The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1864-04-22

The Lincoln Catecbism,

A friend favoTs US with little book called
the "Lincoln Catechism." 1t is a hit, "a pail
pable hit,' in showing up the eccentricities and
beauties of despotsm. We make few extracts,
which viii speak for themselves:
What is the Constitution
compact with hcll-now obsolete.
BY whom hath the Constitution been made
obsolete?
BY Abraham Africanus the first.
To what end
That bis days may be long in Office and that
he may make himself and his people the equal
Of the negroes.
What is President?
A general agent for negroes.
What is Congress
A body organized for the purpose Of taxing
the people to buy negroes, and to make laws to
protect the President from being punished for
his crimes.
What is an army?
A Provost Guard, to arrest white men and SET
Printing green paper.
What did tho Constitution mean by freedom
of the press?
Throwing Democratic newspapers out Of the
mails.
What is the meaning of the word Li5erty7
Incarceration in a vermin-infested bastile.
What is the duty of Secretary of War?
TO arrest freemen by telegraph.
What is the chief business Of Secretary of
State
To print five volumes a year of foreign corre-
spondence with himself, to drink whiskey, and
prophecy about war.
What is the meaning Of the word Copper
head?
A man who believes in the Union as it was,
the Constitution as /; is and who cannot be bri-
bed with greenbacks, nor frightened by a bastie
Have the people any rights
None but such rs the President gives
Who is the greatest martyr of history
John Brown.
Who is the wiSest man,
Abraham Lincoln
Who Is jeff Davis7
The Devil.
What is the meaning of the declaration that
tue accused shall ''haye the assistance OF coun
sci for his defense
That, in the language Of Seward to the pris
oners in Fort Warren, 1.-The employment ofcoun-
sci will be deemed new cause for Imprisonment.
What is the meaning of the Presidents oath
that he, "wll to the best of his ability, preserve,
protect and defend the Constitution Of the u
nited States q
That he will do all in his power to subvert and
destroy it.
Have the loyal leagues a prayer'
They have.
Repeat it.
Father Abram, who art in Washington, OF
glorious memory-since the date of thy procla-
nation to the free negroes.
Thy kingdom come, and overthrow the repub-
lie thy will be done, and the laws perish
Give US this day our daily supply OF green
backs.
Forgive US our plumbers, but destroy the Cop
porheads.
Lead us into fat pastures; but deliver us from
the eye of detectives and make US the equal of
the negro for such shall be our Kingdom, and
the glory OF thy administration.
What IS the motto of Loyal Leagues
''Liberty to the slave, or death to the Union, !"
How many widows have they made :
Five hundred thousand.
How many orphansf
Ten hundred thousand.
What was A be Lincoln by tradef
A rail splitter.
What is he now!
Union splitter.
Who s Summers
A free American of African descent who
would swear TO support the Constitution only as
he understood IT..
Who is Philipsf
! One of the founders of she Republican party,
WHO 'abored nineteen years to take fifteen States
out of the Union"
Who is Garrison7
friend of the President, who went TO he'll,
and found the original copy of the Constitution