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


tain class of politician, of our owr
party, an apparent desire to get up 8
feud in the Union ranks, on the ques
stion of the Presidency. We occasion
? ally see an out-cropping of this spirit
in that peculiar class of public jour
mails, which approach every question on
their hands aud knees and in solemn
whispers. vide, the New York indie
pendent and the New York Tribune,
which, without daring to attack the
Administration of Mr.. Lincoln boldly,
indulgeain sophistical and plausible es-
says, hypocritically worded, cunningly
framed, and designed, as is evident, for
an object that their editors are az yet
afraid to announce with candor and
manfulness. Those who have watched
political events and political men du-
ring the past three years, need not be
told that the politicians who are thus
preparing to open TRADE against Mr..
Lincoln, have personal grievances. TO
CRAFTY, personal disappointment to
avenge, and that the motive of their
conduct has its origin either in disap.
pointed ambition or in whetted appe-
ititezfor something they deem worth
striving for, even at the risk of bav-
ing their consistency andsi ncerity of
principle questioned.
- We do not admire this dog-in-the
manager style of political strategy. 1t
is not manful, and, in this case, it is
not honorable. If there is anything in
the policy or acts of the Administration
that these nen do not approve, why do
thew not come out boldly, if they want
TO come ont at ali and name the obiec-
tons? Why insipuate, through long
winded essays on generalities, that OF
which they dare not openly accuse the
President or his Administration a
sneaking opponent, who creeps IN the
bushes and lodges around fence-cor.
.ners, is the most to be despised as well
as dreaded.
5 As regards the candidate to be
nominated by the Union National Con-
vention, for the Presidency, we are
willing to leave the decision to the pat
riotic, loyal masses whose duty it will
be to appoint delegates to that Conven,
ton. We have confidence in the intel
lgence and good heart of the people
in such a matter, and they will be care
full, under present circumstances. not
to permit set of scheming and sore
headed politicians either to pull wool
over their eyes, or TO controle the Ma
tional Convention in an unpopular di.
rectiou. Those who are afraid of the
people are not in sympathy with them,
and ought therefore to have no con-
trolling influence in great political
events, in which the people are more
deeply and vitality concerned than are
the selfish, Office hungry politicians.
Let the peoble, in their honest regerd
for the national good, decide this Pres
idential question for themselves; and |
let those who are convinced that the
policy and measures Ofthe Administra-
ton, in reference to the national cause
and the cause of freedom, have been
and are wise, just and calculated to
result noths publication, peace and
permanent restoration of the Republic,
see to it that no specious schemes or
underhand operations shall be success
fully 'practiced to the prejudice Of the
present incumbent of the Executive
chair, or his Administration. The pub
lie acts and measures Of that Admins
tration have, as we believe, been con-
ceived in the spirit OF wisdom, honor,
and devoted patriotism, and no one
approving those acts and measures
should, even by silence, encourage any
attempt, come whence it may, to heap
obloquy upon the just men at the head
of the nation, or to detract, even in the
least degree, from the merits of their
Administration. lfeI
If there are those who honestly pre-
fer some other man for the Presidency,
instead of Mr.. Lincoln, during the next
four years, we have no disposition to
question that preference. They Rave an
unquestioned right to prefer whomso-
ever suits them best. But they cannot,
by any honorable method Of reasoning,
justify themselves, as Republicans, Alb