Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-09-17
Sunshine Patriotism.

The magnificent series of Federal sue
cesses, the steady onward sweep of the ar
mics Of the Republic, 1.-THE waning proper
tons Of the rebellion, and the death and
burial of the Democratic party in California
that party which outnumbered it's oppo-
nents there in a proportion Of two to one
until it took traitore to its bosom and died
of the virus Of Copperhead princi. les, now
buried under a majority of 10000, never
more to rise until purgatorial fires sh Il
have cleansed away the faint of reasonable
sympathies- all these unite to admonish
the Copperheads Of Wisconsin of their com
ing DOOM
That they recognize the peril of their sit
uation is abundantly shown by the efforts
they are now making to give patriotic in
depreciation to their platform, and to estab-
fish for their candidates claim to having
favored measures for suppressing the re-
bellion by military force.
Even the Milwaukee Neus, which has
again and again asserted that the rebellion
cannot be put down by armies, but only by
concessions, now haunts at the head Of its
columns aresolution complimenting the cal
llantry Of the Wisconsin soldiers, and an
extract purporting to be from a speech made
| last year by Il. L. Palmer, characterizne
the rebellion as 'stupendously wicked" and
avowing the opinion that we should 'send
succor to our brothers in arms and peril al
the south, which last expression, we trust,
referred to the Union soldiers and not to the
rebels, although, since its author mounted
the Ryan platform, the reading is little
| equiVocal.
For these inconsistencies, we may thank
our soldiers in the field who are rushing on
and over the bulwarks of therebellion. This
attempted change of front; this cowed an
moderated tone of the Copperhead press
] this yelling out of patriotic professions from
| lips that in darker hours uttered only ma e.
dictions upon the war and the administra-
| ton, and cries that all was lost, and balefu]
prophecies, and excavations of rebellion,
and threats Of leaving New England in the
| cold, and positions for an alliance between
| the North West and the South--all these
marvels result from the success of our armies.
| Had the army sustained defeat, had peril
| thickened, and were the nation today. in
stead of being victorious and it's arms adj
| vancing, in imminent danger of dissolution
needing every arm to sustain it and every
voice to cheer it, these Copperheads who now
crawl out to bask in the beams of success
radiating from the old flag, would have spit
their venom and Kissed their treason through
every newspaper they could control and from,
every stump which their orators could mount
over the whole North.
If Democratic State Convention were
now to assemble in the Capital of this State
whatever might be the lurking sentiments
of its members, we venture to say that nc
orator would again, amid the vociferous
plaudits Of his Democratic brethren, de-
nounce the President for having brought on
the war by sending vessel with supplies
for the starving garrison of Fort Sumter OF
stigmatize the soldiers of the Union as
'itinerant vagabonds," and the army as an
'organized mob in the hands of Abraham
Lincoln" to take away the liberties of the
people--Journ0y.
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