Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-23
POLITICAL.

Our District eth iseonsider0d by many
the battle ground for the next Congress.
ionsl canvas. The Copperheads, expect.
ing mrtirial aid and comfort from the
from the powers that be, are already fig.
whom we will send back.
A. NJ. jackson, ESQ, the bell-wether of
the Democratic flock in Crawford county,
visited town last week. His reception
was cold-"he came unto his own, and his
own received him not" He is superin-
tending some infant political schools in
this county, snd expects to go to Congress.
We have some patriots here that would
take the nomination. jackson has sweat
for the party for a number Of years; talk
ed louder and longer and done meaner
and dirtier work than most of them-and
can go into the canvas without the smell
If the "nigger war clinging to his gar
ments. But he is O marked victim. He
returned to Bucyrus with q heavy heart /;
but it is to be hoped that the spirit of
Democracy there may revive him. Cop
perheads of Crawford-prepare to "Wale"
as your own Nasty saith, your beloved
"Sf4ek' is to be slaughtered.
The Messenger, the Copperhead organ,
is quite belligerent of late, and as its am
bition is to be the meanest Copperhead
paper in the country, they feel like re-
ioicing over their complete success in that
direction. 1t is great in ~littleness, exalted
in n and profound in scurrility.
Its abuse of decent citizens is so common
as 70 hardly excite q remark; but its bold
efrontery and brazen-faced impudence
was never more striking exhibited than
in its last issue it calls the Journal anRe5-
eL organ" The Journal has reached its
commanding position underline able man
agement Of Isaac NJ. Keller, ESQ, whose
integrity and loyalty need no commenda-
ton from me-and is now conducted by
Redway Bros; the senior editor, Captain
Roadway, having served CALAMITY through
the wor in the l03d Ohio. While its edi-
tor was facing death upon the fields slip
perry with the best blood of the land;
periling his life that the nation might
live, these miserable solutions and lick
spittles, (those whecould not get to Cana
dal could be found all over the country in
old smoke-houses cellars and stables, swear
ing men to resist the Government in its
efforts to save the country from traitors
and from erecting a bastard empire upon
the ruins of 8 free Republic.
This Messenger talks f%ippantly about
HRebel organs" Its memory is failing.
Has it been forgotten when the leaders Of
the Democratic party in Sandusky coun-
ty had to march around town with a flag
when their political brethren had to dance
all kind Of iigs on store boxes to the mu-
sic of the Union. Do they remember
when dirty rebel sheet, lstely resurrected,
was destroyed by the people-and
have they forgotten that memorable occa-
sion when, with pale and quivering lips,
black compared with their Ehite-livered
souls, begged and beseeched such men as
Stephen auckland, Charles Q. Fillotson,
r, Mccullough and others, to prevent
loyal, indignant populace from destroy
-ng this same Messenger, which to-day J
stands among US as a spared though mis-
srable monument of Gods and a patri-
,tic peoples mercy7
The nation is saved by those who were
,alled, by Copperhead presses, "Lincoln's
lirelings," "Hessians,n H Butchers sc. |
md now these men who followed Vallan-
encouraged desertion, SHOT pro-
Tost marshals, excused conspiracies, rejoic-
ID at riots and murder of innocent child
zen, apelogized for treason and its atroci-
les on the field and in the prison, charac-
erizes loyal men-soldiers, the saviors of
he country-as rebels. Baseness has
lever reached lower depths than this.
Although Sandusky county is Copper
read cursed, yet while the sacred and
earful memory of her sons, slain to de-
end our nationality Mcpherson, a
a auckland, and hundreds of
,thers-remain, there will be found a
pirit of loyalty which bids defiance to
and their vile apologists.
Yours, &c,
VICTOR.