The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-09-20

men have right To- demand sugar,
cotton, or any other comfort of human
life to be wrung from them, through
the action of the Federal Government,
from the unrewarded and compulsory
labor of any other class or race of men.
Ianswer. secondly, that we have sug~
ar and cotton enough already for do
mestic consumption, and a surplrs of
the latter for expectation without any
increase of slave territory. Do you
say that Europe wants more sugar and
cotton than we can-now supply? Ire
Ply, let then Europe send her free la
borers hither, or into italy, or into the
West Indies, or into the East; or if it
suit them better, let them engage the
natives of cotton growing regions in the
old world, to produce cotton and sugar
voluntarily and for adequate compensa-
ton. Such course, instead of fortify-
ing and enlarging the sway of slavery
here, will leave us free to favor its grad
ual removal. 1t will renew or intro
duce civilization on the shores of the
Mediterranean and throughout the
coasts of the Indian Ocean. Chris
tfanity, more fully developed and better
understood now than heretofore, turns
with disgust and horror from the en-
poyment of force and piracy as a me-
eessary agent of the Gospel. -.
Fourthly. All the subtle evasions and
plausible political theories which have
heretofore been brought into the argu-
ment for an extension of slavery, have
at last been found fallacious and frivo-
lous.
10 IS unavailing now to say that this
government was made by and for white
men only, since even slaves owed allie
glance to Great Britain before the
Revolution equally with white men, and
were equally abso1ved from it by the
Revolution, and are not only held to
allegiance now under our laws, but are
also subjected to taxation and actual
representation in every department of
the Federal Government. No govern
ment can excuse itself from the duty
of protecting the extreme rights of
every human being, whether foreign or
native born, bond or free, whom it
compulsory holds within its jurisdiction.
The great fact is now fully realized that
the african race here, is foreign and
feeble element, like the Indians, incapa-
BILE of assimilation, but not the less,
therefore, entitled to such care and
protection as the weak everywhere may
require from the strong; that it is a
pitiful exotic unwisely and unnecessarily
transplanted into our fields, and Which
it is Improbable to cultivate at the cost
of the desolation of the native vineyard.
Nor will the argument that the party
of slavery is national and that of free
dom sectional, any longer avail, when
it is fully understood, that so far as it
IS founded in truth, tits only a result
of that preyersion of the constitution
which has attempted to circumscribe
freedom, and to make slavery universal
throughout the Republic. Equally do
the reproaches, invectiyes and satires of
the advocates of slavery extension fail,
since it Is seen and felt that truth,
reason and humanity, can work right
on without fanaticism and bear con-
tumely without retaliation. counsel
this course farther, because the COM
binations of slavery are broken up, and
can never be renewed with success.
Any new combination must be based
on the principle of the Southern Dem
ocratic action, that slavery is inherently
just and bene6cient, and ought to be
protected, which can mo longer be
tolerated in the North; or else on the
principle Of the Northern Democratic
faction that slavery is Indifferent and
unworthy of federal protection, which
Is insufficient in the South, while the
national mind has actually passed far
beyond both of these principles, and is
settled in the conviction that slavery,
wherever, and howsoevcr it exists, ex-
lists only 10 be regretted and deplored.
counsel this course further, because
the necessity for a return to the old
national way has become at last abso-
lnte and imperative. We-can extend
slavery into new territories, and create
new slave states only by re-opening the
African Slave Trade; a proceeding
which, by destroying all the existing
values of the slaves now held in the
country, and their increase, would bring
the North and the South into complete
unanimity in favor of that return.
Finally, counsel that return be-
cause Statesman has been designated
who possesses in an eminent and mos,
satisfactory degree, the virtues and the
qualifications necessary for the leader
in so great and generous movement
and feel we'll assured that ABRAHAM
LINCOLN will not fail to re-inaugurate
the ancient constitutional policy in the
administration of the government sue
eessfnlly, because the Republican par
ty, after ample experience, has at Las
acquired the courage and the constancy
necessary to sustain him, aud because
am satisfied that the people, at las
fully convinced of the wisdom and ne
eessity of the proposed reformation
are prepared to sustain and give it eff
feet. c.s5 m 81 a r.l
But when it shall have been accom-
plisbed, what may We expect then
what dangers must we incur; what
disasters aud calamities must we suf
fer? i answer, no dangers, disasters
or calamities. All parties will acoui