Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-04-26
CopperRead sympathy Wlth n"FsleF


Copperhead sympathy with Murder
That the assassination Of the fresloent
Is lsoitimate off.shoot Of the rebellion no
one can doubt. That it has been encour-
aged by repested enunciations and threat
enings from Northern Copperheads is sus-
csptible of demonstration. We have al
resdy quoted the malignant and blood.
thirsty article which appeared in the LIS
Crosse Wis., Democrat, in August last.
The following extracts from speeches made
in ChicsgO during the sessions of the
National Democratic Convention in August
lsst, show that Booth is not the only man
in the North who has coolly contemplated
the assassination of the President:
SIS. Cox, who has disgraeed Ohio in the
halls of Congress, said;
t.For less offsnses than Mr.. Lincoln had
been guilty of, the English people had
chopped off the head of the first Charles.
IN HIS OPINION, LINCOLN AND
DAVIS OUGHT TOBE BROUGHT TO
THE SAME BLOCK TOGETHER"
@. Chauneey Burr, editor of several Cop
perbead New York journals, said:
aAnd It was a wonder that they hal
Cabinet and men who carried out the in
famous orders of the gorilla tyrsnt that
usurpod the Presidential chair. Mr.. Lin
cJln has stolsn good many thousand
negroes, but for every negro he had thus
stolen, he had stolen ten thousand spoons"
Captain Koontz, of Pittsburgh, an ardent
Mcclellan leader, said
HIf Democrats catch Lincoln's bloody
spies among them, they must cut their
id throats, that's sll. Applause. 1t is
the duty of every American TO vote for q
peace candidate"
"The people will foou rise, AND IF
THEY CANNOT PUT LINCOLN OUT
OF POWER BY TIE BALLOT THEY
WILL BY THE BULLET" Loud
cheers
W. w. O'Brien, of Peoria, also threat
ened 'to try him as Charles the first was
tried, SIS tyrant and trsiter, and if they
found him guilty to hang him" of course
Seymour, Yallandighsm, and a few of the
more cOwsrdly, were more guarded in their
language. They affiliated, however, with
these men, and more than hall the speak
ers threatened Lincoln personally with
death. The essential uUity of Copper
hesdism with assassination appears in the
following remarks of Koontz, of Pennsyl-
Vanis:
Shall more wives be made widows, and
more children fstherless, and greater hate
be stirred up between children of the same
glorious constitution IF NOT, WE
MUST PUT OUR FOOT UPON THE
TYRANTS NECK, and destroy it. The
democratic government must be raised to
power, and Lincoln with his Cabinet of
rogues, thieves and spies, be driven TO
destruction. What shall we do with him 2 |
IA vo'ee-"send him to me, and I'll make |
5 coffin, d-n him."l Yes, d-n him and
bis miserable followers. I should like to
see the noble George Mcclellan as Presi-
dent, leheers, and that great democrat
HorstiO Seymour, should occupy the posi-
tion of Secretary of State.
> The Chicago Times, the chief cspperhesd
organ of the West, in its issue of July lst,
xcseds in disgusting malighity all the re-
eommendstions of murder which we have
quoted. It tsays of Mr.. Lincoln
HHe could not be more worthless dead
R Rs il 4BEgT T86 RPt h EQsf QS6fpRs b. fgbHttAgg ggb6HntRg
as it would be in its freshest state and rich
est snd most graceful hsbiliments, would
yet be the most appropriate sacrifice which
the insulted Nation could offer in atone
ment for its submission TO his imbecility
and despotism"
Sach are the authoritative teachings Of
Northern Copperhesds. Such are the
lengths to which the sympathizers with
rebellion in the North have gone. These
utterances of muIderous and traitorcus
hearts make the blood run cold with horror,
and as we read them now, we wonder that
we were not moved with greater alb |
horrence when we hnt saw them,
during the heat Of political campaign. !
These men have now had their wish. |
Their smsd words are realized. |
The murder which they threatened and |
eulogizsd, but dared not do, has been &C.
complished. It will be noticed that one of !
the speakers which we have quoted deelar-
ed that if Lincoln was not struck down by |
the ballot he would be 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 month after
Lineoln's second Inauguration, 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 We
do not charge them with directly planning
the assassination. But these utterances |
inspired, encouraged and nerved the assas-
in. Had he not been sustained by such |
declarations and threats as these, he would |
never hsve committed the crime which |
has orphaned the nation.
FaIIIna OF In the Receipts of Foreign |
MerchRndise.