The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-09-27

INw0oD, Sept. - 1866.


EDS DEMOCRAT
Not having seen any communication In
your paper from this place take the priv
ilese, with your permission, of informia g
your readers that there Is such place as
lnwood ; and although not ~ large as
Bourbon or Plymouth, we have plenty Of
room to grow, and a much better location
than Bourbon. However, | disavow any
intention to slur that smart little town.
We have four stores, two saw mills, and
Touring mill IN the perspective. We
number about 800 inhabitants, perhaps
more and since the most Of us heard
Messrs. Coliax and Turpie's joint discuss
sion at your place, We will 60 strong for
Mr. Turpie.
For myself, | must say | was very much
disappointed in Mr.. Colfax as an orator.
The audacity and absurlity Of his charg>
ing the Democratic party with having
caused the rebellion, is only cqualed by
the pathetic tenderness with which he
gathered the little negro baby in his arms,
and the atfectionate ycarning that went
out for its MOTHER much easier and
more congenial occupation for him than
refuting the arguments of his honorable
opponent. lie is not only the Little
Greeley" whom he half rcpudiatcs, but he
is the "artiul doGger" of the west.
Democrats caused this war.-indecd !.
Had there been no abolitionists there
would have been no secession or war any
one witt grain of sense knows that As
proof all radicals admit that the south was
satisfied when Democrats were in power !;
if not satisfied no secession was talked of.
Why? Because the Democratic party
was a national one, and treated all sections
with justice and equality. Does that
look like the Democratic party being the
cause of secession? We tell Mr.. Cotax
that his lis only the cry of 'stop thief to
shield his own guilty sectional party, who
alone were the cause Of the war We think
We can prove it because as a sectional
party they were devoted to the Interests of
sectional parry; and when they came
into power, and not until then, the child
secession was born-an Offering of an un-
holy parentage, which would have proved
too much for its progenitors, had not
large portion of the Democracy with
million foreigners come to the rescue
Yes. Mr.. Collaa, eve" the Democracy
did help to brinG your secession offspring
into subsection, and all your sncers and
rdicule can not rub it out There are
too rlany "boys in blue" that will vote
against you, who give the lie to your in.
sinuati IN
lrishmem, Mr.. Colfax sympatizes with
you ! DO you hear that ? Germans, do
YOU hear that ? Did he sympathize with
you very much several years ago, when H.
wanted you to reside here Il years before
you could be allowed to vote ? Who stood
between you and the Know nothing party
then The Democracy Will you sup>
port the radicals who would disfranchise
YOU Yet Colfax and his radical party
are In favor of eniranchisng negroes The
Inference is plain They think negro
better than you. Mr. Colfax admits that
he is radical from the crown of his head
to the sole Of his foot, but denies being in
favor of negro equality; yet his Miss An
ma Dickinson Douglass-Thad Stevens Phil
adel phia Convention advocated negro
equality even to the walking arm and arm
black and white; but then they were not
candidates for Congress in the 9th Con.
gressional district of Indiana, and Mr..
Collar is; therefore be eulogises the