The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-03-15

tates in the south, ccnfscated by thei
own legislation. Immense quantities G
cotton have been coined, by their legaize
treasury permits, into bank deposits, t
their credits, instead of the credit of the
Government. Whole caravans of Govern
ment cattle of every description have bee
swallowed by these fierce and overwhelm
ing simoons of abolitionism. The Who'll
conty; C, system ofthe war, created by them
was but n feeder to this abolition rapacity
The high-tariff system, or legalizcd piec
Of larceny, made by these leaders, enablet
them to declare three hundred per cent
dividends in their business, at the expens,
Of the masses of the people.
On land and on sea the Governmen
and the people have been shamefully de
frauded and robbed by these men; and
when in the course of the war, to meet pc
culation and speculation ard the lcgitimat,
expenses, the Government needed loans o.
money, these men banded together like 81
many Shylocks, dictated the conditions
of the bonds of the ssGovernment, as to rat.
OF interest and exemption from taxation
invested their ill-gotten gains in a pcrma
nent form, and now shake four thousand
millions of property, exempt from taxation
in the faces of he laboring masses They
poiLtwith satisfaction to their Chief j u.s.
tice of the Supreme Court of the United
States, to the supremacy of the eastern
monopoly, and their power in Congress as
guarantee of safety. Thus established
as privileged class, they are without a
wound or an Inconvenience from the war
and without a burden in time of peace
To provide indemnity to themselves for the
past, and security to themselves for the
future, these leaders, in and out of Con-
gress, are molding its legislation
They have lost sight of the people and
the substance Of the Government. They
have controlled the elections for five years.
and these FIVE years have been years OF
ruin. They falter at the future. They
believe they can, with the help of the votes
of 800 900 negroes and the exclusion of the
votes of over 100000 southern people.
and plumber Of the south for their sup>
porters, maintain an ascendency over the
conservative masses Of the north The
present Congress met in December, 1865,
with the Union restored. During the ses
sion the Southern States presented legally
chosen representatives, who asked, but
were refused admission. Congress, at the
outset, gagged itself by ccnferring its DOW
ers upon a committee instructed to attempt
the disorganization of the southern States.
The whole session has been consumed. 50
TAR, IN taking testimony at great expense
to show that the Union can not be restored
10 inaugurate universal negro suffrage.
they commenced with the District of CO.
lumbia. a bill passed the House confer
ring the right of suffrage on the negro in
that District, against the will of the peo-
pie, but yet awaits in the Senate further
developments.
They have also proposed an amendment
to the Constitution, to extend the elective
franchise to all persons without distinction
of color. Also, another amendment to
regulate the right of suffrage in all the
States of the Union Also another
amendment to enforce protection to life,
liberty and property in all the States. Al
SO, another amendment to make voters the
basis of representation, thereby entirely
ignoring four fifths Of all the people in the
Union.
Large bundles of halfdlgested writing
are daily proposed, in Congress, by the
little statesmen OF to-day, as substitute
for the sacred work of the great statesmen
of the past, and to be reported upoa soon
by the committee All these measures are
for the negro
From all these propositions can be gath
cred ouly negro suffrage; negro superiori-
ty over the white people of the south ne
gro office holding; negro equality; exclu-
sion of white people from Government
all of which assume, if made part of the
Constitution, a condition Of perpetuitv,
accompanied with unlimited power, CON
centrated and consolidated, SO that the
States will have left but the forbearance of
Congress as the only safeguard of liberty.
Our Constitution will become, simply a
grant of Legislative power to Congress.
The power usurped and exercised to ex>
clude representatives, to disfranchise States
and people, to prescribe test oaths and oth-
er tests in subversion ofequal government,
is fitting prelude to that despotism which
frowns from the brow Of revolutionary
Congress.
1t IS strange that constitution suited to
twenty-five millions of white people, pro-
ducing prosperity when obeyed, and miss
fortune only when violated, should now be
deemed insufficient for three millions of ne>
groes.
While AL these proposed Constitutional
amendments have been kept in abeyance,
and Congress has been speculating with
The temporary suspension Of the relations
of the south to the Union, until the public
mind should become familiar with, and
tolerate the permanency of the suspension,
an important measure was being matured
as an entering wedge for all these revolu-
tionary schemes.
The Freed mems Bureau bill, recon-
mended by It's charitable appearance, and
ostensible humanity, and besides having a
precedent in operation in the south, was
brought FORTH bill to establish military
jurisdiction over all parts of the United
States containing refugees and freedmen;
to create large and permanent standing
army. tn reuuire salnried aoents vitbout