The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1863-10-08
NOLI ME- 9.
Letter srcD, sx1n. e.. l.. VaEiaR-
dtgs;asn to the Great EeHiO-
cratic Mass Meeting ReCeasl
held I'm Dayton, Ohio.
WISpSoR, CANADA WEST,
Ca,,tambor Ia 1S62


President ofhe Democratic Noss Ne,tns
f Dpyton, Ohio:
SIR:-Complying with the desire o.
many of my Democratic friends in the city
an county where | have for so many
years reslel. address them briefly thro
You.
No further warning or entreaty from me
is needed TO arouse the people to the i'm
pOrtance of the great issue before them
ami TO the danger which on every side
threatens their liberties The great pop
ular demonstrations, occurring every day
through )ut the State, prove their zeal and
devotion to the cause of Liberty and Tn
in and that they mean that these two
shall in every deed le inseparable. Both
these depend largely upon the issues of
the Ohio campaign. If that party should
succeed which, upon the one hand ap-
p,auds the atrocious acts Of Abraham Lin
coin and his servants and indorses the
monstrous claim of absolute power over
person and property, not to say life itself,
set up by him in his recent letters to the
Albany and Columbus Committees; and, on
the other. accepts as It's own the whole
radical policy root and branch" of Con
grc>s and the Executive in the conduct of
the war there is an end to both In the
North ana West every lover of constitu-
tional libor-y looks anxiously to the APP
rr0achna elections In the South. the
eyes Of hundreds of thousands, who yet, in
their hearts, owe the Union as it was. the
fathers made, and would gladly see it re-
stored in peace and with security to all,
are turned now in earnest desire for the
triumph of ,he Democratic Party, as their
last hope for It's restoration
And the very suscess of the Federal
army dc but render this triumph the more
important; for while, according to Mr.
Lincoln. they have not at all broken the
strength or subdued the spirit Of the Con-
fedeTates IN arms they have done much to
opcr the eyes Of the people of the States
till adherin. to the Unior, to the fact that
the policy of cancellation must at least fol
low-far better hat before any war it had
prece le.i-the policy Of coercion Nors-
Mexico have greatly augmented the ne
cessity and Importance of speedily putting
INTO power the party into whose hands the
rights and interests OF ali States aud see
tons Will be secure Recognition BY Mexi-
60 aHd Fra.ce. and subsequent alliance
between them and the Confederate States.
are impending dangers, every hour bccom-
INC more imminent Napoleon well knows.
and Joseph cf AuStri, also whom he has
enlis;c! now with him. that if united
government Of any kind lie restored here.
either the Mon as it was Of the Demo
cra's the nion ts it should be- of the
aboiitionlsts-a unity Of dospotism-no
Empire. al least no Euro lean Empire
would he permitted to continue in Mexico.
Hence he. AN all whom he can persuade
or force with him, will very speedily rec
ognIze the Confederate States. on cond
ton ola guarantee of the Mexican Empire
and that by treaty of alliance often sive
and defensive. a. did Louis WI in III.
And thus ihe leaders OF the southern
revolt will be enabled to keep the whole
people with them encouraged. as they will
be. by the powerful support Of the army.
the navy, and the credit of France
The mission Of Mr.. Stephens to Paris
clearly points to this result Jnwisely and
wickedly rejected by the court at Wash
-where--according to the South
ern authorty-hc came with full powers
to treat for peace and settlement" he goes
now ON special embassy to the Court of
Versailles. The disastrous results of the
success OF such embassy, either through
hIm or Mr. Slidell already there. upon the
interests and future peace of the North
west no man can Calculate. Then-ipdeed.
along with permanent disruption of the
Union, and other numberless calamities.
would the Mississippi be effeetually sealed
against US, except upon such terms as for
eIgn nations m ght choose to impose; and
thus every city and town upon that great
river and its tributaries, would begin to fall
into decay. Victories in the field will not
all tend to retard or prevent this alliance
anu its ruInous results Now, therefore,
IS the acee pied time, the very hour before
the blow be struck, for the people of the
North and West to rebuke the radicals and
malignarSs who control public affairs and
prove to the people of the South that thew
can return to their allegiance to the Con
stitution, and thus to the Union. with all
the dignity, equality and rights, of their