The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-05-19
THE CAsS COUNTY REPUBLICAN,.
President Making and Fusion.

pers to patch up a sort of union of all
the opposition forces against the pres
ent dynasty at w ashington-prominent
among which is the n. Y. Tribune
although as yet, we believe, no propo-
sitions have been laid down, or over
lures made, by which we are able to
judge fully the nature or extent of the
concessions the Republican party is
expected to make to bring about such
an union.
The St. Joseph Traveller devotes
four columns to the task of proving
that Hon. Edward Bates, of Missouri,
is the man for the important position
of standard-bearer; and starts off with
the assertion that the next President
must be either Southern or Western
man; that the Republican party must
nominate Southern man, for the pur-
pose of disarming the sham Democ-
racy of the charge of sectionalism,'
SO successfully, though unjustly, used
against us in 1856" Now, as regards
location we have not one word to say,
for we care very little whether man
lives in the North, the West or the
South, if he be but true and tried
advocate of the Republican principles.
Mr.. Bates would undoubtedly make a
good President, but we do sombat the
policy of nominating man for Presi-
dent merely because he has drawn up
on himself the hatred of the present
Administration is the case with
Mr.. Bates-when it is we'll known that
he has no sympathies in common with
the Republican party. The very first
step required by such course is, that
the Republican party shall dilute its
hostility to Slavery to a milk-and-water
point. Mr.. Bates has always regarded
the negro question as pestilential one
and its agitation productive of no good
to any one. This is his position on the
subject as recently defined by himself
And it is the ground now occupied by
all other cold Line Wings" as they
call themselves. Now we wish to ask
the 7raueler if it is not folly to look
for much from men who deprecate op-
position to system which, in its prom
inence and its avowed intentions, aims
at total subversion of the Govern
ment, because of supposed danger to
the Union. Such course, we fear,
would prove suicidal to those great
principles for which we are contending.
The man nominated for President by
the Republican Convention must be a
true and tried advocate of the free
principles that is cherished by every
lover of freedom, and he will rally a
greater force under him than could be
done all the halfway Republicans
whose names could by any possibility
come before that body.
| AS regards the advice given by the
Tribune for coalition of the Repub-
lican party with the opposers of the
Buchanan Administration, we think no
Republican viii deny that such union
would be desirable, provided it could
be accomplished without sacrifice OF
our cherished principles. But shall the
mountain come to Mahomet, or Ma
homet to the mountain-shall the Re-
publicans come to the Old Line Wings
or the Old Line Wings to the Republic
cans? One of these two things must
be done. If the Republicans attempt
to meet the " Conservatives half way
they must leave behind them the only
principle that makes them Republicans.
And we think that rather than aban-
don those glorious principle, which
have given to the party its great moral
and political strength, it were better to
suffer defeat hundred times.
We believe, with the Lapeer Repu6-
lean, that the Republican party is the
only united party in this country, that
it is the party bound to be triumphant
through its principles established in the
Philadelphia platform-that it is the
great party to which all others wishing
to unite should gravitate. From baby
this party has sprung to giant dimen
sions, in the short space of five or siz
years; and with prestige of greater
strength and more vitality, are we te
: sacrifice the pleasure of rewarding oul
i own leaders, merely for the sake o.
!, gaining transient glory, by the acces
sion of conservative element in oul
ranks, which must sooner or later an
: initiate us. We have men-good an6
true-who have stood by the princi
pies which we now advocate, when ou1
party was but poor, sickly, rickety
infant-who have fought step by ster
!, for the honor of Republicanism-wht