Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-09-14
COpperhead Ratification.


failed to appear; but Mr.. Dean came, and
during two hours of that afternoon, in the
City Hall, harangued and Disguised by far
the larger portion of his audience, which
amounted, in all, men, women and chill
dren, to perhaps three hundred.
His speech was hotch potch, composed
of gross falsehoods, misrepresentation,
impossible facts, appeals to the baser pas
sions, infammatory words, stories, ges-
lures, with a little of the various kinds of
clap-trap, now constituting the stock IN
trade of Copperhead orators, all thrown
together in miscellaneous confusion. lie
constantly and studiously misrepresented
the origin of the war, the condition of the
country, the acts of the Administration,
and the conduct of the war, and OF our
generals and armies in the field. Indeed,
as for that matter, no one could have IN
ferred from his speech alone, that the
country is now struggling to crush the
most gigantic rebellion known in history.
On the contrary, the traitors in arms and
their peace spouting abettors, were spoken
of in the most affectionate terms, as injured
innocents, inoffensive oppressed people,
whose rights and liberties have been in
yaded and trampled upon by the hand of
power and the iron heel of war. In short
he sought Northern sympathy for South
ern treason, and justified secession and
rebellion as a legitimate State right; and
he characterized any attempt of the Fed
eral Government TO coerce them by force
of arms, as violation OF State Sovereign
ty and an invasion of the liberties of
the people Indeed, he declared our lib
critics already gone, even here in Wlscon-
sin, although some fail to see it, but that
by electing Mcclellan they could all be
regained He denounced the Government
and bemoaned the inevitable calamlties
of war, and yet he found no word of com
plaint for the infamous leaders and doubly
damned traitors who inaugurated and
have kept up this horrid war, for the
Purpose of establishing a new government
having Slavery as its corner stone, and
therefore inimical to liberty and free
Government in this country, if not through
out the world
Mr.. Dean, with all his defamation,
had the knack of making his propositions
las clear as mud, and this enabled him
10 adapt his remarks to a goodly share of
| his hearers But what he lacked in facts,
logic and propriety, he amply made up in
! fiction, sophistrv and bombast, and if his
/ hearers were not convinced, it was not for
| lack of barefaced and naked assertions,
or reasonable threats and utterances.
But always to "give the devil his due"
/ it must be admitted that not all his Cop
perhead friends approved or even relished
! all the seditious and reasonable teach
ings of the physically great, and yet oh,
how small, Henry Clay Dean, Esquire,
Copperhead!
! The evening exercises commenced with
a torch-light procession, consisting OF
six trausparencies, and about five times
that number eff paper lanterns, borne by
enterprising boys ranging from five to
sixty years of age The procession was
! headed by our City Band, and marched
from the City Hall to the head of High
Street, and by brilliant flank movement
and detour, cleared most of the saloons
on the way and returned to the place of
starting. Before breaking ranks, three
cheers were given for Mcclellan, when
some outsider proposed three more foI
+ Il nv ~ M
crowd with equal eclat,-the boys in the
procession being Indifferent as to whom
they cheered for.
Mr.. Dean was expected to reiteratc his
speech in the evening but was prevented
by sickness The deficiency was supplied
by our somewhat less noted townsman,
Moses NJ. Strong, who spouted treason IN
a more respectable manner.
As a grand ratification demonstration
and Copperhead rally, the meeting was a
magnificent failure; but as a1ording an
opportunity for pent up treason to boil
over and show itself, it was a success
Let Copperheads send more Deans to
preach the new gospel of peace among US,
and the aHin1us of their party will soon be
well understood and appreciated, even IN
/ Mineral Point.
RECRUlTING-D. b. Moore and W. Wa
tiers, of Co f, lth Regt Wis. Vols. are
home on the Recruiting service. The
1Ith is one of the best regiments in the
service. Liberal bounties are offered to
recruits, credited to any town chosen.
The Democratic County Convention
is called to meet at Dodgeyille, on Tues
day, the 9th inst