The Plymouth pilot. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1851-1852, 1851-06-04

ing for their repeal. With all thei
faults, any mischief growing out of thei
operation becomes a small matter by The
side Of the greater evil which the disun
ionists ar. endeavoring to force upon the
countryside ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of our Re
public. The disunion sentiment, espe
cially of the South, is wider spread anC
more deeply rooted. than most of us are
willing 20 believe. Secession. so calico
South but which we can esteem a:
naught bat treason. and punishable with
its pains and penalties, is fully decided
upon by one State. South Carolina, and
will be a,temp.ed while parties are o.
penly organized in two other States, AL
ALBANIA and Mississippi, on the issue OF
Union or Disunior, and the result re-
mains 70 be seem Who would have be-
lieved these things had they been predict
our Revolutionary fathers are all in their
graves, the Union, the work of their
hands cementcd b. their blood. endear-
ed to them as it should be to US. by their
toll and battles, is openly threatened
with destruction BY fanatics North and
about assuming the form of attempted
execution by one State which has decid-
e' upon it By popular vote; while those
making it in other States are appealing
to the same vote to sustain them If the
attempt s made now it may be fortunate
Co. L. I
crushed and healthy reaction follow.
IL nee lie had no fear Of immediate dis
u ZION.
BIT if that a tempt is delayed five or
ten years, and the mutual i'll feeling be-
tween Mort and South f stored and in
creased in the interval as much as it has
been for that period past. and is then
made, as it surely vii! be. it will as sure
" be successful. While the Fugitive
Slave Law is denounced and It's nu|lifica-
lion repeal sought in the North-the dis
unionisiS of the South endeavOr to
strengthen their hands and cause by pre-
dieting that it II be repealed: and that
the North docs not intend to abide any
law for the delivery of Fugitive Slaves.
but will, after this is repealed, repeal the
law Of 1893 and then nullfy the clause
Of the Constitution upon which both are
based. Shall we permit them to gather
strength. and become more powerful for
mischief BY beginning the fuliillment Of
their prophecy in repe aling this law? OBJ
lectionable as some of its features are,
policy will prevent repeal from being
reSorted as the remedy. Whenever il
can be amended. as he, doubted not il
could. as TO be less objectiona ole to the
North and not estrange the Union men
of the South. Justice to all parties would
require this to be done. He repeated lie
had ~ fears of immediate disunion, but
predicted that, if the mutual elimination
aud recrinination between North and
South was continued-and hostile feel
ing between the two sections rapidly in
creased for ID few years more as 1t had for
tie past few, one vital political question
would absorb all others, and that one
would be, what can be done to save the
Union? The answer then as n would
be easy-but unfortunately there may be
those who Will not abide it. We must
be guided by the constitution, adholinS
to tn letter and spirit of It's require
iii hts. By that instrument we have
plain pathway marked out, from which
we should nol deviate for the South or
Norh. lie had at the previous Conven-
ton said that high waters" had no ter
rors for the Democracy. The numbers
present at this time again proved such to
DE tie cast. Neither dremching rains,
roads under water, nor streams nearly
could prevent them from
Ia .leIilg here 10 show their attachment
10 the good o.l,a Sc. With such spir
IL N no cuulu uOuDl our success