A FAMILY PAPER DEVOTED TO THE NEWS OF THE DAY IN SOUTH DANVERS (PEABODY), MASSACHUSETTS
January 6 – June 29, 1864 - Part VI
Copperheads
About the South Danvers Wizard

Overview:  Jan.- July 1864

 About South Danvers (Peabody), Massachusetts

 

 South Danvers Wizard, 5/18/1864, p. 2/3
SERVED HIM RIGHT –“ A Copperhead in Biddeford, Maine expressed the hope that [Gen. Nathaniel] Banks was flogged in the late Red River campaign.  A Union man standing near who had a son in the Department of the Gulf, gently insinuated his fist between the pair of Copperhead eyes and tumbled them into the gutter.
     A similar expression was lately made by a South Danvers Copperhead, but we are sorry to add that he escaped a similar punishment.”

South Danvers Wizard, 6/29/1864, p. 2/7
CANDIDATE WANTED [Satire] – “Wanted, a Democratic candidate for the Presidency.  A cast-off General would be preferred – one who can be warranted to run well.  He must be sound on the Democratic Goose and be able to spell Con-sti-tu-tion without missing a letter. Anyone having the requisite qualifications, will please apply to the Examining Committee at Chicago on the 29th day of August next. None but Copperheads need apply.”