The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-05-12

\ toppeihcad Symputhy with Murder.
That the assassination of the Pres.
ident is legitimate ofishoot Of the
rebellion no one can doubt. That it
has been encouraged by repeated
enunciations and threatenings from
Northern Copperheads is susceptible
of demonstration We have already
quoted the malignant and bloodthirs.
ty article which appeared in the La
Cross (Wis. Democrat, in August
last. The following extracs from
speeches made in Chicago during the
session of the Democratic Convention
in August last, show that Booth is
not the only man in the North who
has coolly contemplated the assassi-
nation of the President $. s. Cox,
who has disgraced Ohio in the halls
of Congress. said:
"For less offenses than Mr.. Lincoln
had been guilty of, the English peo-
pie had chopped or the head of the
first Charles. IN MY (Cox's) OPIN
ION, LINCOLN AND DAVIS
OUGHT TO BE BROUGHT TO
THE SAME BLOCK TOGETH.
Err"
c. Chauncy Burr, editor Of several
Copperhead New York journals, said:
"And il was wonder that they
had a cabinet and men who carried
ont the Infamous orders of the gor
rilla tyrant that usurped the Presi-
dental chair. Mr.. Lincoln has stolen
n good many thousand negroes. but
for every negro he had thus stolen,
he had stolen ten thousand spoons"
Capt. Koontz, of Pittsburg, an ar
dent Mcclellan leader, said:
IF Democrats catch LincolI.s
bloody spies among them, they must
cut their id throats, that's all
| Applause. ] It's the daty of every
American citizen TO vote for a peace
,s,nutuuuv.-
The people will soon rise, AND IF
THEY CANNOT PUT LINCOLN
OUT OF POWER BY THE BAL
LOT THEY WILL BY THE BuL-
LET" Loud cheers
W. W O'Brien. of Peoria, also
threatened "to try him rs Charles the
first wa, tried, as n tyraut and trail
tor, and if they find him fully, to
hang him. OF course, Seymour,
Yallandigham, and few Of the more
cowardly, were more guarded in their
language They affiliated, however.
with these men, and more than hall
of the speakers threatened Lincoln
personally with death. The essential
unity of Copperheadism with a -s7-
sination appears in the following re
marks of Koontz, Of Pennsylvania:
Shall more wives be made widows,
and more children fatherless, and
greater hate be stirred up between
children of the same glorious consti-
tuition? IF NOT. WE MUST PUT
OUR FOOT UPON THE TY-
RANTS NECK, and destroy it,
The Democratic government must he
raised 70 power, and Lincoln with his
/ Cabinet of rogucs, thieves and spies,
! he driven TO destruction. What shall
we do with him? A voice-"Send
him to me, and I'll make coffin,
d-n him Yes, d--n him and his
miserable followers. ] should like
to see the noble George Mcclellan as
President, (cheers, and that great
/ Democrat, Horatio Seymour, should
occupy the position of Secretary OF
State.
The Chicago Times, the chief cop
pcrhcad organ of the Wost, in its is
sue of July lst. exceeds in disgusting
malignitv all the recommendation OF
Mr.. Lincoln.
"He could not he more worthless
dead than he is living, but would he
infinitely less mischievous, and his
corpse, repulsive it would he in its
freshest state and richest and most
graceful hablmcnts, would yet be tn
most appropriate sacrifice which the
insultcd Nation could offer in attone-
mont for its submission to his imbe-
cility and despotism."
Such are the authoritivc teachings
Of Northern copperheads. Such are
the lengths to which the sympa-
thiZcrs with the rebellion in the North
have gone. These utterances OF mur-
derous and traitorous hearts make
the blood run Geld with horror, and
as we read them now, we wonder
that we were not moved with greater
abhorrance when we first saw them,
during the heat of n political cam
paign. These men have now have
now had their wish Their mad
words are realized The mur-
der which they threatened and eulo
gized, but dared not do, has been nc
complished 1t will be noticed that
one of the speakers which we have
quoted declared that If Lincoln was
not struck down by the ballot he
would he by the bullet. The foes of
/ the country failed at the ballot box,
and, according to the threat referred
TO, the bullet was called in, only a
month after LincOln's second inaugu-
ration, to do the deadly work.
Not only, therefore, the rebels of
the South but the copperheads of the
North are responsible for the terrible
crime and calamity of the Presidents
murder. But these utterances in.
spired, encouraged and nerved the
assassin. Had he not been sustained
by such declarations and threats as
these, he would not have committed
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