The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-05-10
Position Of The COpperheads Of ohio.

Position OF the COpperheads OF Uhlo.
The Copperheeds of Ohio have issued
an address 70 the country, setting forth
their views, and defining their policy
The document has one merit-frank-
ness There IS no double dealing, no
shutting, no avoiding the issues Of 10y
atty and treason. It IS as openly dis
loyal as any address issued by the rebel
Congress, or by any conelave of South
err traitors and needs only TO be read
10 be thoroughly understood 1t says
That we regard the existing fratrici
dal war Of the North and Northwest
upon the South to be wholly unconsti
tutional, as well as fruitless, wasteful
crdel. and ruinous to both sections o.
the United States.
That the democracy Of the State,oi
Ohio have heard VITA dismay the doc
trines of its advocates, and shrink with
horror from the sanguinary scenes
which have deluged the land, by the
hands Of brethren, in brothers blood
That many Democrats were themselves
surprised into Its qualified support at
the beginning; but that long since
seeing their constitutional mistake, and
realizing their utter hopelessness of
coercion, they have now concluded to
make what amends Co. could, by or
ganizing themselves into one compact,
rugged, unfinching peace party, for
stopping the war on any terms whatey-
er that would be fair between man and
man They are distinctly for peace
and peaceable separation, for peace and
mutual recognition, and they will posi-
lively and unanimously resist, by ali
suitable means, the further destruction
Of property and of life in such cause
They take IL for granted that each sec
ton is united on its policy, and that
the border States can hereafter decide
for themselves separately; that there
will be fair settlement Of the partner
ship accounts, and the freedom of the
Mississippi river As for border wars,
after the oceans Of blood for three years
past, we pronounce them impossible
Here, then, is the issue squarely pre-
sented The South must be recognized,
and thus hostile power allowed to con
troll the navigation Of the Mississippi ;
and what is more, the theory Of State
sovereignty, and the right of secession
must be recognized, which would lead
TO interminabl6 confusions, alliances,
and wars The adoption of the theory
would indeed make America what
D'Israeli said in the British House of
Commons he hoped TO see it--an Anne
rica of small powers, and maneuvering
cabinets
1t is useless to Say there viii be no
border wars Look at Europe, with
fewer causes Of hostilities, periodically
engaged, at least once in a decade, in
bloody struggles. If our country were
cut up in half dozen Confederacies, as
many soldiers must constantly be kept
under arms, as are now in the field;
conscriptions would be annual occur
rences, instead Of extraordinary meas
ures, to meet temporary emergency;
and such thing as a secure and pros
porous peace could not exist, any more
than in Europe
Does any one suppose that the chiv-
airy would be less domineering and in
solent, as an independent people, than
as citizens Of the United States And
what man has escaped their insults,
who even questioned their supremacy?
They would hold the mouth of the Mis-
sissippi, and would use their position to
eKtort concessions of the most outrage
Gus character from the people of the
Northwest
We thank the rebel sympathizers for
this address. BY false pretensions they
carried several States in 1862, and then
used their power in aid Of their South
ern allies. AS double-dealers, they were
dangerous; but as open and avowed
traitors, on the platform above quoted,
they are exceedingly harmless; they
cannot get twenty per cent of the votes
Of tho loyal States
The address then proceeds to lecture
such men as Sunset Cox, after the
following manner:
These advisers, upon some general
and superficial notion that all wars are
popular, and military leaders the win
ming cards, while peace and Christiani-
" are unpopular, and statesmen not
likely 10 be elected Presidents, have
been limiting at the canvass Of couple
Of maior-generals who claim TO be Dem
ocrats, and under certain circumstances
talk respectfully of the constitution. !
To nominate either Grant or Mcclellan |
would be suicidal Unjust be preceded |
by wholesale apostacy from the ground |
covered by the Kentucky and Virginia |
resolutions and so long hitherto the /
avowed creed of the Democracy, and |
forever hereafter to be its only solid 4
foundation Let Us beware OF such |
contradiction, for the sole result OF it 1
viii be a Waterloo defeat No such 1
choice of candidates can have the un- 1
divided support OF the Democracy; for 4
the peace party will not accept the hui /
initiation, but will put their own candi-
date upon their own platform of imme-
date peace and peaceable separation
and State-rights recognition, and hav-
ing coolly nailed that inscription to the
mast, viii clear the deck fer indepen-
dent action.
If any one ever INDUCED a hope that
q war Democrat could get the support
of the peace men, we presume the above
extract VIII dispel the illusion. The
fact is, all must take up their position
either as patriots or traitors.
The Maryland Convention.
The Union Members ofthe MARYLAND