The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-05-05
NUMBER 20.

become SO numerous that official patronage
may quarter one half of the people upon
the other half, and give them the means
Of perpetuating their own power? Should
it continue until, exhausted, the naticii
would welcome the coming of a Cromwell
Or Il Bonaparte; until Provost Marshai=
with military policcc shall be stationed at
every village in the Northern States dis
placing the civil authority, issuing orders
for governing people heretofore supposed
to be able to govern themselves, teaching
how God shall be worshipcd: prescribing
new and strange offenses, and pun;s hing
them by court martial. Should it continue
unail financial ruin brings misery, and
misery runs irto anarchy, when 70 hope
but despotism is left!
hlr. President. few wears more Of civil
war and the outline of Il is . p'cture will be
seen. it cannot be otherwise Ii is tho
necessary result Of long civil strife
Peace parties will spring ur; the war party
Will dcnounce them as traitors: the publ
cation Of newspapers viii be suppressed,
and freedom of speech denied; mobs will
retaliate; tie blunders as well as the cor
ruptions of the war party viii tend TO
strengthen the carruptions of the peace
party; the period being one Of violence.
each party appeals to violence, the one to
hold, and the other to obtain power; the
ballot-box becomes mockery. cheat,
instead Of proclaiming the voice of free
people it sneaks the subducd language Of
base subseryiency or the bold tone of mill
tary despOtism.
Such is history We are not exempt
from the frailties that woye this web #
history for others. Party pride. blinded
vanity, may think So These have driven
many nations from the enjoyment of liber-
ty to the prolon nndest depths of tyranny.
To prevent this state Of things we are all
interested, one party no more than another,
for when it comes. all parties VII suffer
alike.
When the Roman legons had sudued
Carthage. the enemies Of Hannibal who in
party blindness had com; assed his defeat,
shared the same fate with his friends
Party revenge may be satisfied when polit-
ical enemies come to grief, but This is no
compensation fora ruined country. When
anarchy comes VIC are overwhelmed alike
The Gironoist and Jacobin followed each
other in rapid succession to the guillotine.
The Royalist and Republican. the Presby-
terian and the Icye'er suffered alike VIXEN
party divisions sacrificed the blessings of
the revolution; established despotism for
England more loathsomc ;iian Charles had
ever proposed.
In this moment of danger ict all parties
abanlo the prejujices oi' she past, and re-
sohc TO follow the dictates Of right
Whatever establishes justice ten is to re-
store the Union Whatever perpepuates
wrong will continue to disturb cur pence
Let us unite 10 restore the Union. and If it
be practicable lot US abandon the war.
< x :.
,Ir. President, the party in power should
remember the past. The responsibility of
the present occasion is momcntous Will
they be able to save the Union. and if so.
viii they save anything else that is desira5le2
These are plain que tions ard they oughtto
Re discussed III all candor | have never
doubted thatth rebellion could be crushed
Il Tie proper course ofpoicy were pursued.
Bat 1 have always feared that when the
Southern leaders. who hai SO long dom;n-
ecred over the minority, LEFT these halls,
the pendulum would sGeep too far to the
other SIDE. Every wrong had been pre-
yiously committed in the defence Of slave
~. 1t was but reasonable that thereafter
some wrongs might be committed in the
name ofanti-slayery. In the days Of Louis
Ky: the French people had been opprcss-
ed in the name Ct the Church When OPP
preston had been thrown of, they not only
sought and wcrshped TIE ashes of Vol
taire. but mockci the cmblcms of the true
religion.
onec before stated and | now repeat
the opinion. that if the people of the Sc
ceded States were al united as men are
united when inspired by a just cause. when
urged ON BY convictions Of duty to self. to
country and to God, they never could be
conquered. History furnishes no exam
pie Of such thing and saw no special
reason why the general current Of cx-
pericncc should be broken in this case
thought. however, they could be conquer
cd. because did not believe they were
united.
Mr.. President, we have expended two
Thousand millions OF treasure: We daily ex-
pend three IN llious more The daily des-
tructicn otpropcrty well nigh equals the
daily expenditure thereby decreasing our
means of payment in the same ratio in
which the burdens of Indebtedness are in
creased
Capture & { the Female PnysiCian.
Chatianoog, Correspondence Gin, Comm srcial.
[ mentioned in late letter, that Miss
Mary +. Walker, ". d. had been ordered
ont here from Washington. and had been
assigne! to duty in Col. Dan. McCook's
brigade. The Doctor has been in the
brigade a number OF weeks, and frequent
ly went outside the lines to visit the sick
and destitute families, on which occasion
she invariably rode the Colunel's n.uch
valued horse, Chicsamauga. A few DAYS
ago she accidentally rode into the enemy's
plckets in one of her excursions 10 visit
the sick. and was taken u isouer Sba