The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-04-21
Perplexities of the Copperheads.

no Next to the rebels, we know of no ella
:" whose dilemmas are more numerous {
d. deplorable than these of the Copperhead
Or We give sample:
al l. Unless they can pass for Democrat
they have no party, but
: 2, If they try to pass for Democrat
the party won't have them.
3. Unless they can combine with tn
rebels, neither can succeed, but
4. If the rebels succeed, they can n,
longer combine with them.
5. So long as the Union cause tri
umphs, they can never rule the country
but
6. When the Union cause fails, there
will be no country to rule.
Z. Before fighting, they would seek a
dlsunion peace, but
s. 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
II. They oppose "Woman's Right"
particularly the right of a black woman
to her christy and her children
l3. They favor the largest liberty to-
wit: the liberty of a State to secede in
order to promote slavery, but
IA. They oppose insurrection and re-
bellion, especially the rebellion of the
Federal Government against the supre-
macy of the slave States.
10. They sympathize with the conser-
vative efforts of Jefferson Davis to pre-
serve the "Union as it was and the Con-
stitution as it is, but
IL. They believe all the acts which
Abraham Lincoln has done, can do, or
ever may do, to maintain the Union, are
unconstitutional and revolutionary usur-
pations.
II. They would colonize all soldiers of
color, but
Is. They do not believe in colonizing
Failandighams who desert their colors.
l0. They fear abolition least it may
lead amalgamation, but
20. They like slavery because it COM
pels amalgamation in the South.
q. They believe that God has made
he negro their inferior, but
%. They pretend to fear abolition will
make him their superior.
%. They know Mcclellan to be op-I
posed to the war, or they would not nom
nate him, but
q. They want him to carry on the
var, because he is opposed to its being
arried on.
%. They pretend to believe that Nc
,lellan made war on the rebels, but
&c. They republish his official report
S a campaign document, to show how {
he made war on the Admin
{
27. To require rebels to swear to sup {
ort the Constitution and laws, before
oting, is to infringe the right Of suf-
rage, but
70. 10 prevent volunteers who are
ghting for the Union from voting, is to l
1staiu the rights Of suffrage. t
29. They deny that the civilization of y
le North is superior to that OF the y
outh, but r
80. This involves the admission either o
lat bad as are the rebels, the Copper a
eads are no better, or else that the Cop e
erheads enjoy no share of Northern ci- h
llization. n
81 The above facts tend to show that t
lis is contest not between States, COM
lunities, or institutions, but between all
le deprayity Of the human heart, on the
ne side, and what the secesh organs O. y
enly scott at, as "God and humanity" r
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