Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-04-28

and the removal of the .uliect caste a. in
dispensible to the preservation of the lib
critics of the whole laboring class, and the
preservation of the Republican form of
government. 1t is the policy Of the ma
tional democratic party to preserve and
extend slavery, as an institution repiete
with blessings tn mankind, and essential
TO the glory of our government. IL is ON
this main issue that the Republican party
go with Jefferson against the national de-
mocracy, and submit the trial to the
country.
L might extend indefinitely this c.ta-
loGne of antagonisms between the policv
OF Jefferson and that of the present en-
shaved administration. There is, indeed.
nothing in common between them. and there
could be. in the nature of things, no agree
ment IN any essential point between Mr..
Jefferson. who was the apostle of freedom
and equality. anil party deriving its
power from slavery. an;i bent on extending
and perpctuating it. Nor do they conceal
their malice at every encounter with the
principles or suggestions of policy which
he has left to posterity.
But it does not follow, because the oil
garehists hate Jefferson, and know their
schemes are utterly repngnant to his prin-
ciples, that they will not seek TO draw sup
port to themselves by perverting his Ian
guagc and acts Not at all. They depend
mainly upon imposture and fraud to main
tain their power; and those who obtain
power wrongfully, and undertake wicked
and illegal enterprises to extend it, are not
scrupulous in adopting devices to gloss
over their schemes. or in endoav oring to
assslmilate them TO the approved acts of
public benefactors. 1t is for this reason
that, whilst hating the name of Jefferson.
and opposing in evory form his policy of
elevating the masses by making all men
free. providing for their education. and
enabling them to have freeholds, the oil
garchlsts are now attempting to assimilate
their designs against Cuba to Mr. Jeffer-
sons acquisition of Louisiana. 1t is a
shallow device. A mere glace at what
Mr. Jefferson did, and proposed to 10. as
compared with what they propose to do.
will show that in this, as on any othsr
point of their policy, they are utterly an.
tagonistic to the views and objects of Mr..
Jefferson. Mr.. Jefferson in the purchase
of Louisiana, acquired for $4,000. 900
half continent of rich vacant domain to
be planted with free States. They pro.
pose TO give hundreds of millions for an
island covered with slaves, to be secured
by standing army, and looking finally
to the creation of an empire founded on
compulsory labor throughout all the trop-
les. MIR. Jefferson, on the contrary, looked
to that region as the place where free
homes were to be acquired for tho colorsa
people among us. to fulfill his cherished
scheme of separating the races, which he
regarded as essential to the freedom of
either The result of the projected con-
quest of Cuba will be the renewal of tho
slave trade, to bring Africa in chains to
the work of the West Indies, whilst the
poor caste of tho white race in our south.
ern regions are to be converted into sol.
diery to maintain the process. This mode
OF acquisition bodies war with foreign pow
ers. separation of the Union, and, If the
wild hopes of the projectors could be ae-
complIshed, would renew around the Gulf
of Mexico a sort of Turkish domain. like
that which once embraced the Medit-
erranean in its bosom. These Saracens of
of the South. who would propagate slave
rywlth the sword, must expect crusade
against this scheme by all the nations of
| the New World that love freedom. Peace
was the object and result of Mr.. Jetfer-
sons acquisition under the banner of lib
erty. War, civil and servilc, must follow
in the train of this new project to extend
slavery.