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The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-03
Class for the fault of an In.
dividual.

Now and then the newspapers ring,
from one end of the nation to the other,
with accounts of the moral delinquency
of some clergymen. Considering the
thousands of this profession in the
United States, and the temptation the
Office holds out to designing hypocrites,
it is wonder, not that so few rogues
creep into the pulpit, but that the num-
Der is not greater. Hardly ever, how
ever, does one of these scoundrels
betray his true character without cry
being raised that the clergymen are
evolves in sleeps clothing" Jour-
mails which know better, and men who
ought to know better, take up, repeat,
and echo this absurd and slanderous
assertion. We say absurd; for if there
is one thing more preposterous than
another, it is to- condemn a class for
the fault of the individual We say
slanderous, because to give currency
to what the utterer is aware is false
hood deserves to be called by no other
name.
With the clergy, as individuals, we
have nothing to do, nor shall we make
ourselves the advocates of clergymen
of any particular sect. But of the
clergy as a body, the collective clergy
that is, of all religious denominations
we avow ourselves the friends. And
we are their friends, because we know
how inestimable morals and a love of
order are to the well-being of the State,
and because it is impossible to ignore
the Influence of the clergy in maintain
ing private virtue, and in teaching a
people to be law-abiding. Every
church is centre of light. We care
not what the peculiar doctrinal dogmas
may be which are there set forth; the
neighborhood is the better for the pres
ence of that church and for the exer-
tions of its clergymcn. Nobody ever
knew avillage to grow worse in conse-
quence of a religious congregation in
its midst. On the contrary, the most
fair and candid minds confess, that
without churches civilization must ret
rograde, immortality sap the very life
of society, lawlessness and anarchy
return. l
A class of men so beneficial to the
commonwealth deserve something bet
ter than to be followed with hue and
cry whenever rascal is detected in its
midst. There have been villains in the
editorial profession, at the bar, among
merchants, and in the ranks of medi-
cine; but does it follow that all Jour-
nalists, all lawyers, all traders, all doc
tors are rogues? Let us be Just to the
clergy. When we hear of hypocrite
i'll the pulpit let us recall the scores of
good men, filling the pastoral office,
whom all of us have known-men who
were foremost to relieve the poor, to
console the sick, to administer the last
sad offices to the dying, to ego about
doing good" The world is full of
quiet, unpretending clergymen of this
description; they constitute, indeed,
vast majority of their class and it is
the grossest injustice, not to say great
public injury, to condemn them for the
sims of a few of their number Plila-
dell'hia Ledger.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-03
Rights of New States.

We are of those who contend that
the people of a Territory, in the forma-
ton of a Constitution preparatory to
application for admission into the
Union as State, have the right to
I" regulate their domestic institutions
in their own way" and to claim admis-
sion under such Constitution, provided
that instrument has been fully submit
ted to, and adopted by, fair vote of
the people of the Territory, and that
its provisions are not repugnant to the
constitution, laws and treaties of the
United States, and to the moral sense
of the States forming the Union. si8i
This we believe to be the principle
which actuated and controlled the Re-
publican members of Congress in their
votes upon the bills for the admission
of Kansas, Minnesota and Oregon.
On the Kansas question, from first to
last, through five months struggle,
the Republicans persistently insisted
that the Lecompton Constitution should
be submitted to vote -of the People.
The Crittenden Montgomery bill
adopted by the House, provided for
this and the admission of Kansas under
that constitution, If the people desired
1t. The democratic Members, the
democratic party, as persistently op-
posed such Submission and Acquies-
cence, Denied the people the popular
sovereign Right to make their own
institutions, and claimed and exercised
Congressional Intervention to deprive
the people of that right. The English
bill does not yield them that right, bnt
adopts the Lecompton Constitution as
it is-the only question submitted, be-
ing the condition precedent that if
they will come into the Union as
Slave State they may have certain
lands, and if they won't come in as
Slave State, they can't come in at all.
Such is the practical difference be-
tween the Republican and Democratic
parties, on popular Right as demon
strated by their talk, by their acts and
by their votes, during the past six
months, in Congress and out of it. Re
publicans have uniformly contended
and voted for the 1nalienable Rights of
the people, while the democracy have
as uniformly contended and voted for
depriving them of those rights, and
dictates terms and conditions repugnant
alike to principle and to honor.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-03
Love in a Steel Trap.
BY THE COLONEL.

Glove laughed at locksmiths," we
are told; but rat traps are no subject
of laughter, even to the blind god him.
self, as will show you in the sequel of
this brief story.
"But will you go to-night?"
eyes, will"
"And if / have old Bob behind the
barn, at twelve, you'll be waiting In
side and we'll drive to New York and
get married right straight off the
real?"
eyes. When all the folks are in
bed and asleep, I'll steal out of the
wash-house door, go to the barn, get
in, disguise myself. When you come,
put in your finger, lift the latch, open
the barn door, and I'll drop into your
arms like a ripe apple Oh, I do SO
love to run away! Won't is be de-
hghtful ?''
The speakers were Joe Clavers and
Mary Miller. / need not mention that
they were lovers. Mary's father was
prosperous farmer in Connecticut, and
Mary herself was one of the most light
hearted, romantic, innocent and affec-
tionate creatures ever made after the
almost divine" model of mother Eve.
Joe was generous, impulsive youth
whose parents had once seen fatterine
days, but had of late been unfortunate
and had fallen into almost comparative
poverty.
Farmer Miller as he grew rich, grew
ambitious. Mary was his only child
He looked to her settlement in the
world as a means of his own socia
advancement, and had already selected
in his minds eye, suitable match. Ot
course, Joe's attentions, therefore, die
not meet with approval and while he
was unwilling to be sordid enough tc
reject Joe openly, for his lack of means
he had suggested to that young adven
turer the propriety of absenting him
self altogether from Mary's attractive
presence. This done he had assured
Mary of his resolution to dispose of hel
hand accordingly, to his own peculiar
notion of feminine happiness.
l need not say that these facts, oper
ating on the mind of thoughtless
loving, eccentric and spirited child like
Mary, had peculiar effect. That very
moment she determined to marry Joe
Clavers. He was evidently prosecuted
Persecution only made him the dearel
to her. She liked him before but now
she loced him. In fact, the more she
thought of the matter, the more she
was convinced that he was an angel
and that perfect idolatry on her part
would only be an act of noble devo
tion.
If Farmer Miller had been a sensi
BILE man, and at all disposed to study
human nature, he would have adopted
perhaps, different course toward his
daughter. He would have introduced
his proposed son-in-law, and forbidden
her, at the same time, to indulge in the
slightest regard for him. The proba
bility is, that she would have faller
desperately in love with him at frs
sight, and have given Joe his cosgt
without further ceremony but Farmer
Miller had a way of his own in al
things, and he was satisfied that should
Mary feel disposed to play him trick
he was quite able to manage Roland
for an Oliver.
The very next morning after he had
"opened his mind," as he called it, tc
his daughter, he luckily happened tc
see Joe Clavers make furtive entrance
into the kitchen, where Mary was busily
! at work, but not singing as usual, fol
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-03

WE PAUSE FOR REPLY.-Why
can't a man speak of Shakespeare with
out alluding to him as the "Bard OF
Avon" or "Immortal WHIP
How is it that you can't take up a
young lady's album (supposing such a
happily almost exploded nuisance ex-
tant,) without her being down upon
you for an "Acrostic," OF an " I'm
promptu?"
Why can't a young lady sit down TO
the piano without an additional accom-
paniment to her song in the shape OF
"such a dreadful cold"
How is it that young ladies of forid
complexion incline to pink bonnets
and again, those of unusual paleness
affect those of cerulean tint?
Why can't man lend his counten-
nance to the moustache movement
without ascribing to his "airy nothing
sanitary virtues?
How is it that musical geniuses can't
refrain from playing imaginary pianos,
in dull intervals, at crowded dinner
parties?
Why can't young ladies abstain from
kissing babies frantically before
strangers? @
Why can't man visit Paris without
returning with supernatural tooth
brush, in the guise of a moustache?
And lastly
How does it happen that whenever
you chance to stop out late, upon your
retiring as quietly as possible, every
door creaks ten times as much as usual,
and the stairs go off like parks of ar
tillery?
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-03
Letter from Charles Sumner to his Con.
stituentS.
TO the People of Massachusetts:


TO the People Of Massachusetts.
Two years have now passed since,
while in the enjoyment ofperfecthealth, ]
was suddenlymade an invalid. Through
out this protracted period, amidst vari-
Gus vicissitudes of debility, seemed
to be slowly regaining the health that
had been taken from me, until l was
encouraged to believe myself on the
verge of perfect recovery.
But injuries so grave as those origin.
ally received by me are not readily re-
paired, and recent relapse painfully
admonishes me, that although enjoying
many of the conditions of prosper
Gus convalescence, am not yetbeyond
the necessity of caution. This has been
confirmed by the physicians in Boston
and Philadelphia, most familiar with
my case, who in concurrence with
counsels previously given by medical
authorities in Europe, have enjoined
travel as the best calculated topromote
my restoration. Anxious to spare NO
effort for this end, so long deferred,
to-day sail for France.
To the generous people of Massa-
chusetts, who have honored me with an
important trust. and cheered me by Sc
much sympathy, / wish to express the
thanks which now palpitate in my bos-
ON while / say to them all collectively
as would say to a friend, Farewell!
But these valedictory words would
be imperfect if / did not seize this oc.
casion to declare what / have often
said less publicly, that, had originally
seen the duration of my disability,
should at once have resigned my seat
in the Senate, making way for servant
more fortunate than myself in the prec.
ious advantages of health. / did not
do so, because, like other invalids, ]
lived in the belief that | was soon to be
well, and was reluctant to renounce the
opportunity of again exposing the he
dious barbarism of slavery, now more
than ever transfused into the National
Government, injecting its whole policy
and degrading its whole character.
Besides l was often encouraged to feel
that to every sincere lover of civiliza-
ton my vacant chair was a perpetual
speech. CHAs. SUMNER.
On BOARD STEAMER VANDERBILT,
5 New York, May 22, 1853. s
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-03

THE OLD "RoCKET BURNED
This old locomotive, so well known to
our Central II. r. men, has at last gone
to destruction. During the tornado
the other day in Illinois, fire occurred
at Mendoza, burning it up. A CORE
spondent gives brief history of it as
follows:
The name of the engine burned was
the Rocket" and its history is some
what an eventful one 1t was built in
Boston in 1929, for the Boston and
Lowell Railroad, the second railroad
built in the country. From that it
went to the Springfield and Western
Massachusetts, road. From that road
it went to the n. Y. Central, from
thence to the Michigan Central, and
was on that road during that inglori-
Gus war on railroads in Michigan, from
which it carried to this day several ball
holes in the wood works, marks of the
strife. From the Michigan Central it
was taken to the Aurora Extension
road, and with that road belonged to
the consolidated Aurora and Military
Tract road. During the great freshet
year ago last winter it was taken over
the Fox River at Aurora on a raft, and
since that time has been used on the
road for all works, but kept at this
place. l doubt whether any other
locomotive in the country show so
long, useful and eventful a career as
"Old Rocket. ."-Detr0it Tribune.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-03
A "Reminiscences of Brigham Young.

"s1s.5O.-On the first day of April
next for value received, l promise to
pay Milton Sheldon or bearer, Eighteen
dollars and Fifty cents, with Interest.
Ten dollars of it to be paid in good
Kitchen Chairs at Fifty cents piece,
well done off, painted and bottomed
according to the usual mode of doing
off such chairs"
"BRIGHAN YOU'VE"
"Mendon, March 10th, $780,"
A gentleman, the administrator of
the estate of Milton Sheldon, mentioned
in the above note, has kindly presented
us the original of which it is a copy,
with the veritable signature, in de-
cent, legible round hand of Brigham
Young, the apostle of Mormondom,
attached. We value the Renaissance
highly, partly for the autograph of
Brigham Young, but more for the curl
Gus historical value it possesses, as
showing the calibre of the man, his
status in rural society. Everybody
knows that while all industry is COM
mended and appreciated in farming
community, the bottomer of kitchen
chairs is always considered as very low
down in the social scale. We are in
formed, also, that Brigham was cum
ming manufacturer of old-fashioned
spinning-whe while brace of en-
dorsements on the back of the note re-
veal that he had other occupations, and
was pretty much a Jack-of-all- Trades.
Thus we find two endorsements, both
bearing date June 25th, 1880, just at a
lazy time of the year when farmers do
their putting things to rights, as fol-
lows:
"June 25th, 1s3O.-Received on the
within, Fourteen dollars and twenty y-five
cents in making picket fence"
Received on the within two dollars
and fifty cents in framing A. Parks
barn."
The latter was evidently what is
called turn,' and indicates that
Brigham, like Joseph of old was car
penter as well as a chair-bottomer and
spinning-wheel maker. In fact his oc-
cupations were very numerous, but he
was best at camp meeting where no
lack of industry could be charged upon
him. In singing hymns and exhorting
he was energetic enough to make up
for all other deficiencies. The gentle
man to whom we are indebted for this
note tells us that he went once to Brig
ham Young's house to dun him. 1t
was a cold, raw, autumnal day. Swing
ing on the gate he found red-headed
"young one" bright-eyed and healthy.
Going into the house he found Mrs.
Young with one of those peculiar, rusty
old black shawls wrapt around her,
covering over a few Goals upon the
hearth. He stated his errand, but was
SO touched with sympathy at Mrs.
Young's reply that he went away de-
termined to make no further effort in
the case. Said Mrs. Young, Mr.. A.,
this little pile of Goals is all that l have
In the house, | have not a pint of meal
or flour, and Brigham has left me SO
for four or five days, to go to quarterly
meeting. 1 don't suppose he will ever
pay the note"
Such was Brigham Young in Ammo
Domini, 1s3O.-Bafalo Commercial
| Adcertiser.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-03

dies OF swords, gold-mounted and Jew
eled, which they at once knocked to
pieces for the sake of the mountings,
leaving the blades behind them. Next
came out huge chemical laboratory
then gold saddle-cloth, studded with
pearls then gold handled riding canes
then cups of agate and jade, gold
mounted and jeweled; then-but /
must really stop this brokers' inventory.
The happy possessors of these riches
were quite mad with excitement.
Close to us were large boxes of ia
panned work containing literally thou
sands of cups and vessels of jade, OF
crystal, and of china, which the soldiers
were listlessly throwing on the ground
and breaking into atoms. Had the
enemy made strong attack on us at
that moment not one-half of our troops
could have been collected to repel it.
And such were the scenes through
every court of the many mansions OF
the Kaiserbaugh.
Meantime intelligence reached the
chief of.the staff that the women of the
Zenana were secreted in one of the
strongest parts of the Kaiserbaugh.
Some engineer officers whose names
do not know Captain Hope Johnstone,
of General Mansfield's staff; and Lieu
tenant Col. Johnson, B. A. with two
companies of the 38th, Immediately
proceeded to the spot, into which some
of our soldiers had already forced an
entrance. In doing so, the son of one
of the begums, deaf and dumb youth
of twenty years of age, and two OF
three ladies of the Zenana were unfor.
tunately killed by discharge of mus
kerry when the doors burst in, before
the soldiers saw that they were women
1t may be imagined what state OF
terror the begums and their attendants
were In when our men entered. Hud.
died together amid the smoke, they
could scarcely be calmed by the assn
RANGES of the officers who at once took
measures to remove them to place Of
safety. As they were going out one Of
the ladies pointed out to Captain Hope
Johnstone's box which he had just
taken from the floor and placed upon
the table. She told him it contained
Jewels to the value of ten lacs of rupees
100000. He at once placed sentries
at the doors, and gave orders that nc
one should enter. Having with the
aid of his brother officers, taken the
ladies out of danger, he retired to tht
Zenana. 1t was blazing from end tt
end. The sentries only escaped by
clambering up to the roof, from which
they were with difficulty saved. Th,
Jewels were gone. Had Capt. John
stone taken them they would have beer
his, for the Kaiserbaugh was this day
given up to plunder, and what eacl
man could get became his property.
1t was late in the evening when We
returned to the camp, through road,
thronged with at least 10000 CAM
followers, all staggering under loads O
plunder-the most extraordinary ant
indescribable spectacle / ever beheld
Lucknow was borne away peacemea
to the camp, and the wild Ghoorka
and Sikhs, with open mouths and glar
ing eyes, burning with haste to ge
rich, were contending fiercely agains
the current as they sought to get to tn,
source of such unexpected wealth.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-03

A SUNDAY .DINNER.-We do not
know who is responsible for the follow
ing; but the scene is laid up one of our
most fashionable avenues:
Mary" No, papa, | never can re-
member the text, I've such a bad men,
ory."
"By the way, Mary" said her moth
er, did you notice Susan Brown ?"
Mary-"O, yes. What fright ?
She had on her last years bonnet, done
over, pea green silk, black lace
mantilla, brown gaiters, an imitation
Honiton collar, lava bracelet, her old
ear drops: and such afan 0, my -
Mother" Well, my dear, your
memory is certainly very bad"
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-03

Up with the sun at morning,

Up with the sun at morning,
Away to the garden he hies,
To see if the sleepy blossoms
Have began to open their eyes.
Running race with the wind,
With step as light and feet,
Under my window l hear
The patter of little feet.
Now to the brook he wanders,
In swift and noisless fight,
Splashing the sparkling ripples
Like fairy water-sprite.
No sand under tabled river
Has CLEANS like his golden hair,
No pearly sea-shell fairer
Than his slender ankles bare;
Nor the rosiest stem of coral
That bushes in oceans bed,
Is sweet as the flush that follows
Our darling's airy tread.
From broad window my neighbor
Looks down on our little cot,
And watches the "poor mans blessing
cannot envy his lot.
He has pictures, books and music,
Bright fountains and noble trees,
Flowers that blossom in roses,
Birds from beyond the seas;
But never does childish laughter
His homeward footsteps greet,
His stately halls ne'er echo
To the tread of innocent feet.
This child is our speaking picture"
A birding that chatters and sings,
Sometimes sleeping Cherube-
(Our other one has wings,)
His heart is charmed casket,
Full of all that's cunning and sweet,
And no harp-strings hold such music
As follows his twinkling feet
When the glory of sunset opens,
The highway by angels trod,
And seems to unbar the City
Whose Builder and Maker is God,
Close to the crystal portal,
see by the gates of pearl,
The eyes of our other angel
A twinborn little girl.
And / ask to be taught and directed
To guide his footsteps Alright,
So that be accounted worthy
To walk in sandals of light,
And hear amid songs of welcome,
From messengers trusty and fleet,
On the starry floor of Heaven,
The patter of little feet!
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-03

PRINTERS ToAsTs.-" The press; il
expresses truth, re-presses error, i'm
presses knowledge, de-presses tyranny
and op-presses none."
"Woman the fairest work of crea-
tion-edition being extensive, let no
man be without copy"
Babies; miniature editions of hu-
manity, issued periodically, and dis
played In small caps"
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-03

a An old gentleman Of our ac-
quaintance, says that he is the last man
in the world, that will ever tyrannize
over a daughters affections. So long
as she ndar'ies the man of his choice,
he don't care whom she ioces.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-03
COUNTY OFFICERS.

Treasurer OSBORN.
Clerk-E. B. WARNER.
Register of Deeds-ARIEL E. PECK.
Shcrif-JOSEPH n. MARSHALL.
Judge of Probote- SHANAHAN.
Prosecuting Attorney. j. SMITH.
Circuit Court Com'r-JAS. NJ. SPENCER.
Surveyor-AMOS SMITH.
Coroner-CHARLES HILL.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-03
MIsCELLANEOUs.
JOHN PIPER.

Ambrotype Artist. Likenesses taken on short no.
lures taken in one second. Operating in Bald
wins Daguerrean Car, on the Railroad Square.
near the liberty pole, Dowagiac, Mich. Also
fine Boots made to order
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-03

az A young poet out West, in de-
scribing Heaven, says:
" 1t is world of bliss, fenced in with
girls"
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-03
STATE AND COUNTY DIRECTORY.
STATE OFFICERS.
Is Published every Thursday,
At Dowagiac, Cass County, Michigan.

Governor-KINSLEY s. BINGHAM.
Lieutenant Governor-GEORGE A. COE.
Secretary of State-JOHN MCKINNEY.
Auditor General-WHITNEY JONES.
State Treasurer-SlLAS NJ. HOLMES.
Attorney General-JACOB NJ. HOWARD.
Supt. of Public Instruction-IRA MAYHEM.
Com'r of Land Offices. B. TREADWELL.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-03
III. b. DENMAN.

Banking and Exchange Office, Dowagiac Mich.
Buy and sell Exchange, Gold, Bank Notes. and
Land nd 5ay interest On School and
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% Hope-exhib;ted in dogs tail
while waiting for a bone.
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ExCHANGE HOTEL,

By John Let's Directly opposite the Passenger
Depot, Dowagiac, Mich.