The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-04-12
For the De
A GLANCE
Helpers impending Crisis.


ging to his pet Observation-Disclosures.
The editor made two or three random shots, at
as many different times, and accomplished moth
ing against the object ON which they were design
ed to take effect. it is highly probable that the
only good the publication of his articles on this
subject afforded him, in afiording him OPP
portuni.y to bech the superabundance of stereo-
typed epithets. such "Slaveocrats," ''Shamo-
Gratis, "Oligarchy," &C.. &c, which accumulate
in bis sei-cOnceitcd brain to such an extent that
ventilation alone affords him a safe recluse from
the effects of negrophobia, TO frequent attacks of
which he and many of his party subjected
In looking over his self.styled brilliant corusca-
tions false statements and illogical reasonings,
intended to answer our structures on the Cri-
sic, We find nothing damaging to the position
took, or any OF tire statements we made. They
amount to nothing unless it be tlcit endorsement
Of the Crisis, that he has doled out to his read
ers fifty times within the last two years.
That he should feel called upon to &c fend the
Crisis, when it meets his political views, is not at
all surprising; in fact. rather to be expected His
defense, apology, or whatever the reader chooses
onamc his senseless rawlings about the horrors of
Democracy and the evils of slavery, would GER
tainly do no credit to good cause, but may do
well enough for the one which they are designed
to benefit.
He says he has never read the book, and vet,
with pOmpous defamation and high flo WIN invec-
tive, and with all the assurance of one who knew
what he writing about, undertakes its defense
when its doctrines are assaulted. We suppose he
has heard the Democrats, and probably some Re-
publicanS, say that 1t was IN abolition book-and
being well pleased with the title thus given the
book, he went in blindly, and announced himself
the defender and endorser of the book In order
to save him, and others who may take an interest
in the matter, the trouble of perusng the book to
become acquainted Within sentiments it contains
We will make flew extracts, giving the page, so
that the reader refer to it, if he has any doubts
as to their correctness.
On page ll3 will be found the cause of Mating
ly's obligation to the author:
'Theye isnow in this country but one well or
ganized party that promises in good faith, to put
in practice the principles of Washington, Jeifer-
son. Madison, and the other venerable fathers
the Repubc-the republican party. To this par
ty we pledge our unswerr:ag aiegiance so long
rs it shall continue to pursue the politics.. e'atism
advocated by the great politica! prototypes above
mentioned, but no longer. We believe it =, as it
ought to be- the desire, the determinations and the
destiny Of ;his party to give the deathblow to
slavery"
To those who are not abolitionists, yet endorse
RI 10
ing extracts, which are necessarily brief:
Nothing short ofthe complete abolition ofsave-
nv can save The South from falling into the vortex
of utter Tain.-l6.
THE highest future welfare of the South
can be attained only by the abolition of slavery.
10.
We believc, moreover, that every patriotic
Southerncrthr- c,nvinced will feel it a duty he
owes to himself 70 his country, and to his God, to
become thorough nicxible, practic ii abolition
list. So mote it bells.
We Helper, Collax, Mattngly and the Repub-
liclnS generally want to become an auxiliary in
the good work abolitionisml and facilitate it,
is.
We ask you Tireesoilers of the North in
all seriousness, to organize yourselves man
under the banner OF Liberty, and to aid US in ex-
terminating slavery, &c.-lo
We have determined to abolish slavery, and. 50
help IL God, abolish it we will.-90.
Do mot reserve the strength of Your arms until
You have been rendered pOwerless to strike. the
present is the proper time for action; under all the
cir cumstancos, apathy or indifference is a crime
81.
Henceforth, Sirs, Shareholders OF the South,
we, Helper and his endorsers-Matt nsly, &C.,
l.
rights, nothing more, nothing less. 1t Is for YOU
to decide whether we are to have Justice peaceably
or by violence, for whatever consequences may
follow are determined to have it one way or the
other.-65.
Even that system, however, the worst, which
seems to have heen practced to a considerable
extent by those venerable old foges, Abraham,
Isaac and jacob, one of the monstrous in
ventions of %atln that God "winkcd' at.-l3S.
Not to be an aboitionist is to be willful and
acknowledgements of the deyil.-20I
when Mattingly says he is not an abolitionst,
the leader, by referring to the above can see what
he IS.
Tie South needs to be free, the South wants to
be free and the South shall be free.-2Of.
Yet Mattingly says it counsels no violence.
In this cxtr ordinary Crisis of affairs, no man
Olitonst.-59.
For ourselves, as white people, and for the Me-
GROE.S and 9th n persons of whatever color or
condition, demand all the rights, interests and
prerogatves, that are guaranteed to corresponding
classes in the North, in England in France, in
Germany, or any civilized or enlightened country
ANY proposition that may be offered concedinc
less than this demand will be promptly and dis
painfully rejected 10.
That less than three per cent. of those who vo-
ted for Col Fremont, taat only about five per cent
of those who gave their sufrages to Nh. Fillmore
AID that more than eighteen per cent ofthose who
supported Mr. Buchanan, were persons over one
and-twenty years of age who could not read and
write, are estimates which we have no doubt are
not far from the truth, and which, in the absence
Of reliable statistics we venture to give, hoping
by their publicity, to draw closer attention to the
act that the illteratc foreigners of the North and
the unlettcred nat yes of The South, were cordially
united in their suicidal adherence TO the pro slave
nv party. With few exceptions, all the intelligent
non-slaveholders of the South, in concert with the
more respectable sllveholders, voted for Mr. Fill
certain rieidly patriotic persons of the for
mcr class, whose hearts were SO entirely with the
gallant Fremont that they refused to vote at all
simply because they did not dare to express their
preierence-iorm the exceptions to which we al