The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-01-24
From Lansing.


Special Correspondence of Cass Co. Republican
LAxsING, Jan. 10th, 1861.
| With us, as undoubtedly it is with
you, conversation turns upon the pres.
ent condition of the country.
Late events, Transporting in the ex-
IRENE and in some of the border Slave
States, strengthens the conviction that
some of them are determined to fight,
or make q great fuss. Although it is
difficult for many to believe, that the
South contemplates anything else than
to frighten and bully the free States;
hoping thereby that the dominant par
ty viii recede, and abandon the princi-
pie embodis ID in the Chicago platform ;
contending that the seeding States
will in few days or weeks at farthest,
be glad to come back and take their
places in the Union, pledging their
fidelity to Constitutional Law hereafter.
Although I say this is the opinion of
many still your correspondents does not
share in this opinion to any extent.
Everything goes. to show now, that
the alternativeis complete separation
of the free and slave States, or a total
and final backing down of the North
upon the question of Slavery. Aban-
doning the position that Slavery is
money, a sentiment SO honestly, and
souniversally held among all civilized
communities for the last hundred years.
Surrendering every right freedom ever
claimed, under the Constitution, giving
to slavery all its demands; acknowl-
edging its legal existence the same in
all parts of our country, whether in
States or Territories. Nor is this all,
the call is upon you and me, upon the
men and women of the free North, to
suppress their coaaoictions upon this
subject, to join hands in subjugating
the anti-slavery sentiment of the North,
and turning it in the direction of ac-
knowledging &aeery to be right, to be
christian, to be the best condition in
which the black man can exist, to be
in fact an element Of good society, and
that master and slave must be recog-
nized in every form of society, in order
that it may be developed 10 its highest
conditions. P''s ..'',1.
In vain may we say that we are law
abiding and constitutional loving men
and women, in vain may we repeal all
our so-called personal liberty laws, in
vain may we surrender everything, Tin
order to live in peace in the Union,)
except our honor and self,respect, this
will not do, it is not enough, and never
till we make this last surrender, will
the South consent to stay in the Union.
The question then presents itself in
this form. Will this be done 2 Can
it be done? Will the great North
make this humiliating surrender |? 1t
seems to me that it will not, that it can
not; wbatthem? Either peacea6lesepo.
ration or fight. Compromise is out Of
the question, we have nobody to com
promise with, the South do not ask it.
they desire no such thing. And let nc
Northern man delud: himself with any
such notions. What the South demand
now is unconditional Surrender 'e'' .
Before this surrender is made let the
Union fall, let it, be said in all parts Of
the world, that free Governments are
a failure, that man is incapable of gov.
erning himself, and that the American
Union, to-day the freest, the strongest,
the best Government under heaven,
the pride of the nations, and the boas,
of its own citizens, tomorrow raises
its own suicidal hand and commits it.
self to oblivion forever. =. - -; !.
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