Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-22
A Model Copper head.


reader of newspapers-one observer o
men-oue rejecting spectator of the war
who doubts that man to be a copper
head must first be rebel in heart. Before
the overt acts of this rebellion were com
menced, all those who are now engaged il
it were simply Copperheads. The over
act is all that distinguishes the rebel in
arms from the Copperhead out of arms. In
principle they are one and the same. The
one gives physical support to the rebellion
aud the other moral support, and the latter
support, il. not SO eficacious, is just as
necessary as the former. Naturally and
logically, therefore, Copperhead is rebel
and rice versa The two designations are
convertible the circumstances only being
changed.
An illustration of the way this thing
works in practice is seen in the case of
Charles Rhoads, who now edits the Mari
eta (ohio) Republican, Yallandigham
sheet of the most yenemous description
BE was at the beginning of this rebellion
resident of this State and edited the Par
kersburg NssOs, most bitter and persis-
tent advocate of the secession of Virginia
from the Union. Rhoads, himself, voted
for the ordinance of secession and contin-
ned afterward to advocate public acquies-
;euce in it until popular opinion in Par
sersburg became so hot and indignant at
his course that he was compelled to leave
S,r,a, @ba rsyar 20 Mari
btta and established himself there as the
editor of the Republican, and from that
blaze he opened out in the same old
strain, taking care only to adapt himself
to the surroundings of his new position
Since that time he has published the "dem-
ocratic" ~ organ of the sympathizers there
with the rebellion, and now he bowls like
the true secessionist that he is, for Vallan-
|digham, and proclaims just as the Chata-
nooga Rebel did, that "vallandigham is
our style of man." as witness this extract
rom his paper
"If any paper, or any individual, can
lind a Democrat who does not indorse VAL
andigham's speech, we will be very much
surprised We are confident there is not
one in this section of the State"
OF course, being Vallandigham man,
Rhoads has horrid opinion of the war,
and is much opposed to the policy of the
Administration mot any more now than be-
fore it came into power, however,) and
thinks it is great tyrant, albeit it permits
him to defame it to his hearts content, even
to the publishing of such paragraphs as
the following
"There is scarcely possibility that the
Government will ever be able to redeem
its notes at par, and the time must come,
iwhed they will either be repudiated or
called in at ruinous discount"
1--WE count our dead and wounded by
hundreds of thousands, and our debt by
thousands of millions. Thus much have
we gained (by this .'bootless war; OF
which the rebels can scarcely deprive u.s.
May the God of Heaven deliver us from
this unholy, unjust and uncalled for war
from which nothing but evil has eyel
sprung, and no good can ever come. MAJ
our rulers and the people realize the grea
wrong they are doing, and abandon thel
efforts to destroy their Southern brethren
NAV we as a nation bow humbly before on
Heavenly Father, acknowledge our faults
and repent of and forsake our great SIM
Tho last paragraph in the above qnota
tons is a genuine specimen of what W
may call Pecksnifian Copperheadism-i
other words of pseudo.pious COpperhead
ism: When a Copperhead finds that tn
rebel cause is meeting with success Il
arms, and is gaining ground IN Europe, b
is bold and defiant, and has great deal
saw in praise of the rebel leadership an
in criticism of Federal incapacity, takin
care to impress studiously upon the pee
ple that with such able management o
the one side and such weak management
on the other, we can "never subdu
the South" But when the rebel caus
loses ground and meets with reverse
and sinks in foreign estimation, lik
their recent European loan, he become
pious and deprecatory, as in the last of th
above paragraphs, and talks about th
efforts of the administration to "destro
our Southern brethren" You would sur
nose him to be a member of the Society I
Friends, and that he could not harm
hair of the most insignificant of God
creation. But tits all cant-all stuff-a
hollow and insincete and detestable.
is the wolf in sleeps clothing. A bette
specimen of it has not fallen under OF
attention than in the case of Rhoads, VII
is not pious in any sense of the word, ez
cept the hypocritical sense, but, on th
contrary, according 70 the best of our re
membrance, is q drinking, staggering
swearing specimen of a "peace democrat.
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