The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-08-04
Correspondence of the Guardian.


Lee into Pennsylvania, l said that it
could not be satisfactorily explained,
except on the supposition of Copperhead
knowledge and expected cooperation
This opinion was expressed previous to
the occurrence Of the riots in New York
city, and to the almost simultaneously
attempted riots in Boston, Portsmouth,
Troy and other places. These events, /
think, justify the conclusion to which /
had arrived ; but the cunning planners
and instigators of the conspiracy, with
that adroitness which is the result of long
practise and experience, have so covered
: up their tracks, and have so "paltered
in double sense '-while still perfectly
understood by their nefarious confeder
ates-that they may escape the detection
and Identification which would cause
them to be indicted for treason. Yet the
conspiracy. as believe, not the less ex-
listed, and has only failed of being more
extensively and deplorably manifested, by
the contemporaneou defeat Of Lees ar
my, the capture of Vicksburg, the reduc-
ton of Port Hudson, the seizure of Nor
ris Island, the repulse of Bragg, and 9TH
err Union successes.
That Lee was about to invade Penn.
sylvania, was well known, before it took
! place, both in London and Paris. /,
was also undoubtedly known to the Cop
perhead leaders in the Northern States
We see signs of it in number of places
On the 18th of July, in Concord, N. H.,
Franklin Pierce-of all Americans who
ever held an eminent position, the mean.
est, except James Buchanan-was resus.
citated, and profaned the sacred day by
the utterance of sentiments whose plat.
tude was only equaled by their baseness
whose Stiffness by their treason. In
the rehash which he then delivered, Of
the heartlessness, sycophancy, devotion
TO Slavery, and complete subjugation to
his southern masters, which disgraced
the whole term of his presidential ad
mnistraiion, he placed himself in the at
utude of an INSCRIPTIONS Copperhead
and ignorant that it was Lees army. and
not the Union forces, who were 10 be de-
feated, and expecting the contrary, and
looking forward to general uprising o
the serpentinc traitors, his real feeling,
and desires ooze out, like so much slime
from all parts of his odious and dislova
discourse.
In New York Cily,.were similar ex
; hbitions, on that day, of Copperheac
sympathy with jeff Davis's myrmydons
and with the vile, cruel, wicked anC
damnabled system of human bondag,
which so long spread its pail over thi,
country. Among the other orators wa.
Gov. Seymour. Being more adroit
crafty and expert in his villainy than til,
more clumsy witted Pierce, he covered
up his treason with ambiguous verbage
but he exhibited really mono the les
his actual animus, and it is none the les
) malevolent and deadly than that of tn,
New Hampshire traitor. His suppress
ed EMULATION at expected Union reyerses
is equally manifest.
: The timely and precious victories o
our brave and undaunted soldiers, pre-
vented the general uprising which wa
, plotted. But while the leading conspir
ators placed themselves in positions O
safety and darkness, the infatuated mol
of New York city, like the boiling Law;
of Elna or Vesuyius, when ripe for erup
ton, could not be restrained. Henc,
the awful scenes. OF robbery. arson, con
Migration, murder, devastation, treason
and all the terrible crimes which ther
TRANSFERRED, and which were attempted
, about the same time in other places, Blu
were happily crushed in the outset
These things give evidence of concerted
action, and although it may never be
positively proved, yet | have no doub
that Lee KNEW the principal friends he
had in the North, and also that they were
emphatically to give him aid aud com.
fort. Otherwise his invasion was the
senseless outbreak Of mad man. Read
what the Editor of the Richmond Dis.
patch very lately said of Lees expedi.
i ton
There are persons who think, and have
thought from the. first, that the invasion OF
Pennsylvania was n rash and dangerous exper-
lment, which there was no justification for
having undertaken. We are not one Of these
On the contrary, we believe. when the secret
history Of this war shall have been published
the conduct of the General will be amply JUS
tilted by circumstances Of which We are now.
and must ,for a generation remain, completely
! ignorant"
We must remain ignorant Of the con