Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1861-11-14
A Bone for Platt-itude and
his Coadjutors to Gnaw.

his Coadjutors to Gnaw.
The last New Albany Ledger. in an ar
ticle opposing the holding of Democrat
ic State Convention on the Sth of Janua-
ry next. tosses the following bone to our
neiehbor and other secession editors to
gnaw:
Papers which denounce Democrats as
traitors to the party because they accept
commissions from the Governor aud Pres
ident to fight the rebels. are in favor of
Convention. becaus they hope to control
it, and we think it quite possible they may
be able to do so if the Convention is held
in January. So far as the two banner
Democratic Districts are concerned, they
will have between eight and ten thousand
Democrats in the ranks of the army by the
first of January. and we know that these
men. and their fathers and brothers who
are at home. cannot be placed on a plat
form squirting towards dishonorable
peace, nor will they vote for candidates
who will accept nominations upon such .
platform. We doubt not such will be
found to be the case with Democrats all
over the State. though of course not to so
great an extent. for they have not SO many
men in the field.
Democrats! We must rescue our par.
ty from the clutches of men who would
pervert it to the basest and most unpatriot-
ic purposes-men who invite into your
councils the fag ends of every faction.
whether they ever gave a Democratic vote
or not--men who think that the only OBJ
ject for which the Democratic party was
created was to supply them with fat Offices.
You know that we have no wish to de-
ceive you. and that :he object for which we
have lsbored from boyhood, and for which
we expec. to continue to labor, here in
Southern Indiana. has been the success of
Democratic principles But there is dan.
ger nosc, greater than ever before. that q
fatal error will be committed. and it is
your duty to avert it. and teach lesson to
those who seek to make the Democratic
party the apologist Of treason"
Platt-itude. we imagine. will not be able
to gnaw much meat off this bone. and will
have to call in the assistance of his advi-
sers or owners. We agree with the Ledg-
er that there is great danger that the Dem
ocra,ic party will be made the instrument
of inlicting greater evils than ever before
upon the country. 1t has been the m cans,
while protesting to be in favor of gold
and silver currency. Of flooding the land
with worthless shin-plasters. Itwss made
the instrument of breaking down the Mis-
souri, compromise ana causing all the sgi-
tation that ensued on the slavery question.
1t was the medium by which the rebellion
was promoted and encouraged. ;. and what
more fitting act to crown its career of infa-
my, outrage. hypocrisy and injustice than
for-it to become the apologist of treason?
The better way is for every patriot to
abandon the old rotten party. and annihi--
late the effete organization root and branch
1t has committed SO many outrages
and crimes that it stinks in the nostrils of
every honest man not blinded by party
prejudice. Its Very name has become the
synonym of hypocrisy. infamy and treason.
Then why should not every patriot aban-
don it? Patriots cannot unite in an or
ganization designated by such an infamous
mare as Democrat has become. The very
thought sickens our soul. Let the patriots
of both parties form great Union party.
and after the rebellion is supp,essed. see
If we cannot reform our institutions so as
to prevent the party rancor and bitterness
that has eliminated at last in rebellion and
internecine war. There are many reforms
needed. but this is no time to discuss them.