Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1856-11-27
70 the Democracy of the United States.
NATIONAL Dem COMMITTEE RooMs.)
NOVEMBER 6. 1856.

luz trust VI cOnuuctlnc the national
canvass, conided to the Democratic Ma
tional Resident Committee, has been dis
charged with the fidelity which the honor
and the exigency of tina. trust alike de-
manded, and the committee has to unite Its
congratulations with your own in announc
ing the success of the Democratic ticket,
by very decided and gratifying majority
The struggle is over, and the Union is
safe. Ours is, indeed, a new and signal
triun ph. Heretofore cur victories have
been achieved over those wh,, like our
selves, were friends Of the Union. This
has been conquest over its enemies
Heretofore, our antagonists have contended
with fraternal eagerness for the honor OF
promoting the progress, or of insuring the
duration of the republic. Those whom we
have just vanquished, sought, under 9
treacherous adherence to the forms of the
constitution, to rob it of all of its essence
and vitality. The principles of the Dem
ocratic party having become the establish
ed policy of the federal government, it be-
came necessary for its enemies to organize
some new AMI desperate combination to
overthrow it. An unnatural alliance be-
tween fanaticism and venalty, has engen-
dered monster which the Democratic par
ty has, with great peril, sought out and de-
stroyed.
That monster was sectionalism.
The circumstances under which the evil
originated, were peculiar. The land had
been clouded by a miasma of error The
belief that one part of the Union had been
invaded by the institution of another, and
that the federal government had lent its
power to promote this injustice, had spread
with epidemical rapidity. 1t had been in
jected into the circulation of the popular
thought with al the force of an unscrupu-
lous press. and was spread broadcast over
the land by the whole representative infu-
ence. 1t seemed at one time almost in
vain to pursue with the antidote Of truth
and reason this venemous error as it sped
through the channels of public opinion.
Our enemies had chosen their ground
with skill; they had recruited their ranks
with all the influences which would com
bine an army. They proclaimed the ultI-
mate abolition of slavery as the incentive
to the fanatic--the division of the spoils as
the reward of the mercenery. The pretend
ed invasion of a sacred right constituted
their appeal 10 those with patriotic impul-
ses, whilst a feigned regard for the Union
was to secure the support or neutrality of
all whose material interests were involved
IN Its duration. These devices had organ
lied a formidable array. Masses of honest
and earnest men were deluded by the teach
ers whom they had trusted into the belief
that their government had betrayed and
their fellow citizens had oppressed them.
Diyines, girded with the sword and clothed
with the authority Of the Gospel, preached
bloody resistance to the laws as the most
acceptable service to God. Woman quit
ted her peaceful station to animate with her
apprehensions those 10 whom her wishes
are ever a command; and the youth, indoc-
trinated by wiley managers, responded with
enthusiasm TO false appeals addressed to
their innate and generous hatred of oppo-
sition. Politicians speculated philosophi-
cally upon the capacity of the Constitution,
caring only to know whether its native
strength of structure would bear the agita-
ton necessary TO secure the success Of their
nefarous schemes, and still leave enough of
stability to insure their enjoyment
1t was the purpose Of these conspirators
to secure possession of the government if
it perished--as Unjust have perished--in
their grasp. It was their purpose to inau-
gurate the North as The dominant section
The rule of eligibility was to De obedience
to the sway ard conforplity to the opinions
of the dominant section. The subiugation
of Ireland by force, division, and bribery
was to be reproduced upon this continent,
and the Southern States were to be reduced
to mere provincial appendage of the fede
raj government. Such was the plan, and
disunion must have followed its accom-
plishmeut. Southern men would have
only differed as 10 the hour and mode of
separation. The cement which binds the
fabric of the Union would have lost its CO.
hesicn in the fires Of the conflict, and the
majestic fabric would have crumbled and
fallen into ruins, never again to be recon-
structed.
Never was the republic in such peril
Never were the friends of the Union, from
any sufficient existing grievance, less pre-
pared to have apprehended conspiracy SO
atrocious- But those to whom you had
committed the. safety Of the republic were
faithful to their trust. The Democratic
party was, by common consent, acknowl-
edged to be the sole party of the Union,
and was charged with its defence. Sound
and truthful documents adequate to the
emergency, were prepared, and circulated
to an extent scarcely inferior to that Of the
errors they were intended to counteract.-
Able and eloquent orators were impressed
into the service of the Union. They re-
sponded with an alacrity worthy that which
their ancestry had repaired to the battle
field in the same holy cause. Never was
there more harmony in the Democratic
cause. Never did patriots of every party
earn more true glory than when they en-
rolled themselves il the recent canvass
under the banner of Democracy, and
marched to the fight for the salvation OF
the Union.
Fellow-cifizens, the contest is, for the
present, over. The Democratic party is
again in control of the government. twill
have ample opportunity to convince those
who have been misled, that its only object
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