The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-10-23
Something for Union Republic
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8- OeeAAS " ASCslW aAuhet n ScSts
We invite the particular attention of
such Republicans as were seduced into
joining the "ULion" movement by the
false representations Of the shrewd demo-
cratic wire pullers, to read the following
speech delivered by Geo. w. Peck, at
the Democratic Convention recently held
In Detroit, and then determine whether
they can longer follow the lead of Demo-
Gratis who now insultingly tell them
"THEY HAVE BEEN SOLD" AND
THAT THE "MEN NOMINATED Do
NOT AND WILL NOT SUSTAIN THE
PRESIDENT" Is this the entertain
ment to which they were invited? Was
it to become hewers of wood and drawers
of water to that internal and traitorous
portion of the Democratic party who
have ever been the sympathizers with
treason and who in the early stages of the
Rebellion threatened the loyal forces with
"FIRE IN THE REAR" that they
Joined the new movement?
rive copy from the Detroit Free Press.1
81 address myself to my old associates
in the Democratic party, and AS Austin
Blair said Old ABE was the Republican
of Republicans, may say | have been in
my humble sphere the Democrat OF Dem
ocrats and to those who have been asso-
ciated with me in the old bunker portion
of the Democracy, L desire to say 1 re-
nOunce no authority to those men Of jack
SON who claim to represent the Democrat
ic party There were Democrats there
for whom | had no respect. ! support
these resolutions because they are the
resolutions of our party, and support
this ticket because it is the tichet Of the
Democracy Of Michigan. We are told
that Convention was made up of office
seekers. OF this | cannot say But
jackson is not the place where "Sainls
do nightly meet" and it may be SO. Ii
they were there to sell out the democratic
party they did not do it. They only
SOLD THEMSELVES. (Cheers.) And
here l may remark that if any Democrat
is uneasy about the democratic platform,
let him 90 off of it, The same with the
Republicans any are dissatisfied, for
Gods sake come out. (Cheers.) Those
men of Jackson, let me tell you, haze set
IN motion ,chat they cannot control. While
they haze set IN motion mooee ent that
combines all the elements Of opposition to
the administration, they have adopted a
platform pledging their support to the alb
clifton Administration, but their platform
has been taken up to-day by party who
oppose that Admin strdtion. CHEERS
We have nominated to-day men who ,oilt
not and do not sustain the President No
there are principles in that platform of
which do not approve; but where they
pledge themselves and their candidates to
90 for the Constitution as 1t Is that over
rides all the rest. (Cheers.9 But the
noble Byron e.. Stout went even further.
He said, 81 am for sustaining the Union
Internationally and crushing this rebel
lion, but We must also put down that other
/ hcresy which declares that the Constitu-
ton is net strong enough to crush the re-
bellion." (Cheers.) l support him for
that declaratio2. for that sound platform.
1t is strong enough and broad enough to
hold us ALL Every lover of his country
can support him, and his views will tri-
umph 1t is no easy task l assure you, to
save this country, and docs any man
believe that Byron g. Stout VII. prove
false to that declaration? He made thai
declaration months ago in the Senate of
the State, at the peril of his reputation
and his liberty, for the hell hounds of
Abolitionism had marked him. That
declaration was the crevice in the iceberg
which our action here to day has increas-
ed into wide gulf that is almost impas-
sable. 1 promised not to detain you.
(C,ies of ego on. y These hell hounds
have the spoils of Office, but they have
also the scorn of the people. There is a
gulf between the North and South that
is filled with blood, and it is a gulf that
cannot be bridged over. (Cheers.) L
wish to impress upon you what | feel is
the bounded duty of all of us Democrats
to do. Let each one of us say. 'sFrom
this time forward l will devote myself to
the success of this ticket" for it is by
this alone we aud our country can be
saved cloud cheers.) Our country can
never be saved except by Democratic and
conservative men at the North, to whose
action the South is To- king with hope for
the salvation of the country. To save
the country we must show to the South
that the people of the North repudiate
abolitionism. (Cheers.) Yes, they look
to the people of the North in this election,
for the last chance of their salvation, and
the salvation of the Union. 1t is impos-
sible to save the country unless the con-
sentative men of the country get posses
sion of the government. This is the
hope of the South. We must work and
we must not ask what are the political
principles of the soldiers who stand by
us elbow to elbow in the great work of
/ restoring the Union. But if we do not
save it, if the North is only saved, the
question comes up whether what is left
shall be under the rule of these Abolition