The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-06-09
A rrIs,ourian on Copporhead..

State Convention, by a vote OF nearly
three to one, said in ospeech 10 Chicago
the other day
come from a place where men have
spoken their minds, day by day, in in
slant peril Of their lives, and am going
10 speak my mind here, God willing and
graciously assisting" Laughter aud
applause.
The first point will call your atten-
ton TO, in connection with this war, is
one which, for some cause or other, mill
lions Of the people of this country seem
o. be yet totally UNCONSCIOUS Of, or else
are showing it behind them, 80 that they
are al this time sustaining a conflict fer
The life of this nation with SLAVERY, as
1t exists and acts in the Southern States.
Voices, "That is so. Yes, it is sla-
very that ia battling TO destroy our coun-
try aud lis constitution Voices "Tbat
is 20. Down with it," And when |
tell you that | was a Douglas Democrat,
L'good," and that | never in my life,
had anything TO do with an auti-slavery
party, until after Fort Sumter tell, you
will understand that am no anti-slave.
~ fanatic, undertaking to preach to you
this afternoon. Choera,l | am telling
you the sober truth, when l say 10 you,
that You have nothing on earth assailirg
your country this hour but the instiiu
ton of Southern Slavery. When YOU
hear fellow talking about those damn
ed Ab1litionists," you may know that he
is Copperhead. [Chaers.l
And now the question is, whether VIC
shall suffer Slavery u destroy our Con-
stitution and our Union, or whether we
shall destroy it for ever and ever.
T" Bravo" and shouts of ave wilw1
For my part, | say that he deserves dou-
Die damnatiOn who hesitates one mo-
meut on that point, Cbeers And
now, when you 60 home put your (nger
on every beggarly politician who at
tempts to convince people that it's "the
damned Abolitioni5ts" who have got %
this war, and just whip him out, so that
he will never be heard of again as long
"a you live or he lives either. You will
ind them scattered about all through the
loyal States. The Lord only knows how
many there are in this crowd; + A voice,
Hi en- again " for | am very sure
hey have too much impudence to have
accepted my invitation TO clear off the
premises, before l began to talk about
them. Look at their complexion. 1t is
not that of . white man 1t is not hat
Of a poor negro, 1t is copper, copper,
copper all over. Laughter and Cheers
They belong TO the meanest class of rep
tiles that crawl in the woods-the Cop
perhead and am perfectly certain that
if we could institute full investigation
into the natural history of the Copper
head, we should find it was one of them
that betrayed our mother Eve in the Gar
den of Eden. Laughter and applause
And now I'll tell you what to do with
such. To use a West-country phrase
"8coicb him d" Cheers. That is, take
forked stick, and get it right over his
neck, and pin him down TO the ground
and leave him there 10 swing his tail
about, as much as he pleases. His
fangs are of no use any more. Laugh
ter
But that is only half your work. II %
the work you have to do on your own
soil. You must hunt these creatures out,
crawling in their own slime, all over the
country. But you have work more po-
tent than that TO do down in tile South;
and it calls for all the power, all the en-
ergy, all the bravery, all the constancy
of the American people, from this time
forth, until the jubilees shall sound for
nation triumphant over its intestine foes.
[Applause.l And you will do that work
There is talk about Northern men re-
sisting q drsf5 if one should be ordered.
| | tell those men who dream of resisting
the execution Of the CONSUMPTION law of
the country, that whenever that law is
| put into execution, and resistance to it is
| attempted, ii would be better ten thou
sand times, for them that they had never
been born. [Applause.] A long time it
has taken the Northern people to be edu-
Gated up TO the demands OF this terrible
! exigency; but in the face Of defeat and
| dlsas,er--in the face of the vile Copper
head triumphs that swept over some
Northern States last year--in the face Of
| every encouragement, the sentiment Of
the American people for the preservation
| of their Union aud Government, is now
far in advance of what it has ever been
at any previous moment since the out
break of this rebe lion. 1t is marching
on, marching on, TO victory and to glory,
and to the utter destruction Of ali who
stand in its way. Great applause
But every man must become a man of
iron. Away with your pulling nonsense
about conservatism Who wants con-
servatism in this day, of anything except
that glorious flag, and the mighty nation
atty il represents ? Applause Do
| YOU think that your noble Constitution
has no power to resist attack, aud to
maintain ilselfi that you forsOoth,
NUT become such precious conser-
vators of the Constitution? All thai
have TO say TO you il, that when YOU
go, in your way, 10 spending your ener-
gies in conservation of the Constitution,
you a,e spending them in the cOnserva-
ton Of this damnable rebellion
We want iron men; and not cold iron
either-men of hot iron, burning with
patriotism, bright aud luminous, over the
whole land, win every impulse that can
give dignity. elevation, and nObleness TO
! the American character And we will
have them We want no more men to
manage matters, who are so desperately
afraid that they may hurt slavery, or
offend it's ADVOCATES We want no more
politicians who are looking to the time
Of the restoration Of the Union, and
wondering it they can't get the Southern
vote to help them along in something.
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HoSy A Formidable Law Point
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