Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-08-03
Colonel Chas. @. Halpine Warns the Rad
at.f ical Press. e

From the New York Citixen.I
If there be any bitterer partisan sheei
than the Erening Post, of Chicago, We
have yet to incur the misfortune Of meet
ing Herewith. We are not of those who
expect quail ready roasted to come fut-
tering into our Office, but as little did we
expect to find The Citizen denounced az
"a New York copperhead paper.
Gentlemen of the Radical press you
are pushing matters so hard, that all
classes Of Democrats will soon come to
adopt aud glory in that title; and when
that day is reached, it will not be so well
for you. Nothing but the strong arms
and steady hearts of the loyal War De
rnocracy carried you in unquestioned
ascendency through the late rebellion
all the civil offices, all the civil spoils, all
the nation power for you; and nothing but
the hard fare and hard knocks of the
camp and field for the loyal Democratic
volunteers who thought only of the Union,
and saw nothing but the Flag until the
rebellion was extiuguished. And now
forsooth, what do they find? That while
they have been in the field, you have
consolidated an ohgarchy of tyranny and
theft, such as no civilized country, while
still! remaining at peace, has ever hereto
fore witnessed; and when they attempt
by peaceful and constitutional means tC
produce change for the better, and tc
oust notorious corruptionists and pill
layers from the places in which they havt
gorged themselves at the expense of {
depleted treasury for the past eight year.
these Radical partisans rush forward
with brazen fronts. and-as they think
with the bayonets of a standing army be
hind them, to crush back every Demo
crat into submission by their owl-cry oI
"Traitors-copperheads-a second brood
Of the rebellion Gentlemen of the
Radical press this mode of conducting
your campaign must be changed, or worse
will come of it. If all Democrats are tc
be classed as Copperheads in your fou
vocabulary, all Democrats even the
most moderate--may be driven to act in
concert together for an exemplary retri-
button; and, in such case, you would
soon find your standing army rope OF
sand-nearly all the rank and file with
the Democracy, and seven or eight hun
dred Thousand trained soldiers of the vol
unteer service resuming their weapons,
to make sure that no fraud shall be at
tempted, under any pretended authority
of Congress, when it comes to counting
the electoral vote and saying who is en-.
titled, under the will of the people, to be
our next President. A thousand kind
words in regard to Gen. Grant have for
merly appeared in this paper; and no
word of personal abuse or even unkind-
ness, since he became the standard.bearer
of party whose principles we abhor and
think dangerous to the continued liberties
Of the country. Is ii too much to ask that
similar treatment shall be extended TO
Horatio Seymour-the noblest, purest
and greatest character to-day breathing
on American soil, as we believer Or is
it too much to ask that the men who
share with us this belief shall still be
treated with the ordinary courtesies of
life, and shall not be deliberately lied
about, as any Radical journal or stump
orator must deliberately lie when class
ing the Citizen as coppsrhead
paperT' We tell you there are in
materials all round the
country, and you are like madmen waving
torches in powder magazine of national
passion. II is mot for our own special
grievance we speak. but to illustrate a
condition Of feeling thst is being aroused
among loyal Democrats everywhere.
Let the loyal Democracy once be forced
to accept the name and principles Of the
cspperhead faction, and it will soon be-
come shazardous thing for any Radical
to call foul names after that.