Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1858-12-09
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The above is the heading Of IN
article in the. True Republican" from
whieh we take the following extracts.
We commend ii 10 the readers Of the
Journal:
But the sslieSt feature in the por-
trait of cur blindness is the fact that
1t had no excuse, and can find no
palliation. Douglas. since his con-
spiracy to blast with slavery an empire
that our fathers had msde free. h.s
never shown the smai,est respect for
our principles. He has Al al time.
stood squsrely on the platform Of his
party. lie has never manifested .
single. Anti-Slavery sympathy. He
has never uttered one word for Free-
dom. He has written himself down
as an lnffdel TO the truths of the
Declaration Of independence. In
dealing with liberty and slavery he
has applied the Gospel of Devil take
the hindmost. No man in the Irn;or
hates the negro race with q more
whitening and malignant hatred than
ne; nor is there dough-face in all the
land more utterly uncircumc;sed in
heart He has a; no time proysssed TO
believe in any part of the Republican
faith, but has uniformly treated il in
the style os blackguard. His
political creed is so perfectly satanic.
that the worst fre-eatcrs and "sala-
manders" in the South even prefer
him to Buchanan. In all his speeches
in the late canvass. he has exhib;,ea
more of the demagogue than the
statesman, more of the rufisn than
the gentleman. Young. gifted. untir-
ing in energy. inordinately selfish. Of
unbounded ambition. and in a rare
degree lacking in moral principle. he Is
pre-eminently fit for the errands Of
slave-breeding Democracy. and pre-.
eminently unworthy Of Republican
sympathy. lie is the incarnation of
all that is most offensive and revolving
in the creed and practice Of his party
as exhibited in it's readiness TO bend
It's craven back under the shick-cominr
exactions of the Slave holding Class.
Far more than any other single man
in the Union. does he unite in bimself
those qualities that should make him
at once feared and hated by the Re-
publican party: af 'rif
The time has come, certainly. for
Republicans to say so. If we w;sh 70
drive from power the propagandists Of
slavery. we must fortify our weak
points, and lombard the strong ones
of the enemy. We must dislodce
from the minds Of Republicans their
false teaching. and cast out from their
hearts every vestige Of their sickly and
misplaced sympathy for the man who
has been their worst foe. We must
cease any longer 70 leave undone the
things we onght to do. and do The
things we ought not TO have lest
undone; and this work can not be
begun too soon, or prosecuted too
pefseveringly. We should rejoics to
see the author Of the Nebraska Bill!
and the champion of the Dred Scott
decision and Cincinnati platform dealt
with according to his re al deserts: and
1t would be equally gratifying 10 find
those Of our brethren taking the lead
in this service. whose completely in
his elevation over an able and trus
Republican. places them under peculiar
ooi'gatlons to atone for the stab thus
given to the cause of freedom. Tho
New York Tribune has already ceased
to express sympathy for Douglas. or
TO occupy an equivocal position: let
the Republican press of Indiana and
of the Northwest break its prudential
fetters, and henceforth give ont no an.
certain sound. Let us a. once rscor /.
nizc the fact that the enemy we have
TO meet Is not the efFete and crumb-
ing dynasty of James Buchanan. but
the living rampant party. of which
Douglas is the center and the soul; and
thai however anxiously we may have
desired a different marshaling of forces.
the battle we have to fight is between
tho Republicans and the Douglas
Democrats Of the United States.