Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1856-12-11


they are citizens. the only pa.h 10 lis sc-
comPlishment is through burning cities.
and ravsged fields. ami slaughtered pop.
uisiions. and all there is most terrible in
foreign, complicated with civil aud ser
vile war, and that the first step in the at
tempt. is the forcib.e disruption OF q
country embracing in its bread bosom a
degreee Of liberty and an amount OF indi.
vidusl ond public prosperity TO which
there is no parsllei in history, and sub
s;itutlng in It's place. hostile governments
driven q. once and Inevitably into mutual
devastation and fraircidal carnage. trans,
forming the now peaceful and feliciious
,herhood into vast permanent camp
Of armed men like the rival monarchiss
Of Europe and Asia.
Well knowing that such end such only
are the means and the consequences oi
thsir plans and purposes. the United
States for civil war. by doing everything
in their power TO deprive the Constiiu-
tion aud The Laws Of moral authority
BY appeals to passion and sectional pref
udice by matchmaking It's people with
reciprocal hatred they endesvor to pre-
pare the people and by educating them to
stand face TO face as enemies rather than
shoulder 10 shoulder as friends.
Il is BY tho agency Of such unwarran,-
able interference. foreign and domestic,
that the minds oil many otherwise good
ciiz MS have been so inf ,ined into the
passionate condemnation OF the domestic
institutions Of the Southern States, as al
length to pass inrisibly to almost equally
passionate hostility towards their fellow
citizens OF those States. and thus finally
TO fall into temporary fellowship with
the avowed and active enemies Of the
& institution.
Ardenlly attached to liberty in the
abstract. they do not stop to consider
practically how the objects they would
st,ain can be accomplished. NOR to re
iect that even if The evil wersss great
as they deem il, they have no remedy ID
apply. and that it can bs only aggravated
I by their violence and unconstitutionsl
action; question which is one of the
most ditIicui, Of oil the problems uf so
cisl institutions. Political economy
sts,esms uship. they treat with unresson.
! ing intempera rance Of thought aud Ian
guage. Extremes bege. eAremes.
Violent attack frsm the North finds
lis inevitable consequence in the growth
OF spirit of angry defiance at the South.
Thus. in the progress or events We had
Ssached that consammation which the
voice of the people has now SO poin,ediy
T, bnked, of the attempt Of a portion OF
the States by sectional organization
and NOV, meut to usurp the ceptrol o! The
government of the United States.
l confidently believe that the great
body Of those who incon.id-rsttly took
this fatal step are sincerely attached TO
the c Institution and the Union. They
would, upon deliberaiion, shrink with
una afecied horror from any conscious act
Of disunion or civil war; bat they have
enerrd into a path which leads nowhere
unl.ss TO civil war and disunion. ant
which has no other possibio outlet.
They have proceeded Illus fsr in that di
rection in Consequence OF the successive
stages of their progress having consisted
Of serie. OF secondary issues. each al
which professed 10 be confined within
constitutional and dFprsceful Limits. bur
which attempted Indirectly what few
men were willing to do dIrecuy-thai is.
to act nSgressively sgsiusi the couslitu
,ionsl rights of nearly one half OF ihr
thirty one States.
In the long series Of acts of indirect
nggression. the first was the strenuous
agitation BY the citizens of the Northern
States IN Congress aud out Of il. of the
question oi nrgfo emancipation in the
Southern States. The second step in
this path Of evi, consisted in acts Of the
people of the Northern S,asg. and in
several instances Of their governments,
aimed 10 facilitate the escape Of persons
held 10 service in the Southern States.
and TO prevent-their extradition when
reclaimed sccordiug to law and in virtue
Of express provisions of the Constitution.
To promote this object. legislative enact
menis and other means were adopted to
take away OF defeat rights which the Con-
stitution solemnly guaranteed.
In order .e nuIIify the then existing
acs of Congress concerning the ex,radi-
tion Of fugitivss f,om service. laws were.
enacted in many States. lorbiddiDg their
officers, under the severest penalties. TO
participate in the execution of any act
of Congress wbstever. Y, this way tina,
system Of harmonious CO opers;ion be
tween the suthorities OF the Unite States
and Of the several States, for the main
,sinance Of their common institutions.
which existed in the early years of The
Republic Was destroyed, Conflicts Of ju-
risdict;on came TO be frequent. and Con
gress found itself compelled. Tor the sup
port Of The Constitution. aud the vindics i
lion OF its powers 10 su,horize the sp-
pointn~nt Of new officers. aud the Off
GERS Of the States were the Ministers
charged with the execution Of its acts,
as il they were respectively Of foreign
Governments. in state Of mutual hoslil-
ily. rather than fellow magistrates. Of
common country. peacefully subsisting
under the protec,ion OF one we'll coasti
luted union. Thus here also aggression
was followed BY. reaction; and The at
:acks upon the constitution ss this point,
uid but serve 10 raise new barriers for
it's defence and security.
The third stage Of this unhappy Sec
ionsl controversy was in connexion with