The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-10-27

tilted himself with the great enemy Of
the President If there was one man
| in the United States who had irresisti-
BILE claims on the friendship and sup
port of Douglas, lit was Broderick.
When the enmity which Douglas had
drawn upon himself in the Senate
threatened to assume the shape of ply
sical force, Broderick was the Ajax
from behind whose shield he, the Little
Giant, shot his arrows. Such were the
relations which subsisted between the
two men. Yet no sooner did the de-
feat of the Douglas-Broderick ticket
arrive here than) the Douglas. organs
burst out in exultant editorials at the
result of the elections. They rejoiced
one and all-the Missouri Republican,
the Springfield Register, the Chicago
Times, and their numerous echoes in
Illinois-that Latham and his col
leagues on the Buchanan ticket were
elected, and that the popular sovereign
ty ticket was defeated. They rejoiced
at the suuccess of the ticket which
represented the principles of Jefferson
Davis and James Buchanan, and at
the defeat of the ticket which represen-
ted the principles professed by them
selves and their leader, in common with
Broderick. They even silly contributed
to elect the one and defeat the other.
We need not say that all this was done
at the instigation of Douglas. The
article already referred to in the Chica-
go Times, his home organ, permits as
to entertain no doubt on the subject
and we challenge the world to produce
a more fragrant case of moral obliquity
and political treachery and baseness.
We can imagine nothing which would
have so much embittered the last mo-
ments of the true-hearted Broderick as
this exhibition of falsehood, selfshness
and ingratitude. Happily, he was
spared the knowledge of it. haf
Much as we are opposed to Douglas,
we could wish that his character were
free from the trait which this episode
discloses, or rather, the existence of
which it confirms, for it had been often
before manifested. True to his own
designs and false to all besides, he sac
rifices his friends without the slightest
compunction. He has played exactly
the same role in relation to the Penn
sylvania election. There be also sup
ports the Buchanan ticket, although
its candidates, and the platform on
which they stand, expressly repudiate
the doctrines which he has chosen to
uphold as true Democratic doctrines.
He has betrayed Forney as he be-
trayed Broderick; but Forney, who
has keener insight than himself into
the events of the day, not only refuses
to follow him, but draws the veil
aside from his illogical and recreant
conduct.
We have been betrayed into this
brief disgression about Douglas by the
late connection which prevailed be-
tween him and better man, to whose
fate we cannot help reverting. How
much he was esteemed is apparent from
the demonstrations which the news of
his death evoked. The flags of the
vessels in the harbor were hung at half
mast the road between the place
where he lay and San Francisco was
continually crowded with the citizens
anxious to learn his condition, while the
deepest feeling pervaded the entire
community. ) s asq + sr.
But his blood will not sink into the
ground without producing results. 1t
will rise on the wings of terrible re-
tribution. The fell party, on whose
head it is-who have to account for it
as well as for Sumner's-shall gather
the harvest of wrath and vengeance
which their crimes have sown, while
the cause for which these Senators have
been stricken down shall continue to
prosper in the hearts of the people.