The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1863-04-17
From the Baltimore Ameriean-l
The Last BrOadstde Leve1Bed ae e6(
"copper" head Democracy.

1u Tue l8E AutuIC tuat ICS SpfSdo Ous Oe
fore this great Republic, there is one set. q
one party, 10 it who may look for plsc
the most unenyiable that can well be cor
csived OF, even by the most ingenious or th
most discerning, and that party is the SO
called Peace Democracy" Of the NORTH
And in all that has occurred during tn
Fast two years in connection with The val
there is nothing so remarkable as the cours
OF these men in their desperate and persis
tent labors to achieve complete infamy.-
Smitten with the delusion that by som
means they might once coalescs with tn
Democracy of the Cotton States, who de
liberately betrayed them and their champio,
l-Breckinridge-to political defeat and po
litical ruin, they have ever since labored I,
bring about a disgraceful truce or peace.
until detested and mathematical by tn
loyal States, and insulted and beaten bacl
by every scornful and coDtemptuous mani
festatiou the Cotton States can devise, they
still crouch and beg at the feet of the latter
to be the hundredth time thrust back anG
trodden upon. No indignity that can be
put upon them seems to arouse any sense
of decency in their mercenary natures; but
glorying in their shame. they still hold on
their course. hoping that final success may
heal every bruIse, cure every wound that
self love may have received in q struggle 50
long protracted. For such a party. let the
war terminate when and how il may. there
can be no political resurrection. Achieving
of late partial success--because their base
designs were not understood--they have
unmasked their tratorous purposes. 20 take
their place in the history OF their country
as towards who would stealthily stab it to
the vitals, lacking courage to take their
places alongside of it's more open assailants
in the field
We have had occasion before this to note
for our readers the curious turn public SEN
timeut is taking on both sides Of the border
with regard to these men. The Rebel chiefs
were willing, in the outset Of their treach.
erous demonstrations, to make use of them
to help their cause, if so be such dirty tools
could be made available ia any way to
achieve vile purposes. They long ago came
to realize fully that
HE who on slippery place doth stand
Makes nice Of no vile thing to hold nim up"
And now there comes new voliss of hiss
ing scorn levelled at the base pack, the
disloyal organs in the South fairly boiling
over with Indignant denuncia'ion at their
persistence in the determiua alton to some
how get alongside OF them Many times
We have had occasion to copy these articles.
because, disgusted with the doings of the
Copperhead Democracy, the RebeI press has
been prodigal of its filings at them; bat if
my Copperhead can stand this which comes
rom Richmond at last. his brow must be
,ased in triple brass. his nature be insensl-
Dle to ausht that would sting the meanest
animal organization into a feeling of resent
meut. Let our readers scan the following,
Ihen--a portion of late article in the
Richmsnd Enquirer /
- TO be plain, wa fear and distrust far
more these apparently friendly advances Of
The Democrats than the open atrOcisv of
phiIanthropists of Massachusetts. That
Democratic party aIcays was our acorss
'nemy and but tor its poisonous embrace
these States would have been free aud clear
,f the unnatural Union twenty years ago.
It is not the Stewards and Summers, the
Black Republicans and Abolitionists, who
have hurt US. They were right all along
here icas an irrepressible conflict between
wo different civi!z zations--two opposite So
,ial organisations; they were no more able
20 live peaceably together in one Govern
nent than two hands can wear one glove.
If we did not discover as soon as the Abo.
itionists this great truth, it was because the
Democratic party, neutral as it was in prin-
,iple, false 10 both sides, and wholly indif-
erent to the morale of either of the opposing
placed itself between. raised
he banner of spoils," and-we all know
he rest. The idea of that odious party
,oming to life again makes US shiver. Its
foxl breath is malaria, its touch IS death
"Give US the open foemen; let him be as
anI ill 7 o<
,nemy appear as an exterminating Yankee
lost, We pray. and not as Democratic
Convention. Let him take any shape but
hat ! Already We have visions of the men
Il feeble knees, tender feet, and undulating
pines, losing their sense and manhood by
he contact, as they did, alas. SO often be-
ore. We scent from afar off the old dead
ompyomises--" abss omen and seem to
eel upon our throats the strangulation Of
mclean fingers. But it is dream; nobody
ives in this Confederacy who will dare to
propose. or to hint even at a distance. that
ve should sacrifice at that abominable shrine
ii the gallant. blood freely poured out to
anctify our nationhood. For it comes to ,
bis: We can have no peace nop, save by
ubmission no peace now, save by making
,nce more an affilia,ion with Northern
'arty, aud m .king the Democracy present
,f ali that inestimable treasure of the dearest
,lood that flowed iI Southern veins.
' Peace Does the mons,rous host be.
ore Vlcksburg bring us peace? Is il peace
hat Rosecrans Is making in Tennessee -
Does the military dispersion OF public
meetings in Kentucky bode peace !? The
,ew Northern conscription, enroliias three
and making provision Tor instantly
their service. or exaetin, a
heavy exemption tax--does this look like
peace :? The deliberately investing in
Abraham Lincoln OF all the military power
IF a Dictator, with the treasure OF the
whole nation opened to him with 5us stint
S it to enable him to make peace, or war;
which
"Where. then. are those indications of
peace. which We are said to be, reekiessly
and disdaining - Oh the grea.
speech of Vallandigham he touching in.
sitaton of tuneful Coxl We greatly fear
that those two wooers of the South. 60 fond
and tain, win very soon be found, ike John
Van Buren,. shrieking war to tie knife: and