Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-03-15


ereigns on the subject of Slavery within your own
borders, as we are on the same subject within our
borders. 1t is well and wisely so arranged. Use
your authority to maintain what system YOU please.
We are not dstrustiul of the result We have
wisely, think, exercised ours to protect and
perfect the manhood OF the members of the State.
The whole sovereignty upon domestic concerns
within the Union is divided between US by unn.is-
taxable boundaries. You have your fifteen distinct
parts; we eighteen parts; equally distinct. Each
must be maintaincd in order that the whole may be
preserved. If ours shall be assailed, within or
without, by any enemy, or for any cause, and VIC
shall have need, We shall expect you to defend tt
If yours sh Ill be 50 assaed, in the emergency,
matter what the cause or the pretext, or who the
foe, we shall defend your sovereignty IS the equiv
alcnt of our owa We cannot, indeed, accept your
system of capital or its ethics. That would be to
surrender and subvert our own, which we esteem
to be better. Besides, if we could, what need for
any division into States at all? You are equally
at liberty to reject system and its ethics, and
to miintain the superiority OF your own by all the
forces OF persuasion and argument. We must, in
deed mutually discuss both systems. All the
world discusses all systemns. Especially must We
discuss them since we have to decide as nation
! which of the two We ought to ingrait on the new
and future States growing up in the great public
domain. Discussion, then, being unavoidable,
what could be more wise than TO conduct 1t with
mutual liberation and in fraternal spirit?
! You complain that Republican discourse too
boldly and directly. when they express with conf
dence their belief that the system Of labor will, in
the end, be universally accepted by the capital
States, acting for themselves, and in conformity
with their own Constitutions, while they sanction
! too unreseryedly books designed to advocate
mincipaiion. But surely you can hardly expect the
Federal Government or the political parties of the
nation to maintain censorship of the Press or oil
debate. The theory of our system is, that error
,.f
where reason is left free TO combat il. Will il be
claimed that moro of moderation and tenderness
IN debate arc exhibited yOur side of the great
gumcnt than our own? We all learned our polen-
ics, rs well principles, from a common mas
ter. We are sure that We DO not, on our side, tx
coed his lessons and example. Thomas Jefferson
addressed Dr.. Price. an Engishmsn, concerning hi:
treatise on emancipation:
'Sonthward Of the Chesapeake, your book vii
ind but few readers concurring with it in sentiment
en- the subject OF Slavery. From the mouth to the
head OF the Chesapeake, the bulk Of the people vii
approve it in theory, and it will frd n respectable
minority ready TO adopt it in practice; minority
which, for weight, anl worth Of character, prepon
dcrates againstihc srctter number who have not
the courage TO dveSt their families of property
which, however, keeps their conscience unquiet.-
!, Northward of the Chesapeake you may find her,
and there an opponent to your doctrine rs YOU ma,
here and there robber or murderer. but in M
greit number" "This Virginia !:
the next Sthtc to which we may turn our eyes io
the Interesting spectacle OF Justice in conflict with
avarice and oppressioE--a conflict where the sacred
sde is gaining daily new recruits from the infu,
into Office of young men, groan and growing up
"Be not, then discouraged Wha
you have written will do great deal of good; ant
could you still trouble yourself about our welfare
no man is more able to help the laboring side.'
4 You see, Sir that whether NC 60 for or agains
Slavery, anywhere. we must follow Southern guides
fou may change your pilots with the wind or tho
currents; but we, whose nativity, reckoned under
the North Star, has rendered Us somewhat super
stltious, must be excused for constncy in folowin:
the guidance of those who framed the national shil
and gave US the chart for its noble voyage,
profound TssRset re e qpa qpta fa4 gaies Ra. induce,
me to weigh carefully the testimony he has gver
on the subject of the hostility g,ins the South i'm
puted to the Republican party, as derived from th.
relations of the representatives of the two parte.
ut this capital. He SAYS that he has seen here in
the representatives of the lower Southern States
most reSolutc and spirit of resistance to tho
Republican party; that he preccives sensible los
OF that spirit of brotherhood ard that feeling 10y
atty, together with that love for common country
which are at last the surest cement Of the Union
80 that, in the present unhappy condition of affairs
he,is almost tempted TO cxcaim that we are dis
solving week by week, and month By month; that
sic arc fTpttlnG themselves a
suiier; and stranger m Sht suppose that the Ex
ecutlve OF the United States was the President O
two hostile Republics. 1t is rot for me to raise
doubt upon the correctness OF this dark picture,
lar as the Southern groups upon the canvass are
concerned, but must be indulgcd in the opinion
that can pronounce as accurately concerning the
Northern Rcpubl can r, prcsentatyes here as any
one We confer together, but only as the organs
ofevcry party do, and mu do in political system
which o5liges Us to act sometimes partisans
while requires us always to be patriots and states
men. Differences ofopinion even on the subject
OF Slavery, with US are Political, not social per
sonil differences. There is not one disunionist OF
disoyali t among us all. We are althogether un
conscious OF any process of dissolution going OF
among or around us. We have never been moro
patient, and never loved the representatives o
other sections more than now. We bear the same
testimony for the people around US here, who, tho
in the very center where tie bolt of disunon mus
fall first and be most fearful in its effects, seen
never less disturbed than now. We bear the same
testimony for all the districts and States We rep
resent The people of the North are not en-
emies, but riends and bret, rn OF the South, faith
inl and true as in the days when death has dea
his arrows promiscuousy among them on common
but'e-felds of freedom.
We will not suffer ourselves here to dwell or
any evidences of a different temper in the South
but we sill be content with expressing our belief
that hostility that is not designediy provoked, and
that cannot provoke retaliation, is an anomaly that
must be traced to casual exctements, which can.
not perpetuate alienation.
A canvass for Presidential election, in some
respects more important, perhips, than anv. since
lS0J, has recently begun. The House of Repre-
scntatives was to be organized by majority, while
no party could cast more than plurality Of votes
The cloom Of the late tragedy in Virginia rested
the Capitol from the day when Congress assembled
While the two great political parties were peace
fully, lawfully and constitutionllly, though zeal
ously conducting the great national issue between
free labor and capital labor for the Territories
proper soution through the trials of the ballot op-
Grating directly Or indirectly the various depart
mcnts OF the Government, band of exceptional
men, contemptuous equally Of that great question
and of the parties the controversy and impatient
4, OF the constitutional system which confines the
citizens of every State to political action by suf
frage in organized parties within their borders,
inspired By an enthusiasm peculiar to themselves,
AMI exaspaated by grievances and wrongs that
some OF them had suffered by inroads Of armed
propagindists of Slavery in Kansas, unlawful as
their own retaliation was. attempted to subyert
Slavery in Virginia by censpiracy. ambush, inva-
sion and force. The method We have adopted of
appealing to the reason and judgment of the people,
to be pronounced by suffrage. is the only one by
| which free governments can be maintained any
where, and the only one yet devised which is in
hlrmony with the spirit offhe Christian religion
While generous and charitable natures will probl-
w conccde that John Brown and bis associates
acted on earnest though fatally erroneous convic-
ali