Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1865-02-23
.trcIa the Lafayette Journal
and -Vow-South Carolina.

They are hUwi:ug the Con carcc,
They aresishin. on the Combahec.
John Brown has reached the Big P,dee,
Hes marching Tor the Old Santec.
Tie day OF retrihution has come TO
South Carnlina at last. Sheiinan's boys
a'e careering taronch her rice fields nnd
waking unwontcd echoes in her wide sa
vannahs. Without reaS Soning much about
il or troubling himself to recoll@ct more
than scrap TWO of history. tie humb-
les. soldier ieel> that there is a poeiical
jn>tice IN visiting South Csrolina with the
worst horrors OF the war. e there is any
SPOT in the Southern Confelcracy where
onr Generals are justified in forgetting
moderation AMI in neglectins 10 mitigate
not EN- for the special virulence OF South
Carolina treason. pnssibl V rebellion wo'd
never have reared its head in. the land.-
When peace and c,ntentment reigned eve
" where else, growls OF discomfort and
mutielinss of setiirion came up from ,hi.
State. II never allowed the enibers Of
treason 10 die entirely ont. Her orators.
tor thirty years Or more. have made it
;heir pride and pleasure 20 fan them. with
icrvia rhetoric. into life. The virus so
carefully nouri-hei rermeaied at last the
entire S"uih. ana hence the uumberless
miseiies Of the present war.
In crushing treason in South Carolina.
we crush the heal Of the serpent. which.
writhe and lash tie earth as it may. is
destined 10 >uccnmb. So vauliing has
heen the ambition and so towering the
Pride of this little State. that she even be-
came an ANNOYANCE to her neighbors. 1t
Is said that Georgia planters repeatedly
enquired OF Sherman's soldiers why they
did not 90 into Sonth Carolina and devas-
tate it. They will not be unmindful of
the question ard will answer it with en-
pha>is. now thit their feet are on the Sal
krhatrhie. their s'eps turned toward the
Great Pelec.
South Carolina has been settled nearly
three hundred years. 1t is probably the
hest wstered State in the Cnion-is sup
pied with n most wonderful variety Of
soils. and all the sources of wealth and
power Its climate is medium between
the extremes of the Northern and South
ern sections of the Republic. It's soil is
fertile. besides which It's mines are exten
sive aud productive. No State contains
80 many advantages within Itself as South
Carolina. 1t might have been a powerful
commercial. agricultural. manufacturing
or mining State. 1t has never reached
mediocrity in either branch. If slavery
ever had a theatre in which to display to
the best advantage it's power. it was South
Carolina. Peopled by vigorous. indus
trious race. unpoluted and uncorrupted by
slavery, it is difficult to imagine the great
ness AID wealth which it might have
reached Holland knows no such mara
time advantages as Sonth Carolina
Switzerland Is no more impregnable than
she might have been. had her sons been
Swiss. and depended upon their own right
aims for protection and power. Looking
at the map OF South Carolina. and con-
sderipg its wonderful diversity of soil and
climate, it's coast--its mines--its very
swamps teemng with wealth--rivers pen
etrating every district and spacious hsr.
bors indenting its sea shore. we can not
but he astoni.hed, remembering what she
is and what she might have been. Alas.
she choose to he the ioster'mother Of slave
~, and bitterly must she repent in sack
clorh and ashes the ruin she herself has
wrought. Legions of boys from fsr-off
North western regions whose erandfathers
were boys when South Carolina put on
the airs of an empire and demanded OF the
fathers the extension Of the foreign slave
trade. now press her soil with the footsteps
OF conquerors. Right proudly too. and
erect they march. for what is South Caro-.