The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-09-10
THE MALIGNANT AND DEsPERATE
SPIRIT OF THE COPPERHEADs.

OliC OOPROAhOeNA ASeseNA0 N SA~S
have noticed a marked change since
the fall of Vicksburg and the splendid
FederalsuccessesofJu July, Knowing that
the cause oftheTebelliOnis hopeless,and
that their cause is identified with that
of the rebellion, their bitterness and
desperation has increased day by day
Each of these men is walking polit-
ical thermometer, indicating thetem-
perature of the rebel cause, in whom
the mercury of hope rises or falls with
the fortunes of the rebellion. From
the constant threatening Of Union men
and the mobbing Of loyal journal,
thcy have gone on growing desperate
with their cause until we find them
arraying themselves against the church
of Christ, insulting and rowling
His ministers and desecrating His
holy Sabbath. AS legitimate result,
the true men have been driven from
their party All tho more desperate
and bitter for this, they resort at last
to deliberate lies and SANDERS, and join
ia most malignant and Internal ef-
fort to convince the members Of their
party that the friends ofthc Union de-
sire the destruction Of their property.
To this end, the Eagle Of last week
publishes the following malicious lie
concerning our action at the late fire.
In all probability it was invented by
the editor himself while he stood by
and saw us making every effort to save
the property of men of both parties.
while thus engaged, A, P. Miller,
whose name figures first in the Gazette
concern, came and ordered them away,
saying, 1--WE quote his exact languagc)
Let OIds store go to hell, come
and save Work shop
This is, from beginning to end, a
deliberate and malignant copperhead
lie. There is not particle of truth in
it, nor the slightest foundation for it.
And not only the feeble and sicllly-
minded editor of the Eagle, but all
those men, somo Of them claiming to
be high minded and honorable, who
use it about the street, are falsifiers and
slanderers 1t bears upon its face the
evidence OF falschood, and exposes the
ignorant and laundering invention Of
its author, the tone and language be-
ing so unlike our own, that every ac-
quaintance at once condemns it as lie
1t is further shown to be false, first
, by the fact that VIC assisted at the en-.
gincs while they were playing upon
the building Of Mr. Wright, who is as
bitterly opposed to us in politics as DR.
Olds; secondly by the fact that tho
building in question is not owned BY
DR. Olds but by a company Of Unior
E mon; and thirdly, by the fact that th'
goods themselves are not owned by DIR
Olds. Siftcd down it becomcs'a distinc
] and palpable lie, even to the mos
G stupid Butternut
The Eagle adds: "Wc can furnisl
4 the names of four witnesses to whom
V he made tho expression Is it no
= strange that we "ordcred the crowd,
# and that only four men heard it?-
Now, we demand the names OF thcs
+ persons, which the Edgic must furnish
- or stand forever branded as a liar AM
i a slandercr,
: 1t further says Josiah Wright, tn
principal sufferer is II Democrat q
y decided convictions. During the fire
suuaAs of Republicans men and VIC
u men, were heard saying, good
I scccssionist, 'buttcruut, is catchin
. it, and the like expressions
IL We can furnish the names Of score
=" of Republicans who worked upon tn
engines and wherever else they conl
V be of service to save the property
, Mr.. Wright, and we can also Inrnls
" the names Of many coppcrhcads VIII
y stood Ivy and looked on with loldc
arms.
If these charges were made only b
that weakly malignant and impoteI
W sot, Roland, they would need no iurlh'
attention at our hands than the simp
~ denial made in our last issue AS
- man he is simply cyphcr, but by n
T. accident, like those lrcshots whiC
carry some Shiny monster from Il
'e river and leave it writhing Oh land,
has been carried out ofhis element M
y left in position where he can gain Il
" ear of the public, and in which his bu
!, mess has been to oppose tho Cover
:" ment and favor the rebellion in h
" weak way, and to dcnouncc the iricn
W. Of the Union, from President Linco
W. and Governor Tod down to the odit
~ of the Gdsotte, AZ "black Aboliiionist
w. and "imbecilo wretches.' This ma
without character, without cducatiu