, 1863-09-04
TEE HORRIBLE HERALD.

AA6 0V4&Rx0Ak1 k2klRAAD.
Tie old Satanic Herald is now busily
engaged in predicting that Copperhead
will be elected Speaker Of the next House
Of Representatives, and presents Fernando
Wood as the proper. candidate for that
post The n. T. Tribune ridicules the
confident assertion Of the Copperhead
mouthpiece, and remarks:
*tThere IL no nore dopbt that the friends of the
Administration will eleet their Speaker than there
1s IL that the next copgress will meet in Washing
To this the Copperhead Herald rejoins:
"We are al friends Of tho Administration, as
the representative Of the United States Goyern-
ment. We all sustain the Administration with
n1en md money to PIT down the rebellion BY force.
cAl Republican can be a!ecte d-no man who Ia not
opposed TO the four horrible n,ea*ures of ths Id
ton act the conscription act and the arbitrary ar-
rests. These are tha measures BY which the can
didate for the epeakership viii BE- tested."
What IN ardent friend Of the Admins
tration this Copperhead mouthpiece is, to
bc sure. It " "sustains the Administration
but pronounces its efforts to quel1 the insur-
rection horrible" It is " opposed to the
Emancipation act" Why7 That act op-
erates only against rebels in arms. 1t is
intended to take out Of their hands their
chief means Of resistance. The slaves are
the mainstay Of the rebellion. Take them
from the rebels and two-thirds Of their
strength is gone; tho bottom would speed
l1y tumble ont Of their Commissary and
Quartermaster's Departments The rebel
forts could not be built; the heavy drudg-
cry Of the rebel service could not be per-
formed; the women and children Of the
rebels could not supply provisions and
clothing for the rebel soldiers, who would
therefore, be obliged toabandon the camp
end return home, but for the labor of mil
Lions of unpaid bondmen. In many parts
Of TIE South, where tue Emancipation act
has taken even partial effect, the country
as full Of deserters from the rebel army,
called lomc by the necessities Of their fam
lhea, On account Of the loss Of the services
Of Inc neg1oes. But striking at the yitals
OF the rebellion in this manner is "hor1i-
BIT" IN the eyes Of the Copperhead Herald.
~, The Conflscation act is also "horribIe:,'
How. .so2 It affects none but traitors to
their country, who, by the law Of Justice
and OF nations, have forfeited both their
hves and property. The Con6scation act
proposes to seize their property, sell it to
loyal men, and apply the proceeds in pay:
ment Of the cost Of the war. Every dol
lar thus appropriated will saye the loyal
Taxpayers IN equa1 amount. The war
debt, with interest, mutt be liquidated. It
is HORRIBLE y in the estimation OF the Cop
perhead Herald, to make the guilty traf-;
1e1s pay part Of it.
ihe conscription act ia aaother alo1i-
o'e " measure. When VOLUNTARY enlist
ments ceased 10 rcplenish the wasted reoi-
ments N the field, and replace thosa whose
'erm OF service had expired, the Geve-n
ment was obliged to resort to thu dra+> '. ~
procure men to enable it to g;ve The f;n;ra
ing blows to the rebellion. But tfis 1nas,
necessary and patriotic measure il co1,as
<s1orrible," " Without the Conscr;,t;o.
the war would go backwards, and the
cause Of the Union. would inevitably he
lost. Without it the rebels would t1ipmnh
and the great Republic be destroyed. Tie
sure source Of national self-dcfence. The
Government TINT cannot command the