The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1863-02-19
n NUMBER3-WHOLE No. l59.


The following extract We copy from ,he
Springfield Mass Republican o. Jan.
3lst, to give our Republican friends, who
entertain such an immense feeling of adj.
miration and respect for 1.-The old granite
Stase." some idea of the estimation in
which the "brains of the country" hol1 our
gallant Hoosier State:
Congress ought to change the name Of
the department Of the Interior to DE- part.
meent Of Indiana Nobody SENS to get
into 1t at head or tail, that does not hail
from that State--the meanest. after al. in
the West, and one Of the meanest in the
whole free Union. Why should it have
more fevers and agues and ignorance and
bad politics than any of Its sistersl Per-
haps because it was settled. in a greater
degree, by The poor whites and small slave
holders of the South. And yet there is
Schuyler Colfax. and he favors good
deal that is otherwise ntolerable.'
The Springfield Republican is probably
the leading paper in the New England
States; i! certainly has the largest circu-
ation and has good reasons TO claim to be
par excellence, the organ of all Yankeedcm.
Its sentiments as expressed above, repre-
sent the feeling anima:ing the whole tribe
Of Yankees in regard TO our S. .ae--",he
meanest, after all, in the West" 1t must
be particularly gratifyig to our citizens 10
have this flattering encomium pronounced
upon us by the organ of race who are
now grinding them in the dust with their
high tariffs; duties, DC; but of course. be-
ing descended from the poor whites and
small slaveh olders of the South" we are
incapable Of approaching the grace with
which this comes from the great and intel
lectuai State Of Massachusetts,, which has
been mainly Instrumental IN punging US
into our present difficulties, adroitly sad
died the burden of The war upon Us. and
is now growing rich over our ruin, with
out furnishing either men or merns 10 any
extent to hel us out of our trouble
Indiana may be afflicted with "more fe-
vers agues ignorance and bad politics" than
Massachusetts, but its malaria never in
duced it to attempt to ''shake" itself out of
the Union as did Massachusetts in olden
times, nor its bad politics drive off, or
give a pretext for going. of sovereign
States from the alfil alton of the Union
Indiana, despite her fever and ague, has
sent better men, and more Of them In Iro-
portion to her population, than any other
State in the Union. Massachusetts. with
all her trickery, her purchase of California
recruits, her evasons and delays, has lot
vet fully responded 10 the call of the gov
ernmens for troops, while Indiana has ex-
ceeded the demand made upon her. In
diana's soldiers are found upo the soil of
every southern State; their bones are
bleaching upon every battle field fought
during the war, and the valor of her sol!
d ers are the praise and admiration of ibe
country. She has imnortalzed herself in
fighting out war of Yankee mauufac.
ture" and receives her reward in such con-
temptuous sneers as the one quoted above.
from the authors other troubles. Massa-
chuset;s, and all the New England tales.
have made m oney out of the wa, and have
given less 10 sustain it than any other
State, and they possess brains enough.
and souls little enough, to grow
rich out of any national caamity. TO coin
money out of their co2ntry's blood And
the immediate cause of this TRADE again t
Indiana. is the fact that two places IN tie
Department of the Interior are occupied
by Ignorant" sons Of Indiana. while New
England has surplus stock of brains
which she would accommodaungly place
at the disposal of the country in their pla-
oes The charming coolness and effron,e
ry with which they b at Of their superi =
intelligence. displaysd In their successful
schemes of shifting the burdens of the
country upon their neighbors. and mo
Inopolizing the profits and emoiumeats q
themselves, commands our admiration.
and must have a tendency to diminish sae
feeling in the West for tie establ shmes,
of a pew confederation leaving New Eng
land out in the cod.-F. Woyne Sentinel
While his mother lives. a man las one
friend on earth who will not desert him
when he is needy. Her affection flows