Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1864-06-16
Snr Representative Men.

Hoftuam i3tncOin, as the Cnlcago III
bnne jrstly remakks. rising steadily by the
elevating power Of his abilities and his po-
itical principIes-from the fat boat to the
Presidential Chair. Is fit representative
of the genius Of our free North. Labor.
self-culture. great, natural ssgacity, andan
inaexible integrity, personal and political.
combined with a firm conviction of the
Righteousness offreedom and the wrong Of,
slavery. have placed him where he is. He
knew them both. Slavery. by depriving.
his youth of all advantages. launched and
left him on fat boat. uaBut that fat boat.
bearing him across the Ohio to free soil.
freedom supplied what slavery had denied,
and bore him steadily upward to the Presi'
,lency. At the Southshe would probably
have belonged to the despised class Of
poor whites" The energizing power Of
freedom ,impels him on ward till he sue
ceeds to the chair of Washington, Jefler-'
son. Madison. Monroe and Jackson. only
the FIRST and last of whom. If any Of them.
will occupy larger OF more admirable
place in history than he.s VIXEN elected.
as he certainly will be- he will be the frs.
President twice elected from tho Northern
States. 1t is eminently fit that he should
be sucha representative Of the genius of
our free and democratic North. which is.
henceforth the country. Andrew johnson.
springing from the same class of "poor
whites" at tine South. has fought his way
up against the aristocratic slaveholding
class. step ly step. tooth and nail. asking
no favors Of the chivalry. anil getting fewer
than he asked. He knows what slavery
is. for he has Jeh is barb. lie felt it when,
a journeyman shoemaker sustaining hi,
mother by working over his lapstone. he
learned his alphabet by midnight toll
never having the opportunity to attend
school day in his life. slor {
: 20 Having arrived at manhood, aud mar
ried. he learned from his wife to write and
''cypher." Still he. had no books, and
with ali this assiduity bis education at the
South at thirty was barely what child Of
his talents At the North would have &C
snired at ten. What had Andy johnson
then to thank the boasiad "Southern in.
,,itutions" for, save for keeping him. mp
to his manhood. in intense ignorance, and
robbins him Of all the light and JOY of the
most precious twenty years OF his liie.
He felt the curse. He knew why every
free State had free schools and every slave
State had none. Since that time he has
been q representative man Of the poor
whites OF Tennessee. They recognized him
Iassone Of themselves. and so faras slavery
had left them brains enough to stand in
sympathy With him he led them. Fight,
ing secession tooth and nail as he fought
the slave aristocracy. for i was but his
old enemy in new form. the long start
which the secessionists got Of the Union
lists miller Buchauan's administration enas
tled them temporarily to triumph over
him and drive him from his State When
Fort sDonelson opened the State to the
Union arms. he returned. and it was not
long before. fully, emancipated himself
from the power aud influence Of slavery.
he struck the key note of emancipation for
all. The extirpaiion Of slavery has now
lew. If any, more radical advocates than
Andrew j obnson, of Tennessee, who, ex-
cept Andrew jackson. from the same
State. is almost. or quite, the only person
sprung from the class of poor whites
whom rs outhcrn Institutions" have per-
mitied 10 rise to prominent national posi-
tions of usefulness or honorsiaf6' .
1aWby has the Republican party selected
these two men from our vast population?
Not because Of their abilities alone, bouev-
|er great they may be, but because our con-
test is one of liberty against slavery. Of
lem ocracy and equality against aristocracy
and caste. Of brains against blood. of per-
sonal worth against frst family favoritism,
|'of the laboring man against the man own
Ter. and we want to show what freedom
does for the poor man.. We would show
the world that eur enemies build wrongly,
and that we build rightly. . Therefore it is
that these stones which the false builders
have rejected VIC "have msde't the head OF
the corner-" -. -. - - -. -
Meat as Food. E -. .s9,"s
i It is a remarkable tact that the sales OF
meat in this city and neigbborhood have
fallen off twenty five per cent AS compared
with the consumption this time last year
Many meat stalls are closed up. and at the