, 1863-05-01

THEY MEAN WAR In THE N0RTH-
The mistaken zeal with which leading
FACTION Of the Copperheads in this State
and in Indiana are pushing their hostility
to the Government, can have but one re-
suit: It will inaugurate civil war in the
North. And when we 60 over the names |
of the most prominent and influential OF
The plottcrs who are earning infamy BY
their acts; when we see how many OF them
arc Of Southern birth, living North only to
find the bread which the slave States de-
pIcd them; how many Of them are men Of
broken and desperate fortunes, to whom
any change would be for the better, and
how many are nothing but politicians out
of place, hence out Of bread; and when we
rec the malignity, the inscriptions false
hood, and the dinbolcal hate which they
use as weapons OF attack, We
are not sure that war, which
shall arm friend against friend, ne1ghbor
against neighbor, and set father and son to
clutching wildly at each others throats, is
not Just what they intend Nay, If we take
The words Of one Of them-one Of the most
malignant and reasonable Of them all
who, at Springfield, just at the opening Of
the session Of the Legislature, exclaimed in
q paroxysm of drunken triumph. "The
"revolution is inaugurated, and nothing
ocan stop it, by-r' as an index Of what
his associates mean, we shall have proof
positive that they do not intend to stay
their hands until the boast made long ago,
"that an attempt to eoerce the South with
san Abolition army from the North, would
"causc the streets Of Chicago to run red
~with blood" is realized, and until the
whole West, like Kentucky, Missouri and
parts OF Tennessee, is made the thcater Of
fierce and relentless strife,
Men Of Illinois! do you ask such re-
suit: Is peace ut home, with its blessings
of security, prosperity and perpetual I'd
Tancemcnt, worth nothing? Arc the pre-
tended rights Of less than four hundred
thousand dealers in flesh and blood so dea
TO you that your farms shall be turned tt
waste, your heartl-stones wet with gore
your houses given to the flames, and I'll
eou1ces Of your prosperity, security an
happiness dried Up, to the end that mar
selling may prosper, and that a few ru
fans who hare nothing to lose, and
handful Of politicians who have cTerythin
to gain, may have their way, though Il
country die? We do not believe it; =
to just this contamination are the Coppe
heads driving. Can VIC suppose that TIT
natan anything else when they threaten I
sistance-1esistance with arms-to the Co
scription Act, to the Tax Law, to II
return Of dcserters, and to the arrest nj
punishment Of domestic traitors? Th'
cannot believe that the Government n
reccdc, or that the majority of the peop
TiIl be turned from their purpose. Th
Ehy these appeals that come with su,
frequency, TO set Government and poor
Mt defnncef Why, but to provoke in I
North that tdesolation that is oyersprcadi
and running the South?
We exhort our readers, especially ST
Of them as arc attached by old assoeiati
or By present Misrepresentation, to
falsely called Democratic party, to wa
fhose who hare assumed the leadership
that party; to fathom, If possible, II
hidden purposes to weigh the 1neas'
fhat they have adopted; and to see vi
md what is the outcome Of their end
ors: Few men among us dezire new
war, or an extension of the one whic
now raging, into the principal region
the North. Unqucstionably tue nlasse