Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-10-26
The disgrace Of America.


doubt their value, will be that, after only |
eighty years working, such tribe OF peo-
pie as our Copperheads should have grown
up under them 1t lis safe to say that the
like of them considering the advantages
they have enjoyed, has never appeared in
any country or in any age. Eng and had
her Jacobites, men who plotted against
the public peace and public liberty IN ami
son with foreign despots for bringing con-
fusion into the councils of their own cOun-
try, who betrayed the navy and sought to
betray the army, tc the public enemy, to
whom the national honor and indepen-
dence were tests, and to whom the tri-
umph of the Court party, or, in other
words, their party, was their first and
dearest aim.
But then the Jacobites were courtiers,
or were bred under Court influences, men
who had been taught from their very era
dies to despise liberty and to think of the
! country as the royal domain, and of the
Kings prerogative as the only thing in it
worth preserving. They grew up in an
! age when the great political principles
which are now familiar in our mouths as
| household words, were but imperfectly
understood, when but few people had So
7 liditicd into nations, and when their
/ claims of country were only beginning to
| assert themselves against those of creed
and caste
+ The French, too, have had their emit
| yreS, men who often met the Just efforts
| of their countrymen to secure relief from
horrible oppression by flying into the
ranks of foreign armies, and helping them
! to invade French soil-Inen who made the
| ia, ems and coffee houses of every capital
/ in Europe ring with their vivas whenever
! they heard of the defeat of the French
| arms, and dishonor of the French flag
| But then the enaigres We're members OF n
caste: it was their boast, that they We're
of a better breed and nobler Blood than
the rest of Frenchmen; they and their
| fathers had for thousand years looked
| upon themselves as France, and en- all
| others as born simply to serve and obey
| them The idea that they could have
| country in which there was no nobleness
/ had never presented itself to their minds,
! But the Copperheads surpass both ia
| cobite and enalgre in. everything that made
/ either one or other base or contemplate.
| The Jacobite had at least one elevatlng
| sentiment-that Of loyalty to the King
| and the King loved and honored him for
/ it, and respected him as a gentleman =
! Our Copperhead has nothing ike this to
boast of He is loyal, to be sure, to the
! Southern Shareholders but his loyalty, far
| from being the loyalty of a gentleman, is
/ that of cur dog. He is devoted to men
! who loathe and despise him-Hatters and
! fawns on people who spit in his face and
] abuse him; wa@s his tail the more yiCor-
ously and reverentially the thicker the
! shower Of epithets that comes from his
master, and is never so cringing and de
| lerential as when they are modest and
/ most contemptuous.
The Jacobite stood by the King, as in
his eyes representing the nation, as the
oldest fountain of authority known to him,
and his devotion had nothing sordid IN 1t.
| 1t could not be bought; and he would
have died thousand deaths sooner than
have it supposed that it sprung from fear.
| The Copperhcad, however, @lories in being
afraid lie faants his cowardice and
| imbeci ity under the nose of the whole
eli, iEized world He confesses with pride
| that the Shareholders have beaten him and
! cowed him. lie acknowledges that it is
pure fear which makes him give them all
! Ghey ask, and glories in it, He tells you
with a chuckle what Davis wants, what
| Lee will have, and Beauregard won't go
without; and calls on his neighbors and
! friends with all the smiling zeal of Lon
| don turnkey sent down stairs for his mas
| ter boots, to hand it over imm edjately..
! He will parade his shame on platforms
every night in the week, and call it wis
| dom, and invoke the divine blessing on it.
| When you talk to him OF self respect, he.
| hears YOU with the air OF a Turk, listening
to a dsquisition of habeas corpus.
! The enaigreS at least stood by their
cause Their cause they felt was the
cause of all gentlemen against roturiers.
/ They fought for the crown and for the
| church, for privileges and estates and rank,
which they had held since the fall of the
Roman Empire; for an order of things
which had existed long before the modern
| kingdom Of France had been dreamed Of
/ The French people and the French
Republic We're uew and strange phrases
to them; the ''Frcnah noblesse" was some
/ thing older than France, and prouder than
| the King himself But what does the Cop
| perhead stand by? TO what creed is his
faith pledged To what order does he
belong? What cause does he serve :?
/ None whatever.
He .lories in having no country, except
it be the little community called a State
| which, however, he passes most of his
time in abusing, depreciatiug and comrar-
| ing disadvantageouslv with South Carroll
ia or Mississippi He belongs to no or
der or race OF men He gathers to himself
the base and degraded OF every breed or
country, and is never so much at home as
/ amid the ignorant and degraded portion
| of the foreign Immigrants tits his special
DELIGHT that Inc has no flag He 1abhors
the stars and stripes and is always de
lighted when it is diShonored or humilia-
ted the Confederate flag he rather &C
! mir6s and is proud of. but it does not
! belong to him. He has one quality in
common with the negro, one which more
than aught else has contributed To the
degradation of this unfortunate race it is
impossible to insult him or rouse IN, him
any feeling of resentment y GU will tinG
him in Paris and London, skulking around
4 hotels frequented by Southerners, deny
fling or concealing his Northern birth, or
if he owns it, abusing and ridicu ing his
native place, denying his Government to
Foreigners who are sickened by his want
of shame, gloating over the defeats of his
neighbors, and predicting their ruin and
confusion.
1 You find him at home, stumpipG the