Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06
.GOOD REHAYIOR.v

as a whole, and with proper consideration of
all the circumstances of the case, the Southern
people have set an example of good behavior
since the war which history cannot parallel
st. Louis Republican.
On this text the Republican breaches
a sermon on Northern Lunacy" in the
matter of the treatment of the Southern
question. The thousands of assassina-
tons, the scores of massacres and bloody
riots, the numerous attempted usurpa-
tons, the threats of a new rebellion, the
complete social ostracism of carpet-bag-
gers, the terrorism put in operation at
every election in the South to deter ne
groes from the exercise of the right of
suffrage-all these evidences of dislOyalty
to the amended Constitution and of bad
faith toward the new element of citizen
ship, go for nothing with the Repubti-
can. Against them all, with ali auda-
cious assumption of the air and mien of
judicial fairness, it coolly asserts that
"the Southern people have set an ex-
ample of good behavior since the war
which history cannot parallel" More
than this To give the lie to its fair
speech, in the very issue in which APP
pears this judgment, SO partial as to be
ridiculous, there goes forth to the people
news of the violation by the Democracy
of Louisiana of solemn compact en-
tered into with committee of Congress
to effect compromise in the interest of
peace in that State. In the very face of
this new perfdy ON the part of the unre-
constructed rebels of the South, the as
sertion of the Republican that their
good behavior is unparalleled in history,
is piece of unparalleled impertinence.
But it is what might with reason be ex-
pected from Democratic organ falsely
calling itself an independent newspa-
per. The violation of the Wheeler compro-
mise, by the so-called conservatives of
Louisiana, was to be expected we pre-
dicted it, and warned Congress and the
Republicans of the State against being de-
coyed into political trap by the neces-
sarily false promises of an INSCRIPTIONS
opposition. Nor was it to be presumed, in
reason, that Democrats North or South
would condemn the treachery of the
White League Democrats of Louisiana.
The whole history of the Democratic
party is history of fraud and chicanery;
of fraud ON the ballot-box, of fraudulent
legislation, and of chicanery in the con-
duct of every phase of political affairs.
The Democratic party, in vulgar phrase,
"keeps what it has, and gets what it
cam keeps by fraud and gets by fraud.
Every Democratic paper at the North
applauded the Wheeler compromise, and
predicted reign of peace and good or
der in Louisiana as sure to result. Now,
we venture the assertion that not one
paper in a dozen of all those which thus
applauded will so much as family con-
denim the treachery by which the com
promise has been broken by Democrats.
We desire to impress upon the people
this fact, that the head and heart OF the
Democratic party are at the South. Be
fore the war of rebellion, Northern Dem
ocrats invariably sneezed when Southern
Democrats took snuff. The Democratic
party North was party of abject ser
vilts, party of doughfaces groveling In
the dust and begging to be used and
abused for the benefit of the slave oil
garchy. The Democratic party North
of to-day is no whit more honest or indie
pendent than that of the slavOcracy era.
1t hates the negro and reviles the carpet
Dagger ; it whines about "the sufferings
of the Southern people," and pirates Of
Cancellation, because these cant phrases
constitute the refrain of every Southern
campaign song. 1t borrows its plat
forms from the teachings of Southern
treachery, and tramples upon them
whenever they have served their pur-
pose of cheating the people into a
spasm of confidence. To presume that
the American people will again trust this
party of fraud and treachery, is to pre-
sumo that they have lost capabllity to
reason, and are ready to be plundered in
pocket and robbed of their political
rights. 1t is an indisputable fact that
the administration Of James Buchanan,
as AN exemplifcation of moral cowardice,
and the Tammany society, as an agency
of the most stupendous system OF cor
ruption known to modern politics, con-
stituted the twin barbarism known as the
Democratic party of the ante-rebellion
period. 1t is not surprising that it W. IT
down in blood; it could logically die liz
no other way. To hold in abject slavery
one class and rob another class was Its
mission; it ended when the one class re-
fused longer to wear its chains and the
! other tn continue to be robbed. But the