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

i"'o'f " WV iShliiiug, tne amer
lean people have been informed that
last week the Bishops in attendance
on the Episcopal Convention, at Rich
mond, called on the President at
Washington, and that the President
exhibited them a spear taken from
Browns arms for the invation Of Vir-
ginia, which District Attorney Ould
has brought him from Harper's Ferry.
Doubtless the President drew a moral
from this terrible weapon, and i'm
pressed on the minds of the worthy
Bishops the necessity Of repressing all
agitation, except that absolutely neces-
sary to guard and extend the divine in
stitution. The President has certainly
founded museum of implements and
relics of war, that, if perfected, will
vie with those of the tower of London
or the Invalides of Paris. We hope
that measures will be taken at once to
forward all the most notable of these
weapons and curious relics to the White
House; then when next the house of
Bishops calls on the President he will
show them in his national museum in
this wise:
"Here, Reverend Gentlemen, you
see the two rifles with which Clark and
Gardner shot Barber, in Kansas. Bar
bcr was riding quietly along the road
a capital offence at that time, and was
shot i'm the back. Clark was my Indi-
an Agent, an excellent patriot. was
not certain which killed Barber; but
in order to to make sure that justice
was done, l appointed Gardner Post
master at Lawrence, and Clark Purser
in the Navy. That is copy of his
commission, gentlemen. Carrying out
the scripture, you see these faithful in
a few things are appointed over many
things.
That, Gentleman, is the cannon
taken from the government arsenal at
Liberty, Missouri, with which Jones
and the sIissourians bombarded the
town of Lawrence and battered down
the hotel and several dwellings, after
they had pillaged everything they could
carry off. Here is copy of Jones'
commission as Collector of Customs.
True patriotism will never die, gen.
tlemen, while the country rewards her
heroes.
"This, Reverend Gentlemen, is the
knife with which Morphy .scalped
Hopps-a Free State man, very dam
gerous class, gentleman you cannot
too much warn Your congregations
against this agitating element. This
is Murphy's appointment as Agent OF
the the Pottawatamie Indians, where
he can learn them the civilized mode of
scalpiug. Virtue is sure to be reward
ed, gentlemen. Remind your congre-
cations of that.
I" Here you see some Of the muskets
and pistols taken from the United
States Arsenal in Missouri, for butch
ering the Kansas settlers. The Caan-
antics are to be driven ont gentlemen.
The Scriptures are clear on that head.
All means are lawful, even the seizure
of the United States Arsenals, to put
down the agitation.
"Here, Reverend Bishops, is pre-
cious relic, and great comfort to a
true patriot, especially in view of the
recent wicked attempt to disturb the
family relation, established by the Pat
riarchs in the sale of their brother Jo-
seph, by which we have the comforting
assurance that the traffic in our blood
relati ms is peculiarly blessed this is
the hatchet which Gibson killed Fred
erick Brown, a son of that mighty man
of valor. before whom the hearts of
the chivalry became as water. With
this weapon he was slain, unarmed
and a prisoner. His wife and child
were spared an injudicious humanity
towards such race. Many good men
strovc for the privilege of killing him,
but it was given to Gibson to hack him
to death with his hatchet, even as
"Samucl hewed Agag to pieces before
the Lord" You see, gentlemen, how
the devout mind is sanctified by
trophies. This lot, gentlemen will not
be complete until we get the rope with
which the father of this sinful agitator
who haze been in an unreconciled con-
dition since this dispensation on his
son, is hung. Then the mind that is
properly diciplined will be highly edi-
fed by trophies so full of incident and
allusion. Gibson has not gone unre-
warded; in government Office he
shows to a wicked and perverse gen.
Grafton that Republics are not migrate
ful.
81 now come, Gentlemen, to the
choicest relic in this collection, and the
one best calculated to inspire patriotic
and national emotions. Here ia this
glass case are pieces of the cane with
which a true Southron, ardent as a
Southern son with an invinciblc cour-
age, and pockets full of revoIvers,
walked mp to a sitting Senator who
had indulged in the profanity of free
speech, smote him to the floor and con-
timed beating him till there is hopes
that they have silenced his profanity
forever. These are the revolvers and
bowie knives with which two of the
bravest sons of the South guarded the
patriotic deed, to prevent interference
and here is an engraving of the monu-
ment which the admirers of true hero
ism in South Carolina are erecting to
her most heroic son. Future genera
tons, gentlemen, viii Judge us bv the
we build. Twill send you
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