Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-08-28
What are the Facts?


What are the Facts? hslssp
Believing that party politics ough. to be
ignored during the war. and that all men
ought to unite in the work of crushing out
the rebellion. we have heretofore scrupu.
lousy avoided referring to the past party
affiliations oil volunteers in the army. But
the course Of the Vallandighammcrs has
been quite different While denouncing
the war. and throwing every possible EN-.
barrassment in the way Of its successful
prosecution, they have .constaatly and
boastfully proclaimed that the Democrats
had to do all the fighting; that the Repub-
licsns were towards and wouldn't fight
Vallandigham is his late speech at Dayton
claimed that four-fifths of the Volunteers
are Democrats: the State Sentinel. frs,
that over half are, and then that three
fourths are. More impudent and stupen.
dous and malicious falsehoods were never
uttered. Up to the late call for SOC, 00C
additional volunteers, at least two Repub.
licans TO one Democrat had volunteered in
this County snd Congressional District
The muster rolls and the personal knowl-
edge Of the people will bear ont this asser
ton. We do not ask our readers to say
or believe what proportion of Republicans
and Democrats have volunteered hundred.
or thousands Of miles away from them. but
we ask the question in reference 70 their
orn neigh5orhoods ,chere they haze PERSONA
knowledge of the facts, is not the proportion
as we have stated? As it has been in this
County and Congressional District, so has
it been in the Northern two-thirds Of this
State. and so has it been nearly oil over
the Free States. In not single Free
State have more Democrats volunteered
than Republicans; and we might add. in
scarcely a single Congressional District.
But since the late call for the goo. 0OC
additional volunteers, the disproportior
between the number of Democrats and
Republicans volunt eerins, has been largely
increased. The Vallandinghammers, &C.
tuated both by opposition to the war and
desire to carry the Fall Elections, now
rapidly approaching. have done all they
dared do to discourage aud prevent Dem.
ocrats from volunteering. They have done
this partly by sneers and insinuations. and
by false charges in regard to the cause. the
conduct, and the object of the War, and
partly BY appeals to them as Democrats to
remain at home TO vote down the Union
party, declaring this to be a higher duty
and Of greater importance than that OF
fighting Southern rebels. They have done
this, some Of them publicly; more Of them
privately and secretly. In this State. not
Vallandighammer has called war meet
ing: not q Vallandighammcr has address.
. war meeting. urging Democrats to volun-
teer; not Q Vsllandighammer. that we have
heard of. has offered through the public
prints to give SO many dollars to so many
volunteers. At the war meeting in thin
place. July Goth. the sum of 81. 463 was
subscribed 10 the volunteer fund, and oi
that amount only fhirtysfse dollars ,wsr,
subscribed by the supporters Of the social.
ed Democratic State Ticket. On the 9th.
er hand. the uncessing efforts Of Republi-
cans and other supporters Of the Union
Ticket to promote volunteering. sparing
neither labor nor money. is well known to
all. What has been the result of their &C.
ton, and the adverse action or nom action
Of the Vallanadighammers? Ofthe 5000
volunteers in this District. raised under Z he
late call for infantry. cavalry and artillery
service. less than one sixM are Democrats
and Of that siSth more Than half are iadvo-
Gates of the election of the Union State and
Congressional Tickets. Company after
Company have went into Camp at this
place with only from six to ten Democrats
in each. And ont Of this 5000. neither
Turpie nor the Jesse d. Bright State Tick
ct could get to exceed 100 votes. As il
nearly every District in the State. In con,
sequence Of this vast disproportion between
the number Of Republican and Democratic
volunteers, the valIandighammcrs, NON
boast that they will be able to carry even
the strongest Republican Counties and
! Districts in the State. And yet q speake,
at the Jesse ID. Bright Convention in thi,
place on Saturday last. and the Forum
had the unblushing impotence to claim
that over one half Of the volunteers arr
Democrats! 80
It's but justice to say that thousands o.
Democrats in this State during the War
in spite Of the adverse influences of the Jes
So D.. Bright Democratic leaders, hsv,
sunk party for the country's good. ant
have rushed to arms in defence 81 Oh,
Union: and Il is but Justice to them to fur
Their say that but precious few Of these ad
vocate or desire the, election of the Jess
D. Bright State, Congressional or Count,
nominees. Bstit Is no less due to tn
Republicans that they should be defended
from the unjust and false aspersions upol
their liberaiity. their courage, and thei
patriotism, made BY those who have don
all they could OF dared 90 to embarrass tn
succesafal psusssntjsn acfsthe War.-S
10. Register. -
* The above spplies Is wen TO Marshal
IS 81, Joseph County. We verify belisv
) ithat more than Eve Republicans TO on
Democrat have volunteered from Marshal
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