Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-05-20

'Fron that moment TO the present,
what have we witnessed? Nothing but a
succession of personal and political deSrs-
dations.
"Indcpendent men, who would not bow
to the attempt to sacrifice principle. were
turned out of Office, and base and charac-
terlcSS knaves put into their places.
"Solcmn assurances to high fHnctiona-
ries, written. spoken and printed, were
ruihlessly broken. ig FlfuH
Representatives were compelled to change
their votes AMI to violate their plighted
faith, aud where conscience failed TO ap-
prove, patronage came in to support them
"Calumnies. the most atrocious and
cruel, were hurled against all who dared 20
be true to the truth The dark decd of a
gang of reckless spectators III Kansas was
made the test of Democratic faith. Fraud
and Falsehood were erected into cardinal
virtues, and the protests of fifteen Thousand
freemen against this deed were laughed at.
as the rawlings of rebels and the threats OF
a mob.
$50 far tho footprints of this unhallowed
Dcspotism. They are marked ON the his
toric page rs the evidences Of reccding mo
rality and dcgenerating Democracy. They
, turn back the hands on the dial plates of
time, and remind us that we are living In
the feudal ages. Nay, worse than that:
for then, If power was great, public men
were brave, and the knave that sold his
character died the death of the infamous !"
''But the great crime did not stop here.
One wrong after another was triod, till at
last, as if to mock at even the semblance of
right, the so-called English bill was pro-
posed, the incarnation of trcachery and of
duplicity--a bill, be it understood, which
! differed from it's prccedcnts in this: that
they were swindlcs and this was bribc,
which, protesting to submit Lecompton to
the people did not submit it, according to
its Southern expounders; and which, start
ing out in the preamble with scandalous
misstatcmeut, crowned the whole proceed
ing with a declaration that If the people of
Kansas did not take it, they should tester
in disscnsions till it suited their masters
| to admit them!
"And this is the scheme that was forced
liious5u 1cStcitstl -tuc OiaehI ifuoy VI Jul
| century.
"Well may the Senator from New York
cry shame on the damning deed.
"-All history will cry shame upon it, too.
"Thc burden which this outrage attaches
to the Democratic party cannot be carried
without crushing it. Candidates for once
will be compelled to speak out against it,
and those who are silent will pay the pen
atty of such an acquiesccnce.
"What Kansas will decide upon, we arc
not authorized to say; but we cannot doubt
that she will reject the bribe with scorn.-
Whether she does or not, the wrong done
will be avenged and the sacred doctrine
vindicated. The case has passed into tho
hands Of the people Of the States, espeei-
ally those w'ro have been insulted by their
Representatives, as we have been By elsvea
of our members from Pcunsylvania. four
of whom represent this proud metropolis.
where there is but one sentiment, outside
of the Office holders and Office seekers, and
that fcarlessly against the action Of the Con
gress of the United States, in forcing an
odious Constitution upon a protesting peo-
ple."