Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-04-02

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shall return. to hear their dead comrades
spoken ofss msrcsnaries hired by the OBJ
prsssor. AMI Justly overtaken by the op-
Pressor's fate; shall return to fir-i the war
male willow pensioeless, the soldiers or.
Phan rast helpless on the mercy of the
world! fsR a. II TfIx
Anl then the scersa--it may be far more
Terrible yct-wh~ns Ipsliana. base aud era
ven. shall put forth her hand attempting
10 sign the compact of degradation
4dftsmpfing to sign! Will the attempt
ever be consummated? In peace, without
blood-hed. without the hani OF a brother
raised against brother. of father against
-on-neveris Until Indiana shall have
shared worse fate than Missouri, or Ken
sucky. or Virginia; until her fields shall be
dssolste. her cities spoiled. her substance
wasted; until We shall have learned, by
sickening experience. tho nightly terrors.
the daily horrors Of civil war--neverf Will
the men who have stool firm while shot
and shsll iecimated their ranks, turn cow
ards on their return to their native State,
and patiently suffer it! So sure a. God
lives. never--never!
Let Inslisns, belyins tho courage she
has shown on the battlefield. casting from
her the last remnant Of self respect, false
10 her constitutional obligations. blind to
future of abject servility. deaf alike to
the warnings OF revolutionary wisdom and
20 the voice of civilization speaking to-day
IN her ears--lst Indiana, selling Freedom s
birthright for less than Esau's price, re.
solve TO purchase Southern favor by
Northern ACKNOWLEDGMENT and thu world
wide contempt that would follow it---but
let her know, before she enters that path
OF destruction. that her roads will lie over
the bodies Of her murdered sons, past pros
trste cabins. past ruined farms. through all
the desolation that FIRE and sword can
work. Let her know. that before she can
link her tate to o system that is surely
doomed to ultimate extinction as the hu-
man body is finally destined to death,
there will be war in her own borders to
which all We have yet endured, will be but
o. the summers gale. that scatters few
branches over the highway. compared to
the hurricane that plows its broad path Of
rnin. mile after mile. leaving behind, in its
track, . PROSTATE forest, harvest crops mp
rooted. and human habitations overthrown.
But the hurricane is of Gods sending.
Whether the tempest of war, from w,...-h
lie has hitherto marcifully preserved our
State. shall row sweep over it. as it has
swept over the I'LL fated Southern border,
depends. citizens of Indiana, upon you
Courage. prudence, patriotism will avert
1t. Faint heartedness and folly will bring
1t down upon our heads. If it come. God
help the present generation that has to en-
dure IL! God help our children after us,
to whom We bequeath North West steep
cd in scandalous dependence, so long as
she submits o her masters. and q prey to
. second civil war, so soon as she awakes
TO her true condition. and draws the sword
once more, to redeem the errors of the
pastl ROBERT DALE OWEN.
March 4, 1868.
s"Les an Abolitonist come within the borders
of South Carolina, If we can catch him we will
try him, and notwithstanding all tho inter ference
OF all the Government, on earth. including the
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Preston IA debate in u. s. Senate, Jan., 1888.
eli chance throw an Ab0litionist in our hands,
he may expect a felon's death-"-Senasor Ham
ssend Of South Carolina, ia Sen tie, 1896.
tSpesch OF M. Stephens. rs reported in the Sa-
vann N Republican IL is thence copied int Put
n ,u's Rebellion Record. vol l.. document 4s. p
III to ~. "Mr. Stephens took his seat amid a
burst Of enthusiasm AMI applause, such 40 the
Atheneun has never had dis yed within its walls
in the memory of its oldest isihabitsnt."
IN. Y. Commercial, February %, 1861.
"A pamphlet by c. J. Stilie, this subject.
giving many more detiils, is well worth Studying
Its title is. "How free people conduct great
Sparks Washington, vol. tx, p. l59.
80 Jefferson's Works, vol. l.. D. 1875.
r. Jefferson's Writings. vol g, p 404-
:. Address of a IL Stephens, reported. sta
ted in previous note, in the Savannah Republi
IS Note TO recent legal opinions and decisions
touching sldrry.-The direct question whether
slaves brought by their masters to reside in a freq
State become free-in other words, whether a
State law be constitutional which declares free an
slaves, not fugitive, who may come within the lin.
its Of the State has never been brought before the
Supreme Court.
But in the bred Scott case the opinion delivered
by the Court based principles. the practical
application Of which appears to establish the right
Of an owner Of slaves to their "servce and labor
throughout life, no matter where that life may be
pent.
Chief Justice fancy. in that opinion. declares
That negroes imported from Africa we're drought
here articles Of Merchandise; that in every one
of the thirteen colonies which formed the Consti
luton Of the United States ga negro of the African
race was regarded as an article of property. ant
held and bought and sold as srch. and that, at the
lime the Constitution was adopted, the negro was
created ordinary article of merchandise and
trsfic- Whenever profit could De made by it,
As such the Chief Justice regards him.
bred Scott, the plaintiff in this case, n slave
owned in Missouri by DR.. Emerson, had been ia
ken BY hisewner to Illinois, kept there two years
then kept two years in Territory Of the United
States north Of the Missouri Compromise line,
while that COMPROMISE was in force, and had then
been brought back to Missouri
The Court, after reciting that "Scott was slave
when taken into the State Of Illinois and there held
as such, decided that when taken back to Nilsson
ri he remained slave, nasmuch "a "his status, az
free or slave. depended on the laws of Missouri,
not of Illinois
So also Of his residence in Territory declar ed
free by a law of the United States. The Court
held the Law to be unconstitutional and void, be-
erty, and snakes no distinction between that prop
erty and any othern And the Court decides that
Scott cannot be liberated under such a law.
q Thouug, tho o~fior, did rof emma hoforo fho