Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1864-11-26
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The Irrepressible Copperhead.

He was character before the election, he is
! equally q character since. The Irrepressible
Copperhead does not belong to the blood-and-
thunder, fre-eating, heightened chivalry school
he is rather like the property of a theater,
who blows the fire for the heavy actors, kindles
the blue-lights, and shakes the piece of
sheet iron that makes the thunder. No
blusterer is the Irrepressible Copperhead, yet
he is active and ever on the alert he is milder
hammered man than ever scuttled ship cut
a throat, and he would do neither of these acts.
He is even struck with horror when he hears of
a rebels throat being cut, of a rebel pirate
ship being sunk but if Union ship is sunk,
or Union mans breath summar;ly stopped, q
quiet smile of grim satisfaction oyerspreads the
face of the Irrepressible Copperhead. He delights
not in the shedding of blood, yet scarcely re-
trains from rejoicing when the sanguinary fluid
of - Yank y colors the soil. He believes not
in pillage and plumber, yet thinks the pilaging
of Chambersburg and the plGndering of Southern
Pennsylvania were acts justifable under the cir
cumstances. When rebel prisoner dies in a
Northern prison the Irrepressible Copperhead
groans most frightfully, but he means not for
/ the thousands of Union prisoners who starve,
languish and die in Southern prisons.
BUTT is in connection with the telegraph that
the Irrepressible Copperhead shines forth in all
his glory, and appears in all his moral grandeur.
Before the election he would vehemently pro-
claim the telegraph to be the father of all liars
and the persistent and constant promulgator of
lies you can't believe word it says the
Aboltionists control it - and Immediately AFTER
in confidential manner, - but we have tele-
graphic dispatches stating that Mcclellan will
be elected, and therefore know he will be-
You cant deceive us - Sherman never captured
Atlanta and Sheridan never whipped Early, quoth
the Irrepressble Copperhead Such state
ments are made by the telegraph and that cant
tell the truth - Then proceedeth the lrrepres
sible, - we have private telegraph statements
that Early has taken Harrisburg, Hood is in Gin
cinnat Lee in Philadelphia, New York has re-
belled. and old Abe Lincoln has hung himself !
These are facts because the telegraph says so =
The resources and ingenuity of the lrrepres-
sible Copperhead do not fail him after election.
His buoyancy of spirits still remain he
Hope in clouds, or thinks it in the wind
And so ithely he gides about among his fell
lows with words of cheer to breathe, and they,
PLEASED with a rattle ckled with a straw"
accept with delight his authorizations and vatl-
citations to the result. :. Can't believe Il
word that comes by telegraph All Abolition
lies You know. All right by n-bye p And then
with monstrous wise shake of the head and
knowing look of optics, ave have dispatches
which tell different tale they re latest by tel
| egraph and therefore can be relied on" And
! then with profound addition, sublime multiple
cation and admirable subtraction, he deals in fig
ures and thus-and so--and there !. the
triumphant result is, Mcclellan is elected.
| Much is the Irrepressible Copperhead given to
the consideration of old saws. A favorite
of his is-'s The darkest hour is just before
day." He repeats this to you and to his fellows,
with great force, JUNCTION and emphasis He
rolls it as a sweet morsel under his tongue. lie
chews it at night and digests it in the morning.
He clings to it Websters sailor did to the last
plank For the last two years this saw has been
her sheet anchor of Hope, and on all occasions
he has resolutely cast it to windward. The
:. darkest hour of the Irrepressible Copperhead
has appeared each day of the last 100, and on
each occasion it was . just before day, as he
imagined. Though daylight doth not appear
the Irrepressible is not disheartened; his visit
full eyes are still raining toward that imaginary
{. break of day." and though his cheeks grow
pale his frame emaciated, and his body weary
waiting, he still hopes on for = the good time
coming" and with stimulated confidence he
with ghostly cheerfulness tells his fellows to
- wait little longer.
And so the Irrepressible Copperhead keeps
on waiting and hoping and while he hopes
and waits his darkest hour grows darker, the
night of Treason grows blacker and blacker,
and farther in the distance, one by one Irrepres-
sibles cronies disguised with many dark hours
before day. drop off from him, and soon the IT.
repressible Copperhead will be left alone to con-
tinue his struggles with the lying telegraph, and
alone to watch the passage of that - darkest
! hour" which is never to end-wearily looking
| forward to that never coming break of day of
| Treason until he sinks into the dark and narrow
/ confines of his tomb - unwept, unhonored, and
unsung." Vale, Irrepressible Copperhead =
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