Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-01-24
The Sheeted Dead.

currents of American politics are puzzled
by the uncorquerabIe vitality eyinccd by
the Republican party. 'Iiow is it," they
ponder, that this party, which came into
power through the division of its Oppo-
ncnis, who showed a majority OF fully One
Million Of votes. should now bc able TO defy
the most perfect combination of al! It's enc
mics? How could II poll, at the fragmen-
tary State elections of lS66, a full quarter
more votes than in the ardu0us Presiden-
tial struggle of 1850? Why should the re-
suit of each successive effort to overcome il
show il stronger and more invincible than
ever bcforeg Does il bear Il charmed life: p:
lias il made no blunders, given power and
patronage 10 no cabezzlers, developed no
iisintegrating anlipaihies and antagoniSms
in its own ranks ? What accounts fer the
firmness. the icnacity, Of its hold on pOpu
lar confidence =
We answer:
The Republican pariy is mortal, like all
parties which preceded il. ana will die
when its time comes. 1t has made great
mistakes. II has been misled into putting
thieves and swindlers into power, and these
have robbed the Nation. to- its sore dscrcd-
il and injury. And the one paramount;
reason for the prolongaiion of lis power is
TIE .fIrd determination of the Copperhoais 10
sUcc,ed II a3d the cqu0Hy stern resOire Of h1
People tln thy saa'di
Mcclellan would probably have been
beaten for President anyhow: but lie WI uld
not have been so utterly routed but for the
Copperhcads, who insisted on showing un-
der him a platform whcreon no man could
3 and. The Philadelphia arm in arm Con
vention could hardly have upset the Re
publican ascendency anyhow; yet the eff
fort need not have resulted in such signal.
disastrous failure, ifthe most conspicuous
and obnoxious Copperhcads had not insist
ell on bossing the job. And the recent
Eighth-of-JaNuary reyivals have shown the
same tenacic-ls resolve of the most notori-
onS and odiOds COppcrl eads not 10 let lhe
Republicans give place to any rival aspl-
rants TO power but themselves. So ii looks
"a though the Republican asccndancy must
be pretty safe for The next six years.
The Connecticut gathering was quite
large. considering that no ticket was 10 bc
nominated. and was reasonably earnest and
spirited The Hon. James Brooks made a
long and fluent spccch--not so good as he
used to make on our side, nor so forriblc
ashis solemn pro;cs;aiion Gin the Wing
State Address of lSt7) that he would ncrrr
consent To the surrender Of any more free
. SOIL 10 slavery TWO OF lnTpc OlncsS SPOKE
less absurdly than might have been expect
ed. But here were Isaac TOucev. and
Thomas III. Seymour. William W. Eaton
("In- a.iatc arrher. couI.I suricc?'O
all prominent, all speaking or resolving,
all intent on not letting the people forget
that, whenever the Republicans 90 out of
power, they must be succeeded by pO,iti-
clans who tried in every possible way TO
Il
prevent the fOrcible disruption of our Tn
ion by the sword of the Slave Power. Mr.
Touceys completely rs Secretary of the
Navy in Buchanan's betrayal of the Ma
tional dcfenses into the hands of the Reb-
els, L. III. SeymOur's and Eaton's public,
unqualified sympathy with the Rebels and
probably insure the Republicans of Con-
necticut an easy time in their State canvass
at hand
The Democratic dinner al Washington,
though hOnored by the Presidents pres
ence, and that of the Blair family. was in
the main a collection of fossils from the
drift deposited by the late War. Conspi-
cuous among them was Mr.. Buchanan's
man Jerry, who, as Attorney General. ga, e
a solemn. official opinion that there were
no constitutional means whereby secession
could he fDrcibly resisted. and who never
heard without sorrow of Union victory
throughout the ensuing war Mr.. Black
found no theme so conCenial to his SYM
pathies as the late release by the decision
of the Supreme Court OF Lambdin =. Mill
gan and his coDfederates, sentenced to
death in 1864 by Military Court for con
spring TO subvert the Union ascendency i'm
Indiana and hand her over to the militant
Rebels. OF these unhung traitors, Mr..
Black saw fiji to say that
''Three private citizens of Indiana. per
fectly innocent of any offense-I say per
fectly innocent, because, up to this time, no
human being has ever legally sworn even
to belief of their guilt--these citizens were
arrested. Kidnapped. and carried before a
body of men wholly without power to
meddle with them-not authorized even to
swear witness for them or against them
and there, after proceeding which it
would be a mockery to call trial, they
were ordered to he Killed on a certain fixed
day. In this condition of things, the judi
cial authorities interviewed, and, with the
aid of President johnson, the victims were
rescued"
There are many very foolish bad
things which the people can be cajoled and
deceived into doing; but there is one that
they never can-and that is, putting their
Government Intentionally into hands of
Toucey, Black, Seymour, and other per-
sistent, envenomed opponents of the War
for the Union. ''If the Court understands
herself, and she thinks she does" this will
never be done. Wherefore we pray those
gentlemen and their compeers to make
themselves as conspicuous and vOciferous
as possible in all future gatherings of the
enemies OF Republicanism.