Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1861-02-14
From the London Times. January l9.
What the English think Of South Carroll.
mas Ordinance Of Secession.


To examine a willing witness. to make o
speech before an audience thoroughly pre-
possessed with the opinions which we ad-
vocate. to spur a willing horse. or to break
bruised reed. are exploits provcrbially
easy and inviting. There are few people
SO modest rs not to believe themselves
equal to the most arduous Of these under
takings. But the facility of all these
things sinks to nothing in comparison with
the ease Of preparing q manifesto on the
subject of slavery and disunion for such q
community as that of South Carolina. The
happy man to whom fortune has reserved
so singular felicity labors under no other
difficulty than the necessity Of avoiding
whatever temptation necessity or education
may throw in his way toward the smallest
degree Of modesty. candor or fairness. If
he can avoid these dangerous shores he has
absolutely no other difficulties to fear
The wind is fair, the sea is smooth. the
haven for which his soul longs is full in
sight. We confess we are surprised tha
strengthened by SO many and such unques-
tionable advantages. the Separationists Of
| South Carolina have not done more Justice
to the exciting thesis they have undertaken
to handle.
Whether it be that the declaration has
long been written, and carried about like
the rcdoutable cane of the ever-to- -be-re-
gretted Brooks. ready to be put in requi-
sition on the first convenient opportunity.
we cannot tell: but certainly the declara-
ton of the immediate causes which induce
and Justify tho separation Of South Csro-
lima from the Federal Union is by no means
so lively and spirit stirring Q composition
as little NOR. literary skill might. per-
haps have made it. Of course. it would
not be in human nature-that is, Amer
ican human nature-to commence any
great public document without a proper
fling at the old mother country. from
whose tyranny the States emancipated
themselves in order to enjoy. from their
mutual justice and forbearancc, that per-
petual concord and never ending union
and happiness which they sought for in
vain from q society corrupted by the vices
of monarchy. sristocracy and feudality.
and q decripit civilization. At this time
were established we are told, the right OF
State to govern itself. and the right of
the people to abolish government when
it ceases to accomplish the ends for which
il was instituted. We know not what his
tories are allowed to pass through the
charmed circle which girdles the domestic
institutions Of South Carolina. or how
much man is allowed to know of the
history of the world in those fortunate re-
gions without being constituted thereby
an abolitionist. exposed to the halter and
tar barrel. But we should have thought
that the right of nation to govern itself
was fully established by the English Rev
olution. and the right of . people to get
rid Of government which Gid not accom-
plish the ends of its Institution. by the
revolt Of the United Netherlands from
Spain.
However. we gladly hurry on to the 23d
day Of May, 1888. when South Carolina
found herself for the first time . member
Of the American Union. She applies to
the Union the principles which she had
learned in her quarrel with England. She
finds that the Uuion does not exist Tor her
own benefit; that it does not accomplish.
as far as she is concerned. fully and en-
tirely the ends Of its institution--nay, that
some articles of the contract have not been
fully accomplished: and strong in this con-
viction. she claims the right against her
sisters as she has before exercised against
her parent. ~
There is not much use in reasoning q
tho present time with Solth CaroIina--'
Were she more smcnabls to reason. she
would not be in the position in which she
finds herself: but still we may observe IN
passing. that It speaks well for the wis
dom d the American Federstioa. when We
find its dissolution advocated on principlesl
upon which no federation could peruaan-
emily exist. II every State is to claim to
Be the judge Of its own grievsnoss. i i is