The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-06-27
Highly Treasonable Tribune" Talk.

Highly Reasonable Tribune" Talk.
The Bridgeport Farmer collects the following
highly reasonable extracts from the files of the
leading Republican paper, the New York Tribune.
Latterly, the Tribune has abandoned the ground
it hold last winter in favor of the right of seces
sion. and the injustice Of coercion But it has not
attempted to confute its own doctrne-which, it
maintained, was incontrovertible
No. /.
If the cotton States consider the value of the
Unicn dcbatable. we mlin!an their perfect right
to discuss it. Nay. hold with Jefferson to the
inaenabc right of communities to alter or abolish
forms Of government that have become oppressive
injurious and if the cotton States shall be-
come satisfied that they can do better out of the
Union than in it, insist letting them go in
peace The righ to secede may be revolutionary
one, but it erists nevertheless and we do not
see how one party can have right to do what
other party has a right to prevent. We must
resist the asserted ri yht of any State to
main in the Unon and nullify or defy the laws
thereof; withdraw from the Union is quite anoih
er matter. And whenever considerable section of
our Union shlll deliberately resolve to o out, ,ce
shall resist all coercion measures DESIGNED to
keep ii in. We hope never to live in republic
whereof one section Is pinned to the residue by
bGyonets. NeU York Tribune, Nou9.
IF the cotton States unitedly and earnestly wish
to withdraw peacefully from the Union, we think
they should ami woud be alloi1ea to do Any
attempt to compel them by force to remain, would be
contr nv to the pri ciplcs emu lciared III the i'm
mortal Dec aration of In !cpendcnce-contrary to
the fundamental ideas on which human liberty is
based.-Tribune, NOc. 90.
No. s.
What we have affirmed, and sill maintain, is the
right of Il frame and IN ,dify their po!iti-
cal institutions in accordance with their own con-
victio,s OF duty and policy. as affirmed in the i'm
mortal Declaration of American independence
If our correspondent. has anything to say in con-
futaton of that doctrine, shall be happy to hear
him.-Tribune, Dec. 10.
No. a.
If the people of eight contiguous
States shall pretty unanimously resolve to Secede
and up for themselves, think they would do
so, and that il u0uld be most un,cisc TO undertake
resist such secession Gy federal force. Why is i,
that those who want to confute this doctrine, al
ways make their attack on something else -
Tribune, Dec. 10.
No. 5.
| We have repeatedly asked those who dssenl
| from our view Of this matter, to tell US frankly
wh thcr the, DO do assent to Mr. Jefferson's
stat me t in the Declaration of Independence
that governments "derive their just powers from
THE CONSENTOF TIE GOVERNED" and
| that. whenever an form of government becomes
dest ructive of these ends. IT Is THE RIGHT
IT. and to institute lew government. &C., &c.
We DO heartily accept this doctrine, believing il
intrinsically sound. b"neiicent, and one that uni
vers,lly accepted, is ,lcuated to prevent the
she din, of seas of human blood. A diff 1T justi.
/ fed the secession from the British Empire OF
Three Millions Of Colonsts n l776. zoe do not see
,chy it could not justify the secession OF five mil
/ lions of SDutherners from the Federal Union in
1851 If We are mistaken on this point, why
does not some one ATTEMPT to show wherein, and
why =? For our own pari. while we deny the righ
of shareholders to hold slaves against the will OF
the latter, we cannot see hcw Twenty Millions Of
people can ;tht u!ly hold Ten even Five Mil
lions in detested Union with them by nILIrAR,
FORCE II Tribune, Dec II.
No 6.
There is hardly sreat principle which may nc
be thus " run into the ground" But if seven Of
eight contiguous States shall present themselves
authenticity at Washington. saying "We hate thu
Federal Union 1--WE have withdrawn from it We
give GU the choice between acquescing in ou
secession and arranging amicably all incdenta
qaeStio ms OH the one hand, and attempting to sub
due us upon the o:hcr"-we could not stand W
for coercion, for subjugation, for we do not thinl
it would be just. We hold the right Of Self
Government sacred, even when invoked in behal
of those who deny it to others.-[ Tribune, Dec
II.
No. T.
If ever ''seven or eight States" send agents t
Unon' we shall feel constrained bv our devotion
to Human Liberty, to say, Let Them 90. And we
do not see how we could take the other side wit,
out coming in direct conflict 18th those Rights o
MN which we hold pa amount to all political al
rancemeIfs. however convenient aud advanta
geous.-t Tribune. Dec. Is.
They have a company Of soldiers at Pensacola
fighting for the South. every of which is
Methodist in good Standing. When the Captai
gives his commands he thus ad1rpS 500 lis men