The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-05-06
Where Booth Obtain . al his R,ooav
Instructions

~ mere hocth Obtaine ed his bloody
Instructions.
We said the other day that .,ohn WIZ.
Booth is The only perfa9.'y s,, snn ra
pefhS al II or out Of his country. Tbpt
bls sincerity is applaudea. snd he tan :.
Gerry regarded by the Chicago Times. is
not to be wondered at. and thai ha Is -, ~.
lhoine NJ the hero of the hearts of the Con.
perheaas, we have not the smallest doubt.
NOV lot some proof of what we affirm.
Here IS what the well known Conner
neaa, >. >. Cox, said in Chicago at the time
o. Inc Democratic National Convention Ia
which he was delegate. we are indah,,o y.
LOT 10. tue same TO the reporter of the CHICAGO
Times: - VIZ onAeoes'
senator Cox being introduced said he did
NOT want TO use any harsh lanpuaua IN.
wards Old Abe, (cries of ..give il 10 him ~
he had attempted in his own citv a 70 ~
weeks since, TO show in verv Quiet wav
that Abraham Lincoln had tleluaed the
country with blood, created a debt of FOUR
Thousand millions of dollars, sacrificed two
millions Of human lives. and t;lled tho
lard with grief and mourning.
For less ot!enses than Mr.. Lincoln had
neen guilty OF, the English people had
chopped OF! !he head OF tho First Charles.
La MS opinion Lincoln and Davis ought to
oe brought 10 the same block together. The
otAer DAY they arrested a friend of his. a
member OF Congress from Missouri, for
saying, IN private conversation, that Lin.
coin was no better than JET. Davis. He
was ready to say the same here now in
Chicago.
Copperhead Reed, Of Indiana, said at the
same Convention:
That he advised, open and above. board.
resistance to the draft. If Lincoln and his
satraps attempted to enforce it blood would
now IN our streets; and 1t would be right
1t should flow. Lincoln was already iaHn.
ed to all eternity, and he did not know If
even this injurious measure would matters
ally affect the estimation in which the peo.
pie held him.
He advised his hearers to shoot down
those who would enforce the draft to in-
sist upon the right of the writ Of habeas
corpus: to resist TO the bitter end the at
tempt to make the military power superb
or to the civil, and to openly arm them
selves, that they might be prepared for
horrible contingencies.
Copperhead BENJAMIN Allen, Of New
York. at the same Convention, said:
The people Will soon rise, aud if they
cannot put Lincoln out of power by the
ballot they will by the bullet. Loud
cheers.]
Copperhead John Fuller, of Michigan,
said:
Are you willing to follow in the foot.
steps of Abraham Lincoln, the perjured
wretch who has violated the oath he took
before high Heaven to support the Cons.i-
tuition and preserve the liberties of the
people? [Cbeers.
Copperhead II. Clay Dean said:
He sad. in the presence of the force at
Camp Douglas and all the satraps Of Lin
coin, that the American people were ruled
by ielons. Lincoln had never turned a
dishonest man out of office or kept an
honest one in. A voice. What have you
to say OF jeff. Davis?'] / have nothing to
say about him, and I never interfere be-
tween black dogs.
And still the monster usurper wanted
more men for his slaughter-pens. Loud
cries of "he shan't have more"1 The
CAREFUL husbandman In deadening the for
est, was always careful in preserving the
young growth of timber; and in selecting
his swine for the slaughter, he preserved
the younger ones for future use. But the
tvrant and despot who ruled this people to
destruction paid no regard TO age or con-
dition. He desired to double the widow
hood and duplicate the orphans. He
biushed that such a felon should occupy
the highest place in the gift of the people.
him as often as was Zone dollar" on the
one dollar bills OF the Bank of the State Of
Indiana. [Cries Of "the old vilian.''l 3
Ever since the usurper, traitor and ty-
rant had occupied the Presidential chair,
the Republican party had shouted war to
the knife, and the knife to the hilt. Blood
had flowed In torrents, and yet the thirst
Of the old monster was not Quenched. His
cry was for more blood.
The Office of the La Crosse Democrat is
doubtless hung with black. These copper
heads are as treacherous toward the villain
who obeyed their instructions to the let
ter, az they were toward the President to
whose humane clemency they are indebt-
ed for their escape from the fate which they
and their tool, Booth, do SO abundantly
deserve.
And it is altogether likely that every one
of these gentlemen named above, and their
man, Booth, have Grape on their arms ut
this writing, and that their dwellings, like
that of the Chicago Tines, are covered with
hypocr;tieal habiliments of grief. And
their flags, we doubt not, like that of the
Times, are at half.mast, while their hearts,
like that Of the Times, are at half-mask.
Copperhead Baker, OF Michigan said:
Let us hurl that usurper abraham Lin
coln) from power. Never till that day
comes when the usurpef and his victim
meet At the judgment seat, can he be pun-
ished for his wrongs, for bis conspiracy
against American liberty.
a OOPpeInodu organ puUueueu y La
Crosse, Wisconsin, and called the La Crosse
Democrat, said on the 18th Of August, 1884:
The man who votes for Abraham Linz
colin now 10 traitor. Lincoln 10 . traitor
and murderer. He who pretending to war
for, wars against the Constitution Of our
country 10 Z traitor, and Lincoln IN one Of
those men. He who calls and allures men
to certain butchery, IL murderer, and
Lincoln has done all this. Had any former
Democratic President warred upon the
Constitution or trilled with the destinies Of
the Nation Is Lincoln has, he would have
been hurled to perdition long since, and II
he IL elected to misgovern for another four
years. we trust some bold hand will pierce
his heart with dagger point for the pub.
lie good. y
DEATH OF DIR. MoTr.-Dr. Valentine
Mott the O1doat and smOet eminent of