Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23
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THE COALITION-NEBRA SKA.
We are led to infer from the proceed
iugs of the various until ebrsska meet.
ings which have seen and are still being
that there is quite a manifest desire on
the part of the leading Wings to coalesce
with the Abolitionists. Greedy of the
New York Tribune prompts the actors.
whist other smaller, yet equally honest
lights. apparently operate as the plant
instruments in his hands.
We have been connected with the
Wing Press Of lndisna-with few inter
missions-from 1882 until 1850. Until
the last Presidential election, when we
did not vote at all. we invariably voted
with that party; but we are not transfer
able property 10 a political sense. With
the coalition alluded to. we have no SYM
patty. With either Of the extremes
the aboli,ionists Of the North, or the
slavery propagsndisls Of the South-we
never have nor never will affiliate. In
The Presidential campaign of 1913. we
placed at the head of our Newspaper col.
unns the principles avowed by General
Taylor, which in substance were as fol-
lows:
stLet the PEOPLE, through their Represen-
t~atives, adopt the laws that are to control their
observation-disclosures, and | will sanction them
With what little ability and sagacity
we possessed, we battled for the success OF
those principles and their author, upon
an honest conviction of their correctness.
Our notions have undergone no change
Ia relation 20 the right of the people thus
TO manage .heir own domestic concerns;
and with this honest conviction, we ex-
pectto be found nowhere else than on the
NON-IYTERvENTIoN PLATFORM. 1t is to-
tally rnmateriol to US who are our osso-
%ciates; il is enough for US to know, or
believe at least, that We are right.
We recognize the right of every free
man TO a voice III the enactment Of the
laws that are to control and protect him.
Because he happens to find his home in an
%uno7ganized Territory. he is none the less
entitled to this right. The privations
and disadvantages he necessarily ncoun
.e.s in the pursuit OF his wilderness home.
are enough TO in1ic, upon him, without
saying TO him that he is not q c~itizcni
He is as capable of self-government in a
Territory as be is ina State. and he should
have The right in its fullest sense. That
carping and s%ycophantic policy that pre-
tends TO claim the largest and most un-
restricted liberties for the black man.
when it denies to our white population
these privileges. carries hypocracy and
demagogueism upon its face.
Wills, it is alledged by the North that
Congress tamely yields TO the cravings of
the South upon all occasions. the South
CRY more. morel. The non-in;ervention
policy takes from that body the power
TO give more, and releases them from the
odium that attaches to all their acts up
on the subject Of slavery, by the party not
sui.ed-and when were the north & south
both suited by Congressional interference?
This power they surrender themselves in
the Nebraska Bill. The demands of the
South are no longer to be needed. Congress
will no longer endorse the sin of slavery
by recognizing either north or south oil
$3.50 as its appropriate sphere or legiti-
mate boundary.
A field is now open for the widest phi.
lanthropy. To what extent it may be
exercised, remains for the future to de
vslope. Talk alone. however. may mo-
avert the results anticipated and so highly
deprecated by those most clamorous il
the North. Action-vigorous action ma,
be necessary. but we doub: il. Suppose
however, ii does become neces-ary-ar'
not those who now make the ioud pro
LESSONS, ready for the work, uld it de
volve upon them, What they ave loud
Iy denounced in their Representatives,
they certainly will not repeat themselves
when the whole control Of slavery extern
sion is submitted to their own hands,
Congress has heretofore been nothing Blu
stumbling block in the way; but Will