The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1862-12-11

have been devised, and that Il Union sen
timen: viii revive in the same ratio in the
South, that ra5icaliSm decreases in the
North
If the administration and lis friends are
trying to destroy the country and prevent
a restoration Of the Union. they are in the
right way to do it; but if they wish to
save it they must make an entile change
Of policy:
''One view may be taken of the recent
Northern elections which is not encourag-
ing 10 the South. The radical party there
have pursued a policy which has consoli-
dated Southern sentiment and united our
people as one man in support OF the war.
The popularity Of disunion at the South
was never SO great The measures of Sc
cession were a: least tolerated rather than
cordially endorsed by the mai j,riIy Long
after the war had begun, the hope of re
construction was a latent sentiment in the
bosom OF the Southern community. More
than any other people in the world those
OF the South are conservative 1t is the
feeling of all agricultural communities: it
was peculiarly The feeling Of Southern
planters and slaveho.Lers. Gve u, the
Constitution Il, it Nas has been th, If slnui
demand in al the Ing controversy tLey
have had with the fa"alics. Let us and
oar Institutions a'one, was .he alpha
and the omega of their political pLilos
ophy.
The proof Of the controlling predomin-
arce of this con ervative sentiment was al:
torded by their patient endurance OF tie
commercial policy Of the Federal Govern
ant, which had. by tariff; and navigation
laws, for more than fifty years continued
to saddle all the public expenditures upon
the planting States, besides imposing bur
dens upon commerce which constantly
cumulaled wealth in The North and ex,iac-
ted it from the South Not only did the
Southern people submit to this policy of
ihe Government but they seconded the poll
CIV i'll their own private expenditure; buy
ing always Yankee manufacture at doub-
le price, in preferences to any other. and
buying Of these more than prudence and
economy would allow.
Nothing but the brutal and truculent
policy of the radical parry at the North
could have eraiicated this deep rooted
sentiment from the Southern bosom and
united them as one man in support of the
war. Ii the wlsest men Of the South had
been called upon TO suggest course OF
policy for tie North, which would most
eiIectualy secure the final and iIrevocable
i,solution of the Union beyond all posi-
b.lity Of a reconstruction, they would have
indicated the violent and tieudish course
which has been pursued by the Government
and armies Of the so-caled Union States.
The radical party, having possession Of The
Government, would seem 10 nave SOuc 10
work with malice atore,hought 20 break up
the Union, and TO render all further con
ncction with 1t. the most abhorrent to the
Southern people.
This party has been of eminent service
To the South, in the mode and character of
their proceedings, not only By consolidating
public sentiment and combining the pub
tic energies a: home, bu; by thoroughly
disgusting the icreign worll with the Yam
kee cause, and enlisting the s,mp tbi's OF
the good. The wise, and the great fall lands
in beha.f Of the South. The North com
menced this war with all the moral ideas
of the foreign world arrayed in their be
half. They had previously succeeded IN
mpressng the tore;ga mind wuh false and
mnn>trous ideas of the Southern charac-
ter. They have since 80 thoroughly sue
ceeded, albeit uHihtenIi nallv. in comp etc
ly remov.u5 this impression. and IN load
Inr rhem-elNe, with degree OF odium IN
foreign estimation, which has rarely. if
ever. before bee:. brought upon themselves
by any people. They have il flicted upon
u great material damages in the progres
Of hGstiitcs; but they have far more than
mpensatcd our lo,sC in this respect by
The excel ent results Of the moral campa'gu
thy have waced in orr favor.
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