Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1861-02-07

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other amendment to the Constitution an
thorizing cities and towns to levy a school
tax in addition to the levy made, by the
State if they SO desired. This report was
concurrcd in, and believe the amendment
will pass both houses, and be submitted to
tn. people; if it is incorporated in the Com
stituton II will do moro to revive our par
nlyzed free school system than anything
within the 2c@er of the Legislature. :,
81 a number of bills on local and unimr
portant subjects fwere, introduced, ann, the
Senate adjourned till Monday at 2 o.
Clock lss sa..f f.as t....s INDIANA,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Plan of the Seces-
." sionists. 1 af -
Mcssrs. HtSTER & Co. have issued an
address to the people of Virginia. of which
the following is the last paragraph:
1--WE conlude by expressing our solemn
conviction that prompt. decided action, by
the people of Virginia in Convention, will
afford the surest means under the provi-
dencc of God, of averting an impending
civil war. and preserving the hope of recon,
structing Union already dissolved.
JIM. Mason. r. Nj. L. HrSrER,
= ID. @. De JEANETTE, NJ r. H. GAnNErr.
&c. &c. sff
Prompt and decided action, in the ot,in-
ion of Messrs. Hunter & Co., is to pursue
the same mad careerwith Sonth Carolina
--dcfy the authority of the National Gov
eminent, and ALLEVIATE, as far as possible,
the feelings, respect. and regard of all 10y
al Americans. But. do AIessrs Hunter
& Co. propose to stop there9 Not at ALL
They have no Flea of remaining in exile.
left ont of the nation. cold, despiscd and
condemned. They have no such ilea
This is TO be done in the '.hope of re-
constructing The Union.' Mr.. Hunter had
a month before, warily but clearly, let out
the ultimate idea of the sccessionists--(a and
which, except perhaps, among few in
South Carolina, was the real idea of the
thinkers in the party from the beginning)
that secession was simply means of
compelling the other States to remodel the
Government, with new guarantees. =" in
other words new lease of power to The
declining supremacy of slavery. Reduced
down to its real anil final element. seces
sion is to DC used only rs threat to COM
pei the submission of loyal people to a
factious AMI tyranical minority. But is
this wild, insane defiance Of all authority.
and contempt of all that true Americans
have held sacred in government. or just in
civil society. the true way to reconstruct a
Union? Is it possible in such way. or
is it desirable fpossiblcs VIII any ra-
tional man agree to reconstruct what the
secessionisis call Confe'leracy, without
any binding force, and which any party
may destroy with IMMUNITY at any mo-
ment? This was tried before the Consti-
tuition was framed. anil failed. IL now
the Government which was formed cx-
pressly to proven. that very evil. fails
also, there is an end Of all Union with
men VINO hold such principles, and are ca
paLle OF such conduct This is one of the
practicl truths the South ought thoroughly
to understand 1t is not TO be disguised
that there is a growing feeling in the great
Free States, that an alliance with tho
South is by no means necessary to their
prosperity or happiness. 1t is certainly
not at all necessary to their strength or
nationality. The Union policy of the
North, which has been most intense. and
to which there is hardly any exception.
may become one of cold Indifference, which
will look in content at the South gather
ing its black hordes round the Gulfof Mex
leo, and rushing rapidly to that final and
disastrous doom WHICH every thinking
and philosophical man knows to be incv-
table.
To prevent this calamity, reconstruct
this Union, which Mr. Hunter and his
confe,lerates have already done all they
can to destroy-he proposes to continue
the exercises of curses, threats, and treas
on. with the flea that such experiences
NAV make the North more amable. anil
still more in love with the Union. Messrs-
Hunter a. Co. may as well understand at
once, what any child cannot fail to discern,
that this treatment is an utter failure. The
States that go out Of the Union viii have
to lie in the bel they have made for
themselves. II it is the happy and
prosperous condition they have Imagined
lit. The nation will not envy them; If it is
not, aud they want to come back. they
must come back in very different temper
from that which they now have.
| That no reconstruction Is possible any
one can see by looking to the manner IN
which il must be done 1t can be done in
one Of two ways. lst., by the thirty -four
States coming together as they did in 1877
independently. TO make frw Constitn-
ton. This will not be done, in all human
probability, bccaiisc the great majority oil
the people are not only satisfied that it Is
the most perfect work Of civil structure on
earth. But If such an sattcAipt was made.
who believes the same conditions would
be made to the South? If the Constitu
ton was to be made by independent States,
why should the representation Of slaves BE-
conceded? So sf4 ~
.. The other and only mode of reson'
arudion, is by amendments to the Constr
tuition. How can they be made? 1ht
admission of Kansas makes thirty -fou'
States, of which nine is more than one
fourth. Nine States can defeat all amend
lnlents. Can any man imagine such Q
change Of parties and principles. that nine
I States will not be ready to defeat what
are cslle.i nep guarantees for she protec
ltioa and expansion of slavery?