The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-06-28

Mr. IreSlueub, nave Sald cnouSn 10
prove the total depraUity of the Dem
ooratic party North; the utter aban-
donment of their principles their COM
plete and thorough subserviency to
Southern dictation. / will not use the
harsh language which the Senator from
Texas (Mr. WigfalD employed the 9TH
or day when he said /:
Threaten then, and they will crouch
at your feet like so many hounds. On
~ swear that you are going to dissolve
the Union, and the timid creatures will
get down on all tours, bite the dust, and
kiss the rod raised to chastise them"
But will say, they have lost the
manly, independent spirit, which was
the characteristic of the party in the
days of General Jackson.
Mr.. President, the sentiments of the
people of the free States, to whom the
acts of their Democratic public SER
wants have been submitted, are well
known, and they have been unequivo-
calIy expressed. No man has been
able to stand up before an enlightened
constituency and justify his betrayal of
Che interests of free labor. Even the
distinguished Senator from Illinois on
ly,obtained majority Of his Legisla
ture through an unjust superintendent
the popular majority was against him.
The people of the great Northwest
ern States, now numbering nearly ten
millions of freemen, will ever hold in
grateful recollection the memory of
those whose statesmanlike and patri-
otio foresight dedicated the soil upon
which they live for free labor; and they
are not unmindfnI of the duty they owe
to their PROSPERITY. They mean to
prove to the world that the same zeal
for liberty which inspired their ances-
tors still animates them. With slavery
in the State of this Confederacy, they
claim no other right to interfere than
30 unite with an enlightened Christian
world in public sentiment before
which all great wrongs must sooner or
later give way. But in the broad Ter
ritories of this Union they are deter
mined slavery never shall obtain a foot
hold. The auction block for fellow
men shall never be established there
but those broad plains, those fertile
valleys, and those mountain gorges rich
in shining metal, shall be wrought
alone by the willing hands of free men.
As fast as they are peopled, the school
house and the church will spring up
and civilization and refinement will
bring comfort and happiness to its
entire population.
Mr.. President, a new era is about to
dawn upon US. The desperate strug-
gle which has just taken place at
Charleston is one of the dying throes
Of the slave power. The most impor-
tant functions of this Government-ex-
ecutive, legislative, and judicial-have
fallen under its control; and its i'm
mense patronage has been arrayed in
the unholy work of extending slavery.
1t must soon surrender the power
which it has welded SO despotically
over the party in the North and over
the whole country. The slave code
which these resolutions indicate will
never be passed; and the doctrine that
slavery exists by virtue of the Consti-
tuition of the United States will soon
fall into contempt. A party is about
to take possession of this Government,
with the same name and the same prin-
ciples of the Republican party of 1900.
An enlightened people are thoroughly
aroused to the good work and they
will reserve the decisions of the SUI
preme Court, and the policy which has
prevailed under the Democratic rule
they will make freedom national and
slavery sectional. Their candidates,
Lincoln and Hamlin, are thoroughly
identified with the interests of the la
boring classes, from which they have
sprung; and they are thoroughly i'm
bued with the principles and the love
of freedom and liberty. Around such
standard bearers the hosts of the peo-
pie will gather and bear them on to
victory. Their Inauguration in power
will restore the Government to its orig
inal design, so beautifully expressed
in the preamble to the Constitution,
and from more perfect Union, es-
tablished justice, insure domestic tran
guilty, provide for the common de-
Tense, and secure the blessings of
liberty to ourselves and our posterity."