13 DIALOGUE between an 01d-fasliioned Jackson democrat and a Copperhead. Copperhead—-Good morning, neighbor. I have called to have a. little chat with you on the condition of our country. Some of us think that the time has arrived for the people to do something. Democrat.—I am glad to see you, and the more so as you seem to think that the time for action has arrived. I have been all along and am still in favor of the vigorous prosecution of the war, and I hope, from the remark you have just made, that you have at last come around to my opinion. Cop.—exactly. If the war were conducted on such principles as I approve, I might go in heartily for it, but as it is, I am not inclined to support Mr. Lincoln’s policy. Dem.—What objections have you to it ? Cop.—I did not vote for Lincoln, as you know, and I am opposed to coercion, and to making the war a war against slavery. I don’t like the employment of negroes as soldiers, and last of all I am determined not to support any unconstitutional measures. Dem.—I did not vote for President Lincoln either, as you well know, but as he has been elected fairly under the Constitution he is my President now, and I am ready to spend my money and my blood to sustain him against Jefferson Davis, who commenced his political career as a repudiator, and ended it as a traitor. As to making the war a war against slavery, that is all right. ’When some 200,000 slave owners allowed their leaders to drag them into a war against a republican form of government, which they denounced as a failure, and to establish a military despotism, with a view to make it the
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