Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-07-26
THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF COPPER
HEADS AND REBELS.

II. j. RAYMOND, editor of the New York
Times, is trying hard to give the National
Convention of Northern Copperheads and
Southern Rebels, which is to meet in Phil.
adelphia next month, character and i'm
portance. In his paper of the 18th inst,
appears long, and elaborately written
letter, dated at Washington, in which oc-
ours the following:
These defaults of its own have given the Phila-
dephia Convention degree of strength which it is
not wise for the leaders of the Union Party to ig-
more underrate By judicious counsels at the
outset they might have prevented 1t at later
stage they might have controlled it it is not yet
too late to save themselves from being ruined by
it But they will make fatal mistake if they
tent themselves with ignoring denouncing it
If it should happen to be under the guidance of
wise and patriotic counsels-if the Southern dele
gates who may participate in its deliberations
should proffer in their words and their action
mistakable evidence of the sincerity with which
they accept the adverse result. of the war they
waged, and of their readiness to adapt their laws
their habits and their whole political action to the
necessities which that result has created-if the
Northern Democrats, who share its action should
cut loose from the men and the measures which
made them so justly obnoxious to public censure
during the war, and should pledge themselves to
the honor of the nation and to a liberal policy
worthy alike OF Its history and its destlny-n the
platform of principles which the Convention may
adopt, and the action it may recommend shall
prove thus responsive to the enlarged and lofty
pirationS of the national heart, 1t may be found
that no party organization, however compact it
may seem to be, and however strongly fortified by
the memory of past services, can withstand its in
tiuence upon the sentiments and the action of the
great hody of the American people.
And who is this that is to be thus re-
sponsive to the enlarged and lofty aspira-
tions of the national heart 2" Why, FER
NANDo WooD and HoRATIo SEYMOUR, of New
York, w. B. REED and &. w. WOODWARD, of
Pennsylvania, PENDIEroN and VAUANDIGHAN,
Of Ohio, VOORHEES, Of Indiana. and that ilk
of men from the free states, together with
A. II. STEPHENS, L. L. LEE and ex-Gov.
WISE, of rebel notoriety And this is
the class of men, who, Mr.. RAYMOND thinks,
Of the Union men Of the North, in unison
with their own. Deluded mortal How
I true it is, that bad conduct and bad COM
pany soon blinds us to the truth, and the
right. This man RAYMOND has been mixing
up with sympathisers and rebels of late,
and here is the fruits of it. Pandemonium
would become Paradise to such man, af-
ter he had been there awhile During the
war, he generally talked right, and was
considered moderate and sensible But he
was elected a Congressman from demo
cratic District in New York City, and he
has an itching to be reelected, and now,
FERNAHpo Woop and EAILANDINGHAN two Of
the meanest copperheads We had in the
United States during the war, and who
have not abated iot or title of their anti
American statesmen, with whom, it is not
only patriotic but lciSe to go into convention
with on affairs of state and who are now
10 make responses to the great national
heart T" Now why this change? From
reading this man RAYNoND's paper during
the war one was led to believe that the
men whom we have named, and who are to
lead off in this National Convention, ere
enemies 10 the public veal, and Loyal peo.
pie endorsed this fully. Yet now, because
some Of them can materially affect his cleo
tion 10 Congress, they are about the only
men left who are 10 save our nation . How
shockingly humiating such tergiversa-
. tions are 10 those who believe in man
hood. For ourselves we despise such cheap
wares among politicians. According to
I this man Of the Times, how it is the open
stimulators of sympathy for traitors, and
the bcgettors Of mObS to resist the draft
whose resolves in conventions :" it is not
safe in the Union Party to ignore or under
rate" Why, Mr. RAYMOND must think that
a National Convention of gamblers and
pick-pockets, and their elaborate and skill,
, fully adjusted resolves, would put in ieop-
ardy. aui give alarm, to the whole chris.
( tian sentiment and feeling of America and
such convention would come Just about
as near breaking up the entire religious or.
ganizations Of this country, as a conven-
tion composed Of leading copperheads, and
notorious traitorS-Such as the one that is
/ 10 meet in Philadelphia will break up the
great Union Party, which has Just saved
this nation. Ne sooner and the man who
says that concave of Sneaking. riot-be-
getting sympathisers, clustering, Dragging
defiant rebels, and bought-up office e-holders,
can endauger the unity Of the great Union
Party, must be demented or fought up.
Then by judicious counsels," says this
Times editor, we republicans might have
prevented the holding Of this National
Convention, OF might have controlled it.
and even yet it is not too late from being
ruined by il" just as if the copperheads
and rebels would suffer themselves TO be
controlled by Us, or whether they held con
vvniious or not OF. still further, as if we
could save ourselves from ruin by taking
counsel with rebels and their abettors
How sagaciouS Mr. RAYMOND has become
since he needs democratic votes to send him
back 10 Congress
Aud then, if this convention of patriotic
and ilSjntsTrStsd citizens should be under
the guidance cf ylSs and patriotic counsels,