Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-25

ton, La Fayette County, that another Of
those ohtrages upon inofensive loyal citi-
Gems for winch that Copperliead town =
Becoming painfully notorious was perpetra-
ted Oh Monday The 18th inst. The cir
cumstances, as related 10 us, are as follows:
John McCaffry, a saloon keeper 10 that
village, and who was drafted last fall, but
has succeeded up to this time in escaping
the vigilance Of the soldiers, entlced Mr..
Michael earns union rttan, go years Of
age, INTO his saloon, with the offer Of a
glass of beer. After getting him inside
Of The building lie accused him Of giving a
description Of him (McCaffry) to the sol
diers. earns denied the charge, but with
out any mole woids, McCaffry assaulted
him with the spoke Of a wagon, breaking
one Of bis legs, an arm cutti G irIshttul
cash in his head, and otherwise injurlng
him u til his lie is despaired Of AS soon
as the brutal deed was finished McCaffry
went into the street and declared that he
would do the same to two or three Others
in the town. Afterwards one of the Co
officers, and a member Of the Town Board
took McCaffry into bis buggy which he
had kept in readiness, and conveyed him
beyond the line Of the county.
| 1t will very soon be expens vely impress
sed upon the minds of the military author
tiles that no faith whatever can be placed
in any promise or pledge Of the Benton
CopFelheads.
Since the partial withdrawal of the
troops, the Copperheads fafter promising
10 behave themselves like decent, white,
American ctizens.) have re-organiz d for
murder and the destruction Of property.
The civil authorities Of La Fayette Co.
will not interfere to prevent such crimes !;
and when crimes are committed the evil
authorili will do nothing for the arrest,
conviction and punishment of perpetrators !;
or, if delivered for safe keeping and trial
the guilty will be allowed to escape-the
public officers aiding them and thus popu-
Iarizing their crimes.
The enrolment having been made in
that county under apparent but unreal
modified pubic sentiment, is no evidence
that the draft will be respected. The le
SIGN is to combine with the civil autholi-
ties for its defeat, and when that fails them
to resort to any and all other illegal MEANS
The worst feature 10 the Copperbead
programme is, that the entire faction has
been educated and is daily and nightly be-
mo schooled into the belief that every un-
ion man is an abolitionist and ought to be
killed, bis property destroyed or appropri-
ated to new hands and the government
seized and made stock concern for the
family Of reyolutionists.
False pleience, lying and peryersion
comprise tie school book literature Of
Copperheads, just as much in the north as
in The south Every Copperhcad pretensc
of love for the Constitution and Union is
false, every claim OF loyalty a lie and eve
ry allegation male regarding tie draft a
perversion. Worst Of all, they claim to
be Democrats followers Of Douglas,
thereby aiming to deceive the masses of
that patty into disloyalty and school them
for the approaching conflict Of blood and
destruction Of property.
Demagogue Yankees are the School
masters for giving lessons in these prelim-
mary arts of revolution; the pupils and
victims, many Of them honest minded men
in LA Fayette County, chiefly Irishmen,
over whom the pat. lotto Priests have lost
all control and the office hunting dema-
gogues gained full control, claim to be
democrats but are not. These are the men
who belle and disgrace the thousands Of
true aud loyal Irishmtn who are now serv-
ing with distinguished honors in the union
army-these are the men who disgrace the
great Daniel O'Connel. Archbishop
Hughes, Bisl op Purcell, and other dislin-
guished loyal.Irish Catholics-these the
men who prefer the lead Of American
demagogues to the good counses and
warnings Of Priests and Statesmen, thus
acknowledging the ignorant, false hearted
and truculent American demagogue over
Bishop and Pope, Statesman and Patriot.
But the Catholic Church and Priests
are not responsible; the chief quilts with
the Yankee demagogues who ought TO suf-
fer as cbie's Of treason. Nothing else will
restore order and provide security for per-
son and property.
/ TIE BLIND Miss MARY GRGNAY Of
Little Grant, young lady, blind from in
fancy, called at our office yesterday in
company with her father and mother. She
made Us present Of specimens OF hel
writing and some fancy ornaments her own
handiwork, with the words of reminder
that these were an acknowledgement Of
our small services rendered some Yeas ago
in finding her place where the great IN
seen world might be revealed to The Bind
And then We had quite a talk about the