The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1863-04-08
COpperheads. of Connecticut

! lhere are Two C0nnectlCutS. One Is
the Connecticut of Israel Putnam, the
other is the Connecticut of Benedict Ar
mold. This is the simple explanation OF
the moral contradictions Connecticut pre-.
sents to the wondering and somewhat per-
picked observers of her present attitude
in relation to the rebellion.
The Connecticut of Putnam is in the
Union and of the Union, body and spirit,
heart and hand, with life and fortune and
sacred honor all pledged to its support.
The Connecticut of Benedict Arnold is in
the Union if the Union is in its party, and
not otherwise-as Arnold served his
county so long as his country served
hlm, but no longer
| The Connecticut of Putnam has heard
the ncwIlng aud endured the theiving of
tGe wolf OF Secession as long as she in-
tends to. She has joined the hunt. She
has assisted in driving the animal into
his hole, and now she proposes to 90
down thereto the very bottom OF it
and shoot him dead, and dr"g him out by
the ears, and hang him up, till he be
comes d stencil in the nostrils of the
world. The Connecticut of Benedict Ar
nold stands trembling about the creature s
lair; they say the den is very black
place and they have natural horror of all
things black; they say alNo man could
not get into it if he would try or if he
did, that the wolf, like Daniels lions,
would surely "have the mastery of him,
and break all his bones to pieces, or ever
he came to the bottom of the dem So
their plan is to feed him well and give
hIm free range over all unoceupied terri
tory, with some limited privileges even
10 the ''home lots > and By this process
OF &c ncIilatIon," they are confident that
the wolf viii soon grow mild and com.
paaionable as Newfoundland dog-wiIl
"roar you as twere an nightingale" and
will consent to rule aud ravage the eoun.
try IN tue most gentlemanly and peacea-
bic manner possible.
The Connecticut of Putnam is loyal to
republcanism and democracy it fully
believes in the equality of all men in nat.
ural and political rights it confidently
anticipates the period when all forms of
despotlsm and aristocracy, and especially
Of slavery, will BE- destroyed; it cherishes
an lmmovable faith In the capacity of
moral and intelligent people to take care
of their social and civil concerns better
than any monarch or privileged class can
do it for them and it stands firmly by
the church and the school and the ballot
box as the essential conservators and in.
struments of popular freedom The Con
nectlcut of Benedict Arnold is one of
those democracies which, in every age,
have been the ready instruments of tyrant
monarchs and proud artoeracies in crush
lug popular liberty, 1t has the Instincts
of the coward and the slave. 1t finds its
natural level in cringing and supplieat-
ing. 1t turns with spiteful rancor up-
on the true friends of the people, who de.
sire to elsvate the masses to intelligence,
virtue, and prosperity, but is only to
happy to submit to the mastership of
those who openly insult and scorn all the
men of toil-who term those who. like
the apostle Paul, "labor with their own
hand" s""mudsills, "whiteslaves, ""greasy
mechanics cs"-and who, with every ex
preston of utter disgust, declare their in
tentention of depriving, as soon as they
get the supremacy, the whole laboring
population of all political power and So
cial position. This style of democracy
brands, IN the madness of its prejudices,
all enlightened philanthropy as hypocrisy
and disguised hostility to the ignorant
and the poor, but it fawns upon and wor-
ships Dragging, insulting bullylsm as a
very deity: which it serves by an irresis-
tible instinct of its nature. It hates the
church and its ministry, especially ifthey
DO true and fearless men. 1t sees little
good in the'sohool, complains loudly of