The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-02-27

the 18th inst, INDUCES in another char.
acteristic howl about Black Republi-
canism, Abolitionists and the Rights
of the South, in which it makes hercu-
lean efforts to cover its warm sympa,
thy for the Southern Rebellion. But
the "Abolition" howl of that secession
organ against all Union men who COR
daily sustain the. Administration in
crushing out the Southern Democratic
rebellion against the Union, will not
deceive any intelligent reader of the
paper, because it cannot convince the
people of Michigan that it does not har-
Dor a hidden sympathy for the rebel
lion of its former political associates.
1t has not been forgotten by the peo-
pie of Cass County that it was not until
after the fall of Sumter and after its
mother, the Detroit Free Press had re.
ceived gentle hint to stop It's treason
able course, that this sucking made a
necessity of its uncomfortable position,
and pretended to asquiesce in the pop
ular decision to put down the rebellion
by pretending to be for the Union
and the war,-but very few are so gull
IDLE as to pnt any faith in its sinceri-
ty. The whole tone of that paper has
been to embarrass the government and
its true fricnds-to SANDER and villify
every prominent Republican. and to de-
fend and glority every Democrat who
has had any connection with public af,
fairs. fF .m a SSH eI...e
The editor of the Democrat, in order
to cover up his sympathy with the
Southern traitors, says:
Now those resolutions were adopted
by republican vote, and that after
Crittenden's resolutions adopted by
Congress in July lasl-resolutions that
every Republican and the Editor of the
Republican then endorsel-had been
voted down by a strict party vote.
This is one reason we Object To the res
olutions, and another is, rs leading
Republican of Dowayiac remarked in Il
store in this town. That they could
be offered for no other purpose than To
cover determination to construe them
to mean a general emancipation"
Now this is all twaddIc. If tile
astute editor knows anything abou, the
passage of those resolutions, he knows
that the Crittenden Resolutions, as he
calls them, were introduced by Mr..
Riley as a substitute to the judiciary
resolutions, and that he offered
them merely to create political capital
to so into the next campaign with.
When he introduced them lie declared
that his only objection to Mr.. Withey's
resolutions were in their phraseology,
and yet himself and the Democratic
party are now trying to manufacture a
little capital, because a large Republi-
can majority refused to furnish bun
combe for their assailants to carry on a
political campaign. AS regards the
resolutions offered by Mr.. Riley, we
could have supported them cheertully,
had we not known that they were Of
fered merely for the purpose of resns-
citating the carcass of dcfunct party.
This we take it was the case with the
Republicans who voted against the
substitute.
Again, the Democrat claims that
another reason why it opposes the
resolutions Occurred in the same
* legislature when it refused TO declare
" that the war was not waged for con-
"quest or subjugation, or to interfere
"with the rights or established Consti
tutions of the Southern States, but to
maintain and defend the supremacy
" of the constitution, with the rights and
equality under it unimpaired; and
that when those objects were accom-
, "plished, the war ought to cease
The only reply necessary to convict
the editor of the Democrat with ere.
ating fictitious issues, is found in the
Resolutions themselves, which declare
That Michigan stands firm in her de
termination to snstain, by men and
treasure, the constitution and the Union
and claims that the burihens of loya
men should be lightened as far as posi-
bic, by confscating to the largest ex
tent the property of all Instruction
lists, &c.
AS regards the charge that the reso
| lutions were intended to "mean &
general emancipation" We deny thai
there is a solitary word in the resolu
tons passed, which can be construed
to mean "general emancipation Of
any emancipation. The resolution,
simply calls for the confiscation o.
rebel property, be that property horses
cattle, lands or slaves, in order to assis
the loyal North in sustaining TIT
Constitution and the Government