Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29
The Chicago Tribune.

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Republican journal, which supports Greeley
and Brown and the Cincinnati Platform. It
believes that since all the distinctive princi-
Piles of the Republican party have been accom-
plished, and all organized opposition to those
principles has ceased there is something bet
ter to engage the attention of the people than
| to fight old battles over again. 1t holds that
| the most important thing to be done now is to
| effect a complete reconciliation between the
North and the South. These two great sec
| lions of our common country have been in
| bitter hostility toward each other more than
| quarter OF century IN reference to the lnsti-
tuition of slavery. Eleven years ago this hos
| tility broke out in War. Seven years ago the
| War terminated, the Rebellion was crushed,
| and Slavery abolished both by force of arms
and by Constitutional Amendment. Since that
time the Southern States have been recon-
structed. Impartial Suffrage has been estab-
lished, the payment of the National debt Sc
cured, and the payment of the Rebel debt
prohibited by Constitutional Amendments.
| All the old obstacles to Permanent Peace and
| Reconciliation between the North and the
South have been removed. To effect such
| return OF friendship and fraternal feeling, to
the end that there may no longer be any enc
mics of our Government in our own midst, is
the principal mission of the Liberal Republi-
can party which assembled at Cincinnati on the
LIST of May, whose platform and NJ minees have
been wisely and periodically Endorsed by the
Baltimore Convention.
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