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A species of snake. In the intensity of feeling during the Civil War, Northern men who were suspected of sympathising with the secessionists were stigmatized as copperhead. Many political terms, born of derision, acquired respectability; but it was not so in this case, and after the passions of the war had cooled off, the term was dropped.
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With the beginning of the war, the Democratic party split into two factions: the Peace Democrats and the War Democrats. The former were opposed to the Republican (Lincoln's party) scheme to crush the South, and they gained power in 1861 and 1862, when northern hopes for quick victory were dim. The War Democrats, some of them having become Republicans, and many of them having accused Peace Democrats of virtual treason, won out in the end. ...
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