Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-08-07
By Their Works We Know Them.

NO one man, or set OF men. welding
comparatively small influence. can expect
to give tone and position TO party
II may be attempted, for local purposes.
by small politicians, for the purpose of
gaining home influence when public senti-
ment runs strongly against them; and it
may be that some men Of undesigning
disposition. who arc blinded by party pref
udices, will undertake to create the impress
ION that their personal opinions are the same
as those of the party with which they are
identified. and on'account of their simplicity
of mind and contracted means of informa-
ton candidly believe they are not misrsp-
resenting their party in the least.
There are two classes of men from whom
we cannot expect truthful expositions of
party faith: first, the local official aspirants
who must tone his political opinions in
consonancs with public sentime mt. If he
would succeed; and. secondly. those men
who. possessing less than ordinary inteli-
gence. very naturally think that because
they are honest in their intents and pur-
poses. their party must necessarily be.
The class to whom we must look as rep
resentation men-as opponents of party
faith. are those who. entertaining national
views and occupying high administrative.
legislative, or executive positions, cannot
be influenced by local sentiment: but. on
the Other hand, fr,m their prominent po-
sitions expect to control il not create it.
These are the men who express doctrines
we must accept as the true principles Of
the party to which they belong.
We accept this position. in its general
sense. for the Republican party. and it
must apply with equal force and perspic-
uousness to the Democratic. IfTrumbull.
Wade, Seward. Banks and Colfax, are
representative men in the Republican par
ty. Bright. Vallandigham. Wickliffe. Car
Isle and Voorhees, must be regarded as the
true opponents of Democratic faith.
And why should we not regard these
leading men as the true opponents of their
party faith. when it is q self-evident fact
that they are the men rho hare the powsr.
and exercise IL. of inoeuioting the isms Of
their party creed into our national larss
Local political aspirants may tell us
what they please. in regard to the objects
of the Democratic party: or explain the
principles Of the party in manner to suit
themselves; but the intelligent voter knows
that the politicians success in many cases
depends on prevarication or total suppress
sion of truth.
The public know that on the 30th nit.
the Democracy Of the State of Indiapa,
met at Indianapolis in Convention: that
their leading speakers were Wickliffe OF
Kentucky. and Carlisle Of Western yir.
gin;a--SoM ererted their influence against The
expulsion of the traitor Bright 4, ON his seal
in the United States Senate. Wickliffe
has two sons and three or four nephews in
the rebel army. Carlisle is slave holde,
Of more than ordinary bitterness, and SO
disloyal in sentiment that some OF the
slave-holding communities in Western
Virginia have held meetings and petitioned
him to resign. They both express them.
selves ss more favorable to . dissolution
of the union, than o Government interior.
ence with Slavery. They both made ar
insulting reply to the Presidents earnest
and humane propositions looking to the
emancipation of slaves in the Border States
iH.inating that under certain contingencie.
they would resist. and advise their friend.
to resist, the requirements Of the President
and thus become traitors in act as well al
in sentiment. They both opposed thu
emancipation Of slavery in the District o
Columbia; both took . decided stand
against the passage Of the Homesteat
Bill; and, during the whole Of the past ses
sion, did oil that lay in their power t
y weaken the hands of the Administration
and strengthen those of the re bells in arm,
against the Government. These men ART
both members of the United States Senate
and leaders in the National Democratic par
~. These men were invited to come t.
Indiana and teach Hoosiers what Democ
rscy means; and these men were publicly
endorsed by the resolutions schieh emenatee
from that Democratic Convension. Who
could desire more convincing argument,
Of the disloyalty Of the Democrats IN thil
State?