Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1859-11-03

never vote 10 SlayenOlder, pay no taxes
to their government if you can either resist
or evads them; as witness and jurors, give
no testimoney and no verdicts in support
of any slavehoding claims; perform no
military, patrol or police service; mob slave
holding courts, goals, and sheritfs do moth
ing, in short, for sustaining slavery. but
every thing you safely and rightfully can,
publicly and privately. for its overthrow.
White rascals of the South! Willing
tools of the shareholders! You who drive
slaves to their lobor, hunt them with dogs.
and fog them for pay, without asking any
questions! We have a word specially for
you. You are one of the main pillars of
the slave system. You stand ready to do
all that vile and inhuman work which must
be done by somebody, but which the more
decent shareholders themselves will not do.
Yet we have heard one good report even of
you. 1t is. that you have no such pre-
JUDGES against color, nor against liberty,
as that you would not as willingly earn
money by helping slave to Canada "a by
catching fugitive and returning him TO
his master. If you are thus indifferent as
TO whom you serve, we advise you hence
forth to serve the slaves instead of their
masters. Turn about, and help the robbed
to rob their robbers. The former can af-
ford to psy you better than the latter
Help them to get possession of the property
which is rightGully their due, and they can
afford to give you liberal commissions
Help them fog individual Shareholders.
and they can afford to pay you ten times
as much as you ever received for flogging
slaves. help them to kidnap the slave
holders. and they can afford to pay you
more than you now ge. for catching fugI-
tive slaves. Be true to the slaves, and we
hope they will pay you well eor your SER
vices Re false to them, and we tope they
will kill you.
Lawyers of the South. YOU can, if you
will, exert potent influence for good In
this matter. If in the true spirit of law as
science, YOU shall see man in the most
crushed of human beings. and, recognizing
his right to obtain justice by such means
as may be in his power, you shall take the
side of the oppressed in this controversy.
and teach them to trample on their tyrants
and vindicate their manhood; you do this.
and then aid in establishing new institutions
based upon liberty. equality and right, You
will have the satisfaction Of doing your
part towards bringing into life a great free
and happy people, where now all is crime,
tyranny, degradation and death. IT, on
the contrary, you shall take the sile of the
Shareholders, and continue TO be-as. pro-
occasionally, under slave institutions. YOU
! l. Jal
ging pimps, hirelings, and tools OF few
souIless robbers of their species. denying
continually the authority of justice and the
: rights of humanity; if you shall do this.
we reed not attempt to tell You what your
true rank will be in the scale OF lawyers.
statesmen. patriots or men.
Merchants IF the South! We hope
YOU will deliberately consider this matter,
and make UP your minds whether the slaves
have the right to take the property OF their
masters in compensation for tie injuries
they have suffered. lfyou decide tina:
they have that right, we hope You viii SCI
acccrdmaly, and will not hosi:aic TO bay
+ of them cotton or any other property which
they may have taken from their masters
and give them in exchange weapons. oil
any other articles they may soed. Ii you
will but do this. you will soon put ar end
to slavery.
Non Shareholders generally of the South.
IF it is right for the slaves to take the prop
ertv of their masters to compensate their
wrongs, it is right for you to help them
Your numbers, compared with those of the
: shareholders, are as FIVE or six to one. il
will be perfectly easy for you. by combin-
ing with the slaves. to put them in posses.
sion Of the plantations Oh which they labor,
and of all the property upon them. They
could afford 10 pay you well for doing them
, such service. They could afford 10 let
You share with them in the division of the
property taken. We hope you will adopt
this measure. 1t will not only be right in
itself. it will be the noblest act of your lives.
provided you do not take too large share
to yourselves, and provided, also, that YOU
afterwards faithfully protect the slaves in
their liberty and the property assigned to
them.
Finally, we say 10 all, correspond with
us of the North. Let each person who
receives or sees one of these sheets send
his letters to the one who sent it, with lib
erty to publish them in the northern Pa
pers. This correspondence, we are conf
dent, will be more interesting literature
than the South has ever furnished, and
will enlist the feelings of the northern peo-
pie to such degree that we shall be in
duced to go in large numbers TO your as
sistance whenever you shall need u.s.
The following note is TO be addressed TO
some person at the South, and signed by
the person sending it. giving his own resi-
dence.
"S1a--Please accept and exhibit to your
neighbors this copy of document which
we are intending to distribute very extern
sively through the South, and which, we
trust. will give birth to movement that
shall result not only in the freedom of the
blacks, but also in the political, pecuniray.
educational, moral and socil advantage Of
the present non -slaveholdiny whites
Please le. me hear from you often, inform
ing me of the progress of the work Di-
rect to me-.
~The Laporte Herald says that furi-
GUS mad dog was seen in the south part OF