The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1863-12-24

But the conspirators reckoned
without their host" The fraud of ex-
Guiding 90 such pretence, members,
the fact and fairness of whose election
nobody pretended TO doubt, was SO
gross and undisguised that various Of
the less deprayed of the Democrats
refused Ito engagevin it; though still
sufficiently depraved to countenance
that for smuggling in the Louisiana il.
Tlegitimates.N The result was that when
EEtheridge omitted to call the names of
the members sought to be DISTINGUISHED
and announced his refusal to enter
them upon tire roll, there was still a
majority of some twenty upon the sue
cessive motions to admit them to their
seats. uvs
The overlooking tides of the fall
elections have swept within d the Ad-
ministration lines so large a proportion
Of those elected as "Unlon men,, and
"War Democrats that upon q full
and strictly party vote there is q relia-
bic administration majority of twenty
to twentylfyea This yisn practically .
- I
Republican majority and will be 80
nomlnally before the session ia half
closed !. and will probably be increased
b, the addition of q considerable num-
Der of the remaining sMWara Demo
Gratis" who have sense, enough to see
that they must cut themselves loose
from the dead carcass Of slavery or be
buried with it in, the suicides's grave
beneath the Highway of civilization, in
which with stake through its, heart,
it is to rot in is everlasting infamy.
Indeed, the combination of factions
claiming the name, of democratic
Party is shown by the votes of us
members of Congress already given,
to have been by its own defeats at the
polls, and the defeats of its "Southern
brethren" and late political allies in
the field, to have been utterly democrat.
lied or utterly tdemoralized as those
brethren and allies have been by their
recent defeats by the Republicans and
"War Democrats" under Grant, Hook
er, Thomas and Burnside.
The fillibustering and guerrilla fight,
of which they were SO full during all
the last Congress, seem to be all GU,
of them. Then they could have fill
clustered day and night for, weeks to
stave off. such votes as those by which
their rascally conspiracy for electinQ
the officers and usurpiug control of the
organization, of, the House, was defea
ted. II Now, they submitted to the rule
of the majority with the: exemplary
resignation Of tho va'7nint whose
timely manifestation ofzthat virtue en-
abled Captain Scott 10 save his anu
nition. ea.i saR boat e'I--.H o.t
And with their pluck thoy seem to
have lost also everything like political
discipline. They could not bring
themselves to any thing like unanimity
i'm their votes in their canvass or in the
House, upon their candidates for the
Offices They could not even unite
upon candidate for the Spcakership
A similar exhibition of their demon
alizations waafforded in their votes OF
Monday upon the resolution introduced
by Fernando Wood for sending Com
missioners TO Richmond to negotiate
with the rebel Government" for {
peace. Only fifty-nine voted for it
That number, indeed, comprises about
all the Copperheads proper of the
House. The rest of those elected a,
Democrats, are yet within the posi-
bilities of Saving grace" and more OF
less of them will be sooner or later
finding their way within the uncondi
tionally loyal lines. 59a ma ]. b. C..
.gEa szEt Bgs
% dl2Iel Proclamation. "7s1i
| Hherens. The President of the IIni