The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1864-03-10
Correspondence of the Cass County Re.
publican.

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of the Cass County Re.
publican.
WASHINGTON, March LIST, 1854.
Spring has opened upon us he.e with
a snow storm melting into rain the
first snow we have had since early in
January, and the first rain of any
amount since fall. The snow fell last
night and this morning to the depth of
two or three inches, and for week,
ending a week ago, the weather was
cold enough to do honor to our Upper
Peninsula; the mercury going down
almost to zero on several nights. With
this exception and the six or eight days
of cold when you had your excessive
cold early in January, the weather of
the whole winter here has been an al
most continuous Indian Summer );
giving US for nearly the whole time,
the calm atmosphere, mild temperature
and soft yellow sunlight of that most
delicious Sabbath Season of Nature.
Notwithstanding the paroxisms Of
winter last night and the one ending a
week ago, the snow drops and crocusses
in the capital grounds were in blossom
yesterday, and to day are bowling be-
meath their burthens of snow, from
which, however, the compassionate rain
is fast relieving them. This day year
ago, / recollect, their blossoms were
thus smothered with snow; and on each
of the other years in which have been
in this City, I have found them in
bloom as early as the first day of March.
Hon. Charles Sumner, chairman of
the Select Committee of the Senate
son Slavery and the treatment of
Freedmen" to whom was referred the
numerous petitions presented to that
body for the repeal of the Fugitive
Slave acts, which disgrace the National
Statute books, has reported responsive
ly to the prayer of the petitioners.
His report urges the unconstitution-
atty as well as the barbarisns of the
acts, and is accompanied by bill for
their unqualified repeal. That the con-
stitution gives no authority for any such
acts, was always admitted by Calhoun
and his pupils; and by Daniel Webster
until the Slave Power in 1850, subject
ed his mighty intellect to its devilish
naesmerisna and made him think and
talk as it willed."
1t may be safely predicted that the
bill will pass each House with only The
votes of the copperheads and a portion
of the border State Union men against
it. Certainly it ought to, for the act of
1850, is an aggregation of Legislative
scoundrelism, in other words, just such
a statute as was TO be expected from
the "traitor knave," Mason of Vir-
ginia, who drew it up; whilst the act
of 1898 is in principle no better, both
being for the capture, conviction with
out jury and sentence to hard labor for
life, acith sentence to be erecuted upOn
pOSterity also, of men aud women
guilty of no crime and just as much en-
titled TO liberty and the pursuit OF
happiness" as those for whose pecuni
airy benefit they are thus captured con-
victed and sentenced.
Copperhead resolutions relating to
the war and all the multifarious ques-
tons connected with it are still cpl
demic in Congress. One of these was
introduced yesterday by Long, of one
of the Cincinnati Districts, for the ap-
pointment of " Franklin Pierce of New
Hampshire, Willard Fillmore of New
York aud Thomas Ewing of Ohio and
such other persons as the President
might select" as commissioners to me-
gotiate peace with the rebels.
Were it left to the President to make
up a batch of commissioners for that
purpose, headed by Franklin Pierce
and Willard Fillmore, he would, in order
to render it entirely homogeneous
strike out the name of" Thomas Ewing
of Ohio" who is no traitor to either his
party, his country or his. God, and in
sert the names of James Buchanan o.
Pennsylvania and John Tyler, Benedict
Arnold and Judas :Iscariot of Pande
monium.
The resolution was rejected over
whelmingly, only twenty-five copper
heads being fools enough TO vote for it
In no wise discouraged by this result
! Pendleton, another Copperhead SEN
hither by another Cincinnati District
stirred up ahe offensive remains of tbt
executed culprit, Vallandigham, by the