The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-01-24
The Rspubl lean Party.

Ifary thing can be sorrowful,y ludcrous.i, IL the
present condition ofshc Republican party While
the HYDRA of DrsuSroS aud ANARCHY is rearing his
countless heads in midst, and the PATRIOTS
heart il throbbing it'll fear aud painful anxiety,
the ordinations and roEduct of this party not
only iuexpl;cable to others but to themselves !;
and ifthe Union is saved all it will be by the re
sult OF immuialle natural law. working to its inev
liable result. Charley Rea,e used TO say ia his
speeches last fall that coil and water never would
make soap, but that oil and ley would that the
Reps blicsn patty could not remain long in exist
aace he CAUSE IL WAS like the oil and water. Nix
!, as you would. il would at last separate because
there is no affinity between them IL was a prin-
cple OF n.tdce that they I'll ,Id not adhere. cohere
ar unite to forIn u third suOstsncs.'' We laughed
at the illustration at the time. but il was applica
bile and true,a evidenced by every important move
Or the leading men Of that party.
The party s not united OF Prnstpls, and al
though BY great efforts il has remained mixed"
and apparently has adhered together, vet it new
did, AMI never can cohere. and already the separ
alton OF the unnatural elements has commenced,
and soon each element viii reur, to itself and its
apparent siren 9Th and consistency be gone.
Stewards talents command our respects, and his
last speech shadows forth some PATRIOTS He
seems u lore tn Union md fear, tn. DANCE
which threatens it. He goes for concession,
u goes for anything tha; will save the MON. So
With many Of their prominent men of the part,
who have affiliated with them for the temporary
success and generally profitable results.
ThuTiON Weed. thtleade oftheir press, is decd
y conservative and'e. tireel' the red mouth
ed AeOlitlonl'., psTt lily goes with the conserva-
tive element, lat he occupies insulated position
and IS really disuniOnist is he contends for the
right Of states 10 secede. On the other nand. the
Abolition sm ll-fry OF the party rampant for
coercion. The sma' lfry who are not yet real Alb
olitiOnS, are non-commital. for waitinsa
while longer to see WI I Nill come of it. The In
LLAMA Legislature in their farcied imPregnablity
refuse TO eoatempa ate the subject and treat il with
clr.empt. while that of New York beiabors our
with loud yrOtessations of patriotism and love
for the Union, tende men and money in profus-
ION, while she cannot pay the interest of her State
debts. Only one thing do the now agree in. and
that isth they CRY out little louder cry time the
secession bill 10 the departure Of another State
The cry is quite vehn1en, and littly shri,ky
IN It's tones - Florida gees by the ard and Geor-
gia otes by thirty majority for secession. They
crv aloud that they are mot Adoittionists'-neUe
,nere." They misyeplesentsd TO their Southern
Brethr" THY al" avs and always would
10 for 'preser,ing tn integrity of State Soyer-
eighty. Mercy now vehement they utter il.
r se ". The so cehes of Beecher and shake them
n cir face. hold out to them the speeches of
lovejoy asd 'hs resolutions of the convention
that elected him. point them the men driven
back and robbed, faed, i'm isoned and murdered
for attempting to take their fusit sc slaves-show
thems the bodies OF their murdered Marshals. the
statute aud cecrees of the State courts nullify-
ing a law 81 Congress founded on the Constitutions
u ey are stone blind and 5:nrot see thing of il
all. Like blind Blrtimeout they "cry cloud the
more FL being interrupted. Whisper in their
their former notices m union with
slaveoicc.s. Free labor anil free speeches.
Slave labor Is inimical 10 American interests"
read 10 them Lincoln's speech at Peoria, in
1854, where ne sas> ''No man is good enough
20 govern anrtncr Without that mans con
sent, or, ~he he quotes the Declaration Of In
dependence and says Tho relation Of IN sster and
slave Is protanfo .ota violation of the principles"
that az men created Tree and ''cqusl," and
that lie 90, in allow All the 90 eerned an equal
voice IN this government, or in his speeches at
Chicago in the fail 1856, where e avowed the
mission ol his purity to be STEADY progress to.
ward he rR crIcA, EQUALITY OF ALL MEN, or, in
his speech there in 1853, where he quotes the
Declaration again "a to equality and says ; "If
one man say il does not a negro, Why not
some other man say il does not mean another man.
Let rs discard uuibblino
about this man and the other u. an this race and
that race being inferior Let Us discard
all these 'sings and unite one people
throughout The land until shall
stand mp declaring hM Alb men are created
free and eqsaii leave you, hoping that the lamp
oihbsrfy will burn in your bssoms until there
shall 30 longer be = doubt that
ateo FaEz and EogALr" We say read or whisper
these things to ,hen and they deaf as posts
they hear none otit. bus say the ~"
not AbolitioHists. "-aer are for State sovereignty
on shis a. well every other subject. but no
where do we see them repeating their vile laws
or passing res buttons in n mony with their pro-
tcstations. Il is iaughabls while it IL pltabls.--
But. all their efforts viii not them. The nat
at Nature knows M repr.eve. no repeal They
viii cease 10 exist BY operation Of Natural laws
for want O; afinity-for want of priRcIpe to hold
them cher, and the fears and concessions Of
their great good men,-the coercion doctrines
of their 10 5ish aud lad mep-the silence IF their
cOwaslly I'D unt4lented men, OF the CORY CRY of
their whppers m,'' hangers on and working
men, tpolitieally speaking, generally cannot save
them Their speedy dissolution mas the
Union, and may ngacY in her goodness to man,
grant ns that II may be specify IL docs not come
IA tine to save il, il will come nevertheless, and
on It will rest tk snathemas of all future genera
tions, as the destroyer OF the only truly fee gov
ernment the earth has ever known.
Hum ne Old Gentleman.