Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-09-04

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Democrats Read This. semsa
j. w. Sheahan the bosom friend and bi-
ographer of the lamented Douglas-and
the editor OF the Douglas Organ--the
Chicago Post, sound genuine Democratic
paper, in an article headed "what will the
Convention do" gives the eighth of Janu-
airy 30th-of-July Democrats some pretty
hard rubs. We copy the article in full
for their bene6t. ls46fi es.a.g sgj
A Democratic State Convention has
been called, to meet on the 18th of Sep
tember next. There is much anxiety felt
as to what that convention will .do.- The
anxiety is not as to whether this or that
man may be nominated for this or that Of
fce. but what course will the convention
adopt in the shape Of resolutions. A
Democratic State convention was recently
held in Indiana; the resolutions were abso-
lutely disgraceful. We say just what we
mean They are disgraceful to those en-
gagged in framing them. disgraceinl to those
adopting them, and insulting to the great
Democratic party. We do not mean any
particular resolution, nor the language
used in any or all of them, but we mean
the half-hiaden sympathy and respect for
the rebellion and its Infamous actors which
characterize the whole series. We speak
OF what was not said. as well as what was
said. When the unfortunate, crazy and
criminal John Brown committed his raid
into Virginia, and was arrested tried and
hung. the Democratic party. with COM
mendable zeal and patriotic fervor. de-
nounced that rebellion and its actions and
justified the horrible and speedy execution
that they received. In. the spring of 1860,
there was not a Democratic town. county
or state convention held in any part of the
free states, that did notmake John Browns
treason the subject ofspecial and unreseryed
ldenunciation. But what was John Brown s
raid. in comparison with the monster re-
bellion now raging at the south. and con-
| vulsing the entire nation? Where are those
Democratic thunderbolts that were hurled
at John Brown and his score of crazy
criminals? Was the Democratic arrnory
exhausted in that effort? Have they no
tightening with which TO strike JEFF Da-
Wis and his followers? Is the Democrat
ic party so reduced in circumstances that it
has to fall back upon its old (but good)
and thread-bare resolutions about the abo-
litionists. and the Republicans. and ne
gro equality? We do not. by any means
forget. nor is our judgment less severe in
condemning the Republicans and the abo-
litioni.ts, for the part they have taken,
both since and before the rebellion. We
never Gun forget and never can forgive the
recklessness with which they pushed ex-
treme measures, calculated to provoke i'll
feeling aud produce sectional hate. But
when we hear men who call themselves
Democrats. and who ought to know what
the term democrat" implies. say that the
Republicans or abolitionists produced this
war, forced this war on the south, we feel
that such men are either to ignorant to be
argued with, or are so deeply sympathizing
with the rebellion that they have lost their
reason i
There is no act upon record committed
BY the north. or by any portion Of the
north, by the Democracy, Republicans, OF
Aboli,ionists, that can DO tortured into a
justification. no matter how slight. for this
bold and infamous rebellion. The rebels
themselves do not pretend ihatsuch an act
, , state or national. had been committed. and
when we find Democrats in state conven-
tions. or in speeches. seeking in the con-
: duct of the north excuses and palIiation.
for the rebels, we feel that il the good
honest old Democratic party was capable
of q nausea. it ought at once throw these
creatures up They are worse enemies to
the country than the rebels; they by theiI
; speeches and resolutions tell the rebels thai
there are men yet at the north who want
to wear the collar of southern masters.
: Why should the Democracy have any
sensitiveness in denouncing the crimes o.
the rebellion? Why should public men
who ''roared like any liob" abeut the mis-
. cradle John Brown affair, now 1000 as
softly as a sucking dove" concerning tho
bloody rebellion of jeff Davis? Why
,, thunder forth through . long series of res
oluiions concerning Republican fanaticism
and abolition fury, and then by way oi
salt to the porridge add little word q.
bont being "opposed to secession and re-
bellion." Is that the way jackson spoke
Of nulli6cationi Is that the way Pierce
spoke when the rebellion ragged in X ,nsas? ?
Is that the way Douglas told the people in
Norfolk he would act il the south resisted
the election of Lincoln? Has the patriot
ism of the Democracy deeenerAted? In
1885, the professional convention -atten-
dsnts in most of the states thought il un-
safe and "bsd for the party" to take issue
with old Buck. even upon question of vi
ltal importance. But the Democracy ol
| Illinois had no such craven spirit They
preferred rather to be right than to 'save
f the party" They thought and said that
: , if the Democratic party could not afford to
be honest. patriotic and faithful to its
pledges. the sooner 1T was destroyed the
better. s.ea sf -'os.i eyfaso4 - 1ssGi =,
W We think the same now. We hope the
Democratic convention that is to meet al
Springfield on the 18th, will say the same
thing. Let the rsbellion and the rebels be
the theme: they are now in front, with arms
in their hands. The Republicans and abo.
litionists are harmless at present. They
lean be disposed of at leisure; therefore. lei
fthe Democratic column charge en- masss
| on the rebels, and leave the others for fu.
j ture disposal. If however our state con.
). yentfon Shall follow the course adopted in
Indiana and lowe. and fire all their pieces
at the Republicans, and attempt by "mor