Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-03-23
INSANITY OF THE ooPpERnEAps.

Some one has Said the Copperheads are In
sane. Their madness is easily accounted for
They are men of one idea. They have go
slavery on the brain. Slavery is the Alpha
and Omega of their religion and their politics
They swear that slavery is sanctlhed In the
Bible and guaranteed in the Constitution.
They are monomanlaes on the. subject. A
plurality Of ideas would split their skulls.
Their minds, being thus warped and strained
by the everlasting nlgger," as they phrase
1t, cannot sustain the shocks which their ex.
treme i'll fortune is constantly bringing upon
their devoted heads. Hence we cannot
greatly wonder at finding unsettled reason, or
no reason at all, inside the skull Of q Copper
head.
Look at the bad luck OF the Copperheads |!
First the plan TO give the slaVeocracy complete
ascendancy in tho nation failed and war was
the result. Then 1t turned out that the South
ern chiyalry were not superior to the Yankees,
in the ratio Of five to one In fighting. After-
wards 1t was discovered that black men will
fight for freedom as well as work to support
white masters, and, to the disgust of the Cop
perheads, whole regiments Of colored soldiers
have gone to the field and have done good SER
vice. Their ill-luck has continued to follow
them, and, In various ways, worked them up to
madness. They set up female elocutionlst
TO crate Miss Anna Dickinson of the platform.
and their championess broke down. They ap-
pealed confidently to the Supreme Court in
behalf Of their chief exile, and their PRAYER was
denied. They have been compelled to pay
taxes to the GovernmSnkAn thus indirectly
aid the Government ius4 down the rebel.
lion, while their hearts are with the rebels.
They echoed the vilest epithets bestowed on
Mr.. Lincoln by rebels and traitors, and the
people, from one end Of tho country to the
other, have indicated their determination that
the President shall be reelected. This last
Is the worst possible omen to the Coppcrheads.
betokening their utter overthrow, and 1t has
anishedthe work Of making them crazy.
Now, in their insanity, the Copperheads set
up Mcclellan for Presidential candidate, and
commit themselves to all sorts Of paradoxical
. absurdities and Inconsistencies.
They oppose the war, and yet they object to
the army being weakened by soldiers going
home 70 vote.
They declare that their party has been 70,
duced by enllstments into the army, yet they
object to soldiers voting.
They assert that the army is almost unanl.
mously in favor Of Mcclellan, and yet they
charge that the elections are carried in favor
of the Administration by the vote of soldiers
They cry out that the soldiers are held under
tyrannical restraint-eompelled to act for an
administration they abhor-and yet they wit
ness the re-enlIstment OF regiment sfter regi.
ment, and the voluntary return Of q majority
oi The veterans 10 tho field.
Ihey asSeverate that If slavery Is abolished
the negroes will fall below their present level
ana become more abased and more miserable,
IN one breath, and In the next they declare
that the blacks, when emapcinatsd viii ,,I.-
cegenate-mix with the whites to A terrIbIo ev-
tent! In one moment they tell us that the
blacks will, If made free, take the bread from
the mouths Of our white laborers, and in Tho
next they profess 10 believe that the Door con.
trAbandS will stsrVe 10 death when cut loose
from their masters.
Time and space would fall Us In the attemp,
10 recito the manifold contradictions that are
lowing from the craEed brains Of the Copper
heads At any other time than this their In.
coherent rawlings would excite only pity and
laughter.