Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-10-08

- W. sOi" io'SC PofttoH VI Ou
space to-day TO the reply of portion o
the forty" New England gentlemen tc
Mr. Buchanan's weak and illogical articl,
In response to their petition that he would
not employ the army to enforce upon tht
people of Kansas, laws not their own, mol
OF the United States; but laws which is no.
torious, and established upon evidence,
they never made and, rulers they never e.
1ccted.
No one should fail to read it. 1t is an
able and logical production, and complete
ly refutes the sophistries with which Mr..
buchanan sought to Justify himself before
the country for enforcing those tyrannical
and disgraceful laws; laws directly at vari-
ance with Democratic and Republican insti-
tutions; such laws as will never be obeyed
by free people. except at the point Of the
bayonet, when resistance can no longer a.
vail.
The bogus papers, as usual, will set up
deafening howl Of Indignation, doubtless,
at what they consider the aadacity of those
gentlemen, because few Of them are min
isters- The position they take is that a
preacher has no right to exercise any inAu-
ence in politics This depends altogether,
in our opinion. upon the questions agitated.
Were the questions such as divided the old
Wing and Democratic parties. mere mat
tiers of policy, prudence would dictate the
propriety Of their standing aloof from par
ty strife. But. suppose powerful party
should rise up in the country and advocate
as one article of its creed that polygamy
was divine institution and should not be
prohibited by law. Ought the preachers,
in that case, to fold their arms and close
their mouths, and refuse to say word a
gainst the immortality and wickedness of
polygamy. merely because the question
had, in consequence Of the lust and deprav-
ity of man, become political one? The
fact that such principle had extended SO
widely and become so powerful, should. as
we regard their obligations to their God
and their country. impel them to redoubIcd
exrtions to stay its further spread. What
better is the man or party that advocases
the divine and constitutional right of
slave owners to take their "slave- property"
into free territory? Slavery. all know,
who knows any thing about it. is demon
alizing institution, and that wherever it
exists practical amalgamation is not only
carried on toa shame extent, but is en-
corrsgcd by those who stand high in COM
rnunity. Preachers there either dare not
denounce it or have become so accustomed
toit that they do not notice it any more
We have oursclf heard pro-slavery men in
slave states assert and contend that slavery
Afforded protection to female virtue We
leave the reader to infer the hypothesis from
which such conclusion was drawn, by
intimating. what is generally known, that
female slaves are almost universally pros
titutes- And this is the institution a
gainst the spread Of which the bogus press
ssssrt preachers have ne right to raise their
voices That minister who remains silent
in consequence Of the denunciations Of such
q corrupt and wicked set, is dsrclict before
high heavens and viii not in<hat great day.
for which al Others were made. hear the ap-
proving voice Of Him who came to preach
the acceptable year Of the Lord and pro-
clain Liberty to tl,e captive.