The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-10-11
Old Time Democracy.

|" Your late purchase of an estate,
with view of emancipating the slaves
on IT, is generous and noble proof of
your humanity. Would to God like
spirit might difase itself generally into
the minds of the people of this coun-
."-WAsHINGToN's LETTER TO La
FAYETTE. IttA iHeit3
81 never would have drawn my
sword in the cause of America, if ]
could have conceived that thereby
was helping to found nation of slaves. !"
LAFAYETTE.
One hour of American Slavery is
fraught with more misery than ages of
which our fathers rose i'm rebellion to
oppose. y rg
"ItrenableJor aay country sohen Ire
member that God is just, and that His
justice cannot sleep forever. A revo-
luton among possible events. The Al
mighty has no attribute which would
side with us in such struggle."-
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
1T is debt We owe to the purity of
our religion to show that is at vari-
ance with that law which warrants
Slavery. Give me Liberty or give me
Death "-PATRIcK HENRY, of Vir-
ginia.
"Sir, / envy neither the heart nor the
head of that man from the North who
rises here to defend Slavery on princi-
pie.
81 give to my slaves their freedom to
which my conscience tells me they are
justly entitled. 1t has a long time
been matter of the deepest regret to
me, that the circumstances under which
inherited them, and the obstacles
thrown in the way by the laws of the
land, have prevented my emancipating
them in my life time, which it is my
full intention to do in case | can accom-
plish it. ."-JoHN RANDOLPH.
"Slavery is contrary to the law of
nature and nations.-WILL1AM WRIT.
"Slavery stiles industry and repres.
es enterprise it is fatal to economy
and Providence; it discourages skill
impairs our strength as community
and poisons morals at their fountain
head. ."-JUpGE GAsToN, of North Car
olina.
"The earth which multiplies hel
i productions under the hands of the free
born laborer seems to shrink into bar
lrenness under the sweat of the slave'
I-DR. RUSH.
$50 long as God allows the vital cur
rent to flow through my veins, I viii
never, never, never, by word or thought
by mind or will, aid in admitting on,
rod of free territory to the everlasting
curse of human bondage."-HENR1
CLAY. olii- - 2
''My opposition to the extension o
slavery dates further back than 1874
forty years further back; and as this il
a suitable time for a general declara
, ton, and as sort of general conscience
delivery, will say, that my opposition
to it dates from 1904. when / was /:
, student at law in the State of Tennes
; see, and studied the subject of African
Slavery in an American book-a Vir
= ginia book-Tucker's Edition of Black
stones Commentaries" es."-THoMAs II
BENTON. st 81
r "Slavery is an atrocious debasemen
Of human nature. ."-DR. FRANKLIN.
v cit is wrong to admit into the Con
f stitution the idea that there can b
property in man" JAMES MADISON.
"We have found that this evil (slave
!, ry,) has preyed upon the very vitals q
!. the Union. and has been prejudicial I
k all the States" JAMES MONROE.
/ at would rejoice my very soul, thu
n every one of my fellow beings wa
J, emancipated. We ought to lamer
!, and deplore the necessity of holdin
, our fellows in bondage. Believe me
It shall honor the Quakers for their nobl
efforts to abolish slavery.-P ATRIc
HENRY.