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The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1865-07-20
GeOrgia-A Speech by the Pro
VfSiOIal Governor.

A public meeting was held in Savan-
nah, Ca, on Saturday evening last, to
hear an address from Gov Johnson, the
newly appointed provisional governor
The subject of his speech was the restora>
ton of civil government to the state, OF
which il had been deprived by the rebelI-
ion. as condition precedent to this
restoration he insisted upon the necessity
of the citizens taking the amnesty oath,
and that being done 1t became his duty to
convene convention Of tie people. The
duty of the convention would then be to
form constitution for the state adopted
to the new order Of things" Upon the
question Of slavery and The power of the
president to abolish it as war measure
Gov. johnson said:
''Now call your attention to certain
powers Of the president and congress-
The president is authorized by the consti-
tuition to command the military forces Of
the United States to suppress insurrec~
tions and to repcl invasions. The writ OF
habeos corpus may be suspended in case
of rebellion, and congress has power to
make captures by sea ana by land. War
has existed between the United States and
the south, within the meaning and pur-
view Of the constitution; it was rebellion
too large FOR an insurrection. The
pres: dent, by virtue of his office as c. IN
mander-in chief OF the armies, had a right
to make captures-to seize horses, to take
property,-hc had a right to capture our
soldiers, to make prisoners, and to release
them on parole or not We could, under
our rights as belligcrents, do the same
thing. 1t WIS right of war; 1t follows
as legal sequence that the president had
the power to capture negro, to hold him
in custody, to dctain him whether consid-
cred as property or person. The presi-
dent acquired an authority over persons
and property, which he could not exercise
in time of peace. 1t was a latent power, a
war power; and, by virtue of this power to
com mand the armies of the United States,
he issued that proclamation as rule of
war for the purpose Of suppressing the
rebellion The slaves, upon the surrender
of our armies, were captured, legally if not
actually--in law it makes no difference
whether they were actually captured or
not-and to night, by virtue of the procla>
xlation, they stand emancipated. l stated
this to be my opinion as a lawyer, and, as
a lawyer, | state that, in my opinion such
will be the decision Of the Supreme
court.
81 could wish myself that such had not
been the case, and that the change had
not been thus violently and abruptly made.
But slavery, in any event, is gone and
gone forever, and have no tears to shed
or lamentations to make over its depart
ure."
The tone of the whole speech was con
ciliatory, and is reported as having been
well received by the audience.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1865-07-20
Quick Replies.

Napoleon was fond of quick replies; Ire
could bear contradiction, but invarbly
turned away from those who addressed
him with hesitation or embarrassment-
The following anecdote will sufficiently
prove that ready and well-timed answer
was an infallible passport to his favor:
"At grand review which On a partic-
ular occasion, took place on the square of
the Carousal, the Empcror's horse sud
denly reared, and during his exertions to
keep the animal steady, the rider parted
company with his hat \ lieutenant
having picked it up, advanced in front of
the line, and presented it to Napoleon
Thank you, captain; said the Emperor,
still occupied in patting the neck OF his
steed. In what regiment, sir Immediate
ly demanded the officer. The Emperor
considering his features attentively and
perceiying his own mistake, replied with q
smile. The question is appropos:-in the
guards: In few days the new ly appoint
ed captain received an official notification
of the promotion, for which he was in
debted solely to his presence Of mind, but
which his bravery and long services had
meriied"
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1865-07-20
GrOWGinS 'em Out.

FROM the blchm0nd wing.
For twenty years the displacement of
the black race from employments previous
ly monopolized by them has been gradu-
ally but slowly progressing. Fifteen years
age, the military bands in Richmond were
composed exclusively of colored men
Now, and for number of years past, the
bands have been composed exclusively of
whites. Colored men were formerly the
only musicians at balls and dancing par
ties Now the German is Preferred
Some years ago white porter in a business
house was rare sight Now they are
met with as frequently as negro porters~
No one thoughto of employing white SER
wants when the men of the present day
were boy; but they are now quite numer-
ous Since the changed state of affairs
in Richmond, this substitution of white
for negro service has been progressing
rapidly, and is chiefly noticeable in the
vehicles running upon the streets. For
merly white Jehu was seldom seen in the
drivers seat. Now one seldom observes
a negro hackman. A carriage was noticed
on the street yesterday with white dri-
yer in the full uniform of Federal sold
ier. And thus VIC go. Where this dis
placement will end cannot be foreseen.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1865-07-20
NUMBER 46.
Sherman VS.. kAaIieck and Stan.

In Gen. Sherman's official report he
regrets that Gen. Halleck did not attempt
to execute his order to disregard the truce
made with Gen. Johnston, and fully irtie
mates that had Halleck done so, he would
have hung him. 1t is true that General
Sherman could have lawfully done so, and
we do not doubt that he would have
stretched Halleck's neck, as he intimates;
but what a calamity, had we lost IIalleck
Things like him are as necessary to COM
plete all the links of creation as certain
offensive and annoying insects He has
made his bed along with such despised
appOstates as Butler and Stanton-there
let him lie. 1t needs not General Sher-
man to hang him to send his name into
history, wretch abhorred His is the
case of one who, knowing the right, did
the wrong. lie joined the Abolition rev.
olution not from principle. bat for filthy
lucre, for power, and for chance to play
the tyrant. He belongs to class whom
no gentleman should ever take by the
hand. Gen. Sherman has set good ex.
ample by refusing to shake hands with
him, or in any way acknowledge him as d
entleman.-T Delphi Times
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1865-07-20

The Black Repub lican, newspaper pub
lished in New Orleans, edited by a colored
man, clergyman. does not take very
cheerful view OK the success of the various
projects of negr9philists fer the regenera-
ton and elevation of the negro race, as is
shown by the following extract from his
paper:
The colored man and the white man
cannot live together in this country; they
must, and will have to separate, unless the
Congress Of the nation will give them a
place for themselves, for as it was with
Abraham and Lot, so it is with us. and
the sooner we seek a home for our rising
generation, the better it will be for us
'-Our final destiny, so far as | can dimly
see. is that in three hundred years it will
be a rare thing to see colored man in
this country Like the Indian, our race
is destined to become extinct in this coun-
try, unless we move TO ourselves.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1865-07-20
A Long stretch.

The new Atlantic cable which is now
in process of manufacture in England, to
be laid this summer, is TO be $500 miles
long. allowing four or five hundred miles
for all contingencies; and its core, through
which the electricity passes, is to be COM
posed ofseyen strands of the best copper
wire, making together over 10000 miles
of copper wire; this is to be enclosed in
eight coats ofinsulating material, amount
ing to Is, ,406 miles; then follow ten coat
ings of jute, making $4,000 more, and as
each wire is covered separately with FIVE
twists or strands of yarn, there will be
worked into the cable 5000 miles of
yarn; making altogether length of ma
terial which amounts to 2l3, 800 miles; or
sufficient, if placed end to end, to GO
round the earth nearly nine times, and
lacking only 2l 900 miles of being nearly
enough to reach from the earth to the
moon-the latter distance being as meas
ured by astronomers, 237 600
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1865-07-20

1t is evident that the abolitionist are no,
at all pleased with the reconstruction poll.
cy of president johnson The Dayton
Journal fears that the rebels will do the
voting in South Carolina, and whines pit.
cously that the "loyal" citizens-negroes-
arc excluded from voting. The following
is an extract:
at will strike intelligent people that in
the whole state Of South Carolina, there
are not ten "loyal citizens always ex-
cepting the negroes. The voters arc to
be those fanatical and embi.tered rebels
who foreswore their allegiance to the
United States into rebellion, and waged
bloody, relentless war upon the nation, and
who, after being conquered, simply swore
themselves back into loyalty, having given
no fruits meet for repentance, and took
the oath of allegiance to the United States
only because they had no alternative. The
Provisional Governor is one of this class
of men-a citizen of South Carolina, who
endorsed the ordinance Of secession, and
who supported the rebellion until it was
crushed We suppose Governor Perry
will take the test oath, which we published
a few days since-because the peculiar
code of morality generated by the insttu
tion of slavery, has been found, in most in
stances in the south, to justify hard swear
ing. with ~ i'm olication of perjury involv-
ed in it. Coy, Holden, Gov. Sharkey and
Gov. Parsons, arc conspicuous examples. ="
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1865-07-20
Citizen Or No Citizen.

1t would much better comport with the
''mind your own business" doctrine of sen
sible life, if the philanthropists of New
England would stop bothering their brains
about negro citizenship down south, and
look at home little while. There is a
clause in the constitution which guaran>
tees the citizen Of one state all the privi-
leges and immunities Of the citizens of
other states. Now, there is a custom in
New England of having poor people
Virtue does not insure comfort, and supe
rior morals, even on the negro question
seem incompetent to the prevention OF
poor houses. 1t is strange fact that
those institutions, which are unknown in
large portions of the south, should flourish
in such quantity and quality in Massa-
chusetts and other Eastern states. 1t is
equally as strange that their regulation
should be so much at variance with the
principles of liberty We are inclined to
think that the amendment to the consti
tuition abolishing involuntary servitud,
except for crime VIII abolish great many
of those poor-houses. The custom of sell
ing he lot of town poor to the lowest bid
der for the year, and authorizing him tC
extract the highest possible quantity o
work out of the smallest possible quantity
of food through the medium of the miser
able bodies and bones of the paupers, pre-
walls to a lamentable extent in eastern
communities. Nor is this all. A citizer
of New York has not tie privilege of be-
ing poor in Connecticut or Massachusetts,
The constitution is of no account there IL
this respect Woe to the New Yorker
who relapses from self governing indie
pendcncc to the condition of seectman'
ward, an object of public charity. He
cannot even be permitted to die and be
buried where perhaps his wife and chill
dren arc buried He must be shipped of
to his native state, lest he become town
charge, and some ones rates for the yeai
be thereby increased to the amount of ten
or twelve cents. 1t would be, We repeat
it, more sensible for the people Of New
England who are given to philanthropy
for the lover of the negro slave is the
hater of the white slaveowner) if they
would devote some attention to their home
slaveries and SORROWS. There are agonies
in the poor houses of the north which hui
manity might we'll seek to soothc. For
some years past these institutions have
been neglected, while the attention of The
people has been turned to the war; but 1t
is now greatly to be feared that the poor
houses will fill up with widows and chill
dred of the fallen soldiers. Without 9th
er provision many must 90 there. 1t
would be curious to know the rates at
which the poor are now sold in the eastern
states. Can any one furnish us statistics
of this market IN. Y. Jour. of Com.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1865-07-20

From the New York Day -Bt

From the New York Day Book
There is such a thing as asking too
much For instance, the AbOlitionists
tell Us that they are IA very sincere and
honest set of people, full of the love of
God and humanity, and they call Hcav-
en- TO witness that they believe slavery to
be the sum Of all villainies s'-a sin Of
such surprising magnitude as to be nci-
ther tolerated nor excused. Now, we
have always conducted our paper upon the
principle of extending the widest charity
to these people; for we have conceded that
it is possible for individuals who know
little about negroes TO be honestly deceiv-
ell as to the proper relations they should
hold towards the white race. We confess
it is sometimes hard to think so, particu-
larly when men preach what they will not
practice; but there are so many inconsist-
encies in human nature, that it is always
right to give the widest possible couces-
sions t. an honest difference of opinion
But there is limit to it, and in the case
of the Aboitonists, we think the line
where f0rbearaLce ceases to be a virtue
has abcu, been reached. As we have said
it is possible, doubtless, for men to sin
cerely believe that the form Of southern
society was sinful. We will concedc that,
but what shall We say on the negro sui-
frage question? Here are newspapers in
the State Of New York, for instance, whose
conductors know that negro suffrage has
been voted down by their own citizens
al.
They kno,c that if it were put to vote
now, it would again share the same fate,
and yet these very journals, while know
ing these facts full well, desire the Fed
eral Government, in violation of all law
and justice, to force this negro voting up
on the South Now we say it, and say it
deliberately, that this is pure, unadultcra-
ted, ummitigatcd scoundreiism That is
the exact name for it. There is no posi-
bility for man to be deceived upon this
point. lie knows that what he advocates
is utterly obnoxious to the citizens of his
own State, where there are but very
few negroes, and yet he proposes to force
it on a people where the negroes, in many
instances, are more numerous than the
whites, and where they might even elect
one of their own number member of con-
gress!
Other people may believe that the Abo-
litionists are honest and sincere in advoca-
ting this, and they may gravely extend to
them and to their journals the respectful
notice due to an honest difference Of opin-
ion. We shall not. We have heard
enough of this insuilerable Abolition cant.
1t is about time it was kicked out of
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1865-07-20

Among all the lunacies, misconcertiOn'
and an anomalies of the day, there is not on,
so gross as that of the abolition assumr-
ton that this is nation, and they repre-.
sent it. Mr.. Lincoln was elected by the
States against the will of two thirds of the
people, and again elected in 1864 by
States against the will and wishes Of the
majority of the people-indeed, if the ma
jority principle could be applied, abolition
could never get into power, and the pres
ent awful ruin of the country would have
been impossible. But though abolition
gets power through the States, it actually
uses that power 70 destroy the liberty and
self government of the States. tim fact
perverts our political system into the vilest
oligarchy the world ever saw, and the
States into rotten borouShs, as in England,
mere contrivances to steal into power and
rule over majorities.
1t is wonderful that De nocratic writer's
don't see and expose this monstrous revo-
luton that has been permitted to pervert
"the best government on the earth" into
the vilest, and enables contemplate fac
ton to rule and ruin the majority. Atthis
moment at least two thirds, if not three
fourths of the American people desire the
Union Of the States just as it was formed
IN 1888, and just as it was administered
until the advent Of abolition in 1861, and
they cannot have it because a miserable
minority is in possession of the government,
and insist on using tbs government for
mongrelizing and rui- lg society as well
as overthrowing the great vital principle
that the majority shall rule. If this rev.
olution is to go on, it were better to aban-
don the name as well as substance Of our
system, and by an indivisible Republic or
Nation, instead of bogus United States,
We at all events, may recover the right of
a majority to rule minority. Will not
our Democratic exchanges examine into
this monstrous fraud which permits pal
try sectional minority to rule and ruin this
great country.-N. T. Day Book.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1865-07-20
The Dungeon Os Davis.

AS has already been intimated the eel
of the rebel chief is a strong inclosur
built within a gun easement; lit
orally a dungeon within dungeon. Tn,
portion Of this easement has been securel,
closed with heavy iron bars, through
which the prisoner can see the brigh
light of day without, and the little patch
es OF the green waters Of the bay and O
the ocean, which comingled beat agains
the base OF the frown'ng stone walls which
at a distance cncircle his cell.
The furniture of the cell is plain anG
scant, consisting of cot bed and three
chairs. Neither knife nor fork is per.
mitted the prisoner, for manifest and pru
dent reasons, and he is forced to manipu
late his iood III the most primitive man,
ner.
One officer and two soldiers remain
continually in the cell with him.
. New York Herald Cor
HISTORY.
The Tamerlaines and Baiazets of histo
ry, great in their conquests and military
achievements, have descended in history
to all generations crowned with infamy
for their illiberality and positive cruelty
to the conquered and the captive.
We hope that it is true, as stated above
that light has rot been wholly shut out
from the wretchcd den in which Davis has
been confined. Every physiologist knows
that the Withdrawal Of light is a codemna-
ton to lingering but certain atrophy and
decay. Man claims the right to take life
by punishment for crime legally imposed,
bat humanity in all ages has pronounced
against unnecessary and lingering refine
ments Of cruelty.
In despite Of the hitherto futile efforts
to connect Davis with the assassination of
Lincoln, Davis, like all those who fall
from gre: positions, commands the obSer-
vation, with his captors, of the world
Fallen, stricken, deserted solitary, in cap
tivity, whatever passions may lave ragged
against him, or whatsoever judgments con-
demned, he has now become only an OBJ
iiect to move pity and commiseration.-
Any needless cruelty or severity towards
him, any extra legal indignities and per-
secutions, can but change the pity of the
world towards the captive, into execration
for his captors.
Securely as he is represented to be i'm
INJURED, the constant intrusion Of three or
seven armed men upon the privacy Of his
little cell, cannot fail to be regarded as
but mere persecution. Double walled
in cell, and triple walled besides in a
fortress earrisoncd by five thousand men,
surrounded by waters which are watched
by fleets and navies, the imposition upon
his hands and feet Of double manacles and
chains, could not fail to be regarded 9TH
erwise than as the simple manifestation of
a low and unworthy spite. And although,
like others, we have hitherto rcfraned
from commenting upon the last indignity
as one too atrocous for even Stanton
with all his perverted love for the tragic
and the horrible, to order yet there come
50 many confrmations Of the story by tel
egraph and correspondence, that we fear
the modification of having to confess the
truth Of this horrid tale Syracuse
Cour
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1865-07-20

Judge Thompson, Of Pennsylvania, in a
recent decision, gave expression to the
following noble sentiments:
"Thc writ of hobcas co'ras is the angel
of safety in civil society. No man can
now, as in oden times, be carried off at
the will ofany authority and consigned
to the cells Of dungeon to linger out life
in waiting for mercy without ii hope OF
justice. Authority must now be ready to
disclose upon the challenge of the writ of
haJcas corpus, why, and wherefore, the
citizen is held in custody, had he who de-
MES it, be he high or low, the President
of the United States, or COrporcl of the
guard, commits a dangerous offcnse
against society, unless there be a reason
for its suspension and actual suspension
Of it. Indeed, | look upon an attack of
the privilege Of the writ to be more dan
gerous than an attack on life itself. by just
the difference between an irrcparable in
jury to one and an irreparablo injury to
all"
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1865-07-20

In late speech in front of the Burnett
House, at Cincinnati, General Sherman
said that in a certain room of that building
more than year ago, General Grant and
himself had met and decided upon plan:
which were afterwards carried out exactly
and which ended the rebellion. Upon
the strength Of this assertion, it is attemp
ted to be shown that Grant and not
Sherman, is the author of the plan of the
march from Atlanta to the coast. The
object, in trying to show this, is not to add
glory to Grant, but to detract from Sher
mans we'll earned fame.
Sherman himself can best reiute these
attempts at detraction He says express
" in his official report, that he submitted
the plan of a march from Atlanta to the
coast to General Grant, and that it receiv-
ed his approval He may have submitted
it at room in the Burnett House; but
this fact has no bearing upon the authori.
ty of movement that, more than any
other, fastened the conclusion of the war
1t was Sherman who originated the plan
and it was Grant who approved it Times
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1865-07-20

decent society, and the men who indulge
in it held up as seditious scroundrcls, in
tent upon disturbing the public peace
They have succeeded IN bringing upon
the negro race in this country an amount
Of misery and wretchedness which no pen
can describe and no tongue relate. The
bones of a amillion Of those unhappy crea-
lures the victims of their barbarity, now
whitcn the plains of the South. Not con-
tent with tearing them from the protec-
ton of their masters, they now seek to
force them into position, where a war of
races woald inevitably occur. and by which
our country, not yet rescued from the ca
lamities OF civil strife, would again be
plunged into all the horrors of bloodshed
and suffering.
Such men do not deserve respectable
notice. They should be universally de-
nounced as scoundrels and hypocrits, for
that man is scoundrel who seeks to force
upon other States laws which he hnoacs
the people of his own State condemn
He may be honestly deceived upon many
other points, but this is one of those
cases where honest mistake is not possible
He has some personal, private, Or selfish
party ends to subserve, and the answer to
that is not argument but denunciation. =
We intend to use itagainst every person
who proposes to force negro suffrage up
on the southern States. We shall hold
them up as seditionists insurrectionists,
enemies of the public peace, as viler than
the vile If those men desire to make the
issue in our own State, that is another
matter. We shall be happy to meet them
here If they want it voted down out of
sight, let them try Ii on, as we presuric
they viii, when our Constitution is revised
in 1866, but if they do not wish the peo-
pie to regard them as the concentration of
double distilled scoundrelism, let them
stop talking about .forciny it upon other
States.