The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-08-08
Ed then to lead them in battle, and rapine against

More dabolical doctrines cannot be fonnd in the
Boston Liberator, or the New York Tribune. |
make single quotation.
"If she kentucky is for US, We expect her in
fluence i'm our ranks. Ii she is against u.s. in few
months Ohio will probably be arrayng $4,000
negroes who will have fed from slavery in Ken
lucky, to lead against hers
As if to insure its Abolition, and Republic IN
friends that it is earnestin this matter, it comes
out, now, the peculiar champion Of the Negro
Equality Doctrine AMI writes doleful homii les
on the rights of men.
In No. 229 it says:
"The American Revolution was fought upon
the principle that all men have an equal right to
life, liberty and the pun suit OF happiness and that
therefore government Must be founded on common
consent and the jeff. Davis cebes trying to
destroy the Government. lcstin some way it should
prevent their deprivng certain people of those rights
at their pleasure" OF course those rights - re
fer to the right to life, liberty &C., mentioned just
above, and the certain people, refer to the
negroes and that they (the ncgroes) should have
these equal rights. he says, ''the American Revolu
ton was fought" and, conversely, that they (the
negroes) shall not have these rights, the jeff
| Davis revolution is being fought.
Again in No 236 of July 9th it says, in speak
ing of the Declaration of Independence
"It begins by declaring that all men are created
| equal, and it means precisely that ; otherwise the
system of government il POUNDS is futile. IL de-
elares no absurdity. The equality of the Declare
ton of independence is the equality of rights, and
our struggle now is to maintain those ri gifts
But why multiply questions of this kind further.
Il a.;
as Autumnal leaves in Vallambrosa.' Enough,
Harpers' Weekly is not only in favor of making
this crusade against slavery, but Of giving to
the blacks. when freed, full and equal social. and
political rights with the white men of this govern
ment,-and this, it says, is what this struggle now
is for.
There was me when this same Journal was
not so smitten with negrophillsm OH the contrary
it extended very gracious favor to the peculiar
institution Turn to No. 2lS of March ID, and
on the last page you will find an admirable cut ,
Something rather unusual for this Jorrnal), rep.
resenting the notorious Beecher administering the
Sacrament to Lincoln and Seward, and refusing it
to General Washington, while Old John Bro wn
stands at his elbow pointing with one of his Har
per Ferry spears to tablet of the Higher Law"
which says" No Communion with Shareholders
The Republican Journals of tina. time called
this dirty bid for patronage: but of course
they will excuse all these little weaknesses of that
dear Journal, that it has renowned its former
hereses, and come out boldly for the true faith.
should think however, they would secretly
fear, that should our national troubles ever get
settled that this same Journal would again bid ND
for patronage in the Slave States, by protesting
warm admiration for their institutions.
He who sells himself once Is always supposed to
be in the market
Harpers' Weekly not only declares that the
object of this war is to emar cipae the blacks and
give them equal rights with the white race, but it
assumes to dictate the manner in which the war
shall be misunderstanding of "How Prisoners
of war should.be treated" it says:
90 If this was war with Foreign nation.
when soldiers are taken prisoners, they would be
shipped home again, and the officers retained upon
parole, and exchanged opportunity affords, but
the licers Of such an army the Southern) which
in the eye of justice and liberty is a lawless mob,
ought to be tried, and upon conviction, hung
such course would be neither vindctive, nor
sangunary'
What American heart will not recoil with utter
scorn nd Indignation from public Journal, tina
Will openly declare, that we're We engaged in for
eign war-were Great Britain endeavoring to force
her Queen and Parliament upon us-and should
capture prisoners of war, that We should treat
them with all the courtesies known in honorable T
warfare, but that when capture in battle any of
our own untrymen-for, however much they 4
may have erred, they are our counrvmen still-of
the name, blood and reli gion with ourselves
we should incontinently hang theml These hemp
advocates forget that it is possible for the South
ern forces to retaliatc upon us, should we adopt
such course with our prisoners of war, and that I
they would ssurediy do it.
protest that poor, cOwardly miscreants, who
havnt the patriotism to go into the field
of danger to defend their CONTRIBUTION the very
smell of gunpowder would throw into a catalep
tic, shall not sit crouchins at home, and endcavor
to jeopardize the lives of our brave and faithful
soldiers to CRAFTY their blood thirsty and re-
vengeful natures.
But what more could we expect of Journal,
which now cal : a nun a traitor, and worthy a
traitors doom. for advocating the very doctrines
III, only a lew weeks n go, endorsed the
highest patrIotism,-whch IS continually seeking
to ncite the popuacc to make lawess attacks upon
private individuals, and public newspapers, whose
do not happen to accord with its own
which encourages the insults, abuse and imprson-
mentl of n nan for merely exercising one of the
dearest rights of American citizen-the ri CHIT
Of petition which is the friend to servile nsur.
rections in the SO. til, AMI ruthless mobs in the
Nortll-the enemy of free speech and free press
the especial advocate of slavery emancipation,
md negro equality2
Suclli is Harper's Weekly oftoday. Poor thing.
t has sold its "b rth-rght' for miserable mess of
cottage! Honest men and patriots scorn it, and
even those who sympa.hize with its peculiar views
lespise the thing they have bought so cheaply
friend Plat. AFTER the tawk | he'd with Ole
3oles ut Bl Sikeses last woke went tn toun an