The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-12-10

acts was to preside at meeting at which
more solid lies were told and more bad
whisky was consumed than perhaps at any
similar assemblage ever convened In the
State. Still another so-called Democrats
had an elder brother who was urged for
Paymaster in the army. The applicant
was a Union DemocI at-the same that
the younger professed to be-and the
appointment was urged upon that ground,
But as Offices are sometimes difficult to
obtain, the applicant did NOT succeed To
show the consistency and worth of the
applicant, it is only necessary to say that
he promptly entered the service as
subordinate, and sealed his devotion to
the country with his life's blood. All
honor to his memory. We wish We could
say as much for his younger brother
But no the young man employs his
leisure moments in splitting out low and
scurrilous abuse against not only those
who are supporting the government, but
even against the government itself which
protects him.
We mention these little bits Of history
merely to show the motives by which
some of the more prominent Copperhead
leaders of our State have been governed.
We measure ali the leaders Of their party,
whether in the county, the State, or the
nation, by the same standard. They all
adopted and entered upon the same infa-
NOUS course out ofs>psrely selfish cpnsid-
erations. They began their opposition to
Gre'ministration precisely at the time
Tho could not use it to subserve their
own base purposes Unable to rule, they
were determined to ruin Nor did they
go to work without system. Early i'll
the summer Of 1861, they began their
organization under the false but captira-
ting name Of Democracy" and thus
lured many an unsuspecting man into
their support. Their orators and presses
lied freely. They told the people that
the Republicans had brought on the war,
and were unfit 10 prosecute l., and that
the Union could only be restored through
the success aud instrumentality of the
Democratic party" Thus they lied and
labored. Meanwhile, many Of the friends
of the Union were enli-tiug into the ser
vice, whilst those who remained at home
were striving to obiitera,e party lines and
to harmonise all upon the great question
at issue. But our readers will remembe
that il the fall Of 1861, the Copperhead-
here, as i'll many other places, succeeded.
And here it may not be out of place 10
refer to another so-calied Democrat, who
at the outset of our national troubles
talked loudly for the Administration and
against the Rebellion, and In speech
pledged himself to know no party until
the rebellion was put down, but forgot it
all when his eyes were daZzled With the
prospect OF seat in the Legislature.-
The Copperheads held the bait out to him,
and he took it. He has been nominated
and elected three times. 4 poor reward
for sacrificing principle, and deserting to
the enemy in the hour Of his country's
troubles
The Copperhead party, once organized,
has been carefully kept up, and the Bit
teruess which characterized it at the
beginning has intensified with the pro-
gross of the war. Somewhat timid at
first, its leaders have grown holder day by
day. Their success in carrying the State
in the autumn of 1862 made them almost
insufferable. They farcied that this was
the sure harbinger of their triumph in
/; then coming Gubernatorial contest,
an. that the way was already paved for a
Copperhead to succeed Mr.. Lincoln. at
an early day, they set up Mcclellan az
their man. They made him their idol
he has been the centre around which
they have revolve1. They gave him
credit for every success achieved by our
army, and abused the Administration for
every failure. They accused the Admin
istration of jealousy toward him, and of
not furnishing HIM men and supplies when
needed whereas, it IS we'll known that
more was done for him than for any other
General in the army. No one ever had