Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-10-04
THE PUBLIC DREAD THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
RaymOnd'S Farewell to HIS
Late Friends.

Ii is very evident that tho public mind
breads the renewed ascendancv of the
Democratic party more than it does the
continued exclusion of the Southern States.
While il regards the latter as temporary
inconvenience, involving no lasting or i'm
portant consequences, it looks upon the
former as full of permanent peril to the
country. Perhaps, too, sentiment of JUS
tice has quite as much to do with this
feeling as any distinct foreboding Of specific
evils. What the Democratic party would
do if reinstated in poverty what definite
action it would damage the future of the
nation--thOse!who dread it most may not be
able to say. But there is no difficulty what
ever in feeling that the party which Oppos-
ed the Government during the war ought
not to assume control of it when the war
is over. The instinct of the country is that
those who stood by it during its time of
peril should have charge of its fortunes
when the war has passed.
This sentiment underlies the resolute re-
sistance Of the people to the struggle OF the
Democratic party for a renewal of power
All other issues are overlooked. Nobody
stops to discuss questions of Constitutional
law or to canvass the chances of another
war. The right of lcgislatiOn-the scope
of the power conferred upon COngress-the
effect of hostile legislation upon public SEN
timent ip the Southern States, these and
other topics of grave Importance arc
dismissed, as having nothing to do with the
immediate issues to be decided. They are
postponed to some more convenient season.
The North feels conscious of its power to
crush opposition ana to insist upon such
measures as it deems essential to the pub
lie good.
The Democratic party has clearly over
reached itself in its contest for renewed as
cendancv. Throughout the war it gave
the Government no support. As an organ
izatiOn it resisted its efforts to suppress the
rebellion. 1t denounced its policy. con-
demned the measures by which il thwarted
Northern sympathy with secession, and did
everything in its power to overthrow the
Administration 10y which the contest was
carried on That it did not succeed was
owing to the fact that the people cared
more for the country than they did for the
Democratic party. And it will owe its fail
ure to the same cause now While we
believe the great body fthe people desire
the speedy restoration Ofpeacc and har-
monv TO the Union they are not inc lined
ton of the Democratic party to power
They will trust the work of restoration to
the Onion party. and To none other. They
find il much easier to check the excuses
and rebuke the fanatical passions of its
reckless men, than to inIuse into the Dem
ocratic organization the spirit of progress
or reform and of political liberty which
the emergencies of the time demand They
find that party still filed with all the mar
row and illiberal prcjudiccS which marked
its action before the war. The same hatred
of the colored racc-the same unwilling
ness to extend and broaden the basis of our
free instituti0ns-:hc same attachment 10
caste and arbitrary distinctions in the dis
tribution Of political powcr-thc same
clamor for the largest license to vice and
immortality. and the same lack of sympa-
thy with all efforts to elevate the degraded
and to improve the condition of the ignO-
rant and down-trodden members of our re-
publican society, mark its action now as
before the great tempest which, in sweep
ing away human slavery. has destroyed
the great bulwark of injustice and Unequal
itv BIZ which our free Institutions were de
formed and married. The people will not
trust that party with the reorganization of
our political society. They dread lis in
fucncc on national affsirs. They dread
especially. the alliance it will form with
whatever remains of the influences of Sla-
very in the Southern States. And they in
tend to avert this danger by excluding the
Democratic party from power.