Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-04-30
For the Republican.
Corporation.
II. EARLY, Sec'y.


Avaunt thou thing heiniousl liquid
basenessl quagmire of blacknessl henbanc'
of corruptionl rectifcl poisonl broth of
the upas! fuel of hell! Thy breath is Iep-
rosyl Thy touch palsy Cursed Intern
pcrancel
OF all the dark spots on depraved human
nature, of all the vile acts of man towards
man, none throw such freezing chill over
the whole body. and dry up every genial
feeling of the heart, like base intempe-
rance. a look at the past. compared with
the present throwing outof view the nat
ural, inevitable progress of Plymouth, her
present population stands twolty per cent
lower in the scale of goodness, morality,
sobriety, and the general economic interests,
than she did three years ago.
If men have been promoted and failed to
make an effort as bold as Caesar, or at
least an attempt to attack the citadel Of
denominations ought they to be continue i?
Will fayoriteism. the touch stone of mod
orn Democracy, so warp the interests OF the
principal taxpayers, as to induce them
support mcnwhom they would not have to
do their individual business? n man who
financicrs badly. for himself, will make
ship wreck of the public interests if en-
trusted to his care.
Docs the present aspect Of things, NOR
ally and pecuniarily. demand changc?-
Look at your gambling hells, scattered all
around, and in your very midst; some of
them pecping out after night, like the MOLE
leaving only filthy odor to mark their
place. in.opcn day.
Where and how has your corporation
money been expended? Have all parts of
the town been fairly represented? Let
those men who received the treason do JUS
tice to the traitors, and hold up, as all good
rlen should, those men who aspire to Of
flee, vino have neither energy or ability,
save to mirge tho general good into self:
filching as largely from the public crib a.
those who are looking after similar slice
will permit, without arousing a sleeping
and coniding public.
If the present incumbents have failed to
discharge their whoie duty, arc they not
"pcr,ieps crmia;s" to all the abuses that
have grown out of their deriliction of du-
ty? If either or all of them have made
most signal failure; doing nothing, buf,
have set day after day with face as placid
as June morning, with conscience as
void of offence as the milky Way" while
drinking, fighting, carousng, free whiskey,
and frecr democracy Were running riot
night and day, running young and old, =
and what is worse than all, this state OF
things receiving an approbative smile.
! Will the citizens of Plymouth sustain
BY their votes those men who have for the
past two years lei them into the slough OF
disappointment and the quagmire Of penu.
1 Nv? If they do, viii they not be like the
man who seeks foriune-at the lottery oil
gambling table, or in wild speculation
doomed ninety-nine times In every hun
dred to sad disappointment? Healthfn
acts or beneficial influences froEi this sourc,
would be as rare as death by lightning,
Will the principal men-thoSc who owl
/, propcrty,-those who are interested indi
vidually as well as generally in the prosper
ity ofPlymouth, permit names to bias then
so faras to influence them to cast their vote,
and influence for men who will permit oul
town to be infested by those lecchcs, pest,
of society, pauper-makers, man-killers wo
men-haters: blight upon youth. fou
stencil in the nostrils of every sober. mora
and entcrprising man in the place? TX
give direction to the public mind, Ito hold
general supervision over your school,
Must the children be left to grow up in ig
norancc to crafty parties and iavoFites?-
Perhaps their interests have been disposc(
of already to satisfy the threatning of some
party pet. II man does wrong ought h
to escape censure from his party? Mus
every man of his kidney apologize for iii
wrong acts. Will this reform? No. Mer
like parties, are not worth preserving thai
requires to be constantly apoogised for
They arc rotten at the core, and ought t,
be passed under the guillotine Of condemna
ton. lfthe corporation laws of the State
grant powers beyond the statute, and tlli
power is vested in the Trustees for the bet
ter Improvement of Plymouth, ought the,
not to abate nuisances, to dry up those in
fictitious hell-holes, where the young an,
incautious are decoyed, and led into tn
blacklist vices, by the artful and more as
! suming. Who does not know that vice
!, from the larceny of a pinto the most dar
ing burglary; from the simple assault t
the most tragical homicide; from the trif
ling white" lie, to the basest perjury ar
al spontaneous plants from the hot bed 0
Liquor shops The vender and the man q
money may violate all the rules Of moral
!, ity not inscribed in the calender of crime. re
ceiving the adulation Of those of their owl