The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1863-08-13
WHOLE NO. 277.I

in Georgia or Texas, which States ali
negroes fear. We thus act according
to law; the rebels do not. There are
not fifteen negroes in Mississippi, out
side OF the Federal lines, who can eat
thard bread. This is a positive fact !: oa
and if you were to take vote to day =
of the women and children in MIssis-
sippi and Louisiana, they would declare
empbatically that they want no more y
negro property. They were sadly de- -
moralized by the rebel army, and our :
army has made them-no better. The =
institution Of slavery is utterly worth
less, whether the rebels gain their inde-
lprndence or not. s2T
There is great change taking place
in the issues presented to you The
test will hereafter be, were you loyal !?
And men will be found who will be =
compelled to defend their loyalty. II
was so after the Revolutionary War,
and it always will be so ;; for only men
who are true in war can be depended
on. Some ask: Why should we =
prosecute this war unless. we can re- =
store the Government as it was?
They say If we believed we could ?
get the Government back we would be-
in favor of prosecuting the war. Well,
who proposes to change the constitu- =
ton? Is it the army? Are the peoplef
Is anybody Sighting for the Constitutions.
as it is not? Well, but we want it. :
just as it was. Well, how was that |?
South Carolina belonged to us-waso
part of our country. Laws were made
for all, and all were under the laws.
When she is whipped and comes back,
won't we have the Constitution as it is,
and the Government as it was, except
that somebody will be badly licked ?.
May be you want something else. May
be you want the people as they were.
If you. want Davis, and Toombs, and
old Slidell, and all those helfhounds
and traitors back inthe Government, Z
am opposed to it. SEQ sa ei a-& -
There is where propose to switch
off. So help nae God / am for hanging
them as soon as caught. .~
1t is deception. We can't make
things just as they were. We cans
get the country as it. was. Will the
lives of our boys be restored; and the:
TRAITORS too; houses and railroads re-.
built? We cannot have everything
Just as it was, but we can have every
essential feature. We can have things
just as they ought to be. If this won't
satisfy yon, ! can't help. il. iss.,b
But the seeded States must come
back somehow. Half Governments.
are little better than none,
How are the armies of the South
made up? The officers are all rich and
shareholders, while the privates are all
poor men, who never owned slave in.
their lives. They have been forced
into this rebellion. Any one in the
South owning 81 negroes is free from
the draft; for the poor man there was
no exemption. And these are the men
that fight the battles. When you 60
to plantation in Mississippi and ask
an old negro where Major, Colonel Or
Squire is-all have some title-is In
the army? No, massa, he gwine of
to Georgia cause he heerd the Yankees
was comm. Where is the overseer?
He is in the army.
Nine out of ten Of the people would
vote to-day 10 come back to the Union
if the iron heel was removed from their
necks. But now they can't vote bay
onets will not let them. Wealthy men
are away in Georgia, Cuba and France,
to luxuriate, while the poor devils must
stay at home and fight their battles, and
have matters all fixed up when they
come back. ~ A..sa b.
;. The rebel privates are hardly al
lowed to speak to their officers. Humid
reds have come to me to ask questions
i about the North-about labor, TODD.
etc., and hundreds had begged him for
passes to enable them to escape to the
North. They will come, depend upon
it. Hardly any of these poor men have
been paid, and their families are suffer
ing from want. And now, my friends.
let me say to you that l think the rebel
f lion is on its last legs:
In regard to paroling the rebels at
yicksburg, let me say to you that
think it was the best policy. By this
policy most of the troops had scattered.
never to be collected again. Had we
held them, nearly all would have been
restored to the Confederacy by ex-
change. Many of them wanted to join