The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-11-22
The Chicago Times PrOpOsit os.
Id fhe Democracy To Endorse
Negro Suffrage.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

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From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Chicago IimcS, We regret to say
under the heading, Shall the Democrac
Die or Lave comes to the conclusion
that, IN order to survive, it must come ou
Tor negro suffrage, and rally in condemns
tlon of the Administration. In othe
words, it must retract all its past profes
sions, recant all It's old doctrines, and rati
~ those of its opponents, X it would no
perish. This is singular reasoning.
would ;ppear strange to ask the people fo
future support tor our organization in tn,
same breath in which We admit past mis-
takes and errors. That is not the way t,
qualify for future public support. Espe
cially is the TomeS lame in its idea that
successful issue can be made upon the de
gree TO which negro suffrage shall be car,
ried the Democracy taking the lower ant
the Radicals the higher degree-the one
for partial aud modified and the other fol
universal enfranchisement. 1t will be lk.
surrondering the outer position of for.
tress to retire within the inner for another
stand with the spirits Of the garrison de
pressed and those Of the bcsiegers exhiler
ated BY the advance they had made 1t
would be akin to the policy of stopping the
mouth of the fam;shed and desperate wolf
by giving him lap and taste of the blood
for which he sought No! Wesay to the
Times that the house can nowhere be SO
well and appropriately defended as at The
entrance to the domcile. That sacrificed
and the entire enemy gains possession. =
The Times, in order to save the dam that
confines the roaring tide Of Radicals II,
would deliberately tear away one Of its main
supports and embanknents Ifthe Times
idea of political policy is correct, we should
combat it with no faint, halfway cIpedi-
ents If there is a great revolution We
must march at the head and not ut the tail
of it. |. is the former that controls tie
body, not the latter. II we are to beat a
retreat and ANONYMOUSLY surrender the
field in order to carry the enemy's position,
We had better get in advance and not in
the rear OF them If we are to fight upon
the degree OF negro suffrage, let it be upon
"A degree tha; shall ouherod and ou;fank
our opponents. liza vigorous and cnerget-
ic conservatism will not carry, what chance
is there Of success with hating, timid
hesitatine one, that begins by admitting the
basis of its opponents position, =
The Times, in its terror at the result In
Illinois, or in it's chaerin, makcs an issue
that does not exist. There is no dauget
Of the death Of the Democratic party. 1t
is to-day, by tens, and even hundreds Of
thousands. stron. GER than it ever vas be iore
How absurd to speak of the 0eath of those
who. in the five great States of New York
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
have just poiled 200 600 to their oppo
ncnts 300 600. and where the change of
but few thousand votes would give us
the majority even of the electoral votes in
the north alone 1t cvinces growth aud
vitality, not mo,.ldering decay. Taking
the late elections as IL test, it is by far the
strongest organization in the whole United
States and is not more than ten per cent
in the minority in the twenty-six States in
which the Republican PAL alone has an
organization. 1t is a majority party, tenn
porariy out of power, as it has been re-
peatcdly before in its past history. On
those occasions it passed through the po-
l;ical storm un.cathed. when the waves run
higher and more violent against it than
they do now. The Democratic craft is
stanch, its sides are iron ribbed. its keel of
oak, and it is manned by as brave aud in
domi; able crew as ever combatted the rush
ing POLITICAL elements upon the >ea of life
and contention. Sorely crippled it has
been in many conflict with the fleets of
error, but it has never once struck its flag,
or changed its onward and determined Gu
reer
Vessel after vessel Of the enemy, sailing
up to itin proud and apparently overwhelm
inc strength, it has sent to the bottom of
the political deep, which is thckly strewn
with its triumphs. Often before and since
among that gallant and hardy crew, there
have been officers and men who, like the
Times. become downcast in the presence of
what they consider to be certain destruc>
ion. and request that capitulation of the
,raft should he made. But, thank fortune,
brave hearts, more courageous wills, more
pilots, refused the request,
md to the DENIAL ds of the enemy, and to
Ais shouts of victory, answered back with
he thunders of defiance. The Democracy
ire in the habit of boarding and carrying
,ther craft. bu. never Of coming 10 under
he lee of an enemy to accept Of his terms
II d to adopt his flag.
The Democratic organization will not
lie, simply because it will be true to its
principles in adversely as well as rJsperity
v. 1t relic. all upon the sober second
hought of the people. 1t was great-it
vas strong and glorious-lons before the
Times or the Enquirer were in being and
i will be victoriors, standing upon the
platform of it. ancient faith, and adherlnS
20 it's organization, when both papers shall
nave pershed and been forgotten In the
waste Of years =.
1t has seen the beginning of every polit-
cal organization in the United States, and
will see the end of them all. This mon
,rcl bastard Republican party, which has
sprung up like ghoul III the night ana
which has attained such rank growth
will perish, and quickly as it rose found> /
ID upon mposture, upon error and deceit
mon fanatical prejudice and short-sighted-
ness and sustained by acts of atroclous
rhine. it contains within itself the seeds OF
m eorlv dissolution. 1t is not for the