The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-02-01

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ism been associated with the same
ideas of honor, as in more fortunate
countries, Spain would yet share fav
orably in American territory and bs
prospered in her own borders. Blu,
not so, that chivalry was practically y
disloya atty; a knight was a heroe for
himself without any conformity to q
general principle or policy.
Mexico held allegiance to the moth.
er country for three hundred years,
then threw off the yoke, and soon made
an attempt at republican form OF
government, but was totally unquali-
fed to maintain it; and now, with her
abundant natural resources, is impov-
erished and the victim of ruthless an
archy and the moral is, that an indie
pendent South as nation, would be in
capable of sslf-preservation her idea
of liberty would entirely forbid it, being
dissimilar from Mexico only in that
she has more intelligence and vigor,
without any change of sentiment or
principle. The southern politician is a
republican when he is the result of q
majority, but if otherwise, he is the de-
fant, self-constituted autocrat. "Rule
or ruin" many have long believed to be
the heart of King Cotton, now we all
know that it is.
have said that the domestic condi-
tions of the two sections of the Coun-
try are not the cause of the moral dis
parity of North and Sonth, that it was
owing to hereditary national descent; !;
but it is incontrovertably true that
these conditions have fostered and fur
ther developed these opposite feelings.
While the people of the North were
assidulously cutivating the the arts of
peace, increasing their internal resour-
ces, harmonizing capitol, labor, and re-
ward, the South with equal intent, were
establishing the royalty of capital and
the subjugation of labor. 1t has; been
said, and with much truthfulness, too,
that what the South binds by direct
legislation the North binds by capital
There is no doubt that the monopoly
Of wealth every where, is corrupting
and oppressive in its tendency, but it
cannot here destroy or appropriate per-
sonal liberty. The capitalist may by
cunning and intrigue destroy or appro-
pirate the effects of victim, and rem
der him miserable, but he cannot har-
Dor the thought that he has subdued
him, or gained his effective manhood,
or suppressed him in his cause at the
public bar or at the ballot box. How
ever strong his taste for the servile Of
ferings of hopeless abasement, there is
no possible qualification, and the NOR
bid propensity mnst starve and die for
lack of appropriate food, and the healed
man, with the full vigor of freedom,
will be clamorous for the rule that
brings down the mountains and raises
up the valleys of irregular humanity TO
a common privilege. Oppression gets
its subsistence from its victims state
of oppression begets oppressors as a
dunghill begets mushrooms. The hu.
man mind requires discipline to tolerate
the idea of injustice and cruelty, and
the means employed is the involuntary
expulsion of the mate feeling of the
recognition of human rights, thus eff
fectually shutting off every considera'
ton of moral obligation and mutual
loyalty; and there is nolimitation to this
unreined ambition while there are ri
walls for liberty, and victims to subsist
the CORY spirit. The southern mind
has for centuries been subjected te
witness the usages of involuntary servi
tnde, and to an outward conformity tC
those usages, and has, therefore, a gen
eral adaptation of thought and feeling
to all the requirements of their exis
tence. The southern aristocrat, ir
particular, has accustomed himself tt
the defense or excuse of an evil, unit
he has acquired bias in its favor, ant
having strangely compounded this will
an extreme idea of liberty, he offers hi
defiant protest in arms against the civ
; il instrument Of impartial, mutual pro
lection, that from his own mouth, bu
few years ago, had been exalted to
: the highest favor among men. Ant
this, chiefly, because of rivaI opinion
No assault was made at his local privi
,,llege as citizen-no inroads were pro
posed on former guarantees-no pro
hibition of the advocacy of his cause
in private or public capacity the els
mani al cause of diSsatisfaetion Ia fha