, 1863-11-17

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER II, 1858.
PARTY NAn18.

The copperhcad press have cxhaustco
.hc y lolo vocabulary Of party names to
I'm, one t1lat would in]ure the great Re-
,mbl,can Union organization, but thus far
IN win. Holding last to principle, and
stcadi1y pursuing high and noble aims It
],as detied the shafts Of ca]umny, aud the
deria;fn Of nickname But it is amusing
to observe the industry OF the eopperheads
10 find and fasten upon it some cognomen
that nay prove odious. First, Black Re-
nnh1;can was tried for long time with
out payipg expenses. "Neero worship-
ne,s' was substituted, but this was soon
dnoDped, it being shown that the copper
heads themselves worshipped negroes an
bundled fold more than did the Repubn-
cans. The latter wanted them let alone,
and il employed by the whites, to be paid
tor their labor. There WAS manifestly no
negro worship in this, But the "Demo-
crat" would not let them alone, but mo-
uopolized them wholly, and stuck to them
closer than brother; called them
"diyine institution and went anto the
amalgamation business SO extensively,
that at length It became hard to md
pure blooded African. 30 that name
lad to be dropped from Inc very aosui.
dity Of applying 1t to the "le1 1hem alone
Republicans. .......
The copperheads were then obliged to
fall back On fhelr Old scase-cre", o. ADO
litionist;n which they stuck up On every
hedge and highway. But the slaye-mon-
gers rebellion soon robbed it Of all its
frightful horrors, Thousands ofDemocratic
as well as tens Of thousands Of Republican
soldiers, after being shot at by the secesh
buslwhackers while standing guard over
the property Of rebels, wrote home:
"Cull me an a1oItiouist hereafter. No
"other name expresses my feelinss." The
whole army, except few cop2crhead Off
Gers, now SIM" j Ohm Browns soul is march
ing on" and feel insulted if called by any
less radical name than abolitionists. They
are resolved to abolish treason, traitors,
and slavery, and the coppe:head party
when they come home.
-
ine te4m aoonuomsl as name ot
rel1oach, and as an odlous party nickname,
Is therefore played out" at the late
election in Illinois, the copperheads called
the Union men "abolinonists" every
where, but The State notwithstanding cave
upwards OF $4,000 abolition majority on
Tic Ao1nc rote. So that name as partisan
slang word, is used up, there being no
more terror in it to frighten the most timid
soul A ne~ name has therefore been
Matched, but its duration will be short
lived. 1he word IS Jacobin- Ihe Union
men are TO be called "Jacoblns'-the
name given to the French revolutionary
party winch oFer1hfe~ me rotten Bourbon
dynasty nnoe France a 1epuohc confis-
Gated the estates OF the ntled ar1stocfacy'
and the corrupt clergy, and patcelled them
out INTO fEeeholds among tue French far-
mers; abolished psimogeniture and entail,
whereby the eldest son got all the pro-
ga1s; reformed the laws 50 that a poor
man could get justice in the courts; estab-
lished free schools for the children Of the
masses, and introduced many other highly
useful reforms that have lasted to the pre-
sent day. The French people we're not as
well prepared for Tree self:goye1nment as
the Americans, whose Constitution and in
s.itutious they took for their model. They