Excerpt from A Political Conspiracy of Jeff Davis, the Traitor, and the Copperhead Democracy, in the Nomination of George B. M'clellan for the Nation's Presidential Chair Unmasked

It is in view of these impending disorders, which are ever at tendant on anarchy and despotic rule, that makes us feel desir ous to impress on the mind of the loyal reader that, of all human institutions, States are of the slowest growth, and require the deepest root. To be permanent they must be founded in the habits and cus toms of the people. Like a statue they cannot be brought into exist ence by edict or decree nor by anarchy Far away from these arbi trary elements, their laws must be founded in the institutions of social life, and penetrate the business and pure conscientious bosoms of men.

As a nation we are entering on a new state of free existence, in the very land once the home of our fathers, in the same land now crim soned by means of anarchy, and from whence thousands of Union mar tyrs' soldier spirits are fled upward during this unholy secession war! Re say to our countrymen, yes, in the same land, where the mortal of the conscientiously brave are fallen But then, we should regard the blood of the Union soldier martyr a precious seed; because his dust, even in death's dormitory, has made Federal union soil sacred for all future time. Indeed, the events of the hour are verily now, sugges tive that, since the inauguration of the American Nation's Executive Chief, in one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, the work of a cen tury has already been achieved. Ive have watched with no ordinary interest, the pregnant events of this national struggle, from the fall of Sampler by armed rebellion, to the disgraceful scenes of anarchy in the New York July anti-enrollment riots, and day by day and hour by hour, we have beheld a degraded counterfeit State rights copper head army at the North, and their mdsters, a uniform, bloody, confed eraey at the South, receding, until more than half the territory cov ered by the rebel flag at the beginning of the war, has fallen into pos_ session of the Government, and is covered by the stars and stripes, the emblem of liberty now and forever Te have beheld armed anarchy spreading her revolutionary State right counterfeit bloody folds in a Northern Christian city, and hands stained in human gore tearing the Union banner in a thousand pieces. Te have beheld our quiet citizens fleeing and being pursued before a political party that were determined to rule and never to obey, burning, robbing, and shedding human blood. And again we have seen a great city become a quiet home by means of the power of the grape and canister, discharged by Potomac veteran soldiers, that were hurried in multitudes from the war battle fluid to put down a political party, and a party, too, that were ii an alliance of sympathy with the great Southern treason.

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