Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-09-05

rebel States. Unless this can bc done.
they prefer TO have the contest renewed. to
have anarchy supervene, hoping that some
thing may turn up by which the govern
ment may pass into their hands, or their
condition be otherwise improved. About
the true interests ur the Southern people
they are as indifferent as they are To the
EsquimauX in Walrussia, and regard them
simply as the means To- an end, as instru-
mcRts by which they can improve their
own condition. Many men in that organ
iZation wish to dissolve il and form new
alliances; but the old leaders and hacks,
whose history is identified with the rebel
lion, and from whose garments the stains
of treason can never bc washed, know that
! from any new organization they would he
carefully excluded as men whose presence
bodcd pestiiencc and disaster, and thus
they cling desperately To the wreck of the
old party as the only means To prevent
them from going To the bottom forever
The revival of the Democratic party would
he the triumph of the rebellion, and II
would then conquer in peace after it had
failed in war. But you may as well talk
of reviving the Confederate Government. Of
resurrecting the rebel dead from aihousand
battle fields, where they have been led 10y
their northern leaders. a party covered
with the blood of murdered thousands,
linked TO the atrocities of fiendish civil
war, pursued by the cries OF the widow
and orphan, and of the vast multitude
whose homes have been made desolatc,
has no destiny but death, and should ask,
not for office, not forgiveness, but only
burial from human sight.
ISSUES OF TIE Day SPRUNG OFT OF TIE
| WAR.
Some Democratic speakers say they will
not discuss the war, bat continc themselves
to living issues, leaving 'the past with The
dead past" They would be glad to have
us leave out the war and forget the part
they bore in it. But tlis is impossible
Every issue OF the day is the offspring of
war. and you can not understand it with
out knowledge of the war and its lcgisa-
lion. With The Democratic party as po-
| IIiiicalOrgan;zaiion we have noc0mpromlsc
TO make. II sought the life of the nation
ard No good can ever come ont of it. y
! good measure in its hands would turn to
cures Upon lis garments is the blood of
our fathers, husbands and brothers, who
persisted in supprcssing a rebellion it had
lomcnied and maintained
taxes while the father mOurns his son lying
in his sunken grave in the South; while the
widow in her loneliness and dcsolation
wccis for her husband who perished mis-
! crahly at Andcrsonyille. the crimes OF the
Democratic party cen never be forgotten,
! do not intend To palliate the crimes of the
rebel leaders in the South. but | can not
say that their guilt exceeds that OF the
Democratic leaders III the North who in
Stigated them to the rebellion, encouraged
them in persistence, and by every argument
and inyeciive excited and kept alive their
passions against the Government.
JUDGE TuuRMAN's SPEECH.
read with care the speech of judge
Thurman, the Democratic candidate for
Governor, made at Wavcrly on the 18th of
August. on the opening ofihe campai"n-
took it for granted that the standard bear
er OF his party would unfold its principles
and policy, and mark out the field upon
which he proposed TO fight the battle
Rgt the chiefly noticeable thing about the
speech is, that il proposes nothing, presents
10 policy, offers no plan of redemption by
which the Nation may he saved Tie poy
crty of the speech, however, is hut the pov-
erty Of the patty which 1t represents, and
IL
which has nothing to propose and thereby
admits itself to be utterly helpless and in
capable, should have the courage 10 ask
the people TO put the offices INTO their
hands The substance of the speech may
be presented in few brief propositions:
l. That the Republican party of the
North forced the South into rebellion, and
is responsible for the war.
That ('npsti.utinr Iec1srpc that
Congress shall consist Of the Senators and
Representatives from all the Stntes. and
that as ten rebel States are unrepresentcd,
Congress is Il fragmentary and unconsiitu
} iional body. Hence all the Legislation du
} ring the war and since is unconstitutional
and void Hence when the Senator'S ant
Representative from the rebel States with
drew from their seals in 1861. they lef
Congress fragmcntary and unconsiitu
tional body, and thereby cOnsiitutionally
} broke up the Government, and every ctior
since made to keep il alive has been clear
, ly unconstitutional So you see, my
: friends, 10 what strange uses good con
c siitutiOn may be put. 1t is true that tht
e. Constitution provides that majority o
The members OF each House shall cunsti
tute quorum TO do business; but as this j
r in conflict with the Judges theory, he yer,
: properly ignored it.
/ :. That emancipation has everywhere
= and especially in the West Indies, been
y failure. folly and crime; that the nc
: groes are an inferior. indolent, WORTHLESS
r race, and that negro suffrage portends di
. rect calamities TO the nation. And thi
: bill of fare presents the starveling feast e
, which the Democracy Of Ohio arc to 81
Il down.
II DEFENSE OF TIE REPUBLICAN, PARTY.
|, To the charges made against the Reput
1t lican party by Judge Thurman. shall nc
II stop to reply. They are mostly from tn
= stcrcotvped edition of 1864 and 1866, an
IS ere as devoid of merit now as they wer
If then 1t does not lie in the mouth of tn
l. party of the rebellion 10 complain that tn
5. country miglx have been saved on cheape
Ii terms. or that proper economy was nc
/. practiced in putting the rebellion down.
(; The defense OF the Republican party
/ found in the fact that to-day we have
/, Government and a Union preserved; tbs
n to-day we have nation more powerful ar
e respected than ever before; that 10 day "
N have a country of prosperity, and wit
IS bright and gratifying prospects for the fl
o ture We may safely challenge the hist,
rs nv of the world to show political organ
D ization that accomplished half so much fo
c the preservation and glory of nation
70 SO short a time; and it's career is not cnde
70 vet. It's work will not be done until equ;
ST rights, harmony, and prosperity shall reig
pr throughout the land, and the last lingerin
lc representative of Il reasonable Democrat
e has been driven from power.
E THE TRUE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
~ But notwithstanding the extreme power
- ty c.. the Judges speech, it must not
= supposed that the so-called Democrat
70 party is not in favor of anything. 1t Ii
aS platform down deep in the hearts of i
.s leaders; platform which they would e,
Il ccutc to the letter if they had the power.
,e This platform has not been formal
to drawn out in resolutions, or proclaimed |
y conventions; but it breathes through q
no their speeches, pervades their 1t eratur
n and is found openly or cOvertly in evel
Of column of their newspapers. 1t is Il
lt,lo fs,rr, nf of ln1 hot