The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-02

Mater i'm fle South.
A man who is the souihel cores
pondence Of leiiable Jacobiu newspapers
all Jacobin newspapers are reliable
must be amazed and grievcd at the condi-
tion Of affails in the ten territories ly,ug
south of Mason an1 D;yon's line.
Oie of the FIRST things WI 'ch will strike
the attentive reade, of this sort of cores
pondence is the astounding ignorance Of
the native whites, and the amazing shrewd-
ness and intelligence Of the colored peo-
pie. The white man is low, besotted in
divldual, who neither reads nor writes
The negro is temperate, Intelligent
christian, who alte!nates in his leisure
hours, between perusiug the constitution
and Baxter's Saints Rest, aud attending
assemblages for prayer. Inc wife of the
white man is poor, sickly ca.''-e, who
chews snufy sticks, and occupies herself
with arranging her LIouterie, which con-
sists of shin-bOnes and skull pieces taken
from the bodies Of Yankee invaders.
Nor is this all the difference between
these two classes. The white is aa idle.
disloyal vagabond. The Afric. is an in
du: trious and eminently loyal institution.
While the latter cultivates his piety anl
his strip of ground, and reflects upon the
beauty Of a constitutional government, the
latter, in an immense slouch hat, is always
to be found at the corner grocery, drinking
poor whisky. cutting plug-tobacco with a
formidable bowie knife, and, when oppor-
tunity offers, shooting at, or down, some
plots " nigger" who may happen to ven.
ture within range of his pistol.
Politically, the white mau has only the
most interse hatred for the benign gov
ernment, aud for the protecting folds of
the star-spangled banner. The good ne.
gro loves that government and that flag
and he is ready, at any moment to vote for
the one and die for the other. No white
man whom the southern correspondent
ever meets is res gncd to the fatherly DOM
ination established by philanthropic JAG
obinism. When he is not shooting or
hanging niger" he is cursing the gov.
ernment or organizing new insurrection.
But the vigilant African. founded ire
movably in his loyalty, is ever heaping benz
isons upon the government, and giving his
shrcwdest abilities to discovering and
frustrating the Vaccinations Of the disloy-
al whites.
And thus the southern correspondent of
the reliable Jacobin press goes from place
to place; and wherever he goes, he sees
only what we have summarized. If there
be any difference in what he sees, it is
that, usually, the negroes are more vir =.
tuous and loyal, and Whites More wicked
and disloyal, in one place than they were
in the place before. Each succeeding
mile of travel only increases the degrada-
ton Of the whites and superiority Of the
Africans.
One wonders, when he reads these re-
liable accounts what has become of the
intelligent white people who once lived III
the south. There was time when, amoug
thinkers, scholars, philanthropists, and
gentlemen of the country and age, the
south was largely represented. Are
these representatives dead, that they are
never met by these reliable pcripatctic
correspondents of Jacobin newspapers?
Or do these Jacobin newspaper CORES
pOudent', being dobarrcd by their errand
from decent society. wander only among
the poor whites, the renegade Yankees,
and from whom they draw their inspira-
ton and their facts
Or are these Jacobin newspaper CORES.
pondcnts slanderous and lying scoundrels,
who deserve only to be pilloried IN the
exctratiohs ofthe public for their infamous
dctracsions and their abominable inten-
tions?
1t is, however, not worth while for any
one TO get greatly excited over the repre-
sentations of these scribbling aud con-
science!ess vagabonds. They arc hired to
do this very work The amount of their
bread aud butter depends upon the num-
ber and enormity of their lies. They are
simple instruments, tools of men in the
north and their employers are, in turn,
the creatures Of party whose very exist
ence depends upon lie. When party.
professedly one of law and order, and OF
decency and piety pushes its partisan
schemes under the pretcnce Of philanthro-
py violates laws and constitution at every
step and numbers among its adherents
the biggest drunkards. atheists. and ras-
Gallons of the aSe,-there is nothing sim
gular tt at it should employ very disreputa
bic agencies in order to strengthen itself
by detractiOn Of the SOUTH Chicago
Times.