The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-15

Storming the Castle Wallis
The white mans party held glori-
ous Convention. in St. Louis, and re-
nominated F. P. Blair, Jr., for Con-
gress, and full County and Legisla-
| tive ticket. Thus the cohorts of slave
nv are stormed within the walls ftheir
own castle. Mr.. Blair, on addressing
the Convention, spoke confidently OF
Kidding that State of the incubus OF
Slavery before the earth should make
two more revolutions around the sun.
The resolutions adopted by the con-
vention were bold and emphatic as
follows :. 3 a s
iResolced, That we reafirm as the
basis of our political faith the great
Democratic doctrines promulgated by
Mr.. Jefferson and the fathers of the
Republic-the strictest economy in the
administration of public affairs and
hostility to monopolies of labor, of land,
and of every other description of mo-
nopoly--privilege or class legislation.
Res0lUed, That we denounce the
present Federal Administration for its
reckless profigacy and extravagance,
the public expenditure exceeding that
of any administration of the govern
ment from its foundation, whilst not
one single dollar has been appropriated
to improve Western rivers and harbors.
We denounce the system of jobbing
and speculation which prevails in every
department, manifesting itself in such
transactions as the fraudulent sale of
Fort Smelling, and still more fraudulent
purchase of Willett's Point, and the
letting of enormous contracts to party
favorites in violation of law. t
Resolced, That we denounce the
present administration for its abandon
ment of every principle of Democracy
by the profession of which it attained to
power-we denounce its continuance,
the Lecompton Constitution, which it
has sought and is now seeking to force
upon a reluctant people; we denounce
the administration for violating the
law of Congress on the subject of the
overland mail, in order to propitiate
their Southern masters by making that
which was intended for national road,
merely Southern and Sectional one.
We denounce the administration for its
hostility to the West and all Western
improvements, inasmuch as it has de-
MED the West fair share in the bene-
fits of the government, in order to swell
the profits of jobbers and plunderers.
Resolced, That we are opposed to
negro equality and to all who favor
negro equality, and to those who seek
its accomplishment by compelling white
men to work side by side with negro
slaves. ~ -oft sey-s
Resolyed, That we believe it to be
for the best interests of Missouri that
slavery should become extinct within
her borders and the negroes removed
beyond her limits. Give us Missouri
for white men, and white men for Mis-
souri,. l..a..sa....
Resolyed, That we must deplore
National Legislature, which has been
untrue to the laboring interests of the
country-solicitou only for agitations
gotten up by the politicians for their
own personal elevation, and that we
recognize as far more in accordance
with the republican character of OuEz-
government-that- ssysrem which shall
E require honesty and capacity as pass
g ports to office, rather than mere reck-
: less partizan attachment-which shall
consult home economy by abolishing
tariff duties upon necessaries of life
f which now tax all consumers for the
benefit of the few who monopolize their
, production-which shall encourage the
improvement of our great rivers that
7 bear the commerce of the West to the
f markets of the East, and shall also
forthwith promote the construction of a
central National highway to connect us
! with the Pacific States, and which shall
introduce such reform into the DISPOSE
| ton of public lands as will secure the
soil to actual settlers free of charge,
and wrest it from the hands of those
who now speculate i'm the homes of the
people and grow rich swindling pio-
neerS. -.-s