Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-08-16
Too Much Liberty!

1t is we'll known that the pet argument
used by the Northern Pro Slaveryites in
excusing Slavery. when they dare not JUS
tify it, is that, 1.-THE condition Of the A
merican slave is better than that of the
poor, free, labering white man Of the
North, but many of our readers not full
ly posted in the moral depravity of Mod
ern Democracy will be somewhat startled
when we say upon the authority of .
Douglas Democrat that CHARLEY REEVES,
Of Plymouth. in his speech befors the
Democratic Club of this village, on Friday
evening, enunciated the decidedly Pro-
Slavery Democratic sentiment that the
people of the Northern States HAD TOO
MUCH LIBERTY.
The above sentiments, atrocious rs they
are, are fully in keeping with the teach
ings of the Pro Slavery leaders, and where
ever they dare to. they see to It. that
Northern men and women do not have too
much of that incendiary commodity, per-
sonal liberty, as see the case Of the repub-
licans of OccaquaD. Va, who had to call
upon the military to protect them from
chivalric. democratic. Virginian mob.
which was breathing their destruction, be-
cause they bad taken the liberty of ex-
pressing their choice Of presidential candi-
dates by hosting a pole bearing the ''star
spanged banner" npon whose folds
were inscribed the names of Lincoln and
Hamlin.
This opinion is not confined 10 any par.
ticular branch Of the Pro- Slavery Derno.-
racy, but is rather more noticeable in, and
disgraccful to STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, com.
ing as it does from the leading Democrat
of the free North. 1t was in accordance
with this opinion and in obedienee to the
command of the Slave Oligarchy, that
DoUGLAs introduced into the Senate
last Winter his Infamous Sedition rcsolu-a
tions. by which. and under which any fres
man found reading. or heard repeating tho
Declaration of Independence. or any other,
free soil ducument, would be liable to
prosecution-to fine and Imprisonment in
the penitentiary. This was the Little
Giants" way of doing away with the ex-
cess of liberty of the Northern People
We have too much liberty of speech. and
liberty of the Press, in the free North for
such gentry. They are too much in the
way of such dirt eating" demagogues -
DoUGLAs and his worshipcrs. and they are
raising the war cry of the tyrant: The
People have too much liberty. The d.
vine right of us. their ruler, is in dangeri
Down with it and with theml' -
We have the consolation, however. Of
saying to the Hon. CHARLEY that, altho'
from having spent a winter at tho South.
and from having sat at the feet Of his
Douglas Gamaliel, he may be fully con-
vinced in his own mind, that 1.-THE people !
of the North have too much iibertx"
and that it would be decidedly better Tor
every poor devil, who like ourself, has to
earn his bread by the sweat of his brow,
to be put npon the auction block and sold /,
to the highest bidder. and reduced 20 tbs /.
servile condition Of the Southern .nic-
ger," the Northern free Iaborers, poor tho
they may be, differ with him and his lea.
think like his illustrious candidate for Vice
President. Herschel V. johnson THAI.
Capital should own its own labor" or, !
in other words. tha: the bones and
sinews and souls of men should be rated
less in the public mart than gold. he will
find that the free people of the North
will never trust their liberties in the hands
of such traitors to the rights of man as
Douglas and johnson; and they will hurl
from power every doughfaced demagngue. I
who dares, at the bidding of his South
ern taskmaster. insult freemen by utter
ing such Infamous sentiments in their pres
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