Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-01-31
4 Democratic National Con-
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Tho besetting weakness of Mr.. Z. d.
Reeve desire to rush into print--has
lately found pretext under the above
head In the last Democrat, after dealing
the editor blow with spurred heel for
his reticence on the subject, he sets forth
the considerations that call for the assem-
bling os such distinguished patriots as him
self Milligan, Voorhees, and Vallandigham
of the North, and the followers of Lee and
Forrest Of the South. The delegates to
that convention, he says, SHOULD be Dem
| o rats in every sense of the word, and those
whom we can rely on with the most GER
tainty." That is to say, men who have oc-
cupied no equivocal position during the
war, who, like those whom we have named,
found no reason to rejoice over rebel de
feats or weep over Federal re',erses. who
g,olted over the wholesale starvation of
Union soldiers in Southern prison pens,
and who indusiriously busted themselves
in keeping up fire in the rear of the ar
mics of the nation.
Mr.. r.. complains that the party was sold
out ii Chicago, Gin the nomination of Gen.
Nc cCiyllan, we presume, for the platform
aloptei there was certainly reasonable
.el)uta to silt the writer's yi,iated appe-
tite for that kind OF food and again at
Philad .lphia, where the helm was entrust-
ed TO Johnson who run the rotten old hulk
upon the rock, my policy" OF the sell
ling out process, he says:
! ..Whcn we denounce men like Lincoln and Sew
ard and then sing ptssns to their m~mory-vhrn
d~spise men lie J, ,hnsoIl. ~ then trc' me his
champIon-wheR pin eur faith 10 their skirts
andtrim our siils to the yeerirg "f mon who run
counter TO theories. our State and SRtional
Committees have caused to do for five years past,
no plain, honest, thinking man eah have confidence
! in US"
All OF which might be dismissed with the
remark that Mr.. Reeve is evidently deter
mined to ''lleep it before the people that
his D lrty is still animated by the same vi
rls that a-rAyeI its Southern b slf in rebel
lin al its y Drthera wing in ill-co3celled
syn .plthy with tre lson, and that they, aud
onlY they will BE- petnittet 20 succeed the
X p Iblicans in power.
The writer coal not refrain from airing
his old hatred of every man who wore the
+ blu. TarJI IN h)lt the war his righteous
50 al WIS yexed By every glimpse he caught
of the tletested color, AMI he invented all
sorts of malignant ep;the!s for is wearers.
+ lie nov discovers in the Grall Army OF
the Republic, an association of officers and
81, Ii RS of the late war, men who barred
their bosom in their couatrys cause, who
d e the lanl of treason I'D with th,ir
hloo to make |, plrc, a trelsOaable organ
iza;ion- This might have excited our ire,
h al not the writer, in the next paragraph.
called mp some lud:crous rcmem6rances 10y
proposing TO fight for something or other,
" know not what, as his idea is rot very
clear We have not forgotten the bellicosc
attitude of the gentleman in 1861, when he
used TO send Us to bed with the comforting
assurance that with one wave of his hand
he could bring 2s0O bloodthirsty Demo
Gratis into Plymouth, who would make the
streets run red with Abolition blood, but
when The test was applied and Uncle Sam
a.feetionately called upon him to shoulder
a fnlsket he hired a substitute and advised
his $500 :ssons of thunder" to 90 and do
likewise or seek shelter under the tail OF
the British lion. Law. Charley, nobody's
afraid of We. Go ON with your talk. if it
lpleascs You. To speak seriously, howey
cr, the Democratic party rebellel against
the government once; they NAV repeat the
experiment again but there will be no one
left 10 rebel a third time.
Mr.. Reeve proposes to re-baptize his par
ty. 1t seems not to have taken, and if a
repetition of the ceremony will do any
good we shall be in favor of keeping it in
soak. But, IL it is our turn to make n dis
covery, we think we descry a deep laid
scheme to injIre New England No body
Of water would suffice but the Atlantic
Ocean. and after the loathsome carcass of
Copperhc Idism has been submerged there
in, the fisheries, upon which 50 many New
En- Flanders depend. would be destroyed By
the poison that would destroy the whole
finny tribe But the Yankees need not feel
any alarm. Democracy has no confidence
in the virtues of water, aud will nol be per-
suaded to adopt any such means of purifi-
Cation
Having, since the above was in type,
heard Mr. Reeve deny that he had called
The Grand Army" a ''treasonable organi-
zation,' we quote below his exact language
on this point. If it will bear any other in
terpretation than that we have given it, our
readers will judge. The gentleman, we
beg leave to say, is in the habit of leaving
down gaps, to be used when pressed. He
would like to gain a reputation for bold
ness, but has not enough sand in his crop
10 carry out his desires:
''our opponents tell US plainly that they
to centrslize the Cover and wipe State
lines. That is revolution and the establishment Of
absolute in place offree government. Counter rev.
oluton must and will stopit- They expect that
ter-rev lution and have organized the "Grand Ar
NV of the Republic in order To be able dny
rOreeAf II the people 10 Prerent he orestr"ing If the
gorer hnqeHf The rank and file ef that arm y-e kept
the C mmandug Ofhcers-do not believe there il any
such dury for the and that
and many cf them good liberty loving people al
heart, JHi hey 'eiE fg gLt us ,rhea ordered"
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