Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1864-07-28
THE REPUBLICAN.
Personal Liberty AMI the Public
Safety.
from ilie Chicago Evening Jorrngl

from VIC lineage Evening Journal.
General sherman, in recent letter of in
ssractions 10 General Bmbridse, says:
The fact IS. in our country personal lib-
CITY has been SO well secured that public
safety Is lost sight Of" General Sherman
Is right. We ask attention to MS words of
those who are accustomed to reverse them
whenever they have occasion to discourse
upon the present condition Of our unhappy
country.
1t IS the haj;, 81 a class among Us 10
clamor perpeiualIy AMI rersisteatly for
personal liberty. to an utter ignoring Of pub
lie safety, while every person who Is only
tole ably well read anil only inlidsrentIr
given to reelection. must know, does know,
that without public safety, there can be
no personal liberty. Tia welfare OF Tie
individual can only be scared bv securing
the welfare OF the community. The sobri-
ETY. and decoTum Of the State can only be
achieved by efscl;ng the sobriety and de-
eorum Of the inliyilual It may be ne
eessary for Tie public safety to abridge
personal liberty. The public safety, the
order social aud political, of the common
wealth mast bs maintained. even if indi-
vidual libsrly is abTilgsl. The many are
OF more value than the enc
All on board is valuable, bnt some OF It
must go overb )ard so that some Of it NAV
be sav.d. And it uHst be the lesser IN
valuc tha. must go overheard. What
have we bsen doing since the commence
slent Of the war bat giving up, giving up,
for the nations sake? Compare our taxes
OF three years ago with our present IN
pTeeeien;ei buIth'n Of taxation.
Personal liberty Is en- inoslimable boon.
but there is something Of more value than
personal liberty. The safely Of the State
Is Of more value than the safety Of
shy citizen Of the State. II either must ba
sacrificed, it must be that Of The citizen
Not that either need be sacrificed in any
consilefb!e degree But when either must
be. there can be no hesitation as 10 which
must be-
It IS prepo5terons to suppose that. in
al effort so gigantic. and covering so wide
reach of territory, and involving so
many people, Us that Of ours, 70 restore
snd secure the stability aad order of the
commonwealth, there should not be some
narrowing OF Individual privilege and some
u itAttal isUSILF. w li.ll
was harmless liberty before the war, NAV
be hazardous license now. Exactioas
sid obligations that We were exempted
from in a time Of peace. We must be sub
jectel to ia a time OF var. When the sea
ualer the ship is smooth and the sky over
her serene. the crew may be INDUCED in
al abandon that woald send them to the
bottom il practieei in day ofstorm. The
State may inlnlge the citizens during civil
calm in such liberties and negligencies as
would destroy the State irremediably If
suffered during a civil convulsion. Yer
bal disunion was not unknown before the
rebellion, but at that time il was counted
harmless-the innocent spirit Of fanaticism
AMI bravado. Alas, that it should have
beenl But now. even verbal disunion is
considered mis- ,hievous, and the uttcrance
of it. once passed unnoticed by the State.
is now severity punished by the State.
Such facts and principles as these are
too conspicuous 70 be lost sight of by the
most unobserving. and the grounds of
them are too VIGOROUSLY reasonable to
escape the cognizance Of the most unrs-
fecting.