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

anu equally unSenefouS ana 1mpracti-
cable and treacherous in another. 1t
presents very novel issue. 1t is in
effect saying to the Republican party,
g we, ten or dozen influential and
leading men in a broken down and
defunct party, have been induced to
believe that we are wrong and that the
principles of your party are right and
proper and just, and now if you will
tack on a new plank and take a new
name, and allow us to become leaders,
we will all come together and be great
new party" Whatmagnanimity! How
sensible s f.e
1t is an axiom that governments
are not made, but grow" The same
is true of parties. The Republican
party has grown intovigorousma
and full development, with well defined
principles. 1t originated from con-
trolling necessity of the times, to settle
now for all time what shall be the pol
icy of the general government upon
this question of slavery. 1t has grown
in different States and from different
classes of men just as fast as that issue
has been appreciated, and just as fast
as men feel and comprehend the neces-
sity for such settlement of the ques-
ton. 1t was founded upon this cardi-
nal principle, by mutual union of men
of all parties, and has been absorbing
from all classes new elements until it
now stands ready to grasp the reigns OF
power and solve the final problem.
And that question Of slave supremacy
and propagandism must be definitely
and finally settled before it can give
place to any other principle or organi-
ton. This point has been reached and
it must be decided. Shall the Federal
Government pervert its powers for the
benefit and upbuilding of Slavery, as
the Southern leaders and statesmen
demand? The Democratic party say
= Yes. The Republican party says
No. There is no intermediate ground.
If the people syimpathise with Freedom,
the Republican party stands ready to
receive their cooperation. If they
prefer slavery, they belong with the
Democracy. Choose which We will.
Where then is the necessity for this
meso organization? If these politicians
are as thoroughly disguised with the
pro-slavery character of the Buchanan
administration as they profess, what
more can they ask than the Republicans
propose to do? What more do they
ask? Nothing! Why this appeal to
Republicans to dissolve their organiza-
ton? Who shall surrender, the dozen
politicians or the million of independent
voters? Is there any room for serious
doubt who will "come over ?"
This whole move-the source, the
locality, the tone, the time, the char
acter of those who made it, is covered
with suspicion and uncertainty. The
very wording of the appeal is ambig-
uous and unsatisfactory. There exists
not the slightest necessity or.reason for
it. What then is its object? We
invite those who are now disposed to
"look ahead" to pause an instant and
look back. The same elements that
destroyed and annihilated the old whig
party are in the new scheme. The
same men who nursed and then muir
dered the American party, by casting
it beneath the Juggernaut of Slavery,
are in it. The same influences that
defeated the Republican party in 1856
are discoverable. Note well the dubi-
Gus history of the past ere you hazard
the safety or usefulness of our present
organization by delivering it into the
hands of unprincipled and treacherous
politicians. The Republican party has
its doors wide open, and all who really
desire to cooperate in rescuing the
country from the hands of a prejudiced
pro-slavery administration-who are
willing to aid in definitely deciding the
great issue between southern agrees
sion and propagandism and free labor
and free States, will be welcomed. But
the honest, thinking masses will never
stop or go astray; will never desert the
standard of Republican principles to
please or benefit coterie of fuglers
who have no power to do it good and
whose very names are an omen of evil.
The Washington correspondent
of the Detroit 7ribuue, says: "Our
tickle and wavering friends, the Doug
las democrats, may now be considered
sound again on-the goose. They all
voted cheerfully and promptly for the
caucus nominee for Door-keeper in
place of Hackney, dismissed; all save
Harris of Illinois, who held out, voted