Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1865-08-03

give the returned soliiers free dinner the
18th dly of August. The aft air gotten up by
the leaders of the republican party here as mas
ter stroke of policy by which it is expected TO
catch the soldiers votes in the coming election.
We advise all the soldiers to go who feel like do
ing so and then vote az they please afterwards.
We are much mistaken If there are m1ny of the
soldiers so green not to see the point TO tins
Performance No notice given of the meet
ing to make arrangements. and none were permit
ted to participate in the affair who not republi
ns.-Den.
The Republicans knowing, as they did, that all
of the leading Democrats in the county had oppo-
ssj the war from the start, pronounced it throat
cutting, nigger-stealing, picket shooting. abolition
war on part; persuaded their friends not to
list told them to let the aboliiionists fight their
own battles, and tried to induce those vino did
enlist to desert. by telling them they
gage in an unjust, unholy, unconstitutional war,
and promising them immunity and protection; not
only this, but after the had been in progress
over three years, pronounced it future, and pre-
icted from every stump in the county they cod get
on that the South never could be conquered,-the
wish evidently being father to the thought;--
knowing these things, say, and much more,--
how they threatened even before the war com men
ced that ii the abOlitonists made war upon the
South "thcy knew which way their guns would
point;" how during its progress they never lot an
opportunity escape to give the rebels aid and
fort, and em5,rrass the Government. By dccrying
its credit. predicting that greenbacks would soon
become worthless, clamoring against every meas
ure intended 10 preserve the Union, threatening
to resist the drafts. forming secret consprscies to
capture and murder our Governor, seize the reins
Of government, release the rebel prisoners, turning
item loose TO murder Union and burn their
property, which they had been doing themselves to
limited extent. etc, ad minimum, our epac
not being sufficient were We 10 devote an entire
page to that purpose, to specify, after the
bove brefstyle, all the acts of villainy. mcanne.s
and dsloyalty which the party in this county have
either been guilty of themselves endorsed in
others ,-conclulcd that the Democrats OF Marshall
county were NJ; the men to engage in getting up
n festival in honor of the soldiers who had whip
ped and conquered their friends down South; that
il would be as inconsistent for them to do so as IL
would be in the Republicans to invite them to
assist in the affair
The remembrance Of one two other local
facts, which We have concluded to mention while
We are at il, perhaps had their influence in deter
mining the Republicans not to invite the Democra-
cy to participate in the matter. Soon after the
war commenced aud shortly after the first comp
ny that enlisted in this county had left for the
'front.' Republican took round subscription pa
per raise funds to pay tavern bill OF some OF
the recruits who lived 10 the country Among the
rest he called upon several leading Democrats, but
.hey refused to give cent, assigning the rea-
son, that they did not want the men TO 90, and
that they were not in the habit of paying for what
they did not want or approve. Was it not very
natural conclusion the Republicans arrived at, that
if the Democrats would not give the soldiers any
thing to eat when they started away and did not
want them to g, they would hardly give them any
thing on their return, especially after thrashins
their dear Southern friends soundly7 Again.
The Republicans had not forgotten the reluctance
OF Democratic leaders hereabouts TO participate in
any measures for the relief of soldiers families,
nor how their wives were insultcd BY Democratic
officials by chasing all who applied for assistance
as "paupers,'' and the expense sd ex-
! pense." Was it an illogical conclusion in the
Republicans that If such was their course toward
the Lincoln hrelings," as they termed the sol
diers, and their families. that they would not vol
unt,rily participate in giving the soldiers ban
quet on their return7
p s. Does the Democrat rem mber any thing
Of festival or supper the Democracy got up in
COrbin's Hall for the soldiers, little over two
years ago. If so, perhaps it can inform wheth-
it "a masterstroke of policy" on their part
and what was the net profit Of the AFFAIR." Was
any notice given of the meeting to make arrange
mentS. and we're any Republicans invited or per-
mittcd to participate in the affairl