The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-10-30

TuStOn tlcketS Otdtc, OOunty duu Soh-
gressional, with all the depraved unscrupu-
lousness with which it has been wont to
sustain other pro-slavery measures and
tickets in the years during which the IN
famous Pierce and Buchanan admins
trations and the entire Democratic party
were bending all their energies to fasten
the infernalisms of slavery upon all the
Territories, natmaiize tie accused insti-
tuition in all the Free States, crush out
opposition to it everywhere, and install
the Slave Power in the strong holds of
all the departments of the Government.
Even after the election of Lincoln and
even after the rebellion of the Democracy
in the Slave States had fully organized
itself and commenced its actual hostilities,
that same Free Press not only continued
its moral treason to the T ee States, but
boldly entered upon course of actual
treason to the Government, by giving
"aid and comfort" to the rebel enemy
and threatening that its party, or at least
those for whom it was an organ, would
enter the field against the Government as
the actual and armed allies of the Southern
rebels!
That all this was so, and in order to
remind Republicans and loyal Democrats
enlisted in the "Union ranks, of the
true character of their allies, we re-publish
the following extract from that same
Detroit Free Press of January 1861:
"Jf troops Shall be raised an the North
to march against the people of the 80. III,
A FIRE in THE REAR WILL BE
OPENED UPON SUCH TROOPS,
WHICH WILL EITHER STOPT FIR
MARCH ALTOGETHER OR WON
DERFULLY ACCELLERATE 1T. In
other words, if in the present posture OF
the Republican party towards the National
difficulties, war shall be waged, that wal
will be fought in the North. We warn
it that the conflict which it is precipitating,
will not be with the South, but with tens
of thousands of people in the North
When civil war shall come, 1T WILL
BE A WAR HERE IN MICHIGAN
AND HERE IN DETROIT AND IN
EVERY NORTHERN STATE"
This extract was part of an editoria
article published in the Detroit Free Press
after the rebels had commenced theil
Internal hostilities; after their rebellion
had been fully organized in all the Slave
States except Delaware Gin which it has
never been organized at all for the reason
that it is only nominaly Slave State :
after the rebels had been for months
openly enrolling and drilling military for
ces; after the Slave State members OF
Buchanan Cabinet and the traitor Toucey
of Connecticut, his Secretary of the Navy
had been for months robbing the Federal
Treasury and placing the stolen money
and money bonds in the hauds of secession
leaders, and robbing the northern arsenals,
Notifications and Navy Yards, and placing
the stolen arms, munitions and vessels in
Southern arsenals, Notifications and ports
after the rebels had seized upon the arms,
munitions and vessels thus Intentionally
put within their reach; and upon the
custom houses, land Offices, post Offices
and forts Including those of Charleston
except Fort Sumpter,) within their Dor
ders; whilst they were beleaguer ng that
with thousands of armed rebels; after
they had fired from Fort Moultrie and
the Notifications erected by themselves,
upon the Government Steam Ship, " Star
of the West" and driven her from Charles
ton harbor when she sought to enter with
provisions for the little garrison of Fort
Sumpter already reduced to short rations
Yes, it was after all these acts of treason,
each of them an act Of open, fragrant war,
that the traitor scOundrels of the Detroit
Free Press gave utterance to the article
from which the above is a specimen ex-
tract! And yet the villains had the
shamelessness to insinuate that the Re
publican Party was "precipitating" that
war! ~
The miscreants knew, of course, that
the war had already been precipitated !"
by their Southern democratic allies,
with the aid of " Democratic admins
tration; but hoped by the insinuation to
induce those of their readers who read
none but Democratic" papers, to believe
that the Republicans were waging the
war. They seem to have taken it for
granted that that class of their readers
supposed the administration of Mr.. Lin
coin to have already superseded the
+" Democratic" administration of the In
famous James Buchanan.
The article from which we have quoted,
was but one of many of similar spirit,
published in the Free Press during the
three or four months prior to the bonn
bardment of Fort Sumpter and the general
uprising of the patriotic masses Of the
Free States, which that gratuitous act of