Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-02-09

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you believe them with the intensity Of in
spiration.
The reason given, is, that it viii stir up
insuTrection. And so it will. Ii is said
that free speech is inhammatOry. SO tits.
That it would bring every mans life in
South into jeopardy that. in self-delence,
they must limit and regulate the express
ion of opinion. But what is that theory
of government, and what is that state Of
society under it. in which free speech and
free discussion are dar gerous E? y = =
AMI it is Just this difference that distin-
guishes the North and the South. We
have institutions that will stand public and
private discussion-thcy nave not. We
will not have a law, or custom, or cercmo-
nv, which cannot be defended against the
freest inquiry. Such rule wouli cut
them level as moved meadow! They
live in crater, forever drcaling the signs
of activity. They live in a powder mag
azinc No rondcr they fear light and firc.
Ii is the plea Of Wrong since the world
began. Discussion would uhseat the Car;
fee press would deshronc the icnoble
Napoleon free speech would revoluIion-
iZc Rome.
PREACHING IL THE NORTH.
The power of religion with lis is employ
ell to sey men on their feet 10 make them
fertile, self-Sustaining, noble, virt0ons,
and to build mp society of men, each one
of whom is large, strong, capacions OF
room, and filled with versatile powers.
PREACHING II THE SOUTH.
Now tell me whether thareis any preach
ing Of the Gospelto the slave, or whether
there can be, and he yet remain slave .
We preach the Gospel to arouse men, they
sabdue them; veto awaken; they to soothc;
we to inspire se!i-roliancc, they submis-
sion; we to drive them forward in growth;
they to repress and prime down growth;
we to convert them into men, they TO make
them content to remain beasts of burden
With them it is uero3 cas- ing thom in,
to prison. With us it is the angel, APP
pearing to lead them ont Of prison and SCI
them free In short, religion with Us is
emancipation and liberty; with them il is
bondage and contentment.
no TRUE UNION BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH
1t is equally plain that while there may
be aunion between Northern and Southerl
States, it is external or commercial, an(
not internal and vital, springing from
common ideas. common ends and com
mon sympathies. In is union Of MGR
chants and politicians, and not one Of th
, people.
, A STRUGGLE OF PRISCllL-s.
, Had these opposite and discordant sys
, TENS been left separate to work out cacl
it's own results, there would have been bu
. little danger of collision or contest.
But they are politically united. The,
: came together into one Congress. Their
: these antayonistic principles which cree
| with subtle influence through the yer,
1 veins of their respective States, break on
4 into open collision upon every question q
4 national police. And since the 'yorl
, began, republican spirit is unfit t
secure power. 1t generates it in the many
But an aristocratic spirit has attribute an
f impulse toward power. Itseeks and grasp
, it as naturally as hungry lion prowl
fland grasps its prey.
f For fifty years the imperious spirit !
5 the South has sought and gained powe
It would have been of but little cons
Y quence were that power still republican,
, The seat Of empire may be inditferently o
: the Massachusetts Bay or on the Ohio, o
: the lake or the Gulf, if it be the same EN-
pire, acting in good faith for the sam
Democratic ends.
} But in the South the growth Of powe
= has been accompanied by marked revol
: ution in political faith until now the the
ory of Calhoun, once secuted, is becom
? ing the popular belief. And that theor,
l differs in nothing from outright Europea
> Aristocracy, save in the forms and instrr
, ments by which it works.
) The struggle, then, between the Mort
? and the South is not one Of sections, an
, of parties, but of principles-of principle
+ lying at the foundations Of governments
, of principles that cannot coalesce, NO
: compromise; that must hate each other
and contend until the one shall drive ou
5 the other.
WE DON'T REALIZE OUR DANCER.
| Oh how little do men dream Of tn
things that are transpiring about Them =
r In Luther's days, how little they know tn
magnitude of the results pending that con
troversy of fractious monk and haught,
! Pope How little did the frivolous cour
, tier know the vastnoss Of the struggle il
which Hampden, Milton and Cromwell
) acted? We are in just such another era
. Dates will begin from the period in whicl
/ we live .f- ...
, Do not think that all The danger lies ii
) that boIted cloud which flashes in tn
Southern horizon There is decay ant
: change here in the North Old New Eng
land, that sucked American liberty, i
now sucking wolves to devourit.
/, THE STRUGGLE INEVITABLE LET IT COME
Two great powers that will live togeth
f er are in our midst, tugging at each other
+ throats. They will search each other oat
though you separate them hundred times
, And if, by an insane blindness, you shal
contrive to put Off the issue, and send thi
, unsettled dispute down to your children
it will so down, gathering volume an
strength at every step, to waste4and desc
late their heritage. Let it be settled now
Clear the place Bring in the champions
$ Let them put their lances in rest for til
!, charge. Sound the trumpet, and Go