Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-06-11
Are we going to Ruin.

Are we going to Ruin.
George ID. Prentice, of the Louisville
Journal lectured in Hartford recently. on
''the political aspect of the country" Of
which he takes very desponding view
The following outlines of his remarks is
given in the Hartford Free Press:
''It is time to return to first principles.
There are symptoms of decay in our day in
our government. The education of our
citizens is neglected Disunion and Mo-
narchial sentiments are spreading Our
politicians are selfish, and the general ten
dency is to anarchy We have one entire
State in open hostility to the Constitution,
supported in it by three Others, and the
sympathies of half dozen more. The
Union never encountered such open oppo-
sition as during the last campaign, when
dissolution was openly threatened in certain
contingencies. The present apparent peace
Is mere temporary truce-faction still
cries for war. The fundamental principles
of the government are openly called in
question. This is pregnant with terror;
the starting of the keystone from the arch;
the click. if not the ''crack Of DOOM" We
: lose national pride; the Mississippian threat
ems to hang the citizens of New Hampshire;
the impetuous Carolinian strikes down the
scholar from Massachusetts, and their con-
sti.uents take sides with them. The nation
Is bristling all over with repugnances.-
Whu shall arrest these evils. The race of
Statesman, of giants, have departed, and
no SUGGESTIONS appear We have public
oh
Three fourths of them are reckless dema-
gogues who regard first themselves, and
then-nothinS. Across the polished brass
of their souls. not the most distant thought
of country fits. There is not enough Of
moral courage in hundred politicians to
stitien one upper lip. They dare not stand
up and say their souls are their own, or if
they do, they append subject to the "Con-
stitution" ani '.the majority Back
boncles, they stand up like empty bags, or
basely PROSTATE themselves at the fee: of
faction. Insteal of being leaders of the
multitude, there present. the pot house and
the club room. IL is easy to flatter our ma
tional vanity, but the truth must be told.
The North and the South are piling up COM
bustibles which the lightnings may fire.-
A few revolutionary patriots vet live and
they may survive the fruits of their labors
but if we are true 10 ourselves and our
country, we may avert the Storm
Dangers, doubtless, environ us as ma
tion. but we are far Though but ''pigmy
on APPS by the side of Geo. d. Prentice,
either in talent or learning.) from taking
the desponding view of the tendency of the
times he does. He draws his conclusions,
probably, from what has been said Of the
Republican patty by its enemies. They
are opposed, it is true. to the extension of
Slavery. and intend to argue and vote
against its spread, but that is all. D.su-
mon is no part of their purpose, in any
event. Slavery they re5arl as a great
evil, bu. disuEioa still greater one
And though defeated in the last Presiden-
tal election, by the most stupendous frauds
AMI villainy ever practisel in this or any
other government. they quietly submitted to
the wrong rather than bring greater evil
on the country; hoping that right and JUS
tice would ultimately triumph in spite of
the scoundrels who engineered and prac-
tised the fraud. We know the other par
ty both North and South. boldly declared
the Union would be dissolved in the event
of Fremont's election But there was not
the least danger of it. The men who thus
talk'd did SO only for political effect, and
were, besides, arrant towards, and in most
instances accomplished knaves, who had
kept out OF the penitentiary only by cheat
ing justice Of its due.