Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-10-22
DR.. Brownson and the Dem ,cracy.


and anti-draft riots, which should be read
by every one of the rank and file of the
Democratic party, and by all Catholics
especially. Although the startling events
of the last three years have signally opened
the eyes of the more thinking minds of
those who formerly were the Ajaxes of the
old Democracy and emancipated such gi
ants as Butler, Dix, Dickinson, Brady,
Logan, and many others, yet the hosts
who do the voting--the sappers and mi
ners-stiil rest under the most terrible
delusion. 1t seems to be the object of the
Doctor to break up the delusion, and
more especially since it is clear to his
keen apprehension that the Catholic faith
is likely to suffer by the disloyalty of these
within the pale of the Catholic Church,
OF the Riots he says: Ioe afar8ua- "a
r"That these riots were intended to CO.
operate with General Lee in his invasion
of Maryland snd Pennsy sylvania, and to
weaken and overthrow the Government
by preventing it from, obtaining the forces
necessary toScrush out the rebellion, there
is and can be no serious doubt 1t is
certain, also. that nearly nine-tenths oil
the. active rioters were IriShmen and Cath
olics. Yet the riot was not a Cath Ollie
riot, and gives in reality no confirmation
to the standing charge against the Catho
lie Church." 6.ta e0
o"These rioters did not fill our city with
horror at their savage deeds in their ca
pacity as Catholics, or as Irishmen. l,
vas not by command of the Church or as
Catholics, that they resisted the draft, at.
tackled the offic of the Government ap
pointed to carry it into effect, made dem on
STATIONS against the Republican press o
the city, burned down the houses of prom
inent Republican officials, destroyed tht
colored Orphan Asylum. murdered ne
groes and riiied and demolished their dwell
lings. These things they did not as Cath
olics, or Irishmen, but as adherents of tn,
DEMOCRATIC PARTY-as partisans of Ho
ratio Sey mour, Fernando Wood, Jane.
Brooks, Clement L. Vallandigham, anc
others, who by their iacendiary speeche,
and by leading articles in the Democratic
journals, had for months been exciting
them against the Government, against th,
conscription, against the war, and haC
worked them up to uncomfortable fury
The shouts of the mob tell us what wa.
its animus, and under what influence OF
inspiration it acted, and there were hur
rahs for Governor Seymour, Fernando
Wood, Gen. Mcclellan and JEFF. Davis
Il
"The Democratic pleaders-the Copper
heads--are answerable for the mob and it
destructive fury; and it will never do t,
change it either to Catholics or to the Irish
as such, for they are implicated in it onl,
in the respect that they are Democrats O
Copperheads. We do not pretend tha
all who call themselves Democrats and vot
with the Democratic party, are disloya
and opposed to the efforts of the Govern
ment to suppress by force of arms tn
Southern Rebellion. Not every Democra
is Copperhead; but every Copperhead j
Democrat. The party. as party. j
disloyal."
''The rebellion itself was the work @
the Democratic party, which, with scarce
ly an interval. had governed the countr,
for sixty years, and was hatched by Dem
ocratic leaders in Democratic concaves
under the fostering care and protection Of
Democratic Administration. The Demo
cratic party originated at the South. wa
fostered into life, and elevated to powe
by Southern politicians, and has Away
been Southern party. At first unde
Washington, it was called the Anti Fed
eral party; under the elder Adams
called itself the Republica party and con
tinued to do so until the administration {
the younger Adams, whenit took the nam
of Democratic Republican. in oppositio
to National Republican. Since the re ele,
ton of Andrew jackson to the Presidency
in 1882, it has assumed aud bore the nam
of Democratic party. Its great strengt
was always in the political power of ii
interest created by negro slavery confine
almost exclusively to the Southern section
For full sixty years from the Administri
tion of Jefferson in 1901 to that of Bucl
anan in 1861. that interest, had shaped ii
I policy of the Government, dictated il
principal measures, and controlled the po
itics of the Republic" iieea sssa
- e.
1.-THE secession was expected by bot
4 Northern and Southern Democrats, to
effected peaceably. in consequence of IL
assumed timidity of the Republicans, an
the influence in dividing the population
the Free States. that could and would /
exerted by the Northern Democratic Lead
ers. The Northern Democrats had aidet
advised. certainly conniyed at secession
not. however, as a permanent division
the Union, but only as measure to brea
up the Republican party, and to last onl
until they had wrung from the fears an
weakness of the Republicans such comes
sions. and guarantees to slavery as woul
satisfy the South anil secure their own 7,
: turn to power But the fivmness of II
radical Republicans. in refusing this col
cession, and the unexpected deterninatio
of the Administration to put down sece
sion by armed force, disconnected all the
calculations. aud placed them in dilemn
fromswhich there was. apparently, no O
cape. For them openly to side With Il
rebels was to ruin. them forever in the FIR
States; and, to give the Administration
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