Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-01-30
THE REPUBLICAN.
PLYMOUTH Ind. aH
Thursday, Jan. 30, 1869.
I. MATTINGLY. Editor.
That ELOQUENT Remark.

The following from the last Logansport
Pharos settles the matter in regard to the
authorship of the traitorous sentiment ut :
tered in the recent so called Democratic
State Convention, which the Indiana
Journal wrongfully charged Mr.. NJ. A. O.
Packard with uttering:
Under the head Of eloquent extract
the Republican papers. are publishing the
following denunciation Of the war which
they saw was attered by Mr.. Pa ,kard of
Marshall county. in speech in the Dem
ocratic State conventions: f4
:" This is an ABOLITION, THROAT T-CUTrISG,
NEGRO STEALING, COUNTRY DESTROYING
WARP .ffr-..
1t is the design Of the Republican papers
to fasten upon the Democratic Convention
the odium Of opposition to the war. To
effect this. they charge that the resolutions
are anti-war. and that the convention was
anti-war-an and that the resolutions met the
approval Of the anti-war faction. a.Iet.
Unfortunately for the Republican papers
which indulge in such gross misrcpresen-
tations Of the Democratic convention and
its designs. the facts do not tally with
their assertions. We admit that there
were men in the convention who were anti
war- and desired the Democratic party to
take a position against the war. They la
bored to produce such an unpatriotic result
but signally failed. Their indignation
was so intense that, after denouncing the
resolutions as committing the Democratic
PARTY in Indiana to the support Of the war.
and declaring they would not vote for can
didates on such a platform. several of them
left the convention. The utteranoe by q
delegate from Marshall county in the con-
vention Of language similar to that attrib-
uted TO MIR. Packard. and the circumstan.
ces under which il was uttered, affords con
elusive evidence Of the want Of truth III
the wholesale charges that the Democrat
ic Convention took grounds against the
war. In the Marshall county delegation
was delegate who desired to have the res
olutions of the convention denounce the
war. He was indignant at the failure oI
the attempt to commit the Democratic
party against the war as his sympathizer:
who in reasonable disgust bolted from tho
convention.
While the vote was being taken upor
the adoption of the resolutions, Marshal
County was called. asd Charles III. Reeve.
said that he was opposed to the resolu
tions because they endorsed this throat
cutting. picket shooting. abolition war
that he wished to vote against them-bu
as all the other delegates from Marshall 70
whom Mr. Packard was one) were oppo
scd to his view Of the matter he had I,
cast the vote Of the county for the resolu
tions.
This is a statement OF the substance o
the matter which will not be denied b,
any man in the Convention. Instead
then. OF the unparriotic remark indicating
that the Convention and the resolution
were against sustaining the Government il
all Constitutional and lawful efforts to pm
down the rebellion, it proves that the Con
ventinn. and the resolutions favored tn
nse of AL Constitutional and Statesman
like efforts to restore the Union as the pa
triots of l776 framed it."
! The PAaros in the above denounces hi
friend Reeve and all who entertain simila
sentiments as severely as we could were W
to try. Were we to intimate that his pc
s:tion in regard to the war was unpatri
otic and REASONABLE. he would doubles
be offended and say we slandered him. bu
his brother Democrat ofthe Pkaros make
the charge boldly. We leave the publ
to fecide between the accuser and accused