Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-08-11
From the Press and Tribcne.


OoitioH W reopen the trailC WOulu UTlNe
the Democratic party to certain defeat,
and would cover with ineffaceable dis
grace those who would endorse it," The
same language was held in regard to the
repeal OF the Missouri Compromise, for the
purpose of extending slavery; but though
the country blazed with Indignation when
that bad act was censummated, the men who
most fiercely and with contumely denoun-
ced that measure when first broached. are
now its most abjcct apologists and most
truculent defenders. But let MS see what
the ingenuity Of Southern politicians will
invent to Justify what they desire, and to
what servility the the North will descend
in excusing what the South demands. 1t
will be said.
LIST. The south demands the repeal Of
the laws prohibiting the Slave Trade not
because she necessarily desires the trade
to be re-establish ID; but, because as they
now stand on the statutebook they are
reproach to the institution of that country,
which should be removed by common con-
sent, and of proper regard for State equal
ity-the doctrine newly broachedl This
was the argument used in favor of the
Missouri Compromise, and it proved but
too potent as we all know.
81. To the niggerless of the planting
States this argument will be applied: You
want cheaper labor. White men, do not
like and cannot bear, to work in the fields
All that stands in the way of your enter
ing into the ranks of the aristocracy. is the
lack Of niggers. Reduce the price of men
by large importations to two hundred
and fifty each, anil after little you may
own as many as you choose. One al first,
then two. and in due time all that you wish
for. You can secure this by going with us
and help in whipping off the odious inhi-
bition!" AS the niggcrlcss in the South,
in proportion to the slave holders, arc as
twenty to one. that appeal will not be
made in vain. Men educated through all
their lives 10 helievc in the rightfulness
and necessity Of servile labor and whose
highest ambition is the ownership Of gangs
of field hands and sufficicncy of house
servants, cannot all resist this which graf
iies at once their pride, cupi'lity and
southern love Of case.
3D.. Such as may be troubled with
contentious scruples in regard TO man
stealing will be dealt with as follows:
The Slave Tralc is the great Chris
tianizing and humanizing traffic of the age.
1t is direct and unmistakeable agency of
the Divine Wisdom for the regeneration
of the world. See, we take these ignorant,
bcnighted, heather, people, who do Moth
ing in their native country but eat dates
and lie in the shade, who have never hearl
of our blessed woman whipping religion,
who are not aware of their lost and aban-
doned condition; we bring them here, or
such of them as do not die on the way,
put them dndcr Christian instructions.
while we flog them occasionally to make
them work; and thus we tit 'em for a life
of bliss in the world to come" Inge-
nous Southern divines will impress this
view upon the minds of their hearers when
they preach. They will enforce it by the
use OF texts from dead and imperative
ceremonial law, by which they now prove
the godlness 81 slave breeding. North
erd men like Rev. Nehemiah Adams will
chant in accord; and before the country
suspects the progress which has been male.
the popular theological and political creed
will affirm that the white man who has
not got at least a dozen of the ebony
images of his maker, for pions and go'lly
training is an inflcl and an enemy Of bis
kind. This cheap. easy and convenient
method of serving God. getting money
and gratifying lust. will be too well adapt
ed to the temper of the age which worships
Heaven in such way as not to offend the
devil, not to bc seized upon as an excuse
ami justification Of the enormous Atheism
which our Southern ncighbors propose to
establish.
These arguments. piously reiterated. af
ter the manner of the public Speakers o.
the South in Congress and ont, dressed
up; tricked out in the highfalutin strains o.
Southern journals, enforced and illustrated
by scriptural texts. will suffice for al. tin
South except the slave-brecding class
This latter, confined to the upper slave
States. may rebel; but the members of this
highly respectable body of the American
aristocracy are too few to be troublesome
They will be speedily silcnccd by Missing
at them the epithct. "Abolitionistsr
which they have so bravcly and so often
hurled at us. There remains then only
the north to convince. We shall now
have reasons rs plenty as blackberries,
Shipbuil,lers will be told that the Slave
Trade will cnliven commerce; the Cotton
ocracy of New York. Boston and Phil
adclphia, that it will increase the con-
sumption of imported merchandise and
American manufactures. and thus foster
and extend American industry; Nothern
farmers will be sure to hear that it will
increase the sale Of their corn and bacon
and Northern artisans that more sugar
mills and cotton gins, niger shoes and
slave whips will be demanded. We shall
be told that cotton is King. and that we
must extend its dominion. and become the
producers for the world, that our nation
al greatness depends upon our success o.
the 'long staples" that conscience being
in one side Of the scale, and money anc
power in the other, we must permit con
science to kick the beam; and that tllt
Union is in danger and must be preserved
The Irish who are now. as they always
have been, the Zouavcs Of the democracy
having no body below them in the socia
scale, will be gratifed to see the day APP