The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-24

In the course of an article on me
Desperate Straits of the Radical Party,
the National Intetligenctr draws the fol
lowing vivid picture of that organization !:
mo party, in any free country under
heaven, ever committed 80 many crimes
against liberty, law, and civilization as the
dominant party have committed for the
last eight years, even while they
presumed to be the very apostles 81
liberty, and the foremost and most
spotless champions OF human freedom
Enslaving where they claim to
emancipate; destroying where they claim
to build up; undermining where they
claim to be Strengthening, and making
broader the foundations OF civil 1oerty !;
rebellious where they claim to be patriotic;
fiendish, almost, where they claim to be
saints. they have been beyond all that
could have been prophesied, beyond all
that could have been believed, a curse to
this country, and an example of peculiar
and warning lawlessness, treachery, n.y.
pocrisy, and crime TO every other. True
to nothing good considerable to nothing
established; heedful TO nothing wise;
faithful to nothing promised; false to the
peace of the country false to the uni
ty of the country; false to the lnstltu-
tons of the count y; false to the black
race and to the white race; false TO the
great body of the people, with all their
manifold and mighty interests, and false
TO the form of government under which
we live; corrupt through aud through,
even by their own confessions, to very
Iottenness debauched beyond all prece-
dent of example; revolutionary from first
TO last In all their important aims Ind acts,
instead of deserving party salvation, for
viii they are striving, as is manifest by
their reaching out for new issues which
will keep them together, they have richly
merited common execration and the glib
bet.
No one can, with candor and the best
use of his reason, survey the course of the
party from the beginning to the present
time, whose memory has run along pdri
passu with the acts of the party, fail to ar
rive at this conclusion. They would seem
to have started out with the idea that the
American Union was, one grand battle
ground for them alone; one grand plain
on which they, like banditti, could build
up their fortunes; one boundless fertile
field, from which they were created to
gather spoils, and which should be to them
rendt zvous and stamping ground. On
this they have shouted, reveled, drank
blood, and way laid at will On this, as do
savages, in their roaring wilds, have they
planned, multi I'd in hypocrisy, campaign
after campaign against the American peO-
pie, their lives and liberties and insidious-
ly put forth edict after edlct against their
institutions and the integrity of their
Union. On this tyrants of every sort.
little and great, formidable and contempt
bic, have been created, and tyrannies of
every sort, of little and of great measure,
perpetrated From this have been sent
forth the poisonous distilments that have
from time TO time worked the public mind
well-nigh to madness. and by the inocu
lated dIstemper fitted the people of one
half the country for cutting the threats
of the people of the other half
From this. forgetting or despising
the high teachings of inspirations whose
Divine authority no Christian creature
questions, have they sought to raise the
hand OF every man against his brother; to
create or perpetuate enmity among fellow
countrymen; or Undue them with the hot
and merciless spirit of the roaming out
law, rather than with the spirit OF men
born and matured in the lap of peace. to
whom the atmosphere of peace is their
native air. their stormy passions, and to
=" LII SOOiIeIy Vi ln0ugnt ana temperate |
mindedness is an inheritance. From this |
have they planned, and step by step, and
year by year, calling all passions, prt iu. |
ulces, revenges, examinations, and bitter |
memories to their aid. been carving out
the overthrow of the American Republic, |
In order To the establishment of an empire |
IN Its pace, as seen in the existence of |
pubic journals, founded under their /
auspices and supported by their means,
end openly advocating such a change in
the form OF government. All this and /
much more have they done, and taught.
ana mn cted and in this course they have
come at last to see, or, at least, to fear.
that the veil which they have worn is be,
ing penetrated and the mask torn away by
the American people, and they feel the
necessity Tor new devices, new tactics, a
new cloak behind which they NAV. unsns- J
pected, pursue, to their acc0mpil,t
the plans which they have laid en-,
ing now as heretofore to 80
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