Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-05-13

high repuse at the White House, If the
Democratic Administration is not in favor
Of crushing oat freedom and forcing slave
~ into Kansas? Show us single impair
tial act of either the Pierce or buchanan
administrators. in relstion to this Kansas
imbroglio. and we will cmblazon it in cap
itsls at the head Of cur editorial column,
that all the world may read and wonder.
No. no. The kansas war" constitutes
the principal stock in trade Of the Demo
cratic party. and its adjustment or settle
ment upon any other basis than making IL
slave State, ir accordance with the de-
nands of the Southern disunionists. is pre-
ciscfy what they do not want Upon the
consummation of this scheme of iniquity
and oppression they have staked their very
existence; hence the energy and despera-
ton they display in every political conflict.
But thank God the army Of freedom is con-
tinually receiving new recruits as it march
es along with scrried ranks to drive the
cohorts Of slavery from thcir strong holds,
and at the next great battle a sound will
go up which shall reverberate throughout
the land. proclaiming in thunder tones the
downfall Of the unjust pro-slavery Democ-
racy, and the establishment once more of
the reign of Justice, Equality and Repub-
lican Economy and Simplicity in its stead
Then will the people have peace; Justice
be impartislly administered to all alike;
the resources Of the country developed; the
wilderness made to blossom like the rose,
and peace and good will extended to I'll
nations. The Fillibuster- Ostend- piratical
cry Of acquisition. or protectorate at least
over those rich and beautiful southern
countries. whose manifest destiny is with
our Republic" involving the shedding OF
oceans of human gore. besides making Wild
o'vs and orphans innumerable. and scatter
ing want sod wretchedness broadcast over
our owD land. shall no longer crate upon
philanthropic or Christian cars. The ex-
tension Of the arts of peace and not the
boundaries of slavery. by war. rapine and
bloodshed, is the grand. glorious and SUBJ
lime mission Of the great Republican par
ty. Let the Democracy pursue their ag-
gressive policy-we believe that just God
rcigns over the nations and that he will
sooner or later overthrow and utterly des-
troy such as forget to practice justice, or
Of doing as they would be done by. as He
did Rome, and other nations of antiquity.
An aggressive republic is such an anomaly
that it soon looses all but the name. 1t is
q decentralization. 1t is Just the same
as saying drunken-sobcr man or an hon.
est thief. The thing is absurd. ridiculous,
self-destructive Monachies make no pre-
tensions to justice, ard hence acquisitions
of foreign territories by war and plumber do
not necessarily weaken them as it does Re-
publican governments, because the strength
OF the latter lies in the virtue and intclli-
gence of its people. How long would the
inhabitants of an aggressive. plun,lering
republic remain virtuous and intelligent?
Consult the history Of the past for the So
luton of this query.
The peaccablc acquisition of foreign ter
ritory. however. by our government, If not
intended to enlarge the area Of slavery, we
are not hostile TO: but. we have not time
nor space to argue this question, having
already. we fear. laid oursclf liable to the
charge of prolixity in the above remarks
the subject having grown under our pen.