Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-09-19
CAN THEY BE TRUSTED?
Whe are Greeley's Supporters, and
What are the Purposes Ami
mating Them Z?
An Able and Lucid Statement of the
Issues of the Campaign.
From the Chicago Inter-ocean.


and most conscientious of the former
Republican journals which still support
Mr.. Greeley's candidacy, published
significant article, few days since, in
which, under the head of "Can They
be Trusted?n it essayed to present the
true issue in the pending campaign. In
the first part of its argument it conced-
ed the point that Mr.. Greeley would be,
and ought to be, defeated if those who
are supporting him could be proven
guilty OF desire to make way with the
results of the war, to overturn the con-
stitutional guarantees of universal free
dom and citizenship, and either to
again attempt the disruption of the
Government or to force the payment of
Southern war debts and the pensioring
of rebel soldiers. The Republican does
not bubble over the point that it is
Mr.. Greeley, and not his supporters.
that is TO be voted for; but, with can
dor that is refreshing just now in Con-
federate organs, it comedies that an Adj
ministration must take its character
from the overwhelming majority of the
men who support it, and, therefore, If
the supporters of Mr.. Greeley can be
truthfully charged with the purpose to
do or attempt to do any of these these
things before enumerated, he should be
defeated were he ten times the better
man that Mr.. Bowles believes aim to
be.
The candor of the Republican very
greatly simplifies the true issue inyolv-
ed in the contest between Greeley and
Grant; and agreeing with it fully in
this proposition, we are willing to accept
argument upon the second and vital
question: What IS the purpose of Mr..
Greeley's supporters, and in what direc-
lion will they color and shape his Adj
ministration To learn this properly, a
man of common sense, ready to apply
the same rules of action to this duty
that he would to the commonest affair
of every day business, must go at once
to those who can speak &c cathedra for
the great majority of MIR. Greeley's sup
porters. For we suppose, by this time,
no man is insane enough to believe
that nine-tenths of his followers will be
other than Democratic, and that the
most ultra and virulent Democratic
type developed in the past fifteen or
twenty years. The men who precipi-
tated the country into rebellion who
upheld the fortunes of the Confederacy
to the last: whose treason cost us the
long and bloody war; who sacrificed a
half millions of lives and billions of
treasure in the mad effort to establish a
Government whose cornerstone should
be slavery-to use the words of the Con-
federate Vice President-the men who,
in ante-rebellior days murdered,
scourged and maltreated men and wo-
men in the South who were suspected
of enmity to the peculiar institution"
and who, in post bellum days organized
themselves in KuKlux Klans, and
have murdered twenty-three thousand
black and white Republicans for disa-
greeting with them in political belief
these are the men who to-day furnish
the overwhelming of Mr.. Greeley sup
port. The point of variance is not as TO
what these men have been in the past,
but whether their sudden conversion at
Baltimore, on the 9th of July, was real
and honest; whether these Sauls OF
Tarsus, who have for years been pursu
ing with the torch and sword the
friends of liberty and equality have, by
virtue of the Baltimore Convention, be
come the true and accepted Pauls t.
lead the hosts they have heretofore per
secuted to a better and higher politica
life.
Passing over the question whethe-
Mr.. Greeley's success would entail an
other attempt TO disrupt the Govern
ment without saying more than that
should the South desire to secede, Mr.
Greeley is pledged to aid them in thei
secession to the full extent of his DOW
-er, let us adduce some evidence to shov
that Southern men-and Northern, too
for that matter-understand that Mr.
Greeley's election means the success O
the principles fought for in the rebel
lion, and payment to the South for tn,
losses sustained by its treason.
The Lexington (Mo.) Caucasian, the
first paper in the United States to nam.
Mr.. Geeley for the Presidency, and t.
whose editor Mr.. 6. addressed friend
ly letter on the Presidential question,
has for its platform to-day: Estate Sow
ereignty! White Supremacy and Re
pudlation! Down with the Fifteenth
Bedamnedmentl Total Reputation O
the Monstrous Yankee War Debt in
CURED in the prosecution of an uncor
stitutional crusade Mr.. Greeley cor
'ceded the right of secession, and c
course the war to prevent it was ur
constitutional for the accomplishment
of an unconstitutional and horrid pul
posel" This is the original Creole
platform.
Hon. Jere. S. Black, Mr.. Buchanan
Attorney General, the ablest .juri.
who espouses the Greeley cause, d.
clares, in his letter advocating NJ
Greeley's election, that "the Recor
.struction laws were unjust bills of al
tainder," and the Fourteenth and Fl
teenth Amendments are frauds upo
the spirit and purpose of the Const
tution.''
Ex-Governor Brown, of Tennessee,
a speech at Nashville, says Greeley
q in favor Of restoring to the South ht
pristine rights.'
Hon. j. S. Golladay, M. G. from Kel
lucky, said at the same meeting
"Greeley soas IN favor of paying the Sou
for her slaves, and believe he Is st,H.n
E. J. Ellis, Greeley candidate f
Elector, said in a speech in Louisian,
Twelve millions Of people 1.-THE Soutl
would hail, as lover halls the dawn
a first smile, the flash of the first bra