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

cans, apprOxImated closer the fathers
than any other public man, wrote this
letter At all events, the Nicholson
letter came squarely up to the demands
OF the extentionist of the United States.
Whether this letter was written for
political aggrandisemento or from honest
convictions as duty to the Constitu.
ton, is not for me to say here, though
L may think and decide in my own
mind what gave the incentive to write
this letter. 1t is thought this letter
gave General Cass the nomin alton in
1848.
Martin Van Buren,, though partially
retired from public action and life,
could not stand this perversion of the
Constitution, and having it impressed
still fresh on his mind, the contempt OF
his old tutor, Andrew Jackson, and
the echo still ringing in his ears of the
prefix (By the EternaD to all traiters
to the Constitution and nulifers to the
Union, determined to rebuke Cass and
bis old party, in which, he, himself had
grown old, for this perversion of prin-
ciples; and he did it gloriously; and
has now retired, satisfied that he did
his duty to his country in that act
So General Taylor was elected; but
the old hero soon paid the debt we all
owe. But some great men will not
pay it SO honorably, or be so honered
as he after death. During this Ad-
ministration the slavery extentionists
oontented themselves with what is
called Fugitive Slave Law, but took
advantage of the admission of Califor-
MIA as free State and they interwove
great deal of unconstitutionality in
this Fugitive Slave Law, and that law
has caused more trouble and greater
dissatisfaction than any act on the
slavery subject in all the acts of the
Administrations of the Country before
that time, since the foundation of the
Government or any other department
of Government. Hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars have been paid for rem
dition of very few slaves since its
passage and some blood shed, and a
great many worthy men incarcerated
unjustly in the jails of the country;
and yet the people of all sections of
the country are dissatisfied with the law,
and will continue to be so, until it is
so amended as to be Constitutional.
And men, Constitutional men, will re-
iect its operation, under the unjust
penalty of that law. In a certain State
at this time, renowned for its Egyptian
darkness, there are citizens who are
boiling the demands of this law.
The next Administration was Demo
cratic; and during the Pierce Admins
tration Stephen A. Douglas discovered
that the fathers of the country had been
guilty of violating the Constitution by
neutrality-suspicious. to slavery in the
Territories and that he was the instru-
ment in the hand of God to let this
generation know what the Constitution
of the United States meant, when it
said, "the Congress shall make all
needfnl rules and regulations for the
Territories" and also that the fathers
had made what they did not under
stand. So he enlightened the country
with the Kansas Nebraska act, for the
Territories, and those slavery restric-
tions were all repealed; so the Nichol-
son letter was filled to the dotting of
an l and the crossing of t, all the
doctrine of that letter was filled by
Squatter Sovereignty, and squatters
could say whether it should be free or
slave Territory, and Congress should
have no more to say about the matter, so
sqnatter pitched his tent first in Kan
sas, and by his rude acts and pranks
caused many battles to be fought and
many honest, self reliant, industrious
men to be slain and violation of the
chastity of their wives, daughters and
mothers. After long siege, squatter
turns to be Free State youth, and
makes Kansas free Territory and
undoubtedly will be admitted as free
State into the Union. But this viola
ton of plighted compact, like the vio-
Iation in the Fugitive Slave act, cost
the Government hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars and many lives and
dissatisfaction to all sections greater thnn
the former violation.
1t now becomes apparent to the
three hundred and sixty five thousand
slave holders, that little squatter though
called giant, was insufficient to the
task, and that the African Slave Trade
was being opened, negroes cheap, so
they must have immediate expansion,
all their energies had been called into
requisition, their Treasury bankrupt,
fsome say, buying dough-faces is the
cause of their bankruptcy so their
heads was put together and wits to
work, and as usual when they fail to
come ont victorious in combat with the
non-slave holders in their communities
they make the negro whip them. And
as old Dred Scott had been somewhat
used to the army for a half century
and this, bigger fight than usual, the
old war negroe was pitched upon to
fight this battle for the master. So
Dred was EQUIPPED and ushered into the
arena, and he fought with such PROV
ess that little squatter stuck up his white
flag and caved before Dred got to him,
SO Dred made an extra judicial decision
in favor of the master, and let little
squattcr breathe for the present pro-
vided he would lay low and say nothing.
But little squatter saw old Abe Lincoln
had seen the place where the pig would
get out, and he, Lincoln, was honest
and frank enough to tell the people OF
II 40 couattor in 1873 OOt nm AT Free