Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-09-03

'forts OF eight millions OF reoeisl w natl
the right. backed by wealth and power
and national renown. not able to put down
the wrong? What! a people who have
Voluntarily poured out their blood and
treasure as the people of the North have
done, not able to vindicate their superiority
in this contestl He who says so. if not
hater himself. certainly is not in sympa-
thy with tho earnest, enthusiastic and de-
termined masses of the North.
When or where were northmen final
nally subdued? Never. Their arms con-
qucred the "Roman World"-their enter
prise has compassed the globe itself; their
genius is dispelling the superstition of
ages. are everywhere Illuminating the path
of man to higher and nobler civilization.
As the great blessed orb of the day him
self, they have coursed the earth. and left
a radiance behind. tracing in light the track
of their glorious transit. Have not our
armies recently beaten the enemy in the
east? Who has forgotten Gettysburg.
and the brilliant but sanguinary victory
it attests. And what have our armies not
achieved in the south west? Have they
not swept in triumph from the western
border of Virginia to the western borders
of Missouri and Arkansas; from the Mis-
souri, river to the Gulf of Mexico. and
from Pea Ridge to Murfreesboro-hav
they not swept in triumph over all that
extensive region?
Donelson. Shiloh. Pea Ridge. Champi-
on Hill and Big Black, are wall of vic
tories unsurpassed in the annals of war,
and bearing the higest testimony to the
constancy and valor Of Northwestern sol
die RS.
The cnemy's strongholds, too. Vicks-
burg and Port Hudson. have surrendered
80 our arms. and his navy have been swept
from the Mississippi river and its tributa-
ries. We have achieved all this within
some eighteen months, and with the glori-
Gus and convincing proofs it affords. who
will dare to say that we cannot conquer
the rcbelion-that we are unequal to the
emergeney-that we must needs succumb
to traitors?
In the last resort, it is sail that the war
is anti Democratic. What of it, if it is
Just and right? Country before party is
my motto. Whatever may become of the
Democratic party, or the Republican par
ty, or any or all other parties--political
parties-save the country. Compared
with it such parties count nothing-they
are but as dust in the balance OF what
avail would such parties be if there was no
government to protect them-if there was
no administrational policy to support or
oppose-if, indeed, both government and
policies were swept away by the tide Of
rebellion?
Experience proves that political par
ties are at best, but necessary evils. Some
times they have done good--some-
times evil. When carried away by blind
vehement prejudices they become instru
offending individuals have been wantonly
sacrificed by them. and too often nations
have been destroyed by them. Athens
was conv nlsed by the partisans of Pisis-
tratus. and the democratic government wss
overthrown to make place for tyranny
The partisans of Marius and Sylla caused
the streets of Rome to run with human
blood; and partisan strife. carried to the
pitch Of treason. lit he way of hostile ves
sells into our seaports during the last war
with Great Britain. Washington has
warned you against the dangers of parti-
sanship, and so has Jackson; and If might
associate my humble name with those of
these illustrous personages. l would do so
too.
But why is it anti Democratic to sup
port the war? What is there in the tenets
or antecedents of the Democratic party to
Justify the assertion? Where in any age
or country. were the Democratic peace
party in the midst of war? What. the
fierce, fiery, impatient Democratic party!
a peace party The idea is absurd. All
history contradicts it. Were the Athe-
nian Democracy a peace party, when they
gave their homes and affairs to the devour-
ing flames rather than let the conquering
Mede despoil them? Were the Round
heads peace party when at Marston Moor
and Naseley they struck down the British
throne. and brought an offending King
with his titled ministers to the bloek?--
Were the Red Republicans peace party,
when with mighty and amazing effort
they overturned the French Monarchy,
and hymning, the song Of liberty, bore in
triumph the shattered crown of Louis the
18th through the streets of Paris? Were
the Republicans of Hungary peace party
when, Drawing the tremendous power of
Austria and Russia. they proclaimed Re-
public and defended it amid the slaughter
of their wives and mothers, until hostile
numbers literally overwhelmed both them
and their devoted land? Were our demo-
cratic fathers for peace when they pro-
claimed their Independence Of Great Brit
ain and waged a wasting war of seven
years duration to maintain it? Where
the Jsffarsonian Democracy peace party
when they urged their great chief to push
a. war Of embargoes and non-intercourse
te actual blows? Was the Democratic
peace party when it upheld the hands Of
Madison in the prosecution of the war of
1872 with Great Britain. and denounced
the Hartford Convention as a reasonable
assemblage? Was it peace party when
it upheld the arm of Polk in the prosecu-
ton of the late war with Mexico? Or is
tia 20 party DOW, in this great war of
civi ars--in this war striking at the
very 10 lndations of Government, property
and -iety? rs it such party in such q
war? AS Democrat from my youth mp
ward--always voting the Democratic pol
icy--never departing from the faith-as
Democrat. of the estrictest sect. i denounce
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