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The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-05-02
KENTucKY-HER Pos1rIoK.-We Judge

KENrucKY-HER Pos1rIoE.-We Judge
from the stand taken by prominent citi-
zens of the two parties in Kentucky that
the position the State will occupy ia tie
war row going on between the Federal
Government and the seeded States will
be that of an earned neutrality" That
is, the Commonwealth will b, placed on
war-footing. taking part with neither side.
not allowing troops 10 be raised within her
borders for either, and If either party
shall invade the State, that her arms shall
be turned against the Invaders. Whether
the position can be maintained, time alone
will determine. Circumstances, more ir.
resiible than intentions. may compel her
to abandon it. In the meantime, we hail
the determination not to secede as silsnt
treaty of amiiy, peace and good fellow
ship with her neighbors north of the Ohio.
May it remain perpetual !-Cfncsnnoti
Eng.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-05-02

AN INPRoMPTU ACCOUNT OF THE SIEGE
OF SUMrEE.-While the reporters were
seated at table -busily engaged in trans
cribing the various statements received
from the officers of Major Anderson's COM
mand, on their arrival at New York, an
officer who had previously stood quietly
in the back ground, suddenly addressed
them in the most emphatic manner, SUBJ
stan'iallv as follows: Gentlemen of the
press, l earnestly entreat that you will
clearly set before our couDtrymen at the
North the fact that For! Sumter was not
evacuated while there was cartridge to
fire, or powder enough to make one with
Never did famishing men work more brave
ly than those who defended that fortress,
knowing, as they did, that if successfully
defended aud held by them, there was not
even a biscuit left to divide among them.
They never would have left it while pro-
tecting wall stoon around them, had they
been provided with provision and ammu
milton. Every man was true and f"ithiul
to his post, and the public may be assured
that hunger and want of ammunition alone
caused us to leave Fort Sumter. We
were exposed to most terrible fire from
all quarters. and it was only by exercising
the utmost care that the officers were enae
bled to preserve the men from a terrible
slaughter. You may further state, gen
tlemen, that Fort Sumter is hardly worth
the holding 4; had there been the full fight
ing complement of men within its walls.
the fort would not have afforded suitable
protection fer one of them.
The enemy's shot rained in upon and
about us like hail, and more men in Sum-
Ter would only have bad made more havoc
As it was, we are fortunate in having es-
capped without the loss of one of those
brave men who were wiling to die for the
flag which waved over them. 1t was a
pa nful sight to all to see the Stars and
Stripes finally hauled down. but we all
felt that we had done our duty, and must
submit. The fort WAS not surrendered,
but evacuated almost upon our own
terms"
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-05-02

AFFAIRS AT Fort PIcKENs--SUspIC1oNs
OF LIEUT.. SIEMMEa.--A Washington cor
respondent of the New York Herald tele-
graphed under date of the 10th:
A collision is anticipated at any moment
at Fort Pckens. The Administration have
no means of ascertaining the movements
Of the vessels off the haibor, or the troops
in that fort. If reinforcements have been
landed. the present commander, Captain
Slemmer, has been superseded The Ad
ministration is not entirely satisfied with
that officers loyalty. They have no def
mite information OH that subject, but they
strongly suspect, since he refused to OBEY
orders which were sent TO him, to allow
supplies and men to be landed. that he is
not the proper man to command that i'm
portant position.
The statement has already been publish
ed shat, since the large reinforcement of
Fort Pickers, the command has been
transferred sc Capt. Vodges.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-05-02

New York, Apnl 23.-G cntiemen from Wash
iugtos report that Blltinoreans have telegraphed
to Harper's Ferry for Virginia troops to come to
their support.
The house Of II. Winter Davis was entered by
a mob, but he having left. his family was not mo-
les ted.
The Hall of the German Turner's was sacked.
The citizens OF Cockeysville were holding a
In on meeting.
When two omnibus loads OF Baltimore police
soldiers came up to burn the bridges to the Penn
sylvania line, they attacked and dispersed by
the Union men, who formed guards and protected
the bridge until the arrival of the Pennsylvania
troops.
Annapolis, Nd. April al.-Tt is said that Gov.
Hicks protested to Gen. Butler and the Massachu-
setts regiment agaist landing troops here. They
were consequently landing at the Naval Academy,
which is the exclusive property Of the Government.
Tole 10, 25th.
A regiment Of volunteers left here for Cleve-
land this morning Business was almost entirely
suspended The citizens turned out en- masse to
zee them of
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-05-02
The New Policy.

"Ion' writes from Washington to the
Baltimore Gun:
But we have new reading of the in
augural in the Presidents reply to the com
mitlee of the Virginia Convention. The
places and property belonging to the Uni.
ted States. and which have been taken by
the Confederates, are to be repossessed,
that is, recaptured, provided that it shall
be in Mr.. Lincoln's power to do it. So
troops are to be landed for the "relief of
any fort on the border of the country"
But for this manifesto Of the President,
which no one can misinterpret, it might
be supposed that we should have such a
calm in the public mind az would be "a
vorable to the consideration of the best
mode for either reorganization of the
Union, or for its peaceful division into
separate Confederacieu.
But the interests of the Republican par
ty are, unfortunately, adverse to any pa.
ci6c policy, and the party is to be pre-
served though the Union perish in seas OF
fire and blood. 1t is avowed by Republic
an organs that peace would lend to reor-
ganizat;on and the consequent demorali
cation Of the Republican party, and the
disintegration of the Northern States.-
Therefore, means for creating and keep
ing alive war split in the North will be
found.
We shall now watch with deep anxiety
the progress of the naval and military
expedition which goes south to repossess
the forts and places and property belong
ing TO the Government. Fort Pickens is
still in possession Of the Government, but
it may be one Of the objects Of tie expe-
dition to recapture the other forts at Pen
sacola md the navy-yard.
The time has probably arrived when ii
will be incumbent upon Mr. Lincoln to is
sue proclamation upon the state Of the
country.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-05-02

APPEAL TO PATatoTIc CITIZENS OF ISD-
IiNA.--All those who wish 10 make con-
tributions of provisions to the Indiana vol
upteers in camp or on the march. are ie
quested to do so, and their donations will
be faithfully distributed TO the soldiers
All donations from distance should be
carefully packed and plainly directed to me,
at indianapolis, Sc as to avoid wastage and
loss. Any of he following articles will be
accepted
Salt beef or pork, flour, sugar and rice,
in barrels white beans, and dried apples
and peaches, in barrels or sacks crackers
in barrels hard soap, or star candles, in
boxes bacon either hams, shoulders or
sides, barrels, casks or boxes.
lsA.H MANsUR,
Commissa-y General Indiana Militia
indianapolis, April 60, 1861.
All patriotic editors in the State are
requested to copy.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-05-02
Nobody Hurt"

The Democracy should take heart at the
result Of the late elections. The totals of
the last months voting has been about as
follows:
Connecticut-Democratic gain of two
Congressman.
Rhode Island ditto, and com plete Un-
ion State ticket.
st. Louis elects Union ticket.
Cincinnati elects Union ticket.
Cleveland elects Union ticket.
Columbus elects Union ticket.
Ashtabula elects Union ticket.
Hartford elects Union ticket.
BROOKLYN elects Union ticket.
Louisville elects Union ticket.
Burlington, n. j.. elects Union ticket.
Albany elects Union ticket.
Rome, n Y, elects Union ticket.
Utica elects Union ticket
Troy elects Union ticket.
Geneva elects Union ticket.
Milwaukee elects Union ticket.
Racine elects Union ticket.
Madison elects Union ticket.
GAINESVILLE elects Union ticket.
Beloit elects Union ticket.
st. Paul elects a Union ticket.
Winona elects Union ticket
Red Wing elects Union ticket.
ChatGeld elects Union ticket.
Joliet elects Union ticket
Springfield elects Union ticket
Morris elects Union ticket.
EIgin elects Union ticket.
Rock Island elects a Union ticket.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-05-02

A BATCH OF TIT BiTs.-A pious old
deacon used TO inspire Us with so much
awe by the sanctity of his manner, that
W, dare not say our soul was our own
while in church. Deacon +. came To
California, and was tempted after sinful
gains A friend and a member of the
same church found him one night "bucs-
ing at monte" With holy horor he mud
ged the absorbed player into a knowledge
Of his presence. deacon, do find you
gambling ," With ready wit to relieve
him from his embarrassment. he chuckled,
mo. no, friend s., not gambling =
You see, this is a corrupt institution. and
lam dong my LeSt TO brcak dupl"
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-05-02

THE ARMY OATH.--The following is the
oath which all volunteers and regulars
mustered into the service of the United
States are required TO take b fore their f.
nal enrolment:
4, -, d. solemnly swear that |
will bear true allegiance TO the United
Safes of America that | will serve them
honestly and faithfully against all enemies
or opposerS whatsoever that ! will obey
tie orders OF the President Of the United
States and of The officers appointed over
me. according 10 the rules of the armies
of the limited States SO hel p me God"
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-05-02

Augusta, Me-, 24tn.
The Legislature y i'll adjourn to morrow, after
passing an act to raise ten regiments of volunteers
and appropriating million dollars act to pre-
vide fer coast guard, and appropri- ting 200, ,000;
act making the entire militia OF tie State await
able by draft resolve authorizing loan of ST.
100000, and an act authorizing the cmploy ment
of females as nurses in the ARM. SIX thousand
men will have been enlisted by saturday The
free OF railroads and steamboats, are being o.
fered for the conveyance OF troops, ard c' cs ana
towns are voting money by thousands 80 equip the
soldiers, and make provisions for th,lr fan 'ies
New Yo.k, 96th.
Wilson's regiment Of Zouaves took a solemn
oath to support lie flag and march through Balti
more.
The steamer Empire City, from Teas, arrived
here this morning
Colts and Sharpe's armoics are both working
night and day for Connecticut, the Gcaetai Gov.
ernment, Ohio and other NoIthe Sla.es. Not
an arm is sold to any one without the fullest assu
rance that they for the loyal States IL would
be impossible to arm The II eimcnts row forming
without sending to Europe, were it nos TO these
armories. They are turning out some 100 arms per
dav.
The steamer hill Van kull, chartered by the
Government, has full cargo of provisions, fiftv
horses. railroad pixies, crowbars, &c, for repair
ing railroads.
The schooner Commerce. from York River,
brought the crews of several small craft seized
by the rebels.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-05-02

= A man in Bridgeport has sold Bar
mum Tom Thumb dog that weighs but
three ounces. 1t was an English terrier,
and sold for 800. Such a deg is good
Tor nothing. He isn't big enough to do
barking for himself let alone barking al
any one else.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-05-02
PO tic q I.
[FUm the Daily State Sentinel
UN ION FoREvE ER.
~ MRS. SARAH r. BOLTON.

Fair banner ofOur native land,
Shall thy proud stars and stripes be rive
By factions voice and treason's hand
No, no, forbid it heaven!
Forbid it We who bravely hurled
Defiance at the oppressor's ban.
And won for this broad Western world
Freedom, the rights Of man.
Forbid it ye who proudly reap
The harvest sown by patriot, sage;
Shsw to all time that ye can keep
Unstained, your glorious heritage.
Speak, children Of the brave and free.
Speak out. and let your watcbword be,
Union forever
BY every pallid face that turned
From burdens it could bear no more
By every weary heart that yearns
To find a home on Freedoms shere
By every high and hoary. threns,
Where tyranny's red banner waves
By every bitter tear and groan
OF Europe's fair browed slaves !!
BY common interests, kindred ties,
By every altar, home end hearth,
By all YOU cherish, all you prize,
The hope of heaven. the peace of earth,
Speak, children of the brave and free,
Speak out, and let your watchword be,
Union forever.
Now is the time for action-tread
TIE path our country's fathers trod
Guard we'll the shrine to which it led,
And leave the rest to God;
Trusting that his almighty power
Will stay the rage of factions might,
Roll back the clouds that round us lower,
And say, let there be light
Now is the time for actien-strike
Not in hot wrath, with flashing swords,
But be your warfare Christian-like-
Your weapons, soothing words
Let every land and every sea,
Echo the watchword of the free,
Union forever,
Shall old despotic throne and crown.
Rejoicing. see the accursed hour
That dims forever the renown
Of fair Columbia's power
Shall the mute suffering, voiceless woe,
Appeal to you in vain :
No by their memories proud and grand,
By all that max es-by all that mars
The growing greatness OF our land,
Part not the stripes and stars
But speak, speak out, till land and sea
Repeat the watchword of the free,
Union forever
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-05-02

An instance of the good feeling between
Indiana aud Kentuckey, ard the prompti
tude with which the former not only ac-
knowledges but carries out the rights Of
the South, is instanced 10 the fact that a
negro ran away from this State to Indiana
the other day, but was taken at Charles
town by two citizens of that place and
brought home. When Kentucky secedes
all such rights will be lost, and for amity
and mutual protection we may expect thiev
cry. spoilation, and Enthusiastically.
Democrat
We may mention another instance Yes
terday we observed fifteen or twenty draws
hauling tobacco from Louisville to our de-
pot, and nearly all driven by negro slaves.
No one thought of interfering with them.
and if they had. the community would
have resisted such interference en- masse.-
y. Il. Ledger.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-05-02

Is the part of wisdom to do great things
without fuss. When Solomon, the wsest
OF men. built his wondrous Temple, no
sound OF saw or hrmmer was heared there
in.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-05-02
TAB STAR-SPANGLED BANNER.

O say, can you see. by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly We hailed at the twilisht's last
gleaming7
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the
perileus fight,
Der the ramparts we watched, were 80 galla1tiy
streaming;
And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in
AR.
Gave proof through the nj, hit that our flag was
still there;
q say, does that Star-Spangied Banner yet wave,
O'cr the land of the Tree and the home of the
On that shore, dimly through the mists Of the
deep,
Where the foes naughty host in dread silence re-
What is that which the breeze Ger the towering
steep,
As it ftfuIly blows. now ccnceals, now discloses'
Now it catches the gleam Of the mornings first
In full glorT reflected row shines on the stream:
'Tis the Star -Spangled Banner, long may it
Der the land of the free and the home of the
brave
And where are the foes who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc Of war, and the battles confu-
sion.
A home and a country should leave more:
Their blood has washed cut their foul footsteps
pollution;
Ne refuge could save the hireling and slsvc
From the terror Of fight, or the gloom of the
grave;
And the Star-Spanglcd Banner il, triumph doth
wave,
Der the land of the free and the home of the
o thus he it ever, when ireemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the wars DESC
lation;
Best with victory and peace, may the heaven-res-
cued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserved
US a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is lust,
And this be our motto, "In God is orr trusts"
and the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall
wave,
Ger the land of the free and the home of the
brave!
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-05
BALTIMORE.
TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1861

We spread before our readers this morning the
inaugural address delivered yesterday by the
PRESIDENT. On a document which denies that
the South has any reasonable cause of quarrel
with the North, or with the Republican party
which refers to the Chicago platform and the for
mer speeches Of the PRESIDENT as TO guarantees or
assurances, which ought to be satisfactory to the
people of the slave States-and which threatens,
in crisis like this TO coerce the latter into obedl'
ence to the Federal Government, extended COM
ment is scarcely necessary If the partial disrup-
ton of the Union babe fair to be final a week ago,
the utter destruction of the Republic seems to be in
evitable now. 1t would be idle, at such mo-
ment, to stop TO lament the fearful error which
the PRESIDENT and his advisers have committed,
and we can only hope that it may not be too late
for the people Of Maryland to do something that
may still prevent the consequences which the rash
and menacing position now assumed by the adj
minisration is likely to provoke for the meas
ures of Mr.. LINCOLN mean war. We are clear,
however, that they should take decisive steps to
obtain some security for their rights, if they are
to live henceforth under government which has
announced that the majority is entitled TO rule
even if it overrides Courts and Constitutions.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-05

Alter nearly halfa century of public service Mr..
BUCHANAN has retired to the shades of private life,
but too much rejoiced, perhaps, to find himself re-
leased from the dangerous eminence which, after
many years of persistent endeavor, he finally sue.
ceeded in attaining. 1t has been his misfortune
to witness, as the closing event of his admnistra-
ton, the disruption of the Republic which, during
the whole period of his long political career, had
steadily increased in wealth and prosperity,
in power and in population. He was
chosen to the Chief Magistracy under
the belief that by pursuing impair
tial and conservative course he would succeed
in REFRESHING the spirit of faction and in pro-
noting kindlier feeling between the North and
the South. Never before were intentions origi-
nally good, more completely subverted by tortu-
GUS policy. Where he should have been open
and sincere, he was close, and disingenuous.-
Where he should have been cordial, he was cold.
Where he should have soothed, he exasperated.-
Where he should have stood firm, he changed
front and retreated, and the friends whom he
should have sustained he abandoned and betray-
ed when they called upon him for that support
which he stood pledged to give to them. With
no settled policy; with no principles but those of
of expediency; with adherents but those
of the hour and the occasion, and with no
higher aspirations than TO close in peace
an administration which, commencing under the
most promising auspices, ended in becoming cor
rupt beyond all precedent, Mr.. BUCHANAN carries
with him to the solitude of Wheatland but few
"reminiscences of his Presidential career to which
he can recur with unfeigned pleasure. Happily
for him, however, there is one subject upon which
he may justly congratulate himself. Whatever
his policy may have been; and whether the meas
ures which grew out of that policy were wise or
unwise, he has at least the satisfaction of knowing
that he has brought his term of office to close
without shedding one drop of fraternal blood, or
initiating by any act of his, civil war, the close
of which, if once begun, no man living may
foretel.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-05

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The New TREATMENT FOR CONSUMPTION.

1HE NEW TREATMENT FOR CONSUMPTION.
DRS. HUNTER & WILLIAMS,
PHYSICIANS FOR DISEASES OF THE THROAT AND LUNGS,
IG Monument Sc uare, Balti=n"--' -
The practice Of Drs. HUNTER WILLIAMS Is eolneu ca
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Consumption IN all its stages durable disease, ard that
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