The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-08-20
"GRANTAND COLFI-Y rs. JEWS
AND FOREIGNERS"

GRA NJ IND COLF1X is. JE Tvs
AND FOREIGNERS"
Anr (Which the party of rational liberty and pro
! gress: Continued
The above title is becoming a misnomer
| for Mr. Ms articles, and the sooner hC
changes it the better for the great mora
! ideas he pretends to advocate. For sever
al weeks he has been devoting his time to
Mr.. Vero, and in so doing has lost sight
of bis subject | do not propose to reit-
crate what l have already said. Ny ar
guments against SIR. Ms theories are be-
| fore the people, and will chcerfuliy con
cede to their decision. Now, if II. pro.
poses TO devote his time to slandering and
black guarding those who differ with him
ne will receive no more attention from
Nero. Eero has aimed to avoid sarcasm
and inasmuch as he has so far avoided it, he
does not now propose to condescend so low
The democratic party can advocate its
issues ia decent and respectable language
They need not resort, as their only hope,
to the meanest Of vulgarisms, to sustain
themselves When argument has become
so stale in party as it has with the re-
pubicans, the party can only be support.
ell by the meanest kind Of slang and
black guartism. Thus We find the party
OF high moral ideas" endeavoring TO sus
tain themselves by treating thsiro ponents
with the meanest Of epithets, and the low
est vulgarisms known to any plcbiqn race.
No, Nr. n, cannot spend my time in
noticing such arti les, when they can only
be sustained By the lowest aud most de-
graded language known 70 Ameriean lit
erature You have not made an argu
ment for four weeks pertaining to your
subject, bat you harp that Sir. Vero has
asrepreseuted you in your ideas You
say that you did NOS argyle that the Ger
man was equal to the negro that the one
had 10 prominence over the other. You
deny the conclusion. Now, sir, did you
not say that :" Every participant in the
active as well as the passive interests OF a
commonwealth, must have q right to par
tioipate ;hcally 10 the functions to eslab-
lish the common will. lie must have the
RIGHT to vote and be voted for as mem
Der of the official state power" Is not the
negro a participant? Is not the German
a participant? Then, sir, both are equal
ly concerned, as you sag. Then how can
any priority prevail, according to your
doctrine? Can you see The German or
the native American possessing priority
upoh the basis of your comro n-wll theory!
Sir, you cannot deny my deductions from
your articles. You cannot deny that you
did argue an equality Of races. Then
sir Why do you endeavor to remask what
has been unmasked? Verify you ann to de-
ceive. Your passions have got the better
of your intellect, and now you speak, not
as an intellectual man, but as one filled
with the highest pitch of anger Yo.
called my attention to the following quo
tation from Sir Lyell, that Eminent anat-
omists have shown that in the average
proportion Of some Of the bones, the negro
differs from the white race, &c" aud ask
-" What is the subject Of the sentence y
/ YOU are so ignoran. as not to know what
the subject of the above sentence is,
would recommend you to commence the
study of grammar forthwith. because it is
very essential to correct political writers,
and as you aim to be moralist and polit-
ical writer, | cannot see how you can avoid
taking at least the primary course common
to boys of your stolidness. When you are
through with your article No. 2, | may
notice them in general review, but shall
wait to see the termination Of them On
your part ere write again. NERo
John VI. Connell, of Fayette county,
O., who was staunch supporter of Lin
coin 5 administration, has abandoned the
radical party and declared his intention