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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

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"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.
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  1. Campaign Literature
  2. Chicago, Ill.)
  3. Civil War
  4. Civil War, 1861 1865
  5. Copperhead Movement
  6. Democratic National Convention
  7. Democratic Party (U.S.)
  8. Election
  9. Government
  10. History
  11. Lincoln, Abraham
  12. Platforms
  13. Politics And Government
  14. Presidents
  15. Slaver
  16. Slavery
  17. Speeches, Addresses, Etc., American
  18. United States

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