The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-10-08

country into the hands Of the Soutbe 81
, Cosfederacy.
, For the information of those who ms
not know these Copperhead candidate
we will state that they are all membe,
of the order known as the Knights
the Golden Circle, and VIM. NJ. Knot,
the Copperhead candidate for sheriff
served as president Of that treason nurs
ing order, during one term. During las
winter they were very active--lodge
had been established all over the North
west, aud the members of those lodge
were arming themselves and talking o
resistance to the Government and sepa
ration from the East, for the purpose OF
forming Union with the Confederacy
and when the Copperhcad leaders were
charged with institutiug and carrying on
secret societies for the purpose of inaug-
uratiny revolution, some of them indi
rectly admitted the charge by avowiug
their intention to "extermiDate aboli-
tionists,' while others more wary replied
that these secret organic .tions were only
for the purpose Of excepting up the Dem
ocratic party y thus admitting that they
were members of secret political organ
ization-a thing which the Democratic
party had just been warning against for a
number of years They now call them
selves Union men for the purpose of get
ting votes. They even propose to vote
for Gen. futile, whom they at first re-
pudlated because he was War Demo
crat. He has sold himself to them for
the sake Of chanca to run for Governor
on the Coppcrhcad platform, and they
have agreed to use him for the purpose
of humbugging the people, by inducing
them to believe that the Copphead can
didntcs arc in favor of the war. Now as
the Coppcrheads Of this county want to
sail into office on the "supposed popular,
ity Of Gen, Tuttle;' aud as they made
no platform at their nominating conven-
ton; We must judge the candidates by
their acts and by the resolutions of their
conventions held since the last election.
We have heretofore referred to some of
the reasonable actions and savings of
these candidates aud we will now refer
to resolutions they have sanctioned.
At Copperhead mass meeting held
in Upton last January, series of reso-
lu,ious was passed. In the preamble to
those resolutions We find the following:
"WHrnEAs Believing further that q war not
accompanied with propositions for reconcilia.
ton, is calculated only toput impossible gulf
between the two sections Of once happy
country, over which the Union never, never can
be restored, therefore" &s.
Then follows the resolutions, from
which We select the following:
"R.so',ed, That next to the liberties OF the
people and independence of the States we most
earnestly deslle the perpetUAton If the Union
o. me S.a a . n"' we so'emny proc lain the con
by the maintenance Of the principles upon
ifs members and ON, r"nsoi, o
rights Of each Other unicrtl. constitution: and
that war l. dsunion.."
, nssoe'' q a., ''%t ""ch we survey our present
origp and surroundings. the rrsHonsiIii;1,s IS
their authors and their consequences to future
sons az , ,'s s,'e,n ana IMPOSING proper
for eve, ythng OF decpilful or time .seryiaS
character and imrels US to speak frankly and
hsan s "., ,ho o's"n uj'a nat mad IT not
England our generation would not have witness
ed the CHASTITY spectre or disunion, and wee it
tIosc dNrpI.rs r"nrd he rs pGivh' ,%r f'1.
therefore, we have exhausted every reasonable .
e"oF' ,o[ thc restoration 81 inc Union a. it WAS;
western men viii consult vrste ar nrid" wh;rh
alike forbiis that the great Mississippi Valley
,Hpm.n ever pe divided ana me eny rendered
ance cupidity, clan legislation. No: the great
Mississippi Valley, now aud forever one and