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Augusta, Q*a.:
MONDAY MORNING, OCT. 2, 1948.
Abolition of the Executive Veto.
The Mobile Register is distressed because
the destructive Whigs are about to amend the
Federal Constitution, and expunge the Veto
power of the President. Do console yourself
with the assurance that it is only the shameless
abuse of this high prerogative that the Whigs
would abolish. European monarchy and A
merican democracy spring from a common
principle, and worship ala common shrine.
Polk nad Cass Democracy.
The administration of Mr. Polk began with
some ten millions of dollars in the public trea
sury. It will end with a national debt not much
below one hundred millions.
“ Strange sueh a difference should be,
’Twixt tweedle djm and Tweedledee.”
<4 Gen. Cass says : *lam no slaveholder. I never
have been. I never shall be. I deprecate its exist
enze in principle, and pray for its abolition every
where, where this can be done justly and peaceably
and easily for all parties.’ ”
“ Mr. Fillmore says : ‘ I regard slavery as an evil,
but one with which the National Government have
nothing to do. By the Constitution, the whole power
over that question is vested in the several Stales
where the institution is tolerated.’ ”
We beg the reader to contrast the views of
Gen. Cass and Mr. Fillmore, as expressed in
the above (paragraphs, and determine what
degree of unblushing effrontery it requires of
any Southern man to say that Fillmore is tin
ound on the Slavery question, while he vindi
cates and supports Cass.
Tricks of the Cass Democrats.
Mr. Saunders, a supporter of Mr. Cass, in
Alabama, writes the following letter to the
Boston Post — the Cass organ in Boston. The
letter is designed for a Northern latitude, and
we suppose has its effect there. We have no
doubt, says the Apalachicola Advertiser, but
Mr. A. G. Saunders, like a true locofoco,
would certify exactly the reverse in the South,
to what he does in his letter to the Boston Edi
tor. But what are we to think of the honesty
of the Southern Democrat who would go out o
his way to injure Gen. Taylor at the North, by
urging against him his devotion to Southern
interests ? Read the letter and reflect. The
“ Barnburner” says:
Let any one who is simple enough to believe that
Gen. Taylor would not veto the Wilmot Proviso, read
the following letter to the Boston Post, from a corres
pondent in Alabama.
Eutaw, Ala., Aug. 8, 1843.
The fact that Rome of the Whig papers in Massa
chusetts, aid in other states in New England, are in
sisting that Gen. Taylor is opposed to the extension of
slavery in the newly acquired territory, is looked up
on here in the south ns the best joke that has occur
red since the presidential canvass opened !
There is no more doubt entertained here in relation
to the views and opinionsof Gen. Taylor on this sub
ject, ami what would be his course of action in relation
thereto, than there is that the Mississippi river emp
ties itself into the Gulf of Mexico.
If any persons in New England, or elsewhere, are
weak enough to be induced to suppose that Gen.
Taylor would desert his Southern friends and his own
interest, in hisactionon this subject, they may unde
ceive themselves at once. We all know him to be
“ heart and soul” with us on that all important mat
ter. Very truly yours, &c.
Albert G. Saunders.
“Evasive Nonsense.”
The Western papers are charging A. O. P.
Nicholson, of Tenn., to whom Gen. Cass’
celebrated letter was addressed, with having de
clared after reading it, that “it was d—d evasive
nonsense,” in which it is said Col. Jefferson
Davis. Senator from Mississippi, fully concur
red. Mr. Nicholson has been asked again and
again to respond to the charge—but at the la
test dates nothing had been heard from him on
the subject. Vet, notwithstanding, these opin
ions of the Nicholson letter, the Southern de
mocracy affect to rely upon it as the guarantee
of Gen. Cass’ soundness on the slavery ques
tion.
To show how just and impartial was the
comment ofMr. Nicholson, we invite the read
ers attention to the following notice of a Speech
of Mr. Watts, a Taylor Elector of Alabama:
“One of his most happy comments (says the
correspondent of the Alabama Journal) was on
that sentence in the Nicholson letter in which
Cass says, ‘‘he is impressed with an opinion
that a change is going on in his own mind as
well as in that of the public ” Mr. Watts dis
sected this sentence and forcibly presented to
usthecoir <tinterpretation. Heretofore we
ha<l entertained the belief that Cass had actually
taken a decisive Htntv.l ~i
the slavery question, but Mr Watts pointedly
drew our attention to Cass’s declaration in
which he says that he (Cass) is impressed with
the opinion, that a change is going on in his
mind, &c.,onti-e subject of slavery in the ter
ritories. Only impressed with nn opinion that a
change was going on in his mind, not that
there was a change, not even that In* had an o
pinion. that a change was going on. Ac ,but he
(Cass) was impressed with an opinion that n
change was going on in his mind. Mr. Cas«
has never informed us whether his mind has
labored through a change or not Mr. Wafts
created much feeling on this subject, and poin
ted out the absurdity, nay, the suicidal conse
quence of following the phantom of a name,
ever so good and pure in its inception, when it
is made the executioner of its own death.”
A Chance for the Federal Union.
The following notice, which appeared in the
New York papers, is worthy the attention of
the Federal Union :
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD!
KEEP IT BECOME THE PEOPLE,
That 1 will pay the above reward to any person that
can show that Gen. Cass—in any speech, letter, word
or conversation—is in favor himself, or approves of
any action on the part of the General Government,
for extending Slavery into Territory now free. As
the charge is so often made, let us have the proof.
Syracuse, Sept. 13, 1848. J. H. COLVIN.
Aa the Federal Union asserts that the ••evi
dence of Gen. Cass’s being in favor of the
extension of Slavery, is as strong as contirma
lion of proof from holy writ.” we suggest to that
journal the propriety of submitting the •• evi
dence” to Mr. Colvin and claiming the thou
sand dollars at the earliest possible day.
I.cttrr from Mr, Clay.
The New York papers, of Wednesday, con
tain the following letter from Henry Clay, to
the Executive Committee of the Whig Gener
al Committee of that citv, in relation to the
recent course of the Clay Whigs of that section.
Ashland. Sept. 20, 184$.
/•cn/Zcmen I Lave received your official letter
as members vt the Executive Committee ut the De
imvratic Whig General Committee of the city and
county of New York, ami I take pleasure m an
swering it.
Never, from the period of the decision of the Phila
delphia I envention, against my nomination as a can
didate for the Presidency, have I been willing; nor
am I now, to have my name associated with that
office. I would not accept a nomination if it was
tendered to me; ami it is my unaffected desire that
no further use should be made of inv name in con
nection with th *t office. I have seen, therefore, with
rvKret. movements in various quarters, havin’ for
their object, to present me as a candidate to the Ame
rican people; there movementa have been made with
out any approbation from me.
In iti<* pcrornt romp>ical.<i .tale ol the I’icsi.h-ntial '
•iKti n.-.'h-y i-mim. >» mv of mien, be attended with '
any public g-xxl, and may tend to the increase of the
.m.l il,e cxwpmlM. ..i pin,.--. |
" ! 1 “V lilte much. without reserve, I must i
neveilhelew add hall f.. 1 pnitbuml gratitude to such
sit my warns-hearte.l and taithful Irtends a. continue
lomJulsr the vain h.-pe el placing me m the oth-e .st I
t h.' Magistrate the United States- an.l that I
timber think it j Ist nor pilhtc, to w.gmatise them as
laelioni.ts, nor Iv any other uppn.bn.sus epithet. '
Among them I rvewgni-e names whiehh.ee been sen '
sbalmgmshe.l tor ability, lt< devotion to the Win’.,
cause, and tor ardent patriotism. ” I
You advert, w tih entire truth, to th , 'lh.leb- 1
a New > «k
iii the I hUadeiphu convention, to pommfe mv ami.
nation as a candidate t.. r the Providence. I ini ui ,t '
thankful to them, and shall ever recollect their ever
b.-ns, with nrafiraad arautude. With g . .
• »>», your friend an.i olabiienl servant
u ei ay
Cl al Wittes IV N«w-Yosk._T
cf the so-called Whigs in New-York on Tues
day night, resulted tn a resolution to support
Gen Taylor. The same disposition is mani
fested tn other parts of the State : so tnat the
" h.'g party, once more united, will bear down
all opposition tn November.
We subjoin the following from the Baltimore
Patriot :
talhy; ta-o I.mt.— The Albany Evening
Journal pub: she, a card front nineteen letd
mg < lay \\ tugs of that city, who were prtnci-
the recen- movement to nominate Mr.
In thi- card they avow a determination
to abandon all ,d. ~ brmgtng out Mr C ay.
and to uii t’t* ht» lYt-.v t* -s i,
Tivlor. neoc *lurth m support of General
Mr Clay, who heU nu lhf r„p ad ,,|.
phis nomination, in which hr avow, i
mmatjou to go cordxlly tn;.. the su'pport’of
Gen laylor.
I e throe we have the cheering news that the !
meet tig of the Im nd- of M Clay. M tn N
Y ork last night. resolved to support Gen. Tav
Ttwakws are right aad brightoatag.”
From the Macon Journal S' Messenger.
THE SOUTH BETRAYED
OR
The identity- between the friends of Gen.
Cass, the Free Soilers, Barnburners and Abo
litionists, exposed and proved by Documents of
unquestionable authority.
The present is a time when Southern men
m<l slaveholders ought to be cautions and cir
cumspect in their political action. Much de
pends upon their course The country is in a
crisis. The rights of Southern men are in dan
ger. The North, almost without distinction ol
party, are opposed to us. 'They declare .that
Southern men shall not be allowed to carry
their property in Slaves to the new Territories
acquired by the common blood and common
treasure of the entire nation The south will
not, and cannot, of course, submit to such de
gradation and dishonor. She must insist upon
tier rights or they will be forever lost The ex
elusion of slavery from the new Territories will
be a death blow to the institution in the Stales,
ft matters not how that exclusion may be ef
fected. whether by Congressional action, as
contemplated by the Wilmot Proviso and Mr.
Van Buren, or by the direct prohibition of the
peop/e r/fMe Territories, act ingin their unorganiz
ed capacity as proposed by Gen. Cass. No
man at the South would think of voting for any
person who should avow himself in favor of the
Wilmot Proviso. The object of the preset::
article is to convince the thoughtful and
reflecting portion of the Southern people,
4iat General Cass is less reliable than Mr. Van
Buren himself, and that his positions are more
objectionable and more ruinous to Southern
rights than are those of the ultra Free Sod man
of New England. That the reader may the
more clearly understand Gen. Cass true feel
ings and opinions upon the subject of slavery,
we purpose to review briefly all that he is
known to have uttered or written or done on
the subject.
Gen. Cass Presenting Abolition Petitions.
On the 68th page of the Senate Journal,
1845 6, is the following entry:
A/r. Cass presented the petition ofcitizens of Mich
igan, remonstrating against the admission of Texas
into the Union, with a Constitution tolerating
slavery.”
On page 134 is the following entry:
“.Ur. Cass presented a petition of citizens of tliL
State of Michigan, remonstrating again st the adm ie
sion of Texas into the Union, with a Constitution tos-
ERATING SLAVERY.” £
The former was presented on the 13th o
January, 1846. and the latter on the 4th of Feb
ruary thereafter The joint resolution admit
ting Texas into the Union as a State, with a
Constitution tolerating Slavery, passed Con
gress about the 2411 i December, 1845, and was
approved the 28th of that month. So Texas
was then in the Union, as a State, and yet we
find Mr. Cass introducing two petitions, aimed
directly at her domestic institutions!
Y’os ! We find this Democratic Candidate for
the Presidency, then a Senator in Congress—
representing the sovereignty of the States—
bound to do ah in his power to protect their
rights—AFTEß Terns had been admitted into the
Union as a State, with a Constitution which
Congress has no power to alter, amend or dis
turb PRESENTING PETITIONS WHICH PROTEST-
ED AGAINST ONE <»F HER RIGHTS CONFERRED BY
that Constitution ’
Gen. Casu Praying for Abolition.
While Gen. Cass was Minister to France, in
1842, he wrote his celebrated paper on the
Right of Search The London Edition of (hat
work is now before us. hi it he uses the fol
lowing remarkable declaration, which is the
more to be deprecated because made in a
Foreign land. No Southern man can certainly
approve of it, or vote for the man who uttered
it We quoted from page 66. where Gen.
Cass, speaking of himself, says :
“We are no slave-holder. We never have been.
We never shall be. We deprecate its existence in
principle and Pray for its Abolition Every where
where this can be effected jistly and peaceably and
safely for both parties.”
Such were the views of Gen. Cass in 1842
He was then, if he spoke the truth, "opposed to
slavery upon principle and prayed for its aboli
tion every where." We of the South want no
such man for President. We believe the insti
tution of slavery to be a good one both morally
and politically, both for the master and the ser
vant We are in favor of its extension to all
territories where it can he profitably introduced
and we Know that no honest man who is "op
posed to it on principle and who prays for its abo
lition' cun \uissib\y tulhvr lo.vor its extension
or defend our rights under the constitution.
The opinions of Gen Cass, then, in 1842.
were not such as Southern men could approve
of. He was not then such an one as we could
have, with confidence, entrusted our rights to
I* he any better now I Let us see
Gen. Cass In fa vor of I lie Wilmot Proviso.
As we have said, the North are opposed to
the l ights of the South, and allege that slavery
shall lie excluded from the New Territories of
California and New Mexico. Several plans
have been deviled to effect this exclusion—
One plan is by the Wilmot Proviso. We will
now prove Gen ('ass to have been,at one time,
in favor of this plan.
At the first Session. 29th Congress. Mr. Polk
asked Congress t«» appropriate Three Millions
of dollars to enable bi n more eflectuallv to no
gutiMie. or purchase a peace with Mexico In
the House of Representatives, containing a
majority of some seventy Democrats, an amend
ment was proposed and carried, providing
that in any territory to be acquired slavery
should nut be tolerated The bill came to the
Senate on the morning of its adjournment.
When Senator Davis of Massachusetts, took
the floor ami sooke against it until the hour of
adjournment arrived No vote was taken.—
Gen Cass was at that time ihe open and avow
ed advocate of the Wilmot Proviso.
Testimony of Senator Miller.
Senator Miller of New Jersey, gives the fol
lowing statement of farts which may be found
in Houston's Senate Debates, page 755, viz :
“As soon as Air D iris had taken his seat, (ten.
Cass, came over to this sideofthe Senate, and with
much earnestness siid, in the p estneeof the Sen
ators, that he regretted much that Air. Davis had
by his Speech prevented the rote from being taken.
'lhathe (lien. Lass) and every Democratic Sena
tor from thef'ee <Sfa/cs, would hare voted to sustain
the Proviso; that Air. Allen would hate ltd of
and all the rest would have followed ; that he was
very sorry th d they had been deprived of the op
portunity of riding upon it ; that it would have
settled the question, and Gov. Davis was responsi
ble for defeating that result."
Here we find Gen. Cass, still opposed to
slavery upon principle., and deprecating the con
duct of Mr Davis because hr had not allowed
him an opportunity to vote in favor of a pro
vision which would forever have excluded
every Southern Slaveholder from the territory
to be acquired under the treaty.
Testimony of Mr. Ratlilmii,
Mr. Rathbun of New Y ork, a political asso
date of Gen. Cass, in a speech made at the
I ’lira Contention, thus confirms the statement
of Mr. Miller in regard to the opinions of Gen
Cass upon the Wilmot Proviso in 1846. He
said:
“I propose to inquire briefly into the views and
feelings of that Senator in the month of August, 1816.
1“ learned them from his own lips, on the day dial
Congress adjourned, and al the time th it Senator
Ikavis ot Massachusetts, spoke up to the adjourn
ment of the Senate on the YY’ihnot Proviso. 1 met
the Senator al ihe rai road depot in Washington, and
rode near to him, and conversed fl rely with him be
tween that place and Baltimore. The Senator ap
peared somewhat excited ; spoke freely and with a
£«*»d deal ol energy on the subject of the ‘ Proviso.’
lie staled to me ‘that every Northern Democratic
Senator had agreed lo vote for it, and but for Mr Da
vis’ speech w mid have voted tor it before Ihe ad
journment.’ 1 expressed as much regret as he did,
but not precisely tor the same reason. / desire the
reco d- he the popular applause. He said he never
regretted anything- m >re than the failure to recon!
the votes ol Senators. Indeed, sir. this was the
principal topic of conversation at Baltimore. This,
Mr. President, continued to be his language all the
way to Michigan, as I understand.’’
Gen. Casi Quivcriiig in the Wind.
Thus stood Gen. Cass until the commence
ment of the 2d session of the same Congress,
when Mr. Rathbun alleges that lie began to
suspect him of an intention to desert the Pro
viso party. He mentioned his fears to .Mr.
Brinkerhoff of Ohio, a warm personal and po.
li.ic.tl friend of Gen Cass, and at Brinkerhoff's
suggestion they called in company to see the
then Senator Die mil ect was broached.—
(. ass thought it premature—better give it the
go-by this session; nothing to be gained hv
pressing it now udi.-ient unto the dav is the
evil thereof R uhbun said :•• that there were
important reason- for pressing that question
to a vote in both branches, which probably h id
not occurred to Gen Cass • • • \; e|]
Cass replied. • fM. it it comes to the role, I u>u
tetz/i goa. you kxoic "
During the session and on the Ist of Marell.
I'l.. the Ihree Million Bill came from the
House to the Senate, with tile Wilmot proviso.
It Was moved to insert it. Cass opposed the
amendment lor the following, among other
reasons :
• rib- presi ni is no proper lime tor the rntroduc
> twn taio the country and into Con tress of an excit
lag t ip.-- tending to divide as. when.mr' united ever-
• ,1S ‘ to prosecute the evistmg war.
"it » I! beqmie in season to provide for" the gov
erawentofiemtory, not yet acqmred from tbr,,- n
• «r«m.*fi*rw.sh.U . . J
" >:» pxssvce would caiuioly pren i.t the a.-iu-.
L .
and JrltM- .ni by r». c verv , v . : ir-- to -
Here hwi i L c seen that Gen. Casx does not
declare hunself ;ic.un«t the principle of the pro
rise, but opposes it on the ground oferprdun
rj solely. He *oes for the war and the three
millions. He desires first to procure the terri
tory. and intimates that it will then be time
enough to exclude slavery from h ■ V/hen
G*n Cass bad cone'udeii. .Mr M iler addressed
the Senate and a conversiLon ensued bet ween
them, which is tbiis reported m the W.ishm-’-
too I'mun of Tuesday . March 2d. 1?47 :
Mr M ier eipreored great surprse a? the change
n e ;nen:s ot the Seoater troca Michigan, wfw
b ..' c * r ' •• l ’**e «a*a: oiMMBf • - reed-xn
“ ' r.hwew, <m wbreh be was a J‘<4a*,Ti.abed
'* "s* L-wsr Ue v
HiZmot Parise.
and, as no reason had been stated lor the change, he
(Mr. M.) could not refrain from the expression of his
surprise.”
Mr. Cass said that the course of the Senator from
New-Jersey was most extraordinary. Last year he
( Mr. C.) should have voted for the proposition
had'd come up. But circumstances had altogether
changed. The honorable Senator then read several
passages from the remarks as given above, (his speech
•>n the bill) which he had committed to writing, in
order to refute such a charge as that of the Senator
from New-Jersey.”
Contemporaneous Testimony.
Other papers give the same report: of the po
sition of lien Cass as given above by the
Union. The Washington of
the New York Express, writing March ->lh,
says :
“ Mr. Miller of New-Jersey expressed his surprise
at the speech of the Senator from Michigan. Hejccr
l inly understood him at the last session of Congress
to be in favor of the Wilmot proviso. YV hat had
changed his mind ? He hod on his table instructions
adopted by the Legislature of Michigan expressing
sentiments favorable to free territory.”
“ Mr. Cass was surprised at the attack of the
Senator from New-Jersey. How did he know how
he would have voted at the last session? But he
confessed that, at the last session he should have voted
f>r the Wilmot proviso, and probably in common
with all the members from the free Stales.”
The correspondent of the Richmond Whig,
in a letterofconcurrent date, thus stated Gen.
Cass’ remarks in reply to Mr. Miller :
“ Mr. Cass got up to reply to this, (to Mr. Miller’s
speech,) and seemed to be very much hurt and out of
humor. He said he would hare voted for it if he
voted at all, last year; but he did nut then antici
pate, as he secs now, that it would stop the war, and
prevent the acquisition of territory."
So it seems that Gen. Cass in March, 1847,
was still in favor of the Wilmot proviso, or ra
ther the princin/e of that proviso. lie was in
favor of excluding slavery from the Territories,
but he was opposed to the Wilmot mode of ac
complishing his purposes. “ lie doubted as to
the time when, the nature and character oj the law
by which it should be enforced! "
In a letter lo his abolition friend, Judge Wil
son, dated on the 19th of February of that year,
he says:
“ The Wilmot Proviso will not pass the Senate.
It would be death to the war—death lo all hopes of
•jetting an acre of territory —death to the adminis
tration. and death to the democratic parly. It was
not so intended. It no doubt originated with pro
per feelings; but things have now come to such a
pass, that its adoption will produce these effects."
Another Change in His Position.
Thus remained Gen. Cass until Mr. Buchan
an and Mr. Dallas came out in decided oppo
sition to the Wilmot proviso. I’. then was ap
parent that unless he made a liberal bid for
Southern support, that he must lose the Demo
cratic nomination for the presidency. Accord
ingly in the fall of 1847, Gen. Cass wrote his
celebrated Nicholson letter. In that letter he
says:
“ The Wilmot proviso has been before the country
some time. It has been repeatedly discussed in Con
gress, and the public preses. lam strongly impress
ed with the opinion that a great change has been jo
ing on in the public mind upon this subject —in my
own as well as others, and that doubts are resolving
themselves into convictions, that the principles it in
volves should be kept out of the national legislature,
and left to the people of the confederacy in their re
spective local governments.”
Gen. Cass is of opinion that a change is go
ing on in his own mind ! What a discovery !
Again he says:
“ I am opposed tn the exercise of any jurisdiction
by Congress over this matter ; and I am in favor of
leaving to ihe people of any territory, wh. :h may be
hereafter acquired, the right to regulate it fur them
selves, under the general principles of the Constitu
tion.”
Again, Gen. Cass says:
“ But certain it is, that the principle of interference
should not be carried beyond the nccv-dfpy implica
tion which produces it. It should be nrti»»t«?«i to the
creation of proper governments lor new countries ac
quired or settled, and the necessary provision for
their eventual admission into the Union ; leaving in
th'- meantime, the people inhabiting them to regu
late their internal concerns in lheir own way. 'They
are just ascapab'e of doing so as the people of the
States ; and they can do so, at any rate, as soon as
their political independence is recognized by their
admission into the Union.”
Here it appears that Gen. Cass has entirely
changed his mode of excluding slavery from
the new Territories. z\t first he was in favor
of the Wilmot proviso proper. He thought that
Congress had the power and regretted that he
did not have an opporiunity to exercise it by
giving his vote in favor of the proviso. He
said too that all the Northern Democrats would
have voted with him. We next Cud him doubt
ing and dodging—anxious to give it the go by.
He then made a sort of temporizing speech
against its bei ig carried out at that time, ami
finally he denies the right of Congress to act in
the matter altogether.
Cann Soulhern Rights to
Negroes*
Having denied the right of Congress to set
tle the question of slavery in the Territories of
California and New Mexico, Gen. Cass pro
poses lo leave it to the people of those terri
tories in their unorganized capacity and alleges
that they are as capable oj' settling it as the peo
ple of the states ! He. says further that the peo
ple of these territories will exclude slavery
irom their limits because nine-tenths of them
Hr.‘ nogrottH th<*niM«»lv.»a ' I .<•» whnr l>iu
views upon this subject are ? Speaking of the
extension of slavery he asks :
“ But can it go there ! This may well he doubled.
All the descriptions which reach us of the condition
of the and of New Mexico, to the acquisi
tion of which our efforts seem at present directed,
unite in representing those countries as agricultural
regions similar in lheir products to th” Muldle Mates,
and generally unfit for the production of the great
staples which can alone render slave labor valuable.
If we are not grost-ly deceived and it is ditli>-ult to
see how we can be—the inhabitants of those regions,
whe’her they depend upon their ploughs or herds,
cannot be slaveholders. Involuntary labor, requiring
the investment of large capital, can only be | rotitable
when employed in the production ol a few’ favored
articles confined by nature to s|»ec«al districts, and
paying larger returns than the usual agricultural pro
ducts spread over more consul Table f»oriions of the
eaith.
In the able letter of Mr. Buchanan upon the sub
ject, not long since given to the public, he presents
similar considerations with great force. *• Neither ”
>ays trie distinguished writer, “ the soil, the climate,
nor ihe productions of California, south of 36 deg.
30 min. n«>r indeed of any portion of it. north or
south,-is adapted to slave laimr and besides every fa
cility would be there utl’orded for the slave
from his master. Such property would be entirely
insecure in any part of Caliibrni i. It is morally im
possible, therefore, that a majority of the emigrants
to that portion ,»f the territory south of 36 d- g, 30
min , which wiil be chiefly composed of our citizens,
will ever re-establish slavery within its limits.
“In regard :•> \ w Mexic », east of the RioGrande,
the question has already been settled t»y the admis
sion of I'exaa into the Union.
‘•sii.'uld we acqtiire territory beyond the Rin
Grande, and east of ihe Rn-ky Slountains it is still
more impossible that a majority of the people would
consent to re-establish slavery. They are lhemselve
a colored population, and among them the negro do”S
not socially belong to a degraded r ice.’’
“With this last remark Mr. Walker fully coin
cides in bis letter written in 1814. upon the annexa
tion of Taxas, and which everywhere pnuluced so
favorable an impression upon the public mind, as to
have conduced very materially to the accomplish
ment oft hat gr?at measure—**bcvnnd the Del Norte,”
gays Mr. Walker, “slavery will not p«ss; not only
because it is forbidden by law ; but because the col
ored race there preponderates in the ratio or ten so
one over the whiles; ami holding, as they do. the
government ami umst ot the oifices in lheir posses
sion, they wiil not permit the enslavement of any
p.»rti »n of the colored race which makes ami executes
the laws of the country.
“ The question, it will be therefore «een on exami
nation, does not regard the exclusion of slavery from
a region where it does n »t exist an ! where from the
feelings of the inhabitants and 'he laws of nature, it
is inor.illv imp«»s‘ib!e,” as Mr B.icn inan says, “that
it can ever re-establish itself.”
Here then is the true position of Gen. Cass
He denies the power to Congress. He de
nies it to the people of the states by whose
cotninon blood and Leasure the Territory has
been won. He gives it to tiie conquered peo
ple and boasts that they will decide it against
the south because nine-tenths of them are ne
groes ’ Is it not clear that <ieo. Cass has gone
from bad to worse? Wa< it not enough for
him to declare himself opposed to slavery
Upon principle ? \\ as it not enough lor him
to seek to prevent its extension by act of Con
gress ? Was it not enough for him to desire
to acquire the New I’erritorv in order to carry
out his abolition notions in regard to it ? Has
it come to this that the rights of Southern men
are to be snbmifed to negro;s. muleittues. mes
tizoes and half breeds, and that the very man
who makes the insulting proposition is to be
held up for our support and we asked to *ote
tor him for the first office in the Nation ’ Sure-
I ly the sober and reflecting portion of the south
ern people will pause before they commit any
-uch act of self-degradation.
Gen. Cass still opposed to the South.
This letter of Gm. Cass to Mr. Nicholson
was intended to cheat both the North and the
>oirdi. It was purposelv written to give the
South the idea that because he declared him
self opposed to the Wilmot Proviso in term-,
that he was consequently in favor of the ex
tension of slavery and of the protection e s "
southern rigats. This was the impression in
tended to be made upon the south, while at tie
North Gen. Cass hoped to convince the people
that his modeof excluding shivery from the I'er
: ritones was more certain, speedy and effectual
i than even the Wilmot Proviso itself. Hehoped
in other words, to give up. or appear to give up,
the principle, to the south, while he was at the
' same time pract.ca ly carrying <»ut his abolition
North. Soft words
I h»r southeriiguiis.subsianti.il abolition of s'ave-
• ■ \ i a tics
In s ;f ie intention as w ill appear from
good Democratic authority. The Charleston
.Wrrcurj m publishing his letter, used the fol
lowing language :
“la estimating, hewerer, the importance of this
-•y Gen. <_ ass. though seei.iiriijy posture, i$ n.*er
:he4ess eq:ii*<yal ; aJH j nest tuust bear in mind
the system o: ibretga p<au:y now advocated by Gen.
I use. :.;e Senate, ana which, K success? illy devel
oped, * turaish ttie field tor Uie application of h;s
principles. When weaay that the let tar is eq iivocai.
we mean that, wade Gen. Cass declares the Wilmot
Proviso uacoast■ mthe evidently 3oae>derv ’
prir c-.pU a ’ne-e oOcX-a rrwn. Tnat arpliceitu:-''. of i
xe pnociple wmeh :ne AboJiuonisu deeire will ba |
obtained, while the principle will be condemned.- —
He says to the Sou h, you are right. Such u restric
tion as is proposed by Mr. Wilmot is unconstitutional,
and cannot be adopted. He says to the North, why
raise an unnecessary disturbance ? When we get
new territory, it will be free —slavery will have no
existence there —it will be impossible to give it being.
The end you have in view will certainly he accom
plished, and you can afford to give up the triumph of
the argument on the principle, if you are made cer
tain of the triumph in your application of it to the
new territory.”
The Macon,(Georgia,) Telegraph,of July 4th.
alluding to the Gen Cass’ proposition to sub
mit the settlement of this question to the peo
ple of the Territories, goes even further and
denounces the doctrine as more infamous than
that advocated by Van Buren, Giddings and
Gerrilt Smith. The Editor says:
“ If Congress, then, having the exclusive right
to legislate for a Territory—to alter or annul, and re
vise all laws passed a Territorial government, —
has no right to prohibit Slavery in the Territories
how can the people in their inorganic state, who
can exercise imo power but by the concurrence ol
Congress, prohibit Slavery? We contend that this
doctrine of inherent right in the people of the Territo
ries. instead of being the safest for the people of the
South, assume Editors are persuading them, is quite
as dangerous as the unlimited control claimed for
Congress over the subject by Van Buren and John P.
Hale: For who cannot see that if this difficulty is to
be met in this way. it is no longer a difficulty to North
ern Provisoists. ' We doubt if Gerrilt Smith him
self would demur to this course— for nine-tenths of
the population of this new territory is of such a char
acter as to make it as certain that slavery would* be
excluded if left to them as it would be if left to~ Gar
rison and his friends in their own precinct.”
Equivocal Betrayer of Southern Rights.
So unsatisfactory was this Nicholson letter
to even Democrats at the South that the Charles
ton Mercury dubbed Gen. Cass as the “ Equivo
cal Betrayer of Southern Rights' 1 and Mr. Yan
cey, one of the leading delegates of the Con
vention which nominated him. in his Charles
ton speech, said of Gen. Cass :
sTj 3 “He is all things to all men, and faithful to
none —a vascillating, time-serving politician—unsound
upon the abolition question, ami an enemy to the
South.”«Q
The people of Charleston, in public meeting,
also denounced Gen. Cass as unsound and un
safe on the slavery question. They denounced
the Convention that nominated him because it
voted down Mr. Yancey’s amendment and
adopted in its stead a platform, of which the
Mercury declares that :
“ Giddings never asserted the contrary and
Hannibal Hamblin agreed to the resolutions of the
Convention.”
How the South was Betrayed.
The Mercury was highly indignant at the
nomination of Lewis Cass and charged that the
South had been betrayed to party. That print
used the following terse language on the occa
sion :
“ But the harmony of the party was to be preserv
ed, and this could only be effected by the prostration
of the rights of the South. Will the feople ratify
this shameless concession? Will they bow their
necks like beasts of burden to this yoke, which irre
sponsible office-seekers have prepared for them and
proclaimed that they shall wear? When it is recol
lected that the members of the convention that nomi
nated Mr. Polk have already received more than
sevenhundrtd thousand d liars in the distribution
of Executive patronage, the inducements of a Conven
tion like that at Baltimore to preserve the harmony
of tne paty may be seen and appreciated. But
what boots party to the people ? When trampling
under foot their constitutional rights, party becomes
an unscrupulous combination for the distribution of
spoils torn from the hands of honest and patient indus
try. Let the South—the people of the South —reject
this wicked contrivance to betray and deliver them,
like sheep in the shambles, bound h ind and foot in
the power of the North. If they have the spirit of
freemen —of men—let them “ bear it not.”
Il appears, however, that the people of the
South, under the behest of party, are now call
ed upon to “bow their necks to the yoke,”
even by the Mercury. The great mass of
them, however, are not prepared to be “ led
like sheep to the shambles.” even by the talent
ed editor of that paper.
Correspondence between Cass and Moses.
If the Southern people are deceived by Gen.
Cass, it will be a most palpable case of wilful
deception on their part. They have had am
ple warning both from friends and foes. Be
fore the convention which nominated him as
sembled at Baltimore. 11 J Moses, 1 ;sq.. one of
the delegates from Florida, believing that Gen.
Cass was unreliable, sought to elicit from him
his real views in regard to Southern slavery,
and accordingly addressed him the following
letter:
Coleman’s Hotel, ?
Wasliing'uti, May 19. 1848. 5
Gen. Lewis ('ass : Hear Sir—As your name will
in all probability h«* prominently bel<>r»* the Baltimore
Convention, to be hold* n on Monday next, for the
purpose of nominating a candidate for President of
the United States, and as I shall have to cast the vote
of the State of Florida, in conjunction with my col
leagues, should they arrive, (or alone in any other
contingency.) it is desirable that the delegation should
be informed of v<mr views upon the rights of slave
holders to migrate to new territory with their slaves,
that we may know how far they accord with the in
structions under which we are directed to act. I
will therefore, respectfully inquire,
Ist. Whether you still adhere to the positions ta
ken in your letter to A. O. P. Nicholson, Esq. of De
cember last.
21. If so, am I correct in construing it to mean that
you consider that the inhabitants of a territory before
<l»vy lui in ii '-’:<><• in.vi'T nun ill, liavc u 1 to uuluL
lish or prohibit slavery us they may deem most con
sistent with their local policy.
3d. And that thi* policy so expressed is the para
mount law during the t< rrit rial probation, only chang
able by the people of the territory upon the formation
of u State g jvernuieni, <»r under such legislative sanc
tions as they may direct.
There is another matter but slightly alltided to in
voiir Nicholson letter, to which I will also direct
your attention.
Do you consider that the slaveholders would h ive
the undeniable right to migrate with their slaves to
any Mexican territory that may be annexed to the
Un ted States—or would you regard it a doubtful mat
ter, in consequence of the ins'itution of slavery not
having been recognized in said territories by the
M- xiean authorities immediately preceding the acqui
sition <>f such territory (supposing it should be ac
quired ?)
Your reply will enable the de legation to determine
whether under certain circumstances they can con
sistently with their instructions cast the vote of Flo
rida in your behalf, as a candidate for the Pr« sidency.
A ours respectfully, K. J. MOSES.
It will be seen th it in the above letter. Mr.
Moses asks for a distinct, unuiistakeable expla
nation of Gen. Ca«’views asexpressed tn the
.Nicholson letter To this plain, polite request,
Gen. Cass sent Mr. Moses the following equiv
ocal. unmanly and insulting reply:
I'NiiED States Horst, May 21, 1943.
Dear Sir — I did not receive your esteemed favor
until yesterday, and I have been so much occupied
that I could not answer it before.
I had sup|>osed that my sentiments upon the subject
to which you refer wa re fully understood by my
southern friends ; but as you seem to d»*-ire informa
tion, I enclose you my Nicholson letter, which con
tains all that I hive to say upon the subject.
Respectfully yours, LEWIS CASS.
To K. J Moses, Esq.
Mr. Moses asks an explanation of the letter.
Gen Cass makes ** darkness visible’’ by send
ing him a copy of the very piper which he
could not comprehend ! Mr Moses, in a re
cent letter to the Editor of the Tallahassee Sen
tinel. covering this remarkable correspondence.
“The correspond-nee r«.q fires no comment! I
doubted that Gin. Cas.-’ position w is safe before 1
wrote my letter to him. I felt satisfied when I wrote
the letter that I hid given a proper construction to
his views—and the character of his reply could but
confirm me in the belief < f ■i' tie South could
rely upon no one with less safety, than the honored
individual who is now the nominee of the Baltimore
< zonvention.'*
If Gen Ca«s cannot be trn«*cd bv his own
friends, how can he be palmed off upon South
ern men a< <ound upon the import ant subject
of Southern rights ’
Conduct of the Nominating Conventions.
In the very Convention that nominated Cass,
a proposition expressing their opposition to
the Wilmot Proviso was summarily put down
by the following vote, viz:
Maiyln JI, S >uth Carolina 9. Georgia 9.
Florida 3, Vibama9, Arkansas 3, i’ennessee 1, Ken
tucky 1-36.
x M \ I I shin 6, Massac i
setts 12. Vermont 6. Rhode Island 4. Connecticut 6,
New Jersey 7. N-*w York —. P< ins v I van a 26,
Delaware 3. Maryland 6, Virginia 17. N<>rth Cnro-
M " -- I ' ' I . • - r. 1
see 12. K-'n’u.'ky 11. Oh; » 23. I liana 12, Llim?is9,
Michigan 5. lowa 4. Miss>uri 7. isconsin 4 216.
Thus did The National Democratic Conven
lion by a formal vote refuse to express any opin
ion upon the proviso. They have therefore a
bandoned the South to her fate, and virtually a
vowed the doctrine that party is superior to
SoufAern interests. How different in the Phila
delphia Convention which nominated Tax lor.
There. Mr. Tilden. ofOhio, offered the follow
ing resolution :
Re so'red. That whilst all power is taken fmm
I _ -• • a ■ -. ■ States
it is within the power and it is the dutv »f C aigress.
to prohibit the introduction or existence o ' slavery in
any territory n >*• ;>oss>- -sed or that may be acquired.
He said he introduced it after consultation
with the Ohio delegation and he wished to
make a few remarks upon it. The principle
which it asserted had been proclaimed in pri
mary meetings throughout the State.
Mr. Brown, of Pa was surprised to see a
resolution of this character introduced, with
the evident intention of disturbing the harmo
ny of the Convention. We could not always
listen with patience to a set of factionists.
Mr. Brown finally moved to lay the resolu
tion of Mr. Tilden upon the table, and his re
solution irtfs carried by an overwhelming major- i
ify, thus proving that while the friends of Tay
lor were not disposed to meddle w,:hthe qnes- I
non ; a majority of the Cass Convention, were ;
the open advocates of Free Soil. It is even'
staled upon undeniable authority by the Balti- |
more Sun. that when Mr. Yancey of Alabama j
proposed io reject the B irnburners because
lhev were in favor of the Wilmot Proviso. Go
vernor Toueey of Connecticut just then ap
pointed Attorney General ofthe United States,
bv Mr. Polk, warned the Convention tn such
words as these : - Beware, beware how xu
reject these delegates on such grounds. Re
ject them if you please, but if you separate
dwra from your rank* because they are R'umot
Proviso men. you put r> jeopardy every State
North of Mason and Dixon's line.’
Testimony of tine Northern Allies. t
Gen Casa seems to have adopted the non
committal policy of his friends in the conven- <
lion. Accordingly we find that while on his s
northern tour, he was met by a crowd of dem
ocratic citizens of Cleveland. Ohio, where the
institution of slavery is unpopular: i
“One of the democratic orators (Judge Wood) con- t
gratulated Gen. Cass and the assembly of the fact <
ihal ho was now understood to be in favor if the I
Wilmot Proviso, and .hat the assertion that he was i
opposed to it was untrue. The crowd shouted their
approbation and awaited the General’s confirmation i
of the statement.”
The following is the response of Gen. Cass
as contained in the Cleveland Herald :
“ Sir, the noise and confusion which pervades this
assembly will prevent my being heard on the impor
tant topics to which you have called my attention.”
The ‘noise and confusion’ however was not
sufficiently great to prevent Gen. Cass from
informing “ that assembly” of a great many
other things connected with his candidacy. He
said that “his letter of acceptance closed his
political profession of faith” and that he “ ful
ly approved of the proceedings of the Balti
more Convention.”
Now the Baltimore Convention voted down
Mr. Yancey’s Report and Resolutions declara
tory of the true Southern ground upon Slave
ry. The Baltimore Convention dodged the
question of the Wilmot Proviso entirely, and
passed a series of milk and water resolutions
upon the subject of Slavery, which were vo
ted for even by Hannibal Hamlin and his abo
lition allies. Not only did Mr. Cass find time to
tell the people of Cleveland, that he approved
of the conduct of the Convention, but amid all
the “noise and confusion” he held “private
conversations” with the Editor of the Ohio
Piaindealer, who subsequently enlightened
his readers as follows :
To Our Southern Subscribers.
“Every day brings us new subscribers from the
South. Our circulation is no longer limited to Mason
& Dixon’s line. It has been a mystery to us how
simultaneously subscribers from Florida, Mississippi
and even Texas, should see such virtues in our paper.
Yesterday we got a clue to the mystery. A gentle
man in Mississippi wrote to a friend here to send him
the Plaindealer. From that friend we learned the
character of these Southern subscribers. They are
Taylor Whigs who want to show to their Democratic
neighbors the free soil articles in this paper, byway
of convincing them that Gen. Cuss is a “Free Soil”
man. He//, now, gentlemen subscribers of the
South, you who will read this very article, Id us
say to you in all candor and frankness, if i.ouwant
to support a slavery propagandist, rote for Gen.
Tayloi —Gen. Cass is not your man! Were he
so, the Plaindealer would not support him. 11
As many of our readers may desire to know
what the editor of the Piaindealer had previ-
ously said in regard to the Presidency, we co
py the following among many otherarticles of a
similar nature. The Editor claims to be a per
sonal and intimate friend of Gen. Cass and of
course would not misrepresent or slander him.
Now hear what he says :
“ Ifeas a party, present to the nation a can
didate from a free State ; he is not a slaveholder,
he docsnot traffic in human flesh. Ifc has no sym
pathies, associations, or connections with those who
do.
■~*f “ When the Proviso was first sprung upon the
House of Representatives, John Q. Adams arose in
his place ami denounced it as unnecessary. Why?
•Because,’ he said, ‘the territory was now free, and
Congress had no power to make it slave.’ This is
Gen. Cuss’ opinion. Judje McLean, of the Supreme
Court, holds the same opinion—also John P Hale,
Joshua R. Giddings, editor of the National Era, ami
all the Liberty papers. Congress has no more power
to make a slave than to make a king, say they.
( f “ Gen Cass believes, that from the simple ope
ration of the Constitution, the character of the people
now there, and th »se likely to go there, the geogra
phy of the country, and the strong public sentiment
in all of the free and many of the slaves States against
Slavery, that it will never exist in those territories.
IE know from frequent declarations, made in
private coi rersations, that he is as strongly opposed
to the further extension of slavery as we are, and
that is strong enough most of our readers will
think.
C.C “ M'e have every assurance that his adminis
tration. should he be elected, while it will give secu
rity' to the great ami fundamental principles of the
party, wit! never be used to give countenance to so
obnoxious a measure as carrying slavery into ter
ritory now free."
Van Buren openly seeks to exclude Slavery
from theTerritories.and the Editor of the Plain
dealer says that he knows from private conver
sations with Gen. Cass, that he is a better free
soil man than Van Buren.
Cassism ait<l Provisoism I*n veiled*
The people of the South, ought not to forget
that the advocates of Gen. Cass have an espe
cial interest in creating a great excitement
against Mr. Fillmore. They know that Gen
Cass himself is utterly unsound upon the sub
ject ofslavery. They know that in addition to
the rottenness of his Nicholson letter, he has
given assurance to his Northern supporters
that he is still opposed to the extension of slave
ry to New Territories. They know that un
less a great outcry is made against the Whig
candidates the people will get a thorough
knowledge of Gen. (’ass’sentiments <m slave
ry. Hence their noisy, blustering policy. We
are not however thus to be driven from our
purpose of exposing both (ien. Cass and his
supporters. We therefore bring Gen. C. and
his allies to the book ;
T/* u The Democratic Cass and Butler Commit
tee of Sussex county, New Jersey, have advertised
« »r»r rhr- rr> TTTTivjt of Sussex and War-
ren, in which they call, in glaring capitals, upon
“ all opposed !o s mthern dictation and the exten
sion of Southern Slavery." to rally under the stand
aril of <’ass and Butler! What say the people of the
Son’ll to this ’ \ only their Northern allies are grow-
ing bold !
Gen. Ciiiuagaliiit the Extension of Slave
ry.
It appears moreover, that the Plaiudealer is
not alone in its knowledge of (Jen. Cass’ anti
slavery sentiments. I’he Guernsey (Ohio.)
Jeti’ersonian, another Cass and Butler paper,
holds the following remarkable language :
“ The Whigs h iving nominated a slave extensionist
for the Presidency, are wont to make it. appear that
the Democrats arc similarly situated, by charging
that Gen. Cass is an avowed slave extensionist.
’ j -1 This charge is unqualifiedly false. Gen. < ’ass
stands pledged to oppose th-* extension of slavery.
In his Nicholson letter he expresses his views- of the
constitutional power of Congress over the institution
of slavery. ?TV He gives it as his deliberate opinion,
that Congress has no power to institute slavery
where it dots not exist. Suppose then that Gen
Cassis elected to the Presidency, and that Congress
should pass an act to institute slavery in free territory
what does Gen. Cass, in effect, stand pledged to do ?
Win, to veto it; because he has told the American
people that such an act would be unconstitutional.
II is then clear as the noonday sun that Gen.
Cass stands before the country as the avowed oppo
nent of sltvery in free territory.”
To the honest men of all parties, we now
appeal to say if they w ill support such a candi
date as Lewis (.’ass is here shown by his own
friends to be for the Presidency ? Can lhev
do so without endangering the safety of their
own firesides ? if Mr Cuss is true to the
South, he must be a traitor to the North. Is it .
probable that he would desert the cause which i
ne has sustained during fifty years to support
us ofthe South, with whom according to the
Plaindealer, he has n > sympathies or connec
tions ! Gen. Cass was nominated for the
Presidency by over twenty different Conven*
'.ions which pas-ed frtt soil Resolutions. A
inong the many cases, we cite the following : '
Gen. Cass and his Neighbors.
The Michigan Legislature that recommend- !
ed Gen. Cass for the Presidency, passed among
others, the following resolution by a vote 3*2
years to 3 nays :
A* solved, That whenever the Government of the ‘
( nued States siiall acquire any territory by conquest,
ce«sh n,or purchase, in which rlavery shall not by law ;
exist at the time nf such conquest, cession, or p irchase, '
it wouldbe repugnant to the moral sense, of this na- >
tion, a :d a rioatim ofthe clearest duly of Con- f
gress, to permit the institution of slavery in any i
form, to be introduced therein.''
These are the views of the Ciss men of
Michigan. They are rhe views of the men who ,
still support him for the Presidency. Nn won
der the Ohio Phi tide i'er is forced to declare •
that •' fr infrequent declarations made in private
conversations, rhe Editor knew Gen Cass to be
opposed to the extension of slavery. ” If he
were not so. these men would not support bun
for a moment.
A Few More ofthe Same Sort.
Resolutions passed at tlw Democratic State Con
vt nt ion assembled in Vermont. July 11.1545.
Congre&j *iare the < ■-■■’l 'titutionai power to prohibit i
■ ■ ' ' '' ' territories
tS• - • .
so long as said terrr >r;os remain und- r the j irisdic- ■
tion of Congress ; an I that it is the imperative duty
of Congress to ex<. ■ ise th d power iminedialeiy- i
Resolved. Th u l'emi>:ratic party « t this >t je ■
•„ v r " : “ tied res - Sta < ■ .
nans, st Z-j erery iturfuiand ■
consfi/u/icz': / tie extension of slavery into ;
□ay -.ei j-iz. ng to the I‘niltd S ates, now
free, and t lat we here reiterate l/uit f ledge.
Resulted, Ia t s while we are readv in the most
pc rfe M g *"l •• th ■■ :’iiJe by the com pro nfse of the
C..n<-u ;t! the suhjeci of slavery and to pro- |
' ~-
guaran ■ **•! h^r* 1 . v. are as Democrats ■<nd as men, •
uncontpromumg/jr oppoted io the extensi >o of si.»fr
ry into any terr Gry now free.
Resolved. T w- hive tl ie utmost confidence in
i' • ■ . nesty of I-
and Wilham O Br -r; th. v in tj.'ir hands the coun
try will bt he Government
f the D
Oti
secure their el H it the resp<
ulSces I'jt which they are noin :! a:e i.
The Northern a n< i Southern F aces.
We might multiply these proofs indefinitely,
but think we h ive nowgiven enough to satisfy
any unprejudiced m.rtd. that (Jen Ca<s and hi
friends nave sought to o rupy the platform of
the Rirnburners and Abolitionists, while they
are at the same time seekrig to deceive the
South into the belief tiiat they are occupying
the true Southern ground. As evidence ofthi*.
they have c-used to be published two lives of
lheir candidate. :he one for the North, and the
other !<>r the South. Tins disgraceful fraud
jpon the people was exposed in the United
states Senate by Mr Mangum of North Caro
ina. He there exhibited the two editions, both
printed in the Globe office, in the month of June.
I*4-3. The one for the North contained, neith
er on page ". nor any where else, any allusion
O Gen. Lass \ that tn.
tended lor the South, carefully notes the fact. 1
Tile following is copied literally from page 8,
of the two editions, except the extract of the
speech in reply to Mr. Mangum :
For the North.
“On the meeting of the present Congress General
Cass was elected chairman of the Committee on Mili
tary A Hairs —a post for which he was most eminently
qualified, and which, as he had been unanimously se
lected, he considered il his duty to accept. Discourse
as chairman of that committee, and his views upon the
war question, have been seen in the daily proceedings
of the Senate. The following brief reply’ to Mr. Man
gum, is probably as good a summary of his opinions as
can be given : ”
(Here follows the extract:)
“On the 28th of March, a public meeting was held
in Washington city to express the sympathies of the
American people with the people of France upon the
result of the French revolution. Gen. Cass, by his
defeat of the Quintuple treaty, in 1841, having seZ
the bait of revolution in motion in Europe, was called
upon toaddress the meeting. In the course of his el
oquent speech on that occasion, he said :
“ Throughout a considerable part of Europe, man is
awakening to a conviction of his rights, and ton know
ledge of his strength ; and, with the feelings which
these inspire, comes the determination to assert the
one, and if necessary to employ the other. The a
buses of centuries are giving way before the progress
of the age, and the foundations of government are in
vestigated with a zeal not to be rebuked, and with a
stern purpose which nothing will satisfy but the truth.
The great tide of freedom is rolling onwards from the
shores of Calabria to the English channel, and insti
tutions, originating in barbarous ages, and sanctioned
by time ami habit, but which have sacrificed the hap
piness of the many to the power of the few, are giv
ing way before it with as little resistance as regret, ”
&c., &c.
In all this it will be seen that there is not
one word about Gen. Cass’s views on slavery.
For the South,
“ On the meeting of the present Congress, General
Cass was elected Chairman of the Committee on Mil
itary Affairs —a post for which he was most eminently
qualified, and which, as he had been unanimously se
lected, he considered it his duty to accept. His course
as chairman of that committee, and his views upon the
war question, have been seen in the daily proceedings
of the Senate. The following brief reply to Mr. Man
gum, is probably as good a summary of Ins opinions as
can be given
(Here follows the extract:)
“ In December, 1847, Gen. Cass gave his views at
length upon the Wilmot Proviso, in a letter to Mr.
Nicholson, of Tennessee. In that letter he avowed
himself opposed to the measure, and to the exercise of
any legislation by Congress over any of the territories
of the United States, respecting the domestic relations
of their inhabitants. He believed that all questions of
that nature should be settled by the people themselves,
who ought to be allowed to regulate their internal con
cerns in their own way, and that Congress has no
more power to abolish or establish slavery in such ter
ritories than it has to regulate any other of the relative
duties ofsocial life —that of husband and wife, parent
ami child, or of master and servant. He said, iu con
clusion :
‘ The Wilmut proviso seeks to take from its legiti
mate question of domestic policy, having no
relation to ilie Union, as such, and to transfer it to
another, created by the people for a special purpose,
ami foreign to the subject matter involved in this isMie.
By going back to our true principles, we go back to
the road of peace and safety. Leave to the people,
who will be affected by this question, to adjust it up
on their own responsibility and in their own manner,
and we shall render another tribute to the original
principles of our Government, and furnish another
guarantee for its permanence and prosperity. ”
Gen* Cass a Party to this Fraud*
When these lives were presented by Mr. Man
gum in the Senate and the exposure made, so
base and degrading was the fraud that even
Mr. llannegan pronounced it the work of a
rillion 'Fhe correspondent of the Philadelphia
North American, a well known and highly re
spected gentleman in Washington, made the
following startling development in regard to
the matter which has never been contradict
ed, either by Gen. Cass, or any of his friends :
“ On the day on which Mr. Mangum exfiosed to the
notice of the Senate, the deception in ihe two editions
of the life of Gen. Cass, the Hon. John Wentworth
volunteered in the presence of one or more Whig'Sen
ators, a statement to this elfect: that he purchased at
the oilice of ihe Congressional Globe, documents for
circulation in his district, and among others the life of
< ’ass, i>»iied in the month of March.
“Upon examining the ‘sketch’ he discovered the
extract from the Nicholson letter, with a commentary
by flu* biographer, unfavorable io the Wilmot proviso.
Fearing the political effect of such u document in
the free Mates, and being himself a ll ilmol Proviso
man, lie called on Gen. Cass and represented to him
the dangerous tendency of circulating the publication
at ihe N rib. Gen. Cass informed him that it should
be corrected. Some time afterwards he had occasion
t » visit the Congressional G;obe office, when he was
informed that an edition of the lift? had just been pub
lished, better suited to his district, accompanied by
the voluntary remark, that the first sketch had been
issued to secure the nomination and the other to se
cure the election
This is substantially the statement made by
Mr. Wentworth, and it furnishes the most in
contestable evidence that the insertion and sup
pression of the matter relating to the Wilmot
proviso in the difi’erent editions of the life of
Gen. Cass, was a wilful and deliberate fraud,
concocted for the purposes of operating upon
the North and Bouth, and of which he was en
tirely cognizant.”
Cass an avowed Provisoist*
Having pursued Gen. Cass through all his
devious windings upon the subject of slavery,
we now come to something more tangible, ft
will be recollected that Mr. Polk, at the close
of the recent Session of Congress, sanctioned
and signed a bill establishing a Territorial Go
vernment in Oregon. That bill prohibited
slaveholders from carrying their negroes into
the \<*w Territory. In other words, it con
tained the Wilmot Proviso. Mr. Polk sane
tioned it ; thus acknowledging the constitution
al power of Congress to legislate uuon the sub
ject and recognizing the principle in its fullest
extent. This infamous betrayal of the rights
of the South is not even defended by the ora
tors ami press of his party in Georgia. They
are afraid to meet the issue here, and yet Gen.
Cass approves of the infamous act. Here is
the testimony :
“ The Washington correspondent of the Balti
more Sun says that Gen. Cuss has written a letter to
the committee, at Washington, that he approves of
the passage of the Oregon Bill, with the Wdmot Pro
viso attached and the course of Mr. Polk.”JT %
The correspondent of the <Swn, is a Demo
crat. and of course would have no interest in
deceiving the people as to Gen- Cass’ real sen
timents. From this it appears that so far as
the territories North of the Missouri line are
concerned, Gen. Cass has fallen back upon his
old doctrine and is willing to leave the ques
tion to Congress—to white folks; but when it
comes to California and New Mexico, lie de
nies the right of Congress to act. and propo
ses to leave it the negroes! Verily he must be
trulv “a Northern man with Southern princi
ples” ’
The Democratic the only Free Soil Party,
It appears that, however the Democracy of
the South may try to cheat the people on this
great ami important subject, that tin- Northern
, supporters of Gen Cass thoroughly under
stand his true position. We might fill a vol
ume of extracts from the Northern Cass pa
pers to prove that they sustain the General
solely, because they know he agrees fully with
them in their opposition to slavery and its ex
ten-ion. The reader not forgot
i ten the extracts before given from the Cleve
; land Rlaindealcr and the Guernsey Jcffersoni
; an. We beg all persons to read the following
from the Biston Times and Ray State Democrat.
the leading (.’ass organs in M is<aebu.seits. The
• paper is -till in our possession and is dated
August 13th. The article is headed
Gen. Cass the true Free Soil Candidate.
“That those who wish to advance the cause of
I freedom should vote for Lewis Cass for Pre.-i lent, is
’ a po.nt so clear to our mind that we are at a loss n»
; comprehend how the new party can hop* to draw any
1 liberal m n Jed men info a support of ’.heir piebald
■ ticket. The Democratic party is the pirty of free
j dom and progress, and its triumph alone can secure
, the extension and perpetuation nf liberty. Il’ die
■ Democracy are defeated, the successful party must
: rule m accordance with Whig principles; and how
' likely th»-ir prevalence would secure “tree soil for
: free men,” are matters that it requires no large amount
,<4 talent to form correct opinions on. Essentially
conservative in its character, and adverse to ch iru>e,
’ n i movement, having tor its object the promotion of
; the rights <-f humanity, can receive from die Whig
: • »r l y • • ' . • . - . r
i its sternest and most fixed opposition. As every vote
i withdrawn from the Democratic ticket to be given
I to the Buffalo nominees indirectly aids tht Wni-rs
I it follows i hat any Democrat wh«» gives his support to
\ ’in Buren, lends his assistance to the advancement
■ of the only real slave party that we have in the
L’mt-.-d Slates. Wdi Dem<>cr-jts, under such circum-
j stances, de.-ert their old friends, their long cherished
: pr;ii'-’pies, and the measure they have s«> much at
h .-irt, m» r» y *>eca ise Martin Van Buren is burning
! i;> with a mean and unchristian spirit of revenge?
V\ e do not believe that five t.housand Democrats
tiiroughout al! New England will be deluded by the
j attempt that is now making to create false i-soes.
and to array the ddi er- nt sections of ’be republic
i agains* the each other; under the i i e pretence of
! pre-erving free from slavery, territory into which it
is fi'riuddcn t • spread, alike by a sense of interest
tri I ;’ie predominating and alt-controiling spirit of
! the age. * * * • ' ♦
'■ <»en. Cass is the red ‘free so I’ can Jidate. Un
like Geo. lay! r, he is not th* owner of slaves and
p. tira'ions, and therefore he has no interest in keep
ing up the iii'-i i’ion of slavery, or in pr»viding fer
its spread. I alike the same gentleman he is no: the
;• a !er and ch-/»en cfiampiou of a conservative parly
which masi ch-.ng- i s v- ry n and d-» that which
has never yet been done by any p .lineal organiza
tiyu, be: re it can take part in pro<no’:ng the spread
■A tree :nait'aiiuus. He is the resident of a great
i slav< ry has never exist! I— n
wh:cu its »-xisten**- is forbidden alike by peremptory
utws and »y apu lie opimoa that no human power
change. He is the leader of the reform party,
las stead y warred igainst all abuses and
wine i has *on 1 treed :n over millions of acres,
shed fn jof # pee ian ' fr t press
throughout the gr-atest dominion ever acquired by
any branch of the human family.”
" •' ■ ■ • patsed in
mm mit es ■. which free labor ha. aupported ’
and ma :.. a tree | e proeperon.. L- it rat ; J[t al tn i
beiMre—to entertain the idea i'„- ? n:-< l i: t
L 1 ‘ ™ of judgment—and capable ot
drawing correct conclusions, can prefer slavery to
ibertj . that, he desires to see slave labor prevail,
and .ree labor forbidden in our new territories 7
M i may believe and knaves mav thus mis
represent his opinions; but every sound-beaded man 1
A d see at once, that the Democratic candidate must ‘
betavjrable to “free soil,” and to the spread of <
free labor in every region open to the daring and ea- i
terprze of the human ♦ ’ • <
“As compared with Mr. V.m Buren, Gen. Cass
ha> claims to the support of “ free soil” voters, such
as the first named gentleman would himself be very
much surprised to see attributed to him. Mr. Van
Buren has been the tool of slavery throughout his
whole life, and no slave-holder has been so shame
fully conspicuous in fighting for the establishment of
the “peculiar institution” as this “ northern man,”
whose boast it has been that he was actuated by
“southern principles.” ”
“The only hope of freedom is to be found in the
continued ascendency of the Democratic party. If
that party cannot be relied upon to secure “ free
soil,” such soil can have no existence.”
A Few Words in Conclusion*
We have now given a faithful and candid
exposition of the views, opinions and acts of
Gen. Cass as exhibited at various times, upon
the important question of slavery.
1. We have shown that he, in 1842, declar
ed himself “ opposed to slavery upon principle,
and prayed for its abolition,” and that he has
never recalled those declarations, or proclaimed
a change of opinion in regard to them.
2. We have shown Gen. Cass presenting
petitions for ihe exclusion of slavery from
Texas, after she had been admitted as a State;
thus going farther than even the most ultra
Abolitionist, in his crusade against the peculiar
institutions of the South.
3. We have proved by Gen. Cass’ own con
fessions, and by the testimony of his friends
and associates, that in 1846, he was an upon
advocate of the exclusion of slavery from the
territory to be acquired by this country from
Mexico, and that he deeply regretted not having
an opportunity to record his vote in favor of
the Wilmot proviso.
4 We have proved that Gen. Cass has never
proclaimed any change in his opinions in re
gard to the principle of excluding slavery
from the new territories. That he opposed
action by Congress because, as he said, “though
not so intended, it would be death to all hopes
of getting an acre of territory, death to the
administration and death to the democratic
party !
5. We have also shown that though Gen.
Cass in his Nicholson letter, declared himself
opposed to the mere form of the Wilmot pro
viso, he still adhered to the principle of exclud
ing slavery from the territories, and proposed a
plan for accomplishing his purposes which will
be equally certain of success, and infinitely
more obnoxious to the South than the Wilmot
proviso itself.
6. We have shown that Gen. Cass by leav
ing the question as to the exclusion of slavery
to the conquered people, to the Mexicans, ne
groes, mnlattoes and mixed breeds, who in
habit the conquered territories, and by declaring
that “ they are just as competent to settle it,
as the people of the States,” has oilered an in
suit to the freemen of this country, both North
and South, which proves him to be unworthy
of their suifrages.
7. We have proved that Gen. Cass is not
only unsound and unsafe upon the subject of
slavery, but that he has professed to be their
, friend while he is at heart their enemy—that he
has equivocated and refused to explain the hid
den meaning of his own words—that he has in
) private conversations with his Abolition friends,
declared that be was still in favor of excluding
slavery from the New Territories —that he
connived at the publication of two lives, one
1 for the North and the other for the South—that
he has approved of Mr. Polk’s betrayal of the
South, in sanctioning the Oregon bill, contain
ing the Wilmot proviso and that he is finally
- supported by his Northern friends on the
i ground that he is a better free soil man than
i Van Buren himself.
Having shown all these things and proved
them beyond the possibility of contradiction or
denial we now leave Gen. Cass with the peo
ple of the South, and we ask the honest men of
all parties, to say whether, tinder the circum
stances, they can for a moment, trust him with
the control ol’ their rights and interests, espe
cially when he is opposed by one of our own
men—by one who was born and educated at
the South—by one who is deeply interested in
the very species of property which Gen. Cass
is struggling to destroy / Is it right, is it pru
dent for the people of the South to run any
risk up< n this subject? Is it wise for them to
entrust the safety of themselves and their fami
lies to a doubtful man ? If nor, then is it not
very madness to throw themselves into the
power of one who has been justly termed by
men of bis own party —“ the equivocal betray
er of Southern rights?’’
Men of the South, we leave the question
with you. An attempt has been made ; nay, is
now being made to betray you into the sup
port of those who embrace but to destroy yon.
You have now a chance, and perhaps your/fl.sZ
chance, to secure a Southern President The
Democrats of the North, as proved by the late
results of the Vermont election, are disbanding
and going over by hundreds and thousands to
the Free Soil men and Abolitionists. The
Whigs of the North, have thus far stood firm
to the standard of Gen. Taylor and the South ;
but suppose they are now defeated, who could
ever expect them to stand by us again ? They
will say. if the men of the South will desert their
own standard, why should we guard and pro
tect it. A defeat now, is a final, fatal, eternal
prostration ofSouthern men. Southern rights,
and Southern institutions.
Those who desire such a result, may support
Gen Cass in preference to the Planter of
Louisiana, but they have a fearful responsibili
ty before them. They may apply the torch
which is to fire their own homesteads, they
may be so blinded by party, as to have no re
gard for the safety of their wives and children,
but they should remember. that in the general
conflagration they themselves may not escape.
From the N. (). Picayune, 2(>th ult.
From Honduras and Guatemala.
Since our last there have been two or three
arrivals from Belize, Honduras, the latest being
the schooner Dream, which sailed on the 13th
inst.
The most important intelligence we have is
the success of tiie revolutionary party in Gua
temala, said to be composed of the old Span
iards. the resignation of Gen. Carrera and
choice ol a successor. The Observer and Ga
zette of the 2d inst. has the following para
graph on the subject :
“ We have date< from th'* city ol Guatemala to the
19th tilt., from which we learn that Gen. Carrera
had resigned the Prer-idenry and left the city for Mex
ico on the 15th. His address to the country is print
ed but has not reach' d us. Congress was in session.
Don Juan Antonio Martinez was President ad inte
rim ol the Republic. The democratic party are n*»w
in pjwcr. I’he city was quiet aud it was hoped the
troops would not be permitted to enter. The brother
of Gen. Carrera is reported to have been shot at An
tigua.”
We add a letter from our correspondent at
Belize, but do not understand exactly what he
says of affairs in \ ucatan, as we supposed the
ascendancy fully re-established. Il may not be
so in the vicinity of Bacalar :
[Correspondence of the Picayune..]
Belize, Hon., Sept. 13, 1817.
Gentlemen: Since mv last nothing new has oc
curr* d here. Ev. ry thing remains in the same dull,
inactive state. Nothing from the shore.
From Yuc-itun, via Bacalar, we hear of the contin
ued success of the Indians, and there now seems
hardly room to hope for any tiling in favor of the
whiu-s. Thoc<c Yucatecos who are in Belize are suf
fering all the horrors of actual starvation. Such liv
ing p.cturesof death and disease I never sa .v before.
In fact, no language can convey a correct idea»>f th* ir
wretched appearance to a stranger. They chiefly
live in what are called here negro houses, but these
negro houses are infinitely inferior to the clean, com
fortable houses use.) for your slaves. They are
merely long sheds about ten or twelve feet wide, di
vided into squ ire rooms by a partition as high as the
eaves, with a door and one window. Into tte-se
ro>ms, nev» r more than twelve feet square, are hud
dled families of from three to fourteen. Here tiny
have io cat and sleep. Their poverty is so great
that th»-y cannot get enough food even of the most
miserable description, to satisfy their appetites; arid
then they are compelled to drink well water, which
is far inferior to the stagnant pools found in your
swamps in the driest of times. It is always quite
sail, owing to the extreme lowness of the settlement,
no part of which is over three feet above the sea. Our
inhabitants are doing much for their relief. They
have appointed a committee to visit and comfort the
destitute, and provithnl a hospital where the afflicted
can obtain medicine and medical advice and attend
ance. but all this will fill far short of making them
romferaole. Many are dying daily, and we fear that
the deaths will increase rather than dimmish. If any
of your philanthropists want work a field is here
opened for them in which they may be of incalcula
ble benefit to these poor, starving, sick and ’lying
ocatecus.
A- there have been two vessels from Yzabal to your
city, you are probably advise*! of the state of affairs
in Guatemala, of i!«e arre.-tof Gen. Pus, the various
successes of discontented raa’icais, of the President’s
resignation, his successor, tec. &c. We are enter
ainmg strong ho|>es of a more settled state of affairs
in that country. Recently many of her merchants
have been at Belize, and as they were wont in days
ol old. they are buying goods and leaving their dol
lars and doubloons instead.
Fire is Pensacola —We regret to learn
that a destructive fire occurred at Pensacola on
the 2.d1l irist., at 2 o'clock, laying a large por
tion of the city in ruins. We are not in pos
session of full particulars, but learn that about
forty houses were burnt, including .Mr. Bar
clay s store near the wharf, and all the houses
on the two blocks north. The fire crossed
thence to Saragossa street, opposite the Flori
da house, which was also burnt, with, it issup
posed, a large portion of its contents. There
was we learn no insurance upon the property
destroyed.
Extract of a letter dated
• Pensacola, Sept. 25, 1848.”
'• Dear Sir:—The town this morning at half
past one o’clock was roused by the alarm of the
tire bell. I hurried on my clothes, and found
that a lire had broken out between Barklev’s
store and the Globe House. It raged with great
fury and destroyed about thirty-five tenements.
Among them are those occupied or owned by
the following persons: G. W. Barkley, Fo
renna-. Quigley. Cottenback, Conhn Horseler,
Bull Head, Globe House, another adjoining
Capt. Forsyth's, two of Capt. C’nrren’s. the
Freemason's Lodge, Sebastian Barrios. In
short, the whole of that block was consumed to
ashes. Also from V’issenta Barnes's to old In
nerarity’s including the Florida House, and all
the block from Madame Pa««ararnch’s to Su
san, the coffee woman’s. The fire is not yet
extinguished as I write. There will be a great
deal of distress among some of the unfortu
nates, many of whom had all their furniture I
destroyed."— Afobile Tribune. I
Augusta, ®co.:
TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 3, 1848
ABtoiiii<ting w D cvc ] O p men j >
Ihe Union and other Democratic organs
have found another “ mare's nest. ” They say
that the Columbus Statesman says, that a Mas
silon paper says, that Mr. L. B. Fisher says,
on the authority of Mr. Geo. D. Hine, that,
“Mr. Corwin produced (in his presence) a
manuscript letter purporting to be written by
Gen. Taylor to a gentleman of Cincinnati, the
purport of which was. as Mr. Corwin read it to
Mr. Hine,\Xv&t he, the writer, (Gen. Taylor,)
teas in favor of the * Wilmot Proviso,' and that he
had been opposed to slavery for the past ticenty
years. ”
This is a rich specimen of Democratic testi
mony, and is a fair sample of that usually ad
duced by the organs of that party to prove that
Gen. Taylor favors the Wilmot Proviso. We
are not surprised, however, to see them catch
at it with such eager anxiety; they know how
unsound their own candidate, Gen. Cass, is on
this question—and, like drowning men, they
catchat straws, with the vain hope of making
an impression on the mind of Southern men
that Gen. Taylor occupies a position equally
anti-Southern. They, in their desperation, for
get that they did impose Martin Van Buren
upon the South—whose soundness they en
dorsed with much more zeal and unanimity
than they now’ do Gen. Cass’—they forget al
so, that a like endorsement of James K. Polk
was alsojnade by them, whose treason to South
ern rights is so fresh in the minds of every
Southern man. The people have not forgot
ten these things, and they will be rather incred
ulous as to Democratic promises in reference
to Gen. Cass, and equally so in relation to their
misrepresentations of General Taylor, with
whose habits, principles, character and identity
of interest they are perfectly familiar. They
know and appreciate fully the difference be
tween the Louisiana Sugar planter, who owns
hundreds of staves, and the Michigan land hold
er who “ prays for the abolition of slavery
everywhere
“ Gen. Butler no Slaveholder. ”
The Montgomery, (Ala ,) Journal says : We
have frequently called attention to the fact, that
the Northern Cass men have asserted, from the
time the canvass commenced, that Gen. Butler
was not only no slaveholder, but was an eman
cipationist ; and that it was their boast that their
ticket was not “ sullied with the curse of slave
ry. ” We have frequently asked for informa
tion on this subject, without effect. The South
ern Cass men have either no knowledge of Gen.
B’s. opinions on this point, or they are unwil
ling to divulge them. The statement that Gen.
Butler is opposed to slavery, and himself holds
no slaves, continually meets our eye, and we
have never seen it contradicted by the South
ern Cass press. If it is not true, and is a slan
der, why is it not set right? At a Cass and
Butler meeting held at Concord, Mass., we
find the following resolution among others a
dopted :
Resolved, That the only ticket now before the pub
lic, which can command the. support of the rea'
friends of free soil t is that which bears the names of
Lewis Cass and William O. Butler, as it
hue not the name of a slaveholder on it, nor that of
any man interested in either the perpetuation or ex
tension of slavery I! jTjl
Does the above speak the truth ? If so, it is
important that the people should know it. It
is stated by the New York Herald, in a review
of the signs of the times, that if Gen. Taylor
is beaten at a’l, it will be on the ground that he
s a slaveholder und a *• buyer of men and wo
men,” and the only representative of the slave
interest on either ticket. If such is, indeed, the
position of matters, slaveholders should know’
it, and rally to the support of their own inter
est and their own representative.
The River.—We are gratified to perceive
that the late rains have caused the river to rise
between four and five feet, and navigation is
now perfectly easy for boats of the heaviest
draught. The arrival of three steamers yes
terday, will give the wharves an air of busi
nes which has not been witnessed for some
two or three weeks. We indulge the hope
that the navigation will not be again interrupt
ed this season.
Tricks of the Cnismen.
The Albany (Ga ) Courier says:— A respect
able farmer came into our office the other day,
indignant at the falsehoods which had been told
him, to disatfect his mind towards Gen. Taylor,
and left his certificate at our disposal. The
amount of it is this, that .Mr. staled to him
that if Gen. Taylor should be elected President
slavery would be immediately abolished. We
understand that in another section ofthecoun-
I ty it has been added to the above, that the peo
ple generally would be taxed to pay their own
ers. We had heard befo r e that this argument
had been employed by one of our citizens,
whilst on a flying visit to the dark corner, but
our high opinion of him forbade our believing
the report. But there can be no mistake in its
having been used by the person whose name is
left blank in this notice. The certificate itself,
however, can be seen by calling at our office.
We mention this thing to place the people on
their guard and to apprise the Taylor men bow
“low down” the opposite party intend to rake,
in order to accomplish their purpose.
Latest News front Santa Fe—Texas Re
pudiated,
The St. Louis Republican announces the
arrival at that place of Mr. F. X. Aubrey, from
Santa Fe, having been but ten days on the
route, bringing dates to the 12th of September.
When it is recollected that 800 miles of this
distance was performed on horseback or on
foot, the performance seems almost incredible.
Mr. Aubrey made some portion of the trip
between Santa Fe and Independence at the
rale of 190 miles to the 24 hours. He had no
one to accompany him.
Mr. Aubrey reported water hound, at Sand
Creek, Major Reynolds’ division of the Mis
souri volunteers; Maj. Walker's battalion, and
Lieut. Love, with a small number of U. S.
dragoons There were with this party Messrs.
Finley, Allen Carey and McCarty, traders.
IL; passed Col. Ralls ami a portion of the
Missouri volunteers al the Battle Ground, 15
miles beyond the .Arkansas.
Col. Laton’s battalion, with the recruits un
der Lieut. Allen, were at Fort Mann.
(ien. Price and staff were water hound at
the Pawnee Fork; also, Maj Donaldson’s di
vision of Illinois volunteers, and Lieut. Cooley,
of Col. Gilpin’s command.
At Cow Creek, he passed Capt. Cunning
. ham’s division of Illinois volunteers, water
bound.
i lie passed Capt. Newby, Dr. Robinson and
Lieut. Hamilton at Willow Springs.
He met Gov. Lane, en route for Oregon, at
Council Grove.
From an extra issued from the office of the
Santa Fe Republican, and dated on the 13th
inst., we gather the following items of infor
mation.
Company 11. First Dragoons, commanded
■ by Lt. Buford, from Fort Gibson, arrived at
. Santa Fe on the 9th inst., all in good health.
Bi. Lt. Col. Washington appointed, it is said,
civil and military governor of New Mexico,
was expected at Santa Fe by the 20th of this
month. The Republican hopes that he may
soon reach there, as it is impossible for 200 men
to garrison and protect so extensive a territory
i from the savages.
.Major Beall, I . S. Dragoons, was in com
mand of the military force in New Mexico.—
He had received petitions from Taos, Peralto,
Albuquerque and other points, asking for
troops to garrison the frontiers, as the inhabi
tants were in constant danger from the daily '
incursions of the Indians—who continued to
murder them, and to drive off their stock. The
small force left to garrison the country made it
impossible for Major Beall to comply wtth these
requests.
and escort > Mr.’J. Findley,
Mr. McCarty, and other gentleman left for the
states on the Ist instant.
1 he Republican, noticing the passage by the
I exas Legislature, of bills to establish the coun
ty of Santa F e—to arrange the militia of the
county of Santa Fe—to establish the eleventh
Judicial Circuit, to be formed of that county—
and to allow the county one representative in
the House, says:
We would now inform our Texan friends
that it is not necessary to send us a judge nor
a district attorney to s title our affairs or put
th.ngs to rights,’ for there is not a citizen,
eit cr American or .Mexican, that wid ever ac
knowledge themselves as citizens of Texas, un
til it comes from higher authorities. New Mexi
co does not belong, nor has Texas even a right
to claim her as a part of Texas. Texas should
show some little sense and drop this question,
and not have it publicly announced that Tex
as’ smartest men were tarred and feathered by
attempting to till the office assigned them
Get Married. It you are fortunate, get
married : for a good wife increases your pros
perity, and renders you‘twice-blessed’ in the
enjoyment of your riches.
If you are unfortunate, get married ; the
cares of the world are lessened by having a
wife who takes pleasure in bearing them with
you.
More Incendiarism.—The Columbus (Ga.)
Democrat of the 28th ult., says : On Friday last,
there were two more attempts to fire the city.
A stable of Mr. W. L Jeter was consumed, and
a fence in the rear of Mrs. Neufler's Boarding
House was attempted to be burnt, but it being
day-light, the attempt failed. A black wo
man belonging to Mr. P. Gittinger, in the
service of Mr. Boulter, was taken up on sus
picion of having committed the deed, but it
since appears that she was absent from the
neighborhood, all day, and could not have been
the incendiary in the latter instance.
Health of Savannah.—The Republican of
t»e 2.)ih ult. says : By reference to the Sex
ton s report in our yesterday morning’s paper, *
it will be seen that there was not one death in
tns city of white person for the week ending
on tie ~bth inst. Ihe number of interments
reported is only tAree. Two of these deaths
occurred out of town and one at the hospital.
The number of deaths of blacks was four-all
‘ of ages under two years and of infantile com
plaints.
i -
Another Screw Loose,
The Marietta Helicon publishes the follow
ing letter from an independent democrat of
Cass county:
Cass Co., Ga. Sept 20. 1849.
Mr. Editor: —Sir, there seems to be a misunder
standing and a great anxiety evinced by my friends
in relation to how I will vote in the Presidential elec
tion. I will here state to them, through the columns
of your paper, that if I live until the 7th of Novem
ber next, and can crawl to the polls I will vote for
Old Zack, the people’s friend.
I have always heretofore voted with the Democrats,
but I can’t do it now. And I would say to all Demo
crats vote for Gen. Taylor. Beware of those North
ern men with Southern principles. Remember 1840.
Please publish the above and oblige respectfully,
T. E. Biens.
The British Royal Mail Steamer Eu
ropa sailed from New York on the 27th ult.
She takes ninety-eight passengers for Liver
pool and ten for Halifax, and fifty-one thou
sand and eighteen dollars in specie.
Great Speaking.—Henry Clay, Governor
Letcher, Senator Corw in, Caleb B. Smith of
Indiana, and Col. James Collier of Ohio are
advertised to be present at a grand Barbecue
at Hamilton. Ohio, got up in honor of Corwin.
No More Officers Wanted.—The Wash
ington Union informs the large number of ea
ger young applicants for commissions in the
army, that since the discharges which the law
required to be made on the termination of the
war with Mexico, there is no probability of
any such appointments being made tor some
lime to come. There are now attached to the
army fifty-eight brevet second lieutenants wait
ing promotion, who will, of course, take the
precedence. Os these, forty-one are graduates
from the Military Academy, and seventeen are
non-commissioned officers appointed brevet
lieutenants for meritorious conduct, under the
act of March 3d, 1847.
Conviction of Epes.—The trial of W. Dan
dridge Epes, charged with the murder ofF.
Adolphus Muir, commenced in the Superior
Court of Dinwiddie. Va., before Judge J. W.
Nash, on Wednesday week. After some diffi
culty a jury was procured on Thursday even
ing. On Monday evening last, says the Rich
mond Enquirer, the jury after a short retire
ment brought in a verdict of guilty. He is sen
tenced to be hung on the 2d December.
Slavery was abolished by public decree, in
French Guana, on the Kith of August, in virtue
of a decree of the French Republic of the 27th
of April, and the name of the French people.
The proclamation was made amid much cere
mony; an immense number of the citizens,
with their wives and children, celebrated the
day with dances and sports, and great enthusi
asm, shouting Vive la Repuldique! Vive la Liber
te ! Vive la Commissaire General!
Affairs in Chili.—A railroad is about to be
laid from Valparaiso to the port of Copiapo.
A project for a railroad to the interior, and
the establishment of a department of the trea
sury, were under consideration by the Con
gress.
A small sheet is issued lately under the title
of La Reforma, advocating measures for the
melioration of the condition of the people. A
journal entitled El Huelen has been started in
opposition to it, and in defence of the existing
ministry.
Public education is attracting much attention
in Chili, and not without cause. Published re
turns show an extraordinary lack of intelligence
and education among the masses.
From Peru we have accounts of the arrival
of four sailors, part of the crew of the Chilean
bark Adelina, from Talcahuana, who mutinied
and murdered the Captain. The mate and
crew being nearly always drunk, these four de
serted, and arrived safe at Calao. A pilot boat
was sent out in search of the Adelina, which
had a valuable cargo of wine and spirits.
Al Valparaiso, July 30, the American bark
Undine, having met with detentions and injury
in coming through the straits of Magellan, had
come in for repairs. Her cargo has been dis
charged.
The Late Storm at the South.—During
the late easterly storm the steamer Ocmulgee
experienced a very severe storm in the St.
John’s River. It began raining on Monday
evening last at five o’clock, and continued
until two o’clock on Tuesday morning, when
the wind shifted from E. S. E., to N. N. W.,
blowing “ great guns”—the hardest blow felt
there for several years. The steamer Ocmulgee
had to make a harbor about two miles from
Palatka, under the lee of the forest, with her
anchors ahead. The mail carrier from St.
Augustine to Picolata reports that the gale was
very severe at the former place and did con
siderable injury. After the gale was over they
caught fish with cast nets in the streets. A
small schooner from Key West, at anchor olf
the town, was blown up against the wall of the
Barracks. On Monday evening there was a
steamboat and top.-ail schooner olf the St.
Augustine Bar, and it is thought they must
have gone ashore South of St. Augustine.
For the above information we are indebted to
Capt. MrNelty.— Savannah Republican.
n evv T a ll and wanter
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ami Tennessee, to receive and sell ALL KINDS OF
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