The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-12-24
The Presidents Message.

SETTING aside the illegal and revolu-
tionary action of Congress as a flight of
folly scarcely to be expected even from
that body of political monomaniacs, it is
easy to see how the Presidents Message
must have been gall and NORWOOD to its
stomach, and live Goals upon its head. He
tells them in plain words: You are de-
stroying your country. You have usurped
all the powers of the Government, and
misused and prostituted them all. Your
reconstruction scheme is failure, which
would be farcical if it were not destruc-
tive. You have prevented the restoration
of peace, and organized only anarchy and
ruin. You have driven American ship
ping from the seas, destroyed commerce,
hindered trade, beggared agriculture, and
paralysed the whole industry of the cOun-
try. In one year Of peace you spent thir-
teen hundred millions of dollars, and for
the present year, also Of peace, you require
nearly four hundred millions of revenue.
BY your laws you have made it impossi-
BILE to punish official thieves, or remove
political rascals from the hundred thou
sand offices through which they are suck
ing out the life blood of the land.
You have made civil government farce
in one half the Federal Republic, and an
impossibility in the other. You have sup
piled its place with bayonets and military
satraps. You force private creditors to
accept third of their just debts as an
equivalent for the whole, and propose to
pay bondholders three times as much as
their bonds ever cost them.
You have, in short, made the American
people the scorn and by-word OF The age
and a common jest 10 all the nations of
the world
This, reduced, to the most succinct form,
is the purport of President Johnson's last
message to the Rump Parliament now
usurping the representation of the States
at the Federal Capital
That it should enrage that oligarchy of
desperate and needy Adventures; that it
should goad to fantastic fits of midday
madness that wretched ropt of decayed
tradesmen, corner GROCERY bullies, Yam
kee-clock peddlers, and escaped convicts
turned political carpet-baggers, and all
the rest of moral scum which an over
cloyed country has vomited into the halls
of Congress, as common and now natur-
al receptacle of all national filth, folly and
degradation that it should do this is but
a natural, and let us hope also a whole
some thing. Wholesome it will uudOubt-
edly be, Tor the people Will naturally say
"A Presidential message which such a
Senate dare not hear read, must contain so
much truth as to be worth every mans
careful reading therefore let US read it
for ourselves.
Hence the Message will probably be got
by heart by almost every man in this Fed
eral Republic.
We do not endorse Mr.. JOhnson's finan-
cial recommendations That is a subject
which requires good deal of thinking.
In fact we consider it the rock upon which
everybody who makes any recommended
ton at all will inevitably go to pieces.
We consider the Message only as to its
epitomsing known facts, and its relation to
the great question as to whether we have
a Federal Government, consisting of two
houses of Congress, President and a
Supreme Court, or revolutionary red
Republican committee consisting of a So
called Senate and House of Represents
tives.-Neao York Courier