The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-05-31
Ths aiauroek asffersonian
McCoMn. o. Ma, 81. 67.

the meaning intended To be convey
Ell The assertion was made tina
"Dem"c,ary. wblskey, ignorance al,
vice were inseperably connected
, Now did not intend to convey tn
,dea that all who belonged to tb
Democratic party drank whiskey
we're ignorant and viciousS tbi
would he saying too much. ] an
acqusinted with men who belong u
that party, and for whom have th,
greatest respect They are honest
upright men, good men, aud doubt
less pure chtistiens We ais,
know Democrats who are very smart
and some oi our most learned mel
belong to that party. Neither iii,
Ue intend To convey the id, q that n,
luau who h,lhnged to that party wa
.hh,nul Tie man who is truly
Dem, ciat, and iol ows the principles
id Gown ard carried out by An
drew jackson, Thomas Jefferson
aud others. say nothing against
| IL the low, mean spirited, ultri
4 Copltrhrad that ! alluded to; thos,
who said "it made theiJ feel happy
every time they heard oi the Unior
Army being defeated (perhaps som'
iu this county will remember making
that very expression in lS6l-2); il
is those who nerved the hand of th,
assassin Booth. while be dealt ths
blow which deprived the Government,
of one OF the best men it ever had
it is those who rejoiced when th.
bloody deed was done, and thosesw bo
would have sapped the life blood oil
the nation also, had they been pow.
eriul enough. These are the ones |
meant, and they call themselves
Democrats" ] am not responsible
for the name; | call them ultra Cop.
perheddS
If you who find fault belong to
this class you are the very ones
was aiming at, and | will say now, q
man who will do all in his power tc
ruin his country is not fit to live In
il. This is the class, who, during
the war, rallied out 81 loudly against
the suppression of reasonable arti.
cles in some newspapers, and now
desire to crush out the spirit of free
dom In the press. And they are
stimulated to all this by one article
written upon general subjects-nc
personalities made, nor none intend
ed. Still when they slandered tine
best men the country boasted, did il
personally, and were rebuked for i
they were lusty in their cries tol
sympathy. They were " oppressed
their "rights tramplcd on ant
their saints martyred "
This is consistant with your for
mer course, isn't it? If you are no
of this class it was not intended TO
you at all. "a guilty conscience
needs no accuser," and snakes vii
uot squirm unless punched" )" "n'
effect without cause"
Free press, and free speech ar
some OF the privileges our countr
boasts. lfyou are slandered, or ir
y, jured by personal articles, you hav
8 the remedy, but do not rave so abo,
an article which treats OF subjects
general, and in which there are n
personalities.
> All who have ever travelled
the South will bear me witne
that there are three distileri
there to one in the North; til
there is three times as much Ii
uor manufactured, and drank ther
as there is in the North, and that il
norance prevails there to more th'
triple the extent that it does here
Now every one knows that the "bac
bone" of Copperhcadism IS in Il
South that the majority OF the pc
pie there are in that persuasion. A
this can be proved to demonstl
tion, and consequently my first poi
is established. Now in regard
e. the next Statistics show us, that
proportion TO the population, Mass
chusetts gives mole money to bene
- olent institutions than any 9th
State in the Union, and South Car
lima the least. Massachusetts Is t
;. most ultra A Abolition State, and Sou
i Carolina the most ultra Copperhe,
State in the Union. In regard
church matters told only what W
told to me, and If necessary ! 'cou
give the names of at least four min
ters within fifteen or twenty mil
of this place. Some belong to t
NJ. +. Church, some to the Church
1 God and some to the Presbyteri
: Church. All these would tell y
y just what said, 1t is useless to &
angry and try your best TO injure
person for writing down an asserti
d Which some others made, and esq
> cially when that person gives tho d
credit. and does not vouch for I
assertion. l did not say that kn'
these things to be 80, viz: THAT
poor Republicans would give me
to benevolent institutions than TIVE
ty Democrats" Copperheads).
g. have written this to explain mys
as I make a distinction betwe
Democrats and Copperheads. ! hs
. voted for Democrats when ] kn
he they were good men, and expect
again, but never intend to vote fol
~ Copperhead. / hope this will suffi
n and that will not be asked again
! retract what have said. III hs
said ought that is false or that ] CT
,r not substantiate. am willing a
ready at any time to retract it
publicly as ! said it, but to retr'
that which is true is asking a lit
!, too much, ! will change the asserti
J, a little, and state it in this mann
es viz: The success of the Copperhea
d is dependant upon wliiskey, igr
he rance, and vice. The = sharp" IN
It, or those well educated only stay wi
III. than, fnr nnina