Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-03-15
THE REPUBLICAN,
Concentration I'm MARSHALL.

apprehension I'm Marshall.
The last Plymouth Weekly Democrat contains
the proceedings Of the Copperhead Convention
which met at the Court House in this place on
the 81 inst. C. II. Reere, Esq, was elected Pres
ident and ID. Z. Vanvalkenbursh, Esq, Secreta-
~. On motion of Elias Jacoby the Chair appoint
ed Committee of Eve to draft resolutions, con.
sistins of Elias Jacoby, Horace Corbin, T. d.
Btiley, vi. A. o. Packard and ID. e. Vanyalken-
burgh. Every member of the committee, except
Mr. Jacoby, it will be observed, is a citizen of
Plymouth. Tae committee, after brief absence,
reported series of resolutions, which adopt
ed unanimously, with applause. The first rssolu-
ton hail. with JOY the re turn Of peace throughout
the land declares every State in the Union should
be entitled to representation in Congress, and
condemns as UNANIMOUSLY unjust and unconstitusion-
al the actisn Of the majority of Congress in sxelu
ding from seats in that body the members from
eleven of the States.
Bah. What makes You in such dreadful hur.
~. gents, 10 admit the bloody handed traitors
from the Southern States, TO seats in Congress
Is il not fellow feeling that makes you so won
drous kindl You hail the return of peace. but
have no hail, or words of cheer and commentator
for the brave soldiers who fought our battles and
eaved the Union. You weep and gnash your teeth
ut the injustice, as you regard it, done to the South
crn people, in denying them immediate represen-
tation in Congress, but have tears to drop, and
never had, over the graves of the brave men who
fell in defence of the Constitution and Laws, nor
sympathy for the sorrows and sufferings of their
widows and orphans.
The second resolution, is cautious and feeble
endorsement Of the President and reads as follows:
Resolved, That while we have watched With
anxious forebodngs the opening administration Of
President Johnson we have not been entirely with.
out hope that his early antcceJents would prove
the rising star which should illuminate the black
night OF Fanaticism with which he was surrounded.
And il is with heartfelt joy that we witness the
thunderbolt of indi gnation which he has Ia ,eiv
hurled against the ill-born scheme of plumber and
fraud in his veto 20 the Freedmen's Bureau bill Of
the present Congress And while not will
ling to endorse the administration of Andrew
Johnson, as whole, We ever stand ready and vii
ling to endorse with bands and hearts all eff
forts by him to maintain the Constitution and up
hold the laws in all parts OF the country, north and
south.
Thank you for nothing. If this the best indorse-
ment they can give the President they had much
better kept their mouths shut. They are evident
ly fearful of being caught in trap. As long as
President Johnson disregarGs the Constitution by
permitting such prominent and greatly beloved
Democrats as Jefferson Davis, Bowles, Milligan
and Horsey, to pine unustly in loathsome Abolition
bastiles, it is not safe to endorse him unreservedly,
and until he expels every Abolitionist from office
and appoints simon pure, con- sti-tu-tion-al DEM
ecrats in their places. ne be trusted ippli
city by the Con-.ti-tu-tion-al Democracy.
The third resolution reads as follows:
Resolved. That We are unalterably opposed to
the present iniquitous system of taxation by which
the New England States are protected, fostered
and enriched at the expense of the Western States
and by which the rich exempt and the poor op
pressed. That the present law exempIing Govern.
ment Bonds from taxation is an insult 10 the in
telligencc and outrage upon the rights of the
poor peope, and that no taxation is just but that
which is equal.''
Passing the lie contained in the first part of
the resolution, about the New England States be-
ing protected fostered and enriched at the
oil tire Western States, with the remark that the
only trouble with the New England States in the
estimation of Copperhesds is that they are too
enlightened and patriotic 10 vote Democratic, We
proceed to expose in few lines the meanness
and total lack of loyalty, patriotism, Gecency ard
honor exhibited in the latter portion. These Cop
Perheads and their strikers know as we'll as any
one that this is hot the first time in the histoIy
OF tile Government that U. s. Bonds were exempt
ed from taxation. They are mad at the Bond
holders because they loaned the Government mo
1ey and thus enabled the authorities 10 put down
the great Democratic rebellion. at tho time Con
gross passed the law exempting U. S. bonds
from taxation. the National treasury was empty
the Copperheads were open aud defiant in their op
position to.the Government had formed secret soci
cites and took horrid oaths to stand by each o.he
in resistance to drafts the collection of taxes
the giving Of all the aid and comfort in their pow
er to the rebels The sky was overcast with black
and porteL.ous clouds, and il was thought necessa
~ not only 10y every loyal Congressman but by ev
~ intelligent loyal citizen in the land to offer thi
additional Involvement to capitalists to furnish til
Government with the sinews of war. 1t succeeded
The Government was saved By the money obtaine'
by the sale Of these bonds, and now these vile Cop
pefheads, who predicted in the start that the Sout
could no, be .ubdued, and declared the war q fail
ure in 1861, want to add to their di.loyalty the in
fanny of reputation. Whit do you think of suel
cusssdness, Union men?