Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1864-03-31
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n Next to the rebels, we know Of n,
class whose dilenmas are more nu
merous or deplorsble than those o
the Copperheads We give q sam
Iple;-s T. teu.a1.1, ga s.lisoi.--5i Q
i l. Unless they can pass for Dem
oorats they have no party, but
g. If they try to pass for Demo
Gratis the party won't have them.
3. Unless they can combine witt
the rebels, neither can succeed, but
A II the rebels succeed they car
no longer combine with them.
sss5 8. So long as the Union cause
Z itriumphs, they can never rule the
country, but .r ~ .7-f.-r -..
6. When the Union cause fails
there viii be no country to rule.
/ q Before fighting they would
seek disunion peace, but .et
8. Before getting disunion peace
they must fight the Unionists.
9. Peace to them means peace
with those who are fighting against
the Union, and war with those who
are fighting for it, but
10, They find it costs more
knocks to fight the country's friends
than it would to subdue its enemies.
II. They believe in all the rights
of man, especially in his right to own
men, but
u. They oppose 'woman's rights
particularly the rights of a black
woman to her chastity and her chill
dren.
Is. They favor the largest Iiber-
ty, to-wit: The liberty of State
to secede, in order to promote slave
ry, but
IA. They oppose insurrection and
rebellion, especially the rebellion of
the FEDERAL Government against the
supremacy of the slave States
10. They sympathize with the
conservative efforts of Jefferson Da-
Wis to PR serve the ;sUnion as it was,
and the Constitution as it is but
16. They believe all the acts which
Abraham Lincoln has done, can do,
or ever may do to maintain the Union,
are unconstitutional and revolution
airy usurpations. 49,. ~. .-- ---,-.
II. They would colonize all sol
diers of color, but CID a2--
Is. They do not believe in colon
izing the Vallandighamers. who de-
sert their colors.
10. They fear abolition, lest it
may lead to amalgamation, but
+ 20. They like slavery because it
compels amalgamation. sf-A -t
mdde rae hrS 1esss 4naIsIas aess fIoF. Eo6 bn& es
%. They fear abolition viii make
him their superior.
%. They know Mcclellan to be
opposed to the war, or they would
not nominate him, but e ..-
"a. They want him to carry on
the war, because he is opposed to its
being carried on. TAa" -"
7- %. They pretend to believe that
Mcclellan made war on the rebels,
but ...
&c. They republish his official re-
port as campaign document, to show
how successfully he made war on the
Administration. --- r--.---.-. ....
81. To require rebels to swear to
support the Constitution and laws,
before voting, is to infringe the right
of suffrage, but vU div L5T5..e
2S. To prevent volunteers who
are fighting for the Union from vo-
ting, is to sustain the right of suf-
frage
20. They deny that the civiliza-
ton of the North is superior to that
Of the South, but
80. This involves the admission
either that bad as are the rebels, the
are no better, or else
that the Copperheads enjoy no share
Of Northern civilization. r @ +
81 The above facts tend to show
hat this is a contest not between
States, communities, or institutions.
but between all the depravity of the
human heart, on the one side, and
what the secesh organs openly scoff
It, as God and humanity on the
Chicago Tribune.