Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1861-08-15


ately weigh gold in the scales against the
existence this government, and the lib
critics Of this people, is either an idiot or a
fraifor. Ii there is such man in Parke
county, may God forgive him, forI cam
not What matters it whether this war
costs hundred millions or hundred
thousand, II we are thereby enabled to main
tain the Union, and transmit this govern
ment to our children? Considered in a
merely financial point Of view it would
be the best investment the American peo-
pie ever made If the government falls,
what becomes Of the value of property
+ What becomes Of commcfce? of public
and private institutions? Of prosperity OF
every kind? aas1 ria vl
The folly of the man who refuses TO sus-
tain the Government because it will cost
large amount OF money to do so. is only
eqnaled by him who should refuse to pur-
chase necessary food because it is expen-
sive and voluntarily starves himself to
death in order that he may live to enjoy a
large fortune. Financially considered, Sc
cession is the greatest misfortune that
could befal the nation. and especially the
people of the Western States. The Mis-
sissippi River would become the property
of a foreign government, and we should be
cut OFF from any outlet to the Gulf except
upon sach terms as should be grasionsly
vouehsafed to us by the traitors now in
arms: aI--Il of
The manufactures and agricultural pro-
ductions of Indiana would not be allowed
to float down the Mississippi River to find
market. except on compliance with the
conditions and payment of the duties pre-
scribed by the Dictatorship at Richmond.
The Revolutionary war is estimated to
have cost two hundred millions of dollars.
How much easier it would have been to
have paid the little duty Of three pence
pound upon tea. Aud can you doubt that
the men who now urge the cost of this war
as an objection to it, would for the same
reason. have objected TO the Revolution
had they lived during that period.
COMPROMISE. 1'as
But it is sail that this war might have
been avoided by a compromise, and could
now be settled by compromise. While
winter the traitors were stealing arms,
plundering mints. investing fortresses. and
maishling armies into the field. What is
there to compromise now but the integrity
of the Union and the existence OF the gov
ment? Do the traitors offer to use any
compromise? No. On the contrary their
ultimatum is destruction of the Constitu-
ton aud the. Union. But how would
these men so about proposing compro-
mise to an enemy who has hundred thou
sand men in the field. and who spits in the
nations face whenever the word is men
toned who declares that secession
and disunion are the glorious consumma-
tion of the toll and travail of more than
thirty years; who affirm that free institu-
tions at the North are failure; that the
only true foundation for Government is
African slavery. and that the laboring
classes of the North are serfs and vassals
beneath the mental and moral dignity Of
the slave upon the plantation.
IT is aow well known that the secession
movement was inauguratcd as early as
1929. Its first effort at the destruction of
the Government was made in 1888, in
the notification movement. in south Car
olina. based ostensibly upon the taiiIf
question. Gen. jackson then predicted
! that the next effort would be predicatcd up
on the slavery question. and the prophecy
has been fulfilled. From that time for
ward secession has been kept alive under
the deceitul and spacious title of "State's
rights" and yet these Constitutional
doctors proposed to cure this chronic seces-
sion cancer by the application of mild
compromise plaster. Butt tell yon, No! The
only cure for the cancer is the knife. You
must cut out the gangrened and rotten
parts, and extract the very roots OF the de-
vouring ulcer Compromise roots and
herbs are of no avail in case like this
The Southern Commissioners sent to
Washington last spring offered no com
promise, AM would listen to none. Their
naughty and traitorous demand was that
we should consent to the dissolution Of the
| Union. and the Acknowledgement Of the
Government. They said if this Govern
ment would write its name on a piece OF
blaRk paper and allow then to write over
the conditions upon which they would
compromise this difficulty and return 10
the Union, they had none to write.
IA proposition to compromise now is
| simply proposition to surrender. and the
man who makes it. disguise it as he may
means that and nothing else. q
t We are now fighting to preserve what our
fathers fought to win. They established a
republican government, and we will up
hold it. II their cause was sacred. then is
ours sancti6ed by their blood, and should,
if necessary, be sealed with our own. +.
SECESSION. H sr 4
To concelc, practically or theoretically
the doctrine of secession. upor which this
rebellion is based. is to concede the des-
truction of our social and political institu-
tions. That doctrine is that any State has.
the right to withdraw from the Union at
pleasure. without consulting. the National
Government or the other States This be-
ing admitted, 1t requires no argument to
prove. that we have no government. but a.
mere voluntary association, with no high
er sanctions than a pleasure party. :romi
which any guest may retire at his own
convenience. Carried TO its consequences.
il. does not stop with the destruction Of the
National Government. but is equally fatal
to State and local institutions Commerce
must perish when one party can withdraw
from a contract, without the consent of the;
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