The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-08-23

the owner OF men IS bound to respect.
And ships rot at our wharves, and store
!, houses become a rendezvous for idlers
and vagrants, for the reason that un-
compensated chattel sinews yield fruits
J more cheaply than compensated skill,
} and require no shield against the pau
per products of Europe. If change
J of tariff laws were required bv the
J South instead of the North, they could
not fail of its accomplishment. In that
case the President would advocate it
with ardor, if not with sincerity, and
our Senators would again illustrate the
fact of their trucking subjection to
those who secretly abhor their baseness
and infideiity. Our earnest wishes are
not only constantly disregarded, but
our prosperity is remorsely paralyzed
by our servants, without an audible
murmur on our part; and we are not
! much averse, as we have often proven,
to comforting new leases of Office upon
such as deceive US, to afford them fur
ther opportunities for mischief Does
this seem unaccountable / suggest
no, in view of the truth l have but Just
stated, that the party selecting them
has its heart and brain in the South,
and its obeying members merely, in the
North. The Remedy for this shame
less evil is as easy as it is simple. We
need not initiate the example set us by
those who have caused this condition
of things. Concord and inflexibiIty
OF purpose will accomplish all we ask
Nothing else ever can or ever will.
We might as well expect divided and
discordant army, marshaled under op-
posing generals, to capture the power
ful and thoroughly disciplined and
guarded city, as for Northern rights
and Northern honor to be sustained by
men in the pay and keeping of those
who would weaken and reduce us. In
the ordinary business of life we never
trust the faithless and dishonest | can
imagine no reason for engaging such
as sentlnels over our entire fortunes.
Just so long as our custom-houses, post
offices, navy-yards, and mints, shall be
stocked with thousands, selected virtu-
ally by those who are in banded oppo-
sitlon to US, and whose principal bust
ness, we are instructed to believe, is
compounding politics with pcrfdy, it
will be impossible to render our condi-
tion better than it is.
These leper-yards must be cleansed.
Their occupants load the air with con-
tagious corruption. Throughout their
bodies and their souls, they bear the
marks of the distemper with which the
aristocratic pollutionist has touched
them. risk but little in saying, that
at this very hour, this mighty phalanx.
T scattered throughout the eighteen
; Northern States, having common and
powerful bond of union, are devising
measures to despoil our industrial class
es, by confning them in densely crowd
ed fields of labor, or forcing them to
enter into competition and companion
ship with ignorant and brutalized bond
men. They all, yes all, have been
brought to believe that the doctrines Of
the Declaration of independence are
:. but stereotyped lies; that the founders
of the nation had but sorry concep-
tion of inalienable right; that the Con
stitution which they framed was in
tended as an instrument of cruelty and
crime; and that the fairest feature OF
; free republican association is union
of States peopled with the lowest
grade of slaves. Am l right? What
is the trouble against which we have to
, contend? Is it not the steady infu-
ence of what may with propriety be
, called political conspiracies to mislead
; the public mind, and faint the public
heart? Is it not an administration
blackened with treachery, and crooked
and tottering under the weight of its
depravity, using all the patronage OF
Office, and all the destinations of posi-
ton to utterly destroy us, by max
ing the Territories of the country but
, garrisons for the enemies of freedom,
and the labor of the white men, de-
grading and fruitless, beyond the linn
its of the present Statesp If l am in
, error, what is the correct Interpretation
of the political discords of the last six
J years?
r | anticipate fully that my suggested
: mode of redress for existing abuses will
/ be denounced as sectional to which !
| answer, if it be, the antidote to bane
t may be bane itself, ssimiI;a simizi5us
, curdntur." But its liability to the
charge is denied. The real sectional.
: ism is arrayed against US; do but
council systematic and persistent re.
: sistance. In studies of the fundamen-
tai doctrines of our common character
and in the dispensations of the favors
Of governments, we should never know
} a North, South, an East or a West
. My opinion is that others act as if they
: thought differently. / trust we shall
: always be able to command the exer
D else of such patriotism and communi
r ty as to forever preclude us from ag
5 gression upon section inferior to ours
; in every element of material strength
! and greatness. 1t can never be other.
. wise than dastardly to press upon the
: weak and sickly.
: 1t will be noticed that have spoken
t of the Democratic Party without refer
ence to the present distractions. My
reason for so doing is found in the
1 opinion | entertained that these dissen-
sions do not affect issues as neither
Y branch indicates disposition to meet
: fairly and openly, the great politica