The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-08

well attempt to stop the wind. This
Government mi ght send its troops, but
they wonld run over them like herd
of buffalo. Let the work once begin.
and do not know that this house will
hold me very long. Give me five mil.
lions of dollars and | would undertake
to do it myself. Although / do not
know how to set single squadron in
the field, l could find men to do it.
Slavery should pour itself abroad with
out restraint, and find no limit but the
Southern Ocean. The Camanches
should not hold the richest mines of
Mexico. Every golden image which
had received the proclamation of false
worship, should soon be melted down
into good American eagles. l would
cause as much gold to cross the Rio
del Norte as the mules of Mexico could
carry; aye, / would make better use
OF it, too, than any lazy, bigotcd priest
hood under heaven"
When you thus boasted that you and
your boasted lolfers" would overrun
the troops of the United States "Iike
herd of buffalo" if the Government
sent them to arrest your invasion of a
neighboring nation, at peace with the
United States, did you not pledge
yourself to commit treason? Was it
not by the murder of unoffending Mex
leans that you expected to advance
these schemes of avarice and ambi-
tion ? What humanity had you for
Mexican mothers and babcs," whom
you proposed to make childless and
fatherless? And for what purpose
was this Wholesale massacre to take
place? Not to right the wrongs of
any oppressed class, not to sustain any
great principle of juatice, or of free
dom; but merely to enable slavery
to pour itself forth without restraint" !"
Even if Captain Brown were as bad
as you paint him. / should suppose he
must naturally remind you of the
words of Macbeth:
"We but "ch
Bloody Instructions which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor: Thus even handed justice
Commends the ingrediences of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips"
If Captain Brown intended, as you
say, to commit treason, robbery and
murder, / think have shown that he
could find ample authority for such
proceedings in the public declarations
of Gov. Wise. And if, as he himself
declares, he merely intended to free the
oppressed, where could he read a
more forcible lesson than is furnished
by the State Seal of Virginia? I
looked at it thoughtfully before |
opened your letter; and although it
had always appeared to me very sug-
gestive, it never seemed to me SO much
so, as it now did in connection with
Captain John Brown. a liberty-lov-
ing hero stands with his foot upon
PROSTATE despot; under his strong arm,
manacles and chains lie broken; and
the motto is "Sic Semper Iyrdn1,is," !"
" Thus be it ever done to Tyrants." :"
And this is the blazon of State whose
most profitable business is the Internal
Slave Trade. In whose highways
coffles of haman chattles, chained and
manacled are frequently seen!
y X x
Thus Kansas became the battle
ground of the antagonistic elements in
our Government. Ruffians hired by
the Slave Power were sent thither
temporarily, to do the voting and drive
from the polls the legal voters, who
were often murdered in the process.
Names copied from the directories of
cities in other States were returned by
thousands as legal voters in Kansas,
in order to establish Constitution alb
horred by her people. This was their
exemplifcation Of Squatter Soverei gn-
ty. A Massachusetts Senator. distin-
guished for candor, courtesy, and stain
less integrity, was half murdered by
Shareholders, merely for having the
manliness to state these facts to the
assembled Congress of the nation.
Peaceful migrants from the North,
who went to Kansas for no other pur-
pose than to till the soil, erect mills,
and establish manufactures, schools,
and churches, were robbed, outraged,
and murdered. For many months a
war more fcrocious than the warfare
of wild Indians was carried on against
people almost unresisting, because
they relied on the Central Government
for aid.
And all this while the power of the
United States, welded by the Slave
Oligarchy, was on the side of the
aggressors. They literally tied the
stones and let loose the mad dogs.
This was the state of things when the
hero of Ossawattomie and his brave
sons went to the rescue. 1t was he
who first turned the tide of Border
Ruffian triumph by showing them that
blows were to be taken as well as
given.
You may believe it or not, Gov
Wise, but it is certainly the truth, that
because shareholders so recklessly
sowed the wind in Kansas, they reaped
the whirlwind at Harper's Ferry.