, 1864-01-19
lGbifa9o @ribnne.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1864.
TIE COPPERHEADs AND TEE
REV0KUTI0T,

REv0LUTION.
The message OF Seymour is not In Itself
worth any special attention. False in Its
statements, lame In its logic, and pcrvadcd
BY a mean and malignant spirit Of treason,
1t would Justly be thrown aside with coz
tempt and indignation, ssve fot the tact that
hc is rceurdcd as one of the leaders OF the
.eoppcrheads, and the CHIEF speaker OF that
spottcd tribe. All this dl6loyal crew put him
m to proclaim what they ca11 their princi~
Dlcs: and he is expected TO do the croaking
over ,he fancicd dangers into which the coun
try is drifting. When he blows his brazcn
organ, an the eoppesheads eyer the whole
Ecrth, hiss and rattle, and make the responses.
Hence, by listening to Ills complaints and dc.
nunciations, and getting the full sense Of all
he charges in his attacks On The Administra-
tion, we learn MI Tint the bittercst opponents |
aud the kccncst observers Of the Govern
1nneut, with nl1 their faculties sharpened, and
1l,clr energies braced, by The deepest hate
and the most unscrupulou6 ambition, eau find
to blame OF condemn in 'ts policy. In this
view the message Of Seymour claims some
notice, and all who read 1t will he struck
with the fact, that after doing all he could
10 make out Ills case, and saying the very
worst things he could against the policy Of
the war, I'LL loyal minds find, In the charges
which he puts forth as the gFavest, and the
allegations which he makes Us the most dam
aging, the best and most conclusive reasons
for approving the policy Of the Government
in the past, and insisting that it shall be per-
sietcd in through the future.
Seymour alleges two main reasons for re-
pudiating the policy Of the Administration,
:snd all the copperaeads echo back his asser-
fion that unless changed such policy is
sure to bring national ruin. And these two
evils, 20 fraught with peril to the nation, are,
tirst-that the Administration has carried
out q series of acts and measures, which
~r1->~-aa by tl4e PoePlo, And li= vt1ser IL,
that throughits past policy, and that which it
proposes for the future, 1t will be sure to per-
pcluate itself; that ie, tho people will elect it
for another term. twill strike most men, as
rather strange that party which claims that
It is alone the Democracy, should bring as
one Of its heaviest allegations against an Ad-
minietratiop, that it Inns pursued policy,
which the people approve; and also that the
people arc so well pleased with what 1t has
dore, and proposes to do, that they will
doubtless insist upon keeping 1t In power.
Sure We atc That though the copperheads
object, the people will not But such to-day
is the corperhead view Of political matters, rs
boldly delivered to the country from the lips
OF their foremost man; who finds In this
most distressing harmony between the Ad~
n.inistr@tion and the people, SO great dlsas-
tcrs and pcrils, that he cannot but express
tic hope, thai it will not last long he calls
ti'is Revolution, and though without relief
n1w, he feels sure that thereafter it will force
itscu upon the attention ol tie American
people, who will then see apd feel its nature
and results"
To all that mean tribe OF Northern noliti-
Clans Who hare heretofore crawled into office
h. seTrility to the Slave power, and who nrc
now working will, ali their energies to bring
around snch pence, and reconstruction, that
Hkcy mny again secure places and power by do
ny the cignoble work Of their Southern masters,
the present etnte Of things is indeed, to them
most mighty and disastrous Reyolu-
lion. But not only hereafter, will the people
feel its nature and results; they feel them
now, and thank Heavcn daily for them; and
sorrufoCndly thankful arc they, that the pow
cr has passed forever from the hands of d
knot Of atistocratic shareholders in league
With a knot Of EenM and degraded north
eru politicians, into the hands Of the whole
free and loyal masses, that no chicanery and
1sickcsy, nc schcning and plotting, no force
and treachery, will ever BE- able to bring back
That old and nest' detested state of things.
This is u Revolution that can never go back
ward. The coppefheqds are blind to the