Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-09-07
COPPEnHsEAD LOGIC.

Our enemies persistently ciamor about the
magnitude of the national debt, as proof
of Republican incapacity to govern, and
therefore argue that we ought to sustain
copperhead candidates for Office. But will
they pay eff the debt or repudiate it2 If
they propose to pay it of, in what way can
they do 30 without increasing the already
enormous taxation9 Yet these same cop
perheads keep. up the same clamor about the
taxation as being a vast incubus. How can
they reduce both the debt and the taxes
They already have the whole national ad-
ministration in their hands, including the
President and Secretary of the Treasury.
We can give them no more power to reduce
either debt or taxes. If they had majority
in both houses of Congress, they could not
reduce expenses without embarrassing their
own administration, unless they were to stop
all payment of bounties and pensions to
soldiers. Still they appeal to the soldiers as
being their especial friends, and represent
the Republicans as their enemies Would
they pay seven and a half millions of dollars
for Alaska and five millions for Samana, or
would they repudiate these engagements,
which are not Republican, but made by
Seward aud johnson
They magnify the burden of the debt and
endeavor to render it odious to the people,
at the same time that they pretend to accept
the lessons of the civil war and the splendid
results achieved by it. If the war and its
results are to be considered thus as beyond
question, why dispute the debt without
which it could not have been carried on
If they do not desire to repudiate that debt,
why seek to render it odiousa If they so
ardently wish to reduce the debt, why in
crease its load of interest by funding green
backs bearing no interest in securities that
pay six per cent. in gold II If as matter of
economy they are opposed to paying bounties
to the soldiers, why go on paying out mil
lions for more territory2 Ii they are so well
satisfied with the greenbacks, why reiterate
all the old stale cries about an excessive and
worthless currency If they prefer guar
anteed bank currency, why seek to under
mine the credit of the national banks2 If
they are in favor of reduction of taxation,
why oppose the abolition of the onerous
taxes on domestic industry2 They have
constantly represented that there existed SC
great and pressing a need for revenue as to
leave no room for lowering of taxes, and
yet they keep up clamor at the same time
! against this very taxation as unjust
| They seek to make the Union soldiers re-
| gard them as their friends, while they con
tinually depreciate their glorious deeds, anG
award more credit to the rebel troops thar
to our own. They pretend to abhor the US
sassination of Abraham Lincoln while they
lament the execution of his assassins. ant
strain every nerve to render odious all en-
| gagged in their conviction and execution
They lay claim to patriotism and adhesion
to the Union side in the civil war, Will,
they do not disguise that their sympatbie
were with the rebels, and regard Jefferson
Davis and his associates as the greatest o
statesmen, and Lee, Beauregard, johnson
etc., as the greatest of generals. They per
petually cry out for the Constitution, az th,
same time that they associate with rebel:
who sought to destroy it. They claim to b.
Democrats, yet oppose democratic princi
Piles. They assert their devotion to nation
ality, yet oppose everything national. Sucl
a bundle OF contradictions was probabl
never before seen in any political contest
The party is thing of contrarieties, impos
sibilities, contradictions. Its creed canno
stand the test of any great national strug
gle.-North american and U. s. Gazette.