The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-02-06

The Commercial, Gazette and other
Abolition prints are in the habit of styl.
ing all those persons "Copperheads"who
do not believe the Union can be saved
by war, and who insist on q peaceful So
luton of onr dificnlties Who are these
"CopperheadS?" Who are these men
denominated SeCessionists by the Aboli-
tiouists? We will give some of them:
First take ALEXANDER HAMILTON, one
of the authors and principal defenders
of the Union and Constitution of 1889.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
In the New York State Convention,
which ratified the Constitution, Mr. AL
exander Hamilton said:
ut has been observed that to coerce
the States is one of the maddest projects
ever devised. A failure of compliance
will never be confined to q single State.
This being the case, would it be wise to
hazard civil war? Suppose Massa-
chusetts, or any other large State, should
refuse, aud Congress should attempt to
compel them, would they not have inAu.
ence to procure assistance, especially
from those States which are in the same
situat ons as themselves? What picture
does this idea present to our view? A
complying State at war with non. COM
plying State Congress marching the
troops of one State into the bosom OF
another State; this Statecollecting aux.
iliaries, and forming perhaps majority
against its Federal head. Here is ma
ton at war with ITSELF Can any rea.
sonable man be well disposed toward a
Government which makes war and car.
mage the onlyvmeans of supporting it.
self-a Government that eau exist only
by the sword? Every such war must
murder the innocent withsthe guilty, -
This single consideratiopsk9nld be suifi
cient to dispose every pescyable citize,
against such Government. W ElhoV,
Debates Of the Convention, 6pl. 9. p
233. a. f0T
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS w&s, 4 "COPPER"
HEAD" u D~
In 1889 heSdelivered an address be
fore the Historical Society of the cit!
of New York. In that address, afte
denying the right of State secession, b,
said:
"Thus stands the right. But the in
disSolube link of Union between tb'
people of the several States of this Con
federacy is, after all. not in the right bu
in the heart II the day should eve
come (lIeaven avert it) when the .uiTec
tious of the people Of The States Shall b
alienaled from each other, the frayyrna
spirit give way to cold Indifference o
collisions of interest shall foster into In
lred the bonds Of political association
will not long hold together portions NJ
longer attracted by the magnetism .
mutual interests, and kindly sym atbeS
and far better would it be for the peo /
of the disunited States to part in friend
shin from each other than to be held to
gether by constraint. Then will ne th,
time for revcrtiug TO the precedent Whic
occurred at the foundation Of the Consii
tution, to form again more perfec
Union by dissoviug that which coul,
no longer bind, aud leave the separated
portions to be united by the laws Of pc
ltical gravilation to The center"
GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON.
General Andrew Jackson was "Cor
perhead" of the most intense description
Read the following from his farewe
Address to the American People, i
1887:
"The Constitution can not be mair
tained nor the Union preserved, in oppC
sition to public feeling, by the mere e'
ertion of coercive powers by the Go
ernment The Foundation must be lai
in The affections Of the people, in Il
J security it gives to life, liberty and pro
, erty in euery quarter Of The coun'r
/ and in the fraternal attachments whiC
the citizens of the several States be
] to one another, as members of the san
t. political family, materially contributil
to promote the happiness of ea'
y other"
Stephen A. Douglas was "Copps
y head" For proof read the foliowil
from the last speech he ever made in t
a United States Senate. 1t was deliver
&c on the 18th of March, 1861. Mr.. Dou
las said:
~ ii repeat: whatever guarantees W
e satisfy Maryland and the other bord
# States (the States now in the Unio
will create Union party in the seceed
le States that will bring them back by
n voluntary action Of their own people.
You can restore and preserve the Uni
e. in that mode. You can do ii in no o.
r. er may.
WAR is disuniOn--a final separati
s. of the Union. Hence, disguise it
You may, every Union man in Amer
id must advocate such amendments to
in Constitution as will preserve peace a
of restore the Union; while every disunic
he list, whether secretly or openly plotti
e. its destruction, is an advocate of Sec
to sion or Of war, as the surest means
40 rendering reunion and reconstruct
~ impossible. Ihave too much respect
10. bis intellect to believe, for one nome
., gg .e4s.m. rr Hlj .esl. ri7.