Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-09-10

Our object in giving it place now is not
so much to comment on it as to place it on
record for future use. and to afford our
readers an opportunity of seeing the rapid
mutation going on in the ranks of the De-
mocracy in the free States in regard to the
slavery issue. This is an advance step,
and Is thrown out as feeler. 1t will not
be long before the cry will be taken up and
repeated in some other quarter of the State,
ind then in another and another, when the
simultaneous cry will be raised and the
discovery made that it is all mistake
about there really being any such thing
as slavery in any part of the Union, and
tina. "seruituds" is the natural and normal
condition of the negro when placed in jux-
Imposition with the white man. No one
of course not stark mad or blind can see
any advantage in changing the name from
slavery to ssrv;tade, so long as there is no
changsin the thing itself. Calling a skunk
any other name. would not change its ma
ture. Neither will it change the nature of
slavery to call it servitude. or to assert that
it is the normal condition of the black race
to be in subsection to the white. 1t is a
mere assumption. The most startling
proposition, however. in this new theory
is the one which denies the Bible account
of creation. To what are we tending? Is
it not time that the honest rank and file of
the bogus Democratic party were exam
lining their whereabouts in the political o.
cean into which their pilots have navigated
the old ship! Ere they are aware they will
be landed upon the coast of Guinea and
required to hunt mp negroes with which to
load the vessel for return cargo. In 9TH
er words the re-opening ofthe African slave
trade will be the next phase Of the party.
Having sold itself to the slave breeders and
-oligarchy of the South the leaders dare
not disobey the demands of their masters.
But, read the article and judge for your
selves:
The Democracy and the Slavery Ques-
tion.,
The affairs of nations are marked by ep-
ochs or eras, and each requires different
class of men. The war of the revolution,
Jefferson's accession to the Presidency, and
the election of Gen. jackson constituted
distinct eras, and now the agitation of the
question of negro slavery" so-called,
forms another division. and requires a diff
ferent order of men from those of former
times. We have had our Washingtons,
our Jeffersons, our Jacksons. and now for |
the solution of the so-called slavery
question We want different order of pol |
iticians, not compromises, Union sa-
vers." or ''doughfaces," but honest heart
ed. earnest, outspoken men. who will
speak the truth, and shame the devil"
The Democratic party has, at all times,
been the defender of Justice, Right and |
Truth; in the Revolution it resisted sue
the encroachments of England on
the rights of the colonies: in the time of
Jefferson's administration it was the up
holder of the federal constitution and the
rights of the many against the usurpatiuns
of the few; when Gen. jackson came into
power, he did much to advance the great |
cause of human rights, and now is the
of another era, and a new
set of politicians are rising into power, and
are controlling the helm of State. The |
men of the past are but in the way of those, |
who are to guide the ship of state with
safety in the crisis now coming upon the
country The wild delusion that first |
possessed the ignorant and deloauched abb
olitionists has spread all over the country
and poisoned the whole body polite, and
it has become absolutely necessary that
a new race of politicians arise, and pro-
claim few truths to act as an antidote to |
the mighty food of error and delusion that
has swept over the land. The deluded
democrat, as well as the debauched alb
olitionist, have alike held up the system of
negro servitude at the South as slavery"
and "monstrous evil" To illustrate:-
during the canvass last year the writer
of this heard q democratic speaker of this
county say in public speech. referring
W ssSyfV SNOSftstNseCW III titC bOuticiu
states, that che hoped no man in St. Jo-
s,pLc ulty was base enough to defend slave.
very" Had the speaker known what he
was talking about, and had not delusion
possessed his audience alike with himself,
his Infamous and degrading sentiment
would have drawn upon him the Kisses of
his hearers, and the blood of the caucasian
or white men would have boiled with in
dignation against an idea so depraved and
so odious.
The peculiar institution of the South.
or negro servitude is right. and notxral
result of the existence of the negro race in |
this country, but is not slavery in the |
proper acceptation of that term. The
depriving OF men of their natural rights by
those who are their natural equals is slave |
ry in the most odious form. The tyran-
ny of white men over white men as is the
case all over Europe. is slavery really and
indeed, but the subordination and control
of the degraded, the brutalized, the animal
ised. the sooty. mud-hovel negro race is
not slavery at all. but a normal condition
of the negro when in juxtaposition with
the whites. The negro though walking