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

and IN which proceedings there was no
appeal 20 any court. The power Of the
bureau was 10 be supreme over State cons
stitutions, State officers and courts aud
laws, and to be administered by that class
who would seek a livelihood in such occu-
patton. All the negroes were to be fed 8,
clothed and supported by the General
Government.
Out of the Treasury Of the United States
was to be paid the expenses of erecting
schools, nauses and asylu1as, and negro
churches and hospitals; and the lands of
the residents were to be taken away and
given to the negro.
Every section Of the bill was violation
OF the whole scope and purport of the Con-
stitution, and was, in effect, bill to en-
slave and impoverish the white people OF
the south, and to establish, il the general
views, the negro race, and at the expense
Of northern labor. This bill totally ig>
nores the southern States as being in the
Union, and the southern people as having
any rights under the Constitution. With
this bill as a law and in operation, and fol
lowed up by the constitutional amendments
proposed, the work of disunion would be
complete and permanent.
1t would have prostrated the whole az
ricultural system of the south. destroyed
its commerce and the revenue of the Gov
ernment, and increased the public debt,
perhaps, one hundred millions Of dollars
yearly. BY the veto Of this bill the plans
Of the disunionists are, for the time being,
broken up. The work of the whole session
has come to naught, and their motives are
exposed to the public view.
That their leaders brought on the war;
that while one danger to the Union has
been thwarted, another equally great IS
threatening from the abolitionists of the
north, must excite the reflection Of every
lover of his country. If the Hartford Con-
vention has merited the odium Of three
generations, may not this Congress merit,
and will it not receive at the hands Of the
people, an Immortality of infamy? Free
dom, Union. peace and prosperity, are
being sacrificed on the altar Of negro "a
naticism.
Both our interests and common patriot
ism demand that the people shall oppose
the scheme Of their leaders To destroy
eleven States, and hold them in yassalage;
to make 4 negro paupcr.infirmary out Of
the south, and poor fund out Of the
Treasury of the United States; to place
the negro on an equality with the white
man; to give to q reasonable f,etion the
negro race as an immense engine IF fraud; |
to perpetuate those in power who have
fattened on the public misfortune; to in
crease the public debt; to foster eastern
monopoly and Oppressicn; to destroy the
means Of revenue in one-half Of the Union;
to change the Constitution for the purposes
in view, can not but degrade, impoverish
enslave and ruin the whole people, but
Ike sectional tauaticism, and ambition and
Official extravaganza, be hurled from DOW
cr; let the Union be preserved intact; let
the southern States revive their industry,
and restore their wealth, and let each
State provide for its own poor and control
its own system of labor. let this Govern-
ment forever remain a Government of
white people; let the public debt be placed
upon the whole peoplc-rich as well as
poor-according to valuation of property; |
let labor and production be untrarlmeled,
and the ruins of the war will soon disap- !
pear, and the people again be prosperous /
and happy. 1t can not be possible that
people who have sacrificed so much to slve
tie Union are at last to see it overthrown
in the name of negro equality.