The Copperhead press
out west bloviated in favor of peace, and, and endorsed the Peace Commissioners
and the peace programme of the loafing diplomats at Niagara, and denounced the
President without stint. But the New York World—which has more sense if not
more patriotism than these Copperhead thumb-wipers of Jeff. Davis’s myrmidons—was
not to be caught in such a transparent net.
It saw through the rebel scheme of Sanders & Co. to strengthen the
peace wing of the party at Chicago, and denounces and ridicules it in unsparing
terms. The World says:
We are convinced
that there is no sincerity in any of the parties to this singular
transaction. The rebels naturally feel a
deep interest in our presidential election, and their emissaries are in Canada
with a view to influence its result. The
unflinching purpose of their leaders is separation, and to this end they are
plotting to divide the Democratic party at Chicago, as they divided it at
Charleston in 1860.
And the World is anxious to repudiate the entire transaction, and to
place the odium of the negotiation upon other parties, and thus closes its
editorial on the transaction which constitutes the chief stock in trade of the
dunderhead, copperbottomed politicians hereabouts. The editor of the World says:
Since writing the above we have received the papers that passed in this
odd negotiation; and, if the subject were not to serious for laughter, we
should go into convulsions. That dancing
wind-bag of popinjay conceit, William Cornell Jewett, has achieved the
immortality he covets; he has reversed the adage about the mountain in labor
bringing forth a ridiculous mouse—the mouse has brought forth this ridiculous
mountain of diplomacy. This is Jewett’s
doings, and it is marvelous in our eyes!
He got Greeley and the President’s private secretary to the Falls on a
fool’s errand, and made even the President an actor in this comedy; he has bade
each of them play the part so well suited to himself, of
—“A tool
That knaves do work
with, called a fool.”
Sublime impudence of George Sanders!
Enchanting simplicity of Colorado Jewett! “But—ah!—him”—how, oh benevolent Horace,
shall we struggle with the emotions (of the ridiculous) that choke the utterance
of THY name? Greeley and Jewett—Jewett and
Greeley; which is Don Quixote and which is Sancho Panza?
SOURCE: The Daily Gate City, Keokuk,
Iowa, Tuesday, July 26, 1864, p. 1
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