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The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08

This is question that all candid
men, the watchers and well wishers of
our system of free government begin
to esteem of vital Importance. For
years past steady change las been
gradually developing itself in the char
acter of our government; change of
action, founded upon radical change
of principle; and that change, though
openly effected, has been brought about
against the will and intention of that
portion of our country who have here
tofore held, if they do not not now
hold, strong numerical balance.
Our government started upon the
basis of freedom to all men. The fire.
quently and pointedIy expressed senti-
ments of its trainers, together with the
collateral evidence furnished by the
ordinances and enactments of the early
congresses, bear out the supposition
that the founders of our government
intended the broadcast and most unre-
stricted application of the principle
embodied in the selfcvident truth,
that all men are created equal" This
intention has been partially disregarded
for many years past first covertly and
by dissembled action, but latterly more
strongly by open attacks,-by violent
Legislation and high official mandates
until at length it has come to be entire
ly discarded and overruled by the i'm
perial diction of the highest legal au-
thority in our nation. To one of the
peculiar Institutions of our country ii
is of vital necessity that this funda-
mental doctrine of our constitution
should be over-slaughed, and it is in
pursuance of this necessity that a
change so radical has been thus gradu.
all and steadily effected in the charae-
ter of our government.
This change has been thus effected
against the will and intention of the
majority of our people by the use Of
varied means, and by the adoption Of
such measures as circumstances offered
or required, and the inducement held
out has always been equal to the re-
cessities of the occasion, so that the
true effect of the evil contemplated has
ever been lost sight of by the too great
number of that majority, in the gid;
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08
Mormon War.


The correspondent of the New York
Tribune writing from the Army in
Utah, gives it as his judgment, that the
prospects are far from being favorable
to peace. In the opinion of the officers
unless the present war is prosecuted,
there will be much greater necessity
for war ten years or more hereafter
They are accordingly in favor of war
moac. He states that one great reason
for the i'll feeling which prevails among
them towards Col. Kane, is the report,
that he was baptised anew in the Nor
mon faith while in Salt Lake City, and
received what are called the endow-
ments, OF higher degrees of Mormon
ism. Now, this feeling in their minds
in regard to the Col. means either that
they believe he is traitor to his coun-
try, and has sacrificed its honor and
welfare to the advantage of the Nor
mons, or it means nothing. 1t is pre-
cisely the sort of imputation upon his
character, to which the Washington
Union, gave currency, when the first
intelligence of this remarkable result
reached us. 1t is as preposterous now
as it was then. But it only shows that
the officers are determined to urge the
war ifpossible. The Army contractors
and jobbers too have deep interest in
circulating these stories.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08

The Camp Scott correspondent of
the Cincinnati EnQuirer of May 22d,
giving an account of the arrival at the
Camp of a party Of Mormons, says:
One woman informs me that they
saw bodies of men and women floating
down the river with their throats cut
One old widow lady had her throat cut
while in bed, and her son, her only
support in this life, was shot dead in
the field. One man in this party which
arrived had his wife and child and
property forced from him while the
Governor was in Salt Lake $50 he says)
and he has applied to Judge Eckels for
redress, but of course, the Chief Justice
cannot aid him.
The New York Iri6uae's correspon-
dent, writing from the same place,
says:
Another of those black-hearted, fiend-
ish and atrocious deeds, which cry
aloud to Heaven for vengeance upon
the perpetrators, has, from the publ
city which has been given to It among
the Mormon people, reached us. The
fourth wife of a man living in the vi
entity of Salt Lake City, whose name,
for the present, / shall suppress
young, amiable, refined woman, beloved
by all who knew her, somewhat supe-
rior to the common mass, from the in
fluence of early education-became i'm
patient and heart-sickened at the abiect
state of misery SO rapidly gnawing the
very cords of her soul, and determined,
if possible, to make an effort to reach
the camp of the army. Her husband
got some hint of it. He Immediately
mounted his horse, rode to Brigham's
office, and asked of Brother Brigham
what he should do with her. Brigham
told him to cut her throat, and thus
save her from eternal damnation. The
brute went home, and told the poor
woman to prepare to die. She, seeing
the earnestness of his manner, fell at
his feet, begging, praying and implor-
ing him for mercy; but he, while she
was thus kneeling before him, took her
by the hair, and cut her throat from ear
to ear.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08
ffers and proferea1S nonors t

INSCRIPTIONS minority have managed
to control. Self interest has been the
leading motive of the minorlty-the
preservation and extension of an insti-
tuition to which they are allied by Pc
cuniary and social ties, has long been
the chief object, and for late years the
only object of the leaders of the South
ern portion of our citizens; an institu-
ton in direct antagonism with the spirit
of free government, and to encourage
the spread of which is strangely at va
rance with our wide heralded claim of
being land of liberty! To this self
interest all else has been made to sue
comb. Slavery rules our highest judi
cial tribunal! and slavery rules the
councils of our nation Enough of
the North are won by tempting allure
ments, or deceived by false issues, to
keep the Southern interest predominant.
Slavery is the essence of Southern cap
ital, and that capital is lavishly used to
uphold andexpand Slavery. Wherever,
at the North, there is blind obedience
to party dictation, or culpable ignorance
or cupidity, that obedience, and igno-
rance and cupidity are easily. made to
count in favor of Slavery, and men,
honest in all things else, are either at
home in the free North, or while repre-
senting free constituency in our Ma
ttional Legislature, wickedly assisting
to carry into territory yet free, the ty-
rannical and despotic institution Of
Slavery.
During the last Presidential term the
entire power of the American govern
ment has been used to carry Slavery
beyond its present limits; and the in
augural season of the new admins .ra
ton is darkened by baser concession
to the slave power than has ever before
been made. The Supreme Court which
it was hoped was above party trammel
has, after administering to the new
i President the official oath, binding hin
to support the Constitution. welcomed
him to power by proclaiming that thu
Constitution protects Slavery every
where, lin the Territories, and in all tn
IStates,-and that no man is by tn
Constitution, a citizen of nation
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08
County Snryeyor for Alpena Co., Mich.

~ Happy is the nation that cher
ishes female influence! Chivalric, he
roic and romantic, are epithets of one
great virtue arising from devotion to
woman, and faith in her purity and ex-
ceeding goodness,-and the possessor
of this virtue will be happy in the
thoughts it engeuders. 1t Anglers US
somewhat to hear people speak, as
they frequently do, coiltcmptaously
even of old maids; as though 1T were
not en- ugh virtually to reject them, by
refusing an offer, but must needs add
gratuitous insults. He who shows dis
respect to " oman-kind insults his own
mother whoever shows disrespect for
age offers his own person for scorn to
shoot at, at twenty PAGES; for to that
age he isprogressing, and some twenty
PAGES viii bring him to the point. Yet
is such disrespect too common-the
mark of selfish heart and mean
mind.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08
Steamer Burned---Several Lives Lost

Chicago July 8, 1s5s.-On the morn
ing of the 1st inst, the steamer Galena
took fire, at the landing at Red-wing,
Minnesota. The origin of the fire is
unknown. The flames spread with
such rapidity that the boat was soon
completely enyeloped. z =
There were about seventy-fye pas
sengers aboard, sixty-eight of whom
were saved. The following are known
to be lost: John Tyson, Polly Porter,
Chas. Porter and Lydia Porter, of
Michigan.
The books and papers were lost.
The boat was valued at 50,000-no
insurance.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08

TRIAL OF GEN. LANE CONCLUDED
The trial of Gen.Lane for the shooting
of jenkins is concluded, and a Leav-
enworth correspondent of the st. Louis
".Democrat ? says that, although the
decision of the court has not been made
public, the impression is universal that
their decision win be justifable homi-
eide. ~
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08
The New York R4stssAasssSs tn:

ali the appropriations asked for by the
Administration had been granted by
Congress, they would have swelled to
a total of Sl2O, 100000.
The Cleveland Plaindealer says that
its editor, Mr.. Gray, has been removed
from the Office of Postmaster in that
city " for doubling the immaculate con-
ception OF the Lecompton constitution"
Counterfeit Ten Dollar Bills on the
Hatter's Bank, Bethel, Ct, are in cir
culatien. The vignette is an eagle and
a train of cars. The signatures are
w. III. Judd, Cashier, ]. HI. Seely,
President.
Hon. Francis p. Blair, Jr., the Re
publican member of Congress from the
slave State of Missouri, has been unan-
imousIy re-nominated by the free State
and free white labor men of ST Louis
district. He will be elected.
From the published report of the
Police Justice of Detroit, it appears
that the total number of persons ar
raigned in the police Court fol-, the
commission of criminal offenses within
the corporate limits of the city of DE.
troit, during the last four years, was
4,428.
HEAVY VERDIcT.-The Circuit Court
at Buffalo, have given the following
verdicts against the Buffalo and State
Line Railroad: In favor Of Snsar
Brown and Amanda Rhodes, $4,000
each, for the loss of their husbands, who
were killed by the cars of said compan.
in 1856, at crossing on the line of thei
rad, and in favor of another party in
iured at the same time $1,000. TIL
two former of them were each within
$500 of the highest amount allowed b,
law.
/ PAID FIRE DEPARTMENT.-Th
Common Council of Louisville has es
tablished paid fire department., con
sisting of three steam engines, and tw'
hand engines. The Chief Engineer j
Ito receive 81 $50, assistant chief $3.50
chief engineer of each steam engin
$3.50, the firemen, hostlers, etc., $500
each foreman of the two hand engine
1 $500; who are also to act as Warden
and twenty men to each hand engine
who are to receive 800 per annun
their services to be required only i
lease of fire.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08
Remains of Monroe.

The removal OF the remains OF Tx
President Monroe, took place on the I'd
inst, under the direction of the NUM-
cipal authorities of New York City.
The remains were escorted to the
steamer jamestown by the eth regi-
ment, delivered to the Virginia Com
mittee by John Cochran in an eloquent
speech, which was responded to by
Messrs. Jennings and Wise, rendering
the earnest gratitude of the people of
Virginia for the honor done them by
New York, to her distinguished son.
The New York Tribune, in noticing
the removal of the bones of James
Monroe, from their resting place in that
city, to their final one in Virginia, very
justly says Now that Virginia has
ceased to produce any great men, and
has substituted the demon of Slavery
as her tutelary saint in place of the
goddess of Liberty, she takes as natu-
rally as the Pharisees and Sadducees
of old to the business of whitew ashing
the tombs of her dead prophets. While
the Court of Appeals is very busy in
upsetting the law of the State as estab-
lished by their predecessors, on the
avowed ground that it has become the
policy of Virginia to make Slavery per-
petual, her Legislature is engaged in
erecting costly monument to the man
who avowed to all his correspondents
that " it was among his first wishes to
see some plan adopted by which Slave
ry might be abolished by law" The
removal of the bones of Monroe from
their resting-place in this city, is anoth-
er tribute Of honor paid to the dead
relics of a man, whose living sentiments
on the subject of Slavery would subject
anybody bold enough nowadays to
avow and maintain them to coat of
tar and feathers, or at least to expulsion
from the Ancient Dominion. While
the Virginians drive the living Under
wood from their State, they bring back
the dead Monroes. Monroe was edu-
Gated in the same school with Wash
ington, Patrick Henry, Jefferson and
Madison, and like them was decided
Abolitionist. 1t was while he was
Governor of Virginia that the project
of the Colonization Society was first
started, and the Society pat into opera
ton while he was President, was warm
ly aided and supported by him on the
express ground OF opening door to
the abolition of Slavery in Virginia. 1t
/
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08

CALLING NAMEs.-The Douglas pa
pers in Illinois apply.to the Lecompton
factionists the various epithets of
+" buzzard crew" and " Lazzaroni, /"
!" Stinkfngers," "Danites Senator
Douglas name for Dr.Leib, the new
mail agent-and " hungry miscreants.'
The Nationals call the Douglas men
boilers aud abolitionists- A happy
family.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08

DEATHS OF DISTINGUISHED MEM
Hon. Robret f. Conrad, of Philadel-
phia, died at Lancaster on Sunday.
Hon. Job. Tyson, ex-member of Con-
gress from Philadelphia, died in Mont
gomery county on Sunday.
Major III. G. Wann, Assistant Quar-
ter Master General, died Monday morn
ing at Washington.
Hon. Albert H. Nelson, late Que OF
the Judges of the Supreme Court of the
U. S., died Sunday at the Mclean In
sane Asylum, at Summerville, neal
Boston. F--f s.ss W =.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08
Telegraphic Celebration in England

Advises from England by the City
of Washington state that great pre-
parations were being made to cele-
brate the opening of the Atlantic Tele-
graph Line. The Queen was to mau-
gurate the event by sending a peace
message to Mr.. Buchanan. We hope
she will have the opportunity
Up to the time of going to press,
nothing has been heard from the Nj
agara, now some time over due, though
she is hourly looked for.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08

rW The determination of Mr.. Blu
chanan to ..subdue the Mormon rebels
has put an end to the Mormon ques-
ton, and nothing else Grand Rapids
Es,qasier.
/ send you full and free pardon for
all past solutions, treasons andrebellion.
James Buchanan.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08

ARREST OF JACK HENDERsoN.-This
notorious Kansas ruffian was arrested
at Leavenworth on the 1st inst, on .
bench warrant issued by Judge Good
rich, charged with participation in the
election frauds at Oxford. He was
subsequently, liberated on his parole of
honor to appear before the Court to
answer the charge.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08

DEATH OF Mrs. THURLow WEED
Mrs. Thurlow Weed died in Albany at
noon on Saturday Her illness had
been long, and for a long time its con-
summation not unexpected. The SYM
pathies of men of all parties will be
with Mr.. Weed in this heavy affection,
which is all the more painful from the
recent loss of his only son.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES FOR Go,

DEMOCRATIC. CANDIDATES FOR Gov
ERNoR-The Jackson Patriot says
that the following gentlemen are spo-
ken of as Democratic candidates for
Governor of this State: Henry N.
Walker of Detroit; Yale, of Grand
Rapids, j. Adam, of Lenawee, once
Auditor of State; Hon. G. w. Peck,
of Lansing, Hon. w. N. Fenton, OF
Genesee, Hon. w. L. Greenly, OF
Adrian, Hon. Geo. Redfield, of Cass,
Hon. f. Livermore, of Jackson, ]. A.
Allen, of Kalamazoo.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08

Republican State Convention, for the nomina-
ton of State officers, viii be held at the City OF
Detroit, on Thursday, August 10th next, at IL
O'Clock NJ.
Each county will be entitled to two Delegates
for each Senator and Representative in the State
Legislature. Where two or more counties are
united in one Senatorial District the two counties
having the largest population will each be entitled
to one Senatorial Delegate
Each organized county having no Representative,
will be entitled to one Delegate.
F2 J. NJ. EDMUNDS,
NJ. II. MILES,.
EUGENE. PRINGLE. -re
J. j. NEWELL, a.. r...u.,
W. w. MURPHY, '3 Ta Ov.saa'
~ MARSH GIDDINGS, ooN'ni''ee
CHARLES T. GORHAM,
r. u. TRoWBRIDGE,
pa JAMES SULLIVAN,
Detroit june Esd, 1885,
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08

The Supreme Court of Virginia has
lately rendered decision, which beau
tifulfy illustrates the workings of the
bred Scott decision. The case in
which the decision was given, was that
of Mr.. Poindexter, who, in his will
gave his slaves "thei choice of being
emancipated or publicly Sold" This,
it would seem was plain provision.
He did not wish to force them to choose
Freedom in preference to Slavery, but
merely to provide for granting this.
privilege should they choose to accept
Freedom. The case was first brought
before the Circuit Court, by the execu-
tor of Mr.. p; he holding that the
slaves had no right to choose their con-
dition, even under such grant as that
contained in the will. The Judge of
the Circuit Court decided in favor of
the negroes, that by the terms and
operation of the will they were already
emancipated. The case was then car.
ried up to the Supreme Court of APP
peals of the State, and after lengthy
argument the decision of the court be-
low was reversed, uponthe ground that,
under the principles laid down in the
bred Scott decision, the slaves being
property, had no right of election, and
that as the will did not declare their
unconditional Freedom, they must re-
main in bondage.
Thus it would appear from the bred
Scott decision, that man has not the
control of his own property, that the
last solemn act of his life is thus set
aside, his last wishes defeated, because
he wished to unloose the chains of
few fellow beings. 1t was not enough
for that decision to declare "that Kan
sas, was as much a Slave State as
Georgia :" that unless man was of a
prescribed color, he could not become
citizen of the United States; that a
free negro cannot command an Ameri-
can vessel, even though his own; that
he cannot pre-empt a quarter section of
land; that he has no rights which a
white man is bound to respect, and in
short, that negroes were not persons
but things; but it must also say that
a man has no right in his last will and
testament, to offer his Slaves their free
dom. We believe, sometimes, with the
Toledo Blade, that the Great God is
visiting the curse of madness upon
Shareholders, in order that they may
the more speedily rush upon their own
destruction. Certainly, of late, many
of their acts have not been characteris-
tic of sanity. While they work night
and day, with untiring energy to per-
petuate the beauties of the institution
of Slavery, theirtlabors are almost daily
weakening the chainsspon which they
have so confidently relied"
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08

CONSOLIDATED, The Chicago Dem
ocratic Press and Tribune, two ster-
ling Republican journals have been con-
solidated and are now issued in an en-
iarged form under the name of the
Press. and Tribune. The whole force
of the two papers are concentrated up
on the one. = - ai.ta sf
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08
News and Other Paragraphs.

News and Other Paragraphs.
There are 1872 pupils in the Marshall
Female Institute. x
The population of the city Of Wash
ington is now estimated at 10000.
During the week, fifty persons have
died of sun stroke in the city of New
York.
At the New York Stock Exchange
on the sOth, $1,000 of Michigan Cen.
trail 8 per cent. bonds sold at go. f
During the late "wet spell, it rained
thirty-ive days out of forty-two days.
In other words, fve-sixths of the time.
The French Government has pub
lished decree, putting stop to relig-
ious controversy in the newspapers of
that country. saad
The Episcopal Convention of South
Carolina, has voted it's bishop six
months holiday, and $1,000 to take it
with. % .c
A California Journal publishes a list
of l55 convicts who have escaped from
the State Prison and never been cap
tured.
1t is confidently stated that the
Queen of England will become a
mother and grandmother in the same
week.
1t is stated that the State Teachers
Association will be held on the third
Tuesday in August, either at Niles Or
Kalamazoo.
A new steamer has been launched at
Midland City, which is to run on the
Tittaba Wassar, between that place
and Saginaw City.
The Hon. Owen Lovejoy of the Sd
District, ILL.,, has been re-nominated by
the Republicans for member of Con-
gress.
1t is reported in Paris that it is con-
templated to marry the Princess Alice,
of England, aged fifteen, to the Count
of Paris, aged eighteen.
The Grand Jury ofFranklin Co., at
their recent session, found 25 bills of
indictment, two of which are for Bur
glary.
LIQUOR SELLERS FINED.-Charles NJ
Burdick, and two "Patrick Reynolds"
were fined $40 and cost each, at Kala-
mazoo, a few days since for selling
liquor contrary to law.
AT Port Huron, little boy, son of j.
F. Charboner, whilst playing in the
streets was attacked by a ferocious dog
and terribly bitten. He was much
mutilated about the head and face.
The Santa Fe Gazette says that there
are not more than four hundred bona
.fde residents within the whole territory
out of which it is proposed to form Ari-
zonia.
DIR. Laveing, of Kcndalville, was
thrown from his sulky, on Sunday
evening last, and had his skull4ractured.
Although the injury is very severe,
hopes are entertained of his recovery.
A Pittsburg paper says that Vice
President Breckenridge is preparing to
enter the field as candidate for the
Democratic nomination for the Presi-
dency at the Charleston Convention.
The New York Post. shosses fl af
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08
for free labor in August.

Hon. SCHUYLER CoLFAx, the able
and efficient member of Congress from
the Ninth District of Indiana, has
been renominated unanimously. for a
third term. The Convention was very
large and enthusiastic
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08

OF this vast property which many
intelligent men have estimated as worth
many millions of dollars, was struck off
to DIR. J. M. Sanders and others,
for forty thousand dollars. There is a
prospect that the purchasers bought
amonst the other 'srights" lasosuit,
but it is confidently believed, that the
sale will be sustained by the courts.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08

D1sM1ssED.-On the lst inst, twenty
employees in the Boston Custom House,
two at Salem, and others atother ports,
were dismissed, and the salaries of
some of those retained cut down.