The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-07-09
TIE M1PSHALL COUNTY OFF,
EY1IS

Speaking of the democratic officers of
this county, after charging them with
using the peoples money for electioneer
ing purposes, without having the least
particle of evidence to sustain the charge,
the Bourbon correspondent Of the RepuJ-
licam proceeds to say:
"They are men who during the rebel
lion discouraged enlistments and encoura-
ged assertions; who rojoiced when the
rebels gained victory over the union
troops, and mourned rebe! defeat; men
who plotted treason and assassination;
men who'd have set at liberty the rebel
prisoners confined at camp Morton and
camp Douglass, and who would have
turned them loose to rob and murder the
citizens of Indiana, and we, as republicans
should prepare to do our utmost in the
coming campaign to redeem Marshall
from the hands of such Lien and place
true patriots in our county Offices"
1t is hardly necessary to mention that
the whole of the extract above quoted
originated in the confused brain Of a
very illiterate individual, who is doing his
utmost to convince the few who happen to
read his illusions that the party to which
he belongs is the only party that is " truly
loil." The democratic party of Marshall
county never discouraged enlistments and
encouraged desertions. They believed
the men who made the quarrel were the
men to fight it ont, and they encouraged
them to enlist.
They mover "rejoiced when the rebels
gained victory over the union troops and
mourned a rebel defeat"
They never plotted treason and assass-
nation but they banded together in public
and gave these ''truly loil" men to under
stand that they could not with impunity
and without any cause or provocation
arrest men for political opinions sake all
over the country wher ever they happened
to come across them and have them IN
carcerated in basties prepared for that
purpose and that they could not destroy
democratic printing Offices simply because
they had the physical power, and because
the democratic doctrine advocated by
these papers did not happen to suit their
iceas of loyalty. When the soldiers OF
the I'D Indiana regiment, composed prin-
cipally Of men from Marshall county, re-
turned on a short furlough, after having
been captured and paroled, while in their
famous march through Georgia, in July,
1868, the democracy gave them public
reception at Corbin's hall, in Plymouth,
ct which all were invited without respect
to PARTY. That these same " truly loil /"
individuals were very indignant and in
censcd to think that coprerheads would
have the audacity to entertain the bold
soldier boys who were periling their lives
to save the nation. They even went Sc
far as to urge the boys to stay away, as
the thing was gotten up to poison them
Some of the boys, doubtless on this account
stayed away, but when they saw what ami
mated those who had appointed the vel
come, they could not but have felt asham.
ed of having taken advice from such q
contemplate source. The best the season
afforded was prepared for them. Speeches
simply of welcome and wishing them g
safe return, were made. Instrumental
music and songs by the glee club constitu
ted the evenings entertainment. One
song in particular, written by Mr.. G. III
Reeve for the occasion, expressed the sen
timents of the meeting so admirably tina
it will bear reproducing here. If those
who have none of the milk of human
kindness" lie # in them, who take deigh
in disappearing the position of tn,
democratic party towards the soldiers, cal
produce anything half as good as this, VIZ
shall take great pleasure i'll giving it pub
licity:
| Welcome them home. welcome them home
From carnage Of war and thunder of battle
Welcome them home, welcome them home,
| Ihe soldier boys, honest and brave.
| March, march. march,
- For treason its hideous head is appearing,
And march, march, march,
| The union TO ID fall.
List to the call, list to the call,
| WHO Is il answers from mountain and prairie?
Ready to fight ready to fall.
The soldier boys honest and brave.
welcome them home welcome them home,
For roll OF the drum and call of the bnglc,
, | welcome them home, welcome them home,
With smiles and with greetings OF love;
Hark, bark, bark,
The muiied drum beating, the flag draped in mournn;
And bark. bark, bark
| The voley fired over the grave
| Tells OF the dead gone to their rest
Back to their frcsides never returning
| Ilonored they died at their country's bohest,
Those soldier boys honest and brave.
Welcome them home, welcome them home.
Brief ID their stay, their return will be lonely
Welcome them home welcome them home
The soldier boys honest and brave.
Back once more
| To camp and to field tin the shall be over,
/ Then home once more,
We hope re shall see them return.
Order restored, the union reganed
The thunder of battle no longer resounding,
| Law made supreme, the nation reclaimed