The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-03-09
4 LrAp1xe sew york cOpperhead

LEADING New IOEk GOpHeIuet1A
newspaper, now publishes its Congress
sional report under the caption .''The
Ramp Congress-" and puts the word
(Disunion,) after the names of the
straIght-out Union members. For ex-
ample we find in the proceedings Of the
Senate upon the joint resolution con-
firlling the transfer of the counties OF
Berkeley and Jefferson 10 West Viz
ginia, as follows
Mr. Clark CDtsunion, n. H. called up the
joint resolution TO give the eotlstsnL q SOla n
xfYssS TO the annexation Of the conntles Oh
1S,TirIey and Jefferson, Belonging 10 virginia
70 IIIe state OF West Virginia
Mr. Riddle Dem. Del.) moved to amend by
aiding q pToyiso that tie question be deter
mined by 4 vote OF the people OF the connues-
From this it appears that the Union
lists in Congress are the rebels while the
'.Democtats" stand for the Unionists.
Strange what metamorphoses little
newspaper ingenuity can make.
This matter of u name for the incon-
oruous elements OF the old democratic
PARTY gives their leaders not a little
trouble. a great many who pull in
that harness do not like the name OF
democrat; because they know that the
country has ever since the inaugural
tion of the rebellion regarded the word
.:democratr as about Synonymous with
'.secessionist.p They have accordingly
tried ali sorts OF lodges and euPhem-
isms: constitutional Union" demo
crit: conservative democrati Soon
,eryatiye Unionr democrat, &c, &c.
But still the cIoven foot sticks out no
matter what cloak they don.
These gentlemen have IA great fhcillly
in inventing names for their opponents;
nAbolitionists''-@r "destruc-
tiyes. (" .Sc.,-but have no authoritative
designation for themselves. They call
themselves one thing here and another
there and something else somewhere
else. Not even satisfied with this, they
Try to appropriate the name OF the
Union party--jnst as somebody once
before .'stole the livery of heaven to
serve tho devil i'm But wolf is
wolf even in sheep skin, and he may
always be known by the way he shows
his teeth. E,
with as here this lack of a definite
and acknowledged name gives the
Union peopIe-and especially Union
editors-some trouble. Wedon't know
what 10 call these fellows; for It is i'm
possible to tell what name they answer
T.. They will not adopt n name that
describes their principlesand purposes
That would be downright ruin. SO they
adopt all sorts OF disStiises to cover up
their real character and deceive those
who look no deeper than the name.
The Convention held in this city not
long since TO reorganize this anony-
nous party, made up in part of the
most venerable fossils of the antedilu-
Wan era of the Wing and Know Nothing
parties, and in part OF moro recent de-
posits of " democratic y strata, found
this diniculty OF n name so inseparable
tint they were unable to get over il,
and heorganized and adjourned with
out giving their progeny any name Mt
all.
This state ofthlngs puts us in state
of uncertainty. We sometimes feel
called upon by a sense of duty to the
public TO refer to the gentlemen
composing this hypothetical party
and we would be glad to speak of them
only by such name as will be alto
gether agreeable TO their delicate con-
stitutions. It being impossible, how
ever, to ascertain what they prefer, we
have been obliged to adopt tho name,
which the unerring public instinct long
since give them, of ''copperhead."
This seems TO our appreciation a very
good name. It typilies strikingly the
public characteristics OF the party mot
OF the Individual gentlemen composing
II, perhaps,l and unless We can be fur
nished with something else "bS au-
thority," we shall feel Obliged to con-
tinue to print "copperhend."