Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-02-19
0reelev and the Copperheads.

in the present compiicatlons OF our
politics. Towards the close of his
Mr.. Greeley makes the
remarkable declaration,
which is as surprising as If he had
placed tho safety Of property in New
York, not on the honesty Of the ma
jority Of its population, but on the
moderation Of its exceptional thieves
and burglars:
For one, lam resolved that the Dem
ocratic party shall do its duty TO the
in this crisis, or shall shoul.
der the just responsibility Of whatever
disaster may result. / believe the
only true, enduring Peace is to be at
tanned through immediate, energetic
and successful fighting, and that the
National resources are fully adequate
to its achievement. intend to stand
by the National flag so long as it shall
wave but patriotism need not be
blind. The Democratic leaders must change
their course give a prompt and hear
fy support to The War for the Union
or tie National cause ,rIl be lost. Such
is my undoubted conviction and the
emergency is such that it would be
moral treason to suppress it. II they
persist little longer in their factious
course, the Union is doomed.
It will be seen from this that Mr..
Greelcy's whole hope for the salvation
of the country depends on the couver-
sion Of what he calls the " Democrat
ic leaders" and that the only consola-
ton he will have in the event Of the
country's ruin is the thought that the
democratic party will be compelled to
bear the responsibility of such Ca
lamity. Now we have no faith that
the democatic leaders will change their
course. They have acted, and will
continue to act, like the copperhead
snake, from which they derive their
name, after their kind. The only
purely deductive reasoning possible
in our politics is that which, taking
their characters for the premises of
argument, predicts their future con-
duct with the same certainty that an
astronomer predicts an eclipse.
We should have small hope for the
country if we placed its safety on the
remote chance that such men as Val
landigham, Cox, Worries, John Van
Buren,, Fernando Wood. and the like,
would deviate into disinterested patri-
otism. These men doubtless have
their capriccs, but they are not capri
ces which take the eccentric direction
of benevolence. or justice, or self-devo-
ton. Mr.. Grecley's own statement of
what they have been doing during |
The past FIVE months furnishes little |
ground for any expectation that, after
committing such iniquities ~ he re-
counts, they viii hesitate in reaping
the results Of their intrigues. He
charges on the democratic party the
following irregularities" in its
opposition to the Admin stration
It's leading Journals, with scarcely
an exception, are 80 conducted that
they may be read at Richmond or
Charleston with the heartiest satisfac.
ion. Its orators make speeches,
whereof ninc-tenths are such as must
rejoice the heart of jeff Davis. and
mere fraction is coidly and formally
hostile to the Confederate Rebels.
Their Governors messages are reprint.
ed at Richmond with hearty approval
Their members of Congress oppose
nearly every measure devised and in
tended to crush out the rebellion,
Of" the Constitution and
the violated rights Of citizens" precise
" as Breckenridge did for the last
weeks before he left Washington to |
Join the traitor armies. Their brokers
are hard at work deprcciating Gov
Securities and raising the
premium on gold. Their Legislators
Of New Jersey, Indiana, &C., are con-
cocting such anti.National and unpa-
triotic resolves as have lately prin-
ted, and you, l trust. have read. In
some Democratic strongholds, drafting
is resisted in others. desertcrs are
by force If necessary. In
short-for | cannot even glance at a.
1.-THE of the evidence--the Democratic
leaders and journalists are manifestly
intent on demoralizing the armies,
destroying the credit, and defeating
the cause of the Union.
The true way to deal with the DEM
ocrstic leaders of New York and some
Of the Western States lie. not to beg
them to be converted. but to expose
and denounce their designs. We adj
init that these designs are in the high |
est degree culpable, and that if they
succeed the country will be disgraccd
as well as ruined. Not the least Of
our Affections will be the sncering
!" We told you SO" of England and
France. az they point to the Union
Remembered, or the Union reconstruct
ed with slavery as its cornerstone.
II either Of these calamities should
result from the plots and intrigues of
northern traitors, our war for national
existence, which began in the most
glorious uprising of great people
which the world has ever seen, would
end in loss of hundreds of thousands