The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-10-14
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There is one vein Of dcnunciation
that runs through all the Copperhead
efflsions--the President has estab
1ished despotism, the country is ru.
iued, life and property have been
wrested from us, peace can easily be
obtained somehow, and is worth eve
rything else, DC, DC. The following
extracts will suffice for examples:
And what else has he Mr. Lincoln
done Let the nearly two millions
at men called into the field answer. -
Let the two hundred thousand graves
he has made tell their own tale Let
the MANNED, and the halt, and diseased
respond. Let the Government debt
and the peoples taxes answer. Let
the poor speak, aud the rich, whose
riches take to themselves wings, re
ply. Mr.. Lincoln and his policy have
we'll nigh ruined the most favored ma
tiop and the most prosperous people
on the face OF the earth.-lN. Y. Ex-
press.
Reviewing the course of President
Lincoln, lie denounced him as nsurp-
cr. We have lost all self control, he
said. and the right to sell government.
General Lee, of the rebel army, is n
better champion oi the rights Of sell
government in this country than
Abraham Jincoln.-4Sp of S.
Drew in the Mninc Democratic Con.
yention.
MIR. Lincoln was declared to he a
military despot. If the conservative
men succeeded it would he their duty
as Christians and philanthropists to
propose conciliation and concession.
-TSpeech of Biou Bradbury, same
Convention.
The deliberate invasion Of the Ma
tional Administration of the rights Of
the States, the freedom of the press
and the personal security of the citi-
zens.-- Resolutions ofthe same body.
Now we will 20 bnelo TO peace
man in 1870, who, it will he seen,
adopts precisely the same style of ar
guments, often the same epithets, and
has the same artful suggestions OF
peace on any terms:
TFrom Benedict Arnold's Procla-
nation to the Citizens and Soldiers of
the United States, issued October 20,
1901
"You are promised liberty by the
leaders of your affairs, but is there an
individual in tho enjoyment of 1t, sa-
wing your oppressors7 Who among
Won dare speak or write what he thinks
against the tyranny which has robbed
sou of your property, imprisons your
sons, drags you to the field of battle
and is daily delnging the country with
ybur blood7
Your country once was happy, and
had the proheyed peace been EN-
braced, the last two years OF misery
had been spent in peace and plenty,
aud repairing the dcsolation Of quar-,
rel that would have set the interests
of Great Britain and America in &
true light, and cemented their friend.
ship.
] wish 10 lead chosen land ol
Americans 10 the attainment OF peace
liberty and safety, the first objects IN
taking the field.
What is it hut land Of widows
orphans and beggars ; but what need
Of arguments to sucn as feel infinite
lv more misery than tongue cnn OK
presst / give my promise of mos'
afFectionate welcome to all who are
disposed TO join me in measures ne
cessary TO close the scene of our Of
fietions, which must be increased
until we are content with the liberal
ity Of the parent country, who still
offers us protection and perpetual ex
smption from all taxes but such ~
We think fit to impose upon ourselves
BgSEpIcT ARNOLD.