The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1863-10-01

of blood was shed in South Carolina,
he replied, ".Then, by God ! he will
do it - And SO he would. They
might thank God that Buchanan was
not President at that time. n A voice,
I" That's so.p But from that period
downward, revolution had been rife in
that State. In 1856, the issue was
fairly drawn. Governor Wise, of Vir-
giuia, proclaimed that if Fremont was
elected President, he would seize Har,
pers' Ferry and dissolve the Union !!
In other words, he promised to do the
very thing for which, two years after
ward, he hanged John Brown for do
ing! AT this point a vast body Of
delegates came up, and the Senator bad
to stop talking 9dT .,i4id Liisnen q
f Buchanan and his traitors were then
elected Floyd, who has now gone to
bis account, was. the. Judas of the cab.
met. There was indeed but one patri-
OF IN it, and his name was Lewis Cass,
of Michigan! ICheerr.l All the rest
were traitors. Howell Cobb found
government securities 1872 in the mar
ket. He tried to destroy the Govern
rnent. He bought up its securities,
with, this object in view! Floyd rob-
bed the. Treasury of the rest-and We
bad no money 10 paythelcivil expenses
before the war broke out. That's How
Cobb aid his Share, SO far, in the de-
struction of the Government, !, He told
the New York brokers that the Gov
ernment credit was gone, and its secu-
rites not worth cent and when he
had done his worst to destroy the Union
and the Republic, he went South and
joined the rebels. A voice, God
d---d- him."] Floyd's history was
well known. In the Fall of $50 die
conspiIators, to whom he bad alluded,
thought the time had come to break up
the Union, in deadly earnest. They
went to the Charleston Convention to
accomplish their purpose, and sacrificed
Douglas at that time; they all knew
how, and what for. South Carolina
never came into the Congress of 1861
and '62. He and his friend, Senator
Doolittle were compelled to sit by these
Southern scoundrels day by day. and
week by week, and hear them declare
that the Union was gone forever.
What ought to have been done with
these men? Hang 'em, hang 'em.
Yes, that is what had ought to have
been done to them. But Buchanan
was in with the traitors. He said that
treason was bad thing = but then
it could not be helped. a voice Poor
Devil. D-d Buchanan. Hang the
old rascal. So they were put at liber-
" to inaugurate this rebellion. They
tried hard to encompass the life of Abe
Lincoln. There were 700 muskets
ready to do this service for the conspi-
rators. But they failed, because God
was on old Abe's side. There were
difficulties in Mr.. Lincoln's government
which they could not appreciate, which
10 one could appreciate; and they
he did-thank God and Abe
Llncoln, that we had United States
Government to-day. Then came the
of our armies and Bull
Run. Then the cry "On to Richmond"
that God who knew better about war
than we did, prevented us from going
there. If we had gone on to Rich
mond we might have crushed the re-
bellion, bot We should not have crushed
the cause of the rebellion. Now we
had our hands at the throat of the
cause /! But it took us long while to
do this. For eighteen months we had
a conservative policy. The:rebels were
our dear brothers /! aud we had to pro-
tect their niggers! We were now at
war with them in earnest. What was
the result of these eighteen months !?
We found ourselves not so well off as
We were at the beginning. Our armies
had been drove by them across the
Rappahannock. That's where we
stood Now, it took Mr.. Lincoln a
long time to inaugurate real war pol
icy. We had taken Donnelson at last
that was pretty good! and it was taken
by Illinois men chiefly = and there
never was western army which turned
It's back upon the rebels. Immense
Cheering. Then, Mr.. Lincoln, after
the battle of Antietam said, that our
armies should have all that was neces-
sary for their subsistence from the reb-
els, and as soon as we began to HURT
them, they began to FEEL it and to give
ooy! That proclamation of the Pres
ldent did ten fold more than ten armies
could have done to cripple the power,