Year: 1865

We learn that the magnates of the Copper
head party are now in secret session at Dav-
enport, for the purpose of concocting some
scheme by which they can unite the soldiers
of the Union and the traitors of the rebellion
in loving bonds with MAHoNy, JONES, DoDGE,
DEAN, LIE GRAND BYISGTos, CHARLES Ma
SON, CLAGErT 4 Co., in a grand struggle to
overthrow the Union party and restore the
JEFF. DAVIS and BucHASAs dynasty to power
once more.


This labor Of love is admitted on all hands
to be one of great difficulty, and to require
most skillful manipulation. 1t is indeed a
work which at first blush would seem to rival
that of which we read, whose result Is to
cause ''the hon and the lamb to lie down to-
gether, and young child shall lead them. =
That is to be work of time, which is to be
accomplished only by the interposition of Al
mighty Power and Infinite Wisdom. But
this is to be a work of day, to be accom-
plished by the Copperhead leaders of Iowa,
and is to result in causing JEFF. DAVIS traitor
crew, who waged four years of war for the
overthrow of the Union, to lie down in low
ing embrace with the soldiers of the Union.
in the same dirty truckle-bed, and have VAL
LAxDIGHAN. LIE GRAND BYIyGToS and MAHo-
NY & Co TO cover them all with the mantle
Of charity. represented for the nonce by the
outternut blanket of Copperheadism.


Judge TRIMBLE, of Bloomfield, and CLAG-
EFT, of this place, have gone to attend this
every other Copperhead leader in attendance
viii doubtless have his own peculiar scheme
Of rascality to effect the contemplated harmo
nious combination.


TRiMBLE insists that the soldiers can only
be brought into the arrangement by promis-
ing them all the Offices and pledging them
he Copperhead vote, in consideration that
hey will make and sustain the anti-negro
Suffrage issue And he proposes that the
eaders Of Copperheadism shall take back
seat, and that the party shah not be organized
At all except by way of ''aid and comfort 10
his military movement.


CLAeErr, on the other hand, insists that
such a course would demoralize the party
and render il even too inefficient to give
effective aid to the movement of the soldiers.
lie insists that the party shall maintain its or
ganization. and shall nominate goodly show
Of soldiers on the ticket, and does not object
% the exclusion of certain number of the
,ecesh sympathizing leaders from a promi
nent part in the State programme. He thinks
will only be necessary to intimate to three
or four, say JONES. MAuoSy. BYINGroN and
Henry CLAY DEAS, the desire of the party
hat they should take "a back seat for the
present, and to pass flaming resolutions eulo-
ristic of President JOHNSON and of the Union
soldiers. and damnatory of the niggers, to ac-
complish the purpose.


What other projects may be brought on the
,apis by the seedy Copperhead politicians, or
what will be the final programme, remains TO
De seen. At all events, we predict, with
great confidence, that they will have no bet
Ter luck this time than they did when they
set General TUTTI.E mp to ride a race on two
horses running in opposite directions, or, two
years before, when they pitched Judge Ma
son into the gutter, and run Col MERRITT on
the no party Union dodge.