The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-02-16

tanning an application Of free negro to the
legislature for leave to enter into volunta.
ry slavery. 1t is not very uncommon
You will see from the same paper that
Senator Douglas is not popular in the
South, if it is right. He has many friends
here, but he cannot carry much Southern
force into the Charleston Convention
You will see that the State Convention
here has repudiated him entirely, and that
his friends here are trying to get up anoth-
er convention. | think il will not sue.
iced. His ''unfrendly legislation" doc
trine has Stayed him in most of the South.
ern States. There is good deal moro
feeling against the North through Alabama
than have found elsewhere. They sav.
however, that if the North will let tba
States alone and leave Congress to act
within the true constitutional limits il II
ali they ask. The territories are common
property and must remain go until thev
become States, and the question Of slavery
must be let alone there until the people of
the States dispose Of it. That Congress-
shall not and can not interfere with
1t, nor shall the decision Of the Supreme
Court be overruled or interfered with.
That they want and will have .he,r eonssi-
f@!'onat tights, and they ask no more and
will take no less. That they do not want
dissolution sr secession or non-intercourse:
but If driven to choice of this or q sur.
render of their constitutional rights in tho
States territories, they shall take the DOW.
er, no matter at what cost
tell them that they and the Union ists
OF the North ought TO say. write. speak.
print, re-iteratc and maintain that "there
shall be no disunion, secession or non-in.
tercourse. We neither can or will have il.
If you fools that are dissatisfied With your
government can change i. BY fair and
lawful means, do so; if not, leave il; and
if you will do neither the one or the 9th.
er. and persist in talking about the disso-
luton of the Union. destruction Of con.
stitutional boundaries and invasion of con-
st'tutlonai rights, We will make you
keep quiet You shall either go away.
keep still, or we will hang every mothers
son OF you; You shall not talk or act in
manner calculated to lead to dissolution.
nor will we listen TO or tolerate any such
thing. This Union is too valuable to the
whole world-its pats are too necessary
10 our own protection and prosperity.
Jointly and severally; and too much of ev-
erythlng--lberty. wealth, happiness, so.
ciety-all, all that makes life worth hay.
ing Is at stake, to tolerate its serious con.
temptation for one moment.
You may talk and write, but our stat.
ute shall put such penalties on you, and
public opinion shall SO weigh down on
you that you had better die a thousand
times than breathe word of disunios or
secession No man shall buy. trade or
sell With you. You shall not be witness
or juror. You shall have no credit. You
shall be butt, a scorn, Kissing and
oy-word in the mouth of every honest
man. Public opinion that loves this gov
ernmeDt and its freedom, shall say this
and do 1t; SO beware!"
1t is my opinion that there would be
little OF disunlon or secession preached;
and the Beechers. Stoves, Bourcicaults,
Wades, Llncolns and Stewards wosld have
to find more useful themes for their tal-
ents to spend themselves upon than the
dissolution of this beautiful and sublime
union of States. Nobody bu. hound,
unworthy of everything except the bed
and board of hogs or the lash of
driver would ever utter the wish--much
less urge on lis consummation.
But have said enough for this time
| find this theme is the most fru;tful ona
now-a-d days. and you hardly ever get clear
oi 1t. think if | write you again l will
leave it out. | don't remember what
wrote you last or where. When one is
amongst familiar scenes time passes ran.
idly; but when among strange ones i.
passes slowly. 1t seems at leas. a month
since L wrote you last, and what | have
said have now no recollection. have
travelled many miles and seen hundreds of
new things and seen thousands of new
faces and. talked of many matters, and
hence the time seems long.
1t rains good and strong and ia too
warm for comfort. 1t is quite relaxing
and will leave you for cool drink and a
little turn in the hall. Yours, truly.
A SourH Carolina paper notices tho
death OF mule. whose age was known
with certainty to be sixty-two years at the
time Of his death Such an ins.snc. of