Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1876 — INTERCONVERTIBLE COPPERHEADISM. [ARTICLE]

INTERCONVERTIBLE COPPERHEADISM.

At Remington, on last Saturday, a loud-talking independent-green-back advocate declared publicly to an audience of six or eight voters, in Messrs. Johnson & Johnson’s store, that “a copperhead is just as good as a republican;” and that Mr. Tilden and Mr. Hendricks With their infamous war record were as fit to be president and vice president of the United States as any loyal men of the north. This sentiment fairly iepresents the true inwardness of those who oppose the republican party in the second great struggle of tbe rebel element to obtain control of the govirnment. Should any union democrat or any independent voter doubt the accuracy of tbe statement above made, he is referred to Mr. Mahlon Johnson, Mr. Charles M. Johnson, and Mr. Wm. H. Henkte who will be able to give the names of three or four other gentlemen who also beard the remark made and deliberately repeated once or twice. ♦‘A copperhead is just as good as a republican” was the opinion of that ardent Peter Cooper independent refonn-greenback-interconverti-ble-deniocrat. If they dared, that class of Peter Cooper worshipers would shout for Jeff Davis and repudiation.