Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-05-18

again for life. Hear how the patient prates 0
the effects to be produced by the medication:
TT WILL STRENGTHEN THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY.
However deplorabIe the fact, it is an axiom ir
politics. that the existence Of parties depends
not virtuous enough to produce patriotic men il
such numbers as to admit of a governing party o.
that class in any country The result is that par
leaders the honor and dignity of position are FOL
the most part a sufficient incentive to con
vice. who drill and drub the rank and file the
l0ayes and fishes the test of party claim.
and the price of their activity. If they Sc,
of a party the prinoirIys OF that party may BIZ
asserted in vain. they will have none OF 1t.
Hence II Is THAI IN our country no party car
long survive without some measure OF success a
the polls. without some means of rewarding it:
subord nate agencies; and each defeat is dsas
trous with losses. Our party has failed for n any
years to convince the masses its ability carry
the country and Obtain the dispensation o.
power. and It has consequently remained in the
minority. Its ability To achieve success now
unaided; is doubted more than ever. and that
fact renders it idle to attempt it, We require
assistance to essr the vantage-grouna once more.
and when there ertrenchci we shall DO in a posi-
ton TO refuse allies or to Os an al any terms
whatever. Bu. that is hot the case now. and We
adopts our principles and brings sufficient force
TO turn the scales IN our favor. without any dan
ger OF description; and such union. Tor the pur-
pose of re-establishing the government in accord
ance with our principles. and with the advantage
to be .garEed by partial restoration to
Or lightly esteemed tbs o 5Gs dnty
10 accept 1t. exact lair proportion of the patron
age and proceed to fortiiy our outposts for a
future Independent effort to recover absolute
power: By this course we shall enlist recruits
and fill mp eur ranks. and our organization will
be rengthened and not impaired; consolidated
and not disbanded.'
section. copied in full, from the address OF the
National Democratic Convention held in Balti-
more in the year 1872. ut which Horace Greeley
and IL. Gratz Brown were nominated for Presi-
dent AMI Nice-President OF the United States. Ii
expresses the motives which induced the Demo
the leaders of the Liberal Republicans. If any
deeper depth of corruption is possible to politics
and politicians. have not. in a somewhat extern
slve reading of the political history of my own
country and of Great Britain. stumbled upon
anything that leads me to believe il. Why, this
Democratic address implies total deprevity in
IL is simply villainous throughout.
There is no relish of honesty in it. /
would as soon see the government of my country
pass into the hands OF Barbary pirates. And yet
the bargain between the friends of Mr.. Greeley
and them had for its object the elevation of these
atrocious villainy: What right have men who
made such bargain for such a purpose and had
no more sense OF shame an to avow il. u cal, in
question any act OF seoundrelism. whether COM
united In private or in public life? What right
have they as long as they live to ask any honest
man to repose any confidence in their profession
oil political honesty. and n desire 10 promote a
reformation and publication of the public SER
ylce1 why. their avowais show that they have
oeen long cream gone from the paths OF integrity.
and are. only fit for "strategems. treason, and
spolls-"
When I was boy the Democratic party de-
stroyed Henry Clay by a lying charge of a politi-
cal bagain between him and John Quincy Adams.
The charge always bore upon its face the evidence
that it was a mere dull. political lie. Yet such
that old ' tune sthns e Il DESTROYER ea
Mr.. Clay's popularity and kept him forever from
reaching the goal OF his ambition. What would
the men OF that day have said il they had wit
messed the avowal OF this vast bargain and swap.
made in the open day and supported by reasons
which thieves might refuse TO give or receive?
Besides. had it succeeded. there is the best
reason in the world Tor believing il would have
ended In quarrel between the parties to it. more
erto witnessed. Ii the Republicans did not in
tend to yield to the Democrats there would have
been instant strife between them: for the Demo
Gratis everywhere avowei that the Liberal Repub-
s sans T secI,,s al nsTGsrats Thus Raphael
ha be- 40 Mna rssra
can and 10 call ourselves Democrats? 1t is the
thing. and not the name. that is important"
And again Captain Semmes says: The fact is.
IT is Horace Greeley who has come to the Captain
Of the Alabama. and not the Captain OF
And SO IL is in sober truth. my fellow-citreIis
L stand where have always stood. the advocate
II the the Ihmitaticns Of the constitution OF the
tin time from these salutary, doctrines. has come
back to them" Now while CAPITA Semmes
was maintaining this view of the contract. Lib
eral Republicans, equally intelligent as he were
maintaining directly the opposite view OF its OPP
GRAFTON. Had they succeeded. their last state
would have been far worse than their first. The
good tnth
US and them from great calamity. Those
that nave even most 10 say against Gen. Grant
and bis administration have reason to thank
Providence that saved the country from so great
misfortune as was involved in the elect on OF
Mr.. Greeley and the return ofthe Democracy TO
power: and that should teach US There's a di-
We will"
PRESENT DUTY OF REPUBLICANS.
Another four years have passed. and the two
great parties OF the country are already in the
helu. pressing forward Tor another great com bat
which is to determine which OF the two shall be
placed at the head of the National admnistra-
course open to US. Our duty seems plain. in
The only choice that is left us, no patriot wisely
informed and careful OF consequences can hest
tate a moment in determining where his allie
glance is due Looking back over the last twenty
years. and measuring the purposes. plans and ca
pabilities OF both parties. there can be no doubt
where our duty lies- The Republican party has
loved and ssrved and saved the Union, the Con-
'titution and the Government. while the Demo
cratic party has hated. assaIled and all but de-
'troyed them all The action Of the Republicans
has been founded upon their views of
The essential character OF the Union.
md the principles and nature of its
which confers upon the government
power TO save them all when assaiiei by force or
raud from whatever quarter; while that of the
Democrats has proceeded equally from their
Tiews of the Union. and princi pie and nature of
Is constitution which eonfers. as they say. upon
ne government no power to save them when as /
ailed by force or treason when they take the form
Il secession and rebellion against its authority by
he people Of the States. Tais difference alone
makes the duty of supporting the former, and op-
posing the latter. paramount in the judgments OF 1
III weil-in ormed, rght-minded citizens Our
position rests upon the bed rock of our national
ty-theirs has no common foundation for the ]
ONT action of all American citizens. because il I
FLOWS the segments and fragments of the Nation
% pull apart at pleasure, and. instead of a com
non country. government and citizenSh u, to es- 1
ablish as many countries. governments and cit !
zenships as the restless ambitions OF base and
title men may require tor their own qualification
thus separated by an abyss tha. can never be !
He'd or bridged. we have before US an easy duty
o perform of supporting country by ia thfulIyi
to our party. While we remember tho 4
ark and bloody years of the war. and think
Il the shadow OF death that they cast upon the
lreshold OF almost every home In the land;
Fhile sit by our firesides and gaze at the
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