Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-02-28

One of the speakers AT the recent copper
head state convention in Connecticut said
this :-"If the democracy triumph the re-
Union sentiment of the south will be re-kin-
died." He did not explain his meaning, and
we presume he would have found it impossi-
Bile to do so without admitting that his aim is
to conciliate the rebel leaders and secure an
alliance with them by granting all their de-
mands, and even suppressing the federal gov
eminent in their favor, if they required it,
The resolutions of that convention of copper
heads fully endorsed the doctrine of access
sion. By "re-kindling the Union sentiment
of the south" this speaker really meant per-
suading the leaders to accept such triumph
over the government as would give them a
permanent monopoly of power. 1t is this
and nothing else that he means by promoting
Union sentiments in the south. 1t is with the
rebel leaders, the red-handed southern trait
ors, and not with the southern Unionists, that
this man and his associates seeks to stand
well.
One of the most noticeable peculiarities of
this Hartford convention of the copperlead
fraternity is that it had neither word of SYM
pathy for the southern Unionists nor word
of cenSure for the southern rebels. Unionists
in the south have been hunted, imprisoned,
and put to death by shooting, hanging, scald-
ing, and burning. They have been put to
death by thousands because they still loved the
old flag and desired to preserve the Union.
Most of us have read the narratives of the'ref-
ugees from east Tennessee, Mississippi, Ala
bama, and Texas; and within few days we
have read in extracts from rebel newspapers
accounts of the murderous and exterminatng
persecution to which the Union men of Texas
are subjected. sin the mountains near fort
Clark, and along the Rio Grande, their bones
are bleaching in the sum- says the San An
tonic Herald, ''aud in the counties of Wise
and Denton, their bodies are suspended
by scores from black jacks" And this
murderous work still goes on. But the
men who assembled at Hartford, the other
day, to ventilate their political scoundrelism,
were incapable of either pity for these victims
or Indignation against the traitors and MUIR
derers who do such things. They talk of re-
kindling Union sentiments anywhere! They!
who are merely the growing and barking
dogs of the JEFF. Davis consprators. They
inspire Union sentiment Out upon their
knavish talk about this sentiment which must
be intolerably loathsome, even to their south
ern masters!
The northern copperheads are as much the
enemies of southern Unionists as the rebels
themselves; and sometimes they are bold
enough to denounce the southern refugees
and attempt to dscredit their testimony
against the rebel leaders and their bloody
reign of terror. The southern Unionists
everywhere recognize them as enemies and
denounce them aiders and abettors Of
-----s-.I
which we have referred, provoked the in
dignation of one OF the noblest and bravest
Union men of Kentucky, who visited that
city few days after it was held. We mean
General Rousseau, who spoke of it with Scorn
and indignation, saying that those engaged
in such proceedings, at the present time,
ought to be arrested and punished. He is
a southern man and a shareholders but he
sees little or no difference between a cop
perhead and rebel; and herein he is like
every other Incorporating southern Union
list who has had opportunity to make public
declaration of his sentiments.
If the Vallandighams, Woods, Brghts. and
their followers in Connecticut, New Jersey.
and elsewhere, had any disposition to be hon
est Union men, they would take ground with
Southern Unionists against the rebels; but
this they will not do for they look only to the
rebel leaders for sympathy and favor. They
are ''rebel sympathzers > they seek political
alliance with the traitors at Richmond; they
take ground against the southern Unionists,
and make desperate opposition to every mea-
sure that seeks to crush the organized rebel
lion that now stands armed between the gov
eminent and the southern Union sentiment
They are traitors in spirit, and will ultimately
get the whole measure of that scorn and polit-
ical destruction which they so richly deserve.
To save the Union we must believe in truth
and justice, crush the brutal and bloody trai.
tors who Cypress and murder southern Union
lists and treat Union sentiment as a crime. and
seek to have political power in the south
placed in the hands of loyal men, who prize
the Union and republican institutions at their
true value. They are base traitors who would
sacrifice southern Union men, and even the |
Union itself, to the rebel leaders.