The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1863-01-22

helpless victims of the exhausted patience
OF the white race. In his vain attempt TO
elevate the negro, the oppression and deg
radiation of the white laboring man will be
the wicked resut--a policy which cries to
the nation for bold. manly and uny yielding
opposition.
Men ofIndiana. You condemned that
scheme of plumber Of yourselves and YOUR
children, at the ballot box in October but
your servants at Washington have dared to
overrule your DEGREES. VIII you submit to
the abolition coniederates' whom Doug
las denounced, and will you allow a degra,
ded race to share equally the sol! consecrat-
ed to the dignity and glory of the VIII te
race? The decision of that question is
yet, thank Heaven, III yoar own hands
From the beginning of this rebellion,
the President and his advisers have utter
ly ignored and neglected the great duty
of paciication or honorable adiustment.-
No wise government, founded on the SOW
ereignty of the States, can long disregard
this great conservative principle Of the
public peace. x Here we pause
to contemplate the language OF Henry Clay
used in the U. S. Senate, in 1893, on the
qualification acts of South Carolina:
"lf there be any who want civil war;
who want to see the blood of any portion
OF our country split, l am not one of them
| wish TO see war of no kind but above
all, do not desire to see civil war;
When war begins, whether civil or foreign,
no human sight is competen. to foresee
when, or how and where il is to terminate.
But when a civil war shall be lighted up
in the bosom Of our own happy land, and
armies are marching, and commanders are
winning their victories. and fleets are in
motion Oh our coast, tell me, it YOU can,
tell me if any human being can tell lis du-
ration. God alone knows where such q war
would end. In what state will our in
stitutions be left? In what state our
liberties? ! want 10 war, and above all
no war at home.
LAS not The State of South Carolina
been one OF the members OF his Union
Gin the days that tried mems souls::"-
Have not her ancestors fought along side
our ancestors? Have we not copjointly
won together many glorioug battle? Ii
We had to go into civil war with such a
State, how would it terminate? Whenev-
It should have tern mated, what would be
her condition? If she should ever return
70 the Union, what would be the condition
of her feelings AID affections? What The
state of he heart of her people? She has
been with us before, when her ancestors
mingled in the throng of battle, and as
hope our posieriiy will mingle with hers
for ages and centuries to come, in the
united defense Of liberty, and for the hon
or and glory of the. Union. do not wisl
to see her degraded or defaced as mem
ber of this confederacy."
We place in opposition to the insane
cry of No compromise no peace" tht
noble words of Ken;ucby's lofty patriot
the gallant old Wing leader: and if the idi
OTIS and madmen who rule this hour have
the power to ruin their beloved country
in the face of his solemn warning, let pos
terity Judge who has been guilty Of thi:
great nationa! suicide. We desire to SET
no State degraded or defaced as lI.cm
ber Of this Conlederacy" We are for the
Union as it was, and those who are not WI
, denounce as traitors to the hopes Of man
kind.
The nation is already well nigh bank
rupt by reason of the necessary expendi
lures of the Government and the unpunish
ed plunderings OF its officers, agents, con
tractors and stock jobbers, and yet it /.
proposed that we shall become the pur
, chasers OF another million OF the negro
race in the Border States; at an expense o
many hundred millions of dollars more
! In short, the war, in its inception; profess
5 edly prosecuted for the suppression Of th'
5 rebellion upon principles consistent will
the Constitution and common honesty, hai
become. to a disgusting extent, war 70
the abolition of slavery. prosecuted in th'
F, spirit of passion, ratlcr than true patri
otism, and characterized by vacilatlng i'm
: beciity hitherto unprecedented in The his
tory of civilized nations.
In this great Emergency Of our COUNT y
! we beg leave again to appeal to the peopl
t of all shades of conservative opinion, t
. come to the rescue, and aid, in every pos
n sibe and righttul manner. to snatch from
: impending ruin our country, her sacre,
# institutions, and the liberties of the peo