Daily national Republican., 1863-02-19
cRoAKERs AVID oorrERnEAps.

CRoAIxERs AND CoPPERHEADs.
The New York Evening Post says tho United
States Las at this time two public enemies-
the Sioux Indians and the slAveholdlng rebels
and two private enemies, which are appropri-
Stsly called, in the slang Of the day, the Croak.
srs and the Copperhsads.
The Croakers, we arc sorry to say, are com
posed OF many who nominally support the Ad-
mlnistrstlon, but who really do all that they
can do by words 10 cmbarrass its action and to
destroy public confidence In the success Of its
cause. Knowing nothing Of the real condition
Of things, or Of the actual efforts made by the
Government, they go about with lugubrious
faces and disconsolste notes, proclsiming that
our affairs arc in the saddeSt imaginable plight.
Nothing has been done, they say, nothing
will be done; nothing can be done; the times
are very blue; and In less than six weeks
II will be all over with our poor, distract
ed, desolate, exhausted Union. Or else, wiring
ing their hands like 80 many hysteTical women,
they cry out that our armies are demoralized;
our Treasury bankrupt; the Cabinet atloggor-
heads; the President an imbecile; and the peo-
pie Of the North on the eve OF a sanguinary
revolution. Because they do not sec what is
done, they think that nothing is doing, every
triHing reverse experienced by our troops gives
them an ague fit; and the loss Of single tran
sport at sea throws them into mortal terror.
They spread a panic wherever they move, in
feet the very atmosphere with doubt, and chill
the hearts Of the most confident.
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lings II Is idle to tell them that war Is state
Of violence, which necessarily has It's vicissl-
tudes Of failure and of success; that our war
resembles all other wars In these alterations
Of sunshine and shade; and that II It were ten
times worse than II is with us, VIC should never
thsless fight on with animation, courage and
hope. They derive no consultations from the
comparison with other nations, and continue
their croakings TO the end. But 1t Is none the
less true that the war in which we are engaged,
greater in the magnitude of It's objects than
any ever before undertaken, has been prose.
cuted with less suffering TO ourselves and with
more energy and success than any ever under.
\ taken.
Any one of the four great operations which
IL plOHopSu W aNNoAhfApAif hho uiOth
ade Of three thousand miles of seacoast, thC
defence Of two thousand miles OF frontier, thu
opening Of the second greatest river OF tn,
globe, and the protection Of hundreds of thou
sands of miles Of territory, would have boer
singly a task for the most powerful of the ma
tions Of Europe. Il would have cost any o
them the labor Of years, an enormous taxation
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it's people, Yet our young Republic, with hel
elastic energies and boundess fertility of re-
source, has performed them all within the com,
pass Of twenty-five months, and without impoB,
ing burdens upon the community heavier thar
II can bear. Never, indeed, in the history o
man, have ends so gigantic been attained with
such small means at the outset, and with sucl
celebrity of execution.
There is a worse class, however, than tn
CroakerS, aud that is, the CoPperheads. Tn
former are simply weak, but tho latter are wick
cd; those arc ignorant, but these are malicious
the Croakers despair of the Republic, but th
Copperhesds would destroy II If they could
Like the venomouS reptile from which popula
instinct has derived their names, they woulC
sting the hand that nourishes and warns them
protesting to be the friends of the Union, the,
are Its deadliest enemiesi they mouth the favo
rite phrases of patriotism and run the dagge
into the heart Of the country. Never denounc
ing the rebellion, they can find no name to-
lgnominious for the men who are in earnest Il
putting down the rebellion.
Our brsvest soldiers and wisest statesmen ar
heaped with their vile calumnies. They us
every means 20 undermine the confidence Of tn
soldiers in the Government, by misrepreSentinl
us purposes and its action. Incompetent ant
do-nothing generals are their fayorites, but &C
tive generals they SLAYER with abuse. Nomeas
ure of legislation which Is likely to cripple tn
revolt of the slayeholderS has their approval
but, on the other hand, II Is resisted by thei
representatives in Congress; the most sacrer
securities Of the nation they decry; and evel
while our poor brothers in the field are pourinJ
ont their blood and losing their limbs In de
fence OF the national life, they are consplrinI
with the Infamous crew Of traitors who origi
nally provoked and are still prosecuting th
war.