The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-02-04
PcCusfaritieS 0ffIic war.

The deadly luminosity which character
zes the war between the North and South
Is shown in a thousand cases, but in no In
stance more 50 than in what may lie called
/ S Manufactured features. On both sides
ingenuity and invention have been rackei
to furnish epithets of abuse, the capacities
Of language have been exhausted Ia fu:-
nish engines with which the Leiligercuts
may hurl at each other Their savage Ia
treGs.
In instituting a comparison between the
two parties, it is difficult to tell Which. in
this species of warfare. has gained a prcce-
dency. In examining the results obtained
by both. the observer finds himself possess
ed with infinite wonder at their enormous
magnitude, their unlimited variety. and
their Wilderness. SO to speak, to add TO
which would seem as impossible as for hu-
man effort to add splendor to the sun or
length to eternity. l. may he that 4 crit
cal examination will show that the Sou h
is the more huent and inventive in the
use ST cpithe's-that their diapason of de-
nGnciation has greater compass and finer
shades of expression. but still it will be
found that the North has counterbalanc-
ing qualities which allow no advantages to
the others.
If we lack versatility, we have greater
pertinacity; if our abuse benot lightarmcd,
keen, and flashing, it has the merit Of pom
derosity-an c!elhantiue weight and mo.
mertum which carries Everything before
it. While the South annoy us with an
infinite variety Of missiles-whiie they
hurl at Us, " andals," ~ Yankee" "Dutch-
men," "sourkrout," "brutes," thieves
'%scorn,' filth, "''rabble," We calmly blaze
away at them with "secesh,' and trait
ors, satisfied that what our artillery lacks
in numbers ii makes up in weight. These
two pieces. By the way, are the t%avorltc
weapons of the northern radical; assail his
positQn with irresistible logic; demonstrate
to HIM beyond the shadow OF doubt that
h Is wrong; talk to HIM With the rheto-
r c OF Omn,lotencc. and lis only reply
vail lie to squ;nt at you t.r = monent over
his !~ayorite pieces, and the next instant
the p"ojccjiie Traitor" or "sceesh." or
beth, a!e whistiing at your head. while Ike
proceeds calmly 20 sponge and reload for
the next opponent.
IN other respects We have developed
marked pecuiiarities. IT we have crca-
tel Il new literature OF abuse, We have also
done equally weir in ~mendacity. The
Father OF Lies himself, after Witnessing
the contest Of two years, can with pro
rely come down to earth and seat HIN
self ao humble disciple at the feet of tht
radical press Of both the North and Ike
South. How for the last two OF three years
they have licl-how UNNECESSARILY and III
expressably they hive lied-how they
have heaped up mountains o%flieS, Peiions
OF ialsehood upon Ossas OF mendaci;y. uu-
til the vast pile reaches upto TIE very stars.
and blots out the nirthful light of The
heavens.
Here the abolitionists tell Of rebel atro-
cit.es-of prisoners murdered, begging fer
quarter; of polished Ytnkee skulls among
the JiO, terie . fdelicate southern woman s
drawing-roonIs; of Yankee shin bones worn
as spurs ON The heel. If southern braves; of
Union women hung; of captiveS starved in
filthy dungeons. of oa:hs violated; of bar
barities committed whose recital would
draw tears of blood from granite. Hear
the same things hurled back by the reb-
els; and their adversarieS charged with
crimes whose commission would shane the
devil in the fiery pit.
Verify, as Represented by the abolitioists
Of the North and their opposites at the
South we are either the most inhuman, at
utterly debased people On Gods
focts;ool, or most unmi,igatcd, graccle,s
Ch:ccgo TGm.s.
Hon. HENRY WILSON, whilom Jeremi-
ah Coibathe, has been permitted by the
to Withdraw his resolution for the