Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-11-22
Democracy at the Confess
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siOnal.
The light of returning reason which has
lately appeared in the Chicago Times and
other leading Democratic journals presages,
we hope, the dawn Of an era Of less danger
and solicitude than the present for the free
institutions of our country. The attitude
of the Democratic purity, although that Or
ganizstlon includes but hopeless minority
of the people of the North, is yet a matter
OF great interest to every true patriot
Whatever position it assumes toward the
great questions of the hour is sustained by
vast BODY Of men whom we would much
rather see 90 right than wrong. Since that
partv began its career of subserviency 10
the slave power, ever since it waged war
upon weak and defenceless sister Repub-
Tic in order to aggrandize slavery and ex-
tend the area of its polluting presenter has
relied for success mainly upon the basesf
appeals to the prejudices and passions OF
its supporters; it has called around its
standard all that is cxecrable and reprehen-
sibIe in society. and with these influences
it has warred against the spirit of the age
AGAINST civilization and against Christianity
itself Like very Sampson, though turn
ING upon its friends rather than those al
whose command its eyes were blinded 10
its own interests and its cars deafened alike
to the appeals of Humanity and the voice oil
patriotism. il has laid hold of the pillars OF
civil liberty. determined toinvolve us all IN
common ruin
To rightly comprehend the dangers
which we hope are forever past, and which
will seem greater as time advances, and the
damnable record of the secret Vaccinations
and open treason of that party against lib
erty grows bIacker and blacker under the
scrutiny of posterity, itwould be necessary
TO recur to tie history of the past twenty
years, during which our mighty nation has
been laboring to rid itself of the incubus OF
Democracy. The Mexican war, underta-
ken solely in the interests of man-steaIing
and woman-whipping. followed as it soon
was by further concessions to The demands
of the olirarchy until the barrier which the |
wisdom of former generation had placed
between slavery and the virgin territories
YVES broken down, was the starting point
in career which, inaugurated by wrong |
and outrage, required continued success
sion of acts of increasing iniquity in order
TO maintain its consistency. The Demo
cratic party, thus allied to barbarism, IN
humanity, robbery, piracy, and all the
crimes included in the term Slave
~. implicitly obeying the behests of its
liege, has not only attempted to subvert our
institutions into a support of the blacklist
and most cruel system of oppression that
ever cursed the earth, but it has also made
war upon the government in order to ac-
complish its hell-begotten purposes. Be
meath its piratical flag 1t welcomes the de
PRAYED, the vicious, the besOtted, the igno-
rant and the outlawed. Wherever vice is
the rule and virtue the exception there De-
mocracy fourishes. Brutal in its teach
inrs. il has an outs.retched hand for the
bully and the rough, and is well represent
cd by jail-bird and prize-fighter in Con
gross. In the pestilential atmosphere of
the groC-shOp, where men sink below the
brutes of the field, it is rampant and resist
less. So true is this that when young
man embraces its degrading theories and
gives himself up to its influences, he Is
looked upon by those who have his welfare
at heart as already more than half lost, and
should he attempt to reform he finds it ne
cessary to rid himself of the associations
which his politics has called around him.
We do not deny that many good men still
act with the Democratic party-we accord
to the vast majority of our opponents hon
esty of pupose-but we seek to impress
upon the candid and thoughtful the fact
that the impulses and teachings of that par
ty are at war with all that is commendable
in our social structure, with the very idea
of the Fatherhood of God and the broth
erhood of man, with temperance, with vir-
tue. and for liberty and progress, for the
grand idea that nerved the arms and steel
ed the swords of our patriot sires, embod-
led in their Declaration of Independence,
the equal right of every man to ''life, liber-
ty, and the pursuit of happiness" they seek
10 substitute an unreasoning and an unwar-
rantabie prejudice against a race which
proved itself our faithful ally in an hour of
sore distress, and whose only crime is that
it has patiently submitted to wrong and
injustice at our hands.
We therefore extract hope from the po-
sition lately assumed by the Timss upon the
question of impartial suffrage. believing
that Democracy, brought to the block for
its crimes, like the repentant man-slayer,
may do good by pointing out the errors of
its career and acknowledging that the right
way is the best way. Should colored SUI
frage be adopted, as it surely will be, the
Democratic party will lay claim to the hon
or of winning the victory over the unwor-
thy preiudices which it has so assiduously
fos,cred. But ten years ago it favored the
extension of slavery and procured deci-
sion from a corrupt and senile Chief JUS
ticc that slavery was a national institution.
Yet when bounds were set to the progress
of the black car of bondage, it thanked
God and claimed all the credit. So with
the war which it steadfastly opposed, and
the abolition of slavery. There can be no
doubt that il the black man is allowed a
vote every little crossroads politician of
the Democratic stripe will boldly assert
that his party accomplished the work.
A new time table went into operation on
the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago
Railroad Monday last. We have not been