The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1862-12-25

l. duced, said:
"I believe this to be a fair basis of ann
cable adjustment. Ii you of the republ
r can side are not willing to accept this. DO
the proposition of the Senator fIom Ken
Y lucky fNr Crittenden) pray tell US wha
you are willing TO bo?
81 address the inquiry to republican,
: alone for the reason that in the Committee
t of Thirteen. 5fcw days ago. every mem
Der from the South, including those from
the cotton States Messrs. Toombs and Da
vis), expressed their readiness to accept
the proposition OF my venerable friend
) from Kentucky Mr.. Crittenden) as fl
, nal settlement of the controversy, if inlen
ded aud sustained by the republican mem
bers.
Hence, the sole responsibility of our dis
agreement. and the only difficulty IN the
way of an amicable adjustment, is with tie
republican party"
Mark the language: "The sole respon.
sibiiIy of our disagreement and the only
difficulty in THE WAY OF AN AMIcADLE AD-
JusrMExr Is WITH TIE REPUBLICAN, PAR
rY.'
Let this language from the tomb Of
fl Douglas sound throughout the land, thar
all may know the measure OF responsible
ity for our present disasters. that is up
on these men, and judge their ability tc
conduct us through our affections by the
wantonness with which they have involy-
ell Us in them.
1t is true that when the war came and
its existence WAS recognized fact, Mr..
Douglas and every other patriot said:-
= We must Sustain Tie gorernmsa.' AZ
ter war exists it is no time TO discuss
the responsibility of its inauguration--we
must lie for our country right, or wrong
But vixen in the progress of the war. 1t
becomes manifest that those to whom its
prosecution is committed, are conducting
it, not 20 the noble end Of an honorable
peace and tn, public welfare, but on prin-
cip'es which will prevent peace, defeat the
great end Of the public good, destroy the
country, and overthrow its constitution
then the truly loyal .citizeu moved BY the
same patriotic impulses is oyainst the
,car because hs is for A;s country. Long
continued applause. | fear the
President viii not retire from his purpose.
but WILL on the first day Of January, issue
his promised edict. ! fear the rcs@lt, be-
cause the war, and the whole course Of the
administration in its progress, taken in
connection with this Executive decree of
universal emancipation, is but the natural
( development of the abolition principle,
pressing onward to tha rcalization of it,
one idea.
! This administration could have avcrted
the war, and did not Why? 1t prefer
red the integrity of IFS party to the saliva
ton Of the country. There are many
good and conservative men in that party
who are beginning to realiz, this truth,
and they helped TO magnify the grand !rl
umph 0. the Union and the Constitution
at the tie elections in the great central and
western States.
Bat how say the people "shall We
save the constitution and restore the Tn.
ion?" Filled with patriotic ardor they
ask that they may act.
| answer BY peace-peGce--PEAcE Ap-
plause. peace not npon the basis OF
separation, but upon the basis of the UN-
ION 1T WAS. Immense. Applause.
But how shall peace be realized! By a /
NATIONAL CONVENTION OF TIE PEOPLE
Long continued Applause. Let the peo-
pie meet in national convention, and there !
in the same spirit of forbearance aud wis
dom and patriotism in which our fathers
framed this Z, vernment, deliberate upon
the disasters which now afilicl it, aud feel |
deep and earnest conviction that, under
the providence of Almighty God, our
country will be saved aud the Union of the
States restored. (Applause.)
The true enemy to this Union is now,
as it ever has been from the beginning,
not slavery, but abolitionism. Abolition
ism has from the beginning denounced the
Union; it refused to avert the war; it Eas
made the executive violate the clear and
unequivocal pledges under which i, enlist
ed tie most gallant soldiery that ever
went to the field; it has prosecuted this
war not to enforce the laws, but to violate
Iaw--not to maintain the constitution, but
to overthrow it--not to restore the Union,
but TO make its restoration impossible. and
its dissolution permanent fact--not TO
uphold the government, but to destroy sla-
very