Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-07-23

The common resp. official will was not
constituted by the contribuiive action of
each and every individual on the basis of
perfect and unqualified equality, those who
were slaves were excluded absolutely and
the other ones were privileged relatively.
property qualification) On the other side
those excluded from elective franchise
were counted and their right to represen
tation in certain proportions vested in
those who already had right to vote.
This, then, was about the aspect of the
social order before the war. These excep-
lions existed In the so called Southern
States generally, while in the socalled
Northern States they existed exceptionally.
Thus certain class of people in the latter
were excluded from the right of voting on
account of color absolutely in GER
tain States, while in others a property
qualification was required and in others
again a certain degree q mixture OF
blood was made the line of DIVISION
(TIere. Mr. Vero, l may repeat what | said
about America. meaning thereby Chiefly
the free States" No Democrat in Europe
had ever looked upon the Southern States
except with a feeling ofdisgust. The North
for its comparative freedom both as re-
CARDS the South or Europe was the idol of
Europeans, thinking and aspiring De-
mocracy. Mr.. Vero can see freedom in
the South before the war and remember
how in former times he idolized her insti-
tutions. His ideal is left 10 him; no one
will dispute it. Paris is France, and
the North was, is and will be Amcrica.)
This condition existed partly by the So
called State Sovereignty, partly by their
recognition on the part of the United
States Constitution. The Supreme Court
upon the ground of the Constitution had
decided that slave was property 10 be
protected by the official power of the Uni
ted States.
While thus both sections of the country
were arraycd against each other for reason
CT institutitutions dramatically opposed
the one TO the other, while thus the people
of either section became every day more
and more conscious of the fact, that slavery
could not exist with liz r.y, that one or
the other must submit TO restrictions, to
Weld 10 the demand Of vital necessities;
what wonder that anxiety and irritation
were the consequences. No free negro
could 90 South without being sold into sla-
very, and the runaway slave was protect
| ed in his by his fight upon the territory oil
a free State acquired freedom. go it hap
pencd that at the time of my coming TO
this country the slave question was nearly
the all absorbing one and was raised to
the highest fever heat. The South claimed
protection of property within the bounda-
ries of the United States, upon the ground
of the Constitution. The North unwilling
to sacrifice the theory that this was the
land of the free, whether African or not
The agitation was finally settled by the
fugitive slave law under Fillmore, who like
johnson illustrates that the life ofthe Pres
idcnts of the United States may be frail and
uncertain.
The slave being property and as such
being subject to the commercial principles
of demand AMI supply, it was matter of
industrial importance to have the market
for the negro spread. All kinds of means
and ways and pretensions were used for
this purpose and the result was the sever.
ance of Texas from Mexico, the various
expeditions to Cuba, Central America, and
Northern Mexico. The pre,ence was gen
orally the high sounding one offrceiDs the
! oppressed, high moral idea, The real cbjec;
however to spread slavery. With the ex
ception Of the Texas drama all these ex-
petitions failed and still the necessity for
extension Increased. What would be the
use of breeding negrocs in Virginia, if they
could not be sold away? What high ard
refined pleasures had not the noble Virgin
ian To- renouncc, If the shipping of negroes
were reduced and consequently costly
superaburdapce of the results of chivalric
Institutions and life had to accu mulate.-
These brown or yellow sons, brothers or
cousins were rather an unpleasing sight,
if shipping ceased.
So they had an eye on Kansas. Buto,
there was lire they could not pass over.
What to do? 1t had been solemnly sworn
to, to keep apart certain portions ofthe I'M
settled land for the respective great divis-
ions of this Union, and Kansas was on the
Northern side of the line. Then there was
great man, he had an interest ia the shape
of slaves in the South, and had an interest
in the shape OF real estate in the North,
and he was a Senator of Illinois, and a
Democrat. To the American people at
large, he said: 'sLet US remove this line of
division" TO the South he said: you want
more land; your industry requires large
plantations; you can settle quicker than
the North, who requires densepopulation
small farms and large cities; the line is an
obstruction to your peculiar institution
To the North he said: ''You are more pop
ulous and the removal of the line will ena-
BILE you to spread the institutions Of free
DOM"
1t was done because Democrat had
said SO, and what a Democratic Senator
says, is right.
We had the tragedy of Kansas. Buchan-
an, that personification of Democratic scru-
pies in the interest of freedom and consti-
nationality, the last Democratic President,
helped the South in the attempt TO prosti-
tuie the Goddess of Liberty and to Snug
gle slavery into the territory of Kansas
The great man of Illinois also assisted the
swindle by proclaiming to the Democracy