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

nc totdtc toCHStUSl AIT NEW Albany
Ledger talk bravcly. We have not seen
anywhere. even among Republicans, more
defiant reputation of dictation, or more
emphatic declaration, that they believed
what they pleased, anil not what their eau
cuscs Or conventions pleased, than in their
late denunciations of the Senatorial caucus
anal the conduct of the Washington Con
sttmioa. There is a mainline. ID lut them
that is refreshing il not enduring. They
almost persua lc rs to believe that they are
determined for once t, assert their convic-
tons, andto insist that no party shall crush
them. They denouacethc slave protection
doctrine heartily, unreservclly almost with
the bitterness if not sincerity of abolition
ists." They lenounce the Senatorial eau
Qua as usurpers of the party authority,
whom the people will topple down, end
put to shame. In fact they act Just as if
they were in earnest. and meant to stick to
their opinions We have been on the point
a dozen times Of shouting right out. "fIur-
ray for the Sentinel, gorea to the Leoiyer"
but ia sudden memory has checked the shout.
and turned i, to a sigh. Il ghostly renin-
iscencc of manliness murdered by discipline
of great b., healthy convictions with heals
sma>bcd into uDntterabIe u2Tiness by party
decisions, fitted before us. and cllilel our
exultation into sadness. We remembered
how the Leaqer in 1854 denounced the re-
peal of the Missouri Compromise IS ''a vi
olation twice plishtel faith" and in fonr
months denounced everybody who couldn't
see that it was just as well as wise. Aud
we remembered how it has since maintain
cl that this "violation'' is absolutely the
best achievement Of craftsmanship. anil the
brightest embodiment of great political
principle ON earth. Again we remembered
that the .S.nt;nei on the 81 Of December,
1857, declared that the Lccompton Cnnsti
tuition was an 'oatra ,e.' a fraud, and
a SHAME" and on the 18th o. the same
month advocated its adoption as the best
mode of settling the long Kansas contest.
The honest conviction. SO strong and Wig
orous on the 81, was q corpse on the 10Th,
brutally murdered by party policy. Its
pale spirit mcnaced us warningly as it pass
ed and read the Joy in our heart at the Sen
t;nel's present manlincSs. Whit seemed
its hand the likeness of a paper bore. and
thereon we read the date, "DecemJr Sd. :"
in fiery letters that tire ghost shook its
shadowy finger at. We didn't Shout
We thought And orr thought, ran in
this wise: Must all the rest die like these?
Is there no hope that the latest born. SO
strong and promising. may be saved?-
They kick and shake their fists now iii the
exuberance of life, at every threatening
opposition, but where will they be on the
25l of April? Dead, alas! Buriel with
their beautiful brothers. a hot sirocco
from Charleston will burn their pure but
frail lives OUT 1t was saldening
Thought. 1t left us wiser and less trustful.
If the Charleston Convention adopts the
Senatorial caucus platform, or one cm5od-
wing the same views, the vehement de la
rations of our contemporaries will follow
those of 1854 anil 1851 to the grave. Lei
that Convention declare for a slave code,
and against popular sovereignty, and The
Sentinel and the Ledger will meekly DROP
their defiant tails, fall into line. and bt
hnmbly kicked wherever it pleases thai
whimsical affair, Democracy, to kick them
Let the platform say, slavery shall b
protected in the territories" and the Sen
tinel will say Great is Democracy, an.
consistent in all its ways Let popula
sovereignty be denounced as cheat, and
wrongs and the Ledger will say ''amcn'
gravcly but distinctly. All their presen
demonstrations against the Senatorial eau
Gus and those who oppose Douglas. yer.
; honest and manly as they are, will follow
their elder brethren in about seven minute
after the telegraph has brought the new
that the convention has repudiated Dong
las and adopted slave code platform
We recommend them to be cautious HOY
. they talk now for they may be cooking al
immense lump of "humble pie" to eat du
ring the summer.-Ind. Jour.
OxE OF rnr MOST rfEAsrxs the same time efscf'