Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-10-08

and bloodier rebellion. Here. for instanc,
is the LOUisUitic Journal asking. IF tn,
Radicals should triumph in November, i
/ the white people of the South woulC
quietly submit and giving it as its opin
ion that they certainly would not. Tho
thought, says this fiery sheet, lis prepos'
ferrous. II is impious. 1t is nonstrous.
"A radical victory" it wildly erie. ii.
a war. 1t is war To whose rava.cs ant
tcrrors imagination can set 10 bounds.
And for this reason, so lucidly, or rather
SO luridly, set forth by this Blair and-Sey
mour editor, plain, honest man in New
York or New England, who has dcibcr
ately made up his mind that duty require.
him TO vote for Grant; who, apart from
these threats, thinks Republican admin
istration demanded by the exigencies o
the Union; whose conscience and intellect
upon this point coincide, is to revise hi:
pecision, and abdicate his manhood, and
surrender his right of private judgment
and, crawling a trembling craven to the
polls, is 10 beg that his voice and vote j:
TO bc registered for one man whose polii-
ical integrity he doubts, and for another
man whose personal character he dcspises.
If Pendleton, who has lately been expcr-
imenting upon the terrors of tie East, fan
cies that the Republicans of Maine and
| of Connecticut are such white liyercd ami
mails as this, he thinks more uniusily ol
them than they think justly and indignant
ly nf him This Chinese warfare-the
| horrible mask and resounding howl-makc
the bdck>stabbings and the midnight burn
ingS fthe Ku-Klux Klan appear mildly
respectable and comparatively manly.
Two things the missionary from the
West 30 the East Is certain will follow the
election of universal blood shed
and general bankruptcy.
We pass over for The present his fran
cial forcbOdingS; but did he think 10 scare
the stout hearts of the Maine back woods
men, who know the rotten lumber of a
platform when they see it, by crying out
that Republican victory would be the
destruction and desolation of the land?--
Did lie SO understand the shrcwd common
sense Of the Conn. Republicans. as 10
dream that they could be turned from
their purpose by his prophetic and vocif-
erous elocution? by his rhetoric of ruin,
and his defamation OF despair? "Do you
believe" cried Pendleton, that it Is posi-
bic to maintain peace and union if you
suhjugaie in these ten States this Caucas-
ian race of ours TO be ruled by these biu-
iish slavcs?" Now, in the first place, these
voting bugbcars o. Mr. Pcndleton are not
''slavcs," but as free as he is himself: and
in the second place, all the Blair and Sey>
mour orators in the South are solcmnIy
and passionately invoking these .'brulish
slaves TO vote for the candidates of the
New ork Convention, and declaring that
the votes of the Freedmen will be and
should be so cast. If these confident pre-
diciiens are fulfilled, we suppose that Mr..
Pendleton's beasts will be changed into
perfect beauties. This thought probably
and very providentially occurred 10
most of the gentleman Hartford auditors
and prevented them from swooning with
apprehension upon the spot, without waits
Ing for the verification of the wizards aw-
ful words. So he went at them again with
something little more moving and mel
ancholy still. 1.-The Southern men, "
he said, ''arc self-possessed, a self reliant
and a brave people. Tread upon them,
and they viii watch their opportunity and
strike YOU" Now, ''lreading upon them,"
in this speech, cannot possibly mean any>
thing except voting for Grant and Colfax
The figure suggests the rattlesnake, and il
also suggests the Copperhead. Walk
lightly, men of Connecticut Step ginger
ly, or the reptile of secession will have
you in his yenomous coil, Vote for Blair
and Seymour or the rebellion will
return with seventy times seven thousand
devils to drink the life bleod and to in
crease the taxes of Connecticut, Perhaps
there were those who heard the walls of
this Western jeremiah who remembered
the blood of Connecticut already spilled.
and the taxes already levied which Con-
nectcut has paid or is still paying. They
might have laughed at Mr. Pendleton's
depression of spirits; and at any rate they
would be pretty sure ~ laugh at the texts
of scripture and the theological illustra
tions with Which the pious gentleman
thought it necessary TO garnish speech
made TO Connecticut Puritans, the despis-
ed of Southern chivalry, They might have
answered: 'If the election of Grant and
Colfax is to bring new rebellion, let it
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