The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-02-07
From the Toledo Blade.
What Contrast.

What Contrast.
Who will dispute the truth, or fail to
admire the manliness and patriotism OF
the following extract from the Nash
vile (Tenn.) Democrat of the 10th
inst. :?
"For many years the people have
lived in peace and prosperity. The
Li6ertu Bills had been IN existence IN
n,any of the States for many gears be-
fore the passage Of the Fugitive Slave
laao :. not one man an q hundred in
Tennessee knesc that there aoas a Li6er-
ty laso IN existence, till very recently.
"Still the people Of Tennessee pros
persd and were happy, under the gen.
eral influence of a free Government.
They have never felt any Inconvenience
from the existence of those laws. But
Presidential election takes place,
and the men who have been so long in
office that they claimed it as right,
see that they have to give up their fine
fat places. They then raise the cry,
"Liberty bills! Liberty bills ! The
country is ruined, break it up, destroy
it." Why is all this to be done? Just
because the office holders do not like to
gice up their o6fces-to work they are
too proud, to beg they are ashamed.
"The laws of which we now hear so
much complained have existed for a
series of years; these Office holders
were very well satisfied to live under
them so long as they could keep in Of
flee. But so soon as they are about to
be displaced, and forced to work for an
honest living, the cry is raised, destroy
the country, destroy the country!
"Why this haste? Why shall every
thing be done, and the country de-
stroyed, before the 4th of March ? 1t
is to keep Lincoln from being inaugu-
rated, so that these ofice-holders may
still hold office. Freemcn of Tennes-
see are you ready to see the best gov
eminent under heaven destroyed, to
keep men in Office I? Which is of the
most value to youths great and glori-
Gus governments, or the o6ice-seekers
and office holders Will you give up
the country, plunge it into civil war,
just because you could not elect the
man of your choice to the Presidency !?
"Yanceyism, which is but another
name for treason against the govern
ment of the country, is making hard
struggle to break up and destroy the
great government, and plunge our
peaceful and quiet country into a
bloody war, An indignant people will
know how, when the time arrives, to
treat such men. If they plunge the
country into civil war, the people, who
have to do the fighting, will know the
guilty and wicked parties, and will be
prepared to punish them as their crime
merits. The freemen of Tennessee are
not to be dragooned into bloody war,
to crafty few wretched, blood thirsty,
disappointed office-seekers. We warn
the people not to be influenced into
precipitate action by wicked designs
against their country's peace"
With the above truthful and mag
unanimous statement of the case by
paper at the capital of a Slave State,
contrast the following specimen of
funkyism and. falsehood from the De-
troit Free Press, the Democratic organ
of Michigan:
eve can tell the Republican Legisla-
ture and Republican administration of
Michigan, and the Republican party
everywhere, one thing; that if the re-
fusal to repeal the Personal Liberty
laws shall be PERSISTED in, and if there
shall not be change in the present
seeming purpose to yield to no accom-
mediation of the national difficulties,
and if troops shall be raised in the
North to march against the people of
the South, fire IN the rear aoiU be
opened upon such troops aohich aoiN
either stop their march. altogether or ,0oa,-
derfully accelerate al. In other words,
if, in the present posture of the Re-
publican party towards the national diff
fculties, war shall be waged, that war
,oiH be fought IN the North. We warn
it that the conflict which it is precipit-
ating will not be with the South, but
acith tens Of thousands Of people n. the
North. When civil war shall come, it
will be war here in Michigan, and here
in Detroit, and in every Northern
State"
While the patriotic Union men of
the South are bearing their breasts to
the storm and struggle to remove the
prejudices and passions of their neigh
bors against the Republicans, by COR
recting the falsehoods by which such
ill feeling was caused, large portion
of the Democratic press and politicians
presist in scattering throughout the
South vile trash like that from the Free
Press. And while Southern men are
devising ways and means for maintain
ing the existence, and, if possible, re-
establishing the integrity of the Gov
eminent, Northern doughfaces are
pledging themselves to raise the stand
ard of treason in the North, and act in
CONJUNCTION with their allies in the Cot
ton States! GA FIRE in the rear will
be opened" upon any troops that NAV
march from the North to sustain the
Government The people of Micbi-
gan by majority of 22,2I3 over alll
other candidates, declared their choice
for Abraham Lincoln for President of
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