Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-11-29
REEYE.KIES.

doctrine of impartial suffrage. The COM
muuication does not appear remarkable to
those who know the writer even by repu-
tation, except in the reason assigned for the
overwhelming successes of the Rae icals in.
the late elections. II declares that vast
number of the people have in their posses
sion United States bonds, and that they
feared that in the event OF Democratic
triumph the public debt would be repudi-
ated and their bonds rendered valueless.-
the bishop of an Insignificant sect for the
war, which, he said, was permitted by
Providence because the nation refused to
subscribe to some very narrow minded
dogmas.
The gentleman, perhaps absorbed in the
contemplation of gravcr subjects. docs not
find time to deny that the Reputation of the
public debt was one ofthe purposes Of the
Democratic party in the event of their tri-
umph, but he must have received new light
since election on this subject We remem-
Der hearing him mske a speech in which he
declared that if ever the bonds of the gov
eminent were in the hands of the people
that time had passed, as they had all been
absorbed by capitalists, who by this means
were Sinking the burdens of government.
And e was common thing during the
campaign for Democrats, in illustration of
this line of reasoning, to point to A. l..
Wheeler, a man notorious fer his opposi-
ton to the war, as one of those who had
invested large portion of their capital in
non-taxable bonds. No doubt those who
oteG to sustain the credit of the nation
would have shed few tears if the 100000
said to be in that quarter had been repudi-
ated, yet even this appeal was not sufficient
to swerve them from the support of the
principles of common honesty and integ-
rity.
Mr.. Reeves attempt 10 account for the
triumph of the loyal men of the nation re-
minds US of the blind leading the blind
None are so blind as those who refuse to
see. For more than six years past he has
scarcely made a single calculation in regard
to forthcoming events that has been real
lied. When the war was impending he
was satisfied that the Abolitionists would
never be permitted to cross the Ohio river.
When they did cross he earnestly hoped
and believed that it was only to be welcOm-
ed with bloody hands 10 hospiiable graves
by the chivalric Democrats of the South
Even when Sherman was laundering at the
gates of Atlanta, he was confident that ''af-
ter four years of failure" 10 restore the
Union by the experiment. of war, justice,
reason, humanity and patriotism required
a cessation of hostilities. When the gal |
liant army of the West were cutting the
grand thorOughfare for Freedom and her
train; sixty miles in latitude, three hundred |
miles 10 main, ne felt certain that they |
would meet lion by the way. Even when
Lee surrendered, and the flag of the nation |
fioated over the Capitol of rebeldOm, he
preserved hope of the triumph of the
Confederacy. and tie news of the capitula-
lion of Johnston fell upon his ears like
thunderbolt- Many times and oft Mr..
Reeve and his party have appealed to the
people to sustain their peculiar views; they |
have appealed to their stinginess, to their
pusillanimity, to their prejudices, TO the
worst passions of the human breast, and /
though as often spcwed out of the mouths
of the loyal people of the country, they con-
tinue to regard the settled purpose of the
American people to preservethe Union and
liberty, in spite of the Vaccinations of Cop
perheads as triumphantly as they shielded
them from the open assaults of rebels, as
tie frenzied hallucination of a period of
popular excitement With each return of
election day their hopes are unduly aroused,
and they are perhaps as badly disappoint-
ed at their merited defeat as if their prin-
ciples were worthy of support.
We say to Mr.. Reeve and politicians of
that ilk that the people viii never lay aside
their armor until the rebellion is conquered
at the ballot box as well and as completely
as in the field. The history of the war de-
veloped the fact that the possession of sea-
ports and cities was of little importance so
long as there was left an organized rebel
army. When that army was destroyed the
Confederacy fell as military power. The
conflict has been removed to the political
arena, and is of such nature that it can on
ly end with the life of one of the antago-
nists. Until the disruption of the Demo
c:atic party is accomplished, and its power
Co. ox-s1 ,,<sa ri Il fl.o |
tons will agitate the public mind, and tie
same arguments viii be potent to secure its
defeat Mr.. Reeve may see this, If he will,
by . single glance at the elements that COM
pose the two great political parties of the
day. In the main, he will find precise
ly the same men opposing bis party who
upheld the cause OF the government during
the war in the field and at the ballot-box,
and the vast majority of his friends he will
recognize as those who with him trampled |
down the dog fennel in this section when
in secret conclave hey attempted to inau-
gurafe rebellion in the Northwest The
question decided by the loyal masses at the
late elections was not one of bonds or rev.
enue stamps, tariff or taxes. Before them
was the alternative: '-Shall Loyalty or Dis
loyalty govern in the councils of the ma
ton" They have decided in the face of
threats of war, and in spite of denuncia-
tons, and in other things as well as In this,
whether they shall be called upon to i'm
peach reasonable Executive or to enfran-
chise the loyal black man, they will move
forward to the line of duty, confident of
their ability to administer a government
whose existence their v;.lor has preserved
in spite of Mr. Reeve and his friends.
The great Walpole said Every man has