The national Republican., 1866-11-23
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You are entitled 10 the hesftfslt thahis OF
the whole nation for exposing the designs
and acts Of that crowd Of copperheads who
rushed to Washington Immediately after the
election, at which their conduct contributed
immensely to the disastrous and disgraceful
defeat Of the conservative party, and who,
assuming the position and claims Of martyrs
in behalf Of the Administration, seek now to
destroy II, by asking appointments to office
for themselves and friends. Had the Demo
cratic party been true to its pledges at the
Philadelphia Convention, and left the real
Union men TO uphold the creed there put
forth on the LIST Of August, there would have
been at least chance in some Congressional
districts for success. But true to their In
stincts, no sooner did they sec division on
principle between the radicals on the one
hand and the Union men on the other, than
they attempted TO plant themselves on the
shoulders OF the conservatives, and 10 to re-
gain political favor among the people who
would never tolerate them or forgive their In
fidelity to the Union during the war. W
In nearly every Congressional district in
the Northwest, where good and true Union
soldier might have made q successful can
vass, copperheads and Democrats who op-
posed the war sought and secured the nomi-
nations. And knowing full we'll that no
honest Union men, no true War Democrat,
could support them, they sought and OBJ
tanned defeat for themselves and the party.
And having been spurned and spit upon by
the people, they now rush to Washington
and ask the President and Cabinet to reward
them as martyrs for the utter ruin they have
brought on the conservative cause and its
friends Like the stupid Bourbons, these
men have learned nothing and forgotten
nothing; but we can tell them that the loyal
Union men Of the. North will never either
forget or forgive any man or party in the
loyal States that did not openly, actively,
and zealously aid the Government during the
war. "a
A general amnesty may be given to the
Confederates Of the South, but like the Tories
Of the Revolution and the Federalists Of New
England, all Democrats who did not openly
and earnestly support the war, will be repu-
dated by the people, denounced by Andrew
johnson and his Cabinet, and 60 down to
their grave with the curse Of traitors ON their
names and memories. And yet so impudent
ore these vile ofice-seekers, that they have
sent committees here, embracing in their
number men who only escaped arrest and
trial for treason, during the war, by fleeing
to Sonora under the Gag Of Duke Gwin, or
to Brazil, to ask the appointment to most re-
responsible offices OF gamblers and cotton
spectators, whose fidelity to the Confederacy
enabled them to 60 and remain safely in the
lines Of its armies. Such are the men and
committees from the Northwest now here
seeking to deceive and impose upon the
Cabinet-men who, instead Of holding Office
under our Government, ought to be dangling
men OF the South we can forgive and pardon;
but these miserable creatures, who not only
during thewar in the Northern States, opposed
the Government or weakened its arms, but
whose contagion has utterly ruined the Con-
servatiye party, will not be tolerated BY the
President or Cabinet here. Some few Of
their number have, by imposition and ,lecep-
ton Of the grossest kind, secured important
offices, but the Senate will expose and reject
them, and they and oil who come here to aid
them will retire to that contempt and detesta-
ton which honest men Of all parties feel for
those who, in the hour of trial, forgot their
duties to the Union. Neither the President
or his Cabinet will ever, knowingly, appoint
to Office any copperhead or Northern man
who did not, by oil the energies Of bis mind
and with all the power Of his purse and arm,
uphold, maintain and defend the Union dur.
ing the war. Let all such men keep away
from Washington. They are at last well
known, and they can deceive no one here
again. "a ILLINOIS.