The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-29

He tells you he is for the Cincinnati
platform; he tells you that he is for
the bred Scott decision. He tells you,
not in his speech last night, but SUBJ
stantially in former speech, that he
cares not if slavery be voted up orvoted
down-he tells you the struggle on
Lecompton is passed-it may come up
again or not, and if it does he stands
where he stood when in spite of him
and his opposition, you built up the
Republican party. If you endorse him,
you tell him you do not care whether
Slavery be voted up or down, and he
will close, or try to close, your mouths
with his declaration repeated by the
day, the week, the month and the year.
Is that what You mean? Cries of
"No;" one voice +" Yes."] Yes, / have
no doubt you have always been for
him IT you mean that. No doubt of
that. IA voice, shit him again.
Soberly have said, and I'repeat it, /
think in the position in which Judge
Douglas stoodin opposing the Lecomp-
ton Constitution he was right. He
does not know that it will return, but
if it does not we may know where to
look for him and that is on the Cincin-
matt Platform. Now could ask the
Republican party, after all the hard
names that Judge Douglas has called
them by, all his repeated charges of
their inclination to marry with and buy
negroes, all his declarations of Black
Republicanism-by the way, we are
improving, the black has got rubbed
ofEbut with all that, if he be endorsed
by Republican votes, where do you
stand? Plainly you stand ready, sad
died, bridled and harnessed and wait
ing to be driven over into the slavery
extension camp of the nation. Avoice
1--WE will hang ourselves first, just
ready to be driven over tied together
In Lotto be driven over, every man
with a rope around his neck, that hal
ter being held by Judge Douglas.
That is the question. s,s
If Republican men have been in ear
nest in what they have done, | think
they had better not do it. But think
that the Republican party is. made up
of those who, as far as they can peace
ably, will oppose the extension of
slavery, and who will hope for its ulti-
mate extinction-who will believe, if it
ceases to spread, that it is in course of
ultimate extinction. If they believe
it is wrong in grasping up the new
..s>s,:ss<ls-e,f- +e-Snxx*insnt,=and. keeping
them from the settlement of free white
Ilaborers, who want the land to bring
up their families upon; if they are. in
earnest, although they may make a
mistake, they will grow restless, and
the time will come when they will
come back again and reorganize, if not
by the same name, at least upon the
same principles as their party now has.
It's better, then, to save the work while
it is begun. You have done the labor;
maintain it-keep it. If men choose
to serve you, go with them; but as you
have made up your organization upon
principle, stand by it for, as surely as
God reigns over you, and has inspired
your minds, and given you sense OF
propriety, and continues to give you
hope, so surely you will at last come
back again after your wanderings,
merefy-to do your work over again.
:I{lI{sssrnelause- -.
= we were often-more than once, at
least--in the course of Judge Douglas
speech last night reminded that this
government was made for white men
that he believed it was made for white
men! Well, that is putting it in shape
+ in which no one wants to deny it; but
the Judge then goes into his passion
for drawing differences that are not
warranted. protest, now and forever,
against that counterfeit logic which pre-
sumes that because / do not want a
negro woman for slave, / do necessa-
rily want her for . wife. Laughter
and cheers. My understanding is that
lneed not have her for either. but as
God made us separate, we can leave
one another alone and do one another
much good thereby. There are white
men enough to marry all the white
women, and enough black men to mar
ry all the black women, and in Gods
name let them be so married. The
Judge regales us with the terrible
enormities that take place by the mix
ture of races; that the inferior race
bears the superior down. Why, Judge,
if we will not let them get together in
the Territories they won't mix there :!
HImmense applause.
A voice." Three cheers for Lin
coin" fThe cheers were given with a
hearty good will. s...s.e...f.
Mr.. Lincoln-I should say at least
that is self-evident truth.
Now, it happens that we meet togeth-
er once every year, sometime about the
4th of July, for some reason or other.
These 4th of July gatherings, / sup
pose, have their uses. If you will in
dulge me, will state what / suppose
to be some of them.
We are now mighty nation, we are
thirty-or about thirty, millions of peo-
pie, and we own and inhabit about one
fifteenth part of the dry land of the
whole earth. We run our memory
back over the pages Of history for
about eighty-two years, and we discover
that we were then very small people
in point of numbers, vastly inferior to
what we are now, with avastly less ex-
tent of country-with vastly less OF
everything we deem desirable among
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