The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-21
The Work of Fourteen Years.
A contra st between the beginning and

A contrast between the beginning and
the end of Observation-Disclosures the
first platform and the present policy of the
ruling party-between what that party
promised, and what it is doing and has
done, would he so instructive that we are
constrained to present il to our readers.
The Republican party, as a national or
ganzation, is still youthful-not quite
fourteen years old-yet it has achieved
stage of crime and corruption that no
other PARTY ever reached in half acentury
Of power Indeed, it has actually COM
pleted the Justification of all the leading
assertions, and the violation of all the
boosted principles on which it first APP
pealed to the sympathy and confidence of
the people. In proof of this we quote its
own admitted record. The Republican
platform of1S56 drew its inspirations
from the Kansas episode, and the fourth
resolution of it relating to Kansas was its
leading feature. 1t is as follows:
Res0lyed. That while the Constitution of the
United States was ordained and established by the
people in order to form perfect union, estab-
lish justice, insure domestic tranquility. provide
for the common defence, ard secure the blessings
of liberty and contains ample provisions for the
protection of the life liberty and property OF every
citizen, the dearest constitutional rights OF the
people of Kansas have been fraudulently and vio-
lently taken from them-their territory has been
invaded by an armed force spurious ami pretended
ls0iSkqtiUs erecrre md jHlici1 officers hare been
SCI Orer than, by whose usurped authority, sus-
tanned by the military power Of the government.
tyrannical and unconstitutional laws have been
enacted and enforced-the rights OF the people TO
keep and bear arms have been infringed-test odfhs
Of an acknowledgment endD1fiHg nature hare been
imposed as a cO7ditiOnO Of erercStng he right Of Suf
frdge and hOL}ing c'sce-the right of an accused
person to speedy and public trial by an impartial
fnrx hacb fhar of 10 no
secure in their persons houses, papers and effects
against unreasonable searches and seizures has
been violated-they have been deprived of life,
liberty md property without due process of law
the freedom of speech and the press has been
abridgedtke Ii0f 10 choose their representa- yes
has been D,0fe Of no efect-murders, arsOns and
rObberies have been instigated and encouraged,
and the offenders have been allowed to go unpun-
ishcd, &c, &c.
This was the virtuous proclamation of
the Republican party in 1856 How
startingly it.contrasts with the policy, the
acts, the army orders, the reconstruction
statutes, and the declared d0gmas of that
party in 1907 Every sentence of the
resolution we have quoted is an arraign-
ment of the party that adopted it; it has
committed and is committing every one OF
the crimes it then and there denounced.
If the people have rot been alarmed and
stimulated to general opposition by its
usurpatiOns, it is because it has awed and
subdued the people by armed int limitations
and stupcfied them with its cOrruptions.
1t is because, III some parts of the country,
it has arrogantly told the people that it
"mcans to rule in defiance of their will
and intimated that no popular opposition
to itself viii be pCriaittcd to succeed. il
has outlawcd and expelled every original
men Der who dared to rc-asSCrt and adj
here to It's original platform, and followed
the lead of those who melted it to new
usurpatiOns. We commend the resolution
above given to CHE good Radicals" of thi;
party, that they may see what fierce and
swift progress their leaders have made in
the work of destroying constitutions
liberty in the short period OF thirteen
years.-Missourj Republicans