The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1862-10-09
Radical EecpubiicanisIn.
NERITAS.

When the Republican party came into
power, President Lincoln in his inaugural
said, 81 have no purpose directly, or in
directly, to interfere with the institution
of slavery, in the States where it exists. L
believe / have no lawful right to do SO,
and | have no inclination to do So"
This was sound doctrine, and if it bad
been lived up to, there would not. TO day.
be any lack of unity of sentiment in the
North, if, indeed, the horrors of civil war
had not been stayed in the first stages of
the rebellion. But the partizan hatred Of
leading and corrupt men in the Republi-
can party chose to depart from this safe
ground, and the result has been nothing
but ruin and degradation, and unless they
speedily return to correct action, destruc-
ton itself must speedily ensue.
Senator Cowan, a conser rative Repub-
lican, on the lat of July last, said, Hard
ly day has elapsed here. that some meas
ure was not introduced relating TO slave
". The gulf which separates
the loyal men of the border States from
the ultra school of the Republican party is
nearly as wide, on this floor, as that which
separated the secessionists and Republi-
cans of former times
1t has been well said, that Congress,
instead Of calmly considering the ways and
means of getting out of all our difficulties,
and feeding white men, called into service
as soldiers, turned their Halls into places
of meeting for two negro debating societies,
in which abolition members We'd with
each other in inventing ways and means
to benefit the negro-to feed him when he
had run off-to clothe him-to liberate
him--to arm him--to open schools to edu-
cate him, and TO place him on an equality
with the white race
The following extract is a sample of the
kind ofspeeches made in the last Congress.
volume could be given of the same sort.
"Our duty to day is TO tar and fghs;"-
Twin brothers of great power, to them,
Gazing and fighting) in good time shall
be added third, his name shall be Eman-
cipation. And these three-TAx, FIGHT,
ENANcIPATIoN-shall be the TRINITY of
our salvation. So said Mr.. Pike, and with
him voted Schuyler Colfax. and the other
radical republicans of Congress. Here we
see the platform of the radicals, and ia
natcs as at present constructed.
And as if the legitimate expenses Of the
war were not a sufficient burden upon the
people, not sufficient TO authorize a tax
large enough TO crafty the worshippers of
this TRINITY, they must needs buy all the
negroes they could and put up standing
advertisement for more. To the million
Of dollars paid for slaves in the District
of Columbia, they desire to add two ,hous-
and millions more TO pay for slaves In the
States. The question is. 10 the people
wish these measures 10 succeedl Their
success would necessarily Cause large
influx of negroes into the free States. We
already have more pow than it is profita-
bIe to keep, and scarcely a day passes that
we do not receive through our exchanges,
news OF outrages committed by negroes
upon unprotected white women; and the
bare knowledge of the fact that Colfax,
Pike, Chandler & &C.. are their champions,
emboldens them TO perpelrate these helish
outrages.
Reeect Mr.. Colfax TO Congress and he
will take it as an endorsement of his negro
Legislation at the last session. and when
he returns 20 Washington will feel a, per-
feet liberty to add to your burdens. more
taxation to pay for more negroes. In his
Judgment it is nothing that our sons and
our brothers, who fall in the army, leave
widows at home unprovided for, SO that
the inevitable nigger is bought, fed, cloth
ell and educated; he loves the nigger. and,
we had nearly said, only him.