Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-06-28

OF thcSc SWlndie5, ana swept 1TOm power
the falsc Democracy in whose name they
had been pcrpetratedr They made an
honest, straight forward old Pionecrlo Of the
West1neither politician nor the SON Of
a politiciah-President of the United
States, taking him from obscurity andlna-
king him the instrument and the represen-
tativc of their power In twcnty-years we
are going through the same routine = AZ
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End of the Iarper's Ferry Tragedy
The Harper's Ferry investigating com
inittee, headed by Senate Mason has re-
portcd,,to the Senate, but the subject was
SO fully understood by the public. that the
result of the committees S latoTs has failed
to attract The notice Of the. press. There
are two reports, Int even the majority re-
port not only fails to implicatc single
member Of the Republican party in the
John Brown conspiracy, but shrinks from
the attempt to do so. Yet it has the fair
ness TO make an admission to this effect
frankly.
Senator Mason is. indeed. compelled to
acknowledge that the incursion "was simp-
'ly an act of lawless rufIians, under the
sanction of no public or political authori-
ty." and that ait does not seem that he
Brown entrusted even his intimate friends
with his plans fully, even after they were
out for execution. This is grudging
.vindication of all the political power in the
Free States. including the Abolitionists.
and refutation out of their own wry
mouths Of the caiunmiators who attribute
to the people ofthc North, hostility against
the people OF the South The investiga-
tion has established one one great fact, at least
that in The whole twenty millions, in-
habitants of the Free States, only twenty
two individuals, black and white. could be
gathered together for an armed crusade
against slavery. .Partizan journals in their
unholy work Of tanning sectional discord
may still continue to alarm the South by
ascrbing TO 'the North purpose to inter
fere with the institution Of slavery in the
States. but the peculiar and diminntive
character ofthc Harper's Ferry raid gives
the lie to the accusation. Ifpositive proof
be demanded, we point to the Republican
party and its platform. the one always so
scrnpulous in its observance, and the 9TH
er so emphaticin its avowal Of the great
doctrine Of States rights. 7t 5srsr3
From the minority report signed by
Senators Collamer and Doolittle, we ex-
tract the following judicious and dapertinent
remarks: % Iaian .sfs Elratsaar.re aE issap
iga 1T isialmost astonishing that. in conn.,
try like ours, laden with the rick expert
eacc OF the blessings of security under the
protection of law. there should still be
found large bodies of men laboring under
the infatuationathat any good object can be
effected by lawlcssness and violence. q 1t
is the prostration ofl law, which is the only
bond of security. Itean. i'm its nature. be-
get nothing but'resistance. retaliation, IN
security and disaster. And yet, with all
our intelligence and experience, we have
most unfortunate and deplorable maniles
tations of such infatuaiions They are
dangerous in direct proportion to the pub
lie countenancc they receive. No object,
however desirable, can justify them, or
prevent their disastrous example and con.
sequences. The unpunished lawless inva
sions of our weak -neighboring nations,
the fiag ant and picreiless breaches Of our
laws against the African slave trade, Gun
whipt of justice" the lawless armed inva-
sions Of our own people in our own weak
Territory of Kansas, not only unpunish
ed, Jut justified sustained. and even re-
warded-alI. it is believed. to extend and
sustain slavery, tended strongly to suggest
acts ofiawless violence to destroy it, es-
pecially in those who had witnessed and
suffered by these collisions. They are,
however, all without excuse, and they but
add to the experience that no public peace
or private security, can be found but where
every disregard 0: law meets with the most
prompt. public rcbuke. and effective pun
ishment or correction" ~. .,.,., -, I.
| Nothing can be trner than that lawless
ness ON the part .of. slavery propagandists
lis calculated to bcget lawlcssness on the
other side, The Harper's Ferry business
was the last. act Of the Kansas drama, Tie
scene was changed but the actors were the
same-men. whose minds had been fatally
disturbed by, the, wrongs inflicted on them.
Senator Mason report ends with recon-
incubation that the prmories and arsenals
of the the United States be well guarded
No legislative remedy at the hands Of Con-
gress is asked for but. on the contrary. the
CONSTITUTION is quoted to shew that Con
gress has not the power to grant such
remedy, even If it. were needed. This is
whitening rebnke to Douglas for his scan
dalous attempt to arpease Southern ven
seance by his Unconstitutional project of
tyrannieal seaition lawgrg Thus ends the
Investigation which, it was asserted, ,Isby
til, Democratic press. would exhibit the
leaders of the Republican party, as fellow
conspirators of John Brown,, and accom-
p.ices in his criminal enterprise. and in
yolvetbe whole OF that partyin, the, guilt
of treason and .disanion. The researches
of'thc Committee show that traitors are
indeed rare in the Free States, in the pro-
portion, Of about one to a million of the
population: whereas, il we are to believe
Doug as and his organs, Yancey and all
who fol- owed Yancec.yI out OF the CHARLES
ton Convention, and all who sn1stain' the
secession movement Numbering hundreds
Of thousand ds4are slisunionists, and there
fore traitors of the blacklist diie.-@Niissoari
niE JILL Cr 'cil sTT6 esIIIiI frCs ~ 7Tlf sTS.
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