The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1863-01-08
An lAppea! To Ehe president.

The most splendid army OF the world
win generals as gallant as ever led, and
soldiers as brave as ever marched TO vic
tory, has met the irighlfulest disaster OF
the war. BIZ Gen. Halleck's order the
Army Of the Rsypahannock WIS matched
up against the lmp-egnable batteries of
the Fredericksburg heights, brigade after
brigade, division after division, one after
another decimated, thousands upon thou
sands slaug Uttered, from day break TO sun
set, untl It's ruin was complete, until well
nigh twenty thousand brave and noble
souls wet The Virginia hill siL es with their
blood. The unb!enching courage, the
daantiess intrepiIiiy. OF our magnificent
army was never more suo.ime;y display ed.
The blunderlmg strategy, the incompetent
seneralship, which hurled them to fruit
less doom never branded itself as conspc
uously as in this in discriminate slaughter
and murder by Who'll ae. Again have
you a braham Lincoln by the hands of ii.
w. llalleck and +. NJ. Stanton, sent death
| 70 thousands upon thousands Of our broth
ers and friends, again desoialion aud an
gulsh, to the homes and hearts Of our pco.
pie; death that gives no life to the perish
ing nation, and sorrow which no pa.rint-
ism can console, or the conciousness of !
needlul though costly self sacrifice can as
suase. By the Lanks of the Rappahan-
mock there was Slaughter which was fruit
less, and by twenty thousand ire-sides,
tears to day are shed which God alone can
wipe away.
We have no words Of anger in an hour
ike this The sense of sorrow for the
nation and her slaughtered sons, coolS tbs
hot wrath which must yet break foi tn upon
the heads of those whose selfshness, whose
inco ompeiency, whose recklessness, and
whose ambition have brought this grei
u on us.
By that sorrow, in which there is not q
family in all the cities and villages of the
North but shares; by that love Of country
which has rot fatered an ong US. and does
not falter, i'll her darkest hour; by the
hopes which must yet Iinger in the bosom
of the chief magistrate to recover the con
fidence Of his people and to transmit al
honored name to his and their postcrity
ments must yet move him to win in time.
as trying as those in which Washington
won the title of the father of his country,
the equal title Of its saviour: by the unul.
terabe contempt of the men of his own
time and the blasting scorn of history
which will surely be heaped upon him il
he fails in aught which he may fairly dc
to save the republic; by the glory which
may yet await; and by the doom which
threatens her; by these and every Other
consideration which the breaking hearts
or the anxious minds of twenty millions o.
people can conceive or frame, we beseech
the President to cut loose now and finally
from his past and fatal policy, and from
the men, Of whom il is enough TO say
that the Union and the Constitution might
have been saved. but that. with the resour
ces of a continent and with the arms @
twenty millions united freemen at then
backs, they have not saved it. We be
seech him to call to his Cabinet and aid
the ablest, bravest, and best men Of the
nation, and SO, if our cause is not yet pas
all remedy, by their help and the favor o
just God. to make one final effort for tn,
salvation oil the republic, which fruitles
millions have been spent for. and 70
. which more than hundred thousand live
have been yielded up in vain .-New Yor.
F, World.
!. Printing paper has quit going up, an
! now has a downward tendency.