Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-06-11

PoLIr1cAL OpISIoN.-The world grows old, but
the ages renew themselves. The Copperheads
of the present day, who renounce our country S
cause in the hour Of her need are no less inhdels
than the Pharisees who sought to deny the or
thodoxy of our Savior nearly two thousand years
ago. The hypocrits of that era sought justifca-
ton of their infdeity in the name of religious
belief those of the present day seek palllatlon
of their sin under the cloak of political opinion
And thus they would varnish over reasonable
abuse and villifcation Of an ever just, but too
lenent, Government that permits them to walk
the streets and breathe the free air, when the
rulers of any other nation would consign them
to a dungeon or expatriate them for life. They
denounce the Chief Executive officer of the
ton as villain, combining the vices of Tarquin,
Nero, Robespierre and Mumbo Jumbo in one per-
son. His cabinet next come in for their share of
vtuperation, and are stigmatzed as venal and
corrupt clique, the partsans of % shoddy
tractors and pilferng hucksters, who are de-
vouring the substance of the country. Finally
they denounce the war itself and openly declare
that it is felony on the part of the Government
and that the country has been plunged into ire
vocable ruin by wicked and lawless President.
There are times, however, when they become
surrounded by four or five times their number of
loyal men, and then they will recant to the effect
that - in favor of the war, but oppos-
cd to the Administration.
We are reminded of this subject by a gentle
man telling of a solicitor for Coppcrhead paper
at the Bay, being refused an advertisement of 4
loyal merchant who told him politely as he
could that he did not believe in assisting the en-
cmies of his country. The solicitor complained
that the merchant was proscriptive and intoler-
ent. The gentleman replied that he preferred
lion to jackal, and that when he wished to ad-
vertise in paper that advocated treason, he
should probably bestow his patronage upon the
Richmond Examiner or Charleston Mercury
This was a knock-down argument and the soli-
citor left. Are men at this late day so ignorant
of the structure of the human mind as 10 sup
pose that rational men will assist the existence
of and support vitality in journal that, by Sc
cret sneers and inuendoes at one moment. and
hypocritical words of coincidence in the next
breath, actually indorse the slaughter of their
sons and brothers. and that it is to be glazed
over by the smooth and meffuous phrase, ''po-
litical opinion?' The sons, brothers and dear
est friends of our citizens standing shoulder
to shoulder on the plains of Georgia and in the
swamps of Virginia, and the souls of all loyal
men, as a unit, are in the war. May God defend
the right.
This is not political debate, and Copper
head sophistry never can render it such. On the
blood-staned field of Gettysburg no man SAID
:" Mr.. Speaker, | rise to question OF privilege
but hundred thousand rude threats called to
strike for God and the dear old flag. We do not
under estimate the magnitude of this villalDDus
rebellion, the greatness of the effort required
to subdue it. We call things by their right names,
in good round Saxon that no man can misinter-
pref, and we call opposition to the Government
by the old-fashioned and trite name OF treason
We think that political opinion" is no mt
synonym by which Copperheads can APOLOGIZE
cally disguise treason and the centurions of
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