Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-02-23
THE REPUBLICAN.
PLYMOUTH, md,
thursday. February q, 1850.
Helpers Impending Crisi,r


Helpers Impending Crisis!
The pTo-shsery disunion Democrats, Nortl, and
South, milking a great to-do over Helpers
boob. tisinkins that by wallins up their eyes like
dying calves asEl holding up their hands in affected
bos borros. they can succeed by such hypocrisy
gLrblins, and the usual amosnt Of misreprcscnta
ton aad falschood. in tie practice of all which the,
are scch adopts. in convincing some of the more
honest portion Of their party who are beginning to
snsertsn strong qualms OF conscience about longer
acting with such a corrupt and ettravagant party
that the Republicans are as vile and sectional and
ultra and unjust and regardless of their Constita-
ticnal obligations as themselves. But they viii
he mistaken. The people are becoming aequaint-
Cd with their Tactics. and have learned from sad
-I.srience that all their iair pledges and promises
are only nude to be broken, and determined to
hsrl them from the places Of trust they have so
-lamefdlly abused. The following is one OF the
garfield extracts which the N5rther liekspittlcs of
slsc Sout er lords oi the lash ostentatiously pa
gaiing in their filthy sheets as something awful,
terrible. shocking:
mo opportunity fr INJECTING mortal side
81 slsyeEy shall h. PERMITTED TO pas umrrovet Thus
the SOUTH have fully and frankly
defined petition We have niosiihcations I" propose
c,msrsm~ efrr. nothing to rrtract- frcwn sir
fret. tH,n, prepare yeur ws,ponS threat strike, shp
late the solar svsfein. il WILL do all this hess
better. arlythng-io what you WILL >irs YOU neither
rrrnal pisrs n Ha.en We have determined To abolish
slavery and help Cod. abolish IL will Take this
h with YOU. night Sirs and think absuf 1t, and let
~ know how You feel ia the morning
Now, what does all this prove7 Remember, he
j. speaking here. not NJ Republican residing in
Free State, noe for the Republican party. but as a
southern non Shareholder. and in the name of that
poor, dcspised, down-trodden and oppressed class
in the Slave States, whom Senator Hammond, of
South Carolina, thus describes:
.sThcv obtain prcarisus Subsistence by ocssional jobs.
~ hantns. by fishing ~ Pl.'ndrns hrtis or fid- and
0n nv what l. in its effects Ear worse. trading Win
slaves and leaiing them plumber for their benefit.
I. is in the name Of these oppressed fellow -corn-
trymcH that He per thus speaks. lie counsels no
violence, nor does he recommend the ncn-slave-
holders OF the South to stir Up Instruction among
the slaves, for the purpose OF abolisng the Lsti-
tuition, as the mendacious pro-slavery Shamocratic
Northern prints falsely assert He recommends
peaceful and legal measures, and exhorts them to
organize, and not to vote for shareholders, employ
slave holding attorneys or trade with slave holding
merchants. This nav be an ultra position 10 oc
eupy, but Il is not more so than that of their op
pressoss, and Helper, who understands this state
Of affairs, as well others who have resided in
Slave States, recommends this course as a retalia
tory measure, rs we'll for mutual protection and
defence, What is wrong about i'll Have they
NOT the Constitutional right to organize for the pur
pose Of abolishing, through the ballot box, an in
stitu;ion which-is daily impov erishing and depri
wing them Of the means of providing even the COM
mon ncccssaries Of life for their families, and CON-
polling them to let their children grow up in igno-
rsncel Cassius ". Clay told The Kentucky slave
holders TO their faces that he stood upon the Help
er Book Would he have said this, think you, if
il counseIed violence and servile insurrecton!--
No. Cass Clay is in favor of no such measures
for the abolition OF Slavery. Ia the same speech
Ne told aie Kentuckians that 1.-THE slaves were to
revolt he should array himself the side of his
own race and so would we, and every ether Re-
publican. We believe The Republicans oppo-
ed 70 the spread of Slavery, and although they re
gard the institution as bIighting curse upon the
States where i: exists, claim no right, rs citizens
of Free States to interfere with il, further than to
speak OF il rs great wrong This right, Mr.
Doue las AMI his followers proposes to deprive them
of, by passing Congressional act, to imprison all
men in the Free States, who may say any thing
.Iissespectfui Of Slavery oppose in any manner
the wishes Of the Slave-OIigarchy What do you
think Of this proposition of Douglas, freemeD Of
IslJ,ianay Arc you willing to bow down and wor-
ship Slavery, and call TIA benign and beneficial in
siirnsion- and help drag your neighbors to prison
who, IKE Washington, jefferson and many other
revolutionary patriots and fathers Of the Republic.
dared to speak Of it as a wrong' The Northern
iickspittles Of the Shamocratic press insultngly
call Republicans 'ncgro-worshippers' because they
regard Slavery as wrong and oppose its spread in
To free territory. So they would also call Wash
ing>ok and Jefferson ''negro- worshippcrs'' were
they to rise from the dead and a~ow the same sem
timents the subject of Slavery they did while
Living. They denounce Helper as a traitor be-
eaase he sympathi.es with the poor and oppressed
non -slavcholling whites ofthc South, and advises
them to make Of legal means TO redress their
grierances, but never word do they utter against
slarekolders for driving out peaeeable, law abiding
men and women. and taring and fcathcring Irish
men aud other American citizens for merely enter
tanning the opinion that Slavery is not good in
ssitss.csl. Bat, We have not space to pursue this
train Of thought further at present. We could ell
oar paper with proofs of the pro-slavery tendency
Of the shamocratic party, and the readiness of the
leaders in the North 70 submit cheerfully and will
Ingly 70 any demrid the Southers Oligarchy may
make, but defer the TASK for future occasions.
NJ T1c-Lili abolishing the frankiag privilege,
which passed tic Senate on the 10th, il is under
stood also abolishes the present law in regard to
papers going free through the mails in the coun-
s;es in which they are published. The members
of the House who vote for the bill containing
this. provision, may as web "hans their harps on
ne willow tree" Country papers require this
psosectioB to enable them to compete with city
rapcrs, aud win not submit quietly to lis repeal
- ~ - - -
r The Germans Of Laporte recently held q
meeting Tor the purpose Of forming Republican
Clnb, and among the resolutions adopted are the
Scllo~iag:h ai',i siee
bRssolsed, That we, the German Citizens, of La
Porte, recognize the friendship of the Republican
Party Of the United States, as most conducive to
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