Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-08-30

The country has recently lccn shocked,
mortified and insultcd by exhibitions pro-
slavery rufiianism and intolerance at Mem
phis. New Orleans, and other places in the
South Loyal men have read with indig-
nation authentic accounts of the most hor-
riblc outragcs which have been inflicted
upon Union people in the South. for no
other crime than the advocacy of senti-
mcnts dissimilar to those entertained by the
community in which they live. The poo
PIE whom the war made free are the eSpe-
cial objects of the hatred and brutality of
unrcpenting traitors, and these poor. unOf-
Tending creatures, and all who advocate
their claims TO manhood and citizenship,
are mercilcssly beaten, shot ard stabbed
Indeed. so terrible is .iis reign of misrule
and intolerance in the late rebelli0us States.
and so gratifying is it to the supporters of
my policy" in the North, that they are
openly proclaiming their own shame by
ton, to be composed of such tried patriots
a Gov. Hamilton, of Texas, Parson Brown
low, of Tennessee, and John VI. Bolts. of
Virginia. is called to meet in Philadelphia
because there is no city in the South where
such an assemblage would be tolerated.
On the other hand, the Radical North re-
quires no such assistants to promulgate its
ideas as stones and bIudgcons, knives and
pistols. Following close upon the heels
of the New Orleans massacre came the
Philadelphia Convention, composed of men
representing principles totally repugnant
to every sentiment of that loyal city; rebel
generals flOurislIcd their titles. acquired in
the service of an insurreciion. upon the ho-
tel registers, and impudently staggered
about the saloons; Confederate officials.
both civil and military, pardoned and m-
pardOncd were there, and yet they were
allowed to assemble pcaceably in a city
which they had frequently attempted to de
.stroy by introducing among lis inhabitants
pcstilence and contagion. Col. Forncv
Illustrated, in the remarks which we ap-
pend, the difference between the tolerant
spirit which goes hand in hand with free
principles and the intolerant demon of
slavery. The crowd which he addressed
had good -humoredly furnished an audience
to George Francis Train and others of that
ilk, but determined to hear something more
to their own liking, they reasscmbled in
front of the Press office, and after long con
tinued cries of 'Forney, ''Forney,' ''wc
have been listening to rebels all night; now
we want to- hear Union man. Colonel
Forney appeared at one of the Seventh
street windows, fifth story, and said:
MY fellow-citizcns, If YOU will let me
speak to you from my editorial room up
here Icries of Ego on, / will do so with
pleasure. The first thing desire to do is
to thank you for your order and obedience
to the law. Cheers. We have submitted
for the last few days TO unexampled out
rage and insult, without responding by the
violence which disgraccd the pro-slavery
ruffians and Johnson murderers at Mem
phis and New Orleans. TCheers.1 We
have seen men, sbloody-handed murderers.
plotting in the city of American Indepen-
derce for the purpose ofrestoring to them
selves more power than they possessed be-
fore they began this Heaven offending re-
belli0r, and we have submitted to it, and
will submit to it, because ours is party not