Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-25
THE SOUTHERN DEMoCRATIc I'D


DhEoN
The address of the Southern Demo
cratic members of Congress is another
shrewd attempt to mislead public senti-
ment in the North SO far as it is in
reality addressed to the South, it says
substantially to the people of that sec
ton "Don't strike 100 soon. Wait I'M
til You can do so safely. Keep perfectly
quiet for little longer, and deceived
and hoodwinked North will give you un-
limited power. Then go in and do your
worst"
'' Endure your wrongs with patience"
says the address. In the name of all
that is just, what wrong has been done
these people, Is it the amnesty that
has been granted by the North to trnitors
against the country! Is it in allowing
them every right and privilege which
they enjoyed before their crime? Is it
in placing them in position where they
could elect nearly one hundred of the
most prominent leaders in the late rebel
lion to the National Congress? Are these
the wrongs which vindictive party
has heaped upon them! We had sup
posed that the wrongs" were on the
other side. We had supposed the cause
for complaint existed in those who have
been driven by these Southern marplots
from their homes; who have had their
property destroyed, their plantations
plrndered, and their friends murdered
with ferocity unheard of in civilized
land. We thought that the wrongs had
been suffered by the thousands of col
ored men and Northern Republicans
who have been prosecuted with fiend-
ishness worthy of savages, and who have
been hunted with the merciless cruelty
of wild beasts.
The wrongs of the South :" Let an
impartial world Judge what these wrongs
are. Let the official record of the 1000
MANNED and murdered victims in Lorisi-
ana testify to the outrages committed
and to the men who have suffered them,
Search the record through. You shall
find among the victims Republicans of
every hue, but not a member of the
White League Examine the list. You
will find black and white BIZ the thou
sands who have been spit upon, mobbed,
deprived of their votes but not among
the number single rebel. The hitter
do not complain of intimidation They
do not complain of lawlessness and as
sassination. They cannot point to
single instance where one of their num-
Der has been driven from the polls or
shot down like dog because he dared to
offer his vote. What, then, are the
wrongs which they are advised to endure
SO heroically! But the address continues:
"Let us continue to deal with them (the
blacks honestly and fairly, and let us
continue to invite to our midst those of
any political party who either seek
to know the truth or to find homes
upon our soil" Was there ever more
bitter irony than this? Continue
to deal justly with them" Pray,
when did these people commence dealing
Justly with race which they have
beaten, sold, and robbed since the be-
ginning of the republic! "Let us con-
time to invite to our midst those of any
political party who seek to find homes
upon our SOIL" Aye, these invitations
have been given, and homes, long and
permanent, have been found upon their
soil The story has been too often told
in these columns, and need not be re-
peated now. 1t should be burned by
this time into the very heart and brain
of the North.
1t is proper that such addresses as this
should be signedIby ex-rebel officers, and
especially that it should be signed by
Mr.. John Young Brown, of Kentucky,
whose threat against all who dared to as
sist the Union armies we published few
days ago. We may have to wait, but the
time is coming when the hollowness,
treachery, and wickedness of such mani
festoes viii be so plain that he who runs
may read. 1t may not come until every
Northern man shall have been driven
from the South, and every colored man
reduced to a state worse than slavery,
but it will come at last and bring its own
etribution.-Inter-O Ocean.