The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-04
MR.. HUNT ON COPPERHEADS
The Winchester Editor Discusses Certain
Inconsistencies and Falseh0Ods,
And Incidentally Names a Few Prominent
Democrats Who We're Not Conspicuous for
Their Loyalty in the Days of Treason.
The raitor OF tl,o I-no,anaDois Journals:

oils Sentinel to my article In the Journal
of the Faith ult.. concerning what Governor
Chase said at UnIon City, was only re-
ceived q short time ago. Now do not in
tend to enter into any ~protractcd eontro-
versy with the editor of the Sentinel. but |
desire to use enough of your space to show
up" some of his inconsistencies and false
hoods. The sentiment uttered by Governor
Chase at Union City was right, and should
be the sentiment of every loyal citizen.
There has already been too much connivinR
at copperbeadIsm. and if all good citizens
would hit 1t as hard as the Governor does
1t would soon be ~relegated to eternal OBJ
llvion. What 1 said in my article
of the cath nit. was substantially
what Governor Chase did say at
Union City, and substantially what
the Governor says he said. except tho
omission of the word damn" But the
Sentinel SAYS we didn't see the point and
that it don't care anything about the abuse
heaped on the devoted heads of Democrats.
but that its deep religious feelings were
shocked because the chief executive of the
State said what the Sentinel thinks is q
houkht1 WOAus IL hoc AN1
been talking about Supreme Court judges
and had said damn their cowardiy souls."
that would have been according to the
Sentineps liking. but when he laid his fiery
tongue on the Sentineps sacred copper.
heads "rebels and rebel sympathizers."
and condemned them in no uncertain
terms, saying that If he had q mind to
swear he would cay thar God might danin
them for their baseness. this was too mucn
for the moral ~ organ of the Indianapolis
saloons, which damned the cowardly
souls" of the judges of the highest court In
the State because they would not ,stoop
to smiroh the judicial ermlne, and IL throws
up its hands In holy horror. Now, OF
Course, the Sentinel is recognized through.
out the State rs a kind OF q Sunday-school
organ, but, Notwithstanding this fact, 1t
lied when it that it was not try
ing to keep votes from Chase, but simply
publishes What it alleges he said at Union
City because 1t regards 1t IS highly I'M
proper that q minister should use such
language. The fact is the Sentinel became
alarmed at the large number of Democratic
soldiers that were docking to the standard
of the Fighting parson," W 1t
was very natural that the boys who wore
the blue would perfer Ira j. Chase, who
prlvations of the march and the dangers of
the battlefield, to Claude Matthews, the
observation-disclosures" candidate of De1noc-
racy, VINO, though strong and able bodied.
remained Ut home and. so far az we have
been able to learn. did not even do as
we'll as Grover-hire q substitute. The
Sentinel sought to stay the tide by appeal
ing to prejudice and trying TO make them
believe that Chase said all Democrats
were ''Imps of hell" Ii this is not the case
why does the Sentinel keep the same lie
standing at the head of it's editorial page
day after dayl The Sentinel evidently
thinks 1t has q "clincher" in the letter of
E. +. Hasty. of Union City, to the Indian
apolis News, in which he says he regrets
exceedingly that our Governor did give so
much encouragement to profanity. We
don't know mucl about MIR. Hasty. He
may be, and doubtless 10. honest, but is evil
deptly constructed on the -"goody goody"
plan aud would be afraid to call rebels
rebels, and if he is unable to see but little
difference between what Governor Chase
did saw and Democrats are imps of hell.
God damn them to help his perceptlye
faculties are not as keen as they should be
for the transaction of the ordinary affairs
of life.
SOME OTHER FEATURES.
So much for what Chase said. now for
some other features of the SentlnePs TRADE.
The organ of morality Ql says with the air
of a martyr: I'm the eyes of Republicans
of the Chase and Shockney type, any Dem
ocrat no lived in the North during the
wal was q 'copperhead.' Adlai Stevenson
Is daily denounced as q 'copperhead' by the
Republican press Grover Cleveland has
had the same epIthet hurled at him. Thomas
A. Hendrick and Daniel w. Voorhees, have
had the same Islander applied to them doz-
ems of times" What an outrage IL is that
Adlai Stevenson. who rejOlced that Lincoln
WAS killed. who peddlsd revolvers to
knights of the Golden Circle. and whose
name. according to reliable military au-
thority, appeared upon the roster of that
treasonable organization, should be accused
horrorsi Can it be possible that any Re-
publican would stoop low enough to
accuse Grover Cleveland. the great Joss of
the Democracy, VINO was SO patriotic as to
be willing to sacriic q substitute on the
altar of his c~Ountry-when tho government
compelled him to plank down the cash OF
90 himself-and who. when President, in
suited Union soldiers and jeered at their
mlsfortunee, OF entertaining disioyai eentI-
mentsi And how disgracefnl 1t is that tie
memory of the loyal (D Hendricks, who
said that Lincoln and his Cabinet ought TO
be switched out of the White House, and
who asserted that Indiana would not give
another man nor another dollar to the sup
preston of the rebellion, should be SIAN
dered now by the charge OF disloyalty.
But the browning infamy of the Repub-
hcans seems to lie In the fact that they
have even dared to accuse Daniel Webster
Voorhees, of being q ''copperhead." when 1t
is n ~wellknown fact that Voorhees,, IN
war times" frequently gave expression to
such patriotic ~ sentiments as the follow.
ing:
Three human souls were hurried into eternity
By each Of Mr. Lincoln's jokes. Another section
OF land in view of Mr.. Lincoln's room had been
dug M for d graveyard, and while he tested
and joked with his servile crew. he could looh
out on this scene OF dying and death. Yet you
propose to me to retain that monster another
term of office-that monster, that with ut
ter disregard Of human life and misery has
proposed 10 prolong his term OF object Gentle
men. II seems to me / can hear the spirits OF
the hundred of lives that have been useiessly
sacrificed In this war pleading against
tie reelection OF this man. 1t seems to me
the very inanimate objects and dumb brutes
would cry out, enough, he has had his day
bloody, CORY. reeking. let him 20 out into hate
full obscurity, there TO spend the residue OF his
days with the ghosts of the murdered dead glib
bering around the unhappy feion.
What n shame It is that these men, not
one of whom ever gave utterance to n Loyal
sentiment when the life of the Nation was
rs now in order for the Sentinel to shed
indignant tears because Lamar, Garland,
Vest and other Southern Democrats are
sometimes called rebels. and because Val
landigham. MilIigan. les. Humphreys
Dorsey, Dodd. Heffren and Joseph j. Bing.
ham are occasionally referred To as traitors
AS 20 EPITHETs.
Following this display of gall" the Sen.
tinei says That the language of Governor
Chase, as conceded by himself, was intem.
perate and uncalled for. because nobody
ever heard of such epithets as the Gov.
ernor pretended TO quote-"coffee- coolers
"periurers." rtc-being applied TO soldiers