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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-05-31

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and unfOunded calumny against me I will t6anh
You to state the circumstances which induced IN.
truly, JINrs a. Rrp.Er
VIM. II. Ward, Esq present.
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The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-12-02
The New Issue.

The Cincinnati Gazette says slave
code for the Territories, compelling the
admission of Slavery into all the Terri
tories, no matter how large majority
of the people may be opposed to it, and
protecting it there in direct defiance of
popular sovereignty" is the new de-
mand of the South. 1t follows logical
ly from the bred Scott decision. We
confess that we see not how those who
sustain that decision can consistently
refuse the demand. The great ques-
ton in political circles now is: Will
Douglas submit to this requirement,
and thus renew his former fealty to the
South?
The New York Herald says ;-"AA
the leading Democratic organs Of the
South inform us that the decree recog.
nizing slavery makes it the constitution.
al duty of Congress to pass a special
code of laws for the protection of slave
ry in all the Territories. This is thu
issue aohich must be settled, either for o,
against MIR. Douglas, before we can un
dertake to pronounce him sufficiently
"sound upon the goose question " tc
enter within the sanctuary of the
Charleston Convention
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-12-02

NARROW ESCAPE. = The San Anto.
MIA Herald states that General Twiggs
had narrow escape of his life on Tues.
day last. He was standing ON the
street, in conversation with some gen.
tlemen, when a musket in the hands Of
a Mexican carman, some distance off
was accidently discharged, the bal
striking the General on the back, but
the ball being spent in striking the
ground, the only damage done was {
severe bruise. - H
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-12-02

The Albany K,aickerbocker notices
the return to that city of Nelson Lee,
who was taken prisoner by the Canaan
che Indians in 1856, near Eagle Pass,
while on his way from Texas to Cali
fornia. He furnishes the following:
Lees life was spared because the In
dams could not manage repeating
watch which he carried. Mr.. Lee found
no less than twenty-eight captured
white women, and some thirty or forty
children. A day or two after he ar
rived in camp, they mastered an Eng
lishwoman, named Anna Haskin, in a
most cruel manner. They tied her
naked to a tree, and in the presence of
her two daughters, Margaret and Uar-
riet Haskin, inflicted the most revolving
cruelties upon her. Before Mrs. Haskin
was finally despatched, she was tortured
for nearly half a day, during which
time the Indians became excited with
liquor and danced about her like so
many demons. Theytook sharp pieces
of flint and cut her flesh in all possible
directions. Mrs. Haskin and her daugh-
tiers were captured while on their way
to the Mormon settlement at Salt Lake.
The daughters still remain with the In
dams. Their age are II and 10. Lee
made his escape in the following man.
ner: He was accompanying the chief
of the Camanches to a lodge some
miles distant. During the tramp they
met a party of Indians; the Indians
gave the chief skin filled with liquor.
The chief drank of the spirits and be-
came excited. Arriving at creek he
dismounted and stopped down to drink.
At this moment Lee seized his stema-
hawk, split his head open and killed
him instantly. He then took the chiefs
rifle, mounted the chiefs horse, and
put for Mexico. When he reached
Mexico he was completely naked, while
his feet and legs were SO swollen from
being cut by the cactus plant, that hs
could go only some eight miles day.
The last hundred miles he did on foot,
his horse. having died of exhaustion.
The Mexicans treated him very kindly,
and gave him money and clothing to
reach home. The clothes he now
wears in Albany are those given him
by the Mexicans. -igss
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-12-02
Wise and Douglas.

The Chicago Press and Tribune
says that the recent prOnaacidme'ato in
the Richmond Enquirer in favor of a
Congressional Slave Code as a party
measure, is said to be new dodge of
Gov. Wise for heading off Douglas.
The Governor has need of some hobby
other than anti-Lecompton, upon which
to ride into the Charleston Convention
and thus commits himself to a policy
which Mr.. Douglas may or may not
support, in the hope that he may there
by suprlant the Illinoisian in the South.
The Governor knows the power that
in this country, makes Democratic
Presidents, has began early to court
it. We look for the out-comet of his
new intrigue with great curiosity. Be
fore it is over we may see "my dear
Governor" and "my dear Judge" and
their respective friends at swords
points. MIR. Douglas unexpected sue
cess has undoubtedly hurried the devel
opment of the Virginia scheme; but
now that it is developed, the Northern
antiLecompton Democrats, Mr.. Doug
las at their head, will be expected t.
dance to the new piping, or be pre-
pared for final and ignominious eject
ton from the Democratic rank. Ii
ls4s it used to be asked, Switch is thu
most to be feared, the pike of a French
soldier, or the fraternity of a French
philosopher pan inquiry that, will
appropriate alterations, might properl.
be propounded to the crazy philosophe
at Richmond. But, as the Enquire
used to say, Nous verro,as.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-12-02
The Future of senator Douglas.

The St. Louis Democrat closes a
well digested article on Senator Doug
las: f.- - -
"Mr. Seward has very aptly said in
late speech that it will be the duty
henceforth of the friends of freedom to
watch the indications which give evi.
dence of interest to betray the cause,
and what he has said is only the i'm.
pressions Of a pervading popular
thought. Mr.. Douglas triumph now
consists in nothing but the fact of hav
ing severed himself from ruin in the
general wreck Of Pro-Slavery Democ
racy, and that by assuming to take free
soil ground. Let him be classed other
wise but for moment, by his OWL
action, and he goes to keep Pierce
Buchanan and the rest of the grea
defeated company. The talk of hi.
Presidential chances, therefore, is idle
With Bright, Slidell, Mason and the
President to constrain him to the ut
most requirements of the South, an6
with the assurance that no other North
ern Democratic leaders can carry hi
own State for himself much less iol
Douglas we think his prospects no
worth discussing. Much stress hal
been laid heretofore upon the fact tina
MIR. Douglas had the popular heart
This consolation is now almost dissipa
ted. The returns show that he has no
touched the enthusiasm of the masse!
even In Illinois. Thus we see the PEG
pie are against him; the politicians
are for him. But in the battle between
people and politicians, are we far wrong
in saying that from the aroused public
spirit which is marshaling the friends
OF freedom in this Government = it i.
evident that the people must triumph
in 1850? isis etsatsT8gE =
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-12-02
Irishmen i'm Favor of slavery.

1t is fact as true as it is disgrace
full that very large. majority of the
Irish population in the United States
are the fastest and most devoted advo-
Gates of African slavery. To them
more than to any other class is the Lo-
cofoco party indebted for whatever
triumphs it has achieved North, and
the more ultra its proslavery view, the
more jealous and unanimous are the
Irish in its support. But for the aid
they have rendered the slave power
through their support to its Northern
auxiliaries, the fangs of slavery would
long since have been extracted. That
we do the Irish no injustice in charg-
ing them, as a body, with this base in
consistency, and willing subserviency,
we quote the following frank admission
of the fact from the "Irish patriot
Mitchelrs'' Southern Citizen, in eyi
dence: . ~ y T
i. Every Irishman in the Southern
States, without exception, who car
afford to buy negroes, straightway buys
them. : ,g,,s..-..3. Fatitrf-,1..ss eae- ~.
| 2. Some Of the. largest and mos
successful planters in the Southern
States are born Irishmen; and the fines
plantations that has been purchased IL
America for many years, with $50 ne
groes upon it, was last winter sold il
Louisiana; the purchaser was an Irish
man. II ~
8, Not only is there a large humble
of Irish born citizens at the South wh'
own slaves; but most of the Southern
planters and shareholders, we are prout
to say, are Irish by descent.
i A. Our acquaintance with the Irisl
born citizens at the South is very ex
tensive: and we never met with one Q
them who is not in favor of revivin!
the slave trade in Africa, save one, am
he is a very large Shareholder already
and wants no more.
S. Irish citizens at the North, thong
they have no personal interest in slave
; ry, almost universally give their vote
to let it alone (which is all that is aske
: of them) because they have no bus
ness with it, no responsibility for it
because it exists under the constitution
by which same constitution their ow
rights and liberties exist; and becaus
it's enemies have proved themselves
r be their enemies.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-12-02

20 During our visit to Lowell we
were shown through the Laboratory of
our celebrated countryman, DIR. ]. C.
Aver. Scarcely could we have believed
what is seen there proof beyond
disputing. 50 Eso : 81
They consume barrel OF solid Pills.
about $4,000 doses, and 8 barrels of
Cherry Pectoral, 10000 doses per
diem. To what an inoonceivable
amount of human suffering does this
point 10000 doses a day!! Fifty
millions of doses per year!!! What
acres and thousands Of acres of sick
beds does this spread before the imagi-
nation! And what sympathies and
woe! True, not of all this is taken bv
the very sick, but alas, much of it is.
This Cherry Drop and this sueared
Pill are to be the companion of pain
and anguish and sinking sorrow-the
inheritance of our mother Eve be-
queathed to the whole family of man.
Here the infant darling has been touch
ed too early by the blight that with.
ers half our race. Its little lungs ARC
affected and only watching and wait;nr
shall tell which way its breath shall
turn. This red drop on its table is the
tallisman on which its life shall hanu
There the blossom of the world inst
bursting into womanhood is stricken
also. Affections most assiduous caro-
skills not, she is still fading away. The
wan messenger comes nearer and
nearer every week. This little medic;,
ment shall 60 there, their last, perhans
their only hope. The strong man has
planted in his vitals, this same disease
This red drop by his side is heln;no
him wrestle with the inexorable enc.
my; the wife of his bosom and tbe
cherubs of his heart are waiting in sicL
sorrow and fear lest the rod on which
they lean in this world, be broken.
. Doctor! Spare no skill, nor cost
nor toll to give the perishing sick ,tbs
best that human art can Give cai
veston, Tras, Neus. ''s
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-12-02
Arrival of the Europa at Halifax

HALIFAX, 29th.-The royal mail
steamship Europa, from Liverpool at 8
A. NJ. on the 20, arrived here at p. M.
She passed the Persia, for Liverpool, off
Holyhead. The Saxonia arrived at
Southampton on the eve of the 10Th.
The easterly gales which prevailed
around the English coast had modera-
ted.
ENGLAND.-The Government had
sent two steamers to the Chops of the
Channel, to relieve vessels in distress.
Robert Owen, the celebrated relig-
ious and serial writer, had died in his
eeth year.
The session of Parliament was not
expected to commence until the I'd of
February.
Hon. F. Bruce, brother of Lord Elgin,
is appointed British Ambassador to Pc
kim.
The 3O0th anniversary of the access
sion Of Queen Elizabeth has been cele-
brated with Protestant demonstrations
in various parts of England.
The British funds passed on Friday
at decline of ], owing principally to
the long war of business. More ease
apparent nthe discount market. Money
ey was more abundant at p per cent.
and lower.
FRANCE. -Reinforcements of French
troops have been sent to Cochin China
in consequence of the resistance being
organized in the Interior.
A commission to consider the ques-
ton of Negro emigration is appointed.
The Press in Algiers is placed on the
same footing as in France.
The French frigate Thesphile had
been lost near Cadiz-eight lives lost.
The MoRTARA CAsE.-Letters from
Rome assert that all the great Catholic
Powers had ADDRESSED circumstances to
the Pope for release of the Jewish boy
Mortara. The Pope replied that the
boys return to his parents was impossi-
Bile.
INDIA.-The Bombay mail of Octo-
Der 25th has reached England.
The ex-King of Delhi has been sent
to Calcutta.
The proclamation of the Queens di
rect dominion over India was expected
to be promulgated on November 4th
The event to be celebrated ON grand
scale.
The Kurrache arsenal had been DIES
troyed by an explosion, four men had
been killed, and one million pounds O
powder destroyed.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-12-02

surprise to me. But how the people
can 90 on at the above rate in building
houses and paying taxes, is tarnation
sight more than | can comprehend.
There's not a village west of the lakes
could foot such bills and live. The
money amt here. They couldn't stand
it. If they didn't cuss the corporation
and die, it would be because they have
more patience than Jobs wife had of
piety. Excuse this little evidence of
my Yankee origin. 1t popped out be-
fore / was aware. Well let it go.
What's natural will out some times in
spite of one. 1t is impossible always
to be on ones ps and qs.
Still 1 sincerely hope the good peo-
pie of Dowagiac will continue their
efforts, be successful in laying broad
and deep the foundations of an in
creased civilization, in the encourage
ment they give to schools and churches,
and in wise systems of police regula-
tons for the security and advancement
of public and private morals, and the
attainment of all those other applian-
ces which make up the true prosperity
and well being of people.
In company with the above letter
also received number of the Phila
delphia Post, containing a communica
ton from Grace Greenwood, and also
a number of the Republican containing
a reply, couched in rather ungallant
certainly not courteous expressions
Grace suffered her imagination to out
run her judgment little, in that ar,
article, L think myself, especially where
she speaks about feas and the ague
But still there is more truth than poetr.
in some of her remarks, which it woulC
do no harm to look at fairly. But how
she could expect place founded mostl.
upon an old cleared farm, and of sucl
recent growth, to have all the conve
niences in shaded walks, public parks
with aged trees, and flower gardens
) like Niles or Kalamazoo places Q
) twenty-five or thirty years standing
! hard to conceive. -.,.. f....
a-g.ss. AS ever thine, Z. T.
/, P. Sim for Grace after all.
!, Again thine, I. T.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-12-02

Ex-Gov. Francis Thomas, of Mary
land belongs to the slave aristocracy
of the country. he has probably been
to some extent q fast man. He has
travelled farther than his fortune would
justify. His fastness runhim in debt,
faster than he could run out. His
creditors wanted their money. The
Ex-Goy. could not pay. His creditors
pressed, they would not be put off
Pressed beyond endurance the Elk Gov.
finally makes Mr.. Smith his trustee for
the benefit of his creditors, and con-
veys to Mr.. Smith, in trust for the
creditors, all of the property belonging
to his Ex-Governorship. Mr.. Smith
proceeds to wind up the affairs and pay
off the creditors, and here is part of
Mr.. Trustee Smiths operations:
SLAVE SALES IN MARYLAND. = Mr..
George Smith, trustee of Ex-Governor
Francis Thomas, sold at the Jail door in
this city, on Saturday last, portion OF
!, the slaves belonging to the estate, at
the following prices: Louisa, aged Is
years, for sl,455; Susan, aged "a
years, and her infant, 5000; Ellen
and her child, sl,ls5; Maria, aged So
years, for 1912; Barton, aged % years
for 1890; Levi, aged 46 years, fol
1885; Harry, aged 40 years, for $500
John, aged % years, for l,O65 War
rem, aged 26 years, for 81, 23O; George
aged % years, for 81, 425; David, aged
Is years, for sl,l7O; Albert, aged II
years for 5000; Louisa, aged 8 years
for $3.50, and Rosa Mary, aged years
for $3.50. Aggregate of sale, s13,267
: Baltimore Exchange.
/ The Jackson Citizen in speaking o
: the above very pertinently asks
E "How does that item compare witt
our boosted free institutions? Old mel
r and old women-young men and youn!
i women-little boys and little girls pu
up at public auction and sold to tn
$ highest bidder? What for? Why
y to pay the debts of man who ha
spent money faster than those othe
r men and women, boys and girls coul
4 earn it. He has lived out their labo
v and more. And now their bodies
f their flesh and blood and bones, mus
S be sold to supply the deficiency fc
v which their labor failed to provide
e One man sold to pay another man
" debts! A woman-a mother and he
o children, put up and sold like dunn
d brutes to pay for the luxulies of a ma
is who wore his "purple and fine line
1t and Jared sumptuously every day
IS What spectacle for this land of boas
w ed Freedom to present to the gaze
W an astonished world! Will not SON
al of our &C Democratic" friends who vo
it on every occasion for party who's
il leading doctrine tends to extend an
D. perpetuate an institution which aloI
n can furnish such revolving exhibition
j. and who join with so much relish ar
% gusto in the celebration of the triumph
v of the slave Democracy, close Il
$ reading of this article, as they are wo
u to close their orgies, by singing "Tl
m Star Spangled Banner and
~ 'Hail Columbia, happy land!'
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-12-02


% The more striking proof Of
the intrinsic worth and excellence OF
DR.. Halls Balsam for the Lungs. is
shown in the rapidity with which il
becomes a general favorite with the
people. There is nothing of similar
nature, but what is soon cast into the
shade, when the Balsam has been
thoroughly tested. The agents for its
sale the country over, in ordering new
supplies, are very enthusiastic in its
favor, saying, it is just the thing; il
acts like charm its effects are trul,
magical The afflicted can find the
medicine at A. Huntington's and N. b
HOLSTERS Drug Stores, and in ever,
town throughout the State. See advt
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-12-02

/ think know better than 1.-The re-
sources and the energies of the Demo-
cratic party, which is identical with the
Slave Power: 1 do ample prestigeto its
traditional popularity. / know further
few know no better than 1.-The dis
advantages and difficulties of orcaniz.
ing new political force like the Re.
publicanparty, and the obstacles it must
encounter in laboring without prestige
and without patronage. But notwith-
standing all this, know that the Demo-
cratic party must go down, and the Re-
publican party must rise into its place.
The Democratic party derives its
strength originally from Its adoption of
the principles of equal and exact JUS
tee to all men. So long as it praticed
this principle faithfully, it was invul-
nerable. 1t became vulnerable when
1T renounced it, and since that time it
has maintained itself, not by virtue of
its own strength, or even of its tradi-
tlonal merits, but because there as yet
had appeared in the political field no
other party that had the conscience and
courage to take up and avow and prac-
tlce the life inspiring principle which
the Democratic party had surrendered.
AT last the Republican party has APP
peared. 1t avows now, as the Repub-
lican party of 1900 did, in. one word
its faith and its works; equal and
exact justice to all men," Even when
it first entered the field, only half or
ganized, it struck blow which only
just failed to secure complete and tri.
umphant victory. In this its second
campaign, it has already won advan-
tages which triumph now both easy
and certain.
The secret of its assured success lies
in that very characteristic, which in the
mouth of scoffers constitute its grea
and lasting imbecilIty and reproach
1t lies in the fact that it is party o
one idea; but that idea is a noble on,
AN idea that fills and expands al
generous souls; the idea of equality
the equality of all men before human
DAVIS, as they all are equal before tn
Divine Tribunal and Divine Laws.
know, and you know, that revo
luton has begun know, and all tn
world knows, that revolutions never g
backward. Twenty Senators and
hundred Representatives proclaim bold
ly in Congress to-day, sentiments an
opinions and principles of freedom
which hardly so many men even in thi
free State dared to utter in their ow
homes twenty years ago. While tn
Government of the United States, III
der the conduct of the Democratic pal
ty, has been all that time, surrenderin
one plain and castle after another I
slavery, the people of the United State
have been no less steadily and pres
veringly gathering together the force
with which to recover back again q
the fields and all the castles which hay
been lost, and to confound and owe
throw, by one decisive blow, the b
trayers of the Constitution and of fire
dom forever.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-12-02

FIRE.-From the Port Huron Press.
we learn that destructive fire occurred
at Corunna, Shiawasse county, on the
18th, by which some $4,000 worth of
property was destroyed. The Office of
the Corunna Democrat was burned and
two presses lost. Type mostly saved.
We are glad to see that the Office was
insured. There was no engine, hook
and ladder, or any organized Fire De-
partment in the village.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-12-02
~ tits said that in his forthcom

~ lis said that in his forthcom-
ing message, the President will argue
very strongly the construction of the
Pacific Railroad. This new zeal is ex-
cited from the fact that the South will
approve the measure, now that it is
supposed that the southern overland
mail routes will secure the construction
of the road by such routes. .aasz
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-12-02

The French flag waves over London
and the Britishers are agitated. The
Duke of Malakoff hoisted the French
Flag over his residence at the Albert
Gate. The papers say no other am
bassador ever did such thing. They
don't like it.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-12-02

1t is estimated that about 81 100000
per annum has been sent from this
country for the last ten years, by the
Irish, either for the relief of their
brethren in the old world or to provide
for their emigration to this country. q