Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-08-20
which Way Lies Peace!

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at his pleasure.
which Way Lies Peace!
If Gen. Grant shall be elected President,
no man fears, or even affects to fear reign
of violence or terrorism. Noexisting gov
eminent will be overturned or subverted.
No person or class now enfranchised will
be deprived of political rights. On the
contrary, the work of acknowledgements will
move steadily, rapidly on, till every dis; :
bility will have been removed. The masl
cd assassins who now make. night hideous
at The South will understand that they
must quit, and will do it. The three
States which have not yet framed and
adopted free constitutions, will close on
the work forthwith, and be again repre-
sentcd in Congress. Thcrcupon Military
rule viii cease in those as il has done in
the seven States already reconstructed,
and the few soldiers remaining in the
South will be simply servants and hackers
of the civil power. -Four years of Grant
ahead will be like The four years more OF
Lincoln decreed by the people in 1864,
when the Rebels saw in his reelection 4
fixed resolve of the loyal States to fight
four years longer Unnecessary and thereup-
on concluded that they might as well give
1t up. The re- election of Lincoln was
Peace. though Seymour S Co. insisted
that IL involved intcrminable War. Sothe
election of Grant will insure the removal
Of all remaining Southern disabilities by
curling the spirit and arrcsting the outra-
ges which have rendered restrictions indis-
pensable.
If Grant shall be elected there is no ven
geance TO be glut.ed. nothing established
to be subverted, no class 10 be deprived of
their rights. His election will be due no.
tice that violence and outrage must cease,
that school-houses must no longer be
burned and may safely be built, that there
is to be education in every State and for cv-
cry class, and that the farmer, of whatever
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assurance that he shall harvest ard enjoy.
There is not in the South an acre of land,
a coal bed, a waterfall, that will not be
increased in value by the news of Gen.
Grants election.
Should Seymour unhappily be chosen,
theIe is not an implacable Rebel in
America who viii not believe and feel that
the cause which was lost on the battle field
has been regained at the polls-,hat the
verdict OF the ballot boxes has reversed
that of Gettysburg, Mission Ridge, Atlanta.
and Appoma,tox. ''You have had us un
der these three years." they will say to
their Union neighbors; ''new it is our
turn. ave will show you who is master
now" And they will drive oct ''thc car
pet baggers,' as they call the CniOnists
who have migrated from the North, hun
ting them as though they were wolves.
lye know this, for they threaten it-not
one. merely, but Ihousaus of-thcnI-and
are sure to be as bad rs their werd. They
did hunt our people out in the Spring OF
1861, killing them by scores; and they are
tc-tay unchanged in spirit and character
Were Scymour's election assured, the
Yankee teachers of Blacly children, Blu
ieau agents, &c, &c, in tie South, could
not live iii ere another week. They would
be hunted and killed precisely IS the
Blacks were in our City in the Great
Democratic uprising of July, 1868. The
Blacks would not fare so badly if they
bent abjectly to the storm; but let one OF
them approach the ballotbox with intent
10 vote, and he would have knife thrust
into his body, law or no law. The Frank
Blair revolution woulL be completed with
in month after the Rebels had chosen a
President after their own heart; and
ihenceforih no 'carpet-baggcr" or ''scsla-
wag" could open his head at the South and
live. Every one who stayed there would
swear that he was jealous Seymourite,
and ready 10 rip up every niger who
should presCne TO offer vote.
We do ROT believe it probable that Re
action and Arisiccrncy-the right of the
cunning and strong to TO as they will with
the simple and wcak-are about to triumph
in this Republic. The calamity would be
50 profound and pcrvading that we arc
sure the country cannot afford it. There
is no industry, there is 70 legitimate bust
ness. which docs not impcratively require
the election of Grant and Colfax; and We
do not apprehend National suicide. IN, y
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