Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-05-03
~ Il "A GLANCE Hons3 la
INVESTIGATORS INVESTIGATION
III lLa Or HELPERS CRISIS. ii
NJ A cAsTIGAroR.

pursue In relation 10 the euoJect OF SAvery, Tor
us, at the North where it does not now, and prob
ABLY never will, effect US, to mind our own busi-
ness, attend to the advancement Of the agricultu
raj and manufacturing interests Of section.
When our neighbors, at the South, conclude that
slavery is an evil, or that its adjustment would
better their condition, and find themselves unable
10 accomplish its overthrow. then, If they should
signify to us that influence in their behalf
would be an acceptable service. il would be time
I enouch to busy ourselves about their affairs"
| In the above paragraph Investigator assumes
that the Republicans are busying themselves with
slavery south for the purpose of abolishing it, and
when he dses he must knop he assumes that
,rhich is false, for he cannot be ignorant Of the q.
vowed and real purpose of tho Republican party.
II is probably the "bcst plan" for every body to
mind his own business; as Investigator suggests,
and when he is portraying the beauties Of slavery
and vitupcrating the Republicans. he most proba-
bly, thinks he is mnding his own business The
Republicans will not neglect "the interests of our
own sccton"-thcy never have nor will they, if
possible, suffer the interests Of sections now uncur-
scd by the evils of slavery to be harmed. 1t II
"our business" in a proper and lawful manner to
talk and write about the evils Of slavery and to do
all VIC can to prevent its spread into the free terri
tories. II Investigator is business man and has
| a partner who, from some cause other main
tains an evil which, according to their article Of
partnership the former cannot abolish, and yet
which dsSraces and very much Injuries him. will he
not persuade, in suitable terms, his partner to abol
ish the evil, and will he do all he lawfully can
to prevent that evil from extending into and cor
ruptng every department of their busness' Thus
it is with the North and South. the East and the
West; they have entered into life time partner
ship and the Constitution is their article of agree
ment. This article ta lilly consents to the contin-
uaton of an evil in the South. but makes no prom
ise for its extension into other sections. The ma
jorty of the whole, therefore, ought to have abso
lutte control over the evil in the other sections
where they have not given that control TO others.
All true citizens are concerned for the National
rsputstion and character. and have, therefore
within Constitutional limits, perfect right TO give
the nation a good moral character. We claim no
right to interfere with the institutions of any other
State than our own-bu,, otherwise with the ins,i
tutions of tcrritory-particularly with those OF
slavery and polygamy.
Here is another extrac; from Investigator about
which propose to make remark or two:
alt has been but a very few years since the seri
ous consideration of proposition for the genera
abolition OF slavery would have been work o.
supcrcrogation. Nobody entertained such an idea
after the utiity of slave labor began to be known
through the Southern States"
II Mr.. Investigator is correct in the above, ther
the sutility of slave labor" has been known but fo
a very few wears for the Abolitionsts have lons
entertained such an idea. Washington, Jefferson
Lafayette, franklin, the Randolphs and hosts o
others, whose memories ought to be more respect
cd than they arc by pro-slaveryitcs, entertained
such an idea. Again, investigator says:
"Helper's quotations from the speeches and wri
tincs Of jefferson, Madison, Monroe and many 9th
or patriots OF their time, are earbcd and discon
nected and in almost every instance have referret
the slave trade. instead of slavery in the States.
We shall now give few of the extracts whicl
: instance referred to the slave-trade" Here arc
few "garbled" "from Washington's" letters:
"I never mean. unless some particular crcum
stances should compel me to it, to possess anothe
slave by purchase il being among my frsf uishc
to see some plan adopted by which slavery, in thi
I. country, may be abolished by law"
If Washington had never written another line o
uttered another thought. the above extract. thong
garbled it be. is suficicn. to show that among hi
}. ..fra ,cishes' was to see slavery abolished b
q law" If Investigator should express such sen
timent as the above he would be read out of tn
Democratic party, and be denominated fanatics
abolitionist.
in letter to Robert Morris, Washington say.
:. 81 hope it viii not be conceived from these OF
,e sorvatons that it is my wish to hold the unhapp
people who the subject Of this letter in saver
can only say, that there is no man living, VIII
wishes more sincerely than do, to see a plan a
dopsed for the abolition OF it; but there is only
\ proper and effectual mode By which il can be NJ
compIished. and that Is by Legislative authorit,
and this. far nay suffrage viii go, shall nevs
Q. be wanting" oser ~
ID In many other letters and documents the gre;
and good Washington EXPIRE ssed sentiments simils
to those in the above extracts, and in his will
slid: upon the decease fmy wife it is my vi
s. and desire that all tho slaves which hold In N
e e own right shall receive their freedom" He the
gives as reason for not freeing them sooner. TIL
they were 50 intermxed with the dover negroe
that to emancipate them during his wife life wou
excite the most painful sensations. a q
Here is one of the exsrncts "garbled" from Je
ferson: rf ea faar 95 Hinsi eso
"There must doubtless be an unhappy infiucnt
on the manners of our people. produced By the e,
istence of slavery among Us. The whole comrers
~ a. between master and slave is perpetual exerc.
OF the most boisterous passons-the most unrcmi
ting despotism On the one part, and degrading sal
oD mission on the other. Our children see this, Al
learn TO initiate il; for man is an initiative anima
~ This quality is the germ Of all education in hir
err From his cradle to his grave, he is learning to
ed what he secs others do If a parent could find T
motive. either in his philanthropy or his self low
for restraining the intemperance Of passion towar
his slave. it should always be sufficient one th
his child Is present But generally it is not suf
! cicnt. The parent storms, the child looks o
catches the liniments Of wrath, puts on the san
airs in the circle Of smaller slaves, gives a loo
rein TO the worst of passions, and, thus nursed
ucated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot b
be stamped by it with odious pecuIiarities II
- - man must be prodigy who can retain his manne
on and morals uRdepraved by such circumstances.
SIC And with what execration should the statesman
ma loaded, who, permitting one half the citizens IN
I TO tample on the rights Of the other. transforr
those into despots and these into enemies, dsstro
the morals Of the ono part. and the aasnor petrie
the other; for if slave can have country in u
world, it must be any other in preference to that
which he is born to hive and labor for another;
which he must lock up the faculties Of his natu'
contribute, az far asdepsnds on hin individual {
eeavors. . the svanishment Of the human race