Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-01-30

been resurrected and inspired with enough
OF hope to give MS pleasantly exciting cam
paign. Each of their old ifiumvirafe
Voorhees,, Mcdonald and Hendricks, ha,
blown his clarion, sending forth Along anC
lusty call to his clansmen--a call which
all tribes recognize from the continuou,
alienation through every sickening para
graph and dreary column of the word,
''Nigger" and Constitution Cops WHIT
sank into their political graves three years
ago, inundated on the funeral pyres tina
consumed the camp eQuippsge of the Sons
of Liberty. are crawling TO the surface
shaking from their buttcrnut garments ths
cold ashes OF the camp fires ofthe knight.
ofihe Golden Circle aud preparing to rally
once more uader the old banner
To suppose that the Union party. which
has so often met and routed this motley
crew, will fail TO meet them again. will
such unity of purpose and such determined
energy as shall make assurance of victory
"doubly sure and take bond of fate,
world be an insult alike 10 the intelligence
and patriotism of the party which has car
ried the State safely over pitfalls prepared
by Democratic treason, held her fir,nly In
her place among the LOYAL sisterhood in
spite OF Democratic efforts To launch her
on the turbulent sea Of secession, and gave
her = name. before the country and the
world, of which every loyal uoosier il
justly proud.
A nn,iceable feature OF the strategy with
which the Democracy propose To cont,uci
the campaign is the complete ignoring oil
the party anii-war and pro-trcason rec
ord. They talk glibly and smoothly OF
"dead issues" unjust prejudiccs engen-
dered amid the excitement OF war; and
like the man who climbed up into his attic
bed while his wife fought and killed the
bear, they boast Of what "trcn did in put
ting down the rebellion. No longer do we
hear from the lips of Democratic orators
of the hOrrid deeds of Lincoln dogs,
''Old Abe's hired assassins." "Sherman's
thieves" or 'Sigel's cutthroats ami raw
ishers." Instead ofthis we hear them be-
SOLDERING the soldiers with hypocritical
gasconade abont "holding i'm sacred recol-
lection the dead who freely sacrificed their
lives" in putting down the cardinal princi-
pie of the Democratic creed. the doctrine
of State Soveignty, They even have the
audacity to pretend to assume the often
sive End called the Union party to account
for the money expended in supprcssing
their rebellion. as if the conyiet was to
leap from the dock while the court was
pronouncing his sentence, ccllarthe Judge
and demand an account OF the money ex-
pended in capturing and trying him,
No, ne. Democrats. IL won't do. We
are not yet ready to grant you ticket of
leave" Possess your souls in patience
and the country may forgive your children
the sins of their fathers. But there are
damning pages Of your history too recently
written. too fresh in the public memory for
you To talk of dead issues" or attempt to
ignore the past The party which saved
this State from the ravages of CAMPAIGNS
and battles when Democrats lighted with
in our borders the torch Of civil war, and
has restored its credit, which Democratic
financiering had well nigh ruined. will
stand at the wheel And though you may
chuckle with all the devilish malice of a
Shylock or Melter Moss, at your fancied
escape from the odor of your record, the
party tina. has branded you with it in the
past will, in due time, heat the iron again
and burn the indiccs of your infancy so
deeply that lunar causiic can never eat
OFT the mark. Glorify grecnbacks as
much as you please, but don't imagine that
a Democrat who professcss a love for pa
per money can pass for anything bat q
hypocrite or an ass, Greenbacks are "our
our invention for the salvation
of the country. and all the world heard
how loudly you damned them when the
life of the nation depended on their value.