The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-01-19

ourselves even at the sacrafice OF the
Union"
On the same day, Mr.. Clark, Dem
cefafio Representative from Missouri,
said:
"The Union cannot exist if the rec
concentrations in the circular THAT is
TO circulate Helpers book werecarried
On the 7th Mr.. Chestnut. Demo
cratic Senator from South Carolina,
said:
"The south cannot preserve the
Union. It does not behoove her in
her down-troddeu and feeble condi-
ton"
On the same day Mr.. Pryor, Demo
cratic Representative from Virginia,
said.:
"The Representatives of the South
will never consent that the creature
and champion of the Republican party
shall take possession of the Speakers
chair
On the 9Th, Mr., Moore, Democrat,
of Alabama, said
~ff the Republican party could be
defeated the Union would be preser-
we'd but if such party should sue
coed the sooner the Union is dissolved
the better"
On the same day Mr.. Davis, Demo
cratic Representative from Mississippi,
said:
"Seward is traitor and deserves
the gallows."
On the 10th, Mr.. Smith, Democrat
of Virginia, said:
III would not say if any particular
man should be elected President, l
would Immediately favor dissolution
of the Union.
On the same day, Mr.. Curry, Demo
crat, of Alabama, said:
eff the North elected Seward or
Chase, or any other member of the
Republican party on the sectional
Platform, such anelection was to be the
destruction of every tie that binds the
eonfederacy together" [Appluase by
the Democrats.
On the 18th, Senator Clay, Demo
crat of Alabama, said:
81 will say that if Alabama be not
recreant to State pride and political in
tegrity, she will never submit to your
(Republican) authority"
Again he said:
"Unless she and all. the Southern
States, except, three, are not faithless
to the pledges they have given, will
never submit to your Republican domi-
rsering in this Government"
Again he said:
81 repeat, by the unanimous action
of Legislatures and Conventions the
Southern States, except three, have
pledged themselves to dissolve the
Union upon the prohibition of slavery
in the Territories"
On the same day, Senator Gwin
Democrat of California, said:
There is another reason why the
Southern States should prepare for 6
dissolution of the Union; the Republi
can party has triumphed in almost
every State on the Atlantic borders.
Again he said:-
In my opinion it is impossible fol
a Republican President to administel
the Government over Slave-holdine
State"
On the l4th, Mr. McRac, Democrat
of Mississippi, said =
"If the Union was.not made, l would
not make it."
On the 18th, Mr.. Vallandigham
Democrat, of Ohio, said -
8" hold to one Union, one Constitu
ton, one Destiny, which could not be
fulfilled except by the Immediate tota
and unconstitutional destruction of the
Republican party .
On the same day, Mr.. Crawford
Democrat, of Georgia, said =
"The whole matter with the South,
resolved itself into the question o.
Slavery and union"
Again he said =
cit is the sentiment of every Demo
crat on this floor from Georgia, tha
they never would submit to the inaug
uratioR of Black Republican Presi
dent"
On the 10th, Mr.. Bonham, Demo
'crAt, of South Carolina, said:
say without hesitation, that or
the election of Mr.. Seward, or any
other man who indorses, proclaims ol
holds the sentiments declared by Mr.
Seward, would favor immediate Dis
union; and / think l speak the senti
ments of my entire State
Every one''of the authors of these trea
sonabTe threats, it will be observed, il
a Democrat. If anybody can point on
a single Republican who has evor ut
terd snch atrocions sentiments or who
does not heartily rebuke them, we vii
thank them to do it.
And yet this Democratic party
whose leaders. are thus abetting ant
threatening Disunion, pretends to b.
pre-eminently the u1ionsaving party
Let them crush the Traitors in thei
own ranks, instead of sladering thei
neighbors, and the Unoin will be SAT-
enough!
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