Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-03-08

any such thing7 In the language of .thc dscis-
linc," the Democratic party has created debt
without having a reasonable prospect of ever pay.
ing it.
Why has the debt existed At alI?- There is one
fruitful source Of corruption in kmsls. 1t was
necessary to send an army of three thousand armed
soldiers to Kansas, do wlIat7 To enable the
people of Kansas, in the language of the Kansas
Nebraska bill, to form and regulate their domestic
institutions in their own way. Excessive laugh
terl For fear that they would not do this thing,
three thousand armed troops are sent there to
make the people do they please. IA voice
."FIit him agiin.'' Much laughter and some ap-
plause.l That is strange demonstration it seems
to me. A roice-"A Democratic cut'l Some
six eight millions spent TO force the Lee
compton Constitution, all odiOus it was reeking
as it was with corruption and stained with blood,
upon the necks of an unwilling people We re
sisted it, your members of Congress resisted it, and
for that We and they are Abotionis.s. II know
myself, love the constitution of my country and
the Union of the States. venerate the fathers of
the Republic to whom We owe this rich inheritance
of civilization. freedom and glory which blesscs
comm)n country, and would not sustain their ac-
ton by going athwart ali their teachings, by for
cling Oh unwilling pcoplea Constitution that they
never desired.
How much the passage of the English bill cost
the Government, one will know until the great
day of final account.
must remind you here that we are not now at
the beginning of great contest. Our banners sail
aloof i'll triumph and we now TO receive the
fruits of that triumph, if We but true to our
selves, and if we do not give up ourselves to ask
impracticable things, and TO go off to sympathizc
with treason aud murder.
But to continue. Why this debt. There is tho
Utah expedition, cost of about nine or ten mill
ions. with what RESULT Is Mormonism less prey
alent now than when the contest commenced3
In the dead of winter, four thousand troops were
marched across the Wilderness to DO what? To
put down what Mr.. Buchanan said the Terrific
ry was in a state of rebellion. Well, after sending
these men there at an expence of nine millions of
dollars, it suddenly struck him that he had better
send commissioners and see If rebellion did exist
He sent Governor Powell, of Kentucky and Mr.
McCaNogh, of Tennessee, and they saw Brigham
Young, stayed all night and made peace in IN.
morning before breakfast, and Mr.. Buchanan back
ed down from his proclamation.
Gentlemen, we owe that to Democracy az well
as the bright sunshine which covers tie earth this
day. Laughter and great applause
Now look to the Paraguay expedition, where
Buchanan sent al the armament he could raise by
land Or by sea into the center of South America at
an expense Of millions upon millions What was
the trouble down thercl Yankee captain un.
dertook the navigation Of the river Amazon, and
IRON the shore some OF the tawny sons of South
America, made up OF ngger, Indian, Dutch and
Irish, fired on his ship. He claimed damages
Well, Buchanan sent his men therefor wlat1--
Well, don't know; but the half naked people by
their President agreed 10 pay thousand dollars
damages, and We paid out several millions to get
il.
Look again at the printing investigation. A
committee is in session az Washington, composed
mainly Of Democrats, and that commit tee finds that
under the printing contracts the Government has
been regularly swinded to carry elections for the
Democratic party. In other words they have been
ste ding the p-o ,es money t. carry their own cec-
cctions
! This is an honest exposition. / would not give
anything else. God knows, / practced law too
long for that. Long continued laughter 1t is
far exposition of the present position of the DEM
ocratc party in relercnc TO the finance of the coun
trr.
PREDICTIONS
may rientlonhcre now that there was proph.
ecy male in reference to myself many years ago,
and as it interests the ladies' and young gentlemen
very much, will mention it here. 1t was sup
posed, if should be elected your Governor for
four years, there would be more happy marriages
contracted in Indiana daring these four years, than
in any sixteen years of Democratic rule. have
no doubt such would be the fact [Grcat laugh.
: teri
There has recently sprung up new testof Dem.
ocracy in the South. Many Of the politicians there
are in favor of disunion. The Republican party
never gave birth to such n traitor a disunionist.
Do you ever hear Republicans or Americans cycr
tllking in favor of disunion7
The Wing party was true to the Union too. The
first cry OF dlsunlOn was in Carolina, it was DEM
ocratc disease, and it had Democratic physician;
and if General Jackson had hanged a few of them
We should have been better off to-day. Loud ap-
piausel
During the last sixty days more than fifty disun-
ion speeches have been made in the Congress of
the United States, 10y Southern gentlemen and
Northern men and Douglas men have not had the
manliness or backbone to rcbukc this SENTIMENT
They sympathze with the senti nent so far as ST.
lence makes them guilty.
Is disunionism the doctrine that is TO govern
this country? Have gentlemen reflected upon the
effect and consequences which hang upon dis
solution of the American Union. Have they
thought Of it! Have they remembered that this
is the last asylum of the oppressed and downtrod-
den! l say We should stand, and we will stand by
, this Union. What would the South gain by dis
solution of the Union!
What is the great cause of contcution7 Ono
cause is the escape of slaves into the free States.
If YOU remove the Canada line FIVE hundred miles
to the Ohio river, you not that is five hundred
fold more dangerous to the South? But this is
not question of dollars and cents. 1t is the high
est question in morality and politics which ever
engaged the attention of the American people, for
in the destiny of this people is bound up the pro
grcss and destiny of the human in all time to
coine' iAo" "outu u emu. IL Woeiu 20 on until
We have thirty forty hostile confederates exi t.
ing side By side. Do you desire to make the Ohio
river boundary between Kentucky and Indanal
Do you desire to divorce from the graves of our
: fathersl
SLAVE TRADE.
Another beautiful theory has been started re-
Gently in the South, and that is that it is necessary
to reopen the slave trade. Not content with scat
tering the bghting curse Of slavery orer the vir-
gin territory of the Union. they must open up the
slave trade, which has been declared piracy by the
united voice of Cristendom; they ask US again to
the horrors of 'the middle passage" that We
may extend the. area of freedom. We object to
this, as all honest men must .--
, PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCES.
Gentlemen, our men are much divided in opin-
ion in reference to their preferences for President Of
!, the United States We have mapy able and dis
tnguished men. and il is, perhaps, time that each
gentleman should gire an honest frank opinion a.
, to hs own preferences I have no concealment
this matter. will tell you who am for for Pres
dent of the United States, without any Disguise
, am for that honest aud eloquent, conservative
and very pure statesman and peerless orator-fhcro
1 several persons rose and called out "Batcs.
Bates, who shall be nominated at the Chicago
Convention. Laughter and immense applause.l
, Now gentlemen, j have laid aside all worldly
for the purpose of trying to redeem the State;
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