The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-07-19
BOURBON CORRESPONDENCE.

EoUR8oN, July Il, 1866.
EDS DEMOCRAT:
The famous letter cfye wonderful SCHUYLER
to his abolition followers ut Westyillc, did not
create as great sensation among the faithful
in this region as might reasonably have been
expected. The fact is, the people are begin
hing TO open their ewes. They cant see il
that about one half of the voters OF this dis
trict are disloyal, simply because Schuyler SITS
himselfin his easy chair at Washington and
proclaims (Which shall govern in the col,r,.
ellis Of the nation, loyalty or dislovalfv:"
When they remember that II was SCHUYLER
and his party that performed s0manv wonder
tul feats in this district and county during tho
last five years for whose acts they claim all
the LOYALTY; they will look Wei to their bal
lots before they vote to retain such men in
power. FOr instance, il was SCHUYLER an(
his party who sent an armed force Of twelve
or fifteen men from indianapolis to Plymouth
where they dragged from his room at the dead
hour of night, Mr. Nanyall1enburgh. then ed
tor OF the DEMOCRAT, for calling political
Brigadicr General donkey" (This littlC
Bit of fun cost the tax payers of this district
and the State something like thousand dol
lars; a mere song YOU know, but it vas to show
that we had a eovernment)
II was Schuyler and his party that sent az
armed force from In Porte to Plymouth ant
after pointing sixteen pistol shots at the hcat
oft deicncelcss DemocTat-Mr James Thomp
sOn-he was informed that he was prisoner
and must be taken in arms-f he could not bo
taken Otherwise-before the military authori
ties At Ia Porte, TO answer to the charge O
disloyalty. After holding him about thirty
six hours, during which time he was subjected
to insults he most damnablc, he was suffered
10 return to his home.
* was By the sanction Of Schuyler and hi.
party that the La Porte Democrat printing
Office vas broken open when the proprietor
was absent from the Office and the type and
fixtures broken and li.roWv into the street fol
no other reason than that IL was Il democratic
newspaper and opposed in manly way tbC
Gsurpations Of the opposite party.
1t WAS Schuyler and his party who had ar
rested by The Provost Marshal, without war
rant Of law, half dozen ofthc citizens Of W cst
Township and taken to indianapolis, where
after being held in 'durance Vile for week
or ten days they were allowed to return home
the expense Of each amounting to somefhing
like three hundred dollars
These are but few Of the NAM acts pcrpe-
trated on the democracy Of our own county
and district by these loyal men, the remcm-
brance Of (which is still fresh i'm their minds
and for the sanction Of which, they will be
held TO a strict accountability.
The time has past when Democratic news
papers can be suppressed with impunity; when
democratic editors and politicians can be ar
rested and imprisoned by the simple ''ring OF
the bell;' when printing offices can be thrown
into the streets at the simple nod of a great
man, when farmers can be taken in squads
of half dozen by Provost Marshals; for the
military power has disappeared in the
''bsseless fabric Of dream, and we have a
man at the helm whose POWER he recognizes
to be that only conferred in him by virtue of
the Constitution and laws of his country.
heweather-ohl SUCH weather-warm--
hot suffocating-that's no namefor it; los in
the shade-no ice water-no lemonade--tbat's
what's the matter with US down here.
and that's why we haven't any news to write
vcu; cart sford y this week we're too law