Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-12-14
and protection over deeds the most dreadful

and protection over deeds the most dreadful
| and Infamous.
NEGRO PLOTS
The infamous lies about negro plots to muir
der the white people have become exceed
ingly stale and disgusting. Last summer
the columns of the Southern Associated
Ptess for days groaned with the stupid and
clumsy story that the negroes had conspired
to murder the white men and the ugly white
women of Georgia. That this in amous lie
was intended as pretext for q Slaughter
there is but little doubt.
MUST NOT SPEAK OF HIGH CRIMES
Many well-meaning people deplore any
reference to the outrages committed in the
South as lnimical to reconciliation and har-
mony between the sections. They are ex-
ceedingly anxious that in this Centennial
year past differences shall be forgotten. and
the people, North and South, forgetting and
forgiving, and mindful only of our great ma
tional future, shall meet and embrace as n
nation of brothers. 1t is contamination
devoutly to be wished; but / must remind
such well-meaning people that any formal
reconciliation, while the dearest rights of
millions are systematically violated and the
greatest wrongs passed unnoticed and un-
punished. will be the rankest hypocrisy re-
Voting alike to divine and human Justice
1t Is only the knavish quack who puts a
plaster over the mouth OF the wound and
says 1t Is healed. The healing process must
oegin at the bottom and be thorough to be
permanent and healthy. All the gushing
and hand-shaking which precedes the con.
cessIon OF equal rights and justice to men of
all colors and opinions in the Southern States
will be the verest sham and deceive nobody.
Such foul wrongs cannot be ignored and con-
cealed. They will forever obtrude them
selves upon the world aud cry aloud FOR
redress.
BUT ONE HIGHWAY TO PEACE.
Let me say to this class OF people, and the
men oil the South, there is but one highway
to reconciliation, and that is open, straight
and free; and over its portals are inscribed
these words: Equal rights to all; to all
Southern people will walk in that highway
they will arrive at the temple of peace and
find unbroken rest
WHY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CANNOT BE
TRUSTED.
The Democratic party cannot be safely
trusted with the control of our government
for many reasons, lew OF which l will
briefly state:
/. Because the vital element of the party,
the men who control its action and destiny,
were traitors, and did everything in their
power to destroy their country.
No man who ever deliberately be-
trayed his country should be entrusted with
thing; TO put them in power is another thing.
To place this government into the hands of
men who sought its destruction by armed re-
bellion would be insanity. These men ac-
cept the government only as a military
necessity. They do not love it, are not
proud of it, care nothing about its credit,
and Its very existence is rebuke to them.
But this does not diminish their desire to get
control of the government, to recuperate
eh0ffnraH far
tunes. The condition OF the Dem
ocracy OF the North is somewh hat different
though scarcely better. Sympathizing fully
with the South, and entirely subservient it
asks nothing but Office and leaves measures
and policies to the South. Upon economic
questions that pertain alike to all parts of
the country, while opposing whatever is and
all that has been done it has not even a sug-
gestion to make. and is utterly bankrupt in
ideas. With individual members of talent
and intelligence, as an organization it has
the confusion of ideas and the feebleness of
grasp which belong to the senilty of age
that hSe outliv-d everything but its passions
cape from the past, and all its tradi-
ions are evil. 1t cannot point
to one of its leading measures
in thirty years that has not been condemned
by the voice of mankind. The other
day in the Senate l asked the ones
ton, What good thing the Democratic
party had done, or proposed TO do, in the
last TWENTY-FIVE years? and said would yield
the fOor 10 any Democratic Senator who
would answer. The Senator from Delaware.
Mr.. Salisbury, accepted the challenge, and
named the appointment of investigating
committees by the present Democratic House
o. Representatives. The answer was an aw-
,ui confession, which was painfully felt by
every Democrat present The distinguished
Senator felt the necessity of saying some
thing, and could think of nothing
but the appointment of smelling COM
mttees to enable the rebels to find ont
whether we could not have put down their
rebellion more cheaply. than We did.
the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise
RACES in 1856; the Lecompton Con-
stitution and the bred Scott De-
cision in 1857; its denial of power
to suppress the rebellion in 1901; its
responsibility for the rebellion by sympathy
and encouragement; its resistance TO every
war measure; its efforts in 1864 10 bring
about the abandonment of the war; its pro-
lection to treason and conspiracy in the
Northern States; its opposition TO the con-
stitutlonal amendments; its encouragement
to the people OF the South to
resist reconstruction and its defense of the
Kuklux, White Leagues, and every form of
un broken series OF infamous measures which
will grow darker and darker by the lapse of
time.
INVESTIGATIONS.
The House of Representatives during the
late session instituted twenty-six investiga-
tions into the accounts and conduct of govern
ment officers. A majority of the committees
charged with these Investigations were Off
cered and managed by Confederate soldiers,
and the sole purpose of all seems to have
been the manufacture of reports TO damage
the Republican party in the approaching
election. For this purpose the rules of evi-
dence were ignored, hearsay state
ments and unsupported rumors re-
ceived in testimony the telegraph
violated, private books and papers seized, the
rights OF citizens trampled under foot, and
lunatie asylums and penltentiaries ran
sacked for witnesses. Informers were en-
couraged and employed, and the most in
credible stories received with avidity, al
though contradieted and scattered to the
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