The Plymouth weekly Democrat., 1860-03-01
Or the Democraf

one. That's the first issue. suppose? | /
rather like the name. but dcpr,cate the
necessity that requires frst Issue to be
sent into this breathing wor scarce half
made up. like Gloster. A first issue is
an earnest of what the paper is intended to
be.
I observe that you have published two
of NY letters which l thought had gone to
'Davy Jones's' long ago. aud you promise
to publish more 'neyt week Unless you |
read proof more carefully and get your
punctuation type into the right boxes, l
want you TO sign some mans name to it |
who can nelher read OF agrite. That will
explain the whole matter. please, young
ladies'. give the poor 5ltnd man something.
said beggar. If you are blind how do
know we are young ladies9' %, beg
pardon, ladies. | meant the poor deaf
and duns5 man. You see? l shall be in
The same box with him. / can't read and
write is excuse enough for al errors in my
letters. Shades Of Kirkham and Webster
help the man who has never been thro'
Commercial College and writes for news
paper. If he has thoughts to utter | am
alluding 10 the handwriting very few ev-
er see them as he wrote them, unless he
corrects proof himself. | am speaking
generally, for l notice your apology and
have no blame for you. l am no worse
off than others and have no right to com
plain.
Since wri ing the letters you have pub
ished. political sentiment has undergone
arapid and extreme change in the South
ern States. There are great numbers yet,
however, who desire and will make one
grand effort TO save trouble md discour
ace dsuoion efforts: but few such things
as the election of Forney and the speeches
at the serenades of Pennington. and 9TH
ers, will wind the thing up and drive out
all the cool judgment left in the South.
l believe l promised to write no politics
next jip,e.' but | must ailude to a State
ment Of NJ. Corwn'a In his speech on
the 23l January, quoted by you in your
first paper, to-wit: that the Republicans
in excluding slavery from the territories
are doing exactly what the men Of 1897,
did when they exclude i; from the North
West Territory &c. Now why did he
not tell the huM when it was as easy as a
fslsehood? Why did he not tell you Mas,
We then had no constitutional limits. with
the whole question of slavery IN and on,
of the Territories reserved by the States
. respectively; where neither the people OF
r Congress can legisla,e on the subject with
out en- arGing those limits? That, we
then had only she Articles of Confedera
ton. under which. both the Congress and
, the Colonies assumed almost any power
they deemed necessary for the time being
t that all the colonies were then slave colo
nies. and there were no free ones, and the
Laws OF Virginia extended slavery over
The North West Territory. That, Virgin.
Ia owned chat territory--siavery was IN
force there and sic gave 1t to the confed.
Grafton with certain reservations. and i
was her desire that it should be free; ant
the power was conceded to the Congress.
, TO organize a government for it and tC
declare il free. That. this was before the
Union of States: and that out of thi.
precedent, after the Constitution was al
opted and Union of the States under it
, all the powers previously exercised being
reserved to the States. and Congress bein.
no longer authorized To- exercise such pow
er, they proceeded from time to time t,
organize territorial governments and con
fer powers on the people Of the territories
they did not possess and had no right L
confer and which has been submitted I,
until now merely by reason of that prece
dent. Now the people are beginning tt
claim their reserved right and refuse sucl
exercise of j. by Congress. Therefore
the Republicans are not doing as the mer
: Of 1897 did; for the power they then ex
ercised was refused in the Constitution
and is vested in the States. But then u
is as natural for Republican leader tc
keep clear Of the truth AS it is for mar
to open his mouth when he falls down
and the latter is a thing that al,coys hap
pens.
Il Poor old Moses! What time he had
with the brick makers Of Egypt! They
did good service for The Pharaos and
increased in the land Farms. cities
temples. palaces and miracles Of improve
ment sprung up under their hands will
Egyptians to rule. Bul Moses got them
into the Wilderness. aud they wander ed
and fought and increased. and got into