Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-08-29
THE REBELS AND COPPERHBADS

The Charlestown Murcury says Of its fel
low Democrats at the South:
Not one honest man, south of Mason
and Dixon's line, is ashamed of the musket
he bore or the sword he drew in defence of
the Confederate flag. The man who says
he is ashamed of IL, lies. Let every honest
man at the North be sure of the fact, that
the man who says so wants to swlndle
money out of somebody. He is a knave
either in the first or in the last step"
The Mobile Register improves the above
text as follows:
"a good many of our Southern people
are of the opinion that it is bad policy for
the late Copfederatcs so pronounced and
noted as Gen. Wade Hampton, Admiral
Semmes, and Others, to take u prominent
part in the present campaign, for the rea-
son that Radical thieves will raise the mad
dog cry of Rebel and so injure the cause
of constitutional freedom. The time tor
that style Of caution has passed. and the
Rebel cry, like the entire cause OF the
Radicals, is played ont. With the meeting
and close of the great National Convention
in Tammany Hall, July 4, we have entered
upon new phase of our political career.-
On the altar of the new Tammany, dedica-
ted to constitutional liberty, was laid, by
the unanimous consent of representatives
from every State and Congressional district
in the United States, every feeling and pre-
iudce that grew out of the late war, as
sacrifice to great and common cause aud
there the lovers OF liberty from both Of the
late belligerent sides clasped hands and
recorded c0tcS Of JrdteTnHy and score TO ne
comrades, shoulder to Sh0uiIer, in tie Sec0Hd
'0dr TOR the Independence Of tile States dad
the freedom 9t the people. No man received
more hospitable and marked welcome in
the Convention, in the city, and in the
North, then Gems. Hampton anG Forrest ;
and this not only from genuine admiration
of the heroic characters of these great cav
airy officers, but in order to signalize and
mark the truce that had been made between
the friends of liberty in the North and in
the South. This act broke the spell of q
doubtful prudence in policy. And now,
advising these gentlemen, including Admir-
al Semmes not to appear in pubic as the
advocates of Seymour and Blair, if we had
our way, we would put them in the flesh OF
campaign in the North, and let them speak
and canvass, and utter the boldest truths
that they feel, from every stump in the
North and West The period for sparng
! has gone past. We must gloves off now,
! and with bare knuckles-sy, with mailed
! handS-we must up and at the enemies OF
our liberty"
I We heartily second the proposition
and propose that Gen. Forest and Admiral
! Semmes should together stump the North
for their cause and candidates. Forrest
might demonstrate the Democratic love o
| the Blacks when they are in their proper
| places; and Semmes, having already shec
much light on the decline of our foreign
commerce and navigation, might with con
fidence be expected to shed still more
Bring them on
The Copperhead press of the North care
fully exclude these Southern Rebel Revolu
tionary speeches from their cOlumns-an
some Of the Southern press are already eau
tioning them to be little more careful
hereafter. The Charleston Courier Whicl
led off in the Rebellion in 1861, desires
them to moderate their political speeches
for fear that their "extrangance of state
ment' will injure the Democratic cause il
the North"
To this the New York Tribune remarks
We shall probably now have Hampton
Cobb, and Toombs for the balance ol th
campaign as quiet as cooling doves. Blu
they cannot escape the record. Gen. Hamp
ton has shown us, whatever the Rebels il
} the South and the Copperheads in the Nortl
may say, that they mean but one thing, il
|, case they gain power; and that is-Ite0Otu
) ti0n. No trickery Can shroud this issue
and no amount Of rhetoric can deceive til
American people. There is but one ques
tiOn-Peace or War. Gen. Grant leads on
column, and Gov. Seymour the other. w
have but two parties in the country, ant
both are in earnest.