Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-09-13
III. REEVES SPEECH.

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ON hand to make up for whatever it lacked
in appearance.
Mr.. Reeve began his address by quoting
a remark of Governor Oglesby to the effect
that ''all the Copperheads of Marshall coun-
", with Andy johnson thrown in, had not
as much patriotism and devotion TO liberty
as the mesnest Niger in South Carolina
Mr.. Reeve referred to himself as living
witness of the falsity the assertion, claim
ing that he alone possessed more patriot
ism than the darkey aforesaid. The COM
parison appeared so ridiculous that some
of his audience laughed, but the speaker,
with avery severe expression of counter
ance reminded them of the serious issues
involved, and succeeded in suppressing the
unseemly mirth. Mr. r. continued to chaw
over the obnoxious remark, and labOred
very hard to prove that the $500 Democrats
| who, two years ago, he said were whetting
their murderous steel, and only waiting for
one wave of his hand to cause the streets
/ of Plymouth to run red with Abolition
blood, were very nice men. After calling
Governor Oglesby a blackguard, a drunk
ard, etc. he announced that he was done
with him. and proceeded to take general
view of the questions of the day, misrcpre-
senting the position of his opponents, re-
| ferring to private individuals to bolster up
his men cfstraw. and at last launching out
into the avowal that the public debt was a
grievous burden, that its reputation was
! certain, that the business of the country
was unduly inflated, and that general bank
ruptcy and ruin were inevitable. He gross
" perverted Governor Oglesby's speech.
making it appear that that gentleman
threatened, in case the Republican party
was beaten at the polls, that i. would carry
out its views at the point of the bayonet,
while the truth is, the Governor was re
| ferring TO threats of another civil war made
by Montgomery Blair and others, and he
said, as every true man will say, if the Adj
ninistration attempts to force its policy up
on Congress, against the wishes of the peO-
| pie expressed at the battlc-box, fifteen hun
| bred thousand of as brave men as ever
showed a ramrod down stand ready to sus-
tain the Representatives of the people
/ The day is gone by when we are to be
I frightened b. threats of war. We will do
/ right, let the consequences be what they
may. But lIr. T., while deprecating the
threats which he put into Governor Ogles-
by's mouth, could not refrain from predict
ing another war, and he said it would he
of very different character from the last.
Brothers hand would grasp brothers
throat, father would be arrayed against
son, and mother against daughter. We
suppose he is now holding his $500 Demo
Gratis in reserve awaiting the carnival OF
blood and that he will he ready to make
short work of the misguided AbolitioniStS
who do not make haste to propitiate his
favor.
In the course of his remarks, Mr.. Reeve
said it made no difference with his argu-
ment whether the war was waged in a right
cause or not, mountain of debt was on
our shoulders, but he did not have one
word to say of the cause of this vast bur-
den. He failed TO tell his hearers that the
Southern Democracy for four long years
fought the government openly, while the
Northern DemOoIa~, etaycu AT nome de-
nying It's power to preserve itself from an
Inhalation; that he has been constantly using
all his influence to destroy confidence in
the ability of the government to meet its
financial engagements; that while our brave
boys in blue, to whom he frequently refer
red, were fighting their way step by step
through Virginia and Georgia, his party
met in Chicago and characterized their sac
rifices and hardships, their marches and
battles, as -four years Of failure to restore
the Union by the experiment of war;" using
such means to deter capitalists from en-
trusting their money to government as
sailed by armed foes and plotting enemies
until it was compelled to accept disadvan-
tageous terms and resort to every means to
preserve its financial existence.
1t is tie grossest impudence for Demo
Gratis to complain of high prices and enor-
nous taxes. The rebellion of the South
-ern wing OF that party and the reasonable
Vaccinations of Northern Democrats were
the direct causes of them all. Every dol
lar of the National debt is Democratic
legacy, every revenue officer is a creature
of Democratic treason. Every revenue
stamp is Democratic sticking plaster, and
every government bond bears the impress of
their shame. The laboring man rises from
a taxed bed and fOrtifies himself with fru-
gal meal during which he is constantly re-
minded of Democracy; he drinks il down
with his tea or swallows it with his coffee.
he cuts his food with a taxed knife and
conveys it to his mouth with taxed fork
He protects his person from piercing blasts
by clothing enhanced in price by Demo-
cratic treason. He takes up his tools, tax
ed heavily to pay the penalty Of Democrat
ic crimes, and he goes to his work, con-
tributing at every turn to Democracy. The
topper swills Democracy with his whisky.
the smoker scatters ii on every breeze, the
chewer of tobacco distills it through his
teeth. Everything we eat and wear helps
to pay the penalty of Democratic misrule,
and it even follows us to the grave laying
its burden alike upon the weeds ofthe wild
ow and the coffin of the departed.
Mr. Reeve only referred 10 the Constitu-
tional amendment in an attempt to show
that it confers suffrage upon the black man.
He dared not read that document, as II
would have scattered his fiimsy arguments
to the four winds. Indeed, in his treat