Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-01-14

Douglas contemplate calling another Con
vcntion, and boiling the party.
The Slavery Question i'll C,ngresS--Thc
Eeil Crisis come "a. last.
From the New York Herald.
Three new Stltcs-Kmsls, MINES ptl anl Ore
@on-lre waiting ut the door OF Congress for adm.s
SION into the Union. the first with slave State CON
sttution the Other two It's free States. There is 10
complaint from any qulrtcr touching the constitu-
tiond proc c'sings i'll Minnesota and Oregon; but in
Kansas the slavery question h1s been reduced toa
shape sopointcd and critical that upon It's solution
the admission OF Minnesota and Oregon will de
per |. or perhaps, sectional dissolution OK the pres
ent Congress
Never before h the slavery question been pre-
scntcd ina form positive, pointed and pc.lcx:ng
as this in reference to Kansas. In her behalf
slave State constitution is submitted, when il Is
known than ut least five siX;h- OF the people OF III.
sas arc opposed to slavery, but if the IN torty hy
refusing vote in the late regularly authorized CON
stitutionai election, have permitted slavery lie
carried by default, they are themselves ony to
blame and with them should res; the con SEQ ucnccs
Al these late ssirm shes IN Kansas between convcl-
lions, constitutions legislatures and conHctns ccc-
tons, are mere surplus tSc AMI amount to nothing
since the ratification o: the L.c,niptpn constitution
Congress must, therefore, decide either to admit
Kansas Is slave State. under the Lecomp:)n Con-
ton.
We shall see, too, in this c3n.cs., whether the
hoastcd courage the alleged p,isianimity al the
south will prevail. The case is how perfectly
clear, that this Lccompton constitution be rclcc:
ell it will be rejected on account of Slavery, that no
nan can doubt it. We appTchcIid therefore, that
the South really to accept the sail constitution, with
out the slavery clause, will make it utiml tum
with the slavery clause. Enti,ins acts ties c!orc
like tint of Mr.. Senator Du.las ami ,rovSos like
those OF NJ. Sen ,tor Pug,i'S, are n)x too hate o.
are wholly unncces .ry. Without any CongrcSS.ol-
al prJvsos, the people OF x mss, with hcr IL .m.s
sion as Il State, will he fully cnabled and empower
ed to proceed III II remodel their orA,llic law
from the first section to the last. And fear it IS
too late to talk of special enabling acts for new
Constitutional Convention, when the LecomptOIl
programme has been recognized ami encouraged by
the government at Washington, from the beginning
to the cnd of the chapter.
Il Is Il great mist Ike, also, to suppose tint this
question now stands it is IA mere Issue between the
administration and Gov. Walker, or between Scn,-
Tor Douglas AMI the Southern tirc-c.tcrs, or be.
tween th faction ami tint faction, this party an.
tliat party for the Presidential 81 &c sion. The
question has been enlarged with the recognition ot
slavery in the Lccompton Constitution, into cues
ton OF Northern ac,lu;cScncc in the result, the
submission of the South to the pressure of North
ern majority And i! is IN miest that the submis
sion OF the South in this case will reduce that see
ton To a mere dependency OF the North, ma,
safely anticipate the most determined SoG!hcI'
resistance against all attempts and al devices to sc
aside the Lecompton Constitution
The South cannot not now with safety consent {,
abandon the good old principle of adjusting III,
slavery gu, sticn in the admission of new States
under which Il Save State and free State hiv,
been adm tied or provided for at the sllne tim,
since the adoption Of e Federal CONSTITUTIONS
On the other hand, the crisis is os cther unl.,vor
able for any atemp! 10 cocrce the South into sub
mission Years ago the religious bonds which h /,
united the North and South iii holy communion il
the great Protestant churches of the confclcrac,
were broken asundcr Since that diy the old s,ci;t
relations of fraternity and harmony which once TX
istcd between the two sections have been oh iagct
into sectional hates and preiudices. and orgaiiz
tons OF Il sectional character, social, religious, lit
crary and political, incluIin" sectional churches
sectional books, Southern committees OF inspection
and Northern underground railroads have beer
orIaed.
Supcradlcd to all this, our late disastrous linan
cial rev usion has unh;nged and thrown into cha0
all our previously existing commercial relations wit
, the South, as well as with Europe, Hence tl
minds of Southern men and of Northern men hav
become unsettled concerning the financial and com
, Diercial rccprocitics which should be paramount
between the two sections, and many Southern pol
ticn for the first time is beginning to calculate tn
material advantages OF Il Southern conedcracy.-
Hence this sudden and general Southern ftirore il
behalf of Walker and his iiilibustcring programm
for 81. great Southern coniedericy based upon mill
> tary principles
With this state ofthings s,bss.ing between Il,
two sections the refusal of the North to admit Kan
SIS as 4 Slave State my prove be the last pan
eel which breaks the cimcl's back. The provoc.
ton to the South will only be the more pointed
offensive from the fact that two free States ar
at the same time awaiting their admission into tn
D Union. Will the Northern members of Congress
/ then, insist upon the rejection OF the Lccompto
Constitution because of its recognition OF slavery
We hope not. Or, will the Southern members con
sent to it? Ii they do, they will show to the worl
thatal their complaints, grievances and threatening
: and all their Southern rights movems nts, plans an
combinations of the last thirty years, have all bee
empty buster, fuss and fury, gas ana humbuS.
Oar present impression is, however, that, as tn
J case stands, unless Kansas shlll be admitted as
slave State in the way of an equivalent to the Sout
for the admission oi the free states OF Minn'
sofa and Oregon, the Southern members OF the tw
houses will adopt avery bold and startling move
$ meet in retaliation. We are persuaded that vii
= the rejection of Kansas Il slave State they WI
. withdraw in a body from Congress. issue nan
tcsto from Washington requiring the Southern Sta
= Legislatures To take the matter in hands and tia
&c having done this, the said Southern members
&c Congress will await in Washington their recall hon
=, their orders for surrender. at dlscrctiO To u
will of northern ma orty. In IA word, TINS Mans
difficulty has been reduced to solution by the Ia
1t compton Convention, 10 whica the North my con
ii sent, without even losing Kansas, but from whi'
~ the South cannot retreat without Illumination ~
disgrace few more days and We shall know ii
DRIFT of the wind.
I The Other Side.
V. lFrom Foncy's Press
The news fir pm Kansas apprises US of the re ope
, ing of scenes of civil war ami boodshod III that III
Ia haAl. hnQ ID