Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-12-01

the Admiral of the French feet, and that IL
gentIemanly appearance, manners, and con
Tersation, he was the .er of any man at the
table.
The MiseegeHatioR Pamphlet Democratic
Production.
Another significant illustration has Just
been given of the utterly hypocritical and
fraudulent character of the organizations
which, under the leadership of AUGUST BEL
MONT and assuming the name of the Demo
cratic party, was arrayed against the Union
ticket during the late Presidential canvass.
Not only with total insensibility to shame
but glorying in the infamy of the revelation,
II Is now confessed that the miscegenation
pamphlet, which afforded one of the chief
points OF abuse and denunciation against the
Administration party by Copperhead Editors
ana stump orators during the canvass, was
the production of Democratic writers and
was deliberately concocted for the purpose
OF making political capital against the Ad-
ministration.
Published anonymously, it failed to receive
Uhe slightest token of appreciation or endorse
ment from any newspaper or person ever con-
nected with the Republican party; and vet,
the opposition, through the whole campaign,
mas represented it as an expression of Re
publican views. The supporters of the Ad-
mHlstration were styled Undergraduates ?"
and the Democratic leaders used the pam
phlet, written by themselves, as an argU
ment to infame the prejudces and excite the
APP ahenslons, especially Of the Irish popula-
ton, on the subject of negro equality.
The manner in which the revelation is
made is hardly less disgraceful than the con-
temptible fraud itself 1t first appears in the
New York correspondence of the London
Morning Herald, apaper that lends all its in
huence to the support of the rebel cause,
and is copied thence, with great flourish of
trumpets, as the hugest joke Of the age, into
the New York World From this correspon-
dence 1t appears that the correspondent of
foreign journal, Indignantly hostile to the
| Union cause, is in full communion and conf
dence with the leaders of the Copperhead
party and so anxious not to interfere with
| McCLELLAN's prospects that he withholds
| communicating what he denominates one
| OF the most extraordinary hoaxes
that ever agitated the literary world"
until 1t was certain that his expose would not
reach this country till after the election. He
| begins: " As this letter will not return in
printed form to the United States before the
! Presidential election shall have taken place,
1t Will do no harm, where harm might other
wise possibly be done to give the history" &c.
He then proceeds to relate how last winter
| 1.-TWO young gentlemen" connected with the
| New York press, both " obstinate Democrats
IN politics" got up the miscegnation PAM
| phlet solely with view Of committing, if
possible, the orators and essayists of the Re-
publican party to the principle enunciated."
Before the pamphlet was published, proof
| sheets were sent in advance to leading Re
publicans and to radical Abolitionsts with ire
quest that they should readit and in return give
their views upon it. President LINCOLN, Sec
rotary SEWARD, Senator SUMNER and other
Republicans were thus favored. 1t was
doubtless hoped some responses might be OBJ
tanned that could be used during the canvass
Though the Herald correspondents ilates on the
success of the scheme, he can only refer to
the names of few crazy-headed fanatics,
none of whom ever acted or sympathized
with the Republican party, as having re-
sponded with any degree of federation to
these advances. PARKER PILLsBURY, Mrs
LUCRETIA MOTT, two women of the name of
WELD and GRMKE, ALBERT BRISBANE and a
gentleman of color, alone responded as far as
it appears, and Of these BRISBANE gives no en-
dorsement to the idea, but ventilates some of
his Fourierite theories on the future perfect
ed white man, who is to be developed by the
union of a cross of " the extreme races"
with a cross Of the central or pivotal race"
The Herald writer is obliged to admit that
" the bulk of the Republican party, composed
as it is of very shrewd politicians, constantly
on the alert for traps of that sort" withheld
an endorsement of the book. He then re-
lates how the subject was by " dextrous man.
ipulation " introduced into Congress, and rs.
S. Cox, of Ohio, an acknowledged leader of
the Democracy, made brilliant and forcible
speech against it," and how it was ''an admir-
able political weapon to use against the Re-
publicans."
Not content with publishing the HeraId,s
correspondents account, the World has an
editorial expatiating upon the brilliancy and
ingenuity Of the hoax. We presume that the
4" two young gentlemen" said to have written
it, if all the facts were known, would resolve
into the middle-aged Bohemian who conducts
the World. The rhetoric of the pamphlet is |
the rhetoric Of the editorials in that paner |
If such is the case, it will shortly appear. |
MARBLES vanity is too excessive to conceal |
what he thinks smart thing because it is |
also a shameful thing.
We have in the history of this pamphlet an
example ofthe tactics ofthe Copperhead party.
The whole canvass was conducted by them
upon false pretences. They first made men
Of straw, and then set upon them. Sunset"
Cox making a speech against miscegenation
in Congress-feigning to believe that the
pamphlet which he knew was concocted nv
his own political friends for the very purpose
of giving him, and others like him, an oppor
tunity to make such speeohes-with his spas
modic rhetoric, and affected Indignation and
horror, affords truthful and vivid illustra-