The Shasta courier., 1863-08-08
FederalIsts and Copperhead..

of Jefferson and Madison, and of the war of
| lSl2-l4 with England, will exhibit to any
unbiased mind that the odious anti.war
:. Black Cockade party" existing then. is
the prototype of the Copperhead party Of to-
day, and that the same desperate and unpat
riotic measures adopted then, are resortss TO
now, and for the identical purpose of e. ar
RAISING those administering the G, verI knt
in time of its greatest peril, thus aft kng
aid and comfort to those who would ein
strike at the vitals of the Republic when all
its strength and energy are necessary to save
it from ruin. Volumes of facts, if required.
could be adduced to show that the Copper
heads of oday are impelled by the same
motives as actuated the Federalists of the
time referred to that they are animated by
the same hopes, and resort to the same means
to compass their unholy desires; and it re-
quires no prophetic vision to discover that
the only question in generations to come
shall be, to which shall attach the greater
degree Of infamy.
! A few facts will suffice foroar present eur
pose. To quote the language Of one writing
of the time when Madison was Presidenfo-
The Administration was villifed; -
Union threateped; necessary Legislation de-
nounced as unconstitutional and oppressive;
State rights magnifed; the authority Of the
Federal Government contemned the military
operations of the country embarrassed and
thwarted. and then the failure charged upon
the Administration as the result of incompe-
tency and unfaithfulness So closely do
the actions of the two parties resemble that
record of the doings of the one would an
swer for the history of the acts of the other.
But further. Before the war Cf 1872 the en-
forcing law was passed under the "Apostle
of Democracy" as he is often called, Thomas
Jefferson. 1t was most bitterly denounced
by the Black Cockade party, and the resolu-
tions of a meeting held in Philadelphia de-
clared it g a direct invasion of the principles
Of civil liberty and of the express provisions
of the Constitution. So, just before the
present war, when the rebellion could have
bel nipped in the bud by that Copperhead
Democrat, James Buchanan, coercive meas
ures were proclaimed as being in conflict with
the rights of the people, and not only without
warrant in, but directly conflicting with the
period petitioned against what they termed
the unconstitutional acts of the General Gov.
ernment. The Copperheads now, with par
rot-like limitation, prate of what they are
pleased to call the unconstitutional meas
ures of the present Administration. Circn-
lars were then issued calling on the people
g to nerve their arms with vengeance against
the despot Jefferson, man who with the
dagger of public confidence was stabbing the
public lberties' Now, letters from prom-
nent men tell the people to resist the tyraht
Lincoln. and denounce the President as the
odioas despot, who with his council has de-
| stroyed the Union and taken amay our liber
ties. Then, il was declared, even in the U.
S. Senate, that " the enforcing law ,ras un-
constitutional, and that the people aoere not
Jound to submit" So, now we are told that
the acts Of the Government are unconstitution-
al, and are not binding on the people
During Madison's administration the anti.
war party threatened that :. if the war con-
tinued and Madison was not out of Office by
the succeeding 4th of July, new govern
ment would be formed in the eastern section
of the Union" So latterly, in the Atlantic
| fho Ie hot !
the war continued, new government would
be organized, with this difference only, that
| it should embrace the Northwestern States,
and that New England should be left out in
the cold, Then, the alleged imbecility of the
Administration was a fruitful theme for the
opponents of the war, and now the chargeis
copied into every Copperhead diatribe, apd
is the staple of the conversation of traitorsof
high and low degree. Then, in answer to
the question '.What must be done to the
country?" paper published in one of the
Atlantic States said, on Sept. 10th, 1914,
that the people must rise in their majesty,
thy servants to do their WILL" Now Fernando
Wood exclaims, . Let us unite in one bold
solid column to drive from Office the Goths
and vandals who hold possession Of the Gov
ernment,'
But enough has been adduced to show the
close resemblance between the disloyal par
ties of the two periods, enough to show that
the disloyalty of the Federalists has been re-
presented in the Copperheads of our own
time. But the end is not here. Odium yet
attaches to the disloyalists of the past, and
when the impartial record of this direful res-
bellion is written, the muse of history will
not fail to transmit the memory of the Cop.
perhead party of the present day down to
future generations covered with the ignominy
of treason. Then, and then only, will the
parallel be complete.
DOUGLAS DEMOCRAT.
RIGHTLY ANswERED.-A few days since q
candidate on the Union county ticket was
urging upon Copperhead, who claimed to
be Union man, the necessity of not voting
for any of the candidates on the Dem. ticket