The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-05-17

Government should be arrested where they are to-
day, and no organization ever Effected than that
the candidate Of the Republican party shall be
elected, and placed in the speakers Chair."
We well recollect, Mr.. Chairman, til at
1 these disunion sentiments were uttered
here, not only nprebuked, but that
! they were Welcomed by the approving
mods, the congratulations, the applause
of Democrats, both on this. floor aud
in the crowded galleries. They have
their parallel in kindred sentiments
which are avowed outside of this Hall
by members OF the same Organization.
They boldly proclaim that if the coni-
ing presidential election results as the
slave power desires, then the election
is binding upon them and upon us; but
If otherwise, then they will dissolve the
Union and tear the Constitution into
fragments. E.-a.ss So a.as j. ~,
There may be men so craven in spirit
that they will be deferred from voting
their honest convictions by threats, but
they are not found in the Republican
ranks. The man who allows menace
to control his suffrage is only fit to be a
slave You have allies at the North
who have sacrificed much of consisten-
cy, much of selfrespect, much of man
hood, in submitting to your dictation;
and, perhaps, these mutterings of dis
union may compel more concessions,
more humiliation from them but the
Republican party, laughing to scorn
such menaces, and guided by the old
landmarks which the experience of the
past has hallowed, will travel in
the old path, iIlumined as it is by con-
science and by duty. If the popular
verdict is against them, they submit
cheertully in the future as they have
in the past. If the popular verdict is
against you, they entertain no appre-
tensions but that you will submit also.
/ have but few moments left in
which to refer to the position which
the Democracy occupy in relation to
the great interests of free labor in this
land. In the contest between capital
and labor, this party espouses the cause
of capital 1t no longer sympathizes
with man, white or black, who is strug-
Cling to recover his rights or anchor
ate his condition. lfthe car of human
progress is 90 move on, it must move,
not by the help of this democracy, but
in spite of it. When the toiling mil
lions ask for homesteads on our vast
domain, they are met by the jeers and
taunts of this rnis-named Democracy,
and told that they constitute "the
very mad sills Of society and political
government" When the white la
borer would carve out his own fortune
on the prairies of the West, he is told,
in the words of the. Richmond Exam
iner, that "the principle of slavery is
In itselfright, and does not depend up
ION difference of complexion = or, as a
Democratic Senator expresses it:
''The poor We always have with you for the
man aoAo Tires By daily labor and scarcely Tires at
that and s0ho has to put out has la6or the
ket, and takes the best he can get for TN short,
your srols Chess Of manual tt6osers and operatices,
as you eaD them; are essentially sleees"
Mr.. Fitzhugh, in his book entitled
Failure of Free Society, says:
" S.arery, 1laek or ,shite,
I a
'sThe slaves are governed far better than the free
laborers at the North are governed Our negroes
are not only bettes off to physical comfort than
free laborers but their moral condition IS better.
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From the same book, on page 179, l
quote the following:
"Men are not born entitled to equal rights.
IT acoud be far nearer the truth to sag that some
scae born iciM saddles on their backs, and Others
booted and spurPed TO ride them and the riding
does them good" s.rasss. . lfltfe ffrf
Within the last few years the home
stead bill has received the sanction of
the House of Representatives on three
separate occasions, but it is uniformly
strangled in a Democratic Senate.
And the Democratic party viewing
that measure from its stand point, and
by the light of its modern doctrines
and principles, is consistent in oppos-
ing it.. The determination of that
measure involves the issue whether our
frontier Territories are to sink into
communities of dcspots and slaves, or
raise into republics of freemen; wheth-
er our western territory shall be dotted
with slave huts, the abodes of degre-
dation and misery, or whether the pio-
neer's pleasant dwelling, garnished by
flower and shrub, shall arise by the
side of the stream, the home of con-
:entment, refinement, and industry
This measure of "land for the land
less" is. an important element in the
irrepress7ble conflict" between oppos-
ing systems of labor; and whilst it is
meet and proper that the Republican
party espouses the cause Of the hardy
pioneer whowould make the valley echo
with the cheerful sound of free labor,
it is equally fitting and appropriate that
the Democracy should take the side of
the master who would make the same
valleys re-sound with the crack of the
| overseer's lash. o hre anH
The conflict between the capital and
labor has ever been fearful one. 1t
has convulsed nations, shaken thrones,
and caused blood to flow like water.
Fortunately in our day it assumes the
phase of peaceful conflict, in which
political parties are the contestants,
and the ballot is the effective weapon.
On the one side is arrayed the Repub-
lican party, vindicating the dignity of
free labor, and asserting the rights of
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