Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1861-04-11
Letter from Jasper Packard, Esq.
10 La PoRrE, April 9th. 1861.

Editor Republican
The Democrat, of March 21st, con-
tains an ARTICLE to which desire to reply.
1 should not have troubled myself to no.
tice the article in question were it not that
the Editor of the Democrat goes out Of his
way to attack me personally. on matter
foreign to my position as temporary Edi-
tor of the Herald. He makes one remark
which places me in false position before
the people of Marshall Co.. if anything
that paper says can have such an effect; and
for this reason desire to have my answer
published in the same county rather than
in La Porte. Will you therefore give place
to the following:
To the Editor of the plymouth Democrat:
While in the Office of the La Porte Her
old, / noticed an article in the Democrat.
prophesying that the next time Schuyler
Colfax comes before the people of this Dis
ciliation and compromise" and stating
that Colfax was for "war." but will here
after ''deny ever having been in favor of
any such measures meaning by "any
such measures" the preservation of the
Union and the Constitution, and the exc
cu.ion Of the laws. which you call "war. 4"
upon this penned an article for the Her
aid. denying that Colfax or any other Re-
publican was in favor of war. but that he
was in favor of the Union and the Consti-
tuition. and that the time would never
firmly by them 'when they were assaulted
by Southern traitors and their allies in the
North" / am pleased to see how COM
plctely you show you hand. 1t was Just
what / intended to have You do. had
suspected before that your paper belonged
to the latitude Of Montgomery; now !
know it, Nowhere in the Herald did ad
vocate war for o moment. aud the only
thing which produces such bristling up
on your part, is because. earnestly as
could. / advocated "a firm maintenance OF
the Constitution and the laws" Upon
this issue I'll risk tine people. Ideprecate
war as much rs any one can. but when il
comes to a question of Union or disunion
no words sound so sweet TO me as those
stern words of "Old Hickory The
: Union must and shall be preserved" Main
tain the Constitution always. peaceably il
we can. forcibIy If we mnst This policy
worked well when Washington quellei the
: whiskey insurrection; it worked we'll whal
Jefferson crushed Burr's Conspiracy; il
. worked we'll when Jackson strangled nul
= LITIGATION: and it would have worked wei
in the case of the present Southern treason
fit had been applied in time. Had For
: Moultrie been reinforced the very day tn,
Secession Ordinance Of South Carolin,
passed, had every Southern fort been speed
lily strengthened, the navy concentrated
: and immediate steps been taken for rails
: ing an army Of 100, 900 men, secession
a Iwould now have been as powerlcss as nul
/, LITIGATION in 1892. This is my honest con
viction; and if forty administrations shorl,
adop' different policy. to me it makes NJ
o difference. believe that when loyalt,
n does not restrain the traitors hand. fore
o should be applied at once. For furthe
+. Exposition Of my sentiments on treason
refer you to the recent letter Of Elk Cover
! nor Wright.
Because stern military necessity seem
to require the evacuation of Fort Sumter
n you think the President has abandoned tn
= Chicago Platform. Which article OF tn
Chicago Platform is violated by the evac
y nation Of Fort Sumter? Which one woul'
. be violated by giving mp every Fort in IN
e South? Which one would be violated b.
: forming a treaty with Secessia and &C
knowledging her government. You kno,
= that were oil this done even then Their
would be no abandonmen. Of the distinct
i've principles of the Republican party
Those principles are not now in ISSUE
They will be in issue when il is again pro
% posed, as in the iniquitous Critrenden A
y mendmcnt, to establish over us a despot
70 ism that would disgrace Austria. AMI ope
up the Millennium Of American Chattelism
| should be pleased to know wherein Lin
ne coin "has left the Chicago Platform" =
Ell You mention nothing but the evacua
n ition of Fort Sumter. which is not referre
to in any way in the Chicago Platform
" and even If it were. you know very wei
s. that the necessity for its evacuation, IS tn
r legacy of the last admin stration Of III
in late Democratic party.
tol You say that am lone of the radi al
by both nature and education" That
!" true and thank you for the complimen
OF am radically opposed to treason and I
It. every shade of sympathy with it. az
radically. heart and soul. op osed to h
he further spread ofhuman bondage. II pos
IN sible l am more opposed it now than eve
" before. because see class numbering les
than half a million. assuming to dicta'
!, opinions for many millions of free whit
" men. and. when their tyranical edicts al
s. repudiated by majority of three to on
n. proceeding to lay in ruins a governmel
IA built by patriotic wisdom. and cemehte
,.tby patriotic blood On such question
= how conld be otherwise than radical II
a. nature; and by education certainly an
ne And / am proud Of my teachers. Wasl
ington. Jefferson. Franklin. Madison. Co
Mason of Virginia.-.'Slayery brings q
he Judgements Of Heaven on Country
!. How. prophetic! John M. Niles. Sill
y. Wright. lJacksor, Charles Japss Faulkns
r. Spare Us. i implore you spare us. I
Of curse of slavery, the bitterest drop fro
ev the chalice of the destroying angel" 7
!. resolutions of every free state Democrat
Nv convention and Of eyerv Democratic lie