The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-17
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RAvENNA, OHIO. ~
TIE HOWL OF THE AnETTons.

While loyal men, unconditional Union
lists, yield patriotic acquiesence to the late
call of the President for additional men to
put down the bloody rebellion, the aiders aud
abettors of the rebels howl forth their venom
in unmeasured denunciation of the President,
of his measures, and of the war itself for the
protection of the Government, and the pre-
servation of our liberties. The copperhead
newspapers are exceedingly virulent and show
forth their bitterness and their disloyalty, with
greater or less distinctness, but in terms that
no man can mistake. None can doubt that
these sympathises with the rebellion, exert
an influence to encourage the rebels, and thus
prolong the war; In thus prolonging the war
by their dsloyal practices, they force upon
the President the necessity for calling for
more men, and then denounce him for doing
it.
These copperhead, disloyal newspapers are
of two classes. The one profess to be in fa-
vor of the war for the overthrow of the re-
bellion, and yet dissent from every measure
adopted for the prosecution of the war, and
essay covertly TO thwart the plans of the Ad-
ministration by rendering its acts unpopular,
and infaming the prejudicss of the people
against it. They discourage enistments, rid
icule those who purchase exemption by the
payment of the Communication fee, or the en-
pleyment of substitutes, and thus endeayor
TO cripple the Government, while it is plain
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censure Mr. Lincoln, but have no word of re-
| buke for jeff Davis. This shows their type
| of loyalty This class is more to be depre-
| Gated than the other, as sneaking. stealthy
| foe is more to be dreaded than an open, bold,
undisguised enemy.
The other class fercely denounce the war
and all its objects unblushingly sympathiss
with the rebels, and clamor ior peace at any
/ price. They, like the former class, claim to
be Democrats, and show their warm sympa-
thy for their Democratic allies, the rebels. of
the South; and urge a reconstruction. of the
I Union which shall restore the leaders of the
rebellion, with their hands dripping in the
blood of our citizens, to their former prestige
and power. While copperheads ei this stripe
are abasing themselvessis the dust before these
red-handed rebels, the rebels themselves spurn
and despise them for their servility. The
Richmond Dispatch of the 25th of January
/ last, taunts the National Democrats of the
United States'' in the words following:
'sThe Democrats proposed certain "poli-
2 ley," policyn-leyely word, suggestive of
every thing, honest, candid and above board
(which will soothe and harmonic all con-
flicting elements, and dismiss from the body
polite forever these distempered dreams
which are now haunting its Imagination
4 They will open the eyes of the wretehed
sleepers,s aud enable them to wake up and
thank God that all this has been dream. The
mothers, wives and sisters, whose faces are
wet with bitter tears, will wake to find their
4 loved ones once more in their warm embrace;
: the aged father will grasp once more to his
heart the manly son who was his pride and
thepe, and whom in dream of agony he had
l seen mangled and dead upon furious battle
2 field; the captain who had fancied himself in
d "a dismal cell, pining away his life in hope
! less captivity, will wake to breathe once more
4 upon his native sod the free airof heaven
! The dry bones OF the vision will stand up an
exceeding great army. rising from their smul-
!, titudnous graves as if the last trumpet had
! sounded, and bearing aloft the celestial ban
= nereof the Stars and Stripes. Davis and Lin
q coin will rush into each others loving arms
!. : and the inevitable negro will once mere re.
. turn to his appropriate sphere, apd-4-the, De
e e mocracy will divide the spols."
: Notwithstanding taunts like these, the mer
: and worshippers of the copperhead persua.
sion insist upon abasing themselves before
. these, their rebel masters, while they hur
] forth their anathemas against the g abnlition'
VI iupholders of the Government. Witness the
: following sample from the New York News
]. the organ of Fefnando. Wood, eedited BY ahil
brother Ben Wood In reference to the lat,
]. calliof the President for men, the News says
"The next campaign promises to out-riva
all that have gone before, in energy, in des
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