The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1863-04-02
Our Duty as Citlzens.n


There are "TRAIroRs among us. {"
They are already organized against
those who are pouring ont their life
and treasure for the rescue of human
liberty in the world. Like all traitors
in times ofwar, they are crying PEACE.
They lie, garble extracts, misquote his
tory, and wax warm with sympathy for
I" their Southern brethren," and anon,
for our bleeding, brave youths who are
up to their knees in Rappahannock
mud. They incite lMo6s, dread anar.
chy, expect the day of retribution is
coming when they will get mad and
kill some of their neighbors. They
talk and pirate much about honorable
arbitration or compromise, as the true
way to settle our national difficulties.
Now, ask, what is {" our duty as oit-
zens " in this exigenoy? Shall we de-
fend our birthright-the right to be
men, or shall we submit to become
slaves to the miserable wretches who
have brought all this ruin upon us !?
Facts may be very simple things, but
they are sometimes very stubborn.
Aristocrats, at the South and at the
North, oan never write on the page of
history that this is not the most unpre-
voked and inhuman rebellion that was
ever inaugurated. 1t will stand, bla-
zoned in characters of living light on
the page of history, as long-planned
and deliberate attack on human lib.
erty; and the men who have enjoyed
the blessings of this free government
and now eat dirt by asking the attack
ing aristocrats if they will not desist /;
and when told "No; we hate you
you are mudsills; WE are chivalry, we
have 6lood,-you are only fit for slaves;
we will have no peace until yon pesti.
lent brood of May-Flower descend
ents are ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS crying
peace" " compromise" ar6itra.
ton, ARE SO contemplate, so void of
a decent respect for themselves, such
unmitigated rascals, that it is high
time that every lover of his family, of
his race, of human liberty, should bold
ly stand forth the champion of right
and democracy, and drive the dirty,
officiating herd into the Southern
Confederacy, or the ocean.
We owe to ourselves, to our chill
dren, and to humanity, the duty of
conquering this rebellion, and preserv-
ing this fair land, the heritage of free
men. Rebels and traitors can prate as
much as they please about the uncon-
stitutional acts of the Administration
the acts infringing personal rights
there is but one issue now, and that is,
"Shall the Aristocrats conquer us, or
shall We conquer them, and maintain
our freedom, and no mans Press or
personal liberty who favors our Enc
mics, will stand in the way of our sue
cess. Men, like REDFIELD, who de-
nounce the Republican party as aristo-
cratic, are fools or knaves: their cant
and slang about Massachusetts,, only
show their sympathy with the Southern
oligarchs, and will rebound upon their
own heads in the day of reckoning.
The two classes that are struggling for
the overthrow of this Government
the anti-law anarchyites, of whom
REDFIELD is type, and the Free
Press an organ, and the Aristocrats,
led by JEFF DAVIS, and backed by the
Tories of England-must be crushed
we have the means--let us use them
Already the shout of Con SPEED comes
up from the laboring and the middle
classes of England; the people Of
France, Italy, and the Fatherland, are
cheering us on: shall we sit idle close
our ears to their cry, and our eyes to
the signs of the times, and see the gov
eminent that is the Day-Star of the
World, destroyed? or shall we cast
aside, as being unworthy of Men, all
this sickly sentimentality about blood
shed and suffering, shoulder arms, for
ward march, straight upon our foes
the foes of mankind?
Citizens of Michigan do not be de
ceived. This PEACE cry means sub
Observation-Disclosures to the Southern
Chivalry-that DULLES and swaggers
that carries pistols and bowie knives
that shoots sick prisoners of war in
their dirty dungeons; that brags of itt
blood, and is not ashamed of its ignor
anoe; that is inhuman, brutal, and
deals in souls. The peace cry is sub
mission to such class as ruling arts
tocracy. Rise, then, down with all
such unpatriotic twaddle, and rally in
one unbroken mass for the defense of