The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-02
Liberty ils E.a-Scr.

Who that has watched the proceedings
of the Jacobins in congress, and taken
careful note OF the revolutionary spirit
which prompts and directs them; can
doubt that the liberties of the American
people are in greater danger of overthrow
and destruction to-day than they have ev-
er been before or that, if saved at all, it
will be by brave. defended blows, such as
our fathers struck Tor deliverance from
British tyranny in l776? IF American
liberty was worth the sacrifices made to
achieve it, is it not worth an effort to save
it9 AS things now look, with radicalism
bOlu, resolu.e aud determined, while the
dcii,ocracy is led by timid. weak-kneed
time-servers and towards, We see little in
the future 10 inspire eonhdehte hope
nothing, indeed, if the democratic masses
DO lot east off their half.hearted leaders,
and resolutely determine to save their lib.
critics, or die IN their defence.
The appeals to the north of that staid
old whig organ, the National IntelIigen
Ger, contained in the following stirring
words, is as the first sounds Of the great
revolution so rapidly approaching, when a
traitorous congress will attempt to throttle
the liberties Of the American psople, and
establish a reign Of terror, such as del
uged France with blood aud crushed lib
crty under the iron heel of despotism:
"Freemen of the north! Know that
the clutch of usurpation is at the throat
of your ministers Of justice; that your
treacherous servants, determined to de-
stroy your constitution. defended by your
chief magistrate. have desperately resolved
upon abnegating the Legislative branch OF
your government, entrusted to their per
fdious hands, and in order to demolisf
all restraint OF treason, are about to de-
stroy all the departments of government
even their own, and lifting your liberties
from your sovereign shoulders, to lay al
at the feet of military despot. Know
people, OF the great free north, that you,
chains are forged; that the bayoncts, a.
it were, are sharpened, the muskets charg
ed, the orders written, that are TO mete
out to each one Of you what liberty
what property, what life shall re
tain. Behold, at your fresidcs the appa
ration of the guard Tor a midnight arrest
in your places of worship, the armed cen
sor Of your prayers; in your fields, a
your work tables, on the high road. tn
snaky and skulking detective. Listen
You may hear the drum, as it drops in a
your startled ear, the palsy that thicken
your yet free tongue. We tell you tina
the supreme court is to be stru,k down
that the equal balance Of the three grea
departments is swaying from it's equiIib
rum that the great tripod Of the repub
lie is to be broken up; that from your 7 Q
litical temples your betrayers are Danish
ing your gods, and from the genius o
your freedom are wrenching her inviola
bic sceptrc. That fow wrctches. drum
upon irresistible power, loathsome witt
guilt, hideous with blood, and mad wit
lust, may riot in your halls of power
through the degradation Of tho south
your liberties are to b0 destroyed, you
constitution subverted, your republic dis
solved, and your name dishonored anon
nations forever"
! This is not the extravagant language c
delirium, startling as it may be to craver
hearted democratic leaders, in whose ear
! brave words always sound frightful, bu
is Just what the dangers Of tho hour ca
, for and justify. Well for the. people 9
, the north will it be If it is needed.