The Plymouth weekly Democrat., 1868-07-16
=" GRANT AND COLFAX Us. JE us
AND FORETGNERS."

cart. Isl. WHICH IS TIE NATIONAL LIBERTY
pARry?"
Mr.. an" thinks it necessary before We can
understand this question TO inquire into the
meaning Of the term national party resp ma
ton Ipresume by the term "resp. nation y
our learned friend means respectively na-
ton, and that his desires are TO investigate
the meaning Of the national party respect
lively nation" Whatever is meant by the
phrase matters little to Us. but if the writer
intends to make political writing a profes-
sion We would advise him not TO Kill the En-
glsh language in few articles be-
fore the campaign over. The radi-
cal writers theory Of a nation is no better
than VIC could expect Of party that aims to
demoralize rather than ciyilizc he Ike all
radicals in compiling his definition OF nation
takes care to make it conform to the ex-
otic ideas of his party He says a nation is
an association ofindividuals upon the ground
of specified territorial boundaries like the
home Of a family, with all the attributes in
tcrnational law gives to states" The ground
Of specified territorial boundaries spoken OF
in the definition embraces the free states of
the north, because he (AIr. NJ says that
what he understands by ANERIcA ARE THE
FREE STATES OF THE NORTH. Thus YOU see
how nicely the representative OF "high NOR
al ideas has framed his definition in order to
make a national party ont Of the so-caled
radical republican party. But how did this
great party become national? Let .ir M. p"
answer: "By the TRANSMISSION of northern
principles into southern eXistence and by
giving them sole acknowl wledgement" Who
would have thought that party claiming for
itself great moral ideas" would admit that
( its only claim to nationality was the trans
fusion of northern principles into southern
existence" and by giving those principles
''sole Acknowledgement" That is TO say
that the southern people no longer possess a
will of their own, but are subject to this
northern TRANSMISSION" party. Whenever an
element of opposition to this transfusionsm
was manifested by the recipients of its ven
omous effects, the strong arm Of military
despotism was appealed to as the only cohe
ring element. Is it any wonder that foreign
nations look upon this party with cont empt
and dIsmay, and one from whom no good can
be expected?
But what business has Mr.. "M" to enforce
his ideas upon the southern people? Has he
not said that by America he understood only
the free states of the north? Has he not,
through the hallucinatiOn of his expansive
mind, excluded the south from his theory of
nationss lie cannot see them struggling for
liberty within the territorial limits of Ameri-
CO, much less in the limits of the United
States Why do you (Mr "M") interfere
with them? Why must they adopt your
principles? Do you say that England and
other European nations must do the same?
A re they not subject to your "fusonism" as
we'll as the south? Certainly, if the south is
no longer in America and you have a power
o make her subject to your opinions, you
i have eq ual power all over the world You
certainly are fortunate, as all men have not
been endowed by their creator with so ex-
tcnsiYe and minute powers of generaliza-
ton.
A NATION, within the meaning of the b est
writers on international law, is q body poll
ic composed of a multitude of individuals
united together for mutual safety and advan-
tage by means OF their union. Now that
party which aims to accomplish the greatest
good to the greatest number by means OF
their union as such body polite must be Tho
national party. We challenge the radica
part without fear of contradiction = tC
| point us to a single case where they have
made an attempt, even, to accomplish such
e nds. We have seen them repeatedly unfur
their banners of SIXTEEN STARS in honor O
Mr. "M.'s" America We have heard them
time and again declare secession impossible
and impracticablc that ii state could Sc
ccde, county, and even township, would
have the same right. This cry of non-sever
ance and coercion was kept up for four long
Y cars, and he who dared express an opinion
to the CONTRARY was branded as traitor ant
sec essionist. But the very day Lee surren
dered to Grant, this cry was surrendered like
wise, Ito whom, the RAIDS. may tell and from
til at time to this day those states have beer
considered out of the Union, and as Mr.. NJ
says, out of America. They have heaped
upon the SOUTHERN people everything tiat
was odious to a civilized nation, and why:
Let Mr.. McClurg the chairman of the select
committee of the house of representatives to
inquire into the condition of southern rail
roads, answer that her p eople should return
to their duty to humanity" Yes, for this
reason and no ther, he was willing tha
"GOd should visit the southern land with
desolation." pray you, Nr. NJ" to tell us
what is that duty of humanity" to which
you demand that the southern people shall
return? Is voluntary submission to negro
suffrage a duty of humanity? Is cheerful
acqucscence in disfranchisement and confis
cation a duty of humanity ~ The radical
leaders required the south to lay down their
arms and swear allegiance to the Union
They required of them to submit to taxation
or the payment of the enormous debt con
, tiacteG in subduing them. They were requ
red to give assent to the reputation of their
own public debt They were required tC
give their millions of negroes upon whose
labor their reliance had been all their lives
They submitted to all these requirements
but still radical vengeance was not satiated
ExaciiOn after exaction was made as a con.
ditOn to their restoration to the Union, and