, 1864-04-15
From our Own Correspondent


the radical side Of the political programme,
and coon all The conservatives will have goac
to their plnces-with the Copperheads-
the radicals will be left alone to save those
stntcs from the rebels on the one hand, and
Copperheads on the other. Brutns J.. Clay,
.Emerson ;Ethridge, and others, ,haye gono
with the Copperheads, while Henderson and
Reverdy. JOHNSON have cast their lots with
the radicals. The exchange is good one for.
u.s.. Mr.. Henderson's' able speech In favor
of aboliahing slavery By constitutional enact
ment will gladden. the heart Of every Union
man in Missouri, and be the death knell Of
conservatism in that State. There is no use
in dodging the Issue. :. The conservatives In
the Border States are not with us, nor will
they be in the next election. The radicals
are: Now, which party should have the sup
port and countenancc of the Administration:
The answer is plain. I assert that Mr.. Lin
coin gains nothing, but endangers everything
by any further adhesion to the conservatives
{eo-cal1ed,) Of the Border States. These men
are simply trying to fool us. The will vote
for Mcclellan to mun. The time has come
know. that Mr.. Lincoln honestly believed
that they would stand by the Administration
to the end. So did thousands Of other North
ern Union men. But they are mistaken
Late events prove this. Let the error Of our
former course be remedied ere 1t be- too
late.
THE POTOMAC AnNT-R1ouTu ILLINOIS CAV
ALRT. :,
There is nothing of importanc. from the
army. It is ccntradicted that Grant Ia forti-
tying at Cnlpcpper. still, leading army OIL
GERS approve ofthc plan Of establishing a for
titled depot there. It would save q vast deal
OF men for the field, and also afford rallying
point on which to fail back In case of re-
verse Lee is represented rs receiving rein
forcements daily, and his army is yartously
estimated at ninety: to one hundred thousand
men. It Is contradicted that he is destroying
the railroad between Fredericksburg md
!, Hanover Junction. The Sth Illinois cavalry
has been at Gfesboro point for some weeks,
and is now mounted; but the officers and
men ore not satisfied with their horses. They
are lot of old "scrubs," the refuse Of the
"corra1." The new regiments have got the
best horses. hear that the 5tl is to be sta
toned in this city, to which they are now
being removed Is 1t good policy to keep
such splendid regiment as this in the rear,
while the new and untried ones are being
sent 10 the front! It may be, however, TINT
the Sth may accompany Gen. Burnside's
column.
WHO Mr.. LONG 1s AND WHAT HIS SPEECH
AEANs-1T IS PART OF TIE CoPPERuEAD
PROGRAMME.
Alexander Long, who struck the keynote
| Of the Copperhc4d programme for the CAM
| paign Of 1864 is native of Creen1ille, Mcr
Ger county, PENNSYLVANIA, and was born De-
ccmocr q, 1876 He was educated at Cary's
Academy, (now Fnrmer's College, Ohio, and
| adopted the profession of the law, practlcing
the same in Cincinnati He. was elected to
the Ohio Legislature in lsas and ISIS; aud in
1sCo WAS elected o Representative from the
Second District Of Hamilton county to the
Thirty Eighth Congress. Hc is a man OF
limited ability and small mental calibre, and
WIS but d second rate lawyer in Cincinnati.
| It is stated that he did not write tue speech
which be delivered on Friday but that 1t is the
production Of one ofthc editors of the Cincin-
nati E:qui'e7, as thoroughly secession sheet
us the Chicago Tunes in your city. Long is
| ia fact only cat's-paw in this matter. He
! is merely put forward by the extreme peace
! men to feel the public pulse. The writing
md delivery of this speech were all cut and
dried. Long was In Cincinnati about four
| weeks ago, at the time when SO many Of our
copperlead members Of Congress went west
to attend to the E. G.. G. meetings held in
| Chicago, indianapolis, Cincinnati: and other
| places at the west At these meetings it was
| resolved that the time had come when the
| "democrntic party. must. take open ground
in favor OF acknowledging the South. A pro-
gramme Of operntions were also agreed upon;
| the principal point IN which was that the
| people were to be educated up to the idea
that Lincoln is usurpcr, End that he Is de-
termincd to hare himself reelected by the
military power. II his election cannot be
prevented by legal means, the "Northcrn
| democratic hcart'' is to be fired If possible to
| resistance By the only means which the most
Tndica1 peace men contend is now left them,
viz, By opposing force to force. The articles In
the Chicago Times and Cincinnati, Enquirer,
and ,e;tars ohsf - feoenSsnsaaa papes aud
retaliation upon Union men, nre q part Of the
programme. ALI the Illinois Copperhcad
members OF Congress hare been whipped in
to the support Of the extreme peace men.
These peace men expect that there may bs u
are determined, come veal or come woe, to
carry ont their programme. They will de-
mand l.eace platform at Chicago, cyen at
the price of the ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF the party.
! might add that the Copperheads Of Longs
district wou1d never have nominated him in
/ lSC2 had they supposed there was any chance
| Of their carrYing the district at that time.
Bill Morrison was, short time since, with
S. 4. Coz and others, J in fayor of t'roosting
law" as they call it, IN order to win. But
'BiI'' has since been notified that he must
t'face the music" or take the consequences
Storey cracked his whip over him, and the
doughty Colonel "come to time' inmcdi-
ntely. He has promised tn It he viii have no
| further correspondence With Shcahan, OF t:e
Chicago Est, or any Of that Gro @d OF "tishy
| Democrats" s. S. Cox still thinks that he
can run in Mcclellan at Chicago on "pie
do Wood, Storey, James 4 McMasteEs, and
others, have sworn 10 "rulc the roost" OF
| ruin the party, They say it is not worth pre-
serving II It's principles are not blazoued on
lis banners, as they always hare been here
| tofore.
| TIE CorrEEuEAps WHIPPING IN THE WAR ASp
T1snY DEMOCRATS.
| The Valland}gham and Wood Coppcrheads
are now busily at work appl, Ing the lash ia
The q War" and Fishy Democrats, II In or:
der to bring them into the ring so that the
| new prog y1n1ne will be unanimously en-
dorsed. That programme is: The rccogni
ton. Of the Southern Confederacy aud oppo
the truth ie, there arc but few left to be whip
ped in. Even such pretended war democrats
is Cox, Odell, Ward, Gauson and others, 70
ted against expulsion Eut Cog will go ovel
to the Pence Democracy just as soon is he i:
made TO believe that Mcclellan cannot bt
Sam is to get foreign mission if he can gel
Mcclellan nominated Oh piebald platform
| That Is snow you sec 1t aud now you dou'i
see it'' sort Of IN affair. But the appearan
ccs now ure, that even IT Mcclellan c.n be
nominated, the peace men will demand the
called the aConsolidated Democrats. y
Their candidates are Mcclellan aud Bran.
lete. The peace democrats are, however;
In the majority. and the present more is made
by thcm. and after due consultatfon in the
various lodges and grand lodges of the secret
Il society throughout the country. By 1t they
intend 10 obtain lun control OF tue party
and compel the "ar ocmoerats 10 tau Into
tEe ranks or 20 over 70 tnc Union party
Sam Cox Was l10orGd with TINS morning. II
/ was announced in 1esterday's New York