The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-05-18

It is Just as legitimately and actually
a part of the sIaveholder's rebellion as
the battle of GettSsburgh or Five
Forks. 49, ---.---..-- -
That tho left wing ofthc rebellion"
or that portion of it which was in the
North. is responsible withthc South,
is patent To- the world, and not to be
denied without insulting the intelli-
geuce of tho people and falsifying the
record. hEe sT'-3s9 g Het i
( Ifanything, tho Copporbeads of the
North did more to educate Booth and
his accomplices up to tho bloody work,
than did the rebels of the South. In
proof, we give below few extracts,
among many, from. Copperhead jour.
pals and from speeches delivered IN
the Coppcrhead Convention held at
Chicago in August last. s.se.
The following from tho La Crosse
(Wisconsin) Democrat, appeared in the
issue OF that paper Of August goth,
1854: .t4.
"The man who votes for Lincoln
now ip n traitor. Lincoln is traitor
and a murderer. Ho who pretending
to war for, wars against tho Constitu-
tion of our country, is y traitor, and
Lincoln is ono Of those mon. He who
calls and alirrcs men to certain butch
ery is a murderer, and Lincoln has
dono all this. Had any former Demo
cratic President warcd upon the
IConstitution or trihed with tho desti.
MES of the nation IA Lincoln has, he
would have been hurled 10 perditior
long since And if ho is elected tc
misgovcrn for another four years, ut
trust some bold dhdnd pW pierce his hear
Nth dagger point for the public good.
The Chicago Times, the leading
Copperhead organ Of tho West in ii
issue of July lst, 1864. in an cditoria
upon tho reelection Of President Lin
coin, said: .......... ,r .
10 could not bo more worthless
dead than be is living, but would b
Infinitely less mischievous, and hi
corpse, rcpulsive as il would be in it
freshest state and richest and mos
graceful habiliments, would yet be tn,
most appropriate sacrifice which thu
insutcd Nation could offer in atono
mcnt for lis submission to his imbe
cility and despotism.'
We wonder whether the wretch VIII
penncd the above rrjoiccd at the " ap
propriato sacrifice" when tho peopl
{ Of Chi ago poured out by scores {
thousands to do honor to tho remain
g OF the great man?
In tho Chicago Convention, S.
Cox, of fOhio, said
f "For loss offcnsc than Mr.. Lincoll
had been guilty Of tho English pee
pic had chopped off the head Of th
: first Charles. IN HIS OPINION
p LINCOLN AND DAVIS OUCH
@ TO BIZ BROUGHT TO TIE SAM.
Il BLOCK TOGETHER" ,.I ~.
Q Captain Koontz, Of Pennsylvania
IA a Mcclellan leader, IT. tho samo Coz
vlntion said
at Democrats catch Lincoln
bloody spies among them, they mu
" cut their d.--d throats that's a.
a [Applauso.1 1t is tho duty of ever
: American to vote fora peace cand
I. date .... .....,..... .....
:. Tho people will soon risc. AM
} If THEY CAN NOT PUT LINCOL
l. OUT OF POWER BY THE BAL
Is LOT THEY WILL BY TIE Bull
10 LET" Loud chcers b,
;. Shall moro wives be made widow
=, and moro children iatherlcss, an
o grentor hato be stirred up bctwcC
children Of tho samc glorious const
u tution2 IT NOT, WE MUST PU
t, OUR FOOT UPON TUE TYRANT
IS NECK, and destroy it. Tho dem
cratic government must ho raised
power, and Lincoln with his cabin
of roguos, thieves and spies, bo drive
to destruction, What shall we {
+ then? A voico-Gnd him to mo, III
~ I'll make coffin, d---n him | Y,
10 d.--n him and his miserable follower
IN | should like to sec the noble Geor
J B. Mcclellan as President Choor,
W and that groit dom lcrIt, lIoratio Sc
V mour, should occspy tho position
~, Secretary Of State "
to G, Chauncey Burr, Coppcrhcad Q,
tor of New York, in speech in t
IN Same Convention said:
no "And it was u wonder that they h
r. a Cabinet and men who carried {
~. the infamous orders Of tho guerri
Of tyrant that usurpcd tho President
" chair. Mr.. Lincoln has stolen n 60
many thousand negroes but every |
gro hc had thus stolen, ho had stol
ton thousand spoons
!" W. W. OBricn of Peoria, also 81
W thcy---
nd Would try him (Lincoln) MS Char
ut the First was tried rs u tyrant un,
vn traitor, and il thOy found him gui
~. they would hang him.
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