The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-08-18
A CAPITAL HIT.


'hEesrERs great American Dictionary thus
efi1-s a word H. e..amon use:
DaIoehAr, u. One who adaeres to a gov
st0a Of he R'gat qt Suffrage TO al classes o t
mea.
Democrats should seek new name for their
par else come out boldly ii favor Of negro
Eie5 q1a1-i,u from the Johnstown Tr1-
7l quatts from the Dictionary We
~ sa4a s rightly understood. the
as. aa ~ sas definition
tpey al" - went IL la aaesef h2 the
Peopte. They never YloRel an5 -sLaya League
however, as all the people Nor did they con-
sider Provost Marshals the people. Nor did
they view the North @ lie people, considered
5rai th5 people who were worth ever twenty
thousand dollars were mol people Nor did
they consider poor people as uot people, as has
been &aae 5n sgrGa Is faa New Euaiana States.
Nor aid they zoos apaa nas4EssIs5a foreigners
as not people. Nor did they ever make any
other iuvl ,iaus distinctions Ia regard 60 the pa0-
NE. AHe .a.E .ls aatiIliioA as it was under
stood aaz erEo believed taa. tcaus
ae1 were she people, aai who accordingly IN
grated the ord 2ratts in nearly every State
Constitution in the Union. IN forming the Ma
.ias.i as veil as The State governments, a2.ife
raopie were considered the people by our fore
fathers All Abolitionlsts oppose these govern
ments both State and Nationals and hence in
opposing them must be traitors in heart They
want all these State governments and the Ma
tional government, as formed by cur ancestors,
broken down, and new governments instituted,
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and to hold office. This is covert treason, for
ii is openly opposing the governments which
protect them. We cannot see this in any 9TH
er light.
Men who oppose the government made by
our forefathers to be controlled by white people
are traitors Abolitonsts oppose this govern
ment. Therefore Abolitionists are traitors
They imagine that they understand tile Diction
airy better than their ancestors and better than
modern Democrats. and this conceit leads them
to oppose the State and National governments,
and not only TO oppose them, but to violate
their Constitutions openly and in secret con-
claves. What they call government by the
people is q government with bayonets at every
election window, and with the elections carried
by public fraud, in selecting certain men in the
army to go home and vote,- and in preventing
others with Democratic antecedents from 60
ing home This is their government by the
people"
Now for the second part Of the definition,
''Io faUor Of the Right Of Suffrage to all class
es Of men" The Bible says that Eve was the
mother Of all hrmg, but we are not to infer
that she is necessarily the mother of balloons
and monkeys, and when tbe Dictionary says
all classes we are not to infer that it means all
races. E'Class means number Of persons in
society supposed to have some resemblance or
equality in rank education, property, talents,
and the like" If ever our neighbor had stud
led botany or natural history either, he would
have known that class does not mean a race
nor genu8 neither. nor even q 2peeies. bat onlF
division of these orders. And according to
this all classes means all classes Of the achte
man, the divisions of The species Of race. Our
forefathers 80 understood it when they incorpo-
rated it in our various State Constitutions.
Now permit us to try o5a hand on de fni-
tions. abolition means utter destruction,
and ''Aboitionist'' means person who fayors
"Abolition. - Therefore an Abolitionist must
be an utter destructionist. Pretty near correct,
for they have destroyed all they ever laid their
hands on. They don't nsed a "new name p
.7oha8tos0a Democrat.