The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-08-22
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
Original SeCeSsiOniSts.

Original SeceSsiOnists.
In the beginning of the year 1861, just
before the commencement Of the war, the
editor of the Republican made use Of the
following language
''If no compromise can be agreed upon
that will be satisfactory to the South, We
would prefer peaceable secession to bloody
and desolating war"
Again he said:
I've are in favor of Congress calling .
convention to settle the difficulties in some
way, either by amending the Constitution
or providing for peaceable separation"
The above extracts are taken from a
carefully written editorial in the NJ. c.
REPUBLICAN and show beyond cavil what
were the views then entertained by Mr..
Mattingly. Since that time he has swung
around the circle of partisan tactics, some
times advocating the preservation of the
Union by force of arms, and sometimes
counsellng one thing and then another.
until now he has arrived "at the place Of
beginning" and is again in favor of a per-
petual dissolution Of the Union of Amer
lean States. He has found that the war
for the Union has resulted in the destruc-
ton Of the Mon, and he accepts the
situation" I'd tries hard to convince his
readers that things are in the best possible
condition. What his opinions are on this
or any other subject is of little consequence,
perhaps, except as they serve as An index
to the popular sentiment of his party
There is not, to-day, a dozen of the radi-
cal leaders, who, like Mr.. Mattingly, were
not in favor Of secession, and they conse-
quently hail the present state of practical
disunion as thing desirable and to be per-
petuated as long as possible. With this
view many of them went into the war, and
labored with might and main to render a
reunion impossible. With this view the
radicals in Congress have legislatcd into
existence the so-called civil rights bill, the
freedmen's bureau bill, the tenure of office
bill, the three misbegotten abortions called
reconstruction measures, and with this
view they have passed the negro franchise
bill for tho District of Columbia. With
this view the amendments to the Constitu
ton have been passed, the State OF Yves
Virginia created contrary to law, and the
Executive and Judicial departments shorr
of their constitutional prercga YES. The
military have been made Independent of
and declared by Congress to be superior
to, the civil power, and it is now seriousl;
threatened to destroy the government o.
sovereign States never in rebellion against
the Federal Government.
With such record, the editor of the
RcPuJltcan and his party associates assume
to be the friends, par excellence, of the
Union, and with an effrontery that would
shame the Evil One himself, ask the peo-
pie to support their candidates for Office
When hereafter they pirate of "loyalty,'
let them be confronted with their past rec
ord, and if they are not entirely lost to al
sense Of shame, they will at once cease
their deceitful clamor and retire to some
secret place for refuge and meditation
Heretofore they have endeavored to con
ceal their own infamy by charging upon
others the crimes of which they were
themselves guilty. This will no longer do;
they must be brought to face the conse-
quences of their Own acts before they are
allowed to charge others with ''disloyalty.' y