Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-07-05
A Model Democratic speech.

We condense the following account of the organ
ization OF Democratic Club, and speech deliv-
cred before H. from a letter received from our
Bourbon correspondent: 80 SIS
After considerable skirmishing in the election
of officers and the Club had been addressed by Mr..
Stephen Meredith loud calls were made for Capt.
Iied.ick. The Capt. arose and addressed the Club
in the following eloquent strain:
"Gentlemen, thank you for your favor ON This
as on all other occasions.
sThis is not the darkest day that ever I saw
The nomination offs A. Douglas has so animated
me that shall not get over il this side OF eternity
suppose you called me up to expose the huu,bug
gerry aud tomfoolery of odr enemies. They, the
hefred devils, pretend to want to free the ngSeFs
and to establish temperancc-lcing devils, cussed
set of hypccrites, with The exception of few old
abos-s,onists among them, who have l,bored longer
and harder than ever could have had the patience
to have done. / glory in them and their work
But the cusscd, internal devils. pretending to be
something and are nothing. Temperance, abcli-
ton cusscs in Disguise, they wanted to nominate
Seward for President, but they dare not, because it
could be proven that he had hand in the Harpcr's
f nv foray, 50 they nominated "0ld Abe" away
out yondcr who had nothing to do with that affair
"TLcy may beat us in voting. but if they do,
God will make it all right for us, as he did when
the Internal devils elected old Harrison. He was
an honest old man. have always believed since
that ne that God ovcrrufed the elections for our
good When old Abe is elected. if the cussed, in
lcrna devils do elect him, the dcvelish, hungry
pack of corrupt oficc-seckcrs will worry him to
death, as they did old Tip, and in six years the
Democrats will be stronger than ever.
"The Squattcr Sovereignty doctrine is the onl,
thing that will ever free the slaves In spite o.
all the hell fired, damnsbc cry Of the Priests and
hypocritic, professors and hellish Black Republi-
ems, all combined against DougI's, he is the per
lection of freedom and equal tights. Temperance
is a good thing, abolition is good thing. but car
prove to the Nethodists, 10y the New Testament
that slavery is right The Savior told the slaves
to be obeict to their masters, and the masters tc
use their slaves we'll. And can prove to the Bap
list that slavery is right, by the Old Testament.
"Thc hcliSh Priests and hyrocriticai professors
and the hell hounds OF Black Repu5Iieauism, haze
tried to put down enc gentleman in this place. who
has good right to sell Tquour as any othc'
man, to say nothing about another man that SELL
it within twenty rods Of him. They tried to pu
up another man by making Squire ofhim.
"Our Representative has been the chief howlc
in getting up that hclsh liquor law, that petit
fogscrs and politicians that cannot get into ofc,
might make money by IL, but he will DC VIC chic
mourner over /, vet. The whole of them will e
to tbs, devil together set of internal hyp
ocri,eS as they are-coriupt as Satan--in deca.
al--,sly- infested W TIL worms-a mongrcl mess
Temperance. abolition, know nothnsS- There vii
maggots drop off of the crssed, rot,cn. internal
danl.,atlc party that will weigh pound and hal
apiece" IGrcit laughter.