The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-07-09

For quartering large bodies of troops
among u.s."
So did the radicals.
"FOr suspending our own legislatures and
declaring themselves invested with power to
legislatc for us in all cases whatsoever"
So have the radicals.
How in the name of common sense can a
man possessing ordinary intelligence advo-
cate modern-day radicalism and reverence
the Declaration efIndependence? The same
charges that its trainers made in the name of
the United Colonies afterwards the United
States) against the tyrant of Great Britain,
are as applicable to our latter-day radicals in
their treatment of the southern people as if
they had been expressly prepared for the oc-
casiOn. How strange it is that we find a man
in our midst advocating a theory in direct
opposition TO the trainers of our republic ;
but this is not all, he has the audacity to
think that If it had not been for such minds
as his, the Declaration of independence, with
all its immortal principles, would new
er have been made. No wonder he says that
tie scope of the radical mind is boundlcss.
Every individual interested in the welfare of
this government has long been looking for
the limit of this great expansion of radical
with its gigantic strides so long as the consti-
tuition and Declaration of rights were respect
ed by them (thc radicals, but since they no
longer regard those as essentials, we think
nothing too loquacious tor their incipient
minds. They have lost sight of that legisla.
tive power which confers the greatest good
on the greatest number, and concentrated
their expansive minds to a work by which
they can.appease their selfish motives.
The radical writer says the conservative
man measures everything by the measure in
which his own individual interest is involv-
ed, and while his own judgment is with
in a limited sphere that Of the radicals is
bOandless. I. conservative is one who is de-
sirous of maintaining existing institutions
The radical is opposed to him and therefore
in favor of destruction. We are at loss to
know how any individual who is aware that
this government is an existing institution of
ninety years standing can possibly vote the
radical ticket, which is against his govern
ment and aims at its destruction. Mr.. an"
has caught hold of the ideas generated by
the Roundheads of England, in Cromwcll's
time, and thus endeavors to prove that radi-
calism has been the great leading element Of
civilization, that had it not been for radical
ideas civilization would to-day not be known
In this, however he fails most wOfuly, as his
conglomeration ofwords has no logical mean
ing in the sense applied.
He says that in series OF articles shall
inquire:
"lst. Which is the national party?
"2d. Which is the national liberty and pro-
gressive party?
ed Which is the cheapest and therefore
most conservative party?
90 4th Why Jew can vote for the rcpub-
lican party.
18th. Why g foreigner can vote for Col
fax"
purpose following the writer in the in
vestigation Of his series Of articles, and there
by show to candid and d;spassionate public
the fallaciousness of radicalisin and the I'M
sound theories upon which he purposes to
base his Recommendations" VETO.