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DAILY JOURNAL.OGBENSBURGB, APRIL 2, 1864.The Copperhead War.The copperhead riot, •which broke out at Charleston, Cole county, m., on Monday, the 28th March, had, at last accounts, assumed formidable proportions, and was spreading to adjacent counties. Telegrams from Mat-toon, 111., dated 81st March, stated that the Insurgents, to tho number of eleven hundred, under the lead of two Sheriffs of the adjoining counties, had concentrated a few miles from Mattoon, for the purpose of rescuing the men concerned in the Charleston outrage, on Monday, and who were subsequently arrested by the 54th Illinois volunteers, and taken to Mattoon. The 54th Illinois, and two companies of the invalid corps, were at Mattoon, and troops had been ordered from camp Yates and Indianapolis, to re-enforce them. Gen. Hein tzel man was also on his way to the scene of hostilities. What is the cause of this outbreak ? The secret disloyal order of the Knights of the Golden Circle, which has had a large organization in that Vicinity, has probably had its influence, but the teachings of the copperhead press, which, under the plea of political opposition to the administration, has been allowed unbridledlicense, in the publication of treasonablearticles, of an inflammatory character, have undoubtedly had more to do in causing the outbreak than all else. The government has been too mild and lenient with northern traitors, and northern disloyal journals. For more than a year the copperhead press has teemed with diatribes and defamatory articles, and insinuations against the government which, if one tithe of them were true, would seem to justify just such outbreaks as we ate , compelled to witness in Illinois. If news- % papers are permitted to print, that Lincoln 1 Is a tyrant, who has violated the constitution, usurped the rights of the people, robbed citizens of their property, plunged into prison law-abiding men; that the Generals in the Union army are beasts and thieves, robbers and plunderers, who go through the = south despoiling our brethren of their con- £ stitutional rights, and committing nameless outrages upon unprotected females, is it to 1 be expected that that the masses who read them, are going to remain loyal to the government ? The greatest mistake the government has made, since the war broke out, is its tender mercy to disloyal newspapers. -Arbitrary measures are the kind for war times, and such have always been sustained by the people. Gen. Burnside suppressed the traitor Yallandigham, and the people of Ohio sustained the act by a 100,000 majority vote. And what was Yallandlgham's crime? The exercise of. the rigbj of 61 free speech,” in which he counseled resistance to Presidential orders, aqd threatened to resist them himself. Let us haye a little more baclr-bone in relation to incendiary publications, and there will be less rioting, and mobs, and insurrections among the people, and less disorganizing proceedings, of the character of those now transpiring in Illinois.
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Ogdensburg Daily Journal
Ogdensburg, New York, US
Sat, Apr 02, 1864
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