The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1863-02-19
1.-THE ARCHITECT RUIN,
TuURLow WEED on HORACE GREELEY.

To THE EDITORS OF THE JoURNAL:-It is
not my designn to keep before the people
and but for the material misrepresentation Of
two or three Journals, | would not intrude,
even to express what | feel most gratefully
he more than kindly; the generous con
siructions of the press. irrespective ofpar-
ty. To the letters Of troops of kind
friends, | shall endeavor to reply indvdu-
ally.
The Rochester Express and Oswego
Times says;
Mr.. Weeds opinion may be founded. as
he AYERS, on deep convictions. At this
time, when he retires from position where
his opposition to the administration was dam
aging the cause of the country, we cannot
discuss that question, but take it for gran
ted that personal feelings and motives in
no degree dictated course which gave so
much pain to those who have SC long re-
garded the veteran editor rs safe coun.
selor and sagacious leader"
1t is strange that any reader of the
Journal in the face Of fact, should hazard
such statement. My point has been dis
tinctly, that our danger arises from the
blind and frantic course of the New Yoik
Tribune aud Independent, the extreme
views of Messrs. Sumner, Phillips, Garriel
Smith, and their followers, by whom the
administration is beleaguered, importuoed,
prosecuted.
have not"opposed," but in all the ways
and means in my power sustained the ad-
ministration. So far from having person
al feelings or motives other than friendly
my relations with the President and eve
ry member of his cabinet are cordial
They are all exerting themselves to The
best of their ability, and with integrity and
fidelity, to re establish The authority of the
government.
have referred frequently to the incen.
diary principles of the New York Tribune
because that journal, by its vast circula
ton, exerts malign influence throughout
the whole North. aga II admonish my
countrymen to shake off this incubus to
emancipate. themselves from their mental
thrallGom, before all is lost. Mr.. Greeley
infatuated victim of the widest ambition
will soon, amid the "craSh Of worlds and
the wreck Of matter" be seized with ''re
morse that comes too late" speak no.
idly This Architect of ruin" has much
to answer for.
First, while Slidell, Tooms. Mason, Da
Wis. ee, efc. We're maturing their scheme
for rebellion, and the Gulf States, under
their instruction, were seeding, Mr.. Gree
lev APPROVED; JUSTIFIED and INVITED them
to 90 forward with their reasonable de.
signs! Here is the evidence from his own
Tribune, aud i'll his own language:
From the Tribune November 6. 1860
''If the Gotten Statos shall become salts
fed that they can do better out of the Un.
ion than in it, we insist on letting them
90 in peace. The right to secede may BE-
revolutionary one, bu: it exists never
tbeless. We mus. ever resist
the right of any State to remain in the Tn
ion and nullfy the laws thereof. To
withdraw from the Union is quite anoth
er matter: whenever a considerable section
of our Union shnll deliberately resolve to
90 out, We shall resist all coercive meas
ures designed to keep it in. We hope new
er to live in a republic whereof one section
is pinned to another by bayonets." !"
From the Tribune Nov. 26, 1860.
If the Cotton States unitedly and earn.
esty wish to withdraw percelully from tie
Union, VIC think they should and would be
allowed to do so. Any attempt to compel
them by force to remain would be contra
ry to the principles enuncated In the in.
mortal Decal alton of independence. con
lrary to the fundamental ideas en- which
human liberty is based
From the Tribune December II, 1861
''If it .he Declaration of independence
| justified the secession from the British EN-
pire of three millions of colonists in i776,
we do not see why it would not justify the
secession Of five millions of southrons from
the Union i'm 1861.
From the Tribune of Feb. 23, 1861
whenever it shall be clear that the
great body of the southren people have be-
come couclusively alienated from the Union
and anxious to escape from it, WE WILL
DO OUR BEST TO FORWARD THEIR
VIEWS"
Here then, in the outbreak of the REBEL
ion. is the Tribune doing its best to for
ward their views" Their views" were
forwarded with fatal celebrity. We all SEE