The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-01-02

We suppose that n certain CLASS of dem.
'ocarai- Will never get it into their heads
that 45Oitfion is a mere incident IN Amer.
lean politics. until it IS beaten out Of their
brains By another and still more horrible
civil war than that of the past seven years.
The party thlt elected Lincoln was simply
and wholly an abolition party. that il, was
pie iged 20 aboiish the cOLditlon of the
negro aud amalgamlte him in our polit-
lea! system. Ii did not propose to direct
Iy 80 his in the states. but to So WELD the
patronage an;l power Of the federal gov
eminent that in time all would he work Il
ont. The distinction of race would be OBJ
liberated. aud whites aud negroes equal
lied anl harlnomzed together. the coua-
try w0ull he NJ pence. Therefore, nn
matter what a man was on anything else
hank or anti bank, tariff or anri-taritf.
democrat or know nothing, If he WIS
sound on Ambition. that was all thrt was
needed Aad when secession followed
Lincoln'S election he knew aud the lead
ers of the party knew. that he had on
~ one word ~ say tn stop it. bet he
would Gnt say that Worl. for i gave up
the idea that made the party. They
had no desire Ia overthrow the rights oi
the states but they were forced to do so
10 carry ont their idea" Nor did they
wish ~ contract an enormous debt, or tn
sacrifice half IA million Of lives, bat they
must do 50 or abandon their '-iiea,' Of
course But democrats VIII not face that
"i,iea;" t1r twenty years they got mp
lodges AMI >ham~ to avoid 1t. and the
southern democracy sece lei. ran away. to
escape from it. And even now. after all
the devilment Of the past six years, some
democrats try to avoid il. and insist on
other isyuei-siaic rights, paying The
debt in greenblcks. etc.
1t is verv wonderful to us how nea can
be so stupid. Whenever they hive
the courage and sense to meet the
min one itian. they will fnl they
were frightened ny the ratr anl biz pre-
tenfinus 1t The mcancst mast revoltiu..
AMI utterly feeble monster that ever scared
babies or Idiots. The sole question Is
amli,anaiioa with niggcsS-uo more, no
less-aholition Of he negroes condition
tt'l bl~ !uti-tiitt'p' III tt.i :. 1i+' ibi
this, to mate and marry their children
With the sooty--kinurd, flat-no>ed. and
long-hee.cl niger hlIia nillipn II Amer
ica,s have given their Ives and. each of
uS, pay taxes tSdy day of our lives
God help u, Ne have give. our blood
and wasted our treasure II mnngrelize
ourselves and degrade our posterify into
mnlattoes AMI quldroons, and vet stupid
felinwS propose 10 set up other issues. aud
keep the reuple in blindness of this W
FIJI crime But it must MT be- Every
earnest democrat must walk straight NJ
to the criminals and take them by the
.hroat at Gree We must restore the
country t. It's normal condition, The ne
gro saust be left where God placed him
ana every man aud Woman. too, who
wants tn aar,.amaie. mtl>f hc thrust among
the u".roe~ er frem the country they
wnn'd destroy in their impi"nS aud re-
Voting madness y democrat shoult no
more permit Il Rcec',cr nr i Checvcr :"
SIT Il; table with him. thln he would tie
real reert.. AID brought down Ia THIS te>'
We sh, uli soon bring he country to lis
senses-I l. Day Book.