, 1865-11-09
4 SHOT AT SMALL GAME.

Every great army has its camp followers,
plnnderers, and tacka}s, who lurk In Its path.
way ready to rob the dying and eat the dead.
The Republican host has few Of the SORT.
While journals like the Chicago TRIBUNE
hglt lie battles Of the party, take IN the
issues which events make 1t necessary to
discuss, and place the whole truth before the
people boldly, and hold 1t up clearly TIL
agitation has secured recognition of It
by fhe people and their rulers, and
policy in accordance Herewith, 1t Is the
function Of such whippcr suappers az the
Chicago Journat 10 carp at every such trntb
till 1t is adopted, and profit by its adyocacv
"hen Ht advocacy is no longer necessary.
Although they take no part In the battle, they
are great IN scaiplng the dead and looking
after the plundcr.
While We industriously help draw the
plough, they sting our fanks, buzz around
our cars, Invite a switch Of our tail, OF, like
the fy IN the fable, beg TO know If the un-
noticed burden Of their weight is not oppres-
hrc 10 us Just now this enat is buzzins on
a variety Of subjects which attract our notice.
The Republican party in Wisconsin haye
Polled vote In favor Of negro suffrage In that
Sts.te equal to nine-tenths Of the strength of
the party. Tho Copperheads, aidcd probably
by few Of the remaining tenth Of the Repub-
liczns, have, It Is believed, succeeded In sus~
1aining, for the present, one relic OF that
system u1 caste which Is 4 part Of slavery
and which ninety per cent Of the Republican
party desire should end with slavery. The
President, elected by the Republican
party, has expressed his desire that the
EtotAe mi
race in some limited form, but before he Ind
70 expressed himself the Chicago Journal,
having no bruins whatever of its own, and
anxious only to toady TO the President,
thought he intended to oppose negro suffrage,
md 60 the Journal, In lis penny whistle way,
prematuely took ground against It. Since
the Chicago TRIBUNE stepped forward to the
advocacy Of impartial suffrage, nearly every
Republican paper In the land, several Demo-
cratic Journals, every Republican State Con-
ventlon but one, our Republican President,
and every member Of lis Cabinet who has
spoken upon the subject, have MI advocated
1t as fully as ourselves. Yet the
Journal, though It has no desire to
do anything but toady 10 power, place,
and the majority Is 80 stupid as not to see
1hat In rejoicing at the defeat of suffrage In
Wisconsin, It insults the Republicans Of that
Statc as a body 1t spits on the platforms of
Republican Conventions every where, and
skulls from compliance with herecommend-
ations Of our President, his Cabinet and the
other lights Of Repub1icaniem, and ali this !
wien the Journal itself for about four months
followed In the wake of the TRIBUNE, copy
Ing our arguments and policy In the advocacy
of impartial suffrage, until the etomach Of |
that paper suddenly found ont that what |
little brains II possessed, was In the Judgment |
Of the stomach, opposing the Presidents 4
policy.
The Journal also claims the merit Of having
e1ceedcd us in zeal In slauehtcring the late
"soldiers' ticket"
We confess that our natural enemy IL found
In the men and principles Of the Coppcrhead
party, and that when from sense Of duty we
feel constrained to oppose the election Of life
long Republicans who. to borrow the Jour
mars language, "have won immortality In the
battles 'front.'" We do 80 In spirit Of
personal kindness, charity and hrutherly af-
fectinn toward this new class Of opponents
Yet our files will show that no other Chicago
paper published In the English language had
any opinion on the mntter until tho TR1BuSE's
course was announced, that following In our
wake they borrowed from our columns every !
effective argument against the boilers ticket
which they used, and that Whatever may have
been their "a xee1 In the kaws'' when once en-
listed, they snsttnctlrely devo1vcd On the Chi
cago TRIBUNE the labor and responsibility Of
steering not only our course but their own.