Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-01-28
Ply MOUTH, IND.



sense of Justice will not allow us to charge
him with being the author Of the silly thing.
but as he adopts the bastard, he wishes
tho world to regard it rs Il legitimate off
spring, we suppose, and as such we will
have to treat it, Notwithstanding its cvi
IDENTIFY sini5l and dsreputable origin
The first paragraph of the article afore-
said should be preserved as a literary Gu
riosity. 1t is.entirely pointlcss and should
subject any school boy over ten years of
age, who could not do better, to the appli
cation Of birch rod.
The next paragraph commences thus:
"'Kansas has occupied too nyuch of the
public attention already; for two years or
more, political party has drawn Its entire
aiment from the troubles they themselves
have created within its borders. But this
sort of stock is being remarkably deprccia-
ted 1t will be found a poor investment.
Aware Of this. they are seeking to trans
fer their stock into another channel
We suppose he refers to the Republican
party, as the one whom he says has "drawn
its entire aliment from the troubles they
themselves have created within Its borders.
IT so it is a most menlacious statement
without the shadow oftruth as basis. No
one. save a modern Democrat aware that
his party had forfeited the respect and e.
TEEN of every patriot and philanthrophlst,
on account OF its oppressive acts toward
l the freemen of Kansas, and knowing that
there was no other hope of averting the
impending wrath OF an indignant people,
would have given utterance to statement
so totally devoid of truth. SO far from
having created the troubles themselves.
the very reverse is true, as has been proved
By three of the four Governors that very
party itself sent to the Territory. not to
speak of hundreds of other prominent
Democrats who have corroboratcd their
testimony, and who have all been dc
nounced as Abolitionists OF Black Repub-
lcans, by their old party friends, for mere
~ stating facts. Ii is even in the
teeth Of the cditor's own admissions
tho previous week. Real his comments
on Fitch's speech In order to sustain
Douglas he is compelled to admit that one
half of the people of the territory were dis
flanchiSed when the delegates to the I.e-
compton convention we're chosen, ''by no
fault of their own What does he mean
l,y such inconsistency not to use a harsh
81 term. Is he about to follow in the wake
of the Iaportc Times, AMI abandon the lit
tie giant and popular sovereignty to
their fate? If the following extract from
the same article Is not an intimation to old
Buck that he is for sale, we would like to
know what it does mean:
'sThere never mas been a more universal
II sustained administration than the dis
,in,uishc,i one Of James buchanan. rs
an Executive and lawyer lie has aIvan-
ce,l policy. mind you merely advanced,
not recommended, fanothcr mis-statement,
rs the Union has shown, and the message
itself proves. } from which Judge Douglas,
supported by nine tenths of the Democra
CIV, has seen proper to dissent. This diff
ference of opinion has necessarily drawn
itself into warm discussion. (dow for
chile and elegant this last scntence;-" Ann
Arbor College, also the Michigan Bar
are highly honored by her graduate. J
But what of this9 After all it will be
found that it is not a principle but the
practice which Is at issue. This once set
tied, as it soon must be, and that harmo-
ny which has ever distinguished the dem
ocratic party will be speedily restored
The editor thinks the pructi,e Of a doe
trine small matter In the estimation Of
the leaders of his party, who only seek it.
unity that they may enjoy the spoils. this
Is perhaps true, but the people. it Is no
ped, view it differently.
The graduate Of Ann .Arbor College
also a graduate of the Michigan lar, i'll
Inmates fear in the first quotation above
that the Republicans will take the doctrine
OF popular sovereignty away from his par
ty. Why should he object? Was it no
practicalIy rcpudiated by the sth January
convention at indianapolis? What secu
rity has lle To offer the country that it vii
not be the case again the very next time
it can possibly be of any service TO tin
cause of free institutions? Whether tn
Republican party advocate the abstrac
principle Of popular sovereignty or not
principle they never denied when the ter
ii DRY comes to form constitution prepar
atory to its admission into the Union as
State, the Supreme Court having decides
That Congress had no power to proven
owners from taking slave property into a
ny territory of the United States, thercb.
destroying ''squattor sovereignty eficctu
ally. they (thc Republicans will be com
PEELED to practise it, it being the onl
means left them with which to battle slave
Nv and drive it out of the territory. l
Mr.. Buchanan's doctrine, that the right q