The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-11-01


about the country, are bowling and ly-
ing over what they call the courageous
insult " to that vagrant demagogue in
this village at the time of his temporary
evening exhibition of himself from the
platform of the cars which was taking
him westward from his exhibition of
himself on the same day at Kalamazoo.
OF course they howl and lie. The
''giant" demagogue went hence making
the line of the railroad vocal, "ma-
king night hedious," with just that sort
of music, and the bowling and lying of
his organs is but the echo of his own.
Amongst these organs, the one at
Cassapois, in its issue of last week,
deyotes nearly column to the crate
full exercise of prolonged and ampli6ed
reverberations. Whether its article
was really written by correspondent,
as is pretended, or by the editor of the
Democrat himself, it is from beginning
to end, one tissue of intermingled false
hood and wolfish bowling. The latter
may pass for what it is worth with
those who have taste for, or whose
sympathies can be won. by that sort of
concord of sweet sounds" We will
notice some of the falsehoods: and
first, the one which asserts that our
statement in relation to the affair of
week before last was untrue, Our ar
tiele was prepared after our paper was
nearly ready for the press, and we had
not space for full account Of all the
performances of Douglas on the occa-
sion; but ecery man Of the aohole NAM
Der present, kao,cs that 1t acas strictly
true as far as 1t aren't; as far as its
length permitted the facts to be set
forth.
The pretense that any one of the
wide awakes or any other Republican,
called for, or gave any "groans" to
Douglas, if made by any person who
was present, is wilful falsehood.
The charge that the commander OF
the wide awakes stepped forward, took
off his cap, and proposed three cheers
for old Abe" is not only wilful false.
hood; but the writer of the article, il
he knew any thing about the matter, OF
if he was present at the time, knew the
charge to wholly false when he made
it. Capt. Larzelere not only did no,
offer " three cheers for old Abe;" but
actually endeavored to prevent the
cheers that were given.
The facts proven to all present, sim
ply were that Douglas made his speech
and in the course of it, used language
which showed that he thought the
company of wide awakes was Doug
las squad, "Little giants" or Irwin
cibles." Unwilling the rest under any
such suspicion, or to have the dema
gogue go away under delusion SC
derogatory to themselves, however fat
tering to him, the wide awakes waited
in dignifed silence until he had finished
his harrangue, and bis worshipper,
their cheering and adulations, and ther
on the call of one of their number
gave the three cheers for Lincoln anC
were again silent. The Douglasite
present, were all collected semicircular
ly close around the platform of the ca
on which their Juggernaut was stand
ing; and not only responded to tn,
cheers, by groans, but commenced
grooming achiIst the cheers acere 6ein.
given, IN vain attempt to droao,
them.
Had Douglas contented himself witt
sarcastically thanking the wide awake
for the cheers to "his friend, Lincoln,
spoken of in our article of week befor
last, there would have been the end @
the whole matter; but the vengefu
braggart determined to take petit
revenge upon the wide awakes, and a
the same time ventilate his own petit
+ vanity by the insolent brag, (also state,
by us in that article,) that "if it ha,
f "not been for me, you would neve
t "havo thought of Lincoln as cand
: "date for the presidency"
e AS this was not only in bad taste, bu
uttered in very bad temper, it was c
, course, challenge for another roun
of cheers for Lincoln from the wild
awakes which were heartily given, an
in which they were joined by porto
: of the not more than twenty other RI
publicans present. These cheers tot
the Douglasites followed up and sougt
e to drown by groans for Lincoln.
: Douglas now became decidedly {
q gerisb. The corpse of the defunct pt
: litical mountebank was now thorough
t guaranteed, and it indulgedin languae
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