The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1864-04-01
WHOLE NUMBER. 3Io2
vol. Z, NO IS.
As on they marched, the flag before,
New EngIand's braves through Baltimo

master should have elected at least passing
howl from the kennel We venture TO supply
this omission, though we cannot, Of course, RI
val the canine melody of the original:
Not seated in special car
As great men usually are,
But hid among the TRUNKS away,
Our Washington the Second lay.
In Scotian cap and lengthy cloak,
Too badly scared 70 try joke,
While Treason painted for his gore,
Our Abraham sneaked through Baltimore
These lines are not copyrighted and Fofney
is at liberty to append them to future editions
of his song.
The poem entitled ''ACavalry Charge" %.
28) was evidently written by some harmless
youth who has obtained his ideas of that branch
of the service at an adjoining livery stable
Hear him
'sAnd the grim-visaged Colonel,
With eaT-rendiRg shout
Peas forth TO the squadrons
The order 'Irot outl' -
Aother verse would indicate that the author
is in the medical line-probably welding the
pestle for some country practitioner. With true
esprit du corps he makes moan over the ill-con-
sidered blows which cheat the profession of its
fees:
"The wounds that are dealt
BY that nurdeTous steel
wa nevcr gleid case
For the surgsom to Asal.''
On page 38 bereaved poet who, bat for the
company in which we find him, might be sus-
pected of disloyalty, cries out to his Abolition
brethren,
'sYe 'OiSs toho haVs made tbs sOar
To SGT all mankind free
Oh know you not this boy of mine
Was all the world to me 2"
And adds
''Yet they aokoSs sons are safe at home
May take f4r d, d,fersnf visaes
And cry aloud Nor biood-n0rs bluO3'-
On GodI send me good news"
We object 10 this poem, not on account of its
literary shortcomings, but because of the mani
fest comfort it offers to the '.Copperheads.
II bards of Unconditional loyalty sing thus, what
is to be expected Of those traitors in our midst
who are camoring for the ''Union as it was"
and a dIsgraceful peace on the basis Of the old
Constitution
From cover to cover this is an Abolition book
No patriotism is recognized save the kind which
consists or finds IFS highest development in steal
ing and landing negroes. me pages etrv-
not devoted to praise of Massachusetts are bes-
pattered with false and fulsome stuff about Af-
rican ,EaIor-the 'sbopdman"-the Lords de-
liverance flag of Christ and like non-
sense and bIasphemy. John Brown, horse thief,
murderer and vagabond, who closed his career
Of blood and theft ON the gallows-who, by
the laws of every nation on the globe, civilized
and unciviized, had forfeited his life, is thus
canonized by one of these goldfish laureates
"a prophets soul in fire came down
To live in the voice of Old John Brown;
The eye Of God looked down and saw
i Just Ire iost By an u,.jsSt MW,'
The blasphemons freedom with which the
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and Christ is not the least remarkable thing in
their literature Every devilish and tanatica
scheme, whether of blood or plumber, which
they propose, they coo!y announce as the Lord
own," Gods great work" or ''Chrst deiy-
eraace." The theology OF the most of them may
be briefly summed up in the language Of tue
''L1JaatOr," their organ and oracle: ''If God
Almighty has the power to abolish slavery and
does not 10 so imaaediately lie Is a reyy great
Scoandrel' They are intensely pious at present
in view of the large bodies OF negroes to whom
our armies have opened the gateway from slav-
cry to starvation. They are immensely patri-
otic in view of the money, which is being pour
ed into their pockets by the government at the
expense of the rest of the land, for the product
of their shop and looms. Piety and patriotism
will vanish together as fueitiYes and contracts
grow scarce, and New England will swarm af-
ter the war, as it did before, with blatant in
! G;lels and bowling traitors.
There is a good deal of stuff scattered through
this book which, in view of the peaceful and
retiring disposition of the authors, and their
I aversion to any personal contact with arms, is
rather amusing. For instance:
''With sword on thigh, to do or die,
/ march to meet the foe.''
And again,
''Lock the shop and lock the store,
Chalk this upon the door,
We've enlisted for the war
Still another minstrel, now doing picket duty
on Boston Common, thus sternly reproaches
/ Copperherds, and invokes the loyal to share his
perils amid the frog-haunted puddles of that
classic outpost:
''Cowards slink away;
But who scorns TO see the foe
Deal our land all shame and woe
Must go forth to-day
We venture our word upon it THAT the var
lets who have ground cut this and pages more
of doggerel in the same strain, are attached,
every one of them, either to Gov. Andrews
s's,ra,n" or 10 Horace Greeley's ssNiae han dred
thousand" These gigantic armies are not ex-
pected to move until the approach of the reb.
els, when they will doubtless head towards Can
ada at apace wkich willshane M'Clellan's tor,
toise march or Richmond.
There is little ballad ON page SIS in which
a loyal infant is the speaker. 1t beginsi
''Willie stood at the window
i Little Willie of five years old
Watching the rainbow colors