Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-09-26

Greeley man or Democrat can tell me, that
party success may be bought.
- MUCH TOO DEARLY.
know when an honest mans party deserts
its principles, the honest man deserts the
party. But l know, too, when there are two
great organized parties, one or the other must
carry the election. 1t is impossible for few
gentlemen, on the eve of d Presidential cleo
ton, to form a new third party. They may
take parlor at the Genham Hotel and if the
Democratic party comes to that room 1t takes
possession of the room, and for its own pur-
poses not for any other. When the spider
and the fly project an alliance, it makes little
difference whether the fly walks into the
parlor of the spider or the spider walks into
the parlor of the fly. 1t is an alliance Of con-
sumption. There can be but one party, and
that is the party of the spider. Those men
that went to Cincinnati went as Republicans.
Then followed the Democratic party in con-
ventIon, called according to its usages, follow
ing the forms of that party, and they took the
Cincinnati platform and candidates. but they
took them as Democrats, not as Republicans.
not as members of third party, but they took
them as Democrats. Georgia paper which
read last night was headed. National Demo-
cratic ticket For President, Horace Greeley"
That is the party with which We have to deal.
ALI the machinery and all the force-with some
exceptions-that will be brought to bear for
the election of Mr. Greeley will be of that
party. Now, an administra ion is necessarily
of the spirit of the party which brings it into
power Gentlemen may say that they are not
Observation-Disclosures were Democrats They
may say: "You do not call Horace Greeley
Democrat. He is Republican of the Repub-
licans. Are we doing wrong in supporting
him 2" They NAV say i've mean only re-
form" But as WAS sald in England long ago,
90 the heads of parties, like the heads of SER
penis, are moved and governed by the tall
The head of the Democratic party may have
been fashioned IN Cincinnati, but if you would
know how the whole party must move look at
the tail that was fashioned in Baltimore. The
spider has walked into the parlor of the fly,
but if that little Liberal Republican fly should
venture to buzz his small desires, there would
be sharp, decided answer: Shoe fly, don't
bother me-" That alliance will be an Inflated
one for the fly.
Now which of these two parties in your
Judgment. is the more likely to keep its word?
You see, my fellow-citizens, am going to
vote wisely in 1872 without remembering how
and why I cast my vote in 1868, in 1864, and
in 1860. When l speak of the Democratic
party, YOU will understand / am not apeaking
of individuals. Every Democrat has Repub-
lican friends whom he honors and respects
and every Republican has Democratic friends
in whom he trusts. When I say the French
people are a volatile people, 1 do not say
Gulzot is harlequin. When speak of the
Democratic party speak of historical facts,
viduals. The Democratic party for the last
generation had been the
MERE SLAVE OF SLAVERY.
To serve slavery the Democratic party robbed
the mails, trampled on the right of free
speech, and upon the right of petition and
when the Democratic party II the South be-
| gan 70 hint at secession and mutter rebellion,
| the great body of the Democratic party
espoused the doctrine of State sovereignty.
| Whatever was done in the South by the real
leaders of the party had the full and hearty
support of the party throughout the country.
| And so it was when Lincoln was elected
and the rebellion was begun. We find
his hands in impotent despair, while
the tears ran from his eyes, ard whim-
| pering, Tie Union had no right to dis
solve, but. dear! it had no right to help
ITSELF" The last Democratic Secretary of
War sent material to any but loyal men. The
last Democratic Secretary of the Navy left
our coast without protection, and the last
Democratic Secretary of the Treasury knocked
the bottom out before he fed. During the
four terrible, cruel years of the war-which
was only natural consequence and natural
growth of the teachings of the Democratic
party-durin2 the four years of the
war, by every means known to men
that party resisted the prosecution OF
the war. 1 am raking in the ashes /; I dc
not forget it. 1t resisted every measure
that was brought forward to save the Govern
ment, liberty and civilization upon this con-
tinent. 1t had no part in the glory of eman
cipation. Then came the struggle of recon
struction. Struggle-why? Because of the
position of the Democracy. Every measure
that WAS proposed in the interest of rscon
struction that was essential to carry out thu
principles of liberty and justice, was sturdil,
resisted by that party; and while that ques
ton was pending, the party hurried to it
} convention and declared that every thing tina
} had been done was unconstitu rional. an
sought to overturn all the war had accom-
t pllshed 1 am still raking in the ashes of tn
past.
; But the people of the United States, tn
. loyal majority, organized as the Republican
3 party have not only succeeded in putting int
the reconstruction acts the principles whic
conquered in the war, but have so admins
tered the Government that the name of tn
United States was never so respected an
honored, the world over, as it is now. Thi
I being so, the Democratic party ees it is sc
and hurries to its convention It Bsltimor
/ with the most suspicious haste, folds its arms
smooths its brow, mufies its tongue, an
whispers as blandly as it can, Well, we Sc
i that you've got the better of US; we canno
exactly help ourselves hurrah for the darkey
. now give us the Government j" 1t become
: every man in the United States to
/ RAKE IN THE ASHES
| " cOO IL AO Coll nhO SPAIN VI q A'O SOe
e that may be blown up again INTO new COL
: hsgration. l ask you if you can trust tn
e party. All these things are the history Q
i twelve years. All these things have been al
f compished within the lifetime of every DO
: that hears me. The leaders of the party tt
i day are the same men who did all thes
r things. 1 have shown you what til
: party has done do you believe
t wholly repentant? Are these men t
d whom the guardianship of equal rights an
e the government of the new Union can b
t intrusted? Is this man who yesterday hel
s that the black man was of an inferior race
4 and his place that of slave, the one to II
g trust with the care of the black mans liberty
, Is the man who yesterday declared that th
, national faith should be violated, the man
e make to-day the guardian of the nation
L henor? Is the man who declared yesterds
# that all the war had done was unconstitl
l. tional, the man to intrust to-day with the 81
e forcement of the Constitution? Would VIC
have trusted Tory of the Revolution wit
W the government which followed?
q But when ask you these questions son
u of you may reply by saying, Yes, but '
ls think Horace Greeley will make an excellel
u President" Well, now, if, when the first A.
sf ministration of the Union nad been put in
7. operation, Gen. Washington had been waite
Is upon by the Tories of the Revolution, st
e fully organized and just on the eve of ii
I'd first election, they had said to Washington
r. % We have decided we were in the wron
d We have decided we are just as good as ii
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