The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-09-05

| When they talk Of liberty. and Of Sighting for
liberty, tell you that your liberties in more
danger from the usurpatiOns and unconstitutional
acts of this Administration that from any other
source. If the utterance Of these sentiments is
treason. traitor stands before you TO day. These
Black Republicans know there are no traitors only
in their own camp. and guess they afraid to
set about hanging people for fear they will have to
hang some of their best friends.
If the Republicans had given us the Crittenden
proposition, the whole country would have been
at peace to-day. Mothers and sisters and wives
would not be mourning the slain upon the battle
| field.
Davis and Toombs were read, to accept the
by the Republicans Of the No tn there would no,
be to-day three men traitors outside Of South
Carolina This proposition was not accepted. No
other proposition looking to peace was accepted
or even thought of. Therefore these men Of the
South think that the right of revolution exists In
( the exercise of that right they have risen up
Mind you. do not justify the exercise Of the right
in this instance. But still the right exists. Iquote
FROM Abraham Lincoln in justification Of this right
|
he said
Z" Any people anywhere, being inclined and
having the power. have the right to rise up and
shake off the exist ng Government and form new
one that suits them better This is most valuable
and most sacred right. A right which We hope
and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this
tight confined to the cases in which the whole
! of the NAV choose exerc;-e
it. Any portion of such people that can may revo-
lutonizc and make In. ir own out of SO much of
the territory as tney inhabt. More than this. A
majority of any portion Of such people may revo
utonize, putting down a minority. intermingled
with or near about them, who may oppose their
movements, Such minority precis ly the
of the tories Of our revolution
Thus YOU see. my fellow -criz,ns, that Abe
Lincoln himself justified the right of revolution.
Yet am a traitor, proclaming like sentiments,
ami he is a saint. Mexico rcvolutionized fra m
Spin. Texas revolutio1ized from Mexico. We
the thirteen colonies, revoulionizei from Great
Britain. All this WAS don. in each country by u
majority Of the peorIe of each country, but Nj
Lincoln goes further than |. and says that
noritg can do all these things. Wonder if he Was
scrupulously after the rights of the immortal mig
ger when he made his speech which now stands OH
record against him
Ny fellow citz-ns. am addressing YOU in
dcsutory way, occasional in part by the frequent
Interruptions OF our Republican friends on the
outskirts of our crowd. but let me say to you that
am as devoted TO the flag of my country any man
living. With what face Republicans claim to
be par excellence friends Of that aig What was
their flag and what was their motto in 1856
Sixteen stars only then UPON their
and " No Union with slave e-holiers" was inscribed
upon il. We were then Union nsavers'-the,
as now, the sccessionists. If wanted
cession flag. would go and buy it of Repub i
can. who carr led it in So
Fellow citizens the subjugation of the South is
in my opinion. physical mpo sibiiity. How long
have you already been at it. and what have ycu
accomplished Suppose you do it. you do it
through IN ocean of blo,d. II YOU slaughter one
half of them, will the rest like You any better
The clild would b taught upon its IN ther's knee
to hate the murderer OF its kindred, and the very
same spirit would actuate own people here M
the North. How long would the Government last.
AS a free Government. where one half held bv the
other half in suhjugati"n by bayoncis We hal
better look facts ia the face. | am against coer-
cion. Jackson said the Constitu ion can not be-
maintained and the Union preserved 10y the cocr
Give powers contided to the General Govern
ment
We have not space to follow Mr.. Davis further
in his mastery speech. He said, in conclusion
that, FOR a solution of our difficulties he would call
a convention at Louisville or Lexington proclaim
ing Immediately an armistioe. lie would exhaust
every means for peace. Rather than the war
should go on. hankruptng the nation and destroy
ing hundreds. Of thousands of lives, he would, il
there was N, peaceabe way to Union, be willing
tina, peaccable separation might be agreed to.
lie declared it as his deliberate conviction, that
our difficulties could never be settled by war.
Where Is il all to End?