North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-08-12
C~OpDerheads.

C~opperheads.
There is a steady increase of Copper
heads > co-equal with the spread of the
principles of the Democratic party. And
the Radical Press slow to admit in a frank
way the falling away from the ranks Of it's
own party, confesses our increase by at
taching the name of Copperhead to new
victims of its hatred.
The word Copperhead has had a pretty
extensive use. The Radicals have chung
to it as if it had virtue; as if its employ
ment afforded them either satisfaction or
partisan profit. We doubt, however, if it
has secured them any benefit beyond the
qualification of their malice-which is no
small consideration, to be sure.
Our Copperheads are uninjured by its
use. HoRATo SEYMOUR, the next president,
is the head of them all. The fact that he
was Chairman of our Oneida County War
Committee, and so furnished men for the
war even before, as Governor, he respond
ed to the calls Of LINCOLN, STANTON and
Gov. CURTIN to repel the invasion of Penn
%sylvania, did not save him from the APP
plication of the epithet. He is unframed
by it., and is unrufied when the term is
applied to him by the revolutionary jour-
mails.
Gen BLAIR, the next Vice President, is
also one of the greatest OF ~copperheads.
He was a Republican in Congress; but he
was the first to take up arms in Missouri
for the Union; and he led, now a Division
and now a Corps, through the South under
Sherman. Grant, Sherman and the whole
Republican party praised him. But he
revolted at the test oaths and the tyranny
imposed by the Radicals upon the South.
including his own Missouri, which he had
kept loyal, and he is now one of the worst
of Coppcrheads. No Radical, when be-
yond Gen. Blair's hearing, Lesitates SO to
denounce him.
ANDREW JOHNSON, who has suffered
more for his devotion to the Union before
the war, during the war and since the war
than any radical among us, has been a
| COpperhead for two or three years.
The last application OF the term-the
one which has the most recently attracted
our notice-was to the name OF Col. L. l..
Dickey, Assistant Attorney General of the
United States. Col. Dickey was an honored
citizen of Illinois for thirty years; fol
many years Circuit Judge in the Ottawa
District: and when the war broke out.
WehI W aSuiIiSlou anu aeheu - ~"
coin for authority to organize Il cavalry
regiment. Mr.. Lincoln wrote thus to the
Secretary of War of this Copperhead
"This man is my friend. Wants to raise
a cavalry regiment. lie won't lie. III
'front.' steal. A. Lincoln This Copper
head put in the field the 4th Illinois Cava
Try, and commanded tie same till Gran
made him the Chief oil Cavalry on his staff
Three sons and a son-in-law ofthis copper
head entered the army. OF these sons, on
was killed and another severely wounded
in the Red River expedition, while tn
son in law, a General, was killed at Shiloh
The more we have of such Copperhead
the better for the fame and glory of on
land.
The word Copperhead has become SUIT
ficiently comprehensive. 1t includes ever.
patriot in the land and a decided l~nujorit
of the electors Of the country. The radi
Gals may enlarge its applications at thel
pieasure.-tHica ca. ~ Democaat.