The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-02-02
NUMBER II.

Message has given squatter the old hoist.
and TO use John Randolph's language.
/" he stinks and shines and shines and
stinks like a dead makerel by moon
light" Notwithstanding, patented
essay in the Harper's, to show his exis-
tance to be co-extensive with civiliza-
tion on this Continent. And Stephen
A. Douglas In experiencing to- day of his
own threats to Charles Sumner. of
Massachusetts, :" we will subdue you
SIR" 1t has reverted back to himself.
he is more humiliated to day than
Sumner can ever be.
In his Message to this Congress-,
President Buchanan tells us the Su-
preme Judiciary, the highest tribunal
OF the country has settled the slavery
question in regard to the Territories,
that Congress, the people of the Terri
tories or any other human power on
earth cannot prevent slavery going into
the Territories, that the Constitution of
the United States makes them common
property, and by virtue of the instru-
ment, slave property is protected under
its Jurisdiction. This is another new
discovery discovery that none of
the fathers who made il, could see to
exist in it, and undoubtedly they knew
its practical working, for they gave
their decisions and legislated by its
rules over quarter of century, and
they could not torture the Constitution
to make any such constructions as to
natienalize slavery in the Territories,
in disregards the protest of the inhabi-
tants of them.
1t is my candid opinion and / cannot
see that any one can conclude other
wise from this construction, that no
more States can be admitted into the
Union with prohibition, for Congress
undoubtedly cannot admit the State,
for if a Territory apply for admission
into this Union she must have Con-
stitution, republican in form, and not
conflict with the Constitution of the
United States, and if she applies with
aprohibition to slavery she undoubtedly
conflicts with the Constitution accor-
ding to the construction of Buchanan
and Judge Taney, nor has Congress the
right to admit State with any such
restriction for the above reasons Of
coflicting with the Constitution of the
United States, and thus you see, friends,
States hereafter must be admitted as
slave States, for there is no Constitu-
tional way of evading their admission
as such and perhaps with slave code
for twenty years, and with the African
slave trade, if not legally. clandestinely
opened, the new State would become
Africanized and entirely out of reach
of redemption forever. SAT-
/ seriously believe that after Kansas
there will never be another Free State
admitted into this Union by the sham
democracy, and Kansas only admitted
in order to ruE the Charleston nominee
into the Presidential chair this year.
The precedents of this sham democ-
racy for the last sixteen years, convin-
ces me of this fact, that they will con-
tinue to filch the liberties of the people
of this nation so long as one remains
that is against the extension of slavery
and favors the selfreliant portion of
the citizens, the freedom of speech
and of the press is already squelched
in fifteen States of the Union, and this
freedom is hardly pressed in the balance
of the States; the gag has been pre-
scented with the weightof this admins
tration to back them for the purpose of
squeIching out the liberties of the
people.
] have voted the sham democratic
ticket, but so help me God, / shall
never do it again, at least until they
come back on Constitutional grounds
which they have, and continue to evade
for pro slavery purposes. They have
left me and / can follow them no longer,
and shall hereafter give my sufferage
to Constitutional party, in disregard
of name or of section of the country
they may originate or hail from. To
this purpose | shall watch the Republic
cans this Session of Congress, their
acts and sentiments, and if Senator
LYMAN Trumbull has told the truth in
his declaration in the Senate the other
day, that the opposite parties could not
show a violation of the doctrines of
Thomas Jefferson in the first act of the
Republican party, which declaration is
fearfully strong, from the fact that il
was not contradicted, though at that
time he was held to the test on princi-
pie by the best ability of the sham DEM
ocracy, 1 say If this proves to be true,
/ shall vote for the Republican nomi-
nee for President and Congress, should
God in his providence let me live solong.
| perceive more long faced demo-
Gratis at this time than ever did before
in the world. The fact is, gentlemen,
the Presidents Message and the Doug
las platform made at Springfield, ILL.,,
on the fourth inst, has made longer
faces in the Democratic ranks than any
trip the Democracy ever took up Salt
River. have gone through the seige
myself, and am confident that long
faces is favorable symptom and that
cure will be arrived at, when they are
convinced that nothing but Constitu-
t;onal action will cure them of the sham
democratic sins.
Now, my prescription to all such,
would be to get the Constitution of the
United States, all the acts of Congress
prohibiting slavery from the Terri
tories, the Kansas Nebraska act, the
Dred Scott decision, the Cincinnati
platform, James Buchanan's letter Of
accpntauca to tho poo,;ration his DreS-