The Plymouth weekly Democrat., 1868-07-30
I" GRANTAND COLFAX Us. JEWS
AND FOREIGNERNn

CItANI AMI L COLFAA -. OE JtS
AND FOREIGNERS"
CART II. WHICH Is THE PARTY OF RA-
T1ONAL LIBERTY AND pRoGREss?"-
CONTINUED.
Under this head I shall include both
the first and second of Mr. Ms continued
articles!
The first was devoted to the gathering
rays generated by the enlargement Of the
terrible word humanism."
No new argument was produ-
ced, but strenuous effort upon his part
was made to draw to focus such rays and
only such as would mostly conduce to
the establishment Of his common will the
ory upon the basis Of "humanism." The
common will theory was trick to induce
his readers to believe the physical and
mental equality of races, and that the
white race has no pre-eminence over the me-
gro, o,who "must vote for, and be voted for"
and hold office in common with the white
man. We are new DO longer left to doubt
the meaning Of Mr.. Ms doctrine. and
since the radicals concur with him we are
confirmed in the opinion that he pro-
mulgates radicalism as it truly is. -Radi-
Gals, generally, are too apt to adopt spu-
rious style of oratory, the end of which is
when their cause is such that il cannot
be supported even by special fallacies--to
say something, when there is in fact moth
ing to be said, SO as to avoid the gnominy
of being silenced. "To this end", SAYS
Whately in his Elements of Rhetoric, "the
more confused and uuintelligible the lam
guage, the better, provided it carry with
it the appearance of wisdom and of being
something to the purpose" Had Mr. NJ s
article the resemblance of profound wis
dom, and being something to the purpose,
we might cite it as a fair specimen of spu-
rious oratory. but being deprived Of such
known as 'Utopian oratory." This, then,
is The kind Of oratory Mr. NJ has refer
ence to when he says "the genius Of the
republican party is to build up the frame
of their constructions from below, from
primary principles" That is, the republi-
can party, with view to deduce facts
from primary principles, adopts Utopian
oratory thus it follows that in all their
reasonings they select Utopian assertions
for the foundation Of their constructions.
Hence they commence with vision and
must end in vision. In a mathematical
pl oblem error at the commencement
will lead to error al infniium. So in ar
gument, if the primary principles are Uto-
toplan the deductions will be Usopian ad
iefnitam. .It seems" says NJ, "the dem
ocratic party is rather inclined to con-
struct from above down." That is the
democratic party commences with facts
and deduccf therefrom principles that ad
NIT of practical application Thoy know
that which men most seek for are general
facts-the linking together Of causes and
effects. Facts are to tho intellect what
the rules Of morals are tc the will The
mind must be thoroughly acquainted with
facts before any correct generalizations
can be made, for generalization is the act
of bringin to application individual facts.
The Utopian argument will not admit of
generalization becau ;e 10 facts are involv-
ed. Thus, Mr. II , We kindly accept the
a priori argument and leave to you the
Utopian, and are glad that you do not
misunderstood our method In pursu-
ance to Mr.. Ms request would with
pleasure write my thesis in German if it
were possible to have it published in that
language, but for want of German type
and German compositor I am obliged to
use the English language. 1t has been
through the request of German citizens of
this place that l have undertaken the re-
viewing of Mr.. Ms L" assertions" and so
long as my thesis written in the English
language meets their appreciation | pre-
sumo it will so appear.
The last article written by Mr.. NJ. is
characteristic for its veracity and moral
ideas. He argues that ''the children Of
white emigrants were sold into slavery on
arriving at New Orleans; that "no free
negro could 90 south without being sold
into slavery; that "slavery was the cause
of Texas separating from Mexico" Thus
you see the radical party is not content to
let the dead carcass of slavery alone, but
must resurrcct it thatthey may have some
thing to harp about. In short Mr.. M.
would impress it upon his constituents that
slavery is still the issue of the day if he
could but mask himself more fllly. Slave
ry is dead and no democrat wishes to see it
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