Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-09-22
Daniel S. Dickinson on Cop.
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At the great Union Mass Meeting re
Gently held at Toledo, a letter from Hon
Daniel S. Dickinson was read. from
which we take the following extracts:
Of all human problems, the one m os
difficult of solution is. how loyal mind
outside of penitentiary or mad house
can, IN any manner, under any pretense
to any extent, or for any purpose, aid
assist, countenance, wink at, or apollo
gize for, the black and murderous con.
spiracy and rebellion which are engaged
In attempting to destroy our holy hope
the Union.
Our brave soldiers who are engaged
in this struggle, ten-fold more important
than that which was waged for Ameri
can Independence, deserve, and should
receives the love and thanks of every
man and woman, and be eheered by the
united voices of whole people regard
less of age, sex, condition, or political
designation or opinion. But we must
blush to own that the rebellion they are
resisting in battles of blood upon the
field, dying amidst the malaria or marsh.
es, and enduring the privations of the
camp to crush, is sjustifed, stimulated, and
encouraged by politicians at home, and
that too, in the sacred name of Demora-
cyl
Again after speaking of the Democra-
cy of Jackson and Jefferson, he said:
! Judas, SO renowned in sacred history,
breaks upon us as a disciple and follow
| er of his meek and lowly master; but
he was so no longer when he became
copper-headed and copper-hearted, and
betrayed his Lord to the Confederate
Priests. Benedict Arnold was the proud
associate of Washington, in the early
history of the Revolution; and his name
was upon every tongue for military skill
and intrepid daring In an evil moment
like modern Arnolds, he became "dis-
satisfied with the prosecution of the
war, and the Administration of the Gov
ment, " seeded from his high estate, and
was Revolutionary patriot no longer,
but
''Ieft a traitors name to other times.
Linked with one virtue and thousand crimes
More manly, however, than his COPY
ist of our day, this illustrious wretch did
not content himself with apolopizing for
and justifying those who robbed and pil-
laged, and murdered his countrvmen.
but he entered the service to which he
had sold his polluted being and was first
agstf and t9rem2st in the work Of havoc and
And yet Judas was held worthy disciple
and Arnold distinguished patriot, with
those who believe it is good citizenship
and true Democracy to resist or embar-
rass the Government in its efforts to
crush the rebellion which seeks our des
tructioG as a nation.
He excepted from denunciation the
honest masses, whom he knew to be true
to the Union, but to be misled by self
constituted leaders by appeals to partizan
pride and prejudices. OF the leaders he
said:
But the selfstyled leaders, those who
invoke partizan strife, who direct the
partizan machinery, and would leopard
and divide our Union, # not madly des-
troy the hest free government on earth,
for the qualification of malignant feel
ings and unworthy aspirations-they
have my permission to take the highest
niche in the temple of infamy, in which
worlds opinion has universally as
signed them for their baseness-for to-
day they are the mainsprings Of this mur-
derous rebellion by promoting strife at
home, and they give it its chief ailment,
and life, aud hope, and endurance
designated as Copperheads, and no name
could be more appropriate. S.ruttins
under their borrowed plumes and vaiI
conceits, claiming officially to speak fol
Democracy, to whose creed they seen
strangers, they boast of the many re
, proaehful names the Democratic part
have in other days been able to carr
away triumphantly, and declare thei
ability to render this one reputable an
popular. But they forgot that it wa
that Democratic party which professe
, and practiced the principles of jefferson
and Jackson, which was thus successful
That it was not encountered by treasona
BILE leaders of the whole or half blood
that it did not attempt to uphold col
spiracy and rebellion against the Go
ernment, and SO long as its doctrine
were popular and acceptable could
| laugh at reproachful names. The tru
Democratic party might at any time hay
withstood successfully the mere design;
ton of Copperhead, bat it never h
seen the day, and God grant that it ne
g er may. when it could endure such lea
ers as these, and carry over the bleedir
fragments of murdered, crucified al
dissolved Union, both a brazen head al
copper heart. -.
Finally, alluding to the mantle
change coming on, he said:
The Te Deun1s, so recently chanted
in rebellion upon high key, by the swe
singers of secession, are no longer vii
EW 5eR in the compass of their voices, and th
are evidently about to lower their tor
80 or, in military as well as musical phra
effect "change of Bass" AS spri
= opens, we shall see many who ha
+ boasted Of their designation of Copp
heads, crawling quietly out of their
I. litical snakeskins and taking sides W
the loyal masses in crushing, forev
'ON the rebellion. Let US, then, be of G,
cheer, and OF unfaltering purpose, ;
God will enable the seed of the won
ENI not only to bruise, but to sever the h
of this political serpent Rebellion,
NJ. has wound its scaly folds into our pc
s,i.S si . cal Eden, and thus preserve our cher
ana ed Tnion for all coming generation