Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-08-06

and the humble in life, and how you can
unblushingly tickle their self respect by al
fusion to their national peculiarities as
dutchmen, by giving the rest of the audi
ence 70 understand that a dutchman, your
German fellow citizen, now that you want
him, and that he requests you to write in
his name, that dutchman would always
give his best cow as ransom for his dying
wife.
o, that the radical party can not be con-
tent TO let the "DEADr carcass of slavery
alone. O, tina, the Democratic party must
constantly denouncc the reconstruction
policy of Congress as unconstitutional
that II must pretend the war having been
waged only for the purpose of maintaining
the Union, and that therefore the South
ern States were never out but remained in
tegral constituents of this Union after their
voluntary surrender, that the Southern
States never out are clothed with the same
inalienable rights under the Constitution as
they possessed before the war, and that
consequently it is their right % dispose of
the negro population as they please. o,
that the Democracy has TO publicly confess
To the momentary abolition OF the death of
slavery Declaration 81 independence Of
Texas bat have to resurrcct it aud to
smuggle 1t in again by such a very
circuilous route. If this was not the case,
why black codes down South, why the OPP
position to the civil rights bill, TO the 18th
constitutional article, and to the recon
struction policy of Congress2 But shall
deal more fully with this subject at its
proper time.
"7he Radicals sag yes, and the
Democrats sag no, to the proposition
that Congress has q right to tcgislotc
temporarily .torthe Southern people
What sophistry, again.
Congress never attempted 10 legislate
for the Southern people, they always had
the same right to legislate about their civil
concerns as the other territories, but GER
tainly not about the personal status Of their
inhabitants In political aspects, without
the consent of Congress. Congress assum
ed merely that il had a right to prescribe
the conditions under which territory was
TO have the privileges of an existing State
within the Union, because it has the Con-
stitutiOnat duty TO interfere in the do
nestle affairs Of a State as well as a terri
tory, so rs TO preserve a republican gov
eminent to each.
You once gave us an idea of what cor
stitutes democratic republic, or an dig
archy, or an aristocracy, or monarchy.
You are democrat by profes sion. but
what are you in reality, when you don't tell
your Democratic fellow citizens of German
birth, that South Carolina and other South
ern States were oligarchies by form Of
property qualification and in opposition to
your professions as TO democratic equality
even among the whites only? No, Mr.
Vero, such you may speak ito the intelli
gent German who will accept the truth
from an American citizen before an uniruth
from foreigner" but that foreigner is now
intelligent enough and the same are also
bis fellow countrymen, who stand on his
side, to swallow such truth, even if it sho'd
be offered in that elegant sauce OF the
best COW and his dying
wife,
Mr.. Vcro, allow me to proceed In my
regular course, which is intended for my
friends of German birth; those
Of my fellow cOuntrymen who are on the
other side have never attempted to con
vert.
My friend Vcro, democrat Of July 9th) !
sreaks of DISTINGUISHING eight millions of
whites and enfrancLising four millions of
blacks, and then the Southern States for
The sake of representation must concede to
such theories.
Did ever man attempt more cold
FLOODED perversion of facts? Were eight
millions of whites deprived Of their voting
right? Did not the white people with the
exception of those who for reason Of their
prominent participation in the insurrection
md because they bad broken the official
paths of the times before the war, and who
number hardly more than 10000 among
he g. OOO, 900, vote at all times down South
whenever they wished to?
Was the exclusion from such right by
p~os;,ya,. T.tcso,, xvI,o,, tbo nac,oor,,s
in his controversy with Congress,
not larger mass as the cor
rective measures of Congress? No, Mr..
verc, you exaggerate. But perhaps you
mean by this DISTINGUISHING to say that
hey were not admitted to representation
"a Congress according to their wishes and
recording to The Democratic views of the
North with all the rights intact, they pos
'essed before the war because they were
1sver out. Oh, yes, you mean this, other
wise you would not mention in the same
inc the enfranchising Of four millions OF
blacks, or the compulsion Of concession.
Yeu would leave everything as II was be-
Iore the war? No, you do not mean TO say
% your german fellow citizen that slavery
s to be revived No, you dont. 1t is alb
'urd if the radicals handle yet that dead
carcass" That they are so fanatic Allow
me to use your own words: so sane
man can for a moment doub: that he,
rho can publicly withOm SHAME, ar
,x,,o o,<oI LorIo,,f:os tint az e1u;on
much to his German fetto,0- citizens
is entitled to all the honors and adj
vantages which the Democratic party |
under the leadership Of Seymour Cs3)
and Frank Blair(hls letters) can con
fer.
shall assume my regular course the next |
time. lisr M.