, 1864-07-13
Nbifago Grib1tnt.
WEDNESDAY, JULY IS, 1854.
~HE CQPpERHRADy AND TEE
A" DRAFT LA WIS.

George B. Mcclellan the Coppefhesd L.
vonte for the Presidency wns the first prom"
Incnt military man 10 urge the President 10
ssk for and enforce conscriptton Law. Yet
fhe antf-draH voters Of New York and Cop
perheads everywhere curse the law With one
breath md cheer for Mcclellan with the
ncrt. Hornt1o Seymour, another Copper
head leader, In his inaugural message dis
coursiug on the tniQuities OF the sttte DRAFT
Law Of New York State, (Which be Is now
shout to enforce, to fill up the State militia
10 carry on the war of the World knd Journal
Of Commerce against the Government)
argued that 1t was too defective to
be enforced, and that one Of its de-
fects was that 1t had no communication
clause. BE called Tor national conscrip-
zion law with Communication clause.
It Was passed. To the best of their
ability, and to the extent Of their
courage, he and his Copperhead '' friends" re-
Eistcd the very law whose passage they had
demanded. by fighting, by riotipg, by caus.
Ing the Withdrawal Of 1000 men from Viz;
Einia to New York to enforce II, by qulbbling
as to the proportions Of men to be furnished
by each petty Congressional district, county
and township, by begging delays Tor the ad-
3ustmcnt Of fictitious Issues and ridiculous
detatls- In short, Horatio Seymour, after
dcnouncaog the State law, when its enforce
1neut was asked to help put down the rebel
lion, now enforces it to sustain Copperhead-
Ism, md after demanding the late national
conscription law, when, by such demand.
, be could delay the Government in getting men,
used the whole power Of Ills office 10 prevent
It's enforcement. The Copperhead cry was
raised against the Law, which, hut for their
opposition to volunteering and drafting un-
der State laws, would not have been neces-
Eaty, and which they were the first to require,
on the ground that its three hundred dollar
clause made it q rich mans law" Every
Copperhcad in the land knew that three
hundred dollars. was within the reach of
Substantially au poor men and that the effect
OF the clause vas favorable to the majority
ofpoor men by keeping down the price Of
Substitutes within the reach Of all. Yet On
the plea Of oppression up IN the poor, found
ed on this clause, they stir up "f1re-in.the-
1carn from one end OF the land to the other,
embarrassing the Government and aiding the
febeIs. By this means they have made Its
enforcement cost the Government the Mt
most possible SUN, hare prevented 1t from
producing the men sought, and have then
used the vers ineflclency and cxpensivcness
which they had caused as argument against
the Inv which they had demanded, and now
to fill up the measure Of their hypocritical
treason, the three hundred dollar e!huse hay
ing been abolished, these blood-hounds OF
JEFF Davis nre yelling In full pack with
rage over the very change in the law which
they then with obe accord demanded. These
facts illustrate that the CoppeEheads are not
q political party, but only class Of traitors.
They have no principle but opposition to the
Government and aid to the rebels; no plat-
form but to flnu fault, and no candidates but
convicted traitors.