Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1869 — The Democratic Vote of the Leg [ARTICLE]

The Democratic Vote of the Leg

islature for State Printer. [From the Indianapolis Mirror, (Independent.) ] ■ It seems »little singular that the Legislative Democratic caucus could find no Democrat upon whom to bestow the complimentary vote for State Printer, whoso record is not tainted with treason, and who is not an open and notorioqs copperhead. R. J. Bright, the nominee, has ever been identified with the most bitter of the Bourbon Democracy. He was hand in glove with the Dodd conspirators, the Sons of Liberty, and the Knights of the Golden Circle. During the late war he was enrolled not among the active enemies of oar couutry, but in that more baleful organization, the Vallandigham Democracy. He did not place his precious life in danger of bujlets and cannon balls, because he haß a constitutional antipathy to the smell of gunpowder, but his energies were directed to the discouragement of enlistments and the encouragement of desertion. This was a njode of warfare involving none fatigues of camp iile, ana incurring none of the risks of active campaigning, and therefore eminently fitted for the chivalrous K. G. C’s. Their only fear was the civil courts, and a little vigilancfi and a talent for turning State’s evidence* removed all danger from that quarter. Such id the style of politicians that the Democrats of this Legislature have indicated would bf> their choice for State Printer, had they the power to elect. The people oi this State have On more than one occasion, testified their devotion to the cause of the Union and their hatred of the enemies of our country. They have shown that their patriotism Was snpcfjqi tp party ties, and it is not reasonable to suppose that their views on 'this subject have undergone any material change. The question then resolves itself into this: Are the Democrats of this Legislature going to testify their approval of copperhead and their condemnation of the war, by trying to force upon the party such men qs R. J. Bright? It eertainly looks so now, ahd as soon as it is made manifest that it is so, the people of Indiana will bury the Democratic P*rty so deep that nopeyen its copperhead extremities will be loft above tho wave of popular indignation, to mark the placo where the party went do^Ot » '» * - I —* ---* *--•* u •

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