Saturday, December 6, 2008

The Copperheads of Indiana . . .

. . . met in convention Tuesday last.

Joseph E. McDonald was nominated for Governor and David [Surfae] for Lieutenant Governor. Some think they will adopt a moderate, slow and easy war policy.

Resolutions were passed denouncing arbitrary arrests, suppression of the writ of habeas corpus, and the press, and favoring a speedy peace and prompt payment of the soldiers and complimenting the troops.

A resolution endorsing Vallandigham and pledging the State to stand by him was lost amid much confusion and a substitute adopted pledging the Democracy to maintain civil and personal liberty at all hazards.

– Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, Saturday, July 16, 1864

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