The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-10-06
Presidential Prospects.
From the Chicago T


The last hope of the administration and
its party fer success in the election is rap
idly dissolving. The victories of Sherman
and Sheridan, so far from checking the
revolution in popular sentiment against
Mr.. Lincoln, have but served to give il
new strength, The people do not believe
that he has either the will or capacity to
convert these successes to means for se-
curing q permanent and honorable peace.
In his hands they were merely additional
opportunities for the prosecution Of the
wild and revengsful projects which have
prolonged the war and given tenfold
strength to the spirit Of resistance in the
insurgent states His nomination at Bal
timore was = mistake, and one which it is
now too late to rectify He has been
condemned by both wings of his party,
and the evidence given against HIM by his
adherents is too full and complete for
sophistry to soften or present adulation
TO buoy.
Thurlow Weed, leading the conssrva-
tive members of the party, has denounced
his desertion of the principles to which he
was pledged in the republican Chicago
platform, and Wendell Phillips, in behalf
of ultra abolitionists, has mathematical
his duplicity in dealing with the radicals
whose views he professed to adopt when he
issued the proclamation Of emancipation.
Following these, the abolition press has
rebuked his vacillation and the corruption
rcigning in his cabinet, until the party
which rallied to his support In the election
Of last year has been turned against him
to an extent which leads thousands of
them to desert his sinking cause III every
state. The newspapers and prominent
public speakers now engaged in his sup
port are daily confronted with their own
deolar atoms portraying his unftness for
the position he occupies. They can urge
nothing in reply to such evidence but tho
pretence that the union will be abandoned
by Mcclellan should he be elected
The people know better, and abolition
declaimers and the abolition press are con.
sequently driven to the necessity of con-
Quoting the campaign by falsehood, de-
traction, and epithet. Here, again, they
ars met by their own testimony. The
thanks Of Congress to Mcclellan, and the
expressions of feIvant gratitude towards
HIM by the president, as we'll as their own
party indorsement of his skilland general
ship. have armed him in proof against
present dctraction. The old adage, "givs
a rogue rope enough and he will hang
himself" is now impressed upon their
minds with vivid distinetness. They are
condemned by facts and declarations fur
nished by themselves. 1t is from the ar
mories Of Lincoln, Wade, Chase, Weed
Raymond, Hale, Fremont, Winter Davis
and hosts of the most prominent leaders
in the administration party, the democrac,
draw the weapons which sweep down th'
ranks of those xho furnish them.
Military succes will not prop the fallins
fortunes of Mr. Lincoln. Sherman is il
the heart of Georgia, with an army of on
hundred and twenty thousand men, an,
yet the people are united in defying-no
the government, but the administrator
which he represents. Their hatred o
Lincoln and his negro policies. and degra
ding terms of submission, is stronger tha
love Of homo, or life, or any tie bindin
them to earth. The fact, patent and un
disputable, forces itself upon the attentio
of the people, and desiring, as they sir
ceroly do, the restoration Of the union, the
are not misled by the professions ofunior
ism which can accomplish nothing whe
we hold military possession of the revolts
states.-[ Chicago Times.