Copperhead movement

Address of Honorable Charles D. Drake, to the Radical Union men of Missouri
Notes: Caption title. Printer’s name at foot page 4. "April 20, 1868"--Page 4.Two columns to the page.

"Abridged from the elaborate report published in the New York Daily News, June 4th, 1863." Advertisement on the last page by Benjamin Wood, editor and publisher of the New York Daily News, refers to the "organs of Black Republicanism" as fanatical and states that "the New York News has identified itself with the pure Democratic sentiment..." of the Democratic Party. Summary: Includes speeches sympathetic with the Confederacy, by Fernando Wood, George Francis Train, Isaiah Rynders, John H. McCunn and others.

Series: Papers from the Society for the Diffusion of Political Knowledge ; no. 9. Notes: Caption title. Above title: "Columbus convention." "Read--discuss--diffuse." Pages also numbered 133-140 at foot, through-numbering for the Papers. Two columns to the page. FAU Libraries' copy edges have been trimmed to 21 cm.

"A surrender to the rebels advocated--a disgraceful and pusillanimous peace demanded--the federal government shamefully vilified, and not a word said against the crime of treason and rebellion. "FAU Libraries' copy copy with untrimmed edges and unopened pages. Summary: Extracts from speeches at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Aug. 29-30, 1864, designed to put the speakers and the Copperhead theme of an "honorable peace" in a bad light. The Copperheads were a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates. Republicans started calling antiwar Democrats "copperheads", likening them to the poisonous snake. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Copperheads nominally favored the Union and strongly opposed the war, for which they blamed the abolitionists, and they demanded immediate peace and resisted draft laws. They wanted President Lincoln and the Republicans ousted from power, seeing the president as a tyrant who was destroying American republican values with his despotic and arbitrary actions.

Caption title. Signed: Madison. "How comes it that in 1863 so many of the Democratic organs and politicians no longer favor the war?"--Page 2. "N.B.--Philada., Dec. 19.--The above was written sixty days ago. We rejoice to see since that, some symptoms of returning common sense as indicated by the press, and the votes of the Democratic members of Congress"--Page 26.