Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1861-11-21


founded on misconception or ignorance
but is most intense in those who best know
the North. 1t could not be diminished
but only be increased by letting every body
at the South know exactly the truth about
the feeling towards them at the North
They hate us mere the less we hate them
Our crime in their eyes. is. that we are scr.
ry for their Injustice to the black man.
They can never forgive MS for showing b,
our wealth that such injustice is not. on the
whole. profitable. They would extermi
nate from tho face Of the earth every man
who viii not either participate in their
crime, or cordially approve of it. Such
is ths hatred which naturally and neces-
sarily grows ont Of slavery. surrounded by
communities where all are free. and the
freedom Of sll is cherished principle. I,
is like the electric wrath within Leyden
jar. intensified by the accumulation of the
opposite electricity without.
1t would be easy to bring almost innu.
uerablo proofs of the existence and over
whelmiug prevalence Of the sentiment
Above described ct the South. yet thus fas
the war has been managed by the govern
ment as If no such sentiment existed as the
governing an;nus of the war. Every
thing seems to have been done on the sup
position that the South has been misled
by conspirators. has acted on misconcep-
ton. and will come back and apologize as
soon as it is disabused. The obvious theo-
~ at the bottom of the federal campaign
Of 1861, is. that if the government. main
tains itself. defends its capital, shows
Christian magnaimity and forbearance in
its armies. and above all takes care that
the institution" Of slavery shall receive
as little damage as possible from its mill
tary operations. the Southern people will
discard their rebel leaders. and return to
their loyalty. as doubtless they would but
for the hatred which fills their hearts.
Misconce;ving entirely the cause Of the
war. and the animus Of the enemy. we have
every reason to be thankful that nothing
worse has happened to our cause: but what
we have we to hope for the future? AS long
as we do not strike at the cause OF the war
nothing. Every dollar we expend on The
plan of restoring the statum quo ante BEL
lnns. is so much given to the rebel canse.
AS long as slave property is not stricken
away from under them. it really makes lit
tie difference to tho Southerners whether
they take Washington or not II they
take it. they thereby perhaps stir up. the
iuipassivc North to. more aggressive hos
:, =. If they do not. they tire us out by
our enormous expenses, and we shall the
sooner return to our allegiance to King
Cotton, and our humiliating subserviency
to their unjust trcstments of the negro
The sooner shall we consent to those
shameful demands against freedom which
caused our late strictly constitutional. po-
litical. Northern rebellion. They will
have driven us into obedience at our own
expense. II any love Of freedom should
still remain at the North, any Willingness
that blsck OF blackish people should par
:icipate in it,. the old hatred of the North.
and every thing Northern would still grow
at the South.s and again produce sudden.
unexpected. calamitous war. For be it
remembered that slave holding commu-
nifty in which the master class is in excess,
has always the main preparation for war.
Abundance of men spoiiing TO fight.
Either what has been said about the
spirit and temper of the southern people
is untrue. either their scolding. ravine.
lynching and rushing en- masse to arms.
before they were wronged in the least
means nothing. or else. the war has been
managed TINS far, on our part. unwis-ly
Nearly svery blow onr government ha,
struck has been where the enemy was
strongest Not one has been struck. with
its appreciation. where he is weake~t.-
This could be done without supreme folly
only on the superstition that the people Il
the south are not acting from luminosity
but from misapprehension--from which
they will soon recover. If we accept coolly
few hard knocks. and give none. to dc
any serious danIage.T as sseese
1t is really case of national life OF
death. and the people must Judge accor'
ding to their own light and observation
whether the terrible fact is as above sta
ted. II il is. then. let every man as Z
loves home. wife. children, liberty. coun.
try, cry aloud and demand of the govern.
ment that it lose not one moment in deal
ing It's deadliest blow at slavery. that il
strike ct the snemy's weakest point. that il
sink It once the soil frou which grew and
grows the hatred that produced this rebell-
ion. The single bead and arm OF the he
roic Tighlmsn recaptured ship from the
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