, 1863-02-20
!Uij)iea9o Gri5u,tt.



THE WTZZLED WOLVES.
Wanted-somcbody 10 do the lugubri- |
Gus. Wanted-a dozen, score, hun
dred, a thousand someoodics for the ser
vice Of the Corperheads-somebolics
whose tears will come when biddcn, whose
voices will take kindly to the minor key
and whose powers Of describing the terri
bic are such as will chill the marrow bones
Of the women, and make the boys shivcr
with alright.
The |ugubrious is the order Of the day,
according to the Copperhead programme.
To picture the hardship OF the soldiers
life, the bloody agony Of the battlefield
and the manifold horrors OF the hospital
to picture them in such way that coward
ice and selfsbness will see in the avoid
ance Of the necessary aud inevitable strife
the highest happiness that the pres
ent time can confer, and, in the
great national struggle, nothing but
the dangers and the deaths incident to all
war-is now the strong card Of those who
fight the enemy's wordy battles IN the
North. Ofmalignity, f.lsehood and venom
they have more than enough; in the pa
thctic they are deficient. Wanted, some
body to do the lugubrious! The praise Of
all the Coppcrhead press, whatever that
may be wcrtl, and the prospect OF an OIL
fee, are the inducements offered uo"
many Job Trotters will volunteer ior TINS
service?
War in any Of its aspects, if regarded
simply as an exertion of mans capability
to destroy, is always horrible enough But
in spite Of Peace Societies, and their ser
mons and tracts, it has a benefcent side
which is q compensation for all the pain,
misery and death that it entails. 1t is only
an exaggeration, or rather the last apph-
cation, Of the curse By which humanity
has been smittcn, and which makes
all the ways for the attainment Of great
good, why's Of pain and t1ibulation. ana
as human liberty and just governments are
the highest temporal rewards Tor Which
people can struggle, so Is the cost OF their
= possession the most fearful that humanity
can pay. We know not why, hut in the
ordinations OF Providence, blood has IL
ways been, as We suppose it always must
be, the baptism Of freedom and progress.
Every new departure Of the race from tue
errors, the bigotry and tyranny Of the past,
1as been attended by q rising Of the GRIM
son tide and the extinction Of countless
lives. And We Of this country need hope
for no exemption from the rule that, thus
far, has governed all other nations and
peoples. Until We can remove the pTimcyal
curse, and earn bread by other methods
than by care and toll, We may not look for
q miracle that viii give US . great, happy,
United, prosperous and progressive Repub-
JIG, without paying Gods price in human
blood, agony and violent death therefor.
We have no patience with the dealers o1
the dolcful, or the vendors Of the lugu.
brious; and we have as much respect fo1
the sanctity Of human life and as keen a
dread Of the horrors Of war as they,
There is something more sacred thin
The: privilege Of living; there is an
agony that fur surpasses the throes o1
mortal dissolution 4 nation enslaycd, in
which slow tyranny does its steady
work, or nation torn By faction only tt
fall into anarchy, under which freedom
intelligence and rational happiness canno
spring up, is spectacle compared witt