Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-02-27
Aspeal1ius Likeuess-The Best POrtraitur'

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AspeakIus Likeness Best Portrniturs
Here is a rare bit Of description for the
especial benefit Of the COpperhesds of the
North-they who sneak ont Of support
of the Government, and sting the hand
that has protected and maintained them.
II couldn't have been done better by one
Of themselves. Green or Rider couldn't
get q more speaking likeness. But the
sole beauty does not consistin the portrait
ure-the description of the estimate in
which they are held is equally good. We
hope the Copperheads will resd and ponder.
It will afford them extreme qualification to
know that they are so well appreciated by
both sides They are halfway men, cow
boys, tories, and deserve the raking which
the Richmond Enquirer gives them, as fol-
lows:
awe all know, indeed, and are happy to
know, that some Of the Northwestern
States are very sick of this war, heartily
disafeeted to the Washington Government
strongly disposed 10 sneak out Of the debt
they have incurred, and TO ask alliance, or
even union, with the COnfederscy If
agreeable. This is a wholesome state Of
feeling, and must produce its fruits Of disor-
ganization and discOuTagement in the
Nothwesleln n troops But let us not mis-
take the matter. Not one of those States
has vet pronounced itself in this sense,
though some stump orators have. When
they do take such action-that is, when
their Legislatures and Governors accredit
Commissioners to Richmond for any such
purpose, no doubt, they will be received
and answered according TO the nature OF
their proposal We presume they viii be
told that the first thing they nave to do Is
call back their forces TO their own country,
that then we viii be willing to make trea-
ties with them, but that as TO an union
with the Confederaey, under the 'old flag
or any other, they come taoO years too late.
Two years, and an abyss Of horror and ha-
tired. and the blood of our slaughtered
brothers CRYING aloud from the ground, all
prohibit that impious unioni i theg repu-
diafe fhe deJt tLeg have contracted, and abdH-
don ths GoperHaaeat ting hare established, and
reeant the Uotgs, and pLedges, and eat dirt, Il
is a0eH zoe shall be charmed the move
ment will suit us perfectly; and, although
we shall not eIacfly respect the actors in that
affair. vet we shall not be unwilling TO
trade with them-hoIdiRg our noses a little
AID 10 show them all suitable civilities-
baI a proper distance
Union IeaEues in TrxHs-BRrbnIit BY
the Rebels.
There is no sQueamishness at the South
about exssperating our Northern breth-
rem" Neither does the conciliatory pol
icy obtain there. When a man is found
in sympathy with the North, be is FORUM
ate if he is only warned to leave the Con-
federacy; if he utters any word against
the rebel cause, he is hung or shot. There
is no fault found there with "arbi-
trary arrests, and "peace men are
watched with suspicion. We shudder at
the barbarities practiced at the South upon
Union men, but severity is the true way
to make war, after all. Not that we
sanction these proceedings, or would if
they were done on the part of the North to
the same extent, but no man can deny that 1t
is by this rigid and cruel exercise Of power
that the Confederate cause has hourished
men engaged in it are those who have
grown up from infancy in the daily exer-
else Of uugoverned passion, and that hu-
man life has been carried lightly in the
hand, and also remember that the cause in
which they are engaged is itself one that
repudiates all scruples of honor or man
hood or humanity, we cannot wonder at
the style of severity which they exhibit.
We weep over it, and swear vengeance, but
it does not surprise us. If a horde Of ban
dts find a traitor in their midst, they kill
him. We pray Heaven that they may suf-
fer the same fate, but we are not aston
ished
So it is that when the San Antonio Her
aid narrates with frightful cOolness the
fact that in the mountains near Fort Clark
and along the Rio GraAde, the bones of dis
covered Uuionists are bleaching in the sun
and their bodies are suspended By scores from
black jacks; and when the Houston Fele-
graph says that in Gainesville hoenty-t'OO
(Unionists) hare been hung, we only look
upon it as the Out-croppings ofthe damna-
BILE system of human slavery which has led
to the foul conspiracy against the Govern
ment Such outrages against humanity
are to be expected so long as the parent
outrage exists.