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the hands of an unlicensed mob? Are
we to be hunted like wild beasts :? Is
our blood to be shed like water to ap-
pease the Unsuitable Moloch of slave
ry?
l must add, sir, that at this time the
question, Can our brethren be protec-
ted is assuming grave Importance.
We are in the midst of the excitement
preceding the presidential election, in
tensified by the character of the ques-
tons at issue. Heretofore we have
been divided in our votes. Our clergy
have been of different parties, and SO
have been our laity. The church peri
odical with a circulation told by hun
dreds of thousands, have been silent
when the questions of platforms and
candidates have been argued. Thus
should it be. God forbid that the day
shall come when our leading religious
denominations shall stand as integers
in the computation of political parties.
But, sir, Oppression maketh wise
man mad" The murder of Bewley
has startled US, and the question begins
to run through our million of member
ship, Can an administration be found
aohich ,oiU protect the rights Of con
science and the freedom Of ,eosship
deprecate the existence of such q
state of things, but we are not respon
sible. We love our brethren, and can
not consent to see them slaughtered by
gangs of desperadoes without feeling
without determining solemnly on oul
knees, and at the holy communion
that they shall be protected. A few
more such murders as that of Bewley,
and our people will ask who will give
us an administration strong enough tc
uphold the right dearest of all others
and for that man, be he whom he may
they will cast their united suffrage.
Sir, have written plainly and hon
estly, and now close this letter, pray
ing that the evening of your days ma,
be calm and cloudless, and when yol
go hence may it be in sure and certain
hope of blissful immortality.
Yours respectfully,
T. M. EDDY.
Chicago, Sept. 7th, 1860.
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PROBATE NOTICE,

CTATE Of MICHIGAN = County of Cass Pro
- bate Court. = Whereas application has been
cutor of the estate of Silas Clough, deceased,
for the final settlement of his administration
counts in said estate
And, whereas no commissioners have been ap-
pointed to examine and adjust the claims against
said estate:
Notice is therefore hereby given, that the third
Saturday in October next has been appointed by
said court for examining and adjusting the claims
against said estate, and for final settlement Of
the same, at the Probate Office, in Cassapolis, o
said county, at ten o'clock in the forenoon at which
time and place all persons having claims against
said estate will present them to said court for final
settlement.
And it is hereby ordered that the above notice
be published in the Cass County Republican once
in each week, for four weeks in succession, imme-
diately preceding said settlement.
c. SHANAHAN, Judge of Probate.
September Is, 1860. sep20-22w4
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From the Knickerbocker Magazine.
Popping Corn.

One autumn night when the wind was high,
And the rain fell in heavy splashes,
A little boy sat by the kitchen fire,
A-popping corn in the ashes:
And his sister, a curly headed child of three,
Sat looking on, just close to his knee.
The blast went howling round the house,
AS if to get in twas trying:
1t ratified the latch of the outer door,
Then it seemed baby crying:
Now and than drop down the chimney came,
And spattered and hissed in the bright red fame.
Pop pop! and the kernels, one by one,
Came out of the embers flying;
The boy held long pine-stick in his hand,
And kept it busily plying;
He stirred the corn, and it snapped the more,
And faster jumped to the clean-swept floor.
Part of the kernels hoped out one way
And part hoped out the other;
Some flew plump into the sister, lap,
Some under the stool of the brother:
The little girl gathered them into a heap,
And called them a flock of milk-white Sheep
All at once the boy sat still as mouse,
And into the fire kept gazing;
de quite forgot he was popping corn,
| For he looked where the wood was blazing:
He looked, and he fanced that he could see
A house and barn, bird and atree.
Still steadily gazed the boy at these,
And pussy's back kept stroking,
Till his sister cried out: Why, GEORGE,
Only see how the is smokingr
And sure enough, when the boy looked back.
The corn in the ashes was burnt quite black
"Never mind said he; Eve shall have enough
| So now let's sit back and eat it:
I'll carry the stool, and you the corn
It's good-nobody can beat it.
She took up the corn in her pinafore;
And they ate it all, nor wished for more
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To be Kent Before the People.

Though we have already once pub.
lished the platform of the Douglas
non-intervention candidate for Vice
President, it is document of such rare
merits, and exhibits the consistency of
Douglas and his squatter sovereignty
supporters in such favorable light, that
it should be kept constantly before the
people. We give it below, and it should
be remembered that it was written by
Mr.. johnson on the 2sth of Nav last,
after the Charleston Convention had
adjourned. Non interventionists, read
and ponder it. 1t is as follows:
"I believe it is THE RIGHT OF
THE SOUTH TO DEMAND and the
DUTY OF CONGRESS TO EX-
TEND PROTECTION TO PER-
SONS AND PROPERTY OF EVE
RY KIND INCLUDING SLAVE
RY,) IN THE TERRITORIES DU.
RING THEIR TERRITORIAL
Estate. This is no new opinion. /
ADVOCATED THE DOCTRINE AS FAR BACK
AS Ie4s, IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED
STATES. If you have any curiosity to
see the argument, | refer you to my
speech on the Oregon bill, delivered
9TH of July of that year, and reported
inthe Congressional Globe. Hoao an
just, therefore, are the i'asinudfions
soith achich you iratersperse and inter
lard uour editorial comments, that all
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-09-27
PROBATE NOTICE.

9 TATE OF MICHIGAN-County of Cass Pro-
- bate Court. Whereas application has been
made to the said court by David w. Bonnell, ad-
ministrator of the estate of Eli p. Bonnell, de-
ceased, for the final settlement of his admins
tration accounts in said estate: And whereas,
no commissioners have been appointed to examine
and adjust the claims against said estate:
Notice is therefore hereby given, that the fifth
Saturday in September next, has been appointed
by said court for examining and adjusting the
claims against said estate, and for final settlement
of the same, at the Probate Office, in Cassapols,
of said county, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at
which time and place all persons having claims
against said estate will present them to said court
for final settlement.
And ii is hereby ordered that the above notice
be published in the Cass County Republican, once
in each week for four weeks in succession imme
diately preceding said settlement.
C. SHANAHAN, Judge of Probate.
August "a, 1860. aug30-19w4
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NOn-Intervention.
THE MACHINE.

THE MACHINE.
"Ecery citizen has a right to take
aoith him into the territories any arti-
Gle Of property aohich the Constitution
Of the United States recognizes as prop
erty.
"7Ae Constitution of the United
States RECOGNIZE SLAVES AS PROPERTY,
AND PLEDGES THE FEDERAL GOVERN
MENT TO PROTECT IT."-Dred Scott
Decision.
81, IN common acith the Democracy
Of Illinois, ACCEPT THE DECISION OF
THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED
STATES, IN the Dred Scott case. AS AN
AUTHORITATIVE EXPOSITION OF THE
CoNsTITUTIoN."2S. A. Douglas.
HOW 1T WORKS.
cit is part of the history of the
country that under this doctrine OF
non-intervention, this doctrine that you
delight to call squatter sovereignty, the
people of New Mexico have introduced
and protected slavery in the whole OF
that Territory, UNDER THIS DOC
TRINE, THEY HAVE CONVERT
ED A TRACT OF FREE TERRI
TORY, INTO SLAVE TERRIFIC
RY, MORE THAN FOUR TIMES
THE SIZE OF THE STATE OF
NEW YORK. Under this doctrine
SLAVERY HAS BEEN EXTEND
ED FROM THE RIO GRANDE TO
THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA
and from the time Of the Republic oil
Mexico, not only up to seo 80, but up
to 3s 3so-GIVING YOU A DEGREE
AND A HALF MORE SLAVE TER
RITORY THAN YOU EVER
CLAIMED."-S. A. Douglas.
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The " "Regular'' Candidates.

The New York Journal Of Com
naerce is a strong Breckenridge paper.
In referring to the Rump, or Douglas,
candidates it says, "one of them was
nominated by majority Of the Rump
Convention, not two-thirds having vo-
ted for him,-and the other by Com
mittee;' - and adds with sneer that,
/" in order that the fraternal unity of
sentiment between the reguldrg can
didates may be the more apparent, we
place in juxtaposition the sentiments of
Mr.. Douglas quoted from his Harper's
Magazine article, and those of Mr..
johnson, taken from letter written by
him on the 2sth of May in this year: .
Mr.. Douglas Maga-|G Gov. Johnson's Let
zine Article. ter.
cit is difficult to con- "I believe that it is the
ceive how any person whoright of the South to de
believes that the Consti- mand and the duty o)
tuition confers the right Congress TO ertend protec
of protection in the en- ts0n to persons and prop
joyment of slave proper erty OF ecery hind (sactu
tv in the Territories re- ding sdDery) an the Terri
gardless Of the wishes of ft0rSes during their Tern
the people and the action torsaI state 1Aas IS M
of the Territorial Legis neso opinion. ddc0cdtec
lature can satisfy his conthe doctrine as far bacl
science ard has oath ofGs lS4S sn the Senate o
fidelity to the Constitution the Onated States 1T yo'
in acitbholding such Con-have any curiosity to SCI
oressiona1 legislation asthe argument, / refe
ssQv be essential to the en- you to my speech on thu
ioy1aent of such right IN Oregon bill delivered III
der the Constitution. Un July of that year, and
der this view of the SUBJ ported in the Cong~es
ject at is impossible to re-ional Globe How unus
sst the conclusion that iftherefore are the nsinu
the Constitution does es- atons with which you in
tablish slavery in the Ter tersperse and nterlart
ritories beyond the pow your editorial comments
er of the people to con- that all are in favor o
troll it by law, ii as the an Squatter Sovereignty,
peritige duty of Congress who happen not 70 agree
to supply all the legsla- with the seceders IRON
ton necessary to its pro- the Charleston .Vonven
tection.v tion :"
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Democratic writer's, orators and pa
pers cannot or will not tell the truth
about State matters. They persistent
ly, willfully misrepresent their own off,
cial facts and figures.
First, they deny that former demo.
cratic administrations neglected to pay
the interest on our State debt to a very
large amount, Notwithstanding the Off
cial historic facts. For instance, the
original amount of the ''part paid bond,"
debt THAT portion of the State debt
growing out of the issue of bonds on
which the State had received only part
pay, and for which the State had agreed
to give the holders full paid bonds,)
amounted to $755, $50
In 1847, Gov. Ransom reported to
the Legislature that the purchasers of
NJ. c. and M. S. railroads had paid in
part-paid bonds $4,000. In 1s49,
the Auditor General reports that the
Michigan Southern Railroad Co. had
paid in S22,89l Of them-thus paying
up and reducing the part-paid bond
debt $221,s9l Besides this, $l5,725
of adjusted bonds had been issued for
them. And yet the interest and inter-
est on interest had been so entirely neg
lected and left unpaid, year after year,
that Auditor j. J. Adam, in his report
Of Dec. 1, 1S49, page S5, reports
the State debt due on account of these
part-paid bonds as followsi
adjusted bonds, Gssuable for bal
ance of part-paid bonds, including in
terest to June /, 1s5O,) due January,
1858, SI,6sl, GAS. 80"
Here, then, is their own Democratic
official neglect to pay interest until that
part of the State debt had more than
doubled.
Again: December 81, 1854, Auditor
Sweegles (page 81 reports that bonds
had been issued on account of those
part-paid bonds to the amount of $32l,-
235; and yet, on the next page he
says:
"The part-paid s5.OOo,oOo Loan
Bonds outstanding unadjusted and un.
paid will, if funded previous to Janu-
AIRY l, 1855, amountto Sl,637, ,660.7O."
Thus, Notwithstanding the payment
of S22l,S9l of those bonds, in 1919,
and the adjustment of S35 L, l 35 of them
reducing them more than half of the
original amount-there was still out
standing 81 l,637, ,66O,70, or s67l ,70O,70
more thap the original debt-aH which
was the result of Democratic manage
ment, repudiation and neglect to pay
interest as the constitution and their
oaths of Office required.
There is still another proof of this
Democratic Neglect, and the difference
between the Democratic and Republi-
can Administration
In 1854, the Democrats paid interest
on the full paid loan bonds s11,9lO.Oo
On adjusted part paid bonds 2O,374.02
Exchange e72.oo
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Out in Kansas an editor gives
notice that there will be no paper this
week. as his wife is using bis scissors
to half-sole his cassimeres.
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r. g. LARZELERE,

Dealer in DRY Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes,
Crockery, Hats and Caps, Glassware, Paints and
Oils, Hardware, &C., &c Front Street, Dowag-
lac, Mich.
MAMMOTH STORE
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l16,620.00
1l4,231.45
S344,734.39
Sl14. 4.9ll.45
5 Sl,955.43
Average per year
And An AVERAGE of

per year, of interest paid on s5,ooo,-
900 loan bonds, and over $4,000 a
year on the part-paid bond debt more
than the Democrats paid. Which ad-
ministration is most entitled to the res
pect and confidence of the people?
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DENTISTRY.
UNION HOTEL,

n. j. BALDWIN, PKOFKIEIOK,
CAS5APOLLS, = MICHIGAN.
H Good accommodations for man and beast.
- Board by the day and week.
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I'M FULL
O p E r A tt O N.
VAN RIPERSs
W OOLEN MILLS.

ON account of the extensive business which the
" subscribers have been doing, they have been
Machinery in order to accommodate their many
customers. And hoping that they will receive a
liberal patronage from their old friends, they
would again issue their call for Wool for manufac
turing into
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q. G. JONES & CO.

callers in Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes,
Crockery, Glassware, Hats and Caps Front
Street, bowagiac, Mich.
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Making a total of
S32,956.02

Making a total Of S32, 1900;
paid on account of the S., 900, 900 loar
bond debt. For some years previous
it was about the same.
In l847, the Republican paid inter
est on full paid bond S lO.65O.0'
do do on part-paid do lo2,5l7.o4
Exchange 1859;
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Is Published every Thursday,
At DOwasiac, Cass County, Michigan.
BY w. II. CAMPBELL.

General Dealer in Books, Stationery, Periodicals,
Wall Paper, Window Shades, Wrapping Paper,
Pocket Cutlery, &c. Dennison Block, Dowagiac,
Mich
Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-05-02

ing to pay tax according to his ability II the rich
man will pay according to his wealth.
Ny competitor talks Of the compromise o. 1885,
and says it gave slave owners protection-t gave
land owners protection, also and yet my competitor
went heart and soul for striking it out and taking
itaway.
II the people want to change the constitution,
they have the right to change it But whenever
you speak of changing it the immortal little negro
stands in my competitors way and makes him be-
lieve there's ghost in his path.
Ny way to equalize taxes is to put it higher on
the negro and lower on the land He wonld take
it off the land and put it on nothing. made
speech in the Legislature in favor Of reducing the
tax on land to IL per centum and the Standard
complimented me for it.
Pm in favor of an open convention, if called on
the federal basis for, whether open or restricted
the slave owner will have the majority.
The West wants nothing more than that the Con-
stution be so amended as that slaves may be taxed
according to value. The Asheville paper says So
and, Todd R. Caldwell says (Here the speaker
produced letter from Mr.. Caldwell.)
My competitor says it would be tyranny to tax
the poor mans necessaries. North Carolina now
taxes them. There is a tax of one half of one per
centum on every thing the merchant sells-coffee,
sugar; calico, &C.,
1t taxes the broker one.half of one per centum
on his profits.
The present system Of taxation discriminates in
favor Of the rich man and against the poor
Ny competitor wouldn't tax coffee and sugar as
high as whiskeyI wouldn't tax them at all. The
nan who drinks whiskey pays $40 on the s1Oo; the
slaveowner pays only six cents on the 800.
would tax neither brains nor muscles. Heaven pro-
tect me from the system that would tax the poor
mans labor and exempt the rich mans negro
From the foregoing may readily be collected the
drift of Mr. Pools argument. We have not sought
to unite, in connected chan the links of his argu
possible, in his own words. We have tried to do
him impartial justice SO far, and have not added
| single comment of our own.
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.zy@ We clip the following from the Wilmington
oarnol and will correct the editors in so far as Mr..
Wilson is concerned in The editorial Mr. w. has
not circulated any of these addresses, Gov. Ellis
was made to believe by interested parties. He is
not nor has he been, opposed to the reelection of
his Exceency; nor has he opposed by word or
deed the platform adopted by the late Convention.
Mr.. Wilson has been confined to his bed for more
than week. and so soon as he is able to attend to
business, we have little doubt he will pay proper
respect to his friends of the Journal and all others
who seem TO take interest in his future welfare:
I'VE noticed few days since. in the Raleigh
Utily Press, correspondence between Gov. Ellis
and Daniel G. Fowle, Esq, relative to a converse
ton the Governor had with Mr.. +. concerning the
Wake County Workingmcn's Association, wherein
it appears that Frank l. Wilson, late of the Raleigh
.Stan1arJ is charged with having circulated the ad
dress of the Workingmcn's Association.
Now, it appears to us that Mr.. Wilson has per-
feet right to circulate documents. if he fit but
he has no right to do at the expense of his own
party. or the success Of the party's candidate If
Mr. W. is opposed to the election of Gov Ellis, or
dsapproves of the platform adopted by the party in
its late Convention he might well go out of the
party at once, and Join the opposition. An open
enemy is always to be preferred to secret foe
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DEMOCRATIC MEETING IN MOORE.

A portion Of the Democracy of Moore County,
met IN Convention at the Court House in Carthage,
on the Gath inst. The Convention was called to
order by appointing W. D. Harrington, Esq, as
Chairman.
On notion it was
Resoloed, That the Chairman appoint committee
from each district to retire and report candidate to
represent Moore county, in the next Legislature
The Chairman appointed the following: LIST, N K
Mcneil End, Hiram Wadsworth; 3rd, L. B. Smith !;
18th, Arch'd Harrington; 9th, A. A. F. Seawell !;
9Th, D. W. Kennedy; 7th, NJ. N. Blue, sth, N L.
Malloy; 9th, R. W. Collision.
During the absence of the committee, the meeting
was instructed and entertained by an able speech
by Col j. u. Davis. At the conclusion of Col. Da-
Wis speech, the committee returned and reported,
recommending Col John Morrison. The announce
ment of Col. Morrison's name was greeted with ap-
plause, and he was unanimously declared the NOM
inee..
On motion of Col. Davis, committee was ap-
pointed to apprise Col. Morrison of his nomination.
Mr.. Morrison then appeared upon the stand and held
forth IN powerful speech which was listened to
with deep interest 50
On motion, it was ordered that the proceedings
be published in the Daily and Weekly Garolinian,
and that the Standard be requested to copy.
On motion, the meeting adjourned =
W. D. HARRINGTON, C6mn. 4,
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For the Standard
MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
In pursuance to previous notice, the Democratic
Executive Committee, met at Franklnton, on Friday
the 9th inst
Present: Henry G. Williams, of Nash, J. q.
Kirkland, Of Orange, NJ. Hawkins, Of Franklin, N.
W. Cooper of Nash, j. II. Gooch, of Granville, and
T. j. Footc, of Warren.
On motion, Mr.. Foote, was requested to act as
Secretary.
The Chairman, Henry G. Williams, ESQ.,, stated
the object of the meeting to be the nomination Of
an electoral candidate in the place of Mr.. Cameron
who had declined
Mr.. Cooper, of Nash. offered the following, which
was adopted:
Resolred, That we deem it inexpedient to call
Convention Of the Democratic party of the District
and believe it to be the duty of the Executive Com
mittee to nominate Democratic elector for this
District
The name of Henry W. Miller was then proposed,
and he was UNANIMOUSLY elected
Mr.. Gooch, of Granville, stated that the OPPOSE
ton party had two assistant electors and moved that
we appoint another assistant Democratic elector
and proposed the name of the Hon. A. W. Venable,
who was unanimously elected
On motion, the proceedings were ordered to be
published in the Democratic papers of the District.
On motion, the Committee adjourned. -
HENRY G.. WILLIAMS, Chmn.
7. j. FoorE, Secy.
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For the Standard.
CEDAR FoRk,' April %, 1860.


". " Holden, Esq:
Ny DEAR SIR: Believing that you take deep in
terest in the cause of Education, and especially,
interest in Common Schools, and being President of
the State Educational Association, desire to call
your attention to the subject of forming a Wake
County Educational Association. auxiliary to the
State, l believe there is such organization in
Wake, and beliering most firmly. that the meeting
of teachers tends to bind them together to elevate
the profession, and do incalcuable amount of good
to the cause of Education Unless more interest is
taken in Common Schools they will be deprived of
large amount of their usefulness. have conversed
with several teachers about Cedar Fork, and they
arc very much in favor of it. and I doubt not but
that nearly every teacher and friend to Education
will attend, and this. may give an impetus to the
The burden of this must fall on you, and if
you will lend your assistance, the Convention could
be called-I sincerely DESIRE sir that you will give
this matter thorough investigation. and give your
aid to this project and if you do rest assured that
the Convention will be called.
l am aware that you will be pressed with bust
ness; but, nevertheless, ask you to give helping
hand in this matter
Let me hear from you soon with reference to this
matter, and also, let me know some plan by which
we can call them together at some suitable time.
Hoping to hear from you soon, remain,
Very truly yours,
RICH. W. YORK.