Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-10-04


1t is not to be expected that Democrats viii
ferret out and expose the peculations Of
their own party friends. They viii rather
try to cover them up and keep them hid
from the people.
We cannot in this article specify the
thousand cases Of fraud. robbery. pecula-
tions, extravagance. bribery and ,corrup-
ton of the most damning character that
have been proven upon the National Sham
ocratic Administration by incontestiblc
testimony. We cannot believe that a ma
jority of the people Of Marshall county
will sanction by their votes such corrupt
and nefarious party. Power has corrupt
ed them anil unless they are now rebuked
they win by their extravaganza and cor
rup'ions ovcrturn AMI destroy the govern
mcnt.
In or,ler to divert the attention of the
people from themselves they charge the
Republican party with Icing in favor of
negro equality. Negro Equality is the be-
ginning and end of all their stump orations.
They charge that the quotation from the
Declaration Of Independence in the Rcpub-
lican Platform proves that we arc in favor
of negro equality. If SO does it not also
prove that our Revolutionary Fathers were
also? Most certainly it does. Then. free
men Of Marshall. will you allow such up
starts to slander the illustrious dead who
bequeathed to us the priceless boon Of lib
erty. without giving them proper rcbuke?
The Shamocratic is the only party that
has ever extended the right OF voting to
the negro in this country. 1t is the only
party that has ever elevated a man to the
second highest Office in the nation that had
a negro wife! We publish an extract in
another part of our paper to-day which
specifies more particularly when and where
the Shamocracy have extended the right
of voting to the negro. 1t proves Leyond
cavil that the Shamocracy were once in ia
vor Of negro equality. whatever may be
their sentiments now. They once pretend
cd to be the especial friends OF naturalizcd
citizens and charged the Republicans with
being Know Nothing! But finding they
could not longer deceive the honest. inteli-
gent Germans with the false charge. they
have not only ceased to make the a'legati n
bat have actually formed union with he
Know Nothings themselves. thus proving
how hollow and insinccrc are all their pro,
fessions. ln 6
! But this is not the only instance in which
the Shamocracy have demonstrated to the
world the hollowness and insincerity of its
professions. The Douglas wing pratc loud
and long in favor of Popular Sovereign
/ ty." which. in 1856. they explained tn
mean 1.-THE right Of the people of terrific
ry to establish their own institutions IN
their own way. without any interference or
the part of Congress" We understand
Douglas still. in his stump speeches since
his nomination. to advocate the popular
Sovereignty" doctrine. yet, he admits tn,
rights Of the people in the Territories arc
subject to the restrictions imposed by the
: Supreme Court. Read the following rcso
luton. which composes part of the Bal
timore platform: i
Resolved, That it is in accordance with
: the Interpretation Of the Cincinnati Plat
form. that during the existence Of the Ter
/. fitorial Governments, the measure Of res
trirf;on. whatever it may be. imposed by
the Federal Constitution on the power o
the Territorial Legislatures over the s1b
: ject Of the domestic relations. as the am,
has been. or shall hereafter be. finally de
termined by the Supreme Court of III,
United States. should be respected by al
good citizens and enforced with prompt
| ness and fidelity by every branch of the
General Government.
Does this not sound more like "Judicia
Sovereignty" than Popular Sovereign
typ We could recite numberlcss othe
facts showing the base hypocrisy and in
sincerity of Mr. Douglas and his party il
their professions. bnt these must suffice fo
the present. s
T A few words more in regard to our coun
ty affairs, and We will bring this article t.
. close: O.
We showed last year during the canvass
that the most reckless extravaganza had
prevailed in the management of the county
0 finances; that the Clerk alone had bough
{ o438 worth Of books and stationery fol
his Office for the year previous, endin,
june 1. 1859. nearly twice the amount ex
8 pended by the Republican Clerk of St
{ Joseph for such articles. and that the sg
grcgate amount expended that year by tn
8 Democratic officers for books and station
: cry was e940, or over one third mon
: than was expended for similar purpos
1 in the rich and populous county of St. 10
a seph. We also proved that it cost 800.
. to appraise the real estate of Marshall
> or 1854 more than it cost St. Joseph Il
have her real estate appraised. Here tn