The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-05-27

The above Committee was appointed
at the Republican County Convention
in 1856. (See Cass County Tribune,
October 10th, 1867
The Proposed Disintegration of the Re-
publican Party.
The most significant political move
ment of the times is the issuing of
circular by coterie of politicians in
Buffalo, n. Y. proposing reconstruc-
ton of parties upon the basis of oppo-
sition to the Lecompton action of the
present Administration, and a general
union of all men opposed to pro-slavery
propagandism, into new organization,
virtually upon the basis of Senator
Douglas views of popular sovereignty.
This circular is signed by S. G. Haven,
Albert Sawin, B. WEIGH, jr., E. K.
levitt, G. A. Scroggs, and others,
heretofore known as among the most
INSCRIPTIONS and inveterate haters of
the Republican party, and to whose
efforts mainly, with their associated
compeers in the American party, is
attributed the defeat of our candidates
in 1856. The reasons given for this
movement are embodied in the circular
as follows:
"The absolute and unconditional sur
render of the national Government into
the hands of the aggressive and intole-
rant slave power of the country, by the
national administration, as exemplifed
in its attempts to impose repulsive
Constitution upon the people of Kansas,
in defiance of their expressed wishes,
makes it the imperative duty of all good
citizens, who desire to preserve the
institutions inherited from their fathers,
to ignore all considerations of a selfish
character, and to unite at the polls for
the purpose of deposing an Admins
tration at once so faithless and des-
potic.'
There is much more of truth In this
appeal than has heretofore been found
in any of the writings or sayings of
these men or their associates, and the
simple fact that they have at length
walked up to a comprehensive sense of
the real issue between the parties is
indeed favorable omen. 1t requires
no stretch of the Imagination to go back
to the. period when these gentlemen
were the most devoted Union-savers,
and when they could loudly applaud
the sentiments of Mr.. Fillmore, their
candidate for the Presidency, for say
ing, as he did in his Albany speech,
that the success of such principles; the
endorsing of such sentiments, could be
a justifable cause for the dissolution Of
the Union! There has certainly been
an advance in opinion by these men,
which is desirable and favorable
omen. They have been so far disa-
bused of their prejudices and weaned
from their Union-saving follies, as to
see-the essence and virtue of true Re-
publicanism.
But how do they propose to accom-
plish this praiseworthy work of destroy
ing this pro-slavery Administration ?
Having stepped squarely over to the
platform of Republican sentiment, it is
reasonable to suppose that they intend
to offer generous and hearty support
to the only party which has for its
object or processes in any degree the
power to carry into effective execution
SO proper and SO just resolution.
But no! This does not suit these po-
litical stockholders. They must have
a new party! Hear them:
/" As a preliminary step, the under
dersigned have cordially united with
their fellow citizens in calling a mass
meeting, to be held in this city, on the
9th of May, at which an opportunity
will be afforded for free and full ex-
preston of the sentiments of the people,
of the County, in regard to their polit-
zeal rights and duties. Satisfied them
selves that all personal and party con-
siderations should, at this time, be
made subservient to the public welfare,
the undersigned have no hesitation in
askino their friends to unite with them
in utter forgetfulness of thepast and i'm
harmonious preparation for the future,
TO the end that the Government OF the
country may be wrested from the hands
of those who now control it.
This is all very high sounding and
patriotic, when viewed in one light,