The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-03-26
Cn.eehism for Copperheads.

SRAFChAS"
From the GAINESVILLE Daily Gazette.
/. Who sought the conflict III which the
American people are now engaged Inc req
els. IA,
2, Under whose auspices did this fratr1cldal
war commence? Under the ruling power, con
.nivapce and influence OF james Buchanan,
democratic President of the United States.
2 Who rihed the treasury Of the nation.
Loo Ting il in a bankrupt condition ? The rebel
democratic administration, of Mr.. Buchanan,
bv his chosen agent, Howell Cobb,of Georgia
secretary of the treasury.
/. Who disposed Of the United States land
forces,s 50 as to give the rebels control of all the
forts in the slave holding states? John B..
FIovd of Virginia, BuchaIah's traltorous sec
Rotary Of war.
). Who emptied the a~rsenals Of the North
into the lap of rebellion? TIL traitor Floyd.
6. Who sold to the slave states United
States muskets for $3.50 each, worth five
times that sum? The william Floyd
Z. Who deliberately disposed Of the naval
forces. of the country in such a manner as to
leave but two small war vessels, one carrying
%, the other but 2 guns, for the defense OF the
| whole Atlantic seaboard? Isaac Toucey, Buch-
anan's secretary Of the navy, now a,warm
supporter of Thomas II. Seymour, copperhead
candidate for governor Of Connecticut.
&, When the government sent the Star OF
the West with needful supplies for the be-
leaguered Union garrison at Sumter, who APP
prised the rebels at Charleston Immediately,
by telegraph, of that fact, 50 as to put them
Oh the lookout ? Jacob, Thompson, of Mis-
%sigsippi, Ruchanan's secretary OF the intcri-
or.
9. Who declared, previous to the 4th OF
| March, 1851, that the rebellion had already as
sulned such vast and alarming proportions, as
to be beyond his power to check or control ?
James Buchanan.
10. WHO contemplated 10 assassinate Mr..
| Lincoln. constitutionallv elected to the chief
magistracy of the nation, on his way to the
seat Of government, and laid their nefarious
plans for that purpose. The rebels.
II. Who commenced hostilities-where
and when? The rebels, i'll the bonbardment
of Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor on the
18th Of April, 1861.
-. What was clearly the duty Of the gov
eminent in this emergency? To call for men
and means for the suppression Of the rebel
lion.
10. What event, on the 10th Of April,
1861, reused the Indignation of the northern
people. stirring the patriotic blood quickly Ill
ievery vein? The murder of Massachusetts
volunteers, in the streets Of Baltimore by ruff
fans who had plotted the overthrow of the
legally constituted authority of the land.
II. Did the rebel leaders give any intima-
ton, in the outset, that they were willing tc
listen to compromise. No.
Is. Who have been anxious, all along, to
dispense with bullets, and use %sugarpluns, and
easy methods, in carrying on the war against
the rebels who nave been savagely i'll earnest
from the start? The peace democrats of the
north.
16. How have the blood bespotted insur
gents treated the northern peace men, and how
have they regarded the overtures and propo
~sittons of the copperheads. Precisely as they
deserve to be treated and regarded with the
utmost contempt and whitening scorn.
II. Who talk about 'holding their noses
when Wood. EaIlandigham, Cox and company
approach The leaders of the rebellion.
Is. BY whom are the truly loyal democrats
Of the land stigmatised as abolitionists' negro
worshippers, and the like ?-such men as Ben
Ijamin Z. Butler, John a. Logan, and others
in the army and out off it, pledged uncondi-
t~ionally to their ~country's honor and veal P
BY the copperheads.
10. What is to be the fate of copperheads
Contact with the mowers scythe.
20. What shall be the fatal response of the
patriotic masses to the successful issue of this
contest, i'll the overthrow if the rebellion, and
in the utter extinction of the tap-root Of poIit-
ical eviisLAvERY? s. be it-omea 0ad amen.
CATECHIST.