Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-07-07

Of civil aud religious Liberty. Little die
that precious freight of the May Fowe
realize the gloriesofto day. Little did they
think thai upon ;his morn. thirty million,
of happy people would rise up aud cal
them blessed. But an all-wise Providence
in whomlthey trusted. brought. them a
lhst. AFTER q weary voyage, ID sight Of laud
and they landed on Plymouth Rock. ia
early winter.
. To-day wehave the association of names
II not OF circumstances. place or occasion
We are in Plymouth to-day, name conse
Grated to Liberty; and. although we see
here no barren rock, or hear no sound oil
the surf beating against a rock bound coast
nor hear the winter winds bowling among
the cliffs and jagged peaks; nor can we
look abroad and see wide waste covered
with the new fallen snow; yat We Of PIym.
outh, Indiana. can.' in our Inauguration. al
least. look back when it thus appeared to
ihs weary pilgrims. of another Plymouth.
at another time. While we grieve for their
sorrows and suferings. let us strive to
emulate their virtues.
oCtViC Vut UiheTS l$nucu, tuc1 lotuicu
a Republican Government, aud delegated
their sovereign power as the people, for
one year to their governor, John Carver
They left behind them all laws for tho es-
tablishmcRt of a religion. leaving every
man free to ship God in any firm his
conscience might dictate. and all the old
English laws, Of the entailing Of estates.
and Of Primogeniture. which more than
else, had been detrimental to Lib
crty. These old English laws. a remnant
Of the Feudal System. where lands were
iield by the Barons. and the people were
but tenants at will. gave the lords and the
Oldest son after them, .forever, the only
right To- the soil, which they could not con
vey. nor could it be seized upon for debt.
Tins dispossessing forever the people, and
making them forever strangers in the land
Of their birth. without home. Homeless
and disfranchisad. prescribed in their wor-
ship on their native soil, the Pilgrims here
in the infancy of Government. corrected
those evils, and became in TACT true De-
mocracy.
They passed through many diversified
scenes; but they grew rapidly-they grew
strong. They reared churches and school
houses; they planted new colonies.
The colouisls made their own laws, but
acknowledged the king. and left their acts
to his sanction; and thus they were left.
and grew unobscrved by the English peo-
pie for an hundred and forty years; when
the active and prominent part-they took in
the French war. excited the envy of the
lords and barons. forming the British house
Of Parliament. who proposed to tax them.
This they at once resisted. as an encroach-
ment upon their rights; for said they. the
right of taxation implies the right Of repre-
senta;ion, which is denied us. La this
the king took the part Of the
lords against the people. and attempted TO
enlorc" the duties. A cargo of tea upon
whieh duty was placed. arriving at Bos-
ton harbor, the people assembled in dis
guise and threw it overheard, for which
Palliamen. passed the Boston port bill.
closins the harbor. This act was alike
disregardcd by tho people. Then COM
menccd series Of acts OF resistance, in
which Adams. Hancock and Warren ap-
pcarcd. They urged the people TO pre-
pare for armed resistapce, which they did;
and the FIRST blood was shed at Lexington
their rights, which commenced
a long and fearful struggle. At fist ii
was for principle only--not thought or
a word mas sud of independence; but
when the breach Vas opened soon the idea
Of independence followed. Patrick Hen
~ and Paine, urged independence upon
the people. as step that shoall b i'm
mediately taken. The one STOOL in the
Forum aud on the stand, and in cloqucpce
that buried upon lis lips urged the na-
ton to the contest. The other. with his
powerful pen. assisted by Franklin's press
scattered broad over the land the f,c:s Of
The crisis. lie showed The folly VI rc-
with the king. and urged up
on the people the national risht--lhe In
necessiiv--and moral sdvan-
lage Of being Independent. These said
the patriot. in the first number Of his 'Cri.
sis.' '.are the times that try mems souls.
The summer soldier and the sunshine pat
riot will, in this crisis. shrink from the
service Of lis country; bat he that stands
IL NOW, deserves the love thanks Of man
and woman. Tyranny. like hell, is nol
easily conquered: yet we have this cons".
laliou with us. that the harder the conflict,
the more glorious the triumph. What We
obtain too cheap We esteem too lightly
IT'S DEAFNESS ONLY that gives everything
its value. Heaven knows how to put a
proper price upon its goods; and it would
be strange indeed. il SD celestial an article
~ FREEDOM should not be highly rated
Britain. with an army 10 enforce her ty.
I,anny. has declared that she has righ
Not only to TAX, hut ''to BIND US II
ALL CASES WHATSOEVER" and i
oeiI,s bound in that manner is not slavery
il,sn- there is not such alLiug as slavery
upon earth.'' aise ~rs.'tt
i In another paper he encourages the PEG
pie. aud uses the following language:
"7he UNITED STATES of AMERI
CA".will sound as pompously in the worlt
or in history. as The Kingdom OF Grea
Bliiaiu:' the character OF General Wash
irgton will fill page with as much luste
as that of Lord Hore.'' 49,. ..f,..
When we consider the prominent posi-
ton of Lsrd Howe, as an English lore
and commander. chief Of the prout
Britons; and the youth and inexperience o
Washington, this was saying much, ant