Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-08-27
A Model Copperhesd.

tFrom the Wheeling Intelligencerl
II is strange that there should be one
reader Of newspapers lone observer of men |
--one rejecting spectator OF the .war--who
doubts that man to be a copperhead must /
frst be a rebel in heart Before tho overt |
acts Of this rebellion were. commenced, all
those who arc now engaged In It ware sim
bly, Copperheads. The overt act is all that
the rebel 10 arms from the
copperhead ont Of arms. In principle they |
are one and the same. The one gives phys-l
ical So pport to the rebellion and the other
moral support, and the latter support. ifnot
80 efficacious, is just a. necessary as the for-t
lner. Naturally and logically, therefore, a
is a rebel and pice uersa. The |
two designations are convertible, the cir
only being changed.
An illustration Of the way this thing
works in practice Is seen in the case OF Chas.
Rhoads, who now edits the Marietta (Ohio)
Republican, a Vallandighah sheet of the
most venomous description. He was. at the
beginning Of this rebellion, resident Of this
State and edited the Parkersburgh News,
a most bitter and persistent advocate Of the
secession Of Virginia from the Union
Rhoads, himself, voted for the ordinance of
secession and continued afterward to advo,
cate public acquiescence in il until popular
opinion ip Parkersburg became so hot and
indignant at his course that be was com
PEELED to leave the town. He went oynr the
river to Marietta and established himself
there as the editor Of the Republican, aud
from that place be opened out in the same
old strain, taking care only to adapt himself
to the surroundings Of his new position. =
Since that time he hos published the Dem
ocrat" [! organ Of the sympathizers there
with the rebellion, and now he howls like
the true secessionist that ho is, for Yallan-
digham, and proclaims Just as the Chatta-
nooga Rebel did, that Vallandigbam is our
style Of man." as witness this extract from
".ff any paper. or any Individual, can iad
. Democrat who does not indorse Vallan-
digham's speech, we will be very much sur
prfsed. We are confident there 10 not ons
in this section OF the State, - ..'',-
OF course, bsins .s Vallandigham man,
Rhoads has a horrid opinion Of the war,
and is much opposed 10 the policy Of the
Administration mot any, more now than. be-
lore it came into power, howeyer,) and
thinks it is q great tyrapt, albeit it permits
him to defame 1t to his hearts content, even
to the publishing OF such paragraphs as the
following: e. ..,,. ~. &,
(. "There is scarcely possibility that The
Government will ever be able to- redeem its
notes at par, and the time must come, when
they will either Be rep,udiated Or r.callea in
!. xlinD ! s'7 y
I "We count our dead md wounded by
thousands Of millions. Thus much, have
,y, svu;,aI fh,, ths, ttho.,klaaa ...iON ce
which the rebels can scarcely deprive Us !, !.
os '.NIay the God of Heaven deliver as from
thp unholy, unjust and uncafied for war,
from which nothing but evil has ever sprung,
aud no good can ever come. May our rulers
and tho people realise the great wrong they
are doing, and abandon their efforts to dc
stroy their Southern brethren. May We MS
nation bow humbly before our Heavenly
Father, and acknowledge our faults, and re
pent of and forsake our great sin. - ''aft
4, The last paragraph in the above quota
tions is q genuine specimen of what We may
call Pecksniffiau Copperlieadism-in other
words of pseudo-pious Copperheadism =
When a Copperhead finds that the rebel
cause is meeting with success in arms, and
is gaining ground in Europe. he is bon and
defiant, and has a great deal TO say IN praise
of the rebel leadership and in criticism OF
Federal lncapacity. taking care to inpress
studlOusly upon the people that with such
able management on the one side aud such
weak management on the otheg We can
never subdue the South." But when the
rebel cause loses ground aud meets with re.
verses, and sinks 10 foreign estimation, like
their recent European loan, he becomes pious
nnd deprecatory, as in the last OF the above
paragraphs, aud talks about the efforts OF
the administration to destroy our Southern
brethren. Hga You would suppose him to be
amember q of the Society Of Friends, and
that he could not harm a hair of the most
insignificant of Gods creation. But ii is
ssll cantr-sll stuff,--all hollow and iusincere
and .detestable. II is the wolf in Sheep
clothing. A better specimen OF IT. has not
fallen under our attention than Yin the case
Of Rhoads, who is not pious in any sense Of
the word. exUpt the hypocritioal sense,
but, on .the contrary. according to the best
OF our remembrance, is drinking, swsg-
gering, swearing specimen ofas peace dem
0cYato, Nyi'N 'i .l-,s',.,
! The following certificate from the Clerks
office Of Wood county, will show, even bet
ter than our comments, what manner of nan
Rhoads, the "Democratic' editor Of the
Marietta ''peacs" organ is: F'isyloa 81
.binin 81 AZ Estate OF VIRGINIA., lnl
ti4dp a3igd ,sno County Of Wood. ss. ~
81, William Hatcher. Clerk of the Coun-
~ Court OF Wood county, in tho State.of
Virginia, do hereby certify that at en- siec-
ton held in the Court House OF Wood ooun.
ty, on the fourth Thursday 10 May, 1851, 70
take the sense Of the qualified voters ofthe
Commonwealth OF Virginia, upon the ratif