Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01
The Confederate Candidate.

At recent Greeley ratification meet
ing in St. Louis. Col. W. H. Hatch
" pledged to Greeley the support of
every true Confederate" This explains
the clasping of hands " across the
bloody chasm." Greeley is to dwell
together in unity with "every true
Confederate" There was never, in the
DAYS of old Democratic ascendaucy, ANY
difficulty in being at peace with the
shareholders, the Ku-Klux and the
Secessionists. Schoolmasters and mis-
tresses had only to teach that slavery
was the cornerstone of the Republic, a
God given tuition, and that it was
the chief end of man to purchase and
"wallop his own niger" according to
the Constitution, and the Interpretation
thereof by the late venerable Chief
Justice fancy, to insure for themselves
the most generous treatment from the
Southern slave oligarchy. Mr.. Greeley
knows as well as anybody that he can
only "clasp hands across the bloody
chasm" of the late war by keeping these
laws. Mr.. Greeley knows as well as
anybody, that there are hundreds of
thousands of Confederates,' in whose
! hearts hate of free institutions, of free
speech, of free black men and of the
| Government under the recent amend
| ments to the Constitution, burns as
| fiercelv as it did in the hottest period of
the rebellion. Col. Hatch says all
these thousands upon thousands of
true Confederates" are for Greeley /;
through the mystic power of the secret
oaths and bonds of the Ku-Klux Klans,
Col. Hatch is able to ''pledge" them for
| Greeley. Every marked midnight assas.
sin who prowls about scourging, burn
| ing and numbering negroes and white
Republicans is for Greeley. Every man
who owns Confederate bonds is for
Greeley. Every man who ever owned a
negro with few honorable EXCEPTIONS
is for Greeley. Every man who has a
rascally, dishonest claim against the
government, growing out Of his own
treason to his country, is for Greeley.
Every man who wants to saddle the peo-
plewith the entire Confederate debt is for
Greeley. Every man who wants to place
Confederate soldiers on a level with
Union soldiers, by adding them to the
pension rolls of the country, is for
Greeley, because he said; q pray for
the time to come when the names of Lee
and Stonewall jackson will be equally
revered by the American people with
those of Grant and Sherman"
But no man who was once the prop
erty of another, subject to be bought
and sold like piece of merchandise, il
for Greeley because he has deserted
the party of liberty and adhered to thai
of treason, rebellion and slavery. Nc
man whose wife and children were once
liable to the polluting touch of slave
holder who owned their bodies anC
souls, and whose virtue, whose heart
and whose lives were forced to submit
to degradation worse than death, a
the hands of their masters, is for Gree
ley because ne has clasped the rec
hand of "every true Confederate
across a chasln rendered bloody b.
crimes which blacken the annals o
modern civilization. Col. Hatch 'pledge
every true Confederate for Greeley 7
If "every true Confederate is for Gree
ley," every true patriot should be agains
him. If every true Confederate" sup
ports Greedy, it is expected that Gree
ley will support the ideas and princi
pies of the Confederacy. Presidential
support of the principles of 1.-THE los
cause will revive it, will redivide tn
country upon old issues and may agair
plunge the nation into the horrors o
civil war. The nomination of Mr.
Greeley by the Democracy, his enthusi
astic support by the worst rebel ele
ments of the South, and his indorse
ment by "every true Confederate" al
show that the Confederacy is not dead
that il slumbers as an organization, bu
lives and burns as a cherished hope il
the hearts of the Southern people. Wht
will assume the fearful responsibility o
warming it into new life ?-Chicag
Inter Ocean.