The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-04-28

from want OF food, clothing and lll-treat
ment, yet at every time the people have
been so deceived and misled from day tC
day; the President calls for 100000 more
troops, and in few weeks follows it by L
call for 200 600 more, making 100.00C
since the first of January, and over 300.
600 since the commencement Of the war
out of 3, 500, 900 who voted in the so call
ed loyal States at the last Presidential
election when 10000 militia were to end
it in twenty days, or at most sixty days.
Mr.. Chairman, | have thus made very
brief statement Of facts as to the condition
of the Union to-day, and for doing which
| have no doubt the usual charge Of ZEN
couragment for the rebels" 1.-The prolon-
CATION Of the war" 1.-The rebels are aided
by their friends on this floor" and the like
charges will be repeated again by the gen
tlemen on the opposite side of the house;
and, as | have heard such charges so re-
peatedly for the past four months, | say
now and here that the real friends of the
Confederates-those wko give them aid
and encouragement, and enable them to
carry on the warfare on the opposite side
of the house and in the control Of the
Government. Your confiscation resolution
voted for and passed by the friends of the
dmini.tration, by which you propose to
thrust your hands into the coffin of the
deceased father, and take all he may have
left at his death to his widow, and innocent
and unOiiending children, is worth more
than fifty thousand men to the Confeder-
ate army. The order issued by the Presi-
dent to Gen. Saxton, dividing up and par
ceiling out the State Of South Carolina
among the negroes and enterprising Van
KEGS Of Massachusetts,, gives courage, en-
ergy and enthusiasm to the men now in
arms in the Confederate States The or
der OF the President to his military com
malders in Louisiana and Arkansas, and
the order issued in pursuance thereof by
Gen. Banks to the people of Louisiana
in which by a single dash Of his pen, he
strikes cut Of existence the Constitution
and organic law OF the State, and by vir-
tue Of the power vested i'll him rs a Major
General, proceeds to call and hold an clcc-
tion, and inaugurate State officers and set
up State government and the legislation
consumated and proposed by Congress,
and speeches made upon this floor III sup
port of radicali>m, is strengthening the
war Herein, Sir, is where they find
strength; the true friends of the Contedcr-
acy IN the North are radical Abolitionists
and the radical Press, goadng on the
President to issue proclafiations and mill
tary orders which provide food, raiment,
strength and support for the Confcderacy
II Mr.. lincoln had made gift of mill
ions OF greenbacks to Jefferson Davis to
be used as bounty money in recruiting thc
Confederate army, he could not have done
better service to the cause OF the South
than he has done by his silly, absurd, and
insulting Amnesty Proclamation, and his
equally absurd attempt to create Sta,e
governments by diotatorial power. lie
has in effect sand to the southern people
\ on shall not return to the Union except
under such local government as | and my
military officers dictate and with the aid
Of his friends in Congress he is enabled to
add: 'ln the event Of your submission
and return, your estates shall be conliScat-
ed; your property, personal and real, shall
hc taken from you; your children shall be
disinherited and left homeless and pGni-
less to starve. under the scorn and hatred
OF Northern fanatics; your lands and ma
nor houses shall be parcellcd out anon :
cur rctaincrs; the negro (freedmen) and
adventures shall sit and rule at your hearth
stones, and you-beggars and outcasts-
shall be forbidden representation in our
national councils, and be shut out for
ever from Offices of trust and honor. -
Such is the language in which Lincoln
and his Congress and the preceding
Congress have spoken, and are speaking
to the people Of the South-and now,
sir, with such prospect before them, as
the sequel of submission, outlawry, disiran
chisement, social, moral and political de-
gradation, pcnury for themselves and their
children, decreed as their portion, will
they throw down their armes and submit
to the terms? Who shall believe that the
free, proud American blood. which cour-
scs with as quick pulsation through their
gens as our own, will not be spilled to the
last drop in resistance This is the source.
! Sir. from whence comes encouragement,
strength, support, and substance for the
Confederates; herein lies the secret of the
unity of their action, the prolongation Of
the contest, and the desperation Of the con
fiet produce, not by anything said, OF
measures proposed by gentlemen upon thi'
side of the House, or by any measures
proposed or policy advocated by the Demo
cratic party, but by the acts of the gentle
men who make the charges; and the Pres
ident and his military commanders, whc
issue the proclamations and military or.
ders.
Mr.. Chairman: have deemed it proper
thus to advert to the charges of encour
agement to the Conlcderatcs, so repeated
ly made upon this floor; and again recm
to the consideration Of the Union: Can
the Uuion be restored by war! | answer
most unhestatingly and deliberately, no
never: ''war is final, eternal separation
! Ny first and highest ground of opposition
to it's further prosecution, is that it is
wrong. it is in violation of the Constitu
ton and OF the Fundamental principles OF
which the Federal Union was founded