Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-03-28
Eclipse of CopperheadIsm

tue Loyal League
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Eclipse of COppeTheadIsm.
The leading and most influential Repub-
icans Of the country are Just now busily
engaged in making far more damaging al-
legations against LINCOLN and his admin
istration than those for which VALLAEDId-
HAN was exiled, and the Democratic party
SO relentlessly prosecuted during the last
two or three years. The men to whom
we refer are in the CHASE interest, and of
course. represent the brains of the party to
which they belong.
In recent manifesto, emanating from
the same source as the document known as
",he CHASE PoMERoY Circular" (and as
cribed to the pen of Hon. JOSH SHERMAN
Of Ohio, we have a refreshing expose of
the estimate in which Honest Old ABE is
held by the men who lent their aid to
make him President, and who, until re-
Gently, were either dumb before the crimes
with which they now openly charge him.
or blatant in their approval. Acknowl
edging now, what the Democracy have
charged all along, that the conduct of the
war has not been marked by any fixed OF
definite policy-and in default of which
it has only made sacrifices of men and
money for nought--acknowledging this,
we say, at the end of three bloody years
of useless sacrifice, they not only do them
selves no credit, but they completely vim
dicSte the superior intelligence, patriotism,
and virtue of the Democratic party. Let
a note be made of this; and let all who,
at the instigation of Substituted and nm
scrupulous leaders, have been conspicuous
in their prosecutions and examinations of
Democratic leaders and citizens, feel and
endure the deep humiliation and shame
with which they have been invested by the
confession of their "loyal" leaders.
The remarkable manifesto, upon the
strength of which these remarks are made
and by which they are amply justified,
charges distinctly upon LINCOLN that, in
the prosecution of the war he has "qDiM a
species Of cunning aghich ehardcteriges a
certain class of la,Cyers, sought TO ride f,cC
theories, for the purpose Of securing hi,
re election"
Now, we submit to all honest men
whether such language as this, published
broadcast from one end of the country tc
the other, and proceeding from the best
t brains of the war party, so known and
recognized, is not ten fold more damaging
and demoralizing to the army, and ten
fold more discouraging to the people al
home, who sustain the army with theil
substance and their sons, than all tha
VALLANDIsHAM and the Democratic party
have ever charged.
Are the people of Ohio, for instance
willing to be conscripted, dragged from
= their homes. and their lives jeopardizeC
to "secure" (as SHERMAN Il Co. allege
"the reelection" of ABRAHAM LINCOLN
4 Are they even willing to be taxed for thi
= purpose? Assuredly not,
9 Again: Tell our soldiers, on the eve o
s battle, that the sacrifices they are abou
= to make, are only to secure" las SHER
MAN d Co. allege) "the reelection" o
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. and what would b.
the just and natural consequence?
And yet, SHERMAN q CO. have been th
leaders of the party which exiled VALLAN
. DIsHAM, and prosecuted the Democracy S
!, long and so wickedly for daring to talk
issue with "the Government" on the con
: duct of the war.
I'm concluding this article we would re
mind the reader that we are not done wit
the "tert." which is literally full of allegs
tions and suggestions no less damaging t
the administration, than that to which W
o have Just referred. We will notice feV