The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-06-09
The Error of the COnfederatcS.
From the New York Day Book.

| the Mon, ana therefore this Is, or was,
a confederation, or, as its designation ex-
presses it, a government of Omitted
States" The Federalists of New England
sought to revolutionize it under the elder
Adams, and turn it into a consolidated
despotism, like that of Rome and the
French Republic, one and indivisible, in
1872; but under the lead of those grand
old Virginians, Jefferson and Madison, the
American Democracy put down this at
tempt, and restored the government of the
States to its constitutional position. This
position is fully and truly defined in the
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of
179S-a Confederate Republic-of which
the pillars are the States composing it,
and as these States made the Union, of
course they can unmake it, or in other
words, in case of last resort, each Of the
parties must determine for itself both as
regards the aggessions threatening it and
the mobs and manner of defense against
!
these aggressions. For sixty years, there
fore, the government" has been admins
tered on this basis and no man protesting
to be Democrat ventured to dispute the
perfect soundness of the principles laid
down in the Kentucky and Virginia Rcso-
lutions. The action Of General Jackson.
in the case ofSouth Carolina was no exccp-
/ ton. That State did not revoke her del
cgated powers. She simply undertook to
nullify law of tie Omitted States" while
she continued one Of these United States,
and Jackson, first modifying the law in
question, and thus removing the cause of
her complaint, then, properly enough. pro-
posed to enforce submission TO the laws of
the federation. Had South Carolina Sc
cedcd, revoked her delegated powers in
1860, General Jackson would as som have
cut off his right arm as attempted 10 invade
and cOeree her sovereign people. OF course
no such thing could ever happen; but even
if we suppose such an impossibility as a
southern State seeding when the govern
ment was administered by "a Democrat,
we repeat. jackson would as soon dream
ofsuicidc as coercion, or as faithlessness to
the principles of the Virginia and Ken
tucky resolutions. 1t is then simple fat
that this is or was a Union Of States. or a
government of United States, the absolute
proof Of which is the actual existence Of
! Lincoln's administration. for if we were
a "nation, as he and his party pretend
he would have no right to be in Washing
ton at all, as he was elected by majority
of States, and against the will of more than
two-thirds of the people. 1t is also fact
that this is or was a white government.
and negroes no portion or element of our
political system; and, for sixty years, the
government of The United States was thus
administered
The Resolutions of 1893. and the Dred
Scott Decision, therefore, are true exposi-
tons of our system; that is or was a Con-
federation Of States, &c. and the political
society was conferred alone upon the white
citizenship. No one ue repeat GM an ~
noron,us or kRave wW vcnture 10 DISPUTE
the assertion Mat this IS or acas a Union OF
.tqtes as defined In The Resoluttoas of 1898.
aad coj.fneo alone to tie wtte ctzenship,
as declorcd IN the Drcad Scott Decision.
Now, in view of these plain; palpable
and absolutely certain truths, let us see
who are the friends and who the enemies
the Union, who the defenders and who
the rebels, if that term be applied under
our Republican system.
The Government presided over by JEFF
ferson Davis is a,Confcderatc Government
or Government Of States, united together
for special purposes plainly defined in a
written Constitution, and is confined alone
to the white citizenship. This, we pre-.
sumo, no one, Abolitionist or tool of Abo
olitin, will venture to question; and more
over, Mr.. Davis embodics the will and repre-
sents the interests of the citizens In the
States he presides over. On the contrary
Abraham Lincoln docs not preside over
Confederation, but instead, is in the Geld
with half milliou of men at bis back tc
put down the principle of confederation
and set up what he and his followers tern
a nation-that is, Central Despotism
which, striking down local selfgovern
ment, shall transform the Republic O
17SS-lS64 into the French and Roman
model. But worse, immensely worse still
he proposes to "abolish" the..domestic sub
ordination of the negro clement and mon
srelize society, as in Jamaica, Mexico &c
Will any one venture to dispute these as
scrtions-that Davis represents Confeder
alton and white citizenship, or that Lin
coln represents consolidation and mongrel
ism? Surely not. and vet the monstvou