Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-09-05
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SENA TOR O. u. MORTON y
SPEECH, At COL UMB US D.
Special Dispatch to the Indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 81.

SENATOR MOTION HAS just SohSiuucu iiS
speech 10 the citizens of this city. The
crowd in attendance was very large, and
received the speech with manifestations o.
hearty approval. The canvass in Ohio i;
becoming warm and exciting. The Con
federate Democracy are putting forth theil
best efforts but the triumphant success o
the Republican party is not doubted hero
by the well informed politicians. The
crowd in attendance in the State House
yard TO night, to hear Senator Morton, was
by far the largest political assemblagc that
has met in Columbus during the present
canvass.
The following is Senator Morton's
speech:
FGliOU Citizens Of Ohio:
The party calling itself Democratic is
again asking for the confidence and support
of the people of Ohio, and it is not only
proper but important. TO investigate the
title upon which they put forth their claim.
As public political organization, it is
the right OF the people 10 examine their
Aistory. to look into their career and prin-
ciples of their candidates, and to under
stand the spirit and purpose OF the politi-
clans and leaders who viii control them II
elected.
| 1t is proposition which cannot be de-
MED by any intelligent observer OF events
| for the last ten years. that the so-called
Democratic party was thoroughly and con-
pletely identified with the origin and pro
gress of the rebellion; that, as Il political
organization, il was 4 part of the rebellion.
acting rs counsellor. sympathizer, furnish :
er of supplies. and doing everything in aid
of its prosecution that could be done In the
! loyal States,
When speak thus do rot mean to say
! that all its members. all who vote with it,
are equally guilty. nor do | refer To that
patriotic host. who when the Rebellion
| broke out, left the Democratic party and
went over To the side Of the country. The
masses of the people of all parties intend
To do right. and would il they were let
alone; hut mean Its politicians, itsleaders,
those who formits opinions, and give shape
To its action.
While they have been the open and
avowed enemies to the people OF the North
they have in the guise of friends been the
most deadly foes of the South. and have
by their treachcrous and perniciOus cOun-
sells led them bv criminal and reasonable
paths tO dishOnur and destruction.
DEMOCRATIC PAETY RESPONSIBLE FOR TIL
WAR.
To 60 no further back ilian the campaign
OF 1860. we find them assuring the people
of the South. bv speeches, DewspaDC rs. anC
resolutions of Conventions. that Alr. Lin
coin was a sectional candidate. and thai
his election as President would be in yiO
il.iion of the Constitution of the United
States: that the Republican party of the
North. if they succeeded to power. would
without prOyocaiion or excuse, oycrturr
the institutions of tho South. and that the
South would be Justified by every principle
OF honor and self prcsory alton, in resisting
even 5y force of arms, their accession tt
power.
These wicked and monstrous falsehood'
ucrc reasscrtcd in every possible form, en-
forced by all the vcliemencc ofrassiOn anI
the gracrs of rhetoric, and tie question
may well bc asked how the people of ihC
South could refuse altogether to bclicv'
the persistent declarations of large bod,
OF profcssed friends in the North, wht
claimed to speak from superior krowledg
Of what was going on in their midst.
Immediately after the election OF Mr.
Lincoln, the slave-holding rebels of th'
South. protesting 10 lee animated by a pro
found belief in the truth of the Democratic
leaders of the North. went forward in tn
work of rebellion, and proceeded TO de
clare the secession OF State after State. Ii
this they were enthusiastically cheercl am
earnestly encouraged by the Democrati
leader OF the North.
Thcy were assured that the right OF Sc
ccssiOn existed under the Constitution, ant
that they were in the exercise of lcgitimat
powers when they assumed TO marsha
their several States out of the Union, ant
President Buchanan in his annual mcssag
i'm December 1850, soemnly declared tina
the Government of the United States hat
no power 10 coerce a State To remain II
the Uni-n. This reasonable and blood
ulterance was endorsed by every Demo
cratic Senator and Representative in Con
gress. save two: BY every Democratic ora
tor and newspaper throughout the Noril
by every Democratic member of Stat
Legislature with few exceptions, by ever
Democratic convention held throughOu
the North during the winter Of 1860 an
1861, of which | have any knowledge.
The people OF the South were urged fol
= ward in the work of secession and rebclliO
by the assertions of thousands of polite;
leaders that the Government should b
' held still and powerless until it was col
summated; and that the presence of pow
erful body of friends in the North wou
, prevent the passage of an army or Of
single regiment to the South, to engage
the wicked and unconstitutional busine
of coercing q sovereign State to remain
the Union. In January. 1861, at the vel
time the Confederate Government was b
r ing formed, the Democratic State Conveu
tian of Ohio passed resolution .pledgir
two hundred thousand Democrats, that N
. until the North had done Justice to th
South would the Government be allow,
to coerce the South. This gave notice
the rebels that if the Government attempt'
to suppress the rebellion, two hundr
, thousand men in Ohio would be four
fighting on their side. The people of Il
South, like the ancient Egyptians, We
70 J, permitted to believe all these atrocio
lies for the purpose of their damnation.
Confident in these assurances. and Wi
feelings of entire security, eleven Stat
- boldly attempted to throw of their Oblig
tions to the Constitution of the Unit
Ctdtcs- ccpdidiC tuCulocNSo ilohH u
ID nation, and 10 establish a new Confedel
&c tion the chief corner stone of which W
&c Human Slavery.
With the appreciation of President b
IL chanan and the Northern Dem ocracy, tn
no rapidly seized without opposition, for
m dock yards, arsenals, mints, custom hous
'r' ships of war, and public property Of eve
= description, until there remained but o
little spot, in Charleston Harbor, over viii
the flag of the Union continued to wave.
II BUcHANAN's CABINET CoNcLAvE OF &C
sPIRATORS.
Mr.. Buchanan's Cabinet had been CO
clave of conspirators. His Secretary
{ War had distributed the arms and mu
: tions through the South. His Secreta
Z of the Navy had scattered our little fleet
: the four corners of the world. His Seer
fary of the Treasury had so managed Il
no no Treasury as to leave it without doll
,n. and thus all had been done that could
TO make the rebellion easy. And when