Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-04

mAhssi CouoeinDttte mllfuef IS pOSS1Dlei
means of robbery and plumber, SO the
deeds which have been committed in the
South by the Ku-klux and kindred or
carnations must everbe denounced as tha
basest and most dangerous of the crimes
recorded In the annals of mankind. Nor
IS there any excuse in the suggestion or
statement that the members OF this or
ganization make no war upon the gov
eminent of the United States. They
make war upon citizens Of the United
States, and they make war upon the
States which are integral parts OF the
United States.
They know the power of the States,
and we, too, know the power of the
States. These same men organized the
rebellion of 1861 through the existence
and power of the rebel States, and one of
our chief means of suppressing the re-
belion was found in the existence and
power of the loyal States.
Do we need further instruction upon
this pointl Is not the concerted attempt
of the rebel leaders to place every South
ern State in rebel hands q warning to the
people of the North? Their policy is
plain, their course is clear. First, either
by fraud or violence, they secure control
Of those States in the South, which, if
left to themselves, would be Republican;
and then within the National govern
ment they use its power for their own
purposes, or failing in that they again
attempt its overthrow.
Within the government they can effect
ually undermine and ultimately destroy
it. A government without credit is con-
tempible in peace and wholly powerless
in war. At the commencement of the
rebellion our debt did not exceed hun
dred million dollars, but we are now en-
barrased by debt of two thousand mill
ions. An administration in the hands of
the South could easily augment this
debt to twenty-five hundred or three
thousand million dollars in four wears.
Meager sources of revenue, negligence
and profigacy in its collection, extrava-
gance of expenditure, the return of the
cotton tax, and the payment of cotton
claims and war claims would work out
the problem with single Presidential
term. To every country vast public
debt is public calamity to be tolerated
and endured only as pestilence and
famine are tolerated and endured but
to Us our vast public debt is now a
public national danger. The great terror
of our politics, both as regards the con-
tinuance of power in the hands of the
Republican party and the preservation of
the government itself, was the reduction
of our revenues.
But this unlawful conspiracy in the
South, now apparently directed against
negroes and the much-abused class of
Northern men known as carpet-baggers,
is in truth a conspiracy against the gov
eminent of the United States and it is
not too much to say that it has in It's
hands the means of accomplishing its OBJ
ject unless the North again offers the
united resistance it offered during the
war. The Democratic party, which
challenges the Judgment of the country
for support, is in its organization a
tyrant. 1t never respects individual
opinion it never recognizes individual
will. 1t is Indifferent to personal wrong
it questions, it disputes, it denies the au-
thority of the general government, but it
admits, adorns, dignifes, crowns local
rule. This is the ethical, the political
basis on which the conspiracy in the
South rests, and resting on this basis it
has the power to destroy the national
government. Can you offer to the enc
mics of the negro, to the enemies of the
national government, to the friends of
secession more acceptable basis in
politics than this? And this is what the
Democratic party otfers.-Senator Bout
aoelps Speech on Louisiana Affairs.