The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-10-09
Uni0nism.


Cassapolis on the 27th OF September.
We did not receive the copy in time
for our issue of last week.
We call attention TO the fact that this
official report carefully supprcsses all
alIusion to the proceedings of the Con-
vention relating to the Presidents
Proclamation for the emancipation of
the slaves of rebels, issued OH the 22d
OF September. OF that portion of It's
proceedings, our paper Of last week.
contains fair, and except that the
speeches were not reported at length, a
full and accurate account.
BY comparing this official report
with that account, our readers will see
that the managers of the Convention
Intentionally suppressed the most impor-
tant part of its proceedings. The two
resolutions which their official report
states were ''offered by ]. b. Clarke !"
were, as shown by the article OF last
wei k, resolutions approving the Proc
lamatioh. The first one offered by Mr..
C.having been rejected under the order
for the "Previous Question" moved
by Mr.. B. w. Schermerhorn, Union
candidate for Sheriff,) and the resolu.
tons of the Conventions Committee,
having been accepted, MIR. Clarke then
moved as an additional resolution, the
second one offered by him, which was
one of the resolutions adopted by the
late Union State Convention of the
Republicans and "War" Democrats
of Illinois.
Both the resolutions moved by Mr..
G.. were seconded and advocated OH the
one side and opposed on the other du-
ring several hours altogether. And
yet those who derive their knowledge
solely from the official report, are kept
in total ignorance that the Convention
was even asked to approve the Procla-
nation or that there was any allusion
to that document, though it is conced-
ed to be the most important State paper
ever promulgated by our Government,
the Declaration of Independence and
the Federal Constitution alone ex.
cepted
The Convention was controlled by
+" Democrats" heretofore recognized
as the most ultra pro slavery, and some
of them of decidedly anti coercion
stripe, aided. by Messrs B. w. Scher
merhorn, E. II. Jones, A. j. Smith, w.
w. Peck and G. G. Jones hitherto Re-
publicans, and all of them understood
to have been at the time, candidates
for Union nominations. Underline lead
ership of these gentleman, the resolu-
tons approving the Proclamation,
were rejected by Democratic MAORI
ty Of the Convention the first, as We
have seen, by the operation of the
Previous Question and the other by its
consignment to the table.
BY the influence of these gentlemen
as there il no room to doubt, the official
report of the Conventions proceedings,
was so mutilated as to suppress the
truth so far as the Proclamation is con-
cerned.
The motive of this suppression il
sufficiently obvious. The gentlemen
did not dare to let the Republicans and
tie truly and Internationally loyal
Democrats of the county, know that
they had refused to approve or to allow
their convention to approve the Presi
dents Proclamation, providing for
emancipating the slaves Of the red
handed rebels, and cOnfscating
the very property" made property
by their own laws, which more than all
other, has enabled them to wage their
war again st the Nations life
There is Latin law maxim that "the
suppression of truth is equal to the ex-
preston of falsehood." We commend
the maxim to the consideration of the
Republican as well as Democratic man
ayers of the Ca.s County Union"
Convention of the the 9th day Of Sep
TENDER 1862.