Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-01-29
POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS.

mistakes of his own, goes on as follows:
Now for mistakes of other people-not
mine. : Said Vallandigham in his last
speech. "7Ae day achich divides the
North from the South, that self,sanae day
DEGREES eternal dioorce betaoeen the Vest
and the East" This mistake is getting
to be common among the copper-head dem
ocracy. 1t crops out prominently in its
newspapers organs, from New York to HI
inois. Read the New York Leader:
"In our opinion, the best plan is to
cut loose from New England and send her
adrift in the Atlantic, as an outcast from
the country she has labored so long to ru-
in, and as an object of scorn and detesta-
ton for all time to come. The two great
est misfortunes that ever befel mankind
were the fall of Adam and the safe arri-
val at Plymouth Rock of the MayAower,
with her pestilent crew of bypocrites and
malcontents. The failure of the Atlantic
to swallow up that vessel renders it nee
essary that we should now consign all
New England to its briny BOSOM"
Now take this full development of the
copper-head scheme:
! The PLAN OF The "CoppER-HEADs.
The springfcldQll.) correspondent of
the Missouri Democratic (copper-headed
democratic) declares the plans of the par
ty leaders to be as follows:
"A well digested plan is prepared by
the democratic leaders in the western and
eastern states That plan, though revo-
lutionary in its end, is intended not to be
so in its means, up to a certain point, if
possible. AS many legislatures of the free
states as can be prevailed on are to be got
to send commissioners to Louisville, Ken
lucky, to meet commissioners from the
border and as may Of The slaves states as
possible. If the Republicans, especially
the New England states, do not send
commissioners, they are to be left out.
If they do, no matter: a plan of comprom-
Use is to be offered which will force them
out Of the Union, thus putting them into
the attitude of rebellion. They are not
wanted. The confederacy is to comprise
the western states, and Ohio, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Delaware, &c. So that there shall be an
outlet to the sea on the east via New York,
and on the south via New Orleans. When
this convention, so called at Louisville,
meets, it is to be virtually a Congress.
1t will invite the southern states into its
deliberations. Of those that come in, and
with those Of the North that can be got to
join it, Confederacy is to be formed, in
which slavery is to be legalized and guar
antied in every possible way and abolition
ism crushed out. Cut off from New Eng
land, it is hoped that free speech and free
ideas will be 50 effectually disposed of as
to set at rest forever all agitation of slav-
cry. Indeed, agitation on great many
other subject is also to be effectually crush.
cd out"
| All this is terrible mistake for the
copper-heads in my judgment. Not sim.
Iply because it would be folly to have Mree
nations, if the South forces us to have taoo;
not because the West cannot afford to lose
the East, which is her largest domestic
customer for wheat, corn and meat-can.
not afford to have the Eastern trade trans
ferred from the Western States to Canada
any more than the East can afford tC
lose the Western customers for her manu-
features but it is very great mistake
politically--or more correctly, as a party
shibboleth. Politics are useful and nee
essary, sometimes great, sublime party
shibboleths are often as contemplate a!
personal ambition and party predjudic,
can make them. The copper head party
| am persuaded, is making terrible mis-
take in this matter. Of course they ex
: pect to lose the democrats of New England
because they mean to cut them off. They
> have the same contempt and hatred for al
= honest and loyal Democrat of New Eng
9 land, that they have for a Republican, o.
! even an Abolitonist. But the Neao Eng