Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1856-12-04
The Duty Of True Men.

cal parties in the United States, says the
Cincinnati Commercial. and i. should be
reported upon good authority that citizens
emigrating TO one OF the territories,
were, under the suthority Of the govern
men;. subjected to search, deprivation Of
their property and imprisonment, for no
other cause than the presumption that
they were opposed to the introduction Of
human slavery into such territcry. there
is not man In the Union whose blood
would not boil at the narration. Were
there no political parties. the one hun
dredth part of the violence. injustice and
crime lhat have been committed upon
the Free State mon and families of Kan
sas. would have aroused the whole North
to such feelings of Indignation :hst it's
people would no, have been content uu-
ill they had hurled the Government that
had given countenance TO such inquity,
from its seat. OF perished in the attempt.
The s,uls of men naturally revolt at
crime, and there is nothing so od;ous 10
free American citizen. when left to the
influence Of his native sense of justice.
as persecution; end yet. strange as it may
seem. there is no overwhelming public
opinion, even in the Northern States.
against the iniqui.ies that have been and
are daily being perpe,rated in one Of the
territories Of the Union. ia the name and
by the subordinates Of the Government.
How there can be but one sentiment up
on this subject in the Northern States is
past comprehension; and yet we find on
all sides of US men, some Of whom OBJ
stinalely closs..their eyes to- the facts Of
the case, Others who labor 10 excuse or
invent pretexts to cover their enormity
s1d othere still, who openly justify oil
the murder, and violence, and rapine, and
wrong that has been committed. and see m
even dissatisfied that the black catalogue
is not more rapidly enlarged. Inclu-
ding the whole Northern emigration into
Kansas under the general title OF Aboii-
iionis,s. they hold that death is the least
that they deserve. and really seem re-
joiced, whenever news is received that
one OF these settlements has heen de-
stroyed, the houses burned aud the wo-
men and children driven homeless iuto
The wilderness.
In the breast of q free. Anglo Saxon
man there is but ono cause adequate to
the production Of so hideous a result
Nothing but party rage could have origi-
mated the crimes in Kansas; nothing but
party rage would have tolerated them.
much less attempted their justification.
While the Administration has been fix-
ing upon itself the stamp Of indclible
infamy. to continue as long as the cur
rent Of history shall carry the memory of
the present down TO future generations.
there are not wanting men-nsy. there
is even q psfiy-whose acts and entire
policy sustains and justifies the Admin.
| istration in all that il does. and is ready
blindly to sanction and endorse its fu.
ture. however bloody that future may be-.
Yet murder is murder. II is none the
less "a greater crime because it is done by
government. and is not whit more
defensib.e because the act is spplauded
by ferey psrtiz,ns upon the eve of on
election. Men-christian men-msy
think lightly OF it now, pass it by. and
close their eyes to its enormity; but il
There is God an.ha Providence--if there
is being in whose eyes the falling Of a
sparrow is worthy OF notice. while the
creation Of world or lis punishment is
no, an undertaking too great for His pow
er, we may be assured that there is ret
ribution in store for those ofenses. and
that rot one Of them will be suffered
to pass without bringing it's appropriate
psnally.upon the head Of the offender.
The offsnses that have beeQ committed
in Kansas against law. justice and hu-
mani.y are crimes. In one sense they
ara national crimes. for she nation, to a
man. has not risen to forbid their perpe-
trstion. They are personal crimes, for
no. man can justify an act which he knows
to be wrong. BY pleading the commands
of the 60 vernment. They ure crimes in
these who commsnded as well as those
who struck the blow, and TO franklin
Pierce belongs the unenviable title. Of
First Murderer Of his Generation. But
they are peculiarly party crimes, and the
cruelsst party ever known 70 American
poli:ics>is that which. by the violation
OF great compsct. swoke . strife. aud
then e lied the first opportunity to deluge
land 10 blood. ,s..~ ~ -
This party calls isself ths sDsmocratic;
and thousands Of good men adhere TO il
and make themselves blind TO its terrible
history. sDd sor,urs their ingenuity for
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