Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-12-24

whether he takes exception or not, we must
DO allowed to amuse our readers with an
extract or two from his vagaries The fol-
lowing is copied from a lengthy article in
the last number of his paper. on the Pres
idcnt's Mcssag,, in which he blows hot
and cold, and "wiggles in and wiggles
ont, with the ease and GOODNESS of one
who had life long experience in the art
OF deceit and inystitication:
The present probability is that the Con
stituton will be submitted to the people as
directed therein Kansas will be admitted
into the sistcrhood of States-euiet will be
given to her distracted people, and that
wild sea of excitement which has so long
asitatcd our country, and on which dis
nnion. sectional party had hoped to sail in
to power, will be allayed, and they, while
they thought themselves. like Pharaoh
Host walking on dry land. will be over
whclncd in the midst thercof-an event
fraught with blessings. not less to be de-
sired by the world than the destruction OF
old"
Now look at this grandiloquent picture,
copied from the editors salutatory:
"But while it" (the Democrat) shall re-
ligiously uphold these doctrines Of the
Constitution and the Union, it will walk
in an atmosphere above that party slang,
and BHiingsgaf, filth, which have too of
ten disgraced our public journals"
"'poA in an atmosphere" might, by
the canaille, be thought rather strained
metaphor, but ga graduate of Ann Arbor
College. also graduate of the Michigan
Bar" is certainly az tou of such matters;
at least, we will not provoke the ire of the
great Michigander by doubling it.
The charge he hurls at the great Repub-
lean party. of being 'disunion, section
al party every one, even himself, knows
to be untrue, and affords another sad tcs-
timonia of the irretricvable moral degrade
ton of every one, no matter how good his
intentionsl in the outset, when he under
takes to defend the acts of a tvrant and OIL
isarchist: though assuming. as he does, The
sacred and glorious name of Democrat
having stolen the livery Of heaven to serve
the devil in
In the first extract quoted above, the ed
itor says:
The present probability is that the Con
stitution will be submitted to the people as
directed observation-disclosures will be admitted
into the sisterhood of States--quiet will be
given her distracted people. Dc.
y correspondent. over the signature of
''Ecritas very ass, more properly, -af-
ter endorsing Buchanan Kansas policy,
as right, in attempting To give an out
line of that policy, puts the following Ian
suage in old Bucks mouth:
IF the people refuse to vote, and the
Constitution is adopted, by those who do
vote, rs u slave Constitution, for the pro-
slavery men will doubtless vote the Con
stitution will then be adopted, and GIRL
'ror may result. -
Ihcre appears to be slight difference OF
opinion. in regard to the consequences fol-
lowing the adoption of the Lecompton
Constitution, between the editor and his
able correspondent "Ncri-as." who is,
we admit. the most acute rcasoner upon
political tactics,' Gf acute" signifies ly
ms and deception, as it may in fisurativc-
geometrical sense, as, turning a sharp-cor
ner, for instance, we have stumbled upon
since we "have been old enough to read. Z"
! One thinks quiet" (thc quit of death,
he means, pcrhaps?) will ensue, the other
"civil war" Who will decide when such
doctors as the great "Michigander" and
the acute" "Yeri as" disagree?