Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1859-03-17
internal revolutions. gotten up by poliiical

internal revolutions. gotten up by POLITICAL
demagogues, have ever disgraced her peo-
pie. She formed free State constitution,
and desired to be admitted; but the free
dom.loving Republicans entered their pro-
test against it. because Kansas was not to
be admitted at the same time Kansas
was not asking admission: had declared by
decided vote that she did not desire it
had no constitution before Congress. 1t
would have been just as consistent if they
had said that Oregon should not be ad-
mitted until Arizona was, or the whole of
New Mexico, or Colfax's embryo territory
of Colona- 1t had been ascertained, from
reliable sources of information, that Ore
gon had sufficient population to entitle her
to representative in Congress. Those
who voted in the negative found no fault
with the constitution, except that i: exclu-
ded negroes from the rights of citizenship.
(their pet doctrine again, and was--Dem-
ocratic!
These same worthless voted for the adj
mission of Kansas under that ridiculous
and farcical instrument, the Topeka Con-
stitution," when it was known, from au-
thentic sources, that she had not over
twenty-five thousand Neutrality-suspicious.
posed of few good citizens, and the re-
mainder made of Adventures, loafers, reb-
els and Black Republicans not one.
tenth part of that population desiring ad-
mission with that constitution. Why were
they so clamorous for the admission of
Kansas, with only about ne.fourth the
population required by law? Because
they thought it would be "a good thing
for the Republican party" Reasoning
from their action in the cases we have men,
toned, the inevitable conclusion is, that it
is part of their programme, in violation
of their protested principles, to vote for the
admission of new States. with ten or TWEEN.
ty thousand inhabitants, provided there is
Republican majority; but if the terrific
ries are Democratic, oppose their admission
if they have population of hundred
and fifty thousand.
These proofs, aside from other evidence
thai Can be produced, are sufficient to con-
vince any unbiased mind of the hypocrisy
of the party; and that they never intend
to vote for the admission of new State,
either free or slave, unless it is believed by
them that such action Will serve a party
purpose.
The party has proved false to every
cardinal principle which it promulgated at
the commencement of its existence. In
every State where the wire -pullers of the
party have been put in power, they have
proved to be either incompetent or unwor-
thy. Look at the bribery and corruption
proven on Republican Congressmen--the
defaulting Ohio State Treasurer--the pub
lie funds squandsred in Iowa, Wisconsin
and Mlchigan--and see IT they have been
faithful and honest. Is this the way they
intend to "bring tie government back to
its original purify" Do they intend to
extend the area of freedom by opposing the
admission of free States? Do they ex-
pect 10 create ga more perfect union," by
enget dering sectional strife?
Answer these questions. intelligent read
er, according to the facts; and then, if you
think this party capable and willing
to accomplish the great work of purifca-
ton which was proclaimed to be its miss
ion, we yield to your judgment, with the
consciousness that sad. indeed, must be
the state of our National Government when
sucA party is necessary to purify it.