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

to me in this lfe-when 1, a Republican.
should stand before you, Republicans, and
above all, Massachusetts Republicans and
have to speak TO you of what Senator Sumner
has said, In infinite sorrow. Bat do not
forget, nothing can blot from my mind the
great past of your great Senator. l do re-
member his Ilustrious services. l remember
how for twenty years, during the very tempest
of our politics eliminating in civil war, in
deadly peril of his life he stood erect, spotless
in character, answering in his principles. l
remember how like the granite cliff Charles
Sumner opposed himself to the oceans OF hate
to the oceans of SANDER, to the oceans of ridi-
cule that came rolling IN upon him and were
swept by him into the impotent froth and
foam. l remember those great services-and
no departure of nis from what seems to me
the true faith makes me forget it-yet when
Charles Sumner says | am against the policy
of the Republican party, remember if any
man has shaped the policy of the Republican
party it is Senator Sumner. If that policy be
as he implies in those words, the policy of
hate, he denounces his own work. He con-
demns himself. He 1t was down to the Last
days Of Congress who urged the passage of the
Civil Rights bill. He it was who in the most
convincing and elaborate speech of the ses-
sion asserted how much remained to be done.
He it is, who in his letter to the colored men
declares that the peace of the colorcd man is
still IN great danger, and he it is that declares
that he will now trust all the great purposes
and objects of his life in the hands of his most
implacable enemies.
Fellow-citizens, never was a great victor in
great war marching IN robes
SO ABSOLUTELY sPoTLEss
of injustice as the robes of the American
people, organized into the Republican party.
When the war ended the state of things at the
South was very sad. Greeley has described
SOutharn ifoati
thought be used strong language, but we
know from what our feelings would have been
| if we had been conquered. believe that
pacifcation by the Republican party would
have proceeded quietly, and would have
effected its end but for one fact, and that fact
is the Democratic party. Il resisted every
measure of reconstruction, and called them
unconstitutional. But just as fast as anything
was done the Democratic party declared il
| ought to be undone. What would we have
| done if We had been in their position at the
South, had we discovered our old political
allies still working with us j? The people Of
the South cannot bear to give up. They be-
| heve their old political friends will unite il
| their ehalf, and all that will nave to be done
Is to carry their own States
They support Horace Greeley to-day because
they think he will bring Democratic restora
| ton. So long as this feeling exists, SO long
believe reconciliation impossible. In word
l believe no reconciliation, that is TO say, M
perfect obliteration of all the wounds and sor
rows of the war, is possible until the Demo
cratic party finally disband. That is the source
of all our woe, as it has been hitherto. 1t il
an old Christian tradition that, when Chris
was born, voice is said to have run along tn
shores of the Mediterranean sea . The grea
| Pan is dead" So on next November, when W
hear, as surely as we shall hear, that tn
Democratic party of this country, which wa
the power of slavery, which was the power o
rebellion that has perplexed reconstruction
that that party is not only defeated, but dis
organized, disbanded and dissolving, then tn
glad heart of America will thank God that a
asst, at last, perfect reconciliation has becom
possible, because the new Union born of tn
war is unchangeably established. [Great al
plause and three cheers for the speaker.l