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T II E P L Y M O IJ rl hli; H AfttlMI i V(a/9\^. 1U\aMu. Eorruic : While on a short viita1 fl Jew iia\ s since to Wabash College, at 111whfCrawfordsville in this State, [ wn* pnfcn*3 ted bv odo of the students with the \\ a-' '] ba-ii Magazine—a u-.vk, (uot weekly),l* coKit-rn, which, as announced on one of r''° hs pages, is published by ' The Wabashl* College Magazine Association/While 1 shall not attempt to criticize its lt;il *literary merits, which, to say the least, do 1 1 not r*-tl ct vetv rrrt-;tt credit on tin* Inaiiiu*’ tion, from which lteminated, 1 cannot jafs n ~ over in silence some of tho 'nfamnus, and»-*■ treasonable (ioctiine* 1 hud on its pages{oWith that narrow vision, blit nir of jreat ul^'wisdom with which students usually treatof puibiic t* flairs, one of the brilliant (?) ctTeditors of the aforesaid Quarteilv hasfg.ven us a chapter on the 'war,' from rul * which I liiay be allowed to make the fol- 1,1 'dlowing extracts, flo says :* However much wo mny deplore i!■ lt;one J'ttvif of our Constitution, we do rot regret the advent of suite through that bicach it; the rampart/Although our very lucid (?) author does not tell us what that b;ench is he icfcrs 111 to, yet l.e is sufliciiiitiy clear to inform us that the Constitution a* our fathers* ma te it is veiv )\n ilt;j,—(it ispusfdblu he might be induced ‘to lake the conliacl’ of making a new oiie) — atid that ne is r/fW tiio war las come upoti us.--nut that he mi'hiI O ffisjld, however, eUe he would Le at it, in 8lead ol 8l't\ in^j at hoLuo mtuug billy and 'o treasonable articles*to Ii-alle10to10afuwhihtj\v i uieratheIrasi.!uf‘it were cowardly/ he says, ‘for us to bequeath a broken reed, (the t'onatilu* !ji!u' * Vl\
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Plymouth Weekly Democrat

Plymouth, Indiana, US

Thu, Dec 26, 1861

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