The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-07-14
A Desperate Hope.


in the next political canvass, Of TIE most
descrvedly unpopular man in the United
States, the Shoddy party is hugging to
itself the delusive hope that the Democrat
ic parry will be divided at Chicago. This
is the straw to which the drowning faction
of anarchy is convulsively clinging. 1t i
gratifying to observe that, conscious of
guilt the revolutionary party has no hope
save in the dream of a schism III our ranks.
That dream may as well be broken. We
have no idea of quarrelling with each other
at Chicago. Good meh and true will as
semble in that great Western city to aid
and sustain each other in one grand rally
for the preservation of the Union, and the
perpetuation Of liberal institutions IN our
country. We shall assemble in spirit of
mutual Cancellation and forbearance-
There will be no hampered discussion and
no packing of committees The conven-
ton at Chicago will not be made up Of
parasites, the human barnacles which cling
to place and power; greedy contractors,
jesutical journalists and men with promi-
ses of fat offices in their pockets. 1t was
fitting that such convention should be
| held in the thcatcr Of Jenna" Schenck :
crusade against women and newspapers; it
was fitting that such 4 convention should
nominate the man who upon the eye of
the boodiest conflict of all time, should
utter the coarse sAeer "Nobody hurt !"
Let not these peofE who have been riot
inc and revellin. during the season of
national mourning. these people who have
invited Lous Napoleon to destroy sister
Republic, these people who have kldnap-
ped, by order Of Spanish Captain Gene
raj, refugee who had sought our shores
as 4 sacred asylum, these people who have
destroyed the sanctity Of judicial writs and
the authority oil courts Of justice: these
people who have placed soldiers in charge
Of printing Offices for innoccntly publish
ing dispatches forged by one of themselves,
these people vino have provided that the
tenth part Of a population shall represent
the other niac-tcnths ard govern them.
these people who pcrsistently traduce
white soldiers to praise negroes, these peO-
pic who have elevated President above
Congress, Courts, States, the masses, and
above ali written law, these people who
have lcsislatcd all specie out of circu alton.
and declared void contracts for its dclive-
r., these people who have cndeavcred to
prescribe. ostraciSc, and disfranchisc their
political opponents in the North; in short
these people who for thirty years have
worked necessarily to produce this war,
and are now working as s,alouslv to pre-
vent its successful conclusion, ie. not item
tdncy Mot tie Democray is goia9 II d'vide
50 Mat Aey may be again returned u po'c-
er to complete tie ruia ct'the nation.
There are too rlany vital Interest," at
stake for Us to fail in compact organization.
The defeat of the Republican faction in
wolves the security of every right endearcd
20 patriots 1t involves a restored Union,
& sound currency, free press, untrammel-
led courts, an honest ballot, and social in
dependence 1t involves besides, the res
pcct of the world which has been lost to us
by the contemplate and dastardly policy
of the Washington clique (we cannot call
them statesmen), and it involves also hope
fo.. the future of our country, which has
well nigh perishcd beneath the excesscs of
bad men to which we have so long and SO
patiently submitted.
With such interests hanging upon our
political success, we shall come together
in solid column, with one battle cry,
"Down with Lincoln's Administration >
And when that vast column sweeps over
the field in November, the Shoddies with
their camp followers, treasury lceches,
place men and trumpeters, their Camcrons
and Forneys, will 90 down before our ser
ried ranks like shrcds of canvass in Bis
cav gale Cleveland Plain Deaicr.