The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-12-20
For the Republican.

is over and the smoke of the battle has
passed away, and the heat Of political
strife subsidized, therefore have a word
to say to the Republicans of Cass
County !; and, believing as l do, that
the Republican party is the only party
that has the ability and the disposition
to administer the affairs of this govern
ment prudently, and for the best inter-
ests Of all its inhabitants, it is therefore
the duty of every true Republican to
use all honorable means to sustain the
party, and its principles, and in order
to do this we must sustain our printing
presses, for much of our light. and
knowledge which we possess relative
to the affairs of the world and the
movements of nations, and individuals
eminates from the press, and at the
the present time it is very important
that Republicans should be well posted
in the political affairs of the nation.
1t is highly important that every Re:
publican should take some good Re-
publican newspaper, for those that read
nothing but so-called Democratic pa
pers are blinded and deceived, and if
the blind lead the blind, both will fall
into the ditch. For example, take the
recent campaign; there were many
honest hearted Democrats who be-
lieved that Douglas would be elected,
merely because their leaders told them
SO, or because they had been reading
the Free Press or some other paper of
the same stripe, which live on falsehood
and are strangers to the truth. The
Republicans told them before the elec-
ton that there was not a ghost Of a
chance for Douglas, and that Breckin-
ridge and Bell would both be ahead
of him, and that Lincoln would. be
elected, but they were so wrapped up
in their infamous squatter sovereignty
doctrine, that they could not or would
not see the truth. If they had been
careful readers of the Detroit Tribune
New York Tribune, Cass Co. RepubH-
can, and other truthful papers, they
would have seen the true state of the
case, and the justice and purity of the
Republican cause, and would have
been better prepared for the defeat, but
they were wilfully blind and would not
see the light of truth. And now the
election is over, the northern Demo
cratic papers are rabid against the Re-
publicans, and accuse them of passing
laws which are oppressive to the South,
but the truth of the matter is, that the
South has no just cause for complaints
the fire which is burning in South Car
DINA was kindled and then famed to
flame by the misrepresentation OF
northern submissiouists, and even now,
those flames would soon die out if they
were not continually fed with fuel by
northern Democratic papers. The
South looks at the Republican party
not as 1t is, but as. it would appear tc
be, by the false representations o.
Northern Democratic papers.
The Democratic papers of the North
say, that the Republicans have passed
personal Liberty bills which are uneon
stitutional and oppressive to the South
and they herald this all over the coun.
try, and the presumption is that the
people of the South believe that VIC
have passed laws by which their slaves
will become free as soon as they Sc
their foot upon Our free soil |; but tn,
truth is that our laws only protect free
people against Kidnapping and allow
the slave the right of trial by jury
which rights guaranteed by the Con
stitution of the United States and the
Constitution of this State, and wher
the slave driver proves his property
Gas he calls it, by two creditable wit
nesses he is allowed to take it ava,
without molestation.. Is there anything
in such laws of which the South car
justly complain? We thinknot. Thos,
4 personal liberty bills are not confined
to the North; the Slave States them
selves have similar personal libert,
bills; and here let me give one exam
4 pie, to wit; Page 131, of the Revised
Laws of 1929, of the State Of Delaware
read as follows:
eff any person or persons shall kid
nap and carry away any free negro OF
free m2atto from this State into any
other State or Country, or shall aid o.
. assist any person or persons in kid
mapping and carrying away any free
negro or free mulatto from this State
into any other State or Country, or i
any person or persons shall fraudulent
ly seduce and decoy any free negro o.
free mulatto from this State into an,
other State or Country with intent tina
| such free negro or free mulatto shall b.