The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-03-26

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out the land upon q mission Of evil, car
rying terror and dismay to the hearts of
he!plessness and innocence. AID shocking
civilization with the worst Of nameless
crimes.
Such is the condit ion of the south.
A military despotism is over her peo.
pie.
The hand of lawless violence threatens
them.
Dcsolation reigns on every hand. About
them are the graves of their countless
deal.
The past is strewn with the wreck of
their greatness.
Present suffering surrounds them.
Their future is thick with peril and
dark with gathering misfortunes.
The foes OF the nation are at her feet.
Broken in spirit, stripped of fortune,
wasted, ragged, wretched and ruined,
their situation invokes the magnanimity of
kindred manhood and appeals to the gen.
erous mercy of noble enemy.
The evil influence Of the bayonet
reconstruction is not confined to the
south.
The entire country feels it.
Northern business languishes for want
Of the southern trade.
Northern factories are silent because
southern pockets are empty.
Western graneries and storehouses are
full, but poverty possesses their ancient
market, and their former buyers are now
begging bread.
A commercial crash is imminent, and
business stands still and trembles at the
prospect.
The manufacturing interests of the ma
ton are crippled and almost crushed
The sp ndle is motionless; the shuttle
is silent the forge aud the furnace are de-
serted the workship Is vacant the mill is
closed.
The hand, of the artisan are unemploy-
ed and empty his children are starving,
homeless and in rags.
The impoverishment of the south throws
the entire burthen of taxation upon the
north and west.
The southern states can render no as
sistance while the government grinds
them with an iron heel.
If the people shared its benefits they
would be impelled to productive ability.
As they rartake only of its severity,
they could: not support it if they would, and
so long as it oppresses them, if they are
fit to be freemen, they should not support
itifthey could.
THE cONURFsSrOyAr prrRpOSr
The declarations of leading republicans
in congress leave no room to doubt that
the action Of that body has been taken with
reference to the future of the radical party,
rather than the unity of the American re
public.
The national legislature has become q
mere machine for the manufacture of rad
ical majorities.
Its material is the worst and lowest class
of humanity, barely rescued from the bru-
tality of the savage state by contact with
civilization
A valuable adjunct in the work is the
exclusion OF white intelligence and expert
ence from participation in the govern
ment.
The guarantee Of success is the red
right hand of the war department.
A system which is based upon negro
stupidity, supported by bayonets, and de-
signed to secure partisan triumphs through
the ens.avement of meu of our own race,
may be instituted here through force aud
fraud, but if it can endure in this land, the
American people have learned liberty to
no purpose, and we'll deserve to be taught
its values under the stern tutelage of tyr
amy which awaits them in the future OF
radical supremacy.
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS.
In its management Of our financial affairs
the dominant party has enacted the grossest
folly and injustice.
Repeated contractions Of the currency
have caused incalculabIe commercial dis.
asters.
A still more dangerous measure of con.
traction is now proposed in the senate, by
which the legal tenders are to be with.
drawn from circulation and replaced by
interest bearing bonds.
If property and business do not enter an
effective protest, the result will be little
short of general ruin.
The national debt amounts to $500, ;.
100000
1t costs the holders 81 100000.
The party in power would pay it in gold
dollar for dollar.
They would give the bondholders cur
rency different from and better tbau tha,
used by the people.
Specie for the money lenders and paper
for the masses is the end of their fnancia
policy.
A discrimination so palpable and unfai,
is an insult to the popular sense of equa
justice.
by the terms Of the act of issue, green
backs are made legal tender for all debts
public and private, except duties on i'm
ports and interest on the public debt.
Even the soldiers of the republic ac
cepted paper as the price Of their tolls and
hardships.
Is the patriotism Of cash more valuabl.
than the public devotion, which fights
and bleeds, and dies
Labor receives its wages in paper the