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by sowing sedition among the people,
and disaffection in the army.

by sowing sedition among the people,
and disafection in the army.
In all this the Democrat knew no
North, no Union, no country; he
knew nothing but South. His con-
duct as Representative in Congress
and in the State Legislature, and as
an agitator among the people, was as
malignant toward the Union cause, as
treacherous, and - considering his
claim to immunity as if the country
were at peace-as cowardly as it is
possible for men to be. The name
Copperhead was simply an apt de-
scription of his cowardly and venom
Gus character. Happily, a large num-
ber from the ranks of the party, prin-
cipally of Americans, followed the
natural instincts of patriotism, and
left it for the time, many volunteer
ing, and many more voting on the
Union side; but the former leaders,
and large disloyal mass, and mass
more ignorant and deceived than dis
loyal, kept up an organization of a
large party, which, all through the
dreadful struggle, was used to oppose
the Government, to aid and comfort
the Confederates, and to SOW treason
among the Union soldiers.
The secession was conquered after
mighty war which utterly exhausted
the South; but these Northern Dem
ocratic leaders remained the same.
They had no Joy in a restored Union.
They were even less reconciled than
the Southern leaders who had fought
it out. Still they wanted to make
the result defeat to the Government,
and to bring in the Confederate States
as masters of the situation. And
since the Democrats have had control
of the House, and now Of both branch
es of Congress, every Northern Dem
ocrat recognizes it as Confederate con-
troll. When Senator Hill, of Georgia,
by slip of the tongue, spoke of it as
''this Confederate Congress" he SIM
ply spoke the reality.
No Northern Democratic member
assumes to have any rights as repre-
sentative of Northern people; he
freely accepts the place of servant to
the Confederates, whose whole policy
is to take from the National Govern
ment its lawful powers, and to make
each Confederate State supreme. Per-
haps their design is not to prepare for
a new SECESSION; for, with the South
made solid by force, and the North
divided by party servile to them,
they may be masters of the whole;
but if they were preparing for new
and for setting up South
ern empire, their course could hardly !
be more direct to that end than it has
been.
There is no such thing as a free
in most of the Confederate
States. No Northern Democrat dare
lift up his voice for one. He comes
up with servile alacrity to help take
from the United States Government
it's lawful power to protect the ballot
box by the civil authority in the cleo
tions of United States Representa-
tives. He knows of no office of a
Northern Democrat but to obey
Southern dictation. He had no voice
to save the Union from secession, nor
to support the Union volunteers; he
now has no voice against a policy de-
signed to break down the National
and make the Confederate
States dictators. No matter what
man comes into the place of Demo-
cratic Representative or candidate, he
has to put on this yoke, and he does
If with a1acritV