The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1870-03-03
AMEs AND REvEI4s.

work which was begun by Charles
Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens in re-
venge of personal injuries; by the one
because of the burning of his property
during the war, and by the other on
account of the blow received from
Brooks. What they left unfinished
has been concluded by the malignant
Butler. To the personal hatred which
has animated the hearts of these three
men does the country owe this curse.
Reconstruction is now producing its
fruits. While one of the premature
spawn of this COTTON of the sword and
the negro ballot, the carpet-bagger
Whittemore, is being elected from the
halls of Congress, the yagrant negro
preacher, Revels, aud Ames, the
brigadier general, are about to make
their entrance. The mind that is not
shocked by these apparitions in the
Senate Chamber of the United States
must have been sadly corrupted by
radical teachings and practices. Re-
vels after his wanderings, and his
prowlings among the lambkins of
many black flock, turns up in time
for United States Senator. Ames after
carrying the elections in Mississippi
by the sword; after putting his dra-
goons ia the election board, and his
creatures in the legislature, has re-
ceived the reward of all his labors. In
these two--the vagabond negro
minister and the military sat
rap-is personified the whole scan
daiOus and wicked work of reconstruc-
tion. Revels comes to the Senate of
the United States with the certifi-
cate of his election signed by Brigadier
General Ames. The latter has wrench
ed his election from the negro legisla-
ture of Mississippi by his sword
Neither of them is a citizen of that
State, and some radicals, not yet pre-
pared to accept the disgraceful situa-
ion, insist that under the Dred Scott
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United States. Ames represents moth
ing but the army and the principle of
servitude and of brute force. His ad.
mission to q seat in the Senate is the
deepest insult to popular government
that radicalism in its hatred of the
people has yet invented. The negro
preacher survives all his infamous ad-
ventures and throws aside the clerical
garment which he has defiled TO put
OF the robe of a Senator of the United
States. The brigadier who, Gesler.
like, planted the banner of oppression
in Mississippi, has escaped the bullet:
of his victims to stalk booted and
spurre,i into the Senate chamber
The appearance of the Gaul in the Sen
ate of Rome was met by the conscrip
fathers with dignity and pride. The
degraded American Senate welcome
this proconsul from the negro pro
vince of Mississippi, who exhibits ere
dentials covered all over with oppre5
sion and crime.
Left to themselves the negroes o
Mississippi would never have dreamed
of returning this black bird of passag
to the Senate. But they were assured
that they could do nothing that would
fill the souls Of the Buffers, Summers
Wilson's and Chambers with sucl
ecstatic delight as the appearance OF {
stray negro in the seat once occupied
by Jefferson Davis. The negroes wer
made the tools of these malignant mas
tiers. They never could have conceiv
ed the subtle and refined revenge O
which their radical half cousins of TIL
north are capable. They never,
must be confessed, could te guilty @
half the Ineanness implied in this act
In this struggling negro the radiea
leaders wanted to show the world hoy
completely they have degraded th
cultivated and intelligent white pee
Pile of the South.
In the admission of Ames they pro
pose to insult the whole people,
Through him they mean to show hOV
effectually they have stihed the spiri
of liberty in this land. Ames ha
scarcely completed his villanous work
he had hardly done calling the roll c
his vassals in the Mississippi legisls
ture, until they were summoned t
choose him Senator Of the Unite
States.
Revels and Ames. These tw
names are at this hour the most odiou
that rise to the lips of every lover c
decent liberty in the land. They rel
resent the degradation to which tn
nation is being reduced by part
with whose leaders no villany is to
gross. These two individuals are tn
representatives of military power an
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