The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-03-15

whits man, and he is politically the equal Of his
emyIoyer Eighteen Of our thirty three States are
Hs%n .i3Cs Ssssschasets Vermont Rhode Island
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Min
hesota, Iowa, California, and Oregon. l do not
am no assailant Of States All of the States are
parcels Of my own countryside best of them not
% wise and great as arm sure it will hereafter be
the State least developed and perfect among them
sllis wiser and better than any foreign State 1
know. Is it then in any, and in which. of the
States have named that negro equality oiends the
white mans pride? Throughout the wide world
where is the State where class and caste so ut
serly extinguished as they are in each and every
one Of them? Let the European immigrant. VINO
avoids the African as if his skin exhaed contsgion,
answer You find him always in the state wne's
labor is ever free. Did Washington Jefferson ana
Henry when they implored you to adopsed nro
pose to sink you down to the ievei ., .ne az.
or was it their desire TO exait all "ni'e men "
common political elevation;
TO intrude, our system on you. We
are excluded justly. wisely and con-
tentedly from all political power and
responsibility in yonr capital States.
You are sovereigns on the subject OF
Slavery within your borders, as we are
on the same subject within our borders.
It is well anu wisely arranged. Use
your authority to maintain what system
you please. We are not distrustful of
She result. We have wisely, as we
think, exercised ours to protect and
perfect the manhood of the members
of the State. The whole sovereignty
upon domestic concerns within the
Union is divided between us by unmis-
taxable boundaries. You have fifteen
distinct parts; we eighteen parts,
equally distinct. Each must be main
tanned in order that the whole may be
preserved. If ours shall be assailed,
within or without, by any enemy, or
for any cause, and we shall have need,
we shall expect you to defend it. 1t
yours shall be assailed, in the emergen-
CIV, no matter what the cause or the
'pretext, or who the foe, we shall defend
your sovereignty a. the equivalent of
cur own. We cannot, indeed, accept
your system of capital or its ethics.
That would be to surrender and subvert
our own, which we esteem to be better.
Besides, if we could, what need for any
division into States at all? You are
equally at liberty to reject our system
and its ethics, and to maintain the su-
periority Of your own by all the forces
of persuasion and argument. We
must, indeed, mutually discuss both
systems. All the world discusses All sys-
TENS. Especially must we discuss them
since we have to decide as nation
which of the two we ought to engraft
on the new and future States growing
up in the great public domain. Dis
cu.sion, then, being unavoidable, what
could be more wise than to conduct it
with mutual federation and in fratern-
al spirit
You complain that Republicans dis
course too boldly and directly, when
they express with confidence their he
lief that the system of labor will, in the
end, be universally accepted by the
Capital States, acting for themselves,
and in conformity with their own Con
stitutions, while they sanction too nm
reservedly books designed to advocate
emancipation. But surely you can
hardly expect the Federal Government
or the political parties of the nation tn
maintain censorship Of the Press or
of debate. The theory of our system
is, that error of opinion may in all cas-
es safely be tolerated where reason is
left free to combat it. Will it be
claimed that more of moderation and
tenderness in debate are exhibited on
your side of the great argument than
our own? We all learned our pole
mics, as well as our principles, from a
common master. We are sure that We
do not on our side, exceed his lessons
and example. Thomas Jefferson adj
dressed DR.. Price, an Englishman, con
corning his treaties OF emancipation In
America in this fashion:
Southwark of the Chesapeake,
your book will find but few readers con-
curing with it in sentiment on the sub
iect of Slavery. From the mouth to
the head of the Chesapeake, the bulk
of the people will approve it in theory,
and it will find respectable minority
ready to adopt it in practice; minority
which, for weight and worth of char
acter, prepon,}erates against the great
err number wTro have not the courage ia
divest their families of a property
which, however, keeps their consciences
unquiet. Northward Of the Chesa
peake, you may find here and there an
opponent to your doctrine, as you may
find here and there robber or a muir
derer; but in no great number"
"This (Virginia) is the next
State to which we may turn orr eyes
for the interesting spectacle of Justice
in conflict with avarice and oppression
"a conflict where the sacred side is
gaining daily new recruits from the
influx into the Office of yonng men
grown and growing up"
"Be not, then, discouraged. What
you have written will do a great dea
of good; and could you still trouble
yourself about our welfare, no man is
more able to help the laboring side
Yon see, Sir, that whether we go fen
or against Slavery anywhere, we must
follow Southern guides. Yon may
change Your pilots with the winds oil
the currents but we, whosenativiiv
reckoned under the North Star, has
rendered us somewhat supcrstitious
must be excused for constancy in fol
lowing the guidance of those wh'
framed the national ship and gave us
the chart for its noble voyage
A profound respect and friendly re
gard for the Vice President of tho
United States had induced me Ia weigh