Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-04-05
PLYMOUTH INDIANA THURSDAY. APRIL s. 1860.


thanks TO an overruIing Providence, the question
about slavery IN Kansas is now also settled, and
settled in favor of freedom. Tic North has tri-
umphed. and having triumphcd let her by her mag
nanimity and generosity to her Southern brethren,
show that the contest on her part was one OF prin
ciple, and of personal hatred, or the low am1-
tion of sectional triumph" t fae
HOSTILITY CT THE SOUTH TOWARD THE SoRrH--rTs
CAUSE. aiss sraTs 'sis
The fact is not to be disguised or evaded that
there is deep feelin, of hostility pervadinS the
people of the South towards the great body of the
people of the North, and the question may be
asked Has the South just cause of complaint
against tho North She has, but IL is such COM
plant as adjoining States and communities can al
ways prefer against each other. There always
have been and always will be individuals who will
disregard the laws OF their own and invade the
rights and immunites Of other States lfsuch in
vasion be cause of justify retaliation, then
different communities could never be at peace, and
no conft deracy OF States could be peaceful: per-
mancnt l doubt not that men from the North
have sometimes induced slaves to run away from
their masters though not perhaps once where il is
charged hundred times. Such conduc. is in vio
latiou of the law and good neighborhood, and is
not to be paiatcd or excused. But if we were to
open a book account with the South, of mutual
outragcs. springing out of the slavery question,
we shall find perhaps If IL did not come out about
even, a balance standing against her. The ques-
iion may be asked, then, what is the Cause Of the
hostility perv;pilng the Southern mind towards the
people Of the North There are many causes, but
the chief one is to be found in the policy OF the
Democratic party. To chain the South firmly to
the car Of that party it has for years proclaimed
that every other party at the North was fatally
bent on the invasion and destruction of the consti
tutional rights Of the South, and that the
of any other purity would prove destructive to the
institution of Slavery. To this end it has labored
and lied in season AMI out of season. with satanic
industry, to indocrinatc the South with the notion
that the masses of the Opposition in the North,
now in an overwhelming majority, are hostile to
Southern Institutions and to the Southern people,
and arc iInpatcnty awaiting the hour when they
IN " even BY force subyert the institutions of the
South. Witness the recent course OF Northern and
Southern Democratic papers, and speeches, repre-
sen,ing the entire Republican party of the North
as the aiders and abetors of the raid Of John Brown
ut Hirrer's Ferry. A very considerable portion
of the Southern people have come to believe this
enormous lie, and have no means Of knowing any
better. Republican papers are not permitted to
circulate in the South. Republican speakers are
not permitted to speak there; while Democratic
papers, North and South, teem with the speeches
of Wendell Phillips and VIM. Lloyd Garrison. as
the exposition OF Northern sentiment and feeling.
Even the Opposition party OF tic Ssu;ll-wliat
there is left Of it--dare not contradict the mon-
strous falsehood, for tear OF being charged with
Abolition sympathies, but Oh the contrary, en-
br.cng Democratic policy, have sought to out
Herod IIcrod ~ ptndcrny To pro slavery ignorance
and prejudice. The true explanation then of the
hostility of the misses os the Southern people to
the North is found in their profound and almost un
broken Ignorance of the true state and condition of
Northern sentm mt. There is but one way that
the people OF the South can be undeccived, and
that is by the election of a Republican President
III al.
the South under his administration. A single Re-
publican administration would do much, ii it did
no; entirely succeed, towards restoring the era Of
eood feeling between the North and South. The
beginning, the continuance, the increas cd and in
crcasins violence of this slavery agitation, has
been under Democratic administrations. The end
OF the evil cannot therefore be looked for by a
continuance of that party inpower. Not only is
this true, but such a.tition, before stated, has
been invoked and fostcrrd by that rty source
AMI means Of power. The Republican party has
not produced this agitation, but has been produced
by it, 1t is the rather than the creator
Ii srrang like \ phGnix from the ashes Of dccayed
parties, not sword bu; shield, to prevent
the invasion and subugation of all Free Territory
by the Institution of slavery.
POLICY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
The policy of the Democratic party is the ex-
tension of slavery not only into the Territories but
into all the Free States. The grand instrumental
ity by which this is to be accomplished is the Su-
prcme Court of the United States-an irresponsible
tribunal, the members of which hold their Offices
for life, and who not elected by the people, or
amcnlble to them, and which for many years h,s
been used as place of rctiracy for broken, spav
ined and asthriiatic politicians. This tribunal was
originally intended by the trainers Of the Consttu-
ton as Court of Appeals for the decision OF
questions of law and equity leSitimately arising in
L.,tt
of modern Democracy, has been converted into an
engine for the subversi of free institutions and
the propagation Of human slavery. The first grand
step in the programme of converting the Republic
into a vast savcholdnS con!edcrncy, the es-
tablishment Of slavery in the Territories by virtue
of the Constitution OF the United States This is
supposed to have been done by the decision in the
Dred Scott c Use. Dir. Buchanan triumphantly an.
nounces the consummation of the f,ct in his late
message. The next step and the last Is but log
ical sequence Of the rst viz: That if the Coasti-
tuition carries slavery into the Territories, it
res il into the States also. The one follows the
other, as certainly as night follows day. II the
Constitution be able to pro- ect slavery out of the
Union, much more shall it protect and nourish it
in the Union. II it recognizes slaves as property,
and not as persons and secure TO the master In
defeasbc title to them in the Territories, will the
rights OF property be held less sacred in the Sttes
Docs the Constitution guarantee TO SHAREHOLDERS or
other persons rights of property or Of persons in
the Territories that il does equ lily in the
several States. When, therefore, the ,tion comes
to admit tire ri ght to hold slaves in the Territories
and that there is no power in Congress or in the
people Of the Territories to exclude them, it will
then be required TO take another step, easy, natu-
raj and lcgi,im,te, which il cannot refuse, which
is that the Constitution secures the righ, to carry
slaves into all the Free States and hold and enjoy
them there as property.
The President in his late message congratuatcs
the country the final settlement Of the slavery
question by the decision of the Supreme Court of
the United States in the Drcd Scott case. He for
gets that the Democratic party have taught the
country that constitutional questions are never
settled. The Drcd Scott decision has simply un :
settled what had been regarded settled for more
than fifty years.
The Missouri Compromise was Thought to be
settled for more than thirty years, untilit was re-
pesled by the Nebraska BILL Il is now idle to talk
about the settlement of anything until it shall be
done on correct principles. Five shareholders sit
! ting on the bench of the Supreme Court cannot
settle forever vital questions of freedom; against
eighteen millions of people in the Free States In
the course Of a few years they will have passed
away to stand at the bar Of another tribunal, whose
decisions are final, and their places will be filed
by new men, who will have the same right TO re-
view and revise their opinions, that they had to
tramplc ON the opinions of all who have gone be-
fore them.
fHE FUGITIVE SLAVE Law. sie.-
The Constitution Of the United States guaran-
tees to the owners Of slaves, if the slave escapes