The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-04-18

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N, to up
Try yotete, and
IS and TO sustain
sss.tutionsl liberty, by
roPo1ss I'd e~c'asif>|
mt and on1tant adherence
compromises d :as Consti-
nouch eat Gtrong enough
So As It was, the
4fmf shall be. -
1<1 on this platform,
.en pledged to the sup
Union as it was, the Union
shall be- Theya<e Union
N. Then there was another
Bell, Of Tennessee, WI likewise
IS the Union candidate par excellence
all party platforms. ~ ,artv endorsed
aus Constitution and the Union il. ,ne following
language: .zz-.,
" Rssozred, That it is both the part Of patriot
other than the constitution Of the country, the
Union Of the States, and the enforcement & :ne
laws
There is mo-. ify there; no, if you do this"
and if.yeu do that !" they are for the Constitu-
bat they are for them anyhow, at all times. T re
stood John Bell and SOC, SCI men with him.
These three parties cast together, every One of
them, as have shown you by their platforms,
pledged to the Union as Il is the Constitution as
10, and the enforcement of the laws as they are,
z.sl4,2l7 votes. Then there was fourth candi-
dldate-the honorable Senator from Kentucky,
who called me to account yesterday for my doc
trine OF blood letting win not discuss this plat
form- 1t was claimed in one portion OF the coun-
try that it was disunion platforra. know the
Senator from Illinois represented it as being dis
union party but shall not stop to discuss wheth-
er It was not That party cast for the honorable
Senator from Kentucky s47, s58 votes, thus show
ing majority against that Senator and his plat
form of 1866 264 votes That is to say, he and his
platform were repudiated by majority of 3,0OO,-
600 Of the voters of the Union, or nearly So But,
sir this is not correct representation Of the vote
because on examination you will ind IN the North
there were cast for that Senator III ,0S2 votes,
while at the South there was cast 570,S71. OF
those ga, 900 Northern votes, can assure him
Therefore you must add that Northern vote to the
other Union votes, which would swell the majority
against his platform and himself if they took the
ground Of disunion-I do not say they did-ts g.
143, 346 votes. That platform was repudiated, and
the question was settled by that emphatic vote of
the 9Th Of November; and now what do gentlemen
propose to do? To reopen question which has
been settled finally settled, by majority of more
than three millions Of the voters of this great ma
tion and to insert this PLATFORM naked and simple
into the Constitution Of the United States over
that enormous majority of votes that was cast
against it. Sir, it is too late. The thing cannot
be done The people have rendered their verdict.
The question cannot be opened As have shown
you, sir here are 3,e14 2l7 men who are pledged
by their votes pledged by their platforms, pledged
in every way which can pledge men, to stand by
the Constitution and the Union, and for the en-
forcement of the laws.
Sir. the Senator spoke for Kentucky, and he al
luded to the bones of brave Kentuckians that were
scattered over the adopted States alluded to the
fact that my speech the other evening, and think
did fun credit to those brave men. They were
~triots5 and they were 2rap,red - their
ia defence Of their cor! - |hiasky