The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-06-24
THE COpPERHEAD PLATFORM.

THE COpPERIEAD PLATFORM.
On our first page we give the entire plat
form oi what claims 10 be the Democratic
Party of Ohio'-hut which, if Judged by
this platform, will occupy more monvia-
bio place III history, than the Tories of
Revolutionary days. When we take into
consideration the acts of the Northern Cop
gard for Constitutional law which this
platform contains, its writer's can but be
regarded as having attempted to steal the
livery of heavon to serve the devil in ~
Notwithstanding the fact that Copperhcads
counsel open and armed resistance to the
Government, their platform asserts that
they are ga law abiding party :" that they
"ohey all laws that Nre in force :" that it
countcnanccs no violation" of the Consti-
tuition and the laws; that those laws which
at disikcs il seeks to overthrow not 6y
cioirnce, but by legitimate repeal" No
candid and intelligent man who reads it,
can fail to discover that it is rcplcte with
professions and assertions which the past
and present acts OF the party prove to he
uublushng iAlschoods. In answer to that
portion which relates to the arrest of thoir
convict candidate" Nallandigham, we
refer to the letter of President Lincoln,
which will also he found ON our first page
The platform is worthy of mon who labor
to induce doscrtions from the army-and
who have more sympathy for armed trai-
tors than for their Government, now strug.
CLING for selt-proscrvation. Concerning the
doiugs of the Convention which nominated
Convict l.. Nallandigham, Ms candidate for
Governor of Ohio, the New York Tj'ib,De
truthtully says;
They resolved against the Federal Administra-
tion-aganst its Emancipation policy against
paving for slaves against Martial Law and the
suspension of the hnbeaS corpus IN favor Of u
Federal Convontou-iu favor of the Constitution
and CnlOn--ln favor of new guarantees TO tho
Shareholders III case they will come back 20 the
Union favor of the soldiers against the arrest
trial, aud hauiShncnt Of Nalandigham- i'll favor
of liorRuo Seymour--against Governor Tod
against " the Abolition Jacobns who are seeking
to bring about civil war in the loyal States"-
against the "hbelers or the Democratic party who
are engaged IN representing that party aS wanting
in sympathy with our soldiers in the icld''-but
not ir0rl Gydns he trUitnrs arms 10 driie
aud destroy country. No one would suspect
from ever careful reading of this platform,
that its authors and hackers are at war with the
Government Of JctE Davis, though we find in it
ample proof that they are at swords points with
that of Abraham Lincoln. They want peace
badly but never hut that the true way to attain is
through universal submission aud drfcrence to the
Constitution and laws ot the land. They want the
largest liberty, and Nipse TO perceive the manifest
truth that war always did ana always must Abrilge
personal libSrtv. The dran, which hurrles II man
away from family endcarments aud home comforts
10 the bivounc and tho battle field intertreS sadly
with individual liberty yet it is necessary aud
must Jv borne. War-taNes impair mans natural
liberty tn spend Gr keep what he has earned or
made. In short, the demand that all the liberty
enjoyed In state of peace shall be guaranteed aud
maintained amid the convusiouS and agunies OF 0
gigantic Civi War, is tho requirement of mn un-
derstan ling darkrued audA heart corrupted by
intense sympathy with the trSitorS aud their trea
SON; for no one else could possibly expect such
immunity from the inevitable consequences of =
state of iutrmccgue war