The Chicago Copperhead Convention : the treasonable and revolutionary utterances of the men who composed it. Extracts from all the notable speeches delivered in and out of the National "Democratic" Convention

Author

• Republican Congressional Committee 1863-1865
• Democratic National Convention (Chicago Ill.)

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Publication Date

1864

Physical Format

online resource 16 pages ; 25 cm |physical_form:online resource

Document Type

Article

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relators:att:person:Republican Congressional Committee 1863-1865|relators:att:person:Democratic National Convention (1864 : Chicago, Ill.)|Florida Atlantic University Libraries' Marvin and Sybil Weiner Spirit of America Collection, Pamphlets: Speeches B21F28

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resource_types:Text

Publisher

The Congressional Union Committee

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16 pages ; 25 cm

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10012.tif

Description

"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.