Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1856-06-12


We publish, with pleasure, the follow
ing article from the Philadelphia Ledger,
a neutral paper. The subject is becoming
of momentous Importance
THE KANSAS TRoUBLEs.-We have dis
patches In this mornings Ledger from
Kansas, bringing rumors of battle at
Lawrence, AMI the burning of the town,
together with the hotel, at Kansas city
We know not, when we are getting Kan
sas news, whether we are getting real facts,
or only the exaggerated distortions of crazy
partizans. 1t is a little singular that this
news, which was telegraphed to the city
on Saturday morning, should not be better
confirmed by Sunday night. The dispatch
received last night, at ten o'clock, which
numbered the fourth from Kansas, has not
a word concerning this reputed battle, and
and destruction of the town of Lawrence.
Such an event, if it had occurred, we should
suppose, would fly through the country as
quick as lightning could carry it.
The last dispatch represents that the
Committee of Safety of Lawrence had de-
termined to offer no resistance to tle'U. S.
Marshal in the exertion of his writ
By such an occurrence as reported, if it
is not yet improbable. The state of pub
lie feeling in that territory, the result of the
preachngs and the teachings Of the fana-
ties, North and South, tend to that result.
Civil war once begun in Kansas, and where
would it stop. and when would it end? Ii
would NOT. stop until it had involved all the
other states of the Union, nor would it end
while either party had strength to contin-
Tie the contest 1t would not be mere
separation into northern and southern
confederacy, where each would flourish
under institutions of its own liking anC
choice, but war, bitter and unrelenting
would be waged rs long as the separation
existed, until these would be pnothing lef
of this Republic but the miserable ruins
our folly had caused. Yet this is the mel-
alcholy and wretched condition to which
many of our newspapers and politicians
are endeavoring to drive us
On various occasions lately, We have
noticed articles in certain journals, as wei
South as north, pretending to prove, by
statistics assumed 10 be reliable, that tn,
Union is comparatively worthless. On the
one hand, the New York Tribune has "fact,
and figures to prove that the North /:
financially, morally and religiously a Loser
t by our time honorcd confederation. Or
the other Charleston Standard produce:
"coumn, of arithmetic" to demonstrat,
that the South would be more prosperou:
and happy if it would cut loose from tn,
North aud even reopen the slave trade.
1t is a sufficient reply to this sort of ar
gument, that, if statistics should establish
such two opposite conclusions, they mus
be misunderstood, if not entirely garbled
Such, in reality, is the fact. Nothing i
more unanswcrable than statistics, wher
they are both comprehensive and correct
but nothing is more valueless, as proof
f when these qualities are wanting. 1t Is b
quoting only such figures as tell III their IA
, vor and by forgetting that at best not one
, third of the actual statistics have ever bee
reduced to figures. that ulras, North an'
South, fancy they demonstrate that tn
| two sections Of the Union could be bette
off alone, or rather better off if engage
in an internecine war, as would BE- tn
, inevitable consequence of a separation.
TOT lllc Ndluc vi tiiC CuiOii, oiVNi "ii
cannot be estimated by dollars and cents
Its advantages ramify SO intricately int
, the economical, social and political life o
5 the people of the several States, that II
/, calculation of the pecuniary, worth is, Q
even will be, possible. There is net b
of property in the Middle States, for exam
pie, not farm anywhere in the Great West
not a manufactory in New England not
. mercantile firm in the length or breadth {
the land not plantation in all the South
: mo- a steamboat, railroad or telegraph nc
{ a canal or chartered company, which woul
f not be deprecated, permanently, by dis
$ rsolution of the Union, and not a trade
r occupation OF labor which would not sutie
j., inoaloulably thereby. To enumerate eve
: those things in which the injury would b
i, the most apparent, would require entir
n columns we must content ourselves wit