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* '•'tV*****^ 1 J**r Hi ir Aytykijk'i'tr ' ' 1 **?»***'■•• •ipjfcti,rtc.; L.i :t -mIi Tt* t4?U»y ytvtfcv*% «v t i STsbr.l e*i-0 • •’• •V H 1 — J. II. CHRISTY & T. M. LAMPKIN, > COlTOEt AND PROPRIETORS. 5 -i—| :—_ji 55cnotcit lo Nous, folitirs, £iteratnw, (General Jntclligcncc, CVgriralturc, l TERMS t—TWO DOLLARS A YEAR ( INVARIABLY IN AOVANCC. NEW SERIES—Y0L. R, NO. 18. ATHENS,- THURSDAY, NOY EMBER 2,1848. university of georgiaubumh 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