The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-22

of back interest Cleft unpaid by the
party whose financial ability Jeffer-
son" would extoll so highly and other
necessary miscellaneous expenses ofthe
State, the sum of over seven hundred
and sixty thousand dollars. Thus it
will be seen that with a surplus on
hand of less than five hundred thou
sand dollars the present Administration
has, by judicious management and by
carefully outstanding the resources, of
the State, paid in indebtedness and ex-
pended for useful purposes, the sum of
over one million of dollars. 1t has not
been their policy, as it was of their pre-
decessors, to hoard up what funds they
did become possessed of, that the party
leaders might make fortunes by loan
ing it at interest; not by stealing and
swindling; by over-issues Of State
Bonds and other crimes to deplete the
Treasury; nor to allow the people to
be cheated by such rascalities as the
Government Stock Bank frauds,-they
have applied all the funds that came
into their hands to some useful and
beneficial purpose, only keeping suf-
ficient amount in the Treasury to meet
the existing wants of the State and
provided against any unforeseen contin-
gencies that might have arisen. With
this policy the people have been and
are satisfied, knowing as they do that
the sooner the indebtedness and other
obligations of the State are discharged,
the sooner the people will be relieved
from taxation.
As to the TRADE of Jefferson ~
against the different members of the
State Administration, it is useless to
note it here. 1t has it's whole founda-
ton in personal spite and jealousy, and
if " Jefferson would only take the
trouble to peruse the copies of his old
letters when he was in the "begging
business" or even to glance over his
old editorials, full of fulsome praise
and crawling sycophancy to the men
he now contems and denounces as
"unscrupulous," weak" and "cor-
rupt," it might bring the blush to the
face of less calloused political rene.
gade and whittier. To show how little
reliance is to be placed upon his twad.
die, it is only necessary to note the fol
lowing: "The Administration" he
says, "have appointed book 6imde,
as President of the Agricultural Col
lege." Is there single man in this
county that does not know that Joseph
r. Williams is practical farmer and
miller, and has been all his days? And
yet Jefferson with all his long &C
quaintance with Michigan and its mer
and politics, says he is "book binder =
What memory for facts!
But it is q useless and thankless tasl
to follow up and expose the rambling
incoherent and jaundiced statements O
this scribbler. We believe the people
of Cass County know and appreciate
him personally and politically, hence
there is little danger of his doing any
harm. The Republican party are too
true to the great cardinal principles o
the party to be turned aside from duty
and the issue between Freedom ani
Slavery by any such sophistry. "Jef
ferson is warning to all of the fat
of an unsatisfed, dishonest, domineer
ing and treacherous politician, who
failing in his attempts to rule the Re
publican party for his own ends ant
benefit, is returning, in his regula
quadrennial revolutions, back to hi
wallowing in the mire of locofocoism
Let him go and all his clan with him
and the Republican party will be re
lieved of an incubus that has too Ions
been resting upon it already, and al
element that has worked nothing bu
dissention, and fault-fnding, and whin
: ings, and discomfort. We hope, sin
cerely, that in his re-vamped characte
of democracy, his treachery to tn
Republican party, his adulations of tn
heresy of popular sovereignty ant
Mr.. Douglas, and his traducing of tn
State Administration, the Democrat,
will see enough of sincerity to graft,
his aspirations with the right-hand o
fellowship, and unanimous nomina
ton as their candidate for State Sena
, tor. SILVER CREEK.
f "a The Charleston Mercury say
that if the recent meetings for the re
ception of Senator Crittenden in Ken