The Plymouth pilot. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1851-1852, 1851-07-23
Plymouth Marshall County, Indiana Wednesday, July 49, 1851

feature to the contest like that we sup
pose. You may make the banks of the
st. Croix the starting point, and meas
ure the entire stretch Of the Atlantic and
Gulf seaboard until you stand on the
shores of the Rio Grande, and you will
find the blood of Texas commingled with
the blood of Maine, and the sons of the
Empire State bound by the strictest ties
of consanguinity to the Carolinian and
the Georgian; and pushing your journey
to the utmost western limit. you will be
told of ia theirs and brethren and friends
closer than brother that have been left
behind in the abodes of well ordered life,
on the coast Of the distant Atlantic. A
war between section and section or in
dividual states, would be war of fathers
against son, and between the members
of the same household. The scenes en-
acted in unhappy Jerusalem, when sur
rounded by the beleaguering hosts of
Titus. as they are graphically described
by Tacitus and Josephus. would be repeat
and transcended all over the continent;
and future historians would find the vo-
cabulary of the English tongue too poor
in epithets, too meagre in phrase, to set
forth to their shuddering readers on the
tithe Of the horrors of war, begun to re-
dress the fancied grievances, to console
the wounded pride, and crafty the haugh
ty and unrepublican spirit of single
State.
But this is not ALL We have no rea
son to assume that in case of such con-
test, it would be contest of the slave
holding States, as a united interest, "a
gainst the free States as such. The doc
trine of State sovereignty,as understood
by South Carolina, would perhaps work
more widely than she intended. 1t mis- ght
divide regions along the entire Southern
Atlantic sea-board, which are utterly al
ienated from each other by interests, hab-
its. soil, climate, social character and So
cial institutions. Let US once be cut up
into thirtysix Independent sovereignties,
and what guaranty has South Carolina
that the sup country" where there are
few slaves, where the climate and soil
encouraging white labor, where the peo-
pie have little refinement and more po-
litical as we'll as social democracy than
the inhabitants OF the sandy region of the
coast, what guaranty would South Caro-
lima have of her own State integrity?
Why should not the hardy and indus
trious mountaineer commend the ingre
dients of the poisoned chalice to the lips
of the indolent nabob of the rice-grow
ing and cotton producing plains? There
is nothing in all human probability more
likely than, on the supposition of pa
tionai emberment, the whole cup
country" from the Cape Fear to the AL
tamaha rivers. would declare their inde-
pendence of the Glow country" Unend-
ing divisions, dissensions, animosities.
Instructions, broils and heart-burnings
would be everywhere the result; until
this glorious and so!f ss1~-s..iag people,
whose moderation, political sobriety and
respect for legitimate authority have
been the admira tion and the amazement
of mankind. would be "mixed anarchy"
the sure precursor of that absolute power
which in all such cases steps in to COM
pose the chaotic confusion.
The hopes of the friends of civil lib
erty and republican Institutions through
out the world would be quenched forever.
The "orphans of the heart" would no Ion
ger turn to US and our example for refresh
ment, consolation ard encouragement.
The effete and exhausted old world would
have no longer place whereon it may
undergo a rejuvenating process, and live
its life over again under a more bracing
sky and in another hemisphere. The
shadow on the dial Of human progress
would go back by the space of century.
The highest and most enduring interests
of mankind, those that survive the tomb
and reach forward to an endless life: in
terests that are here fourishing under the
protection and equal toleration of laws
that show no sectarian preferences and
partialities, and are rapidly throwing
wide their branches and striking deep
their roots in fertile soil; these would
be crippled. stunted and withered. And
all for what? The question is more easily
asked than answered.
A New WAY TO COLLECT AN OLD DEBT
One of the Boston papers tell good sto-
ry of a collector in that city, who had
long been pestered by person who ow-
ed the small sum of five dollars. He
called again and again, but was again and
again put off. until patience and shoe
leather failing. he hit upon an expedient
to raise the money. Entering the mans
counting-room suddenly, where several
persons were sitting, he loudly stated
that he must have his five dollars-his
sister was very sick with the smallpox,
he had been sitting up with her all night.
and hardly had time to wash his hands!
This was more than enough-the money