The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-11-04
The Model Of Copporhead Sedition.

BENEDICT ARNOLD on tho Goth day of DC.
tober, l7SO, issued the following
Proclamation 10 he Citizens and iSoidiers
oT The UHited States.
You ara promised liberty by the leaders
of your affairs, but is there an individual in
tho enjoyment of il, saving your oppressors: :
who among you dare to speak of war, to say
what be thinks against tho tyranny which
has robbed you OF your property, imprisons
your sons, dtags you to the field of battle.
and is daily deluging your country with
blood
Your country once was happy. and, had
the proffered peace been ombraced, the last
two years Of misery had been spent in peace
and plenty, and repairing the desolation of
tho quarrel, that would have Get the inter
csls OF Grost Britain and America in true
light. and cementcd their friendships.
l wish to lead chosen band Of Ameri.
cans TO tho attainment of peace, liberty and
mttty tho first objects in taking the field.
What is America but q laud of widows.
orphans and bcegars But what need Of
argument to such as feel in6pitely moro
misery than tongue can express give
my promise OF most afectioDaie welcome
20 all who are disposed to join me in meas.
urcs necessary TO close the scenes OF our af.
Fiction, which must increase until wo are
satisfied with the lberaity or the mother
country, which still offers US protection, and
exception from all taxes but such as we sec
fit to impose upon ourselves.
BENEDICT ARNOLD.
October 90, 1850
The traitor here makes eight points
against tho Continental Congress aud Wash.
lngton the Commander-inC Chief
FUsL-That freedom of speech and of
the press has heon taken away.
Second That property has been appro-
priated.
Third Tina. illegal imprisonments have
boon made.
Fourh THAT odious conscriptions have
been imposed.
fDh.--That peace, which might have
been had. was refused.
S'rth.-That the first objects in taking
tie field have been abandoned.
Serenh.-That the country has been del.
uged with blood. aud nade land of wild.
ows and of orphans.
Eighth That it ia necessary TO Join him,
in order to close lboso affl ictions and return
TO prosperity.
Now, wo defy any man to make out a
more complete model of Copperhesd bar
angue in 1864! Tako any of the speeches,
that made by Horatio Seymour, in Milwau-
k'e. His points are clear, and We
use his own words.
First.-The freedom of speech and of the
press has been denied us.
Second.-It is your property, the proper
ty o: Northern tax payers. which 10 confis-
Gated.
Ihird.-Men have been torn from their
families and locked upsts prison. and women
too.
Fourth Men are told that they must
leavs their homes, and devote ihemselv CD to
war.
Fyrh.-The policy Of tho Administration
has placed hindrauces in the way of the
Union.
Sirth The Administration has entered !
upon settled policy dangerous TO tho vel |
fare of tho country.
Serenth.-ln Gods name. dro there no
means by which We can save the lives of
husbands and brothers
Eighth We nominated Mcclellan, that |
VIC might restore prosperity and peace to
the people.
Thus arc the points made by Horatio Sey-
mour against the Administration in 1864,
identical, point with point, with those made
by Benidct Arnold against Washington and
the Continental Congress in 1880 We sec
precisely what Mr.. Seymour meant when to.
ward tho end of his speech, he asserted, "our
views came from our fathers" They are
the viows which the TORY fathers, through
their executor, Benedic' Arnold, bequeath.
ed to their Copperhead offspring.
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