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VOLUME XYI. NUMBER 30.
f .« ■ From the Richmond Tim*.
1 Ccaerol Cam tke “better Free Soil
A ' wm Hum Mvlia Tom Barca.
\ . The Democratic. papers persist in
keeping Mr. Fillmore** letter of 1838
bfefore their readers, as the “ Platform
^ of the Whig candidate {or the Vice Pre
sidency." We shall, in some sort, fol
low their example, leaving out the black
ltoes and striking at higher game, viz;
their candidate for the Presidency.
Here, then, is £
OKI. CASS’ FLATFORXT.
I. ms rsATCft ros uxtyxmal abolitioh.
^ ..“We are no slaveholder. We never
'haw been—wb never shall be. Wb
DEPRECATE ITS EXISTENCE IN PRINCIPLE,
AND PRAY FOR IT8 ABOLITION EVERY
WHERE, where this can be effected,
jnstily and peaceably and easily for both
parties.**—Letter on the Right of Search.
n. ms nUKES os the wit.mot ritoviao.
FIRST PHASE —SESSION OF 1845-6
Hot Anxiety to Vote for the Proviso.
Statement by Senator Miller, of New Jersey,
in Senate, 22d June, 1848.
“At the first session of the twenty-
ninth Congress, the three million bill,
as it was called came to the Senate from
the House, with the Wilmot proviso in
it. On the last day of the session, (10th
August, 1846,) and about half an hoar
before thetime fixed for the adjournment
of Congress, the bill came up for con
sideration, when the Senator from Ala
bama [Mr. Lewis] moved to strike out
the proviso. The Senator from Massa
chusetts [Mr. Davis] took the floor
against the amendment and in favor of
the proviso, and spoke until a few min
utes before the adjournmebt. No vote
was taken upon the question, and the
bill was lost for want of time to act up
on it.**
“ As soon ns Mr. Davis had taken his
seat, General Cass came over to his side
of the Senate, and with much earncst-
^ ness said, in the presence of the Sena
tors, that he regretted much that Mr. Da
vis had by his speech prevented the vote from
being taken; that he [Gen. Cass] anil eve
ry Democratic Senatorfrom the free States,
would have’roted to sustain the proviso, that
Mr. Allen would have led off, and all
the rest would have followed ; that he
was very sorry that they had been de
prived of the opportunity of voting up
on it; that it would have settled the
question, and Gov. Davh was responsi
ble for defeating that result."
Statement by Oen. Cass himself in hit se-
cond speech in Senate, March 1st, 1847.
"Last year [1S46,] he (Mr. Cass) should
J have voted for the proposition [etc: the Wil
mot proviso] had it come up.
SECOND PHASE—END OF THE SESSION
OF 1846-7
Degins to think the Proviso inexpedient, at
this time, though proper in itself.
Extract from Gen. Cass' Letter to R. S.
Wilson, dated Feb. 19th, 1847.
" It ia now distioctly understood, and
it wjll be the Democratic sentiment
through the country, that every thing
must give may to a vigorous prosecution of
the war, and that no measures must be
proposed that will embarrass the Ad
ministration.
The Wilmot Proviso will not pass
the Senate—it would be death to the icar
—death to the hopes of getting an acre of
territory—death to the administration, and
death to the Democratic party. It
eo intended. It no doubt originated with
proper feelings; but things have nov
come to such a pass that its adoplior
will produce these effects.
u It is distinctly avowed by the South-
.cm members of Congress that they
would not vote for any measures for the
prosecution of the war, nor would thev
ratify any treaty, if ibis * provision be
comes a law.
Extract from Gen. Cass' first Speech
Senate, March 1st, 1847..
■-."It will be quite in season to pro-
wide for the government of territorv not
yet acquired from foreign countries, af
ter we shall have obtained it.** Legislation
now would be wholly inoperative, be
cause no territory, hereafter lobe acquir
ed, can be governed without an act of
Congress providing fpr its government;
and such an act on its passage would
open the whole subject and would leave
the Congress called upon to pass it free to
exercise its own discretion, entirely uncon
trolled by any declaration found on the stat
ute book. 19
The Union's Report of Gen. Cass' second
JkfiZfcr ^ an * ***’ ** T *Pty^
44 Mr. Cass said tbe course of the Sen
ator from New Jersey, (Mr. Miller) was
4DOSI extraordinary. Last year he (Mr.
iC.) should have voted for tke proposition
for.’ the Wilmot Proviso] had it come up.
Bot circumstances had altogether chang-
—rf tA. Tbe honorable Senator then read
fteyfcnl passages from the remarks as
f given above, which he had conynitted
‘ to writing in order to refute such a
"charge as that of tbe Senator from New
' Jersey’*—the charge, namely, that Mr.
Cass had turned against tke Wilmot
Proviso.]
THIRD PHASE—DECEMBER, 1847.
Buchanan and Dallas, in apposition to
the Proviso. i
“ The Wilmot Proviso has been be
fore the country 6ome time. It has been
repeatedly discussed in Congress, and
by the public press. I am strongly im
pressed with the opinion that a great change
has been going 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 principle it in
volves should be kept out of the national
legislature, and left to the people of the
confederacy in their respective local
governments.”
“It [tbe legislation Of Congress]
should be limited to the creation of pro
per governments for new countries, ac
quired or settled, and to the necessary
provision for their eventual admission
into the Union—leaving, in the mean
time, the people inhabiting them to reg
ulate their internal concerns in their own
way. They are just as capable of doing
so as tlu people of the States ; and they can
do so, at any rate, as soon as their po
litical independence is recognized by
admission into the Union. During this
temporary condition it is hardly expe
dient to call into exercise a doubtful
and invidious authority which questions
the intelligence of a respectable portion
of our citizens ; and whose limitation,
whatever it may be, will be rapidly ap
proaching its termination—an authority
which would give to Congress despotic
power, uncontrolled by the constitution,
over most important sections of our
common country.”
“I am in favor of leaving to the people
of any territory, which may be hereafter ac
quired, the right to regulate it [slavery]
for themselves, under the general princi-
of the Constitution."
“ More than one third of that body
[the Senate] would vote against it, [a
treaty embodying the Wilmot Proviso,]
viewing such a principle as an exclu
sion of the citizens of the slaveholding
States from a participation in the bene
fits acquired by the treasure and exer
tions of all, and which should he com
mon to all. I am repeating—neither ad
vancing or defending these views. That
branch of the subject does not lie in my
way, and I shall not turn aside to seek
it.”
Such property [quoting Mr. Buch
anan] would he entirely insecure in
any part of California. It is morally
impossible, therefore, that a majority
of the emigrants to that portion of
the territory South of 36 deg* 30 min.,
which will be chiefly composed of our
citizens, willcver re-establish slavery within
its limits.
Should we acquire territory beyond
the Rio Grande and cast of the Rocky
Mountains, it is still more impossible
that a majority of the people would con
sent to re-establish slavery. They arc
themselves a colored population, and among
them the negro does not belong socially
to a degraded race.
“ 4 Beyond the Del Norte,* says Mr.
Walker, ‘slavery will not pass—not on
ly because it is forbidden by law, but because
the colored race there prepondera tes in the
ratio of ten to one over whites ; and holding,
as they do, the government and most of the
officer tn their possession, they icill not per
mit the enslavement of any portion of the
colored race, which makes and executes the
laws of the country."
The question, it will be therefore seen
TRA_m»
Tuxe—Old Dun Tucker.
Let every man of every station.
Who claims a sliare in this great nation.
Attend tbe race comes off to-dav.
Between ■* Old Zacb" and - Extra Pay."
Then stand aside and keep the track free.
Stand aside and keep the track free.
Stand aside and keep the track free.
We go in for Honest Zach’ry.
Old “ Extra Fay” when first we find him.
Had “ broke kit tteordand cast behind him J
Tis true lie mag have thus altuedxl—
It’s very clear he never uted it.
Then stand aside and keep the track tree.
We go in for Honest Zach’ry.
Old “ Extra J*ay” is a famous “charger?
His country never produced a larger;
And yet if*true what people s*r.
When e’er he ckmntixwos for his pay.
Oh, stand aside and keep the track free,
We go in for Honest Zach’ry.
Old “Extra" now may boast his Scale, .
Of being feasted by the great;
And show with pride how lie could dance
Attendance at the “ Court of France.”
But stand aside and keep the track free,
We go in for Honest Zach’ry.
Old Honest Zarh’s a different man, sir.
And jill may trust him—aye, they run sir ;
For to his honor, be it spoken.
His word nor iwr./ were never broken.
Then stand aside and keep the track free,
We go in for Honest Zach’ry.
Then raise the shout in every clan.
From Eastern Maine to Michigan;
And what to some may seem amazing.
They’d soon put “ Extra" out a grazing.
Then stand aside and keep tbe track, free,
And all is safe for Honest Zack’ry.
[From the Pennsylvania Telegraph]
Lewis Caw a Statesman.
We have heretofore taken occasion
to refer to the claim of Statesmanship
for death and crimes and want and mis
ery to enter the abodes of thousands of
their own unoffending countrymen,—
and this, that they might achieve for
themselves a little political capital!
More perfect beartlessness never dis
graced the conduct of a public servant,
the foundation of the Government up to
the year 1S43. This remarkable fact
is established by these records. Can
this be right? Can Mr. Ritchie satisfy
the people ofthis country that Lewis Cass
while Governor of Michigan, was justly
entitled to double as much as all the rest
than was manifested by Lewis Cass! of the Governors of all the other twelve
the instance so pqintedly referred to
by Col. Benton.
A Democrat’* Tcutlmwny.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle gives
Ihe tallowing extragl of a letter from
Col. Samuel White of Louisiana, a
prominent Democrat, who is a neighbor
and intimate personal friend of Gen.
or fifteen territories of the United
States? And it also appears that a
great part of the extra pay allowed to
the other Governors was allowed by
Gen. Cass himself, while he was Sec
retary of War, based upon his own extra
allmcances.
These documents show also that Lew
is Cass received, in addition tohis regular
Taylor. We recommend the senti-1 salary of $2,000 a year SI,*500 a year for
raents ofthis Democrat, to our Demo- fuel, office rent, &c.,
cratic friends in this region, who de
clare that they prefer the preservation
of Southern Rights to any mere triumph
of party.
Says Col. White : ' mmm ^
“It has long been mv opinion, that! a year; and
$1500 a year for
services beyond the territorial lines of
Michigan, and also, at the same time, S3
per day and fort}’ ccqis per mile for
making treaties with tlielndians,amount
's alone, for part of the time, to S3,000
king, with his regular
and the equality of the rights of the 1 than $6. * But
South. So far as regards myself I
would never yield to any compromise
beyond the landmarks pointed out by
the constitution.
“From youth to age I have known
Gen. Taylor—he is emphatically a pure
and honest man, who is devoted to his
set up for Mr. Cass by his political I “"'W ^nd its^Consiitution, and will
friends; and have given some eviden- j u . % ■,° * uen . C y < , r. P ar |?
* . • ® . • , i j he has said as much and I believe him.
ces of In* performance ini that. high U know him IO be „ ma „ no
phere, which showed that like all oth-1 t , lr „ 0/ i l-
r honott. claimed for him. they have “ r "ld hl I°“ !. P ' Jr P oses ’, nor ■"-!
vanished into thin air. The liter of 'i T by any other cons,deration;
Mr. Webster, Secretary of State, when 1 ' miltrV !!y < i° Un,r - V '
Mr. Cass was Minister to France, as , are ,0 n “. ,he
_-n .1 ..... . o: • i ! least in the scale of the tnanv excellent
well as almost evrey other olhc.al per- quaIification5 which baW . rccmnme „ detl
ed, and their blood and valor won!!
This is THE QtBSTioN before the coun
try. This' is the subject Which has
aroused and* as we believe, in a good
formancc of the latter, give the
unmistakable evidence of the unfitness of
Gen. Cass to fill the office of Chiet Ex
ecutive of the Union; laying aside en
tirely the charges of well established
official corruption, and the most untiring
devotion to his own personal aggran
dizement. These facts have been es
tablished by the testimony of Henry
A. Wise and other distinguished mem
bers of the Locofoco party.
We will now introduce a yet more
prominent personage, and hear what Ac
has to say in behalf of Gen. Cass’
claims to the high and honorable distinc-
m of being a statesman.
On the 1st of June, 1846,when the Or
egon question was under delate, Hon.
Thos. H. Benton, of Missouri, made an
elaborate speech in reply to Gen. Cass.
The following is an extract:
“The people [said Mr. Benton,] had
been led into error—inflamed to the war
point upon a mistake; and now, when
the mistake was shown, the tug of an
cient war came upon poor human nature.
To admit the error and ask pardon of
God and mao, was the part of justice
and candor; hut this was humiliating
to vanity and self-love and the pride ol
consistency. To persevere in this er
ror, after it was detected* was the part
of human frailty; and the Senator from
Michigan, [Gen. Cass,] on the part of
his patty, has obeyed the law of frailty ;
he has persevered inerror ; HE CONVER
TED INTO DESIGN what
beginning u mistake! Weave now to have
war as far as the Senator and his party
make it, UPON DESIGN, AND WITH-
the old issues would ail fail away be- j salary and extra allowances, SS.000 a
lore the now absorbing one of North year, instead of S3,000—more than
and South, on the subject of slavery! S20 a day, when the law gave him less
tisfied with all this,
it appears that Gen. Cass charged and
received for several years, while Gov
ernor of Michigan, the pay and emolu
ments of a captain and quartermaster
in the regular army, amounting to up
wards of S900 per year more, and
charged and received at one time S6.610
for rations, as well as several thousand
dollars for settling his accounts and as
sisting to form an Indian code, while in
. y j receipt of all his salaries, regular and ex-
in-itra, above mentioned. And what is
worse than all this, in July* 1832, a
year after Gen. Cass was appointed Se
cretary of War, he produced an account
against the Government amounting to
853,128 96, for alleged overpayments*
running hack ten or twelve years, S5,-
317 15 in 1829 for Indian annuities;
810,183 61, an indefinite charge “for
Indian Department prior to 1829” which,
if right, he could have retained in any
of his quarterly settlements made du
ring these ten or twelve years produ
cing a balance in his favor of $35,075.
For This alleged balance, a requisition
was draWn (No. 2906) by John Robb,
acting as Secretary of War, in favor of
Lewis Cass, then himself Secretary of
War, on the Treasury, and the money
being paid, the settlement stood sus
pended till 1S37, when, it wa3 closed
~ - . . by Wm. B. Lewis. (Sec pages 232 and
V ^, P “r ABa,n S « 3 -> Wo«e : An allowance ap-
Fram tha N.tten.1 Intell^jenccr. pean to have been made, while Gov.
UlUOXTOWX, (Pa.) Sept. 29, 184S. 1 ......... c.. .. ,• w
Gentlemen: My attention Inis just [ ^ ry o r » *° . ^ m ‘
rm called to two late numbers of the ! W r ,,lbr,d B e - Secretary ofthe l .rr.tory,
which the editor has devo- i ” C .'J 'S as G r er . n °r Mich,gun, of SI,
him to his countrymen, for the highest
office in their gift. He is emphatically
the man for the times—his purity of
character, strong, innate sense of jus
tice, incorruptible honesty, and sound
unerring judgment, will 'be our safe
guard in the hour ol trial, and therefore,
I have no hesitation in voting, freely, to
place the helm of State in his hands.
** You know that I am a Democrat,
and have boen so all my life, but I can
not sell myself to jparty, I want neither
office or its emoluuifnts. I go for South-
rights, Southern men, and a South-
President.”
on examination, does not regard the 0DT PRETEXT; for he could not
exclusion of slavery from a region where i n „ me Frazier’s river, which is the sole
It now exists, hot a prohibition against. object and would be the instant cause
its introduction where it does not exist, J G f war »»
and where. Iron, the feelings of the in-1 . .' . .. The Senator [Gen. Cass!
habitants and the laws of nature, • it is j amI hi , parlv _ lhe bjg orga L n , an(] th „^
morally inijMSsible, as Mr. Buchanan which have followed its notes—turn been
says, ‘that it can ever re-establish it-
FOURTH PHASE—MUM UNTIL THE ELEC
TION.
From the Letter af Acceptance, May SOlk, 1848.
“This letter, gentlemen, closes my
profession of political faith."
leading the country to a war with Great
Britain upon a mistake, upon a blunder,
upon an ignorance of treaties and geogra
phy. The mistake has been exposed by
reading the treaties and producing the
geography. Instead of admitting the
- , . error, the Senatorfrom Michigan, for him-
Gen. Gass’s reply to the inquiry of Mr. j self and his friends, perseveres in it; and
R. J. Moses, whether the Nicbolso'n | thus what icas mistake in the beginning,
letter did not mean “ that the inhahi- I became design—\ DESIGN TO HAVE
tantsola territory, before they forma! A WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN,
State Government, have a right to es- i without faring to name the p■ etext; for
tahlish or prohibit slavery,” and whe-; Frazier** river* or new Caledonia, are
ther he adhered to that letter: words not to be got out of their mouths.
• Adaugtgoing on in tke public mind, his
m?,: own as .weu as others. Tke Wilmot
“I had eupposed that my sentiments
upon the subject to which you refer were
fully understood by my Southern friends;
but as you seem to desire information,
I enclose you my Nicholson letter which
contains all that 1 have to say upon the
subject.—May 21st, 1S48.
Remark by Judge Wood, at Cleveland, June 1C&.
We are told, sir, that should you
be elected to tbe Presidency of the Unit
ed States, your administration would
lend its influence to the extension and per
petuation of human slavery. The peo
ple here assembled will, with'the great
est pleasure, now listen to any commu
nication which, sir, it may be yonr plea
sure to submit.”
Reply of General Cass.
44 Sir, the noise and confusion which
pervade this assembly will prevent my
being heard on the important topics to
which yoo have called my attention.’
been
‘ Union,” in winch the editor has devo-i ° ~ r .
ted ten columns (with the promise or 400 a .' ear f '> r l. hre <> years an.d twenty,
more.) to the examination of my late five I,e Gov ’ Cafs
speech in reference to Gen. Cass’extra!‘ n , " e ?" , ! a “ ,l 8 tl : ea, ' es ’
pay. This is a compliment I hardly ? 4 ’ G02 ,T 4 for foe ’'l® 1 ' 0 T’’ 1
expected from the editor of the Unio.f, j ' Wt ' C , n , ,h !* car3 1815 a "‘ ! , 18a7 ’ ,
and ain exceedingly sorry that 1 have { ,a Mnn!' 0 ™ enlwa ? 1 " s selves, and square their nlnrals bv it
given him so mud, trouble and nneasi- P a >' S ?'°°“ a y ear ex, . ra lor *?? • olfice rather than the traditions oflheir Norlh-
ncss. | £"L’ n ?t’ '-"V r temlor f " f H‘ c "S an ! ern brethren, they are cast dot as evil.
I have not time just now to read, I • ’ r ° aS f|SLoOO to act- considered as unworlhv of scats in the
much less to comment on these ten col- ( w oot II r . K .S c » al l ** e sa jne, synagogue, and denounced id the higb-
urans of editorial abuse; but since Mr. i rt »Li;iinnai ^!»*! wa J s as heathen men and publicans—a
The Great Contest.—Jf o/ttiern Prejn*
Sice and Fanaticism vs. Southern rights
•usd Southern I not nations. WUI *Ue South
bo true to Herself f
' The time fur argument is closed; the, _
time has now arrived for action. A degree united the Southern people.—:
great deal ha* been said trt turn the j Shall they submit to such injustice as
public consideration from the great this? Are they willing loyield up their
question before.h* and fritter it away > r 'ohts* as citizens ofa common country,
upon comparatively unini|iortnnt and ! at *he shrine of mere miserable partizan-*
trivall issues—issues which were they i ship—‘■to sell their birth-right fot a mess
alone before the people, would not lies [ poftai^e ? These are the real ques-J
worthy, nor could they secure, a tithe before the people of the South,
of the consideration and anxious solici-: w hich. have absnrbcw and swallowed
tude which the presidential question * U P al { others. It is, in truth, the
merits and receives. j question which has ever united our peo-
But contrary lo tbe expectation of; ouei —the great question off 4 free-
those who have so sedulously labored j ^ om an< ^ r q>»al rights.’* Can it be ex«*
to pervert the public mindjand contrary I P Ct: *e‘l that for mere parly ohjetes, and
to the effects of such persevering effort ’ l ^ ,e !, ffg ra udizement of political leaders,
on ordinary occasions, such is life ac- J l ^ ,e P eo pl e the^South, attlie very com-
knowledged importance of this presi- mencement utthisominous contest, will
dential election, as it regards the har- . V T ' C H u l* l * ,e Executive power of the
tnony and prosperity of the country i Union—now at her command, in thd
—such especially its felt importance in ! Person of Zachary Taylor—-a power sd
regard to the interests, the rights, ihe ! Potential for good or for evil, and tnrne-
prosperity, ay, even the being of the am * recklessly give it into the hands
South—that all the efforts of mere par- j those who arc loudest and most unre-
tizan politicians, all the energies of a ! !cM ,n g in their war upon our rights jeo-
partizan press brought to bear with all purded by the acts and hostility of thesei
its power to dissipate the public re-! ver y nien* and to be used by them for
gards from this great issue, have signal- ai,r own overthrow? It is too much for
ly failed of their wonted success. The ; for even the most besotted Dartizan Id
people, especially the Southern people,' expect. The Southern people will nev-
see their danger; they feel that the day i er yield the rights of themselves and
has arrived when they must look to t *heir children at the mere bidding of
themselves, and under Providence to I party, hor for the accomplishment of
themselves alone for the maintenance of! m °re party purposes. Already havethe
their rights under the Constitution a s! enemies of Southern institutions and the
citizens of a common country; rights i v * ,a ^ interests of our people, the control
which are now so boldly denied them |°* both branches of the national legisla-
in word, and which arc sought to be ’ * ure i the powers of these majorities have, \
torn from them by law: by majority evea » n the last session been exercised
law, overriding the spirit of the compact; against us with unrelehiing severity.—
by which we were organized as one Shall we add to this already almost re-,
people with equal rights secured* as he-| -“‘stless power against us, the power of
lieved, to all sections—ay,’ even to the j ,l,e Federal Administration ? Shall we,.
South. * * fo® pf°ple of the South, in full view of
The dangers which surround us are " ar U P°" ou ’ ri S h, » h y national
sop dpable as lo have been brought k “ Bli ‘' uurc ' deeidedlv atld unbendingly
home to tbe comprehension and the agu.nst us, augment that already fearful
power* by tamely and With a fatuity
unexampled adding to it likewise the
power and influence of the Executive
government? Never. The people oft ho
South are hot mad, most noble Festus.
Would that the people Of the North were
, „..u r .> sl as she, except the bonds with which
President ? who shall ,he y seak manatHe hen
fthe' * Southern people see the;r situa-
Executive Power of the Union f Tho! don—they appreciate it—they will not
people have seen themselves and , bf j r i »“h the.r consent yield the power of the
fellow men of the South denied the com-! hxpcutive of this country to their ene-
mnn rights, the common sympathies of 1 especially when they can retain
a common Christianity, bv their North- 11 'liemselues. aml for their own seifs
ern brethren of several of the most re-t P reser '’ a * ,f, n, in the hands of that trud
spectablc atld influential branches of i U t ear,e d soa ^° 4 the^feouth, _thc glorious
the Christian Church; anti this denial
feelings of all; and in A way so striking
and substantial that all the efforts of
mere party politicians and placemen
have proved for once utterly ineffective
lo mystify the public mind, or to per
vert it from the true appreciation of the
vital importance of the one point in issue.
Who shall be our President? vt
this dark day have the control of the
of the communion and fellowship of
common Christianity exiirted Against
them for the heinous offetice of being
Southern Christians; Because the men
oft he South read the Bible for them-
Ritchic questions the truth of my i
| most striking and unmisiakeablc
I will refer him
which he seems to beq
not dare to controvert.
President Polk’s
“The Stcptoe Festival”— 1 “Old Zach.’’
The Lynchburg Patriot has an inter
esting account of a dinner given in Lib
erty on the 6th fast.* by the citizens of
Bedford, to a gallant son of that county*
Lieut. Col. Steptoc, of the U. S. Army.
Col. Cteploc, in his handsofne speech
in reply to a complimentary toast, made
the following allusion to Gen* Taylor:
44 It was not my fortune to serve it!
Mexicrt under ihe banner of that Iron
while Governor of Miehignn and ex-olK: ^°I er " ar °> a ! ,d “ r «.«»<»'" i wUh'.“or««bbtel Ihe people oftYe Snmh Warrlor ‘ who “ * d “ c * tio " “ said to be
cio Superintendent o: Indian AWair.,! fe ’ p"'; er, >" r Mteht- need , lostronger pr< j,r t „ bring home to
$04,865,46 extra pay over and above j g-i n » mnne la e y o owing, are ^ m.« o ,j, em w j t |, a j[ j, a fo rC e and all its vivid-
the amount of his legal and fixed sala- ! ,, v"‘ a3S ’ ecre T s < ’ ..*}[' \" r ; ness the dangers which beset them; and
ry of $2,000 a year. Now I assert that i‘ V, 3 ^ ar « e , se . c W® o0 - ' V h <‘" \ the absolute necessity of the “ union of
this messaee. sent in bv President Polk 1 ? ,e C , X P ‘ u r ns m U* ,e the South for the sake of the
;\c. unu receive it at the time? Because
ttu hurt y nf, Gov Cassrcceived it . Whv
rh r ‘‘lor fifteen yearn till Gnv. Cm
1 refer him to, f Q . , .
jo of the nth; ; a, y” f ' Var , ! ,, And wl, y • • ■
August last, (Executive document No. | „ J 1 ., a f lln * J
66,) printed since the adjournment.—'. ar * .. W | ,l | e e a owance oi ol suc j, an j m p a [ se as JO disruptth<
Now, I charged Gen. Cass with taking, yj l,nei 1,1 e ? ,n “ °, ‘ r f, S!, ^red Christian ties as if thev
while Governor of Michigan and cx-offi- i ( f°I er . n l ,r of Michigan, --
ecause i p ur p OSe 0 f jhe majority of the peopli
twe ve i 0 |*this Union in relation to the South,
and the institutions with which her very
life and being are identified. When
ass is Secre-
s this allowed
i Secretary of
ofS4 378 6L’ U,e 8 P ,r * t ol l* anat ‘ c ‘ 3m ^ ,a3 atijuired
■ssage, sent
in obedience lo
House, with tbe documents appended, j
Ritchie cxpla
>V i ICSKICIIL J ItlK i , , * -
■esolotion of the perhttpx hour front ,
old man of Buena Vista. We await the
voice of the people of Georgia at the
polls, on the first Tuesday of next montth,
with a perfect confidence that they will
there prove, that they are not prepared
yet, by any mere party consideration,
to sacrifiice themselves, their section*
and the rights of their chidren who are
to follow alter them;
In conclusion, let i
so limited that with all the instructions
of Gen. Santa Anna, that cleverest of
Mexican masters, he has never been
able lo understand the meaning of tho
word surrender. Although familiar with
his general qualities, I know nothing
xiouse, with the documents appended, n . . *
sustain ami establish every dollar ami ! tltcb,e B” , P r,eI >' nt m .' w
every cent I have charged against Gen. b;lllcr - v °f b.ll.,|gsgnle and abusele
Cass. Thev ,1a more*: thev show that '"e upon President Palk ami thefile,
rsuggest tn Mr. T ne, i T y a " y m °, re co , nclus,ve ev '- pers"o,tally of his great deeds. But hii
. Sh } ilenee that t ns ts nnt tho day to push | j ha / tbem {ot us al:
front lbe P°” Cr ° lht ‘ Ex ' :cu ," ve S'”' a '-."met,t | and , he record j, j* mo „ a |.-
-officers *** ‘! ,c I Gen.Casshasbeenalsotryingvcfyhard
of the Treasury and War Departments* u ? j Ul r, l° ? on ” 1 ' e ,MI ’ • * ® to makeOlt 1 Zach understand the mean-
who have taken tbe task of sustaining ba ,'! ! >d ,P atriotlc Zachary | ingaf the word ■< surrender.” but the old
barges against Gen. Cass off ,ny . and l " « ,ve 11 ove . r l " an «' r P" e r N " r,h -1 hero is as .lull as ever. That word >a
b 7 1 er " man : one wbo ,,a9 a11 b,s l,fe been 1 — - Air dictionary.—Sich. Rtp.
Cass. They do more: they show that
Gen. Cass received as marshal of Ohio
and Minister to France S26, 708 (55,
over and above the amount of his sala- , ,, - . , ... ,
rie, and hi, outfit and return, which, re- f b,,,l!d "?’. NVdl be , d " } ' en '" r °
garde,I as ertm, will make his extra lbe I ,redlcl,a " lb “ l bereaf l" be w, “ bo
pay $91,574 11, and hi* regular and
extra pay together S234.231 49. Now
if my charging Gen. Cass with taking! Hints to Ladies. emancipation. jSept. w 16th* says:, “The funeral of
$64,865 46 extra pay is justly denounc- Mvri of sense—I speak not of boys of But leaving these reflections in regard \ Commodore Alexander Slidell McKen-
ed by Mr. Ritchie and bis other venal eighteen to twenty, during their age of to this serious phase ofthis dangerous I zie is passing under the window of ibei
room in which lam writing. It is pre-
silcnt c
over tn 9
ri» man; one who has all his life been j
ssociated with our most desperate ns-J
Iiilaats.antl who has by his own writ-1 Strange Fatality,
:n testimony avowed his sympathies] A correspondent of the Boston Herald
dili their great purpose of universal j writing from New York under date of
They will go to war for them* but not
name them, much less state a title to
them.
• • • 44 This day has been the
most humiliating of my senatorial life.—
1 have felt for the American. Senate, when
I have seen a memlter [GEN. GASS] cling- Gov. Marcv, Secretary of War, D. Gra- j
ceded by a band of musicians and a
company of Marines from tbe Navy
Yard, whose measured steps are in ao-
A lawyer once jeeringly asked a Qua-
nhn.jn.rt * , I ker if «»>M tell (he difference be-
Fro two half-way abandoned for a better i tween also and likewise. 44 O yes,
Fra Soddoetruu. | said the Quaker, pertlv, ■< Erskine is
•■Kxtncufrom lie Nidukon Litter dated i great lawyet; his talents are admired
‘“Dec. 24, 1847, and directed to certain j by every one r yod arc a lawyer Aisa.: tors, joined
gentlemen, who had 44 read with high sat- j but not like-wise.
tng to error, and endeavoring to keep die
people in error, EVEN A T THE RISK
OF WAR, by endeavoring to Jo away the
plain words of a treaty ; by garbling and
mutilating scraps of speeches, to depreciate
another Senator—w/un the greht question
was one of the peace and honor of the coun
try, in the presence of which every selfish
' _ should have stood abashed and re-
^National Intelligencer, of June
2d, 1S48.
Dishonest and wilful persistnnee in
an endeavor to plunge two nations into
war. Such is tbe character stamped
upon Gen. Cass* statesmanship by one
of his fellow Senators, ofbis own political
party! AndwbotbairememberstheOre-
gon controversy, does not remember how
Cass, and Allen and others, joined ham
and strove, as they tbemselvea&eclari
to 44 prepare flic hearts of thefteg
war"—yes, grave and bonbtfbL
joined in a cool deliberated
arouse the most spirit that"'ever
followers as 44 villification and slander”; detestability—tr.on who are worth the national question, ns it is sought to be
of Mr. Cass, what will they now say of j trouble of falling in love with, and the made, the people of the South have been
Mr. Polk, who make* it much worse i fuss and inconvenience of being married startled and aroused by the recent omin-
than I did? What will they say of i to, and to whom one might, after some ous demonstrations in Congress, in a
Gov. Marcv, Secretary ol War, D. Gra-1 inward conflicts, and a course perhaps, degree somewhat commensurate with ! cord with the slow and melancholy mu-
bam, Register of the Treasury, P. Hag- _ of fasting and self-humiliation, submit | the profoundly important nature of the j sic which they evoke from tbe numerous
ner and John M. McCalla, Second and j to fulfil those ill-contrived vows ofobe- , subject matter of those demonstrations. J wind instruments that they are playing
Third Auditors, who sustain by their j dicnce which are exacted at the altar—; The sulject is a brief one, and is em- upon. What great changes occur with-
official signatures these statements ihus i such men want for their companions not braced in a single eeutence. The land' in a short time in tbis^ mundane world !
'* vilufying and slandering” Mr. Cass, dolls j and women who would suit such, conqnerd by the North and the South, A few short years since, and Slide! Mc-
and rendering him, if true, (as has been , men are just as capable of loving fer- shall be held, owned, and occupied by
said by his friends,) “ unworthy the j Vently, deeply, as the Ringletina, full of the North only. This is the decree of
support of any honest man?’’ These! song and sentiment, who cannot walk- 1 - the Northern Congress. This is the
“ outrageous” charges being establish- Cannot rise in the morning—cannot tie , real subject, in brief, now before tbe
ed by his own friends, what will my villi- j her bonnet strings—faints if she has to country. Gen. Taylor, for instance,
fiers and slanderers now say ? Wcshall j lace her hoots—never in her life brush- the coquemr of the" valley of the Rio
see - # j ed out her beautiful hair—-would not for j Grande, is to be excluded from living
The President’s message anil docti-[ the world prick her delicate finger in in the country he conquered—and this
meats sustaining these charges are in j plain sewing ; but who can work har- for the crime"ol being a Southern man.
tbe bands of every member of Congress, | der than a factory girl npon a lamb’s' The territory conquered and acquired
where they may be seen, and to facili- wool shepherdess—dance like a dervish j by Southern generals, and mostly by
tate the examination, I will refer the in-! at AI mack’s—ride like a fox-hunter ;—Southern soldiers, at equal expense of
quirer to pages 2, 3, 5, 46, 47, 50, 159,; and whilst every breath of air gives her; tfouthem treasure, and more than an
’60, 233 and 234. cole! in her father’s gloomy .country; equal expenditure of Southern blood, is
orthermore appears by these offi- i house, anil she cannot think ho\v people , to be turned over to the North, without
ocuments„ that Gen. Cass charged endure this climate, she can go oul to restriction and without stint; and the
nd revived as Governor of Michigan!dinner parties in February and March,; Southern people, the very people who
tore wzb'-dcvble the amount of extra i with an inch of sleeve and halt a quar-, acquired the country, for the crime of
received by ail the Governors of ail' ter of bodice.-*—Mrs. Thompson.
people, are to be exclud-' apoplexy !
Kenzie in the plentitude of authority
and power, walked tbe quarter deck of
the U. S. brig Somers and exercised
despotic sway over a crew of five bun*
dred. Nmv, he is being borne to his
final resting place on earth, and bis spir
it has gone to its Maker to answer for
the sins done iri the flesh; It will be recol
lected that* Com. McKenzie banged at
the yard-arrn of the Somers young Spen*
cer, son of the Hon. John C. Spencer,
for attempted munity while onacruise.
What a strange fatality has happened
to a great portif t of the officers who or-. \
deredxhat execution. Lieut. Ganese-
vort became a lunatic ; the purser blew
his brains out; and now the chief offi
cer, Commodore McKenzie has plied of