The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-08-17
WHOLE NO. 40.
"The Great Copperhead Plots
TOO BIG A FISH STORY

Fsom the N. Y. Com. Advertiser, q republican paper
We strenuously advise all loyal men o
substance to eInigrant at once from this af
ficted and foredoomed land. The Who'll,
Republic, from st. Louis to Cape Cod, i.
undermined and filled with powder. Mr.
Clement Vallandigbam sits like fiend sip
ping cob'lers with George Sanders, at tn.
Clifton House, and if he fails to be nomi
mated at Chicago, will quietly drop a spark
from his cigar on the train Of this terrific
subterranean battery, and blow us all into
chaos and black night.
This is no laughable matter. The pro
vost Marshal General of st. Louis, so the
truth telling telegraph informs us, has fer.
reted out, in part, the secret which further
inquiry enables us thus horribly to com
ple;e Were all orr information inaccurate
(Which is Of course impossible the revc-
latons of the telegraph would themselves
suffice to warrant the advice we have given
Fancy an Order Of American Knights"
half million strong, armed and organized
and bent on bloody revolution or course
none of those Williams will respond to the
next draft. That will drain the loyal
States OF an equal number Of reliable citi
zens, and so leave the field clear to these
conspirators With Lee in our front, and
these half million in our rear, what hope
OF refuge have we? Here in New York,
says the telegraph, the conspirators call
themselves Mcclellan Minute men, and
number t,oo hundred thousand men -
This, after the draft, gives them an over
whelming majority in the State. They
will at once seize Wall street and it's banks,
hang Gov. Seymour and Gen. Dix with
impartial scorn, proclaim Fernando Wood
Dictator, make an alliance with Canada
an Dixie, and, marching madly upon Mas
sachusettS, annihilate the last hope of free
dom! Plainly it is the part of wisdom to
"skedaddlc" while there is yet time
From the N; Y. Times, a republican paper.
We shall require great deal more evi.
dence than We have yet seen to become
convinced that the order of American
Knights, is such formidable body OF trail
tors as some of our western contemporaries
represent That there are thousands CT
men in nearly every loyal State who would
readily join any secret organization calcu
lated to bring the war to close, is certain.
That there are politicians malignant and
desperate enough to engineer, if possible,
such an organization into positive resist
ance to the national government and overt
treason, is just as undeniable But that
all this has been actually going on, for
months, both through the West and the
East, so that now the numeric strength of
the order is ''over half a Million" embrac
ing many Of the leading men of the party
opposed to the administration, is utterly
improbable. The Provost Marshal Gene
raj of the Department of Missouri. we dare
say, is a very sharp fellow, but it DONE
follow that every other loyal man is an
idiot
Likely enough he has "been taking tes,i-
mony for MONTHS but other pcopl, have
not been all that time mapping. We think
and plenty Of eyes and ears beside his own
have been open, and that had this traitor
GUS work been carried on to the extent re-
presented, somebody else would have got
wind Of it too. "Over hall. million of
men"-some Of them married doubtless
are great many to Keep a dead secret
Flatly, we don't believe it.