The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-02-21

The Indiana American, published At lndianapo
lis, and the organ Of the coercion wing of tn
great Republican party, in this State, under tin
above heading, goes into Senator Seward, for hi
conservation, in good style" We quote th
following az sample OF rampant, fol Blacl
NepublicanisD. We hope the dag OF such fanatic
Is about passed, and that the day-dawn of patriot
is.n aud conservatism will soon burst upon us. In
the light of that day. fanaticism will not show it
head These are dark times, and fanatics and
and traitors marching ~ and down the length
and breadth of the land seeking to destroy the
Country-they prefer darkness rather than light
because their deeds are evil" Hear what the
Amsricdn says because man dares propose meas
rlres to save country from the ruin and deras
taton Of civil war
when man of mind consents TO dirty him.
self. just to pleas dirty men, they him RICH,
10 spit upon him and despise him. Las: week
Senator Seward presented a monstrous petition
: from New. York merchants on the subject of the
Union. That was we'll enough, but he made i,
al occasion 10 deliver Union speech, upon the
whole. manly and able, yet winking at concession
and compromise. Instead of boldly ass ming the
wholesome Jackson doctrine, that the Union must
and shall be preserved it suggested that interme.
date steps should be exhausted before the only
argument that rebels fear should be resorted to.
The bare allusion to force, az an ultimate argu-
ment, when everything else might fail, brought
Mason, Of Virginia-of that Virginia who sent
word to us to send commissioners to Washington
TO keep her from doing a traitorous thing-to his
feet, and he could not have rated Mr.. Seward
more roundly if the New York Irrepressible had,
in a manly and honest tones, said that it was the
duty of the Executive to enforce the laws every
where.
Talk of comp omse and concession Nothing
will please even the border States, whose loyalty
is so ardently courted but cowardly submission to
their lordly, insolent demands /. may be patri-
otto in Mr.. Seward presume it was in the
Indiana Legislature, to dilly-dally with men in
open rebellion-to treat with armed traitors, but
it looks more statesmanlike to us to say, in plain
English. that this government has the power to
enforce the laws against traitors, it should do it,
and that if it has not, it will amply pay for a war
ofyears to acquire it,"
the editor under the caption of
''civIL WAR NECESSITY"
says: 1--WE do not only regard civil war as in
evitable, but a necessity, and then goes on to
tell why he, the blood thirsty coward, as we e1-
expect he is, thinks it a necessity" In conclusion
that devish sheet, in speaking of the present
Administration and the Government Officers ecu
orally says as follows
with all its horrors and untold calanities a
/ civil war which vii purge the country of such
traitors vii be an inestimabe blessing. When
men love their party mora than they do their aoun.
trr--whcn, because their party is engaged in re-
beon, they turn their backs upon the nation and
sympatze with their brethren in arms, then, II
nothing else will do it, give us bloody war that
shall purge our country of treason. The remedy
is terrible one, bu better than to die as We arc
likely to do, by corruption in every branch oil
Government, and treason rampant evenin those
who are placed to defend and protect US. The
the debates in the Indiana Legislature alone, for
the last ten days, show that treason Is riot even
here. Our voice is for the war;
! Mark the closing sentence of The bloc thirsty
traitor. five ever DO any fighting we will want
! to do il with such fanatics as he is, however, we
are for peace but do not court the ia vor of such
fanatics.