Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-06-09
Copperheads Fraternizing with
Rebel GuerrlIIas.

Rebel GuerrtlIas.
1t has long been known that Cop
perheads are quite willing to fraternize with
rebels But il has only recently come to
light that they are equally willing to extend
fellowship and protection to the rebel guer-
rias. This readiness to stand between
these rebel outlaws and barbarians and the
summary punishment they SO richly merit
was revealed the other day in the House Of
Representatives al Washington, on the oc-
casion Of presenting bill for the punish
ment of guerrillas, when Mr.. Ancona,
Pennsylvania Copperhead Of tho vilest or.
der, obstinately interposed objection to the
consideration Of the bill Nor was be alone
in this; for when Gen. Schenck expressed
his indignant surprise that any man would
interpose objections to the consideration Of
such bill, and thus delay its passage by
mere trick of technicality, Mr.. Ancona's
fellow-Copperheads shouted aloud, demand
ing that Gen. Scbenck shoald be called to
order. Here is the report Of the matter,
taken from the Globe:
Mr.. GARFIELD. ask the gentleman to
yield to enable me to ask the unanimous
consent of the House to present and have
considered at the time from the Military
Committee n bill for the punishment Of
guerrillas.
Mr.. STEVENS. will yield for that pur-
pose.
Mr.. ANcoNA (Copperhead.) Tmust OBJ
ject to the reporting of that bill from the
Military Committe.
Mr.. WAsHBURNE, of Illinois. Is that a
bill for the punishment of those guerrillas
who shot our wounded soldiers2
Mr.. GARFIELD. 1t would include those.
Mr.. SCHENCK. Mr.. Speaker, think,
nobody has objected to the immediate con.
sideration of that bill
The SPEAKER. The gentleman from
Pennsylvania objected.
Mr. SCHRNOK. Surely it cannot be pos
sible that any member OF this House has OBJ.
jected to considering bill to provide for
ting such mischief and crimes, and murder
ing dcfsnseless citizens and wounded sol.
diers in the rear of eur armies. Cries Of
"OrderI" -.
The SPEAIcER. Objection is made to the
bill, and no debate is in order.
Mr.. SCgENCK. l only want to be satis6.
cd OrdcrP' and knew if there is'any gen
tleman on this floor who will object to bill
for such purposes. l therefore have asked
the question. Cries of 'Orderl' from the
Democratic side, and confusion. want
to know whose sympathies run in that di
rcction. Shouts of "Orderr'
Such is the direction these copperheaC
sympathies now take. They put themselves
forward TO protect those guerrilla savage,
who do such deeds as this reported at st
Louis last Wednesday.
A telegram to headquarters from Rolla
Mo-, May 30th, states that train of Uniol
I Icaf lac Ie<,,, Il,
der escort of seventy men Of the. Secon'
Wisconsin cavalry, was attacked at Salem
Arkansas, by three hundred guerrillas. -
The entire train was burnt, and eighty me-
and some men and some women killed.
On Friday last. ten men Of detachmen
Of the Second Wisconsin cavalry, out on
scout from Rolla, becoming separated fror
\ the main body, were surrounded by guerri
v las, and five killed, the others making thei
escape. Returning in large force, the
found the bodies Of those killed stripped
r and their throats cut.
, That is the kind Of rebel outlaws and bar
dts whom they would protect by parls
mentary tricks, and refused their Consent
T to the immediate consideration of Bill t
punish such murderOus villains, who hav
abandoned all regard for the modes of ci,
ilized warfare and betaken themselves to tn
T murder of women and children.
\ Here is another instance OF the guerrill
barbarity. that those copperheads woul
! shield taken from the Nashville Times:
!, A poor woman, wife Of a soldier in one
the East Tennessee cavalry regiments station
- ed near this place, recently wrote letter [
; him, telling Of the brutal treatment whic
. she was receiving from the refined negrodri
Z ing chivalry of Tennessee. Her husban
u was forced to fly from home to save his III
from rebel fury, which spares no loyal mar
= = and the care OF their little farm devolyed Q
! her alone. Without help she had to brea
y up the ground, plant and cultivate the GRO
;; while her husband was serving in the rank
= She was known to be the wife of UniC
y soldier, and that was sufficient to bring dow
e cn upon her head the curses of traitors. I'll
. other day, while she was plowing in Il
field, squad of rebel cavalry rode up an
0 shot her poor old horse (which was N
q considered worth carrying off down in Il
n lurrow, while she was holding the plo
It handles. The wife sent letter to n
. husband telling him she was at the point
q starvation, and begging him to send her son
Is aid. The letter was laid before Govern
d johnson, who instantly-well. We will n,
q say; but there will be some dead rebels
u that nighberhood ere long, without Il
!. intervention of an amnesty, and if death
n man should love a shining mark" al
~ make.a few negro aristocrats bite the dus
g why all the better. We are sick and d
a gustsd with the elemency extended to the
" vulgar, heartlsss, slave-driving demons.
'e And so is every other man who bears
7. loyal heart within his bosom, sick of Il
IL olemency extended to those "slave-drivir
N Demons" But the copperheads will n
:, permit them to be punished as long as tn,
10 can interpose objections and delay legisl
,, tion providing for punishment That is
x degree Of degradation to which we did n
deem it possible for even copperhead,
{ anything elso human, to reach. No wond
o. that Gen. Sehenck could not refrain fro
D. an bathurst OF indignant surprise at the e
! J, hibition of such unmitigated baseness.
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