The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-07-05

reasoning have gone out from the GEN.
tire to- the very bounds of the State
have reached the people of all sections
and strengthened them with renewed
faith in the strength and business of
Republican principles, and inspired
new vigor and energy and efficiency in
every battle. Whether in favor or out
of favor. in prospect or reward, or
driven empty handed from the house
of his friends, he has felt none the less,
toiled none the less, and spoken none
the less eloquently and powerfully upon
the side Of Humanity Justice and
Liberty. His is not the nature to fall
ter in a cause like that Of Freedom.
Reared among the free people of the
North, education from the cradle to do
equal and exact justice to all men, and
to love only the good of his fellows,
drawing his inspiration in politics from
such noble examples as Jefferson, Mar
shall, Jay, Storey, Webster and Clay,
with heart filed with warm sympa-
thies and untarnished with one blot of
selfish ambition, he has devoted him
self to the cause because he loved it,
and his better Judgment and moral ma
ture pointed to it as right and justice.
His early life devoted to toll upon his
paternal farm-home, and having raised
himself by his own exertion to the front
rank of an honorable profession, he
loves to encourage and aid those who
would follow after him, and to labor to
preserve and perpetuate the freedom of
the soil for the use of his own race and
Kindred, as ne despises the sloth of ar
istccratic Incidence and all the accom-
panying evils and injustice of human
slavery. He possesses not one attrib-
ute of sympathy with oppression or
vice of any sort. In 1854, Mr.. Blair
was elected to the State Senate, from
the then "North District" of this
county, and a very doubtful one polit-
ically, over Hon. Nj. Shoemaker, pop
ular man and formidable competitor.
His course in the Senate was marked
with his usual ability and industry, and
he left it with an enhanced reputation
and the good will and wishes of all
his associates. His positive declension
to run, is all that has since prevented
his occupying seat in our Legislative
Halls since that time. sea ztosi eaI
In all the duties of man, citizen,
a public servant, or as politician, Mr..
Blair stands before the people with a
name. and character above reproach
or suspicion. Calumny and malice are
equally powerless against him. In
our own city, and among his old neigh
bors, he is known as a most honorable
and genial friend, as a kind and benev-
client neighbor, as generous and pub
lie spirited citizen. In the whole
course of his professional service, We
have yet to learn of the first accusation
against him ION the contrary, the poor,
the down trodden and the prosecuted,
have often found in him successful
adviser, counsellor aud advocate,
'swithout money and without price"
We fearlessly challenge the lowest, the
basest, and the most indicative of his
political foes, to do their worst. Il
With such candidates as are present
ed to the support of the people-with
such bright and untarnishable name 3
as Lincoln and Hamlin, Blair and Bir-
ney, Owen and Berry, Lacy and their
associates with platform of princi-
pies pure and unde6led as truth ITSELF
sommending itself to every mans sense
of justice, propriety and humanity
the Republican party will be, must be,
cannot fail to be, isarinci6le-aye, it
wnl not fail to sweep the Peninsular
State with such a whirlwind of popular
hope and Joy and enthusiasm, that the
minions and little giants" of the slave
power will shrink away to terror and
hopeless dismay. And what is thus au-
cured in Michigan, is only the portend-
ing of what is to occur throughout the
whole country. 1t is the " good time
coming" when honor, good faith, hu-
mainly and justice will vindicate their
cause and subterfuge, corruption and
oppression must give way and bow
down, and pay homage to the noble
image and high attributes of Freedom
and Liberty in their broadcast and most
noble and glorious estate. Hof sssa7s