The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1863-03-26

RuaSc Was tHat III VIC COhHiCtS snell udlly
apprehended, we must either "whip" or
be whipped" and if whipped" we must
show to our destiny"
Mr.. Greedy, however, did not abide his
own time for his countrys humiliation, for
he rushed Immediately into correspondence
with the French Minister and Mr.. Val
landisham for the "best sttaiuable peace"
Finally, upon this point, Mr.. Greedy S
position is:
/. He defended the right Of the cotton
States 10 dissolve the Union.
g. He declared that if they choose to
avail themselves of that right" any
attempt to restrain them would be "con-
trary to the ideas on which human libert
is based"
5. That he would do his best to forward
the views" of slave States "anxious to ss-
cape" from the Union.
4. That If our Government, "at the
end Of three months earnest fighting" fail
ed TO subdue the rebellion, its duty would
be to make the best attainable peace.
Now. | assert unhesitatingly, that for the
expression of sentiments less disloyal and
uuspeakably less mischevous for Mr..
Greeley's disloyal utterance. reached and
Influenced hundreds of thousands, fifty
men have found themselves in Forts Laf-
avet,e and Warren. His craven, treach-
erous signal thrown to the enemy. encour-
aging them TO perseverance for "three
months,' after which we should "bow to
our destiny will cost us thousands of lives
and millions of treasure.
1t is known that, comprehending, as
early as December, 1860. both the certain
ty and the formidable character Of the re-
bellion, | endeayored, if it could not be
avcrted, to at least narrow its boundaries.
On this point Mr.. Greely says:
"Mr. Weeds personal subversion-his
editorial ASSOC; ates, even SO early as the
last of 1860, or the first Of 1861, having
felt constrained publicly to disclaim all
participation in or sympathy with Mr..
Weeds amazing support Of Senator Crit
tenden's SO called compromise, which in
volved surrender by the Republicans of
the main Distinguishing principle for which
they had ever contended."
WIS earnestly in favor Of proposition
which the loyal members of Congress from
the "Border States" agreed upon, and
which would have tied those States to the
Union, thus narrowing the rebellion to the
Gulf and Western Missippi State. And
as earnestly urged, the formation of the
Presidents Cabinet, the selection of two of
its members from North Carolina and
Tennessee, so that from the Mississippi to
ths Atlantic, the southern line of those
States would be the frontier of rebellion.
These two objects, with all the advants-
ges resulting from them, were defeated by
Aboi,ionism. For the long train Of dis
asters and horrors that followed, TO the
bereaved widows and orphans whose sa
bIes darken the land, and TO the battered
forms and broken constitutions of the
thousands who are to drag out their exis
t,nce without legs or arms. the Greeleys,
Summers, Phllipses, DC are largely respon-
sible.
But Mr.. Greedy breads as the worst ca
amity. an "infernal compromise whereby
this whole country, bound hand and foot,
shall be delivered over 10 the accursed
slave power" And yet, what is Mr..
Greeley driving at but an Internal com
promise?" What but an internal compro
mise" was the object Of his letters to M.
Mercier and Mr.. Vsllandighams What
but an ''infernal compromise" is "the best
attainable peace?" Is Mr.. Greeley dement,
ed that he involves himself in such contrac-
tions and absur dites!
Iwould not obtrude Mr.. Greeley or my
self upon the public attention for any mere
personal reasoL. | follow him up because
he has held and abused mighty power.
His teachings have diseased the popular
miad. His Journal has perverted tie
Judgment and misled the sympathies
of the nation. His insolence has shaken
and his threats parslyzed the army and the
Government. 1t is time that an engine so
potent ior evil, driven by ambition, revenge
and fanatisism, should be either switched
off," or deprived OF its motive power.
The New York Tribune, IN first encoura-
ging rebellion: in then aggravatng it's hor-
rers. laboring steadily to unite the South
and devide the Norh; and now, when
courage and fidelity are more than ever
NEEDED, in demanding "the best attainable
peace has done quite mischief enough.
81 60 through my work" as the nesdls
said TO the idle boy. "But not till you