Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-03-01

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Copperhead RadiCalisnl.
The Democrat OF last week contains very silly
and contradictory editorial in regard to the pro-
csedinss of the Union Convention held in this
place on the 10th ult. After expressing satisfac
tisu that the Convention had passed resolutions
fully committing themselves to the radical wing Of
their party, and are now squarsly and openly (as
they have heretofore been secretly pledged to the
nausealing doctrine of negro equality" it says:
"They have no care a. to whether the constitu-
ton and laws be observed, provided always that
success as party be within their grasp. Their
leaders would father crawl their bellies and eat
dirt in the presence Of negro than let 20 their
hold upon the reins OF power. They caress the
african, and calling him brother refuse to be CON-
forted unless he be placed on an equality with
them in the management of the government. The
white poor. the crippled soldier, and the soldiers
wife and little snes may beg or s.arve, but Sambo
must be provided for at all hazards
Is this not 8 fine sample of Cspperhead jargon !
Surely the senior editor did no. pen it. We will
Lot do him the injustice to suppose he was the
author of such mes. of illogical stuff. The
writer. whoever he may be, is doubtless some silly
upstsrt who has devoted much more time and at
tee than his brains. if indeed. he has any of the
latter article to cultivate. Be shat as i, may we
are st loss which to admire most, his logic or his
veraciiy. They about par. For instance,
he says: "Their leaders would rather crawl on
their bellies and eat dirt in the presence Of q
gro than let 60 their hold upon the rcins Of pow
err" Is not this powerful logicl The inference
follow the premises prezactly, and entitle the an
shor TO leather medal. But enough on this sub
jscs. No one will dispute the towering genius OF
the author.
The writer says the Union party of this county
'are now squarely and openly las they have here
tofore been secretly pledged to the nauseating
doctrine of negro equality" There is no truth
whatever in this statement. The Union party OF
This county did not at their recent convention
declare in favor of negro equality, nor have any
oonsid portion Of the party ever been either
secretly or publicly in favor of such q measure
AL that they did declare in this connection was
that they we're in favor of giving the negro the
right of suffrage in the District of Columbia. II
does not follow from this that ihey are any more in
favor OF negro equality than they of making
rebels or such copperhsads as the editors of the
Democrat their equals. Whoever thought oil
charging US with being pledged to the nauseatine
doctrine" Of social or political equality with rebel:
and eopperheads because We did not decla re in IA
vor Of DISTINGUISHING them forever? The writer
has much more reason to charge Jehovah with IA.
roring and ordainng the equality of the white and
black races becaus be allows the negro to breath
the same Air with the whites But the Democrat
understands the Union men to be in favsr Of ne
gro equality because they are willing to Civ,
negroes their inalisnsiIe rights-life. liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. President Johnson
whom the Democrat and his party frieAds eulogis.
80 highly just now, and even dub tine 'thrd Wash
ingtsn, has declared himself in favor OF not only
giving the negro his natura rights but ALI, wing
them to vote in certain cases. Ia it possible Co.,
psrheads can endorse anJ part of a mans policy
who has declared himself in favor, as they under
stand it, OF "the nauseating doctrine of negro
equality" and fawn and lick his feet, for the
sake of the offices he has at his disposall Are
they notbeautiful objects to talk about Union men
crawling upon their bellies and eating dirt in the
presence OF negro" when they have exhibited
90 much base servility to man whom they deri-
dsd and spit upon for his devotion to the Union,
and secretly hate for approving the sentence Of
Lincons assassins, merely for the sake Of the Of
hcesi Is it not evident that if the negro were in.
vested with the ballot that copperheads would be
the first to hug him, drink his whskey and swear
they bad always been his best and truest friends
They hate the poor negro new because they have
helped to oppresshim, and because they think he
10 ia part the cause of their Political msfortunes
but hate An abolitonist quite intensely a. they
10 ths negro, and would deprive the former of the
ballot had they the power. quite as readily As trey
would debar the latter, and for the same. reason
natural love oityranny and hatred Of free insti-
tusions. mixed with large portion of natural Gus
ssdness.
1.-THE Democracy when thev meet in convention
next Saturday will be as candid in declaring their
real sentiments as the Union men were, they will
resolve, LIST, That We are in favor of the uncon-
ditionsl pardon and release Of left Davis, Bowles
MilliEsn. Hossy, and every other Democrat who
has been imprisoned by the ADolision.ts upon
trunped up charges of treason or assassination
ID That We are in favor Of the arrest and punish
msnt Of The members Of the Military Commissions
which tried and convicted Bowles, Millisan, Hor-
sey the Presidents assassins, and last, though no,
least, Henry A. Wirz. Sd. That Lincoln was an
usurper. and his first and all subsequent calls for
troops to coerce the South were unconstitutional
4th. That every Democrat who volunteered to
swell the ranks of Lincoln's hirsing aoldiery wa.
either fool or kns-s. 5th. That regret the
failure of the rebellion. bat Ia order to pacify and
reconcile our Southern brethren are in favor ORE