Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-09-06
The Civil Rights Bill Endorsed
by the Democracy.

The Copperhead organs have declared
their approval of the resolutions adopted
by the Philadelphia Convention. and have
made them articles of their political faith
as fully as the Chicago resolutions were
two wears ago. Whatever is in those reso
buttons they are bound by. and whenever
any speaker or newspaper writer of that
party advocates doctrines condemned by
| the Philadelphia SOlons, or opposes the
principles proclaimed by them. he is a
mere political guerrilla and bushwhacker
and denies the faith as it has been deliver
cd by Moses and his servants.
One of the staple Democratic complaints
against Congress, has been that it passed
over the Presidents veto, a civil rights
bill, " for the protection of the freedmen and
loyal white people of the late rebel States;
and much indifferent elOqucnce has been
expended in denunciatiOns Ofthat measure.
/ But the Philadelphia Convention gives a
decided Endorsement of the principles of
| the bill. in It's declaration that the cnfran-
chised slaves il all the States of the Union
should receive, in connection with all their
inhabitants, equal protection in every right
of person and property"
The Convention did not resolve that the
several States ought to pass laws for the
protection of the persons and property OF
the 'cnfranchised slaves il had no right
prescribe policy for separate States. nor
did it assume to do SO: hut as a National
Union Convention it declared this as a
part of the National platform ofthe party
there organized: and when the resolutions
of that convention were presented 10 Prcsi-
dent Johnson, he gave them his unqualified
approval, saying of the declaration of prin-
ciples, among other things. Il think | NAV
saw also that the declarations that were
there made ARE EQUAL WITH TIE DECLARA-
TON OF INDEPENDENCE ITSELF, and here
pronounce il a second Declaration of indie
pendence.' And in the same speech he
further remarked: Your address and de-
clarations are nothing more nor less than
a reaflrmation of the Constitution of the
! United States;
ANY man who processes to sustain Mr.
Johnson and the Philadelphia Convention,
and opposes the civil rights bill. delivers
false doctrine, and is dishonest politician
and deceiver of the people.
Thus, one by one, the measures of the
Union Republican party are adopted by its
enemies. Two years ago they presented a
solid front of opposition to the emancipa-
ton amendment to the Constitution and
NtHiCt pONtl VI Oh Tic
States to force il upon the other one-fourth:
but at Philadelphia they declared it had
done its work, and thai they, North and
South were satisfied with it, and would
not undo it if they could.
From 1851 to 1865 they opposed the war
prOnouncing it unconstitutional unjust and
criminal, and could only result in perma-
nent disruption of the Union. WAR" they
said rs disllniOn.' Now. such Copper
heads as Voorhees, resolve that ''the war
was just and necessary" and at Philadel-
phia the whole party unanimously declar-
ell that 'the war just closed has maintain
ed the authority of the constitution, and it
has preserved the Union"
One more thorough defeat will make the
Copperhead party advocates of the Freed
mems Bureau, and convert them to the
policy of equalizing representation, keep
ing rebels out of Congress, and guarding
the public debt against the possibility of
Reputation.
The world moves, and so does the pro-
slavery, anti-war COpperhead party. The
trouble with latter is, that it moves too
slowly.-Ind. Jour.