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The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-15
The First Case of Treason.

The execution of John Brown is the
first instance in the history of our gov
eminent, in which the punishment of
death has been inflicted for real or al
legged treason. And in reality, Browns
case will be no exception, as none but
a frightened Virginia Grand Jury
would have ever thought of dignifying
his mad foray with so important an ap-
pellation as treason. The General
Government has several times institut-
ed prosecution for treason, obtains con-
viction, pronounced sentences as in the
case of Shay aud his associates in Mass
achusetts, and in the "whisky insurrec-
ton" in Pennsylvania, but in each in
stance the pardoning power of the Ex-
ecution interviewed, and the offenders
were liberated.
1t is remarkable that no crime ever
yetperpetrated under our Government
was ever digniiied with the name of
treason, until Brown sought to liberate
negroes. His project was unlawful as
it was wild and unpracticablc, but he
was not guilty of treason.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-15
ssHelper,s Impending Crisis,

This book about which there is so
much discussion, was written by q
native of North Carolina. 1t is COM
pend of a part of the tables of the last
census, with extracts from jefferson
Notes on Virginia and quotations from
the writings and speeches of eminent
Southern Statesmen and divines.
The distribution of this work has
wonderfully alarmed the Southrons and
Northern doughfaces and they wonld
make it treason, to recommend it or
further its circulation. Well, the
world moves, and this timidity and
weakness is speaking in trumpet tones,
of the weakness of despotism.
We really believe that the course
pursued by Clark of Mo-, aided by his
Southern friends will have great in
fuence which will soon be- perceptible
in opening the eyes of honest men
North and South to the miserable con-
dition and shutting policy of the Dem
ocratic party. So mote it be.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-15
Matters at Washington.

AS will be perceived our Congrssion-
al news, no progress has been made
towards the organization of the House
and there are no indications that the
conflict which has now begun, will
come to speedy termination. Much
as we may and do regret the present
position of things, we cannot but be-
lieve that it will eventuate i'm good to
the Republican party and, therefore, to
the Nation. The Republicans have
desired speedy organization. They
have held, that all business was out of
order until after the Speaker should be
elected and the members should pre-
sent their credentials. They have
borne examinations and taunts in the
calmest manner, and until several days
had elapsed, no speaking was done on
that side of the House.
Heretofore we have been accused of
dragging the Slavery question every
where and especially of making it the
question in Congress. Always false,
it seems to us that the tongue must
palsay that now utters the libel. This
question has now been dragged into
Congress by the party which arrogates
to itself the honor of conservatism.
But Republicans can well afford to
"bide their time" and in the conflict
now begun, it will be evinced that
among us is found the true conservat-
ism, it will be shown by the success
that is to be ours that we are not only
Argus-eyed and Briareus-handed but
also omnipotently strong to secure the
end desired.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-15
Old Browns Ghost.

Report says, that few nights after
the execution of John Brown, the shiv-
er-alry at Harper's Ferry, were thrown
into the utmost CONSERVATION, by the
report, that cold Browns Ghost had
made its appearance in the neighbor-
hood.
After carefully watching the suspi-
cious looking object, through the live
long night, from upper windows, at a
safe distance, returning day revealed
the fact, that some thoughtless wash
woman had left suspended upon dry
ing line, in the back yard, one of those
neither garments, peculiar to her sex !;
which from its hanging position and
snowy whitenass, had easily been con-
verted, by disordered Imagination,
into the dreaded spectre.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-15

The New York Tribune in speaking
of the late election in that city for
Mayor, says The country may now
understand that there is in this City a
body of nearly $4,000 Republicans aoho
pW stand fire, and who cannot be
bought or sold. All honor to this gal
liant army! Tammany Hall could not
brighten them, nor seduce them, nor
bride them, with all the thousands it
had to spend; and Fernando Wood,
at the height of his triumph, knows
that here is an ineorruptible and an
unmovable phalanx, on whose solid
ranks he is doomed to destruction here
after. Standing firmly for their princi-
Piles amid every temptation, true men
of all the defeated and decaying or
carnations must rally to their banner ;
and the day cannot be distant when the
Republican Party OF this metropolis,
animated as it is by devotion to the
great idea of human rights, and not by
the scramble for Office and for plumber
will be in the majority. Once more,
Honor to the Republicans of New
York
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-15
Senator Trbmbuli's Speech.

WASHINGTON Dee. 9.-In the SEN
ate yesterday, Senator Trumbull made
lengthy speech, chiefly in defense of
the Republican party, in the course of
which he said that the declaration of
Mr.. Seward in regard to the 4" irrepress-
ible conflict" was nothing more than
the views expressed by Washington
and the Southern men in 17OS. He
also quoted the language of Jefferson,
that there is nothing more certainly
written in the book of Fate, than that
these races should be free. 1t would
be seen, then, that the idea was not
new; it had its origin in Virginia years
ago, and the idea was foreshadowed by
Jefferson. Although not part Of the
creed of the Republican party, he
trusted it might hereafter become its
creed-that is, the deportation of the
free negro population from the country.
He trusted the Republican party would
make it part of their creed to procure
some region of the country not far dis
tant to which the negro population
could be taken. He feared for the con-
sequence of Jefferson's prophecy, un-
less this was done. In favor of this
movement, he quoted from a speech of
Henry Clay, advocating colonization.
In conclusion, Mr.. Trumbull said /:
cit seems to me impracticable to trans
port this great population to Africa.
Let us obtain a country nearer home !;
and to show the sympathy in the North
for the South, / know l may say for
the people l represent, we will contri-
butte liberal means to relieve this coun-
try of this free negro population, and
of all the slaves that shall be volunta-
rily emancipated, by planting them in
some contiguous country. l hope that
will become the policy of the Republi-
can party. hope we may join hands
with the South, and, instead of re-
preaching each other, instead of saying
anything to create a misunderstanding
in the different sections of the Union,
we may come together as our fathers
stood together, shoulder to shoulder, to
establish our independence-that we
come together side by side, as broth
ers, adopting a policy which shall
eventually rid us of this institution OF
slavery, the only one that threatens
our permanent prosperity"
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-15
that I shall be unable to consummate

that shall be unable to consummate
that work.
/ believe that either friend of the
administration or Republican is ulti-
mately to be elected Speaker. I am
frank to say in that event / have de-
cided in the choice of the latter. I
have offered the resolution for the pur-
pose of reaching an organization. If
the administration party succeed, /
trust / shall submit in a becoming
spirit. / am perfectly willing that
every man in the country should know
my views. Let the motion to amend
the journal be put to the House to de-
eide.
The discussion on Mr.. Hickman's
was continued until o'clock when the
House adjourned without vote being
taken.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-15
The last act of Virginia Chivalry.

A resolute refusal of Gov. Wise to
permit Mrs. Brown to remain in prison
with her husband the last night allowed
him on earth, and to permit Brown
himself to make single remark from
the scafold, is such an instance of bar
barism and brutality as was never be-
fore witnessed in this country, or in
any other in this enlightened age, in a
Christian land. That this privilege
was denied to both of them, the public
have the official authority of Gen. Tai
liaferro himself These acts Of high
handed tyranny and cruelty will be
treasured up by the American people
against the imbecile State that would,
from very cowardice, permit them.
No other people on the face of the
globe except Southern shareholders,
would have inflicted such an outrage
upon humanity in this enlightened age.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-15

appears that Browns northern friends
were impatient of the delay or expense
of his proceedings.
Browns address to his comrades ON
the morning before the attack explains
his intentions. Cook says:
There were some six or seven in our
party who did not know anything of
our Constitution, and, as have since
understood, were also ignorant OF the
plan of operations until the Sunday
morning previous to the attack.
Among this number were E. Coppic,
Barclay Coppic, Francis ]. Merriam,
Shields Green, John Copeland, and
Deary.
The Constitution was read to them
by A. d. Stevens, and the oath after
ward administered by Capt. Brown.
Sunday evening previous to our depar-
ture, Capt. Brown made his final ar
engagements for the capture of Harper's
Ferry, and gave his men their orders.
In closing, he said: "and now, gentle
men, let me press this one thing on
your minds; you know how dear life is
to You, and how dear your lives are to
your friends; and as you remember this
fact consider that the lives of others
are as dear to them as yours to you.
DO not, therefore, take the life of any
one if you can possibly avoid it; but
if it is necessary to take life in order to
save your own, make sure work of it. !"
The rest OF the confession is chiefly
occupied with the details of Cooks
escape.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-15
The Charleston Convention to Meet April
3d..

WASHINGTON, Dec. THE Nation
al Executive Democratic Committee
met this evening at Willards Hotel. All
the States were represented except
Maryland, Georgia, California and Al
ALBANIA.
After free interchange of opinions,
Monday, the 23d of April, was fixed
for the time of the meeting of the
Charleston National Democratic Con-
vention.
"A resident committee was appointed
to superintend the printing and publica-
ton of documents, &C., consisting of
the following members; Hon. G. l..
Vallandigham, of Ohio, Chairman :
Hon. G. J. Faulkner, of Virginia; Hon.
John Cochrane, of New York Hon.
John A. Logan, Illinois; Hon. VIM.
Bigler, Pennsylvania Hon. VIM.
Barksdale, Mississippi; Hon. Miles
Taylor, louisiana, and w. III. English
of Indiana.
On motion of Mr.. Vanater, of New
Jersey, the Chairman and Secretaries
were authorized to procure suitable
Hall at Charleston, in which to hold
their Convention, to Issue tickets of adj
mission, to the delegates to said Con-
ve1tion duly appointed by the regular
Democratic organization of the party
in the respective States, and to make
such other arrangements as may be
necessary for the assembling and hold
inc of said Convention.
A resolution was adopted with view
If possible, to correct the telegraphic
Misrepresentation concerning the in
terests of the Democratic party.
The Committee then adjourned, sine
die. s SGD ~
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-15


SHOOT WITH THEIR EYES SHUT-A
good deal of surprise has been ex-
pressed that no more damage was done
by the frequent shots of the Virginia
soldiers at Charlestown, during their
late fright Notwithstanding every
COW and cat in the neighborhood was
fired at as abolitionists dozen times
or more, nothing was killed but a ven
cradle quadruped that was coming into
camp TO be MIXED. The reason why
the shots fell so harmlessly, must be
that Virginia soldiers, when in the last
stages of fright, always shut their eyes
when they shoot.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-15

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The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-15

). Mortimer Thomson, esq, delivered
his poem, "Pluck," before the Young
Mems Association of Chicago, few
days since. In the course of it, the
lecturer alluded to what he called ssthe
incarnation of his subject, Old John
Brown No sooner was the name OF
the grand old hero mentioned, than the
audience broke out into enthusiastic
cheering, which died away; was again
commenced; again subsidized; again
and again, and again revived, and con
tlnued for several moments, before the
speaker was allowed to proceed.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-15

THE PRESIDENTS MEssAGE.-The
Presidents Message fillsseven columns
of The Constitution. 1t practically
repeats the recommendation of last
year concerning Mexico, by investing
the Executive with increased power to
use the army and navy at discretion !;
and enlarges upon the Harper's Ferry
affair, and the Union.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-15
HThe poor people of Philadelphi

The poor people of Philadelphia
have a esfuel saving society,"" which
takes their earnings throughout the
year in dimes and half dimes, and gives
them the amount i'm fuel at wholesale
prices. A cent day buys one ton of
coal; eight cents for nineteen week en-
title the depositor half ton, and twelve
cents to whole ton. Those able to
buy their own fuel are not allowed as
dspositors. 1t is for the poor exclu.
sively, and 222 of them used it last
year, depositing s1,1ls, and drawing
313 tons of prime coal.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-15

News and Other Paragraphs.
There are 1888 public schools in
Wisconsin, besides 210 select and pri-
vate schools.
Mrs. Bilansky, who has been tried
andconvicted of poisoning her husband
at St. Paul, was sentenced on Friday
of last week to be hanged.
Efforts are making in Massachusetts
to raise 100000 to endow a College
to be located at Lawrence, Kansas, to
be called Monumental College. 1t is
to be on-sectarian.
Washington Irving leaves large
fortune to be divided amongst his neph-
ews and nieces. For the last eight or
ten years he has probably received from
his books alone an average annual in
come of $40, 900.
The employers of the Great West
ern (Canada) Railway, and other gen
tlemen, have determined, upon the re-
turn of Mr.. c. J. Bridges, the General
Superintendent, to Canada, from Eng
land, to welcome him with grand ban
quet at Hamilton.
A gang of twenty-four thieves was
discovered at Medina, near Adrian,
Mich, on the I'd inst, eight of whom
have been arrested. 1t is ascertained
that this gang have been committing
their depredations in that county for
some five years.
Several of the Virginia officers who
commanded at Charlestown are now in
Washington, on their return to Rich
moud, and they say that the marching
and countermarching of the troops un-
der order of Col. Smith, while Brown
stood with the halter round his neck,
excited feeling of horror and indig-
nation among these sroops.
The Hon. Thomas Corwin, twenty
nine years ago Monday, took his seat
in the House of Representatives as a
member from the same District now
represented by him. There is not a
member of the House with him who
was there when. he first took his seat.
In less than a generation there has
been an entire change, with single ex-
ception.
The grandson of Teoumseh is now
living in Natchez, Mass. He is WELL
educated and accomplished gentleman,
having travelled over a greater part of
Europe. He is physician, and is said
by The Free Trader to be an excellent
one. In his pharmacopeia is lot of
medical herbs, the secret of whose cur
alive powers he derived from his grand
mother, who was a great medicine /"
woman.
Banking is likely to be girt with per-
lis in Georgia. The Governor of that
State, in his recent message, recon-
mends revision of the criminal code
to the end that a suspension of specie
payment by any bank in Georgia, shall
be deemed conclusive evidence of fraud
on the part of the President and direc-
tors, and Furnishes the officers of the
bank for it, by imprisonment in the pen
itcntiary, without permitting them to
show that it was not fraud.
The Paris correspondent of The Post
writes that Mr.. Seward is taking a rap
id tour through Belgium and Holland.
He will return to Paris about the 10th
of December, and sail in the Arago on
the 18th. For week he was the guest
of the Emperor and Empress, at Com
|piegne, compliment which very ma
turally made a sensation not only in
American but even in the French cir
cles.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-15

w Mr.. Bailey, the proprietor of
the Free South newspaper Office, which
was recently destroyed at Newport
Ky, declares his determination to buy
a new press and type and resume the
publication of his paper.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-15
Election of Mr.. Breckenridge.

Frankfort, KY, Dec. Nm. Brock
enridge was elected q. S. Senator by
30 majority, joint ballot.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-15
A NEW BOOK
HEROES and PATRIOTS
OF THE SOUTH:
COMPRISING
LIVES OF

LII v LIS Oh
General Francis Marion, General viii.
liam Moultrie, General Andrew
Piokens, and Governor
John Rutledge.
WITH SKETCHES OF OTHER DISTINGUISH
ED HEROES AND PATRIOTS WHO SERVED
IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, IN THE
SOUTHERN STATES.
BY CECIL B. HARTLEY.
With engravings from original designs. by G. G..
WHITE. One volume, 12mo., cloth Price 81 90
From the Preface
The purpose of the work is to record the actions
OF some of the most celebrated of the MANY heroes
ana patriots who distinguished themselves by
eminent services In the Revolutionary War in the
Southern States in the Union.
Among these, General Marion, whose life occu-.
pies considerable portion of the volume. was one
OF the most remarkable characters who figured on
the grand theatre of war in those times that sried
mems souls Marion's achievements were of the
most heroic and romantic character; and are
always read with interest and admiration
General Moultrie, the illustrious defender of the
fortress which bears his name is not less interest
ing in his way.
General Pickens, was companion of Marion. In
some of his daring enterprises, and one of the.
most useful of all the general officers who assisted
In recovering the Southern States from the enemy
Governor Rutledge, rendered services to the
cause, OF the most important nature, and displayed
cnaracter and ability equal to every emergency
Of several other military Commanders and
Statesmen, we have given but slight sketches, ins
consequence OF the brief space to which we were
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