The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-01-24
4 DcmOCrtiC National COngcu-
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4 DemOcriic National COn.cn-
EDITORS DEMOCRAT:
| see no position announced by you in
relation to Democratic National Con-
vention. Such convention ought to and
will be held. 1t sh ould be a convention of
the people, represented BY men they can
trust Ofice-seekine politicians should
be totally ignored. The delegates to that
convention should be Democrats III every
sense of the word, and those whom we can
rely on with most certainty. We have
been battered for policy and temporary
success long enough. Let US now go to
the fountain-the people-and get set
- Representatives who will truly represent
us, declare for what We want and ought to
have. and leave the time servers to sell
and buy themselves until they are tired
The people have no confidence in their
leaders-and with some reason. When
We arc sold out, as we were at the Chicago
COnycntion-when We are forced into a
vile amalSamation, as we were at Phila-
delphia-when We denounce men like
Lincoln and Seward, and then sing peans
to their memory when We despise men
like johnson, and then become his cham =
pion-when we pin our faith to their skirts
and trim our sails TO the veering of men
who run counter to our expressed theories,
rs our State and National Committees have
caused us to do for five years past, no
plain, honest, thinking man can have con-
idence in Us. Our opponents tell us
plainly that they mean to ccn;rallze the
government and wipe GU State lines. That
is revolution and the establishment of abb
>olute in place Of free government. Coun-
ter-reyoluti9n must and will stop it. They
expect that counter-revolution. and have
organized tie Grand Army Of the Re-
public IN every toTn in order to be able
20 crush any movement Of The people TO
prevent the overturning Of the govern i.
nent. The rank ami file of that army
except the commanding officers do not
believe there is any snch duty for them.
and arc taught to believe that re arc the
ones who wish to oyerturn the government :;
and many Of them a~e good liberty glowing
people at heart, but they will fight Us
when ordered
We need and must have an asscu bling
# representatives from or own ran,ls Of
true men, from every district in every
State and territory, and they must distinctly
and percmptorily declare what we favor
and oppose; and they must declare that at
every hazard viii We preserve our Repub-
iican, Representative form OF Government
composed of separate States, with separate
limited, delegated powers. united under
general constitution Of like delegated
limited powers and that each and every
branch shall bc fully maintained inyiolatc
in the exercise of the powers so delegated
and that We will recognize and treat as a
traitor, every man who seeks to destroy
that form OF government. We know that
liberty cannot dwell in any other form eff
governmental organization. We know that
capital and power CANNOT be kept distrib-
uted in any other form. We know that
Capitalization cannot be successfully re-
sisted in any other form And more than
all, thit progress, civilization and genius
cannot have chance for full develop
ment in any other. We cannot afford to
lose all We have, because fanatics and
morallsts, and timo-servers wish to profit
themselves and seek to put in practice
''profitless distractions" That conyen-
ton will meet next May or June some
,hcrc. 1t viii proceed to re>ba;tze the
party of the nation-the party that made
Il nearly three quarters Of century ago.
1t viii give plan of organization, political
and military and if our form of governs
ment cannot otherwise be saved, then we
Will fight for II; fer property is of no value
without liberty to enjoy it, and political
organization is useless unless the will of
the majority can be enforced.
If our opponents can revolutionize the
government against the will of the MAORI
ty, then we must and will restore it at
every hazard and every cost. That cons
vention will be the rock on which the
present revo' ution;..i viii split. Let it be
held, and let nc MA lie sat 10 IL who has
ever shown the Yiiitc feath1r or has pan
dcred to the prejudice of he times from
Fear or for hope q .earorary success. Let
o~cry --nrcscntaiiye e9mG from the people
fresh and pure ncontamibatsd by lust
q! olfiec or antcccdcnt fusion for policy
sake. Then will Democracy once more
be what it was, and the people will rally
to the standard as they did under JeITer
son. Madison and Jackson
c. ii. REEVE.
From Washington.
WAsHINGToN Jan 2l.-In the Senate
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