The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1862-10-09
.EoscpIl A. Wright.

bly, well attended. We were present and
jolted down the principal points in his
speech for the benefit of our readers. He
commenced by saying that he came to
speak for no one but himself; should abuse
no person or party; was opposed to ali par
ties and party creeds and platforms; that
the way jeff. Davis procured SO large an
army was by subsldizing the Press, and
allowing no man to abuse his govern
ment. or be candidate for Office if oppos-
ed to him or the Confederate Government,
and that we would do well to initiate him
in these particulars; that any man who
would organize political party now while
the war lasts is an enemy to his country:
pitched into the 9Th of January and 3Oth
of July conventions. abused Democrats
generally, not forgetting TO pay his respects
by the way to US and our paper, bringing
to bear all his powers of arcasm and rid
icule to meet issues which he was unable
to answer with argument. We call the
attention of our readers particularly to his
proposition to initiate tine tyranical course
of Jeff. Davis, and also the following re.
marks made by "Pious Josey" in the
course of his speech on Friday afternoon.
He said that eff you want to put down
this rebellion, you must strike where ii
hurts them the worst and will do us the
most good; strike the rebels where you
can accomplish most, don! leave disloy-
al nian behind our armies, but strike, kill,
destroy every southern MAI who wont take
gub. or leave and go further South
If any of YOU have tears to she'd for the
families of rebels go and shed them, 1 haoe
none to sled for hem.''
1t would be difficult to conceive of any
thing more utterly fendish than the spir-
it manifested by him when he made the
foregoing remarks. That rebels in arms
should be punished is proposition about
which there is no dispute, but what man
this side of bedlam, with a spark of hu-
manity in his bosom could thus cooly pro-
pose the wanton destruction OF non-resist-
ing men, and helpless women and children;
Ex- Governor Joseph a. Wright. with mur.
der, rapine, and desolation, would visit
the innocent and defenceless families o.
his enemies because forsooth, Not would
strike them where it hurts them most
Such is the policy to be pursued in the
conduct of the war by those TO whose EN-.
braces Gov Wright has completely yield.
ed himself
He said he was for enamel patton and
colonization, confscation and arming the
negroes; that any man who finds taul
with the tax bill or tries to prejudice the
people against it or the public debt incur
red by the folly rascality. and extravaganza
Of the present administration, is an enemy
10 his county; that any man who finds
fault with the manner in which the war il
conducted is also an euemy TO his country
and ought TO be hung up by the neck til
dead.
How are the mighty fallen! To wha
furthur depths os degradation does he and
his political associates propose TO descend
in order to retain their hold upon place and
power? Just think OF it fellow citizens
you to whom the shackles of the tyrant
and the chains Of the usurper have hitherto
been strangers, you free men of this ono
mighty land, now shaken with the convul.
sive throes of strangled liberty, think of The
banquet TO which you are invited by ,hi.
squawking cormorant i'll TIE name Of free
dom. II you complain that your servants
are robbing and plundering you, that they
are misusng your money, that they are
over-burdening you with taxes to carry
on their own ambitious schemes; il you e.
ven protest against an enormous debt as
being prejudicial to your interests. in &
word, if you interfere at all with theil
mad schemes, the consumation of which
will bring ruin, utter irrevocable ruin tc
yourself and children you are coolly de-
nounced as an enemy to your country and
informed that you ought to be hung up by
tho neck. To just such men as he, is the
world indebted for all of tyranny and op-
preston, that ever existed. He and sncl
as he would clothe the hideous spectre oil
Military Despotism in the sacred garb o.
freedom, and in imperious tones command
its worship on bended knee under the
pains and penalties familiar to the Span.
sh inquistion. Yes such were the tones
of the thunder sent forth on Friday las
by Joseph A. Wright. which in its reyer
beralions found men SO utterly lost to al
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