The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-06-02

which our fathers so painfully taught viii
have, at an equal expense, to be unlearned
by our posterlty. The American once st
boastful ofa liberty that was won for him
will have to learn to be equally vain of the
bad es ola servitudc which he has won
for himself. The world viii not forget
the arrogance of one period of our history
nor fail to find a link to connect it with
the humiliation Of en- other
We have neither Constitution. laws nor
liberty. The substance has long been
gone; but there will be contest over the
shadow. That which We look upon as
temporary will have to be made permanent;
for we are giving permanency to its cause.
That which become temporarily necessary
in an effort to gain, will become perma-
nently so, in the resolution to keep. The
hanns must be hard and the footing sure
which hold the South in perpetual slavery,
the b!ooo OF subject masses at home must
induratc the one, and the nccks of peo-
pie taught to bow, brace up the other.
How can this vast work be done? Eas-
lily. The despot is not wanting in the i'm
PIGMENTS He can draw out a sixth part
OF the people to-day, and no voice is rails
ed to protest. He can do the same to-
morrow, and the next day; and still if a
man were to dare to complain, the multi
tude would cry out treason" He can
put arms in the hands OF those and require
them to disarm their fellow citizens, and
SO well arc we already subducd, they will
do 1t. And Il vast party would grow en-
thuslastlc over the deed; a crowd of place
men would applaud it; and corrupt press
would task itself to prove that it was done
III stilc; accordance with the Cons titution
The thing is promised. 1t does not rost
IN conjecture. bu: in threat: it is in that
part OF the programme of which no secret
Is made. HE Governor Of Ohio lays it
down to the soldiers; so does the Governor
OF Indiana. Generals set it forth at the
head OF their armies, and in their official
orders. First crush out the rebels, and
then come home and crush out the party
opposed to the war, and all who are op-
posed to the crushing operation.
But 1t does not rest merely in threat
It Is equally grounded in necessity: party
necessity. 1t has entered upon progress
IN which there is no hating place short of
autocracy. The further it goes, the more
inexorabie its necessity to continue. lie
who stops. dies where he stops: and the
question is between such security as des-
potism shall afford, and annihiiation.-
There Will be a greyious account fled
against that party and its leaders; an in
dictment watch they dare not mect-whose
counts, unless they can protect themselves
by power, will put them in danger colec-
lively and individually.
When the war is over-when the armies
of the toniederacy are dispersed, the guer-
r:llas hunted down and murdered, and
summary justice done upon all who hay-
ing any thing OF which they may be rob
bed, are suspected of disloyalty, than the
home work will begin 1t will be heavy
JOB 1t Will take longer than three years
to finish it. Ii will be bioodier than the
first act, and. if possible, more infamous
and horrible in its details. 1t will take
some time to ins;itutionalize despotisnl
here; and the struggle, however it results,
will be amid seas of blood.