The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-07-21

them that he knows they are only acting
under sense Of injustice, in their work
Of robbery, arson and death, and that he
had sent to Washington to secure their
demand for suspension of the draft
There is no mistaking the influence con
trolling these men, when the World, and
The News, and other Copperhead journ
ais, d :nounce not the mob, but the meas
ures OF the government which they have
distorted and still distort and misrepre.
sent-and which distortion and misrep
resentation they know has worked this
great infamy TO their city, and contin-
uance of which they well know is calcu-
lated to work further and greater infamy
and damage. Gov. SEYMOUR and his
party friends, and party journals, have
urged and invited this opposition TO the
government-haye invited and organized
II in the interest Of Slavery and the
South, and upon them should come the
penalty. The mob has gone beyond
their desires, unquestionably, but what
mob ever yet brooked control. The
breaking up of law is an opportunity
which the thief and the assassin always
improve. These men knew this, and
knowing it, are responsible for the whole
result. They know that when they in,
voked the passions of their ignorant, be-.
sotted followers to the point of resistance
to law, they would arouse them to a
point beyond control, and invite all the
crime of anarchy. They are, and must,
and will be, held responsible for all the
great crime committed. And only in
degree ale they any worse than
their partizans throughout the country.
Here we find men inviting the same op-
position to the government and to law
inviting mobs and the consequences OF
mobs-striying to sacrifice the country
and all its great interests at the shrine of
party ma lice and partizan hate. Only in
degree-only in so far as they have lack
ed success, are the Copperhead leaders
OF Iowa, IN their appeals for resistance to
the government, less guilty thar the
WOODS, and RYNDERs, and McCuNNs',
and BRooKEs, and SEYMoURs, of New
York, who have melted their ignorant
Irish followers-male and female-to
these atrocities. Who doubts that the
MAHoNYs, and HUTcHINs, and JoNEsEs oil
Dubuque, and even the Copperhead lead
erS of our own county, have striyen, with
all their power, to bring their followers
to the point Of resistance to the draft
who don't know that all their demand:
for freedom of speech, have been de
mands for the right to invoke re- istanct
to the government-the right 10 over
throw constituted authority, and to bring
about anarchy? Opposition to thi:
"unholy war" is what they have, in The
press and on the stump, advocated as III,
sacred duty OF the people, and at the lat,
Copperhead convention at Des Mones
the party that ruled that convention ane
made the nominations, declared thei
undying hostility to any man who woule
AID, countenance or encourage the gov
ernment in this war. What is that bu
inviting resistance 10 The draft, to tn,
government, to law, to the Union, to tL,
Constitution ? What, but an invocation
10 mob resistance, such as that made b,
the Copperhead devils of New York, wa.
RoszELL's declaration in the Civlia,
that it was cowsrdly to enter the army
and an exhibition Of true courage TO re
fuse to fight for this administration. On
ly in degree, then, we say, is the infamy
of MAHoNY, HUTCHINs aud RoszELL, anc
their coadjutors, less than their villain
Gus fellow -partizans, who invited and or
gained the pillage and massacre OF New
York city.
But the attempt TO control the govern
ment has ANONYMOUSLY failed. Neithe
Governor SEYMoUR's request, or hi
organs threats, or the blood thirsty
demonstrations Of his " friends" the riot
ers, have been able to secure a suspen
sion Of the draft. Many of the poor dup
es Of these yilainous leaders have paiC
the penalty of their devotion to THEN
| leaders with their lives. The police act
ed with bravery unparalleled, and with
some military assistance, have been en-
abled TO crush out the lawlessness
Order has triumphed, and the govern
ment will vindicate its authority. And
Nor thern traitors have been taught q
lesson that will doubtless crush out any
further efforts at armed resistance. JEFF
DAYIs's friends in New York have sue
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