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

INDICATED against the charge of hos
tility to the South, which has been of.
fered in excuse for the menaces of un-
constitutional resistance in the event
of its success, | feel we'll assured that
it will sustain me in meeting them in
the spirit of the defender of the Eng
iish Commonwealth:
Surely they that shall boast as we
do to be free nation, and having the
power, shall not also have the courage,
to remove, constitutionally, every Gov
ernor, whether he be the supreme or
subordinate, may please their fancy
with ridiculous and painted freedom,
tit to cozen babies, but, are indeed, un-
der tyranny and servitude, as wanting
the power, which is the root and source
of all liberty, to dispose of and econo-
mize in the land which God hath given
them, as members of family in their
own home and free Inheritance with
out which natural and essential power
OF free nation, though bearing high
their heads, they can, in due esteem,
be thought no better than slaves and
vassals born in the tenure and occu-
patton of another inheriting lord whose
government, though not illegal or in
tolerablc, hangs on them as a lordly
scourge, not as free government.
The Republican party knows, as the
whole country will ultimately come to
understand, that the noblest objects of
national lite must perish, if the life it.
self shall he lost, and therefore it will
accept the issue rendered. 1t will take
mp the word Union, which others are
SO willing te renounce, and, combining
it with that other glorious thought,
Liberty, which has been its inspiration
so long, it will move firmly onward,
with the motto inscribed on its banner,
UNION and LIBERTY, come what may,
in victory as in defeat, in power as out
of power, now and forever"
If the Republican party maintain the
Union, who and what party is to assail
it? Only the Democratic party, tor
there is no other. Will the Democratic
party take up the assault? The men
aces of Disnnion are made, though not
in its name, yet in its behalf. 1t must
avow or disavow them. Its silence,
thus far. is portentous, but is not alarm
ing. The effect of the intimidation, if
successful, would be to continue the
rule of the Democratic party, though
minority, by terror. 1t certainly
ought to need rO more than this To Sc
cure the success of the Republican par
ty. If, indeed, the time has come
when the Democratic party must rule
by terror, instead of ruling through
conceded pnblic confidence, then it is
quite certain that it cannot b. dismissed
from power too soon. Ruling on that
odious principle, it could not long save
either the Constitution or public liber-
ty.
But / shall not believe the Democrat
ic party will consent to stand in this
position, though it does, through the
action of its representatives, seem to
cover and sustain those who threaten
di>uniOn. / know the Democracy of
the North. / know them now in their
waning strength. / do not know n
possible DisuIioniSt among them all.
I believe they will be as faithful to the
Union now as they were in the by-gone
DAYS when their ranks were full, and
their challenge to the combat was al
ways the war-cry of victory. But, if
it shall prove otherwise, then the world
will all the sooner know that every part
of this Union must stand on Union
ground; that the American people will
sustain no party that is not capable of
making a sacrifice of its ambition on
the altar of the country that, although
party may have never so much of
prestige, and never such traditional
merit, yet, if it lie lacking in the one
virtue of loyalty to the Union, all its
advantages will be unavailing; and
then obnoxious rs, through lOng-cher-
ished and obstinate prejudices, the Re-
publican party is in the capital States,
vet even there it will advance like an
army with banners, winning the favor
of the whole people, and it will he
armed with the national confidence and
support, when it shall be found the on
lv party that defends and maintains the
integrity of the Union.
Those who seek to awaken the ter
rors of DisuniOn seem to me TO have
too hastily considered the conditions
under which they are to make their at
tempt. VINO believes that Rcpubli-
can Administration and Congress could
practice tyranny under n Constitution
which interposes so many checks as
ours? Yet that tyranny must not only
he practit ed, but must be intolerable,
and there must be no remaining hope
for constitutional relief, before forcible
resistance can find ground to stand on
anywhere.
The people of the United States, act
ing i'm conformity with the Constitution,
are the supreme tribunal to try and de-
termine all political issues. They are
as competent to decide the Issue of to-
morrow as they have been heretofore
To decide the issues of other days.
They can reconsider hereafter and re-
verse, if need be, the Judgment they
shall pronounce to-day, rs they have
more than once rcconsidered and re-
versed their judgments i'm former times.
II needs no revolution to correct any
error, or prevent any danger, under any
circumstances.
Nor is any new or special cause for
revolution likely To occur under Re
publican Administration. We are en-
gagged i'm no new transaction, not even
in new dispute. Our fathers under
took a great work for themselves, for
us, and for onr succesSorS-tO erect a