The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1865-09-14
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une, writing recently from Tennessee, says:
"In the counties north of this, as well as
in the counties east and south, many com-
plaints are made of the treatment OF the
colored people These charges are not
made against disloyalists, but on the con-
trary. against those who have served in
our army. 1t is a fact that our mustered
out soldiers in east Tennessee are i'll treat
ING their loyal colorcd elow-cltizens.-
They are consorting in many cases with
those who have been in rebellion, to do
this They make common cause with one
of them, when negro Is to be victim
A common cry among the rank and file
of our Tennessee regiments when they
return home is, ''we have whipped out
the rebels now we are going to whip the
abolitionists.'
Commenting on the above, a cotcmpo-
rary justly remarks that
"Nobody better than our soldiers know
who are the enemies of the nation. They
instinctively understand that an abolition
list is next to a rebel liz noXiousncss. They
fought to put down the treason Of seces-
sion, and now they are ready everywhere
to put down the treason OF aboltlonlsm.
Soldiers cannot be brought to see that the
negroes are as good as themselves. They
have aot been fighting four years for the
purpose of enabling a few stay-at-home
fanatics to degrade them to the level Of
negroes"
"While "the boys in blue were in the
field engaged in putting down the rcbcll-
ion, abolition newspapers and fanatical
leaders of their party, by falsehoods that
would put to shame the ''father of les
himself, were engaged in the treacherous
work of slandcring the democratic party,
imprisoning It's leaders, and suppressing
Its papers hoping thereby to deceive the
soldiers, and permanently attach them to
t1e abolition party.
Their efforts were for time crowned
with partial success, but now that the veil
is being lifted which has hitherto masked
the real intentions of the abolition scamps,
the soldiers can no longer be mislcd By
their falschoods, and it Will not be long
before il will be difficult to fud an intel
ligent and brave soldier acting with them,
We know OF many in this county who hav.
ing returned from the army, were at first
utterly surprised to fad that democrats
were not, as they had been led to suppose
enemies to them and to the country, ready
to join hands with scccssionsts and traitors
to diShonor the flag under which they had
fought; bat after learning the real scnti
ments Of the democracy, they were boil
surprised and Disguised to find out the
extreme depths of utter depravity to which
the Republican and its leading party con
frers had descer led in abusing their dem,
ocratic fellow citizens. The result Of al
this will be large democratic soldier
vote, and the total overthrow of the re
publican party. There is no more doub
Of the final, campletc asccndency of th,
democratic party in this country than o
the rising of tO-morrov's sun. Havin,
passed through the fires of persecution /
has become purifed by the elimination 0
have found their proper place in the BIO
som of abolitionism, and hen ccforth Their
lies before the regenerated democracy
glorious and exalted future. The countr
is vet to be saved from the desolatlon or,
atcd by the reign of abolitionis N, its rc
sources developed, its constitution upheld
its laws indicated, the disturbers of il
peace, and the destroyers of It's libertie
brought to condiSn punishment; and a
this is to be the work of the purified, re
generated and invigorated democratic part
of this country, prominent III the rank
of which will stand thousands upon thou
ands Of the brave and patriotic men wi
have been foremost in the field of battl
The day dawns even now and the trick
sters and decevers Of the last few yea
may well treLlble for the result. No
know better than themselves that clio,
of righteous indig nation is rising in t
minds and hearts of an H. Ured Poop
that will break in judgment on their
voted heads, sweeping away the last We
ige of the political policy upon which tn
have staked their all, and lost
Let democrats stand firm, and be tr
to the principles of their fathers, and
will be well. Let all who love their cou
try and hope for its preservation uni
with the great party that is destined to
the guardian of the rights and lbert
bequeathed us by our patriot fathers, a
still
'The Star Spangled Banner in triumph shall wa
Der the land of the free and the home Of
brave"