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I !i ill IIMu. Kin run : While on a short visitsf«w dajs since to Wabash College, at Dile.CrawfordsvilJe in tbia State, I was prefw»n- ^ted by one of the students with the Wa- w ei ' TIba.-h Magazine—a treed*, (uot weekly), , ^concern, which, as announced on one *fits pages, is published hr * The Wabash urlCollege Magazine Association.*While 1 shall not attempt to criticize hs er *1literary merits, which, to say the least, do not reflect very great credit on the Iiialiui- * 1 lion, from which ileminated, I cannot pass ’*'19 \ over in silence some of tho infamous, and treasonable docilities 1 llnd on its pages With that narrow vision, but air of yreot ol^u’ wisdom with which students usually treat■ of public oflatrs, une of ihe brilliant (?) CCV\ editors of the aforesaid Quarterly lias 1 g.ven ua a chapter on the ‘war,’ from ^rotr!l which I may be allowed to make the lol 1 ia toAlowing extracts, fie says :} * However much wo may deplore the 1'* ono fault of our Constitution, we do col regret the advent of stiiie through (hat a. bleach in the rampart.’11 Although our very lucid (?) author n does not it'll us what tlmt bleach is he lefera 11 to, yet be is sufficiently clear to inform us i- that the Constitution aa our fathers made it, it is veiv fut ■'//,*—( it is possible he miglit 1° be induced *to take the coatiacl' oi raa-king a neiv one)—and lllt;at he is glad tiio u war baa come tipou us.--uot that Ac might o light, however, else he would be at it, in*»« stead ol slaying at homo willing silly and to . treasonuble articles.u^i 'It were cowardly/ he says, 'for us to bequeath a broken reed, (tbs Constilu r- lion), a rut it u cxtutc, (the Constitution), to ri future million generations,’—a good man// to i generations to #;ty ti.e least. to-nJ | * Let our efforts/ bo says, ' for the lime jQl|ie i fail, it will only make us more desperate T than the .South. They, (the .South) shout of Slavery or Death/ (a moil inexcusable ^ falsehood), We answer ten tin-re euumtere lids* »!...!! * I...... t ______ it...! T aftei whh thewrit in ' eren theI .sidepieui\tIS(^ shall nut st-e the slave beneath our ling, be r 1 restored and Homing over .ill tho South.' j.\10 *We do not notc/ (that is while the loyal ^ n and conservative men of our country are lie lighting our battles tor us) ‘tight wi'h lid'Jet ifor uui* purpose, but it will bo the end. tionUUllfrontheSlavery will die. Soon our war cry will ie. not Tm; Comsvuttmn as it is, but I The CoMaTfffTtos as it shall tir/ and then followed a string of high-sounding.Min selves words, aft«r the following .Vlt;./ homotic strain,—*bnt the Cotutiuuion as it glut 11 ho, bat: lo m toiled wido ui, and j crtia'o d with diamonds, and hung wi h purple and gold wiihtn, gletnua and nd i- . 1*®** inantiufl all.' tionif sn *h language and sentiments wet. ' ** *ed !sasedfror. ledi only that ot the 8 ft bruincd student, who Pipelined ihlt; m, n should exm»e nothing I ,n£ ll“ mote than contempt among good and loyal people; but appearing as it does in a College Magazine, which is supposed to bo. in a in ensure, the exponent of the teach- * mgs of ihat College, it assumes a m*.:. a*‘ serious character.if Wabash, or axiv other College so far *'t‘' forgets iu 1*ig 1 * character as fa b come the urf hot bed, and sch-lt;i hr teaching treason | mlt;‘‘ and disloyally, let it be branded with the * infamy it dcs nves ; and let all who woul I 8*'° have their youths l*arn loyally, and hate ( ^ u‘ mason, reverence the Ccnsiitutiun, and * diapise disunion, and secession, avoid it l* * aa they would the gates of hell. i *\\ bile the Professors of Wabash Collcg are eonttibutors to tins Magazine, and j might to exercise a censorship over it, let us in charity hope, for Ihe character of the Ct‘u Institution, that this m aaonble article! ' fuund its way into i; without their knowl- loT: -dj.,.. jd*-The author winds up wi:h the followiug elegant personal allusion, ‘There ! we led! better, it had to come, like the war.’ We should think he would feel better ; a diseased body is always improved after it bus spcw. d tip a quauti y of lihh.Nothing bet the nttserablo ignorance ufibis drivelling editor,—(liod sa\« the m ik)‘—should excuse him from the pun-islimeut duo his (reasonable beutinicnis.llo ought at any rat j io be sent at once to'Dixie/ and served as David served Dri* ah. If Mr. ixookins, who piescnted mo with tiiii Magazine, thinks 1 have any sympathy with i:s political xsiitiiucut.s, be is woluHv mistaken. No giw.nl and loyal oilizcn, no lever of iiis country, and *' the Constitution has any more affiliation or lIon sympHthy with while UrcrcU A bo 11 tion Uts,, 0l,t‘ than jire ettlniy Secessionists, for they are ^ built traitors, alike, in kind and degree, * m and both ought to be crushed out by thebaitby’Ican(werm-itedcllll«, esl:h | strung at io of government, ini! VTATOk. |,,ot
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Plymouth Weekly Democrat
Plymouth, Indiana, US
Thu, Dec 26, 1861
Page 2
Full Page
Clipped by
Tim L.
USA 12 Dec 2023
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