The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-07-03

hour of their birth the entire body
of whose females are by law left exposed
to indiscriminate concubinage and
prostitution whose intellects and NOR
al nature are by penal statutes, denied
all benefit Of the Heaven-inspired in
ventions of the alphabet and printing
press; amongst whom the conjugal
paternal, filial and fraternal relations
are recognized by no law, allo,oed nc
legal existence but amongst whom
the husband may at the caprice of The
so-called "owner," at any time be torn
from the wife, the wife from the hus
band, the young child from the parent
the parent from the child, the brother
from the sister and the sister from the
brother, sold like beasts in the sham
bles and buried off to unknown re-
glons whence no returning intelligence
ever comes to relieve the anxieties OF
heal tire bleeding hearts of the beref
ones left behind? Is that people sun
justly oppressed" who to the number
OF four millions, are subjected to The
countless details of all the inhumar
and enormous outrages of which these
are only general specimens and thus
subjected for no better or other reason
than that their parents were subjected
to just such outrages before them? Ii
other words, are the Slaves Of the STAG
States, "u'yustly oppressed9" fthe.
are not, then never did the Deity il
His inscrutable wisdom, allow tiends il
the form of men to "unjustly oppress'
any of his children of earth. Nor,
than this, no people of whom History
has knowledge, were ever to unjustl,
oppressed; for every man familiar
with the worlds history, who has seer
Southern Slavery as the writer of thi.
has SCENT. at home and in all its dew
ilish details, but must admit that of al
systems of human slavery with til,
dark records of which the Muse O
History has blushed to stain her pages
american Slavery is the most demo
MAC
Of course, therefore, it is by thu
Law of Nations, as well as by tn,
"Higher Law" of God, the clear, i'm
perative duty Of our National Admin
istration, our Congress and our Mill
tary Commanders, $50 II use our victo
tories as not merely to give that unjust
ly oppressed people new master; bu
to break their chains )" in other word
and in obedience to the concurren
command of Holy Writ, "to break eve
ny yoke and let the oppressed 60 free.
Such has been their duty from tn
first moment of their first opportunit.
for discharging it. When the rebe
city of Baltimore was conquered NOR
than year ago, it became the duty @
the Government and its military repre-
sentatives there, 10 emancipate ever.
slave of at least every rebel in the city
and has ever since been their duty t,
make emancipation follow in the wax,
of conquest wherever our "Flag of tn,
Free" has been advanced into the enc
my's country.
So. therefore, it is the duty of on
Government to provide that when full
and final victory shall have been wor
and the Slave Holders Rebellion
wholly crushed, Slavery shall survive
in no disloyal State nor under any dis
loyal slave holder AN enforcement
of the Law of Nations which will leav,
in the whole land, no more bondmel
than can be ransomed with one tythe
of the money already expended in re
sisting the Slave Power and its rebe
hordes in the halfloyal, half-traito
State of Missouri. And it is the dut,
of the People, the real Government, t
see 10 it that their agents in office thu
provide.
OF course, that duty is to be dis
charged .judiciously;; with such regart
to all the circumstances of the present
and prudent reference to the future, a,
shall render the emancipation bless
ing and not a curse. Such is the evi
dent meaning of Vattel. Of course
therefore, the emancipation is not ne
cessarily to be unconditional nor even
attempted until it can be made efectu
al and safe for all entitled to be cared
for.
Is our Government by con.pronais
10Th conscience, to substitute in plac.
of brave and honest discharge o
that duty, mere offer to pay such
ransom to hundreds of thousands oil
traitors whose hands are dripping will
our brothers blood, as well as to the
few scores of loyal Shareholders p
Thanks to an awakening public con-
science, the legislative department OF
the Government at least, has recently
manifested determination to advance
farther than that in the pathway oil