The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-08-16
rW f. Muzzy, ESQ.,, Of Niles, made

eN F. Muzzy, Esq, Of Niles, made
a democratic" speech at the Republi-
can Wigwam in this village on Tuesday
evening. Our friends of that faith
wanted to make a show of mass
meeting, and there being no other place
as suitable for the purpose, they OBJ
tanned the Wigwam from the Republi-
can Club; and the Republicans of the
village courteously turned out pretty
generally to the meeting, constituting
probably three-fourths or four-6fths of
the two or three hundred in attendance.
So far as we can learn, the Republi-
cans and Breckenridge men were con-
siderably better pleased with the per-
Torrance of Mr.. Muzzy than the Doug
lasites of whom the speaker had been
supposed to be one. We can make no
report of the gentleman's speech. We
should as soon think of attempting q
report of the involutions and convolu-
tons, sinkings and swellings, eddyings
and surgings, twistings and turnings
of countless fog-banks operated upon
at one and the same time, by several
dozen small and conflicting whirlwinds,
simultaneously let loose from as many
different tsa-pots.
In justice to Mr.. Muzzy we should
state that at the close of his speech, he
complained Of having suffered during
the whole of it from "dizzi,aess in the
head" and that it had affected him so
that he hardly knew what he had been
talking about" We assure him that
his audience were at the same time in
that same state of blissful ignorance in
respect TO the subject matter of bis dis
course. He did, to be sure, talk about
the humbug of Popular Sovereignty;
but in all his talk on the subject, seemed
to imagine that the present Campaign,
is the Campaign of 1855, instead OF
1880; for he endeavored to urge the
humbug as Douglas and his faction
were wont to do before the Federal
Supreme Court had crushed it by its
dogmas in the bred Scott case, and
before Douglas and his late Baltimore
Rump Convention had subscribed to,
and adopted those dogmas.
The gentleman undertook to endorse
the pretence of Douglas and his faction
that Douglas is the author Of the dog
ma of "popular sovereignty;;" and
then convicted Douglas and his en-
dorsers of falsehood in making that
pretence, by proving that Henry CaaS
was the author Of the dogma; and this
in face of the fact known to all intelli
gent politicians, that Leaois Cass was
the author of it and first introduced i,
to the public in his celebrated letter to
Nicholson, Of Tennessee, in 1s4S.
In the course of his speech, the gen
tleman improved the opportunity to lei
off some of his accustomed abuse o.
colored people but sought to soften i
by admitting that a negro is human
being" and then as if he thought be
had admitted too much for his party
very emphatioally and repeatedly said
I" but l deny that he is man." Te
prove that the negro was destitute Of
the attributes necessary to constitute
man, he asserted that " on the western
coast of Africa, where the ancestors o.
the American negro came from, al
that the natives had ever learned, wa
of commerce, and that was to sell thei
own children into slavery" fact if i
were fact, which proves them precise
ly equal to Mr.. Muzzy's political breth
rem of the Slave States of "this grea
and glorious Union"
Such are specimens of the contra
dictory sort of viands served up at The
entertainment of Tuesday evening.
N. B.-Whenever our democratic
friends want the Wigwam for speeche!
by Mr.. Muzzy, we can assure them i
will be at their service.