, 1864-06-18
GRANT AHDTuE OOPPERHEADS.

GRANT AND TIE O0FFEhA 0Ss
A nolitica1 faction without either plat-
form or a candidate Ia like q floating hull
without mast or rudder. The latter Is q
vessel only In name, but q hulk In fact !; the
former ia party by protense but wreck In
reality. So far from Its being abls to sur
ziEe the storm it is ready to go to pieces at the
shock of the FIRST wAva. Such is the condi.
tion Of the old, fotten, dIsmasted, unplloted,
rudderless hulk pf the once proud andde1
ant champion Of the waves, Democracy, now
captured by the enemy, given over to \ Cop
perhead prize creH, and sailing under the
rebel fag. Many bitter and vindictive,
though hitherto! unsuccessful battle It has
waged with the Union, and from no enemy
has It received such broadsides as have been
aimed by the genious, energy, and military
skill Of Grant Had 1t not been for the suc-
eesses achieved by our armies under Grant,
the Copperbeads would long since have been
in considerable power in the various State
eoverumeots, with majority in Congress,
md eren had they been unable to prevent the
prosecution Of the war up to this time, they
the mems Of obtaining any aignal success,
and would be now In position to elect Nc
Clellan, step the war, dissolve the, Union,
and recognize the Southern "Confcderacy."
Grants victory at Fort Donelson gave them
heavy blow, from which, however, McClel-
Inns disastrous wrccliug of the army OF
the Potomsc, on the Peninsula, barely saved
them His great achievement ut Vicksburg
was another stunning afalction to tho Cop
perheads, which, with our SUCCESS at Get
tysbulg, "squelched" them for months
so that they could hardly be dlstin-
guiEhed from Union men. At Chattanooga,
also, Grant did good service to what the
rebels and Copperheads alike style Lincoln
ism' and s.Abolitionism, /" and in Virginia he
is continuing the good work The fact Il, the
rebellion and slavery are one, and no man
can serve the one without serving
the other, and conversely, the abo1i-
ton of slavery and the preservation
Of the Union are one, and no man can faith-
fully servo the one cause without rendering
; incidentally good service to the other.
The question Of slavery is now purely NIL.
itny one, and the greatest soldier OF
the Union army is of necessity
the best aboliuonist- And yet the
drifting, rudderless hulk of Copperheadism
Is SO desperately in need of pilot Of some
Kind, that it "cares not, to use the language
OF It's Cleveland candidate for Vice President,
"if he be the devil incarnate If he only get
the regular nomination. at Chicago. Without
platform, without name, for they have no
moro right to assume the name Of Democ-
racy than to wear the garb Of angels, without
man in their oKn faction who has any
thing more OF fame than Its no.
toricty, few Of these wretches
claim the audacIty to nominate thell
mortal foe-Gen. Grant. Grant, 1t Il
true, was once Democrat, as we're Bntler,
Stanton, Dix, Logan, and nearly one-half o1
the present supporters OF Mr. Lincoln,
tbough he is now an unequivocEl supporter
of Mr.. Lincolh's administration, and the
mo.t powerful one it has ever had. Il the
chair of Mr.. Lincoln has become throne,
as the Coppezheads pretend, Grant ia the
king maker. If Mr.. Lincoln Is despot
Grant is his Warwick. viii they dare to
surrender their faction to the Union
party Internationally BY nominating
Ulysses s. Grant at Chicagos VIZ
should be pleased to see it. Little Al
there is Of the lamb-like In the Copperheai
party, we should be compelled to regard il
as the fulhllment Of the prophecy that "tht
lion and the lamb should lie down together
In this instance the lamb will lie inside O.
| the lion.