The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1862-10-02

10 speedy trial by Jury, and TO be confronted face
to face with his prosecutors is denied him; he may
be thrown into dungeon and there lie androt, or
wait for months and years, and then be discharged
without single word of explanation, without the
benefit even, of an honorable acquittal.
| Men go about cropping with their hands, as
though they walked in darkness, vany straininS
their eyes to catch \ ray of hope in the dismal
gloom ahead; and in that darkness visible. they
see the misty outlines OF monstrOus shape, its
strange proportions gradually becoming NOR dis
tinct and solid, each charging feature growing
more horrible in the dimness. And those who
shut their ewes and will not see, who close their
ears and will not hear, feel the chilling pressure
of some hdeous influence overshadowing them.
shutting out the steady and healthy light of Li6ei
ty and Law that so long has shone upon them :
The form they dimly zee, the presence they so
vaguely feels Military Despotsm; end for us, the
people of these United States, chaos has come
again. Never before. since Liberty was thought
of by the Nations of the earth, has so eoodly a
ship of State been made so complete wreck
Never before have free, prosperous and happy
people been suddenly and completely reduced to
state of Slavery, desoaton and misery. Never
before has the entire system of the government of
nation been so completely reversed, and nowhere
on the face of Gods footstool, did Il free people
ever before supinelv sit with folded hands and
watch the architects Of their own and their coun-
trv's ruin, while they forged and welded, one by
one the hateful lnLs that were so soon 10 bind
them band and foot to the usurpe's car. WHY will
not our rulers, WIN do not the pc ope see, that they
are letting wicked. perjured and INSCRIPTIONS men
hurry them and the patton, TO swift Instruction.
They surels know, they must know, that ours was
the most pc, feet form OF Government that ex-
listed, or ever can exist, that consequently every
fl pdamental change must necessarily, be for the
worse. Revolutions do sometimes so BACKWARD
Whenever the people rise in their strength and
majes'y to preserve thei1 liberties and vindicate
their rights hurl their njust anu tvrannica rlers
from their high places, and establish just, whole
some and equitable laws, for the government of
themselves and iheir pOsterty; such revolution
can rot go backward; bnt when the rulers rerOA
against 'he people, when they tear down or break
over the Constitutional barriers that had wisely
been interposed between them and the Liberties
OF the people, then begins the revolution that must
60 backward 1.-The price of Liberty is Eternal
Vigance." The history OF Nations teaches us
terrible lesson; that is, whatever the rulers take
from the people, i'eg ntoT gire back, and when
ever tho ruling powers once Overstep the just and
honest boundaries that the will OF the people, their
true master, has placed around them, human
foresight can tell where The oaching tide of
IL fl! h,-
which the advancing wave will he beaten back
saved Dazzled bv the brilliant prospect OF great
personal ae.l,,ndzemt Mt, and almost absolute
power, the chosen servants Oh he people, fOrgetful
OF their sacled trusts, with eager, oustretched
arms grasp at catch hold OF and cast beneath their
feet, whatever appears to oppose their ambitious
desiIeS; anu often the people, rOused it were
bv u clap OF thunder awaken TOO late, aud find
themselves 10 longer the ruling power History
furnishes many such sad examples, Greece aud
Rome were once Republics: fou'ishiLg, powerful
Republics. In the might OF tie peoples security
their Liberties seized by the un9rsteful hanGs
o those who had been placed in trust to guard
those very liberties, and hencelorth the histories of
their ivrsnts the histories Of those counties.
Tue people, slaves and tools merely, only known
in thJt history as the INSTRUMENTS Dy which crown
ed heads aud mill tary despots accomplished their
ambitious ends.
The present comdi ton of our unhappy and dis
traced country furnishes so exact parallel with
tue mou,ntul history Oh those pow Jul States,
that the mind shudders ami rccOlls Il ON the cOh-
temptation. UntulnkIng men may ask, wherein
vi,i
as they must speak, when written in impartial
histor., and the pa,a'lel Will plainly appear:
Abraham Lincoln. President of the
United States, and commander-n-chiefo OF
the amy and navy. weakly yielding to the
ianatlcal pressure Of tIaisorous faction III
the Northern States, has seen til 10 disle-
gard aud Unjust aside the Constitution, he
most solemnly swore to support; TO over
throw the very laws that placed HIM in
the exalted position he now occupies, TO
declare, before the face OF an outraged and
Indignant people, aud the eyes of an aston
lshed world, that hencelorth the law max
ing power OF the Government is vested
solely and exclusively In him, and that
that power Is not derived from the "iusl
consent of tie people governed" but that
1t is derived from the points Of million
of bay onets, in the hands of a million of
men, of whom he, Abraham Lincoln, is
commander-in chief; that his simpls proc
lamalion, backed by said bayonets, is suf
ticient TO wipe out forever, erase and rem
der imperative and void. the Con stitu-
lion and Laws OF any State in this Union,
and the Constitution Of the United States
itself. His proclamation of sept. 90. de-
claring, that from aud after the first day
of January. 1868. all persons held in serv-
itude in each and every State thai may al
that time be in state of rebellion against
the general Government, shall be, aud be-
co g, from and after that time. uncondi
tionally free," is in word, fact and deed
clear enumeration OF the several PROPOSE.
tons above stated That proclamation, if
carried into effect, repeats and wipes out
the laws aud Constitutions OF eleven States
of the Union, and to enforce it, the Presi-
dant doe lares ha will make usa ,,f tho o.,