The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1863-12-03
The Duties OGtl,c EECEg

VIC HaNC just it-SScA tiiipuSh toiitiCsu
campaign in which we have been si-nally
defeated. we will not stop now to enquire
the causes. 1t is useless for our present
purpose. Our business is with the future.
It is rcrginG on SS years since We asserted
our independence. We wen it, and have
enjoyed it uAtil recent date. The expe-
r;cnce If that period has confirmed to us the
truth # that which has leen held az an Ak
iOm fcr the last thousand years. That IN
.ni'yMere IS streastt Defeated az we have
been in the campaign just past, VIC should
seek this element of strength in the one just
coming. Without unity in the Presidential
campa ga of next year defeat is inevitable
With it victory is ours.
The Democratic party at this time have
one great, ruling object in view-;he pcrpe-
tuity Of the union This has been the sub
ject ofthcir thought since the advent Of the
present party Of misrule into power. That
thought is matured, and all the proc!ama-
tons or rprouunciamcntocs ofpersons or par
ties who may accidentally be clothed with
power, cannot shake their purpose.
They see that the party in power is wa
ging this war not to rerpetuate the Union,
but to abolish slavery. To destroy the old
Union and establish in its stead concen-
trated government, amounting in its effects
TO Il military despotis Il. To such J war
the Democracy can never give its support.
They will acquiesce in the legal require
ments Of the powers that be, until they ere
constitutionally displaced; but such way
can never receive their sanction or appro-
val. Further than this he Democracy Will
never go, and it is useless for any ambitious
or would be ru,ers 10 attempt to drive them
To say that the Democracy must give
its support and approval to the present war,
wagcd It: il is: upon tiic principles OF abo-
lit;o,, Of slavery and the obliisration Of
State lines il iii..9 bcl..:: .v..aat State-;0 sav
that thoy must sanction aud approve the
suspension Of the writ Il habeas corpus
and the system Of arbitrary arrests. which
has been practiccd by the administration,
is TO say that they must stultify themselves
and rcpuliate their whole history since our
government was established We may
sabnii t. ,hosc arrcsts-yc may submit to
the CONSUMPTION; Ne Iaay bear the many
unwarrant&ble intericrcnces with our rights
at the polls and elsewhere, 10 avoid forciblc
resistance. and with the hope Of pcaceablc
remedy but our torbcaramcc must never be
construed into ali approval of their acts oI
submission to them, longer than we can
legally avoid them. For the sake of peace
We can suffer whilst evils are suflerable. .
but when the abuses and u,urpations" be
come Undesirable. We will seek wisdom and
counsel from that immortal document thAt
gave birth TO our nation, and render i'm
p!icit obedience 10 its bchcS;s.
~ We have said, the mission of the De
mocracy is to restore the Union and pcrpet
uate it as it was ia the purcr and better
days Of Washington and Jefferson. and
through it to restore the rights Of IRE,
speech and 4 free and pure ballot-box
which have been recently, arbitrarily de
nicdus To do this We must igllt the usur-
pcrs and overcome them. and to Go this
We must be uni; in the work
We have amongst us scores of well tried
patriots and statesmen, differing perhaps
upon questions Of policy, but one in the
great purpose We aim at 1t viii be ouI
pride and glory to follow any one OF
them as cur standard bearer iii the coming
campaign. Let i wise National Council
select the man, and the Democracy vii
present one unbrOkeu front in the support
of him;-and then let the democrat who
hesitat.s or iallcrs be consigned to the low
est depths Of that infany which awaits
him. Miami Co. Sentinel