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

been continued with even increasing
bitterness, and that in addition to the
warfare of the rebels proper, he has
had to encounter the hostiities not less
malignant and scarcely less effective.
of large proportion of that same
democratic party?
Do they duly consider all else he has
been compelled to do? He had to
evoke navy from the forest and the
mine /; to gather armies from the farm
and the workshop to supply both with
arms not from the arsenals which Bu-
chanan's Secretary of w ar had robbed,
but by importations from Europe and
manufacturing at home.
A navy, the most powerful of the
world, has shot out from our shlp-yards,
lis blockading three thousand miles of
rebel coast, navigating three thousand
miles of what were rebel rivers, and
has captured and destroyed hundreds
of rebel craft.
Armies, the most powerful and best
appointed of the world, have been
marshalled at his call and, aided by
the navy, have wrested from the rebels
more than half their original domain.
Slavery, the words giant fend, lies
crashed and dying under the blows he
has given it, is it claimed that he did
not strike them soon enough nor make
them heavy enough? The fend had
for many years, been -subjecting many
millions in even the free States, to a
sort of devilish n,esmerisna, taking po-
session of their intellects and con-
sciencies and suborning all their facul-
ties to his internal purposes; making
statesmen proclaim him an indispensi-
BILE estate of the Government, an as
sault upon which, were treason insti-
eating reverend Doctors of Divinity to
cannonize him as being ordained by
Heaven, whom to strike, were sacri-
Iege; and the whole Democratic party
to PROSTATE itself in his hideous pres
ence and before his rocking affairs with
all the devotion of loyalty and reli-
gion combined.
Even whilst leading the rebellion he
had created, his besotted devotees, in
Guiding the McClelans and Porters in
command of'our armies, continued to
insist that his divinity should still be
confessed, and still be allowed to hedge
him round with immunity; prophessy-
ing that if he were profaned by hos
tile touch, recruiting would cease, and
our armies already in the field dissolve
in nonorol don, conservation
Mr.. Lincoln struck the monster as
soon and as severely as he supposed
the renovated sentiment of army and
country would allow.
Under all the circumstances, then, is
there any cause of complaint that he
has not done more and better? Is it
! not rather a matter of congratulation
that be has done so much and done it
so well?
He put his hand to the helm of the
ship of State when mutincers had dis
man,led her and run her amongst the
breakers, and when the heavens were
overcast with portents dark and appal-
ling enough TO paralyze any heart save
one cast in the mould in which the
hearts of heroes are made. He has
rescued her from the more imminent
perils and therein given assurance that
if his hand be continued upon her helm,
she shall yet again sail on with all her
canvass swelling in the prosperous
breeze, and the old flag afoat at her
mast head "with not stripe effaced
nor single star obscured.'
1t is best to change the pilot?
Rather, is it not better that all, subor-
dinatc officers and all hands, rally
around him and sustain him at his post,
until his great duty shall have been
fully discharged =? J. b. G.