Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-11-20

- Since the inauguration of the present re-
belIion no officer in the Federal army has
ever received word of censure from The
Democratic party or their newspapers for
not prosecuting the war with more vigor
On the contrary. every Dem ocrasic officer
who has. entered the army. and by speech
and acts shown. himself to be in favor of q
vigorous prosecution Of the war. has been
either quietly abandoned by his party OF
denounced as an Abolitionist What do
these things show? Need we ask an en-
frightened community? Such. .. spirit on
their Part exhibits nothing less than deep
seated enmity to our present Republican
form of Government. and q feeling oil
warm sympathy for tho cause in which the
rebels areengaged. Rather than have the
Union restored by Republican Admins
tration, and their friends in the South con-
oquered by Republican Commsnder-in-
Chief. they would joyfully see the rebellion
succeed and the Government shattered to
atoms. 1t is the great wish of the Demo-
cratic party that they may be able to effect
q restoration of the Union on some basis
which will strengthen their party SO that
they may again be enabled to WELD the
reins Of Government in accordance with
their own plans and principles.
We caadidly believe. notwithstanding
the popular cry with tie Democratic party
OF the Constitution as il Isl, they would
be willing to alter that Constitution to any
.eoaceivable extent, if by so doing they
could be the means CT restoring the Union
of the States. They would be willing to
give still greater protection to slavery; the
repeal Of all territorial organizations ex-
GLIDING slavery. and Constitutional guar
.sutee of protection to slavery in oil the ter
rito-ies Of the United States. The Demo
cratic party would readily agree. N consid
Grafton ofthe South returning to their al
slegisnce. that the Northern States should
bear the expenses of the war. and amply in
demnify the South for the destruction Of
AT public and private property by our fed
.eral armies. Such An agreement would
entail b1rthen Of indebtedness ON the peo-
pie Of the Northern States which would to-
tally bankrupt them in less than ten years
IAN obligation greater than the present tax
would inaict were it quadrupled and then
multiplied by ten; but these sufferings
would be nothing. in their estimation,
in comparison with the restoration to pow
!er of the Democratic party. Another
very skillful and equally disloyal move is
stheir cowardfy. fallscious snd reasonable
attacks on the Tax Law and the Tariff
Bills. The Democratic party know that
,buI for these Bills the Government would
fill te pieces under its own weight; We
swo1ld have no foreign credit; no revenue;
no means whatever to meet the current ex-
.penses Of the war. We would be placed
in very similar position to that of . pen
sniless pauper undertaking to conduct an
expensive lawsuit. Our revenue derived
from the Tax Law and the Tariff keep our
.tereign credit good. and without it our
Treasury notes. which are SO thickly scat
tered among as. and held in such high re-
spute. would be worth little more than the
paper on which fhey are printed. The
Democratic party are well aware that ifthe
people should repudiate the Tax Law the
Government would be . powerless suppl
ant at the hands of rebeldom. and iris Is
ss6y they ,ccge such an uneeasiny ~or a.
.gainst Il. And yet all these protestations
Of love and treason by the Democratic par
ty for the rebels, are received in secession
dom in spirit of the most contemptuous
.sridiculc. The rebels well know the basely
corrupt motives which actua:e the Demo
Gratis in the matter. and like Oliver Cron-
well they "love the treason but they hate
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