Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-11

the OIaIe Governments OF the South
and putting a garrison in the South of
seven or eight hundred thousand men ::
that If the Abolitionists SUCCEEDED in the
| war, the negroes would come North by
the hundred thousand, and take the
places left vacant by the murdered
white men-men who had been murder
ed for that very purpose.
The members of the convention who
nominated Mr.. Allen were not ignorant
of his record during the war, and he
has been brought forward that these
sentiments and his previous opinions in
regard to slavery and State sovereignty
might be Endorsed by the Democracy of
Ohio. 1 speak of him only because he
has been put forward to represent the
Democratic party of this State and the
spirit of that party throughout the
United States and present the speech
of Mr.. Allen as representing the general
spirit and action of the Democratic
party throughout the war. Will the
friends of Mr.. Allen now say it does not,
and that he was worse than the party
We will see.
The question need not be asked, why
l again refer to the record and character
of the Democratic party. I have no
choice in the matter. 1t has again
thrust itself, with all its deformities,
with its painful "reminiscences, into the
face of the nation, demanding recogni-
ton and power. 1t admits no change,
processes no regeneration, proclaims its
ancient heraldry and principles, and
stands before us the hateful political
thing it was during the war and for ten
years before. We are told that we
should let bygones be bygones /; and yet
we are confronted at the same moment
with the columns of the Democratic
party flying at their head their ancient
banners, on which are indeliby in
scribed "The preservation of human
slavery-the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise-The bred Scott Decision
The Resolutions of 179S-The Gov
eminent has no right to coerce State
to remain in the Union-No power to
suppress the Rebellion-Not man Tor
dollar for the unholy war-Opposition
to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fiji
teenth Amendments - Reconstruction
laws null and void-No power to punish
the Ku-Klux-This is the white mans
Government-No national unity, but
sovereign and independent States ;" and
the long catalogue of intermediate
crimes and blunders that [ have not
time to mention.
The masses of all parties are honest,
and intend to be patriotic, and their er-
rors arise from their principles and edu-
cation. The course of the Democratic
party before and during the war was the
legitimate result of its principles and
education for years, and these, rather
than the individual members of the
party, should be held responsible for its
crimes and follies. 10 be compelled to
review these principles and rehearse the
story of their bloody consequences is re-
pulsive enough, but as long as they are
urged upon the American people they
must be fought and exposed, be the
task ever so irksome.
1t is true, in morals as in physics, that
the same principles always produce kim
dred results, varying only with the cir
cumstances of time and place. And
here is the Democratic party proudly
asserting its ancient privileges, per-
meated and saturated through and
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referred, and loaded down with the
black and bloody events TO which they
have given rise. The Democratic party
has done no good thing for twenty years,
but has sinned continually, and is not
only incapable of reform, as declared by
Mr.. Groesbeck, but scarcely makes seri-
Gus pretense of a purpose in that direc-
ton. 1t has made dalhance with the
Civil Service Reform it may fondle the
Farmers movement but these do not
enter into the serious purposes of its
life, which is to restore the Democratic
party to power with its ancient princi-
Piles, and set at defiance as far as posi-
BILE the march of events and the progress
publican party is invited to abandon
the contest at the very moment when
the Democratic party renews it.
When the Union army met the rebel
hosts at Gettysburg, they did not ask
for q declaration of their intentions.
Their previous history and declaration,
their banners and uniforms, showed
what they meant. And so when we
meet the Democratic party in battle
array, with their ancient banners flying,
we know what is meant without asking
any questions Their present declara-
tions or equivocations are wholly unim-
portant.
Tie maintenance of the Democratic
party means devotion to its principles,
its record, and its traditions, and its
friends will not dare say it means any
thing else. The men who control the
Democratic party throughout the United
States to-day were educated in the be-
lief that the Government is but COM
pact or alliance between sovereign and
independent States; that slavery was
the normal condition of the colored
race that the Government had no con-
stitutional power to prevent the seces-
sion of the Southern States or suppress
the rebellion. In their hearts they
mourn the abolition of slavery; they do
not believe in the natural rights or
capacity of the colored race; they alb
hOr fha Thirteenth Fourteenth and