Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-16

may be so. but. Mr.. Democrat, isn't
it little unkind in you to tell it on
them.
Now. Sir. what has provoked this
righteous wrath?
In the first place. Democrats were
excluded from our meeting house." il
is said We will suppose they were.
was not their great prototype ex-
cluded from another place kept for sa-
cred puposes9 But fortunately, or IN
fortunately. this is a mistake. The
editor OF the True Republican go. the
impression probably from a converse
ton with myself, that Democratic
speakers had been excluded from our
church and so stated in his paper. but
the impression was an erroneous one.
The facts are these:
On the day referred to the Demo
cats had meeting at the school
house. which was plenty large enough
to accommodate the audience. so that
they did not need the Westinghouse,
and did not want it.
Jere Smith addressed the crowd for
some time in his peculiarly felicitous
style. convincing every body that he
was some in a-a-lubber lift If in no
other way.
r. NJ. Browne followed, and in a
few minutes his keen blade had ampu-
tated the "old sinner" all over, head
arms, and legs. leaving nothing but q
somewhat bulky trunk.
BY this time an audience of several
hundred. including many ladies'. had
assembled TO hear G.. w. Julian, and
the Republicans asked leave to occupy
the church, because there was no other
place where they could be accommo-
dated. 1t was readily grante'. for
which | am sure every Republican feels
much obliged. The Trustees of the
church are gentlemen Of intelligence
and moral worth, and whene, er a par
ty. whose speakers and press have for
years past made regular business of
abusing the Methodist ministry as a
set of "itinerant vagabonds and polit-
zeal ranters," shall con,lesccnd to ask
for the church, they will doubtless be
able to give an answer to suit them.
selves, whether it suits the Democrat
or not.
Cur next great offensc is. that on
the same evening we organized a Re-
publican Club, and in the preamble to
our Constitution charged the sham
Democracy with denying the princi-
Piles of our Declaration of Independ-
encc, with perverting the obvious
m.aning of our Constitution. with the
promulgat of disunion sentiments,
and with persistent efforts to convert
our Government into vast engine for
the propagation and pcrpetuation OF
Slavery So we did; and those charges
are true. every word Of them. But
we did not expect the Democrat to &C
knowledge their truth any more than
we expect man caught robbing his
neighbours hen-roost to plead guilty
before Court. The more evident the
guilt, the more vehement the denial
The great lights of the Democracy
may call the assumption that cal
men are created equal: that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain
inalienable rights" ETC., a self-evi
dent lie, may sheer at the Declaration
OF Independence as "string of glitter
ing generalities," may paraphrase it.
and so explain it as to make its au-
thors guilty of the meancst duplicity
before the world, and yet, Democrats
do not deny the principles of that in.
strumcntl Corrupt partizan Judges
may decide that the Constitution by
force Of its own words carries Slavery
into all our Territories, contrary to ju
dicial presidents. to the opinion Of it.
trainers. and TO the practice Of tn,
Government down to very recen
period. and the Democratic party may
eagerly embrace the dangerous dogma
and yet. Democrats do not pervert thu
meaning of the Constitution! TIL,
Democratic party, through its Repre-
sentativcs in the Thirty sixth Con
gress. may make the Capitol echo will
threats of disunion day after day fol
weeks in succession. and yet. Demo
Gratis DO not promulgate disunion sen
timents The Democracy may wiel,
the sword and the purse of the nation
to force Slavery upon an unwilling
people; and favor their prostitution t.
the purpose of robbing feeble neigh
boring power of its territory for tn
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of Slavery, and yet
it is not for the extension and perpet