Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-07-24


to tell us this Is Democrat doctrine. Great
God Has not the Democracy wonderful
ly degeneratedi since drew the days of An
Jackson! E-f.4ii.li55 .sif. iis
Well, / have been Democrat for the
lest twenty-five years1-have always voted
a Democratic ticlset-never voted anything
} else in my life-rwill notte called ''blind
advocate Of Lincoh's Administration. |
have infinitely more respect for the Ad-
ministration of Stephen a.. Douglas than
have for Abraham Lincoln, but / do not
think should he in haste to recognize the
like of that as Democratic doctrine. But,
nevertheless. am going to inv igate this
matter little. am not going to be found
fighting for the maintenance OF any one
, set of political principles abroad and ad-
vocating other doctrines at home. Hti
Who began this wfr? Who fired the
first gun? think Major Anderson in
formed the citizens Of South Carolina, in
answer to their demands, that he would
evacuate Fort Sumter if they would give
him certain number Of days They said
to him: "Very we'll. name the time."-
His reply was: II will evacuate this fort.
If not previously attacked on such day"
Then they had him. Then they had the
information they desired. They knew
when he would evacuate the fort and they
knew Just when to attack him. Then il
was that the traitors in Kentucky aud Ten
nessce telegraphed to Charleston: "Don't
let him leave that fort. Tennessee and
Kentucky never can be driven out Of the
Union without the shedding OF blood. Let
the guns belch forth their fury. Let them
thunder. Let them roar!' Ah, yes!--
The blood Of bulls and Of goats. and Of
rams. and Of lambs, and of heifers. was not
a sufficient sacrifice to lay upon the altar
of Secession--:t must be the precious blood
OF American ci;izcnsl 1'Pfe'
About financial matters. | have always
cier; indeed, know of no one whom re-
gard as my superior, who has not narrow
ly escaped getting into the penitentiary.-
Laughter 4
The South say they are able to sustain
the enormous outlay incident to this war
and carry il on TO an unlimited extent
Now, the means by which this is to be ac-
complished afford an exhibition of 6nan-
cicring skill that is altogether without a
parallel. And how is it they propose to
do this?
In the first place. they begin by author
izlng their banks TO issue an unlimited a.
mount Of notes. In the second place. the
Confederate Government itself has author
ity to Issue an unlimited quantity of notes
on its own hook and for It's own benefit -
Thirdly. it is made both penitentiary
offcnse and n kan1aJfe offence to re-
fuse to take the notes; and fourthly; to
make these notes strictly reliable they base
them upon cotton and then burn up the
cotton. Isn't that magnificent fnancier-
inq2 I.anGhter
What do you think of a man that is
ashamed to rally TO the help of his country
in this extremity on account OF what men
of one idea aud party men may say Of him.
or for fear that he will be accused of being
a traitor to some party?
My friends, man who should hesitate
from such canse wonld be very much in
the condition the poor, miserable sinner is
in who is afraid to come out boldly on the
? Lords side because the godforsaken gamb-
Ter and his associates will laugh at him.
| Let me say to you that it is my conviction
. that any man who does not 60 up to the
altar for fear of that. stands an awful pool
r chance of ever resting in Abraham's bo
som. Laughter.
: The charge has been made great many
times that the object of the North in prose.
! cutting this war was conquest and subiuga
ton. Such men as this vagabone. Val
landigham- Uhangioodle Vaiiandighom-
: says so. lie processes to be q most exem
: plary patriot. and he says: millions 70
o defense, but not one cent for an aggressiv
e warfare" Now there is not man in thi
] audience who cannot see by . moments re
y Election. how utterly absurd that is-"Mil
J. lions for defense, but not one cent for al
| aggressive warfare!' Did ever any one hea
C IL war that was not aggressive. upon on
4 side or the other? There must be aggres
/ sion. II we do not assume the aggressiv
: our enemies will. If we dc not invade thci
il territory they will invade ours. and if W
: can only keep the desolating tide os wa
i from our own fertile fields and from on
e own beautiful towns and villages we hav
s half won the victory, even though we shal
: not win complete victory at all. 1t is
e very vulgar thing to men. and / am, sorr
II to be compelled to say it. but, it is never
theless true. unfortunately. that men, wo
# men and children. too, must live by eat
e ing. When. few months, ago. was i
n Virginia and saw that army Of thirty thous
4 aud men advancing along one Of thos
c beautiful valleys and stripping the earth Q
o everything that was eatable as they went
i this thing came to my mind with treiner,l
!, Gus force. saw before me a forcible il
!: lustration of the incalcuIable importanc
i OF keeping the war out of our own terrific
IT rics. II, at the commencement Of thi
D struggle, we had contentcd ourselves wit
S acting on the defecsive--if New York, an,
& Pennsy ylsania. AMI Ollio. and In;liana, an
n patriotic Illinois, b id not marched prou,pt
e " into the border States. how long 10 yo
$ think it would have been until the 'bordc
States would have marched into them?
e am reminded Of what an old CONRAD
b in arms Of mine once said on the battle
!, fields of Mexico. II was General, 70
y Lane. am sorry to know that he is mp
: on the wrong side al the present fine. bu
n he was on the right side'then. The Gen
! eral in command Of rs saw the Mexican
e coming. and remarked. s.Tbev are cbarp