Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-13
the sunrise OF sunset Cox.

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The sunrise OF sunset Cox.
Some time ago, as our readers may pos
sibly remember, there strutted OF the
stage of Ohio politics a very small but,
in his " estimation, very important in
dividuAl, known to the ignoble crowd as
Sunset Cox. Champion of C%opperheads
in Congress and in Ohio, first and loudest
in ~denouncing the unholy war, hercest in
invective against the abolition govern
ernment with its drafts and its taxes, was
this glib-tongued ChAnticleer Cox of Co
lumbus. His last appearance on the stage
of action was at the Chicago convention,
for the people Of his District, not relish
ing the infamy which he uttered and en-
couraged in that convention, over whelm-
ed him al the ensuing election with such
an avalanche of loyal ballots that he was
for the time smothered and silenced.
The recent Tammany celebration of
the Fourth of July, to which Andrew
johnson, William H. Seward and Gideon
Welles wrote letters, afforded our willy
little Sunset his first opportunity for re-
appearance, and he came forth from his
long oblivion to the light again with all
his Copperhead rhetoric as bright and his
eloquence as glib as ever.s The events
surrounding bis last appearance and his
recent resurrection afford room for refec-
ton. The curtain fell upon Cox at Chi
cago declaring that Abraham Lincoln had
deluged the country with blood, created a
debt of four thousand millions Of dollars,
sacrificed two millions of human lives and
filed the land with grief and mourning 1"
that Jefferson Davis was no greater enc
my TO the Constitution than Lincoln !"
and that for q less offenses than Mr.. Lin
coin had been guilty Of, the English peo-
pie chopped of the head of the first
Charles, and in his opinion Lin
coin andDavis ought to be brought
TO the same block together
The curtain rises upon this same Cox in
New York strewing praises with lavish
hand upon the man whom he and his
followers two years ago associated with
the martyred Lincoln in their curses
upon Cox still hurting maledictions upon
the loyal men of the North, but praising
Andrew johnson, whom they placed in
power. The contrast wJ be dramatic,
save that in a drama it would be deemed
impossible. The first scene shows US Cox
advising the murder Of Mr.. Lincoln for
deeds which johnson approved and par
ticipated in, and for whichhe was equally
deserving of Cox's wrath. The scene
shifts, and behold Cox crowning as his
hero tie former associate in 'crime" of
the man who deserved to have his ahead
chopped Off
Somebody has changed front since the
Chicago Convention of 1854. Who is it 2
Has it been a transformation of johnson
or Of Cox which causes the latter, who
once denounced the first asa tyrant, to
laud him As the pattern of q ruler The
people know. From their own altered feel
ings toward the Great Apostate, they can
understand very well the change in the
sentiments of Copperhead Cox. The sad
reversion of feeling on the part of loyal
lists which makes loathing out of love
finds its counterpart in this metamor-
phosis of Democrats from malignant foes
10 fswning fatterers. The sad change is
s mutual one, and. we know not which
stamps Andrew johnson with the deepest
infamy, the sad alienation of his former
friends or the sickening adulstion of his
sometime enemies.
But our bold Chanticleer, not content
with his eulogy of Mr.. johnson, sends out
hiscrow Of defiance loud and clear against
the Radicals. BE announces war against
them unless they quietly submit to An
drew Johnson's policy. There being no
remedy in the Constitution for the refusal
Of Congress to allow rebels to vote, he
proposes to seek it outside of the Consti-
tution-by war, by violence-and thanks :
God that Andrew johnson will be found !
ready to aid and abet him. Cox lifted up
his voice as follows: {
As surely as 1865 shall come, there will !
come dissension, embroiliag and war. In !
loss this matter is sverted BY timely, mod !
crate and ~judiciouS sta~tesmanship, there {
will come war-civil war not merely q
war Of sections, an International war, nat U
q war Of communities, more terrible than {
the mind can conceive far more atrOcioua r
IN its results than the war Just ended God y
help us, then, if Andrew johnson fail ms :
But he viii not fail in that conflict" :
When with praises of 3 President +
elected by loyal votes there are mingled a
dire threats like these against the loyal
North, our hearts are filed with sorrow
not st the clustering of this dung-hin n
champion, for il is the idlest and himsiest 1
nonsense, but at the blind perversity 1
which has &Fen a man whom once We
loved, to such company and such admirers
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