world.
1t is a record that notes the destruc-
tion of our greatest wealth, and the
enslaving of millions of toiling men,
| who were free under the liberal adj
| ministration of the Democracy.
1t is a record that has indicated
gradual but most certain steps toward
a monarchical form of government, to
take the place of that built upon the
| bloody fields of the Revolution by
| WASHINGTON and JEFFERSON, and
their compatriots, and under the wise
| administration of which America be-
came great.
1t is a record of despotism more ac-
cursed and damnable than any free
people ever before endured.
1t is a record of mobs that have
murdered free American citizens.
1t is a record of bastiles in which na-
/ tive and free-born Americans have
been imprisoned without charge or
trial, and who, after months of suffer
ing, have been released without know
! ing for what they were incarcerated.
1t is a record of times in which free
speech was not permitted in this cOun-
try, that had so long boasted of free
dom; and when American newspapers
were forbidden circulation in Ameri-
can mails.
1t is a record of murder, and plum
der, and outrage, when honest men
were degraded beneath the heels of
thieves, marauders, pimps and har-
lots.
Such is the record of the party that
arrays itself in opposition to the De-
mocracy, and which is the party that
for ten years has had absolute control
of the Fe leral Government, and which
during that time has kept the DemOc-
racy in allegiance.
The picture is not good!
But the picture is not painted in 9TH
er than true colors, and, to the disgrace
of American history, is as incapable of
being blotted out as the ocean itself.
And with all this record, this same
demoralizing, destructive party comes
forward and fawns to the people for
further power.
AT the ballot-boX the people are su-
preme!
In Office, the leaders are the des-
pots!
Now is the time for the people to
make terms; to insist upon their
rights to insist upon equal taxation !;
to insist upon an honest administra-
1;o,, re +J,o Gcy.arp Duont IN incicf uDon
return to the old times of Democracy.
Now the people may do it.
But wait until the demagogues are
firmly fixed in office and they will
laugh at your desires and demands,
just as they have always done it since
they have come into power.
Now the people are masters. They
may do that which will free them
from the yoke of Radical despotism.
Let them strike n00!
If they care not to do it, let them
look back over the dark years of war,
and strife, and desOlation that have
hung so thick and black over this
country. Let them remember who
has done this, and then peer away in
to the future and watch the thick
clouds still coming Lp-clouds certain
to envelop US unless the people shall
strike now, and strike effectively
Ponleroy's Democrat.
/
THE man who was filled with emo
! ton hasn't room for dinner.