Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-03-16
PerpIexIlIss ol Ihs Coppsrheads.

Next to the rebels We know Of no class
whose dilemmas are more numerous or de-
plorable than those Of the Copperhesds.
We give s sample.
l. Unless they can pass for Democrats
they have no party, but
2. Ifthsy try to pass for Democrats the
party won't have them.
8. Unless they can combine with the
rebels, neither can succeed, but
4. II the rebels succeed they can no lon
ger combine with them.
5. So long as the Union cause triumphs
they can never rule the country-buL p
6. When the Union cause fails there will
be no country to rule.
Z. Before lighting they Weuld seek a
disunion peace, but
8. Before getting disunion peace they
must tight the Unionists.
g.. Peace TO them means peace with those
those who are lighting against the Union,
and war with those who are fighting for it,
but
10. They find it costs more aknocks" to
fight the oountry's friends, that it would
to subdue its enemies.
H. They believe in all the rights Of
man, especially in his right to own men,
but
II. They oppose HWomsn's rightsn par
ticulsrly the right Of q black woman to
her chastity and her children.
13. They favor the largest liberty, to-
wit: the liberty Of State to secsde in
order to promote slavery, but
IA. They oppose insurreotion and rebel
lion, especially the rebellion Of the Fed
ersl government against the supremacy Of
the slave States. .-
Is. They sympsthize with the conservs-
tive efforts Of Jefferson Davis to preserve
the EUnion as it WAS and the Constitution
ss it is" but
16. They believe all the acts which
Abraham Lincoln has done, can do, or ever
may do, TO maintain the Union, are un-
constitutional and revolutionary usurpa.
tions.
II. They would cOlOnize all soldiers of
color, but
1s. They do not believe in cOloniEiug
the Vallandighams who desert their col
ors.
19. They fear abolition lest It may lead
to smslgamstiOn, but
20. They like slavery because it cOmpels
smslgsmstion.
q. They believe that God has made the
negro their inferior, but
p. They fear abolition will make him
their superior. -
%. They know Mcclellan to be opposed
to the war, or they would not nominate
him, but
"A They want him to carry on the war,
because he is opposed to its being carried
on.
25' They pretend to believe that McClel-
Ian made war on the rebels, but
26. They republish his official report as
8 campaign document, to show how sue
csssfully no made war on the Administra-
ton.
q. To require rebels to swesr to support
the Constitution and laws, before voting,
is to infringe the right Of suffrage, but
%. To prevent volunteers who are fight
ing for the Union from voting, is to sus-
tain the right Of suffrage.
29 They deny that the civilization Of
the North is superior to that Of the South,
but
80. This involves the admission either
that bad as sre the rebels, the Copperhesds
are no better, or else thst the CopPerhesds
enjoy no share Of Northern civilization.
81. The above facts tend 70 show tina!
this is contest not between States, COM
manities or institutions, but between all
the deprsVity Of the human heart, on the
one side, and what the secesh organs
openly scOfF at as HGOd and humanity,"
on the other Chicago TTibtze.