The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-01-23

which now illEminates the civilized world
Does Liberia dispfove my statement?
Founded by the missionary enterprise of
all nations and upheld for half century
! by their combined moral and physical in
huences yet to protect her from the na-
ked cannibals, by which she is surround
ed, Mr.. Lincoln recommended that con-
gress make her present of gunboat.
No ship, nor vessel of steam, has she ever
built Without railroads, without COM
merce, without enterprise, without Sci
ence, without literature, without even the
elements of ciyilization-there she stands;
as perpetual warning against the rule
and supremacy Of the negro.
Itrequires no gift of prophecy to fore
tell the doom Of the south if his rule is to
continue there. In the West Indies he
has ravaged, like a wild boar, the fairest
gardens that ever lay under a southern
sun. He has blasted and torn to pieces
he most fertile aud productive region of
f the tropics. Once the shipping of the
world clustered around Jamaica, Uayti
aud San Domingo, and from thence again
sailed, more richly freighted that the ar
gosies of old. Their wealth was a pro-
verb wherever commerce was known,
Behold these natural gems now-blacken-
ed, charred and miserable, as if the fires of
some wrathful demon had swept over them.
There they are, dead and lost their fields
barren their whole lands wet with the
blood of constant murder; revolutions fol-
/ Ion ot1 fl,,4 81 tof., Ia
assassinations and massacres, as often as
the moons full face appears, until the
very names of those islands have become
by-words of horror aud exacration. The
same fate awaits the south under negro
supremacy. The same fate awaits tir-
ginia. who once owned the ground on
which you stand and gave it to you The
same awaits Louisiana, the sentinel over
the mouth of the Mississippi, your great
thoroughfare of trade and natural outlet
to the ocean. The same fate awaits all
those plains and valleys Of the south
which so recently poured heavier streams
of gold into the public treasury than ever
came from all the mines Of the whole
earth. Negro supremacy, as now estab-
llshed by law, gives you an impoverished
country and increased taxation destroys
more than half the agricultural resources
Of the nation. and calls upon tot to make
up the loss; plants a standing army at
your doors which you toll to pay, Feed and
clothe; and utterly overthrows and ami
hilates free institutions in one-third of the
American republic And all these woes
now afiiict this land because partisan
majority in congress is determined to re-
tain its partisan asccndency by force and
fraud. Will the people of Indiana sub
nit to such policy? Did the soldier 90
to the field to obtain such result, ald
will he now pay taxes to uphold it?
Here, then, permit me to coniensc and
state the positions on which stand before
you:
First raise my voice for the repeal
of the act Of so-called reconstruction,
under which states are abolished. wealth
destroyed, the ten states surrendered to
barbarism, and the great crime against
civilization committed would expunge
it from the statute books with black lines
around and across it, in token of popular
condemnation.
Second. Give to the negro all his civ
il rights. Give him security for life, lib
erty and property; and the laws and courts
open and free for his protection. Throw
him on his own resources, abolish Freed
mems Bureaus, and make him cat his
bread on the sweat of his own face. Re-
serve the entire political control of this
government to our own race. Strike the
negro from the basis of representation.
Let him be no longer in any shape or way
an element of political power, and then he
will cease to be the sport of desperate
factions. He should neither vote nor
serve in congress nor be represented there
by others Two races cannot commingle
in the civil afflrs of government. The
world hears unbroken testimony on this
point from tbe days of Israel in Canaan to
the wrctchel mongrel tribes of Mexico.
Let the negro be an object Of christian
philanthrophy, and not co-partner in
the government. Then he will work out
in peace and happiness the subordinate
destiny for which he was crsafeA
Third. Pay the public creditors as all
other creditors are paid il the lawful cur
rcucy Of the country. Put the bonds,
which remain unpaid, at rate of interest
equal to what the owner Of real estate can
realize, after paying his taxes, aud no
more. Then investments will not as now
seek government securities. because of
their heavy interest, thus Withdrawing
the circulation of the country from the
legitimate channels of trade and rendering
vast wealth exempt from taxation.
Fourth. Revise the system Of abomin-
atiOns and sectional robbery known as the
tariff and reduce its rates to revenue
standard. This would save the western
consumer an average OF one hundred per
cent. on every article which he purchases
across the counter of the merchant, at the
foundry of the iron-master, or in the
counting room of the manufacturer. This
alone will diminish western taxation,
which now goes to the Golfers of eastern
capitalists, hundreds of millions Of dollars.
In these four propositions of inherent
justice and absolute right, | behold the
glorious restoration of the Union, the re-
establishment of the benign principles of