The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1870-04-14
xoT ExAcTEY.

The I,sq&irer of last week announces
the adoption fthe Fifteenth Amend
meat, with the statement that the
Democrats have practically abandoned
their opposition 30 thai iniqui.ous
MEASURE and are now paying court 10
the Negro. II declares that the Democ-
raey '.are on the track Of the colored
voters with all their hollow arguments
aua aicked u1aehinations IN the hope
or beguiliug them into the support Of
the.r tickets
We are gratifed TO know that the
Inquirer has plucked Up courage 10 iu-
form it, readers that The Fifteenth A
rs7sudment ha., become "a part Of the
Constitution. ana hat the citizenship
OF the oolored man has been officially
proclaimed" The disbelieving Radi-
Gals Of Bedford county will hardly con-
Time to dispute fact acknowledged by
,g,e.r own organ. They wiII now be
compelled to confess that their party
hare forced NEGRO SUFFRAGE up
9,, the country ,eitto,a giiring the peQp5e
an obp9rt1oitJ to rote ppcal the question,
and that they have been deliberately
aud audaei0usiy cheated by their lead
ers who pledged themselves in their
platform, in the press and from the
stump, that the question Of suffrage
should remain under the control Of the
people Of the States.
But the Inquirer does not speak by
the book when it states that the Dem
ocrats are courting the negro vote. lis
object in making this false assertion is
quite transparent. 1t thinks TO make
Democrats as odious and contemplate
in the sight Of decent white men as
those Of its own party who have en-
srauciised the black man in order to
obtain his voc. The Democratic par
~ presents its principles before the
whole world, and those who accept
them il will ia no wise cast out. Bat
il does not run after any particular
Glass Of persons, much les does it pro-
pose to proselyte africa, for that would
be poaehiug on the manor Of the Radi-
Gals. The African vote, OF course, IT,
loaqs to the so-called Republican par
IS. The leaders of that organization
have bought it and paid for it, and it
is, therefore, their IorQpeEty. The
slave holders claim TO the service of
the black man was cancelled by the
war, but the right Of the Radical poll
tician 10 his vote has just accrued
The Negro is henceforward to he po-
litical slave, the bondman ofthe unscru-
pulous demagogues who have purchas-
ed him with fraud and who mean to
perpetuate their ownership by false
hood. The servitude from which he
has been emancipated, was that Of the
body the service which the Radical
politicians claim from him, enslaves
his soul. The Democrats do not choose
to NEEDLE with the property of their
opponents. They say to the ''cOIored
voters" Servants, obey your masters!
But the Democratic appeal Is TO the
White Men who have hitherto acted
with the Radicals. Their leaders have
deceived and betrayed them. They
longer any fealty toa party whose
controlling spirits make light of their
pledges TO the people and who esteem
themselves no better than negroes
They cannot ne faithful to their own
promises, made hundred times over
10 their friends and neighDOrs, II they
follow the false guides of their party
in this African experiment. Their
place, in future, is with the party
which would preserve the ballot from
degradation and which aims to restore
TO the States and the people the right
of self-government baseIy surrendered
by the Fifteenth Amendment. No
matter as to names. whats In a
name? A rose by any other name
would smell as sweet" All who are a.
greed that THE PEOPLE must recov-
er their lost rights, can and should act
together. without regard to former po
litical affiliations. White Republi-
cans, what answer?