The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-08
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out every State and territory of our Union-will
continue In essence what it has been-the earnest
champion OF Liberty, Progress, and of whatever
VIII conduce to our national growth in Industry
virtue, knowledge and Prosperity. 1t will con-
tlnue to urge the emancipation not only of the
black laborer from chattelism and legal impotence.
but of the white likewise from land monopoly in
temperance, ignorance, and that dependence on
remote markets which paralyzes exertion by DENY
ing to Toll any adequate and morally certain re-
ward. Believing that the chief evil of our time is
the inordinate multiplication and disproportion of
non-producers, it will continue to war against
whatever tends to degrade manual labor or de-
prive it of its just and full recompense 1t will in
fexibly commend the policy of winning hither
from Europe the useful Arts, and, wherever they
may be needed, the artisans as WELL for whose
products our country is running recklessly
into debt, while our laborers roam in fruitless
quest of employment, leaving their children in
want of bread, though the farmer is too often
compelled to sell his crops at most inadequate pri
ces In short, while battling against Fillibuster
ism and every other manifestation of that evil
spirit which seeks through the spoation of other
countries that agrandiZement which is truly at
tanned only through the due development and
cultivation of our internal resources it will ur-
gently advocate a more effectively discriminating
Tariff the Freedom of the Public Lands, the con.
struction of railroad from the navigable waters
of the Mississippi to those of the Pacific and ev-
cry other measure which seems to us calculated to
enhance the dignity or the recompense of Labor
and promote the well being of mankind.
The irrepressible conflict between Darkness
and Light, Inertia and Progress, Slavery and
Freedom, moves steadily onward. Isolated acts
of folly and madness may for the moment give
seeming advantage to Wrong but God still reigns,
and the Ages are true TO humanity and Right
The year 1860 must witness memorable conflict
between these irreconcilable antagonists. The
question "Shall human slavery be further strength
ened and diffused by the power and under the
flag of the Federal Union ~ is now to receive
momentous if not a conclusive answer. "Land for
the Landless, versus Negroes for the Negroless !"
Is the battle-cry of the embodied millions who,
having just swept Pennsylvania, Ohio and the
North West, appear in the new Congress-, backed
by nearly every Free State to demand a recogn-
ton of every mans right to cultivate and improve
modicum of the earth's surface wherever he has
not been anticipated by the States cession to an
other. Free homes and the consecration of the
virgin soil OF the Territories to free labor-twO
quirements, but one policy-must largely absorb
the attention of Congress through the ensuing ses
sion, ofthe people in the next Presidential can
vass and whatever the immediate issue, We can
not doubt that the ultimate verdict will be in ac
cord at once with the dictates of impartial Philan
thropy and the inalenable Rights of Man.
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