, 1866-11-27
Coppcfhead NeEro SufrAgeItea.
IOWA, November Is, 1856


Editors Chieago Tribune:
The editor Of your Copperhead organ hav- |
ing been beaten out of his boots In every d. |
reclion in the Northwest, for the past four
years. has at Inst lost n1l stomach for further
fight, mounted the stool Of repentance, md
announces himself ready to eat his own fifth,
take back all the lies he has uttered {enough
utterly and e.ernally to damn any sinner be-
yond all hope or possibility Of redemptlon),
60 back In his own tracks, make South Caro-
lima hug Massachusett. In good earnest this
time, switch of on to the Republican Radical
"d-d Abolition" track, and-incorporate
negro suffrage plank IN the next Coppcshead
platform! Marvel Of maryels Truly,
wonders will never cease. It would have
amused you to hive seen tie faces Of our
Radicals as they looked curiously at our Cop
perheads the next day after the Chicago
Times Of Monday, the 12th instant, came to
town. But the latter were mum, kept their
own counsel, and never once peeped," but
ground their teeth and cursed as they looked
at the devious and dark road before them.
what be is abouts Truly :" fools rush In
where angels fear to tread3' Does be know
what he Is doing. Is the Intelligence sui.
frage" dodge only for blacks, or is he In good
earnest fol" impartial suffrage as well As
q
Southern storm about his unhappy ears, In
comparison With which hornel's nest is q
lullaby. Intelligent sutfragel This would
be, indeed, 'sthe feather that broke the camers
! back" For, be It understood. that In hit be-
Doo so9h 3 c5oaa oos oq hs Se
| real blue blood, will be disfranehiscd, utter
II distranchised, If his rule prevails! And
worse than this, the good-tor. nothing Mig
gers arc learning 50 rapidly, that in ave
loved eeecsh chivalry don't sec that they
need trouble Themselves to acquilc such use
less mplIshment5 as reading and writing.
With MaEmion's knight, when he c1clnims,
81 sss tRsSa Rssa s. .asS 5sss e a.sa sa*a
They regard such vulgarities as only at fol-
"Yauks," niggcrs aud :" aicl Uke.' Take II
now, mayn't ~, Intelligent snfftage-Mas
saehusetts kind OF sutfrage-will never do,
indeed it won't, for our eEfing soat1er1
o1ina. What, too, is to become Of our re
spectacle old Wings, who emigratcd In sucl
numbers to the hither shore as the Republl
al. party mounted 50 rapidly into powc
and public favor on tue broad platform o
Truth and Right: Is there to BE- no rest 10
Into which they can slink away, q hopelcs
minority forever?
Seriously, this Is the greatest stride Of tn
century. Mahomet-1ike, IL the mountain
| won't come to The Bourbons, they will 60 Il
the mountain The siege haa been too Ion,
and I,rotractcd, and, tired out, they noE
threaten 10 steal both the arms and the pla1
| of campaign from the assailants. Good. Nov
let The race be to the swift, indeed, on sue
| a course. Let us not scan the motives TO-
closely, but bid both Godspecd. With a:
united North, the way to eternal, God.eiye
Truth, and Justice, and Right, and white
,, robed Peace (comc again, never, never NOR
to leave us), Is, indeed, plain Before US, an
the period Of our painful gropiIgs forcve
at an end, With the goal, to reach which ha
) cost so dearly. In full sight! Confessed
wrong in everything else, the Copperhead
, al length confess themselves wholly in til
wrong in denying Justice to those We hay
/ always trnnp1ed on with impunity land ft
j which both North and South have paid &
bitterly and dcarly) and announce themselyt
, ready to run the race in the future fol. tt
right, with the Radicals they have so lou
and SO furiously denounced and 50 FOUL
slandered: Let US, indeed, With st.. Pau
thank God, and take courage. Our ripe r
Q ward is, indeed, near at hand. Much as the
0 dcspise the Cops, the South know that the
are their last and only dependence In Il
North, and, when they abandon them, tht
are gone up, johnson and all, bag and ba
gage. There Is no longer any hope. Glor
Hallelujah! Where Is Reverend Petroleu
Y. Nasty: REFUGEE