The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-07-12
Dissolution of the Copperhead
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country copperheads, rebels and
Johnsonites-have at last fused. The
copperhead party has virtually been
disbanded. Its members of Congress
have issued an. address to the party,
indorsing the call issued by the John
son Club for "National Union Con
vention" at Philadelphia, August IA,
and exorting them to select wise,
moderate and conservative men to rep
resent them i'm the said Convention.
This is declaration of the dis
bandment of the great bountyjump-
ing, rebel sympathizing, war fail
ure, peace party. OF course these
gallant and chivalric fellows will
fall right in and step off to the music
of Hail to the Chief who watched Ger
the border" What an odorous kettle
of fish this will be! s3r-
l, sBlack spirits and white,
Blue spirits and gray;
Mingle mingle. mfngle,
Ye that mingle may"
Take your places jeff. Davis, Val
landigham, General Lee, Raymond,
& Co., treason is not SO odious after
ALL
The New York Herald is in favor of
the convention, because, whatever may
be it's effect in the future politics of
the country, it will bury the Democrat
ic party out of sight. 1t says:
"In effect, then, the old Democracy
is disbanded. Its day has passed; it's
prestige is lost; it is as dead as the old
Whig party, and nothing remains but
to give ii decent burial, and write it's
obituary and it's episaph. Whether
the Philadelphia party with inherit it's
effects and be strengthened by it's rank
and file is for the future to determine );
but at any rate it will never figure again
as great power at the polls"
If the Convention, then,is to amount
to anything, there will be in council
the rebels of the South, who made war
against the Government and ceased
their opposition only when whipped by
Union soldiers; the Copperheads of
the North, who in their Chicago Con
vention declared the war a failure, de-
manded that it should be stopped and
the Southern Confederacy recognized !;
and few renegade Union men, who
are properly called the bread and-bu
ter party. This mixture is expected to
become blended into one harmonious
mass upon platform Of principles that
will be satisfactory to Southern rebels
and Northern Copperheads; and the
party thus formed expect to obtain
control Of the Government, and in this
way gain what they failed to accomp-
lish by war. This is the game. But
will it succeed? Not much. The
Union people of the nation fought and
whipped substantially the same organi-
zation in the field, and they do otpro-
pose that this party shall now obtain
the control of the Government, to save
which cost rivers of loyal blood. Our
victory at the ballot box will be as GER
tain and as overwhelming as it was in
the field, and the treason Of few OF
our former leaders WIFI only nerve the
loyal people for more determined con-
test. The virtual disbandfTg Of the
Democratic party WIFI aid us largely in
the approaching contest. There is
something in the name that caused
people to adhere to it long after th'
party had changed its principles. Thi
charm will be buried with the party
The prestige will be gone, and tn
masses can never be rallied under
new organization.