Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-09-18
WHOLE NO. 3O6

seeing no other hope when driven TO the
wall, should manumit her slaves. it Will
become almost. if not altogether, irnpossi-
BILE. In this event the war must be con-
tinued indefinitely; and if you succeed.
leaving the probability OF foreign inter
vention out of the question. yoar energies
are wasted. your lands, cities, fresides
desolated. your resources dissipated, yonr
vigor expended. your revenue exhausted,
your treasury hopelessly bankrupt, with
the cause of your affection sill clinginS to
the body polite. These evils are TO DO a
voided by these means, sa4 | earnestly
believe BY noue other.
1t is not possible to find nineteen mil
lions of fseemen who thoroughly sympa-
lhize on any subject; it is absurd ia expect
them to do so Until doomslay there
will be faliandigham on the one hand
or Conway upon the other II we lose
the former, however-he is lost, by the
way-I mean, if we cannot have the infu-
ence of the former we can have that Of the
latter. The one errs, to use phrase with
which he is familiar. with malice pre-
pense," and his error is on the side of hu-
man bondage and Barbarism. the other
errs on the side of human liberty and
Civilization. Captiousness is not capi-
tai crime; if it were. perhaps should have
been executed long ago; indeed; if tho
fault finding propensi.ies of Messrs. Phil
lips and Conway were properly directed
against popular sentiment instead Of its
representatives. it would be a virtue. and L
would applaud it to the echo" They
are liable now to the very charges they
bring against the Administration, and it
is strange that they have not become aware
of the fact.
When the edict is issued-I regard il
as certainty somewhere in the Future.
there will be many to oppose it. No mat
ter, we will gain so much that we can well
afford to lose them. The passage of the
Fugitive Slave Law created the most in
tense Indignation, who opposes its enforce
ment now. This was a Madison to mil
lions but elnanci patton will prove q beni-
son to billions. Ii we succumb SD easily
to injustice and wrong. will it therefore be
hard to bend to the decree of justice and
right?
One word more in regard to expedien-
cy. Whatever is just is always expedi-
ent. Was there ever a moment in the his
tory Of the planet when it was wrong to do
right?
"FCr justice, good my liege,
And place temple and all season summer"
| have written much more than inten.
ded and taxed your time. space and pa
tience, perhaps, more than my treatment
of the subject will repay Self-reliance is
the lesson the American people have to
learn; to depend upon themselves and not
upon their representatives. All move
ments to he successful must emanate from
them and not frIm their President; he is
the executive only of their will.
In regard to the peculiar one under con-
sideratiou, / repeat, it is the only path TO
Peace. When the North recognizes this
fact; bases her action upon it; masses her
forces and hurls then with all her might
aud vigor against the enemy. battalion sf-
ter battalion, brigade after brigade. divis-
ion after division, corps a. arnaee after
corps d arR,ee, success is sure and peace
permanent; until then, we climb the gla-
z:e;s of Switzerland; We sail against the
tide; We struggle with a whiylwind.