Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-01-05

forth the kind Of man we want at Wash
ington to supercede the present weak-mind-
ed. imbecile old gentleman. who for the
past three years has kept the country in a
state bordering on civil war, and who. to
perpetuats the rule of the party that placed
him in power. has pandered to the Southern
Democratic tire-eaters, whose motto is and
ever has been. Rule or Ruin.'' and who
now, supported by the Federal Govern
ment, have no hesitation in avowing their
determination, to subvert the Constitution
in the event of an outraged people wrest-
ing from them the power which for years
they have so shamefullv abused
ELECT Republican President and we
will dissolve the Union cry the Southern
Fire-eating Democrats. 1.-The South will
never consent to the election of a Sectional
candidate" re-echocs the Northern Locofo-
co. Are the peopleato be longer gulled
by this cry of wolf ''wolf?" Every
foar years the Union is to be destroyed,
and nothing can save it but the election of
. Democratic President, If the stability
of the onion depended upon the contin-
uance in power of this corrupt party. which
1t fortunately does not. it wonld inleed be
questionable whetherit was worth prcserv-
ing. The p,isruie and corruption Of the
Democratic party fpr thirty years past
has driven in disgust all our ablest states
men from the councils of the nation.
The slavery question has been to them a
Harp of Thousand Strings. upon each
of which they have played innnmerable
variations. The old instrument is about
"played out" Harper's Ferry is now
| furnishing the people the dying echoes of
its last tune. All we want now is man
at the head of orr national affairs who is
not afraid to eradicate the abuses by means
of which his. Democratic predecessors have
succeeded in sustaining at the public cx-
pense horde of corrupt officials. who
hesitate at no means in prolonging their
tenure of office or rather of sinecures, by
lupholdiug the party. that created them.-
| We want man who viii administer the
government with view to the welfare of
the people rather than the aggrandizement
of party at their expense. In the words
of the Journal alluded to at the commence
ment OF this article. we want: e-
ga President who will think AMI write
no Duquesnc Letters, pronouncing Amer
icas Republican Government failue, and
deploring the use of money as an element
in controlling the elections of the people,
while he himself and his partizsns are
profusc. in its application for political and
not only his and their own private means,
but the public treas IRE also, through grants
of fat contracts 10 his courtiers, contrary to
law:
"a President who will execute the laws
against the African Slave Trade, without
fear or favor, and will not wink at the fit
| ting out of slavers, either in New York,
Charleston or Savannah. or snifer cargoes
of Bozals to be landed on the coasts of
Georgia and Florida. to be sold in open
market at the sea ports or in the interior,
but will use the whole power of the Gov
eminent, if necessary. in nipping all at
tempfs at revi,iaS this Ubiquitous traffic.
az President. who, while he faithfully
executes the Fugitive Slave Law. against
public sentiment in the free States, because
it is law of the land. will just as faith
fully enforce the acts suppressing the Af-
rican Slave Trade and Gearing it to be
piracy. even though. in so doing. he should
run counter TO public opinion.
~ President, who. when he finds pub
lie sentiment so Numerically opposite as
it is in the slave and free States, respecting
such contrary legislation, will not fill his
| official papers with Sdenunciations of the
Northern and Western sections of the
country, as being enemies of the Union,
while he chides tbs South as gently as a
sucking dove" and overlooks all its Vi
Citations Of law with the utmost compla-
cency:
"a President. whose Secretary of War,
when he is warned specifically of a contem-
plated invasion Of Federal Territory, by a
mailman, will not pocket the notification,
and suffer it to take place. if. indeed he
does not favor ii Tor political objects, and
then turn round. and in concert with the
whole administration and its subsidized
press, charge the crime upon the opposite
party:
"a President, who when Federal Ter
ritory Is invaded AMI one of the Federal
armories- seized. and when by the aid of
handful of marines, he disIodges the inva-
ders will not surrender the captives to a
State Court to he tried for the offences
which they committed against the United
States. but bring them to justice before a
Federal tribunal:
"a President, who will not come out in
his message in favor of a tariff, and allow
his Secretary of the Treasury to recommend
an opposite policy, AMI boast on the street
that the Executive hal turned against his
Administration, but one who will not stul-
'tify himself so egresiousy as to suffer asub
ordinate officer toshapc the financial poll
icy Of his Administration. upon the vi
cious principle of spending "haif a crown
ont of sixpencc day" anil borrowing
money to carry on the government:
"a President. who will not suffer him
self to be dictated to by his subordinates.
lin the matter of converting Congress, to
pass the necessary Post Oifi.e appropri
alton bills, which had been defeated by
the factious conduct Of his own party. and
to be forced TO carry on the Post Office
Department for six months witllont the
regular appropriation OF a dollar to pay
lis creditors:
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