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wasoaidtobe a part of his body-guard.
Mr. Foote. That particular point was not started.
[A laugh.]
PARTY tT.ATFORW ‘
Mr. Clayton. Than here is nnothar subject nhout
which tieneral Casa has no plaliornv Now ail these
doubts and ambiguities: and trreconcileable mconaiaten
cics come from the party which assails tieneral 1 ay
ler because, as they any, “ he does nol speak ou!
•’ He has no platlorm.” So they spoke of tren. Har
rison, Dhtil he beat them 146,000 votes.
They call.-d him “ General Mum,” and now.as then
the eomplamt is made that thoae who no . mated the
Whig Candidate had made “no platform.” Sir, they
knew that Washington had no platlorm. nnd thev had
more respect fa- Gen. Taylor, nnd for the intelligence
ofthe people than to pat their candidate into a straight
jacket orseek.by manufacturing professionsolpnimc
alfaith for him. to deceive the voters of the country
Thev intended lie should he tree and unutmtnielled,
as the President ofthe who 1 1 people. Bill iv lois there
among us who has t ot long since felt, and published or
privately expressed his contempt foi ihear * platjoi ins
Look back to your Democratic platform ol 1844. i hen
the Democratic Convention pawed a resolution 10 re
nnnex nil Oregon avowing that the title to it wn“ clear
and unquestionable up to 54° 40 At the hound >( ihe
party bugle the part tent! editor* ol the Democratic press
throughout the country shouted “clear and undue*
tionable.” A thousand Democratic meeting echoed
back the aonnd “ Orefon and M° 40 ’ were painted
on party banners and party walla, and printed on party
handbills.
Mr. Polk’s inaugural address also declare.) the title
** clear and unquestionable.” His message in Decem
ber 1845, repeated the same tolly, and threatened war
to the knife, and knife to the hilt, against the English
claim, above 49° ; all the little, nnd nearly all the great
polrticians of the party standing ready to moke fight
on this platform The party leaders alurwards occu
pied the attention ot Congress for mix months with this
Oregon question disturbing and distracung the nation,
embarrassing trade and commerce, alarm mu the busi
ness men with the apprehension of a war with the most
powerful nation on the earth, with which we have more
•commercial relations than w th all the world beside
The price of insurance rose so high at one time that
uo bV ; ; nvichant could venture ort any distant
yoyaor. Gen. Cuss stood m front of the whole riot.
He d-ciare.l war to he inevitable His belligerent pro
pensities displayed on this ns well as on all other sub
jects covered the whole plaifor.ii I ne\er believed
lhat this cry for war was sincere ou the part of the
•wire-workers behind the screen, though 1 never
doubted that the General was perfectly sincere, and
was completely duped by them. 1 advised tnv friends
here to vote for Hie amicable notice to England, to “pay
out rope and test their sincerity about this platform
The result precisely answered my expectations
When we refused to hold ihein the* refused to fi rht,
and the result was that the whole pretensions to fiftv
fonr fortv were abandoned by themselves, and they fell
back to the British line of forty-nine, upon which n set
tlement could at any moment have been made without
a word of all this unjust and insolent bravado ! The
platform was abandoned ; those who had adhered to
it most violently, among whom was General Cass,
were prostrated in the dust. The Chairmnn of the
Committee on Foreign Relations. (Mr. Allen,) undent
deep sense of this humiliation, instantly resinned, and
the present Chairman (Mr Hannegan) declared in hi*
plnce, that Mr. Polk had, by surrendering the plat
form and hiaown pledges to adhere to it. “ sunk r n
himself so low tint the hand of resurrection could nev
er reach him.” When put so the tost. Mr Po k treated
the whole platform of 51° 40’ with contempt, and gave
tip the whole country above 49°.
Mr. Foote, (in his seat.) He was wise, and acted
by the advice of the Sennte.
Mr. Clayton. O yea! he was wise. The folly was
in hav'ni! a platform ! In this case, an irresponible
cabal, called a Convention, like the last one at Haiti
more, many of the members of which were appointed
at a tavern or a crossroad meeting, assembled and as
sumed the duty of directing and controlling the whole
legislation of Congress on quest ion* of peace and war.
They did not devote ten inmates to the title to Oregon,
which they derided, nnd not one out of fifty of them ev
er read or knew anything about it. The platform
thus formed deeply endangered the peace of fifty mil
lions of human VVe w*-rr ir one mr-. by all
the blundering and blustering of the Administration
driven within an inch ot a war with England.
THE KA!CE TETTER PLATFORM.
There was ano'hcr platform—that made by t’ e fa
mous Kane letter. In that precious document, your
President, according to the c man act : on of some, avow
ed himself to be in favor of ilie isrifT. and aceording to
that of others opposed to it. Urauestfonably the mass
in the Northern State* believed that in that letter he
avowed himself to be afiundof the tariff If is a ,
true as scripture that in the State of Pennsylvania and
other States at the North the flags were flying with the
ioscription, “ Polk and Dallas, and the tariff of *42
and when we assailed thooe who practised these impos- !
tionson the peof.e, as we repeatedly did, a* and accused •
them of duplicity, the reply was. on nil occasions, “we
are the true champions of the tariff of’42 and in proof
of the assertion we were referred to the Democratic vote
in the other House, without which the bill of 1842
could not have pa seed, and told that, therefore the Dem
ocrats were entitled to the whole merit* of the measure.
Now again, the politicians have published one lib* of
Caw to suit the North, end another to suit the Sou'll,
in regard to the Wilmot Proviso. Thus bv platforms,
thev even palter with us in a double sense—” keep the i
word of promise to the ear, hut break it to the hopes”—
at one time delu bug our honest people into a vote for j
Mr. Polk, which he never rodd nave receiv- i b* 1 he
then avowed himself to be what he has since proved to I
be, the champion of free trade ; and at another, repre
senting Gen. Caws as a man of Northern prir.np'es
in the North, and a man of Southern principles in the
South.
FLATFORW OF THE DOWmifMI.
There is another platform; It is that of an honest man
who aaya that he is a V\ hig. hut that if elected to the j
Presidency he will not be the tool of n party—that he
will be tha President of the people—that he has no en- |
emies to punish, no friends to rewan I —that while he i
will do his duty in removing corrupt, ii competent, or ;
unfaithful men from office, he will not be the supporter
of that infamous system of proscription which iliatri- I
butes the public offices of the country as the spoils of a |
victory—that he will on this and all oiher sublets en
deavor ro restore the Government of the country to the
principles of the constitution His platform is the
ranjitution ; all others are utterly unworthy of respect.
The patriotism of mere politicians, which explodes in
deceptive party pledges is understood to he as Dr
Jonhson defines it, 44 the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
There is little difficulty in finding mottoes nnd illustra
tions to suit the title page of the whole volump of po
litical platforms. In the action of some of the Presi i
dents of the United States we can find enough to re- I
mind us of the old song—
“ When the Devi’ was sick,
The Devil a monk would be—
When the Devil got well,
The devil a monk teas he f*
GEN. TAYLOR AN HONROT MAM
The* honorable gentleman also attacks Gen. Tnvlor *
on the ground that he lacks qualifications. In justice,
however, to his own noble heait, the Senator admits 1
that General Tnvlor is a mire, honorable, high-minded |
and patriotic man. But he finds fault with Gen. Tay
lor otVaccoum of what he supposes to evince a w ant of
great learning He reasons from Gen Taylor’s eonfes- J
sjon that he was not a politician, that he is not compe
tent for the Presidency That is, I think his chiefob* j
Cetion. The gentleman certainly did also find some
ult with one or two of Gen Taylor’s letters. I shall
not deny that ht* letters, like those other great milita
■y commanders, written in the hurry of a cnmp.and on
a barrel,* box, or a drum head, have not the herutv of
finish and the rotundity of period which the gentlemen
so well knows how to give lo his own letters But for
stronge sense, and appropriate language to convey it,
no msn can excel those letters of Taylor in w hich he
found it important to attend to the manner as well as
the matter of his composition. On every court inertial
on which he hn* served lor the last twenty vears. the
other members of the court, although often scholars ol
high character, have generally selected Taylor, to draw
up the sentence of the court on account of his superior
qualifications We laugh at the story that he cannot
write his own letters That from his enemies is anew
•tribute to their excellence ! Gen. Cass Is, we ndnnt, s
•knowingand learned nun; hut General Taylor isa
wise man. 1 agree with the poet that—
‘* Knowledge and wisdom, ter from Heine ewe,
Have ofttini* ano connexion Knowledge dwell*,
In held* replete will* thought* of other men ;
WM
Gen. Case has gi'•at ertidnion, and linn written hooka
But in tire gieat eaaeutial qaal tie* ♦’ wisdom, justice,
integrity. humanity, and moral ihi well u pbyaical mur
age, Tavlor approach** neui*i the uiuviuawr ol Wmli
ltißton Mum any mail who Ims occupied the PifuMdi*
tial chair aittcr his day And w itki r*gatd to tbi cham
pion of the gentleman from Connecticut ,< Mr Nile,
who has indulged himaelt inn *l> tlmg at lien Taylor 1
will give my opinion with equal trankneap, Mr Van Hu
ren is a running man, and it hna often been oWrved
that no running tntui was ever yet a wise one Kx
eepvioit ia taken to Tayior’s qusl ftrnvtona, because lie
haa been coni|>elled in ni* country's aervire, to pay more
■Attention to the cartridge that* <l* ‘willot box. and in his
fellers hna modestly rxpre * J hi* own dtlidener ot
inability to discharge the duties ol President of the Uni
ted Stoles, but let me call the attention of the Senate
to what (ten. Washington said of Imnat it in his inau
gural address
*’ 1 lie magnitude and difficulty of the ■ rust to which
-the voice of my country railed me, being auffreient to \
awah’ iiinth.
isens a distru -itul scrutiny into hi* <i *• Hcatu could
fiot lut overwhelm with despondency one who, in in
heriting interior endowments from nature, and unprac
tised In thr ilutir, ul c ivil aiimitiiMration, mjtfhl to Ut
peculiarly >-<Mctoti<>rhiii own deticteitoea ••
Taylor■the ibm of modem nun who ha, rival
le*t thm admirable modmiy, and hia friend* o fur
from regartbngit I| a fault, view it a*one of the hr (thi
rst onioou the features which adorn hit heroic charac
ter ll Taylor haaatuliilied hoimell hy that contention,
which the honorable Senator ha, trier red the nr-t
the pureal, ami ihe rcnt. at of all American IVm • tits
4fa I taught him by hta eaani|>'
Sir, I have done Let me only eay. m concluaion ,
that I hope that my friend, on the other aide now have
enough of platform* , and that in future, all arnumr re
publican# may rally “jgether under theatandard of Tay
lor. which le wide enough endbroed enough to protect
endehrlter every irue (nend of hiaouuni-y. whethere
native or u naiuteiiard riitarn, no mailer wliat may
hev-been hie party detonation. Let all em it mm
•tend up boldly logellier in the haltle for the Kight, ol
Man a aecurr and to oabylltr great chart* r ol American
freedom the Conatitniii n nt unr country, anil the Hi
public,* PaTY of the country, may trtutii|ih over all
Oppoeutou holt) tlm arll-eiyled If-too racy to do- end of
time
MACON, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 184*.
For PmMeal ol thr United State*: j
ZAC 11 Alt Y TAYLOR,
OF LOUISIANA.
For Vice President:
MILLARI) FILLMORE,
OF NEW YORK.
Blcttftrs (or the H*te nt Ul(t.
DR. WILLIAM TERRELL,
IION. SEATON GRANTLAND.
Elector*.
First District— H*Mir,roN W. Sharpe
Second District— Wm 11. Crawford.
Third District— Akder> n Riddiru.
Fourth District— Wimjan VlusiLt.
Fifth District— Warren Aiker.
Sixth District —Asdvry Hill
Seventh District— Yelyertor P. Kixg.
Eighth District— Gioßtij Staflfton.
WHIG NOMINATIONS FOR CONGRESS.
FIRST DISTRICT,
THOMAS BUTLER KING.
SECOND DISTRICT,
JAMES S. CALHOUN.
THIRD DISTRICT,
ALLEN F. OWEN.
FOURTH DISTRICT,
JOHN N. WILLIAMSON.
FIFTH DISTRICT,
JAMES M. CALHOUN.
s>xth district,
JAMES W HARRIS.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
ALEXANDER H STEPHENS.
Claim sistrict.
ROBERT TOOMBS
Cotton Market.
Sales generally from 5 to 51—being a small decline
from mu lasi quotation.
ty We would specially request all our Ware- ,
House Keepers to have their stock of Colton oil hand, I
outlie Ist September counted, in order that a correct
statement of the receipts of the past season may be
made next week.
Cmmr ono t C ome nIL
We understand that the Committee for the purpose,
have secured the large ond commodious Ware House
of Messrs. N. Ously & Son, where Mr. Stephens will
address the citizens of Bibb nnd surrounding counties
on Thursday next, at 3 o’clock, P, M. AmpL ar
range men is will be made lor the LiuJiea, who are al*
invited to be present.
The lion. Hubert Toombs
Will also arrive in the Macon and Western care at ,
6, P. M., on Thursday, and has consented to address ■
the assembled multitude at 8 o'clock, P. M The peo
ple of all parties are united to be present, to hear and
judge for llteuiaetVes.
Mr. Stephen* 110-nominatcU.
The Whigs of the Seventh District have done them- .
selves infinite honor by approving in Hie most unequiv
ocal terms, of the conduct of their able and fearless rep
resentative, and placing inui agmi before the people for i
re-e.ection. We understand that every county in the i
dim net was fully represented (except Baldwin,) and |
that Mr. Stephens received every vote. It was no
packed caucus either. There were munccu
ve rings. Tne Delegates simply astern bled in Conven
tion, and when each man was asked to name his pre
ference and that of Ins constituents, the universal re- ,
spouse was, Stephens, Stephens, Stephens, until were ‘
told.
The bold, daring, chivalrous defender of Southern j
rights, is once more before the people of his district,!
and we predict that he will again be triumphantly elect- j
ed by an increased majority. He will not only get the j
full force ol the Taylor party, hut many an honest! i
Democrat cannot hesitate to reward him who has sig- j
i.allied himseit by exposing the men that were ready
to surrender at discretion to the Barnburners and who *
verein the very act of striking theii colors to the black I
legions of abolitionism. Richly did Mr. Stephens de
etrve this mark of honest approbation from an honest
ands ariesa constituency; nor could their flag have
be n placed in the hands of a bolder or more gallant
chevalier. With a tew more such representatives, the ‘
£ -mu would be secure against the machinations of at- 1
olitionists and political tricksters. 1
On the day following the nomination, Mr. Stephen 8
addressed about two thousand of his constituents at
Glade's Cross Honda. The meeting was composed ol
Ladies and Gentlemen, Whigs and Democrats, and
we are assured by those present, that it was one ol the
most enthusiastic assemblages they huveever wineased.
Mr S. spoke like a real “defender ol Southern rights,” j
with a point and emphases not to be mistaken or mis- ‘
apprehended.
Mr. 1 Inyton** speech.
In consequence of the continued demand for the
n. strrly speech of Mr. Clayton we have concluded to
republish it both in our paper and in.pamphlet.form.—
We offer no apology as it will bear to be read, re-read j
and studied by the partiota of all parties.
The News from Ireland.
Them ws from Ireland isboth meagre and unsstis
lactory. We sincerely trust that it may prove lo be in
correct and that that oppressed and down tiodden peo
ple insy yet be enabled to achieve their liberties. The
power ot England however is overwhelming and our
worst appiebensions sometimes gel the better of our
hopes.
Taylor Meeting in UpsotK
We have received a very interesting jaccount of s
meeting held at Jug Handle, Upson county on the 19th
inet Robt. Collier Esq acted as chairman and Robert
A Miluhews •• secretary Addresses were delivered
by Col James Greene aiut Gen. Davenport Evans,ex
p4mg the duplicity oHien. Uassand his supporter* on
the subject of slavery,and eloquently defending the Old
Hero of Huena Vista The Taylor msn ot Upson are
wide awake and will give a good account id themselves.
A Hop W (lie IJmiiiburners.
Tin* Buffalo Convention demanded ‘freedom, and
established i nstttulwos for their brethren < Ore •
ion I* The th ng was “no sooner said than done.”
A Democratic Senate voted them a government with
the f i’ilmot Proviso in l. Mr. Polk upproved of the
Hill, and the eu|>|MHters ol Casa and Bui ter res|Mudrd ;
” Atnen, Great is Pole 1 Great is (began ! Hut Fill
moke and Smut** are Aboiitioniata!“
Gen. Jiiinn IJuiuihj>.
We hove hern looking lor some time .with no ordinary
anxiety tor published proceeding* * a recent Uses .
meeting in Mrm*ether county Wc hate hraid that .
Gen J turn a Hamilton, waa invited to address the meet
ing, mid that bewiote ihe Convention an old fashioned
“Rough and Ready” letter What In* become oft be 1
Document ? Have the Committee reeolved to plane
tlie GeleruU light “under n bushel I” It so we sincere*
ly trust, ‘hat tome of hw friends mny favour us with a
copy. These are tunes when the views of great and
good southern men should be known, it mny do for
the Democracy to refuse to publish their correejHjndence
with Gtvely and other like abolitionists hut they cun
, n*t with impunity, conceal the views ol Southern men
• hi a momentous struggle like the present
(lot, llaoiinnud out tor Tin lor.
We ere ill the ( karlrrton i ountr an extract from a 1
letter written hy £x-Governor Hammond to a Taylor 1
Committee in Charleston, who lisd inviicd turn to ad
dreas the friends td the Old Hero The Governor w
forced by private considerations to decline, hat eiaaes
his roimnunication as follows
” In fact, I Itava been anxious not toshorr m tltr rc- ,
sjKMisihihty those Southern m** who air appoamg
Gen Taylo f , and I have h*?er faded •) n a proper
opportunity offered,distinctly and decidedly to avow
tnyaili to bs ttt favor of h< fleet ion How any
ala vs bolder can besttatv. between him and Gea Cats
iato me not only a special wonder, but I think tin.
worst omrn fer the Bouth that 1 have area m laytime
•* Permit me toofler you my moat ardent wishes for,
tht sueccasof your vfforts to carry the vote of our Htate
for this great and good man, nnd to ussare you of
the high r spect with which I liave the Imiior to be very
•incerely, your obed tent servant,
J If HAMMOND •
Meetings an U l.kluitaii.
The Hon. Alexander H Stephens will addict the
citizens of Wilkinson county and on the litili atUor l n
lin Irwinion on the 20ih Sept, at Wm B. Smith's Eeq. on
I the 22nd.
I The ciibeus ofthe adjoining counties are inv.tcd to
i attend. The distinguished services of this faithful *-en-
I tinel of Southern rights has rendered to the South
| should.and doubtless will, secure him an impartiu hear
! ing, from all parties.
Mr, Me A Mister and Mr. Fillmore.
We have already shown that Mr McAllister'*-jhnrce
of AbolUionwH against Mr. Fillmore was not to be ro
lled upon tor two reasons, viz
1. Because Mr. McAllister's memory is notoriously
treacherous where it n* k interest or pleas .v* that it
should he so; and, j
| 2. That his speech in MiUedtpcvills oid his Irticrof
| 1844 were so w ludiy mcoiuuseat and contradictory, ni?
k> be utterly jrrocoißiUlde with each i>i her.
We have been found 2rc.lt fault with, fur doubting
Mr. McAJtfotcr’s vruemr m reg-nd to this chuigv
IsgsiiMl Mr. Fillmore. Wc did dr-übt it, we do so still
and Mr. McAllister meet either he a monomaniac on
the subject, or he wilfully utters the basest sluntfors^—
This charge ol cbsktKMiwn rs always upon the end of
1 his \ongme ready to be spit out against every mail
1 who may Ije <q>poseJ to Ipm. In LS3I, ho made a
1 speech m Ue city of*Savannah, i 1 which he attempted •
to show ikm the South i.nd nothing to (ear from the
I New England States upon the eub,ect Cl slavery, and
that the reel abolitionists, those who ought t<> b'u regard
ed with the greatest suspicion nnd concern—wete the
citizens ofnnddie and upper Georgia —(he infyaf itouti
(fi the wheat growing regions of our own Stale. We
have the entire speech in our possession .subject to the
inspection of any who may desire to see it After ar
guing that there i*as no dnngerto the north, Mr Me
Ailisier continued as follows ;
“No, my countrymen, it is from a different quarter \x
must expect interforeirce with our rights. Look not ut
the distant horizon for the coming tempest, when 4lk*
thunder-cloud mny 1 be ready to burst dereatty over
your heads / Did Congress legislate upon ih inter
est to winch allusion is now made, in the Brutes ol New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware ?
Did not the blow come from Legisla
tures of those States? Refer to betweeu
the Mountain and Atlantic districts of Virginia m re
lation to this species of property, winch for some
years past ha 9 agitated that State, and which were
more fully developed in their receut Convention.
Look to the surface of your own State, and yon
• will perceive that the representatives hi our dtnnm
’ tic Legislature from that portion of the State where
our peculiar property is esseutial to its prosperity,
! will in a jew years bear uo proportion to the num
-1 her of thujs who will represent a wheat grow
ing community, where a peculiar spcies of labor
| may and probably will be entirely dispensed with
What thln will become of our rights, left to
THE “SUPREME SOVEREIGNTY” OF A MAJORITY OF THE
teople of the State ? Be not deluded, my .country,
men. The best protec ion we who live along ihe coast
can have lor our rights, is to be found in an equalsfip
j port of the General and State Governments, IN OR
DER THAT EACH MAY SERVE AS A CHECK
! UPON THE OTHER.”
Here Mr. MeAllister pot only charges the people of
middle and upper Georgia w all being unsound ou ihe
subject of slavery ; but he getutlly contends that a
, majority of the people of the State need tlie restrain- ‘
ing influence of the bayonets of’ the General Govern-;
I m in.
i Did Mr. McAllister speak the truth w hen he made
this charge against people of middle and upper Georgia?
If not, is his testimony to be regarded w hen he now
, makes a similar charge against Mr. Fillmore? The
i charge is a stereotyped one—it is made alike against
; the citizens of Geoigia and Ins opponents every where.
| It is the “raw head and bloody bones” which haunts the
; disordered imagination of Mr. McAllister, and with 1
which he seeks to frighten the weak minded. He is 1
J now travelling among the very men whom in 1834,be .
, charged with being abolit onists and endeavouring to !
persuade them that Mr. Fillmore is not to be relied
j u P on -
I We now beg leave to odd the testimony of a Northern
1 paper, edited in Mr. Fillmore’s own State nnd by men
who have known that gentleman long and intimately.
The article is from the New York Express and reads
as follows:
I “ Upon Millard Fillmore, ns ‘ a Northern Abolition- *
I Ist ofthe worst stamp,* there is a general and combined
1 attack in the Loco loco Press ofthe sfouth, pretty much
i in the vein or tunes mmtatis tn us land is. of that upon
Genera! Taylor in the Bam burn ing Press of the North
nnd East. But nothing need be said, perhaps, in refu
tation ofsuch falsehoods, were it not that .Mr. McAllis
ter, of Savanmh, (Geo.) a man ofsonic note there, nnd
often a Northern summer traveller, lias lent Ins name
to say he heard Mr. FillmoTe, in 1844,make an abolition
speech in lhat very indefinite region, Western New
York
“ With all due respect to this Mr. McAllister, we re
ply, that iu saying this he says an untruth, and that he
belies Millard Fillmore. Mr. Fillmore is not now, and
never has been, an Abolitionist, and is as free from that
i heresy as any man living in the Northern States of the
j Union. He never has countenanced Abolition iu any
j form. He never has lent his name to Abolition in uny
way, or ridden, even amid much temptation, the Aboli
tion hobby in any maimer. He is and has been a sound
Conservative Northern Whig, who will abide by, to the
very letter, and in its full spirit, every jot and title of the
Federal Constitution. Mr. McAllister, then, is guilty
of sn invention for political purposes—ami if he contin
. ues hereafter to be inns good repute in Georgia as he
has been, a will be because his friends do not put a
proper estimate upon the necessity, importance, and
chivalry of truth and veracity.
“It may be that Mr. McAllister did hear Mr Fill
more make a speech somewhere in that very indefinite
region, Western New York. We are bound to befi -\e
that he did, lor he says so, though he names uot the
place, and even though he doe* not lell the truth about
it. Undoubt dly, too, it Mr. Fillmore made such u 1
; speech, it was a first rate Whig speech, just such as
would make a Loco-toco like Mr. McAllister wince.—
Undoubtedly, also, he condemned the annexation o*
Texas. We presume, too,that iu addressing a North
em audience, he dwell upon one of its consequen ts*
the extension ol tlie slavery power of the Repu .fie
But, so for Iroui making an Abolition speech, we know*
from Mr. Fillmore's well-known character and opin- |
ions, there was not one word 111 it tinctured with “ Abo
lition,” or that could be construed or forced into any
en'MHiragenii mot the violation ofthe compromise 1* |
the Constitution.
“ This Mr Me A Ulster, however, while thus assault
*ng sn honorable Northern Conservative Whig, is quite ’
j willing to put up with Lew* Cass, a Loco-loco who. 101
| his interest's sake, would change his opinions twice ut
month, upon slavery or anti slnvnry—who iu his past
history is not halt so reliable for the South us Mr. V'.m 1
Boren, aud whose tu‘ure life and action all depend upon
1 cirewnstsnov*.’ Now, Mr Fillmore is no such
* dough face * There he is, nnd what lie is can bed
ponded upon. He will uot sell out the North for South
ern votes, and he would not yield to the North lor North
ern votes, if Northern votes require of him a violation,
jin any degree, of the Federal Constitution. Voder
| >lllll. and such men as him, we who have for twenty’
years hren staying ihe tollies and crimes of Northern
Aho.itioiiiem, rely. Bo ok them down, nnd we me
J flooded al ouee with tbc lid* of llmibunicriM it and
Radicalism But they are rock* that neither Southern
Loco-focoium nor Northern fanaticism can dash down.*
J in poiinut HevHoFemrutft*
At a recent meeting m it i humnd Virginia, wink
Mr Preston was referring to tire fan* oft lie Mm-our.
Compromise, Hranfoi Underwood, of Kentucky, one
of the select Committee in the United States interrup
ted him to niukr the following initio Ms til statement .
” When the principle#of the Missouri Compromise
Committor to constitute the hat-ieot their rep -rt, the
propoatikun was agreed to hy u vote of jfr# loiknr
1 Hut knowing that tlte North con tended that, with mt a
positive law of Congteaa o the contrary, the hw of
Mexico would pr vail in the conquered territory *, h*
Mr ll ) U*r til purpose of h aving no doubt ns to tin
I intention of Cougteaaiit emoting tlir proposed ootupio
miae, offered att aiiietnlmeiH to the effect tim H< nth •
the 4railef of 3>* deg. 90 min , Nlavchohlers might rtn
migrate with their shite property, and their rights ••!
property Miouid he protected. NVhereup u, the vot
being tak*-■o,tke amcndmeiit fai’ai by a v<>t ol fear tv
four, allowing that there wav, hout the first tm i u rr
ty in the dcclnrauou of Northern L)morratt, that they |
were dcairoue to make a Hnr eomprtoii*e with th
South H
l>nea sny eandtd iri.rk *ap|**•*• lm h mnnietil, ilia’
iliesr men would liave anseuteg to tin Hi 1 which n
defeated, inlevs, in tlw language id Mr. Pneli*. tliey I
i believed it would ** ut r/>r< iftlttU *Ut e/y lorra,
I from the Trait oner **’
I
[NEW., Il\ *L\GNF.TIi 1 Ll.!.’ .\V.I )
LATER I liOtl LIROTE*
Arrival <>* Hie iintauia.
Thr Britareia reached Boston on tlieliTih, with Liv
erpool dates to the 15n itwt. The news is of a pacific
character. Smith O’Brien was said to have been cap
tured, nnd the Bnt.fh authority was supreme. O’Gor
mnn had escaped on inn American vessel, and
been |>uraueii by an English steamer. France is quiet.
The affaire of Italy attracting general attention. An
attempt has been made so ussassmnte M. Thiers. In
surgents transported. Tlie cholera had broken out nt
Brest. The Piedmoteee army has been defeated at all
points.
The Copon nmket is quoit. Sales lighter nt previ
ous rates. New Orleans and Bowed Georgia bring 3J
afH on hand,flno,o9ohales. Corn,3o to22s.
for White and Yellow. Conso s are quoted nt 864 to ).
in England the weather tor harvesting is very bad
The potato rot is extending.
The Wli&g Caucus*
‘flic foliowi ng extinct from the speech of Mr. Cro
zicrof Tenu ,nmls the story td the Cliorleston A/ercu
ry's correspondent and the Wuslpngton Vmon, about
n VV’lug c uc us having detenu ng'd to del eat ifie Com
promise Bdl, to the counter ns a base coin* The vote
in the House pronounced, in language’ not to be mis
understood by ihe intelligent, nnd unprejudiced, the
fo!se character ol this miserable invention of weak
and corrupt minds :—Chronicle Sentinel.
“ It had been said by tlie friend* of the bill that the
vote by wb.ch it had been so unceremoniously disposed
of, was the result ot a caucus. Mr* C. pronounced that
ns frion to be fblse. ‘1 here had been no caucus that !
he knew of. lie eerta inly had never heard of any;
and he believed the whole to ben mere el ctioneerxng j
story. [Several Whig members here cried out thut
there htqi been no caucus.”]
Geu. John McUhllh.
The Louisvibc Courier reminds its readers tiiat tins l
is tlie same gentleman who was so shocked with the (
; tumors hues of Hemy Clay, and esp-tialty with his !
desecration ol the Lord’s Day. The Lexmgioii Atlas
euye, that when Gen. John Moore McCalls met Gen.
Wm. O. Bjtier at Washington City, he fainted from re
membering ihe active pa ll that Gen. BuMer took in a
horse*raoe near (he city of Mexico, oti tlie ijabbath
day. The Arias ays that Geu. John Moore McCalia
could not be revived,until gome one whispered in his
ear, that this Sunday nice was conducted on Demo
cratic principles.
Jlurnth for Consistency! f
We clip the-following from tlie Georgia Jeffersonian,
of the 10th instant.
“ New Jersey —ls we may judge from the tact that
t! Quake re of this State hate ahciys been consistent
jg.iinst tAemekoldus; (!) from the tone of those abb*
champions of Democratic principles, the Trenton News,
tne Newark Eagle, the Camden Democrat, tlie New
Brunswick Union, aud their cotsiuporsries—cad from
overwhelming Democratic meetings-Mwen New Jersey
will he lost to Taylor !”
M ell, if the Quakers, cannot vote for Taylor because
heis a slaveholder, they can for Cass, without sacrifi
cing any of theio Ahokuon principles.
Northern and Southvni YolMuteer.
‘1 he Richmond Republican any a:
1 he following 19 the amount of force furnished for
tlu- Mt-xtcso \\ by tlie Frrs and Sfuifos-. To-
Hl, irom the Fies States, 22,136 Total, fioiu the Slave
States, 13,213. We scarcely know winch to admire
most, tlie injustice or ihe impudence of the attempt to
exclude the Slave States entirely from the territory
whice lias beta principally acquired by the incourage
and blood.”
Great Fire iii Albany*
T he fire at Albany on the.!7th was the most destruc
tive, with which this city has ever been visited. Up
wards <rt five hundred dwelling houses and stores were
consumed, comprising nearly one-fifth ol the entire city.
Atont 150 canal boats and barges in the basin and
10,000 barrels of flour were destroyed. ’The entire
loss will not tall short of three millions of dollars.
The German Fariinmeut.
The following was extracted from a private letter,
from a highly respectable citizen of the United Suites,
dnted H at Frankfort iu July lairt :
Germany will attach itself more and more to the
United Slates. The Germans consider our country as
their natural ally in the prosecution ol tlie general wel
fare of mankind, and will lavor our commerce as much
as possible. A resolution, deelaiing their goodwill
and best wishes for our country, hug been already offer
ed in the Parliament, and wo* responded toby a gen
eral rising and repeated acclamation* .”
A Startling Declaration.
In hit* receut speech before the citizens of Charleston,
Senator Butler mode the following ustounding an
nouncement. He says:
“Gen. Cass, it elected, will not veto the Wilmot
Proviso, and he was equally sure lhat Gen. Taylor
would not veto it. All hopes of that kind were utterly
fallacious. President Polk had administered theinter
nul affairs of the Government in a maimer which de
served the highest approbation, nnd he most willingly
accorded him his thanks; but even he would have been
consumed with the hies of indignation it he had vetoed
the Oregon bill containing the Wilmot Proviso. It
would have been absolutely dangerous for him to have
met on the street some of those u>ho had assisted tv
place him in power had he done so. The pressure
upon any President would be too strong for resist
ance.”
What a commentary is this upon the feelings of the
Northern Democratic allies—the men upon whom the
‘Southern slaveholders are asked to rely. Here we are
told by a Youtheni Senator, that their hostility towards j
the South wsi* so great that it would have been absn
lately dangerous lot President Polk to have vetoed the j
Wilmot Pioviso!
We willingly accord to Mr. Butler a perfect knowl
edge of the character, and view ot both Mr. Polk and
Gen. Cass. He has associated with them and kfiows
t em well; but be knows but litile of Old Zac, if he
tupposes that he can be deterred by any mau, or uny
bady ol men, horn tlie prompt and fearless discharge
ot h<H * uues. He will never be caught signing a Wil
mot Proviso bill and inditing a message against it.—
He w ill never like Polk and Case make promises ana
tail to fulfil them, and the veiy declaration ot Judge
Butler constitutes one ofthe strongest conceivable rea
sons in tavor ot the old Hero’s election. If ever the
country stood in need ol a man of nerve and character,
u>w is the time, nnd we cannot conceive how even
Judge Butler cau escape Irom the conclusions fairly
dcducihle Irom h e own statement.
Hart* of t!i I*i oofs.
A gcntlemun of MoluU*, wlh> is truveiling in the West .
wrote to the editor of the Mobile Jdrer freer, on the 22nd
July. Irmn Toledo, Ohio,in which letter the following
pm a graph oitnira: %
“ On ThdnKuy evening inst, 1 uttended a meeting of ,
’ l)rmo€tnta, IVAigsatid AbolitwnUtn,’ (kr so the invi
tatn n was worded,) address* and hy Col. Weller, the (
Democratic caiulidatr for the Governorship of tins (
State on thin oceastoti his principal object was to show
iiwu<*m. C.ma wus a sirongrr /ree mil man than *
Matt hi Van Purenor Wilmot. Von Burrii it is thought
!h*ic, will get u gooiliy poitioii ot die Dnioxnatic
votes for Preaident in thia Slate, und his friends think
lie w ill get the uholitKH) Vote also Col. Weller dosed
his Hjwielt hy uoinking that he liked Gen. Taylor per
aoiittily,thut h** wus a hiave, patriotic, amt hone*t man.’
t Mi. the U-auties *l’ |>etiHK*ia* y ! At the South Gen.
C a-- 1* advocated av the “Northern man with Southern
priuciphs '* At the North tin* aauia patty proclanu
this aanie Casa to Ik* s sounder, safi-r abolitionist than
\’un Burra.
Urospccf* of Tnylora
Tlw Charleston Free Ureas,gives a cheering amount
ot changes going on in die Valley in favor of Taylor.-
Indeed we hear (rum ntl parts of the State of ittdepen- I
dent demoemts, who like the old man's republi
can chancier and principles, and are determined to
lend a blind m respiring Hie ship of aiatc to the old rr
pil'diean lock on which she sailed, when Washington
held the hrlui.
•• Mtill Ihcyfom**.”
The Norfolk Herald states,tint it ha* undoubted au
thority tor ilie Xict Hi it, m “ Wise’s District,” at tor or
p astion ..t a It'Migb and K ady Club rianc Demo
crats who voted tor polk handed in thair names
as tr**ani i n *y Tay oi inert
John t .fjl iiflion •
T ms fr nllnnan laaaid to hav** altered the follow ng
wht ***.*me admonition to - iph*m nien during lS re
r cent visit taCliarl'faon
” K* ii eWil*ere ♦'•id Ituil dieiiuguislird stsi*■•man,"re
ii-inbef.f k>ri the mriN trhu is foithrot hom you ,n
ffhtimot thr aHouDMe o*srer to you than ony mao §J
nthri I'utfHt the J? ortk*
White men hook ‘ll lUisi.
Alter Mr. Clayton had concluded hisopeech and was
about taking hia eeal, some Senator handed him a copy
of Gen Casa* Law to whip and sell White men ; upon
i which Mr. C made the following comments:
Mr. Clayton an hi : Mr President, a paper is put
1 into mv hands, which I ant requested to rend to the Sen
! ale In 1840, Gon. Harrison was charged by nur op
! ponenis wnh the high crime of having signed a law
about fifty year* ago, while Governor ol the Northwest ‘
I Territory, for selling poor white men into bondage.— |
j That, if I understood it, was a law to punish crime, j
11 is a lair reprisal on an enemy that could make such i
j a charge, to refer them now to n law signed by their
preaentcandidate while Governor of Michigan, of ao
iate a da'e as the 27tb of July, 1818. The law, which
the Senator from Miehigan ! Mr. Felch) will acknowl
edge tobc an authentic cony from the territorialstat
; utea of. Michigan, b> in the following words :
i” AN ACT for the punishment of idle and disorderly ,
persons.”
“ Str 1. Dc it enacted by the Gonernor and Judges
of the Territory ol Michigan, That any justice of the
Peace, on conviction, may sentence any vagrant,
kwvd, cite nr disorderly persons, stubborn servants, |
common drunkards, common night-walkers,pilferers,
or any persons wanton or licentious in ejteech, inde
cent behavior, common railers or brawlers, such as
neglect their caking and employment, miapend what
they earn and do not provide for themselves or families, 1
to be whipped not exceeding ten stripes, or to be ile- j
liveredovertoany constable, to lie employed in labor
no'exceeding three months, by such constable to be
hired out for the best wages that can he procured ;
tile proceed* of which to be applied to the use of the
poor ol the couniy.
“ Malle, adopted, ami published at Detroit, the 27th
es July, 1818.
” LEWIS CASS, Governor.
*’ A B Wooowjiid, {‘residing Judge, John Grii -
ftn, J. WtTHERALf., Judges of the Territory.”
Mr. Clayton continued :
This act was pnssvd hy the authority originally given
in the ordinance of 1787. It provides that “the Gov
ernor and Judges shall adopt and publish in the district j
such laws of t ie original Slates, criminal and civil
as may be necessary and best sailed to the circumstan
ces of the district, and report them to Congress, from
tune to time.” lit the year 1818, Governor Cass adopt
ed and passed this act, as one of the Legislators over
the Territory. By it a"cotnnion night-walker, or any
“idle person,” or any “person of indecent behavior,”
or any‘‘stubborn servant,” or any “person licentious
in speech,” or any person who should “misspend what
he ha earned, and not provide lor himsell or family,”
might, at the discretion of a Justice of the Peace, be
whipped ten lashes, or delivered over to a constable 1
to lie hired out for the best wages that cuuld he procu
red ! (Laughter ) If General Cass should remain of i
that mind hereafter, what n prospect of whipping and
hiring out does it present to all who may have a fancy
for night-walking, for all idlers, Roch as may, in the
judgment of a Justice of the Peace, be “stubborn ser
vants,” or “licentious in speech,” or happen not to
iqiend their money as the Justice shall approve! (Great
Laughter.] There is nothing in the old sedition law, 1
or in the blue laws ol any of the old Stales, toexceed this 1
precious specimen of Gen. Casa’ legislation in 1818
I commend it to the especial consideration of die mod
em Democracy’ in their future progress.”
Second Congressional District.
Col. Cahhuw the gallant and patriotic candidate in
the sedond District, is about to enter upon the labours
ol the Canvass in good earnest. He advertises to meet
the people of the several counties of the District, at 1
the times and places hereinafter designated.
Marion, Saturday, 26th August, at Buena Vista.
Macon, Tuesday, 29th “ “ Lanier.
Houston, Saturday, 2d Sept ** Perry.
Pulaski, Wednesday, 6th “ “ Hawkinaville’
Dooly, Saturday, 2th “ ** Vienna.
Irwin, Wednesday, 13th “ “ Irwinville. !
Baker, Monday, 18th M •• Albany.
Decatur, Wednesday, 20th “ ‘* Baiubridge.
Early, Saturday, 23d “ • Fort Gaines.;
Randolph, Monday, 25th “ “ Cuthbert.
Lee, Wednesday,27th “ “ Starkville. !
Sumpter, Thursday, 28th “ “ Americus.
Stewart, Saturday, 30th “ “ Lumpkin.
CoL, Calhoun hopes and expects to be accompanied ‘
by the Hon. W m. H. Crawford, the Taylor candidate i
ibr Presidential Elector in the District, and ether friends,
who, with himself, will be plaaaed to address the peo
p'e.
A more efficient, or energetic man than Col. Calhoun
could not have been selected, and we are greatly mista
ken if lie does not compel Judge Wellborn to draw
his Parisian Bools before the race has been half run.
What they say of it.
The Richmond Republican says:
“ l he National Intelligencer publishes the masterly
speech ol Mr. Stephens upon the ao-cailed Compromise
We think no candid man can read it, without being
thoroughly satisfied that the measure was no Compro
mises! all, but as Mr. Stephens justly characterized it,
“ Articles of Capitulation on the part ol the South ’ j
M r. Stephens maintains his position by an array ol legal
authorities and of arguments which cannot be contro
verted. We defy any unprejudiced inind, alter a dis
passionate perusal of this speech, to withhold assent
trout its clear and conclusive reasoning ”
Mho will get New.York.
The Mew- York Herald thinks that Taylor will car-’
rv the State ol New York keyonda question. The Ed-1
nor say, that not more than 15,DU0 W’higs will suatatu
Van Buren. Thu will give the Bamburneraa force of
127,060, tile Old Hunkers 1-10,000 and leave the Whigs
a vote 0f216,000. In any event, Bennet Bays, the State
will go lor Old Zack by a handsome majority. The
enmities between the Huukcra and Bumburnenare
daily increasing, and they are perlectly implacable in
their hatred of each other. There can be no compro
mise between them, as both parties are resolved to have
the “ whole or none” of the spoils.
Keply of the Constitutionalist to .Mr. Ste
phens’ Speech.
“ Alexander Hamilton Stephens.*’
“ Alexander Stephens.**
1 “ Alexander Hamilton Stephens.**
* “ Alexander Hamilton Stephens.”
“ Alexander Hamilton Stepheu*.”
“ Alexundei Hamilton Stephens.**
“ Alexander 1 hnmiton Stephens.'*
“ Alexander Hamilton Stephens.’*
j “ Alexander Hamilton Stephens.”
” Alexander Hamilton Stephens.”
The above is copied from the Augusta Chronicle fr
Sentinel The argument however doea not seem to
lielong exclusively to the Constitutionalist, at we have
■well an i hen id it elsewhere
North < itrolmtt.
The count it's have at last oil been heard from, and
die vote lor (iovernor stainia tor Manly (whig) 40,240
votes and lor Rt-id Democrat IW.'JOa, leaving Manley's ‘
iiia|oritry 877 votes The Whig majority on joint hal
iot is two.
t might ill the Act*
A corrrs|fondeut of the Southern Recorder , over the
signature of “ (lgleihot|)e” has the following :
” A- soon ns it was certainly known that Horace
t ireely of N. Y, had joined the Democratic party, a por
tion o| the Democrata m oncot the counties ot ths Se
enth UoiigrrMHonal |)istrict wrote to him for help to *
I**lll Mr Fillmore, since they had got to he on* and the
same,and wished to know il Mr Fillmore was notan
Alsditionist! (ireely said no : that he was au strong
a slavery man that he could not aup|iort him. Dissp
( pointed ill their object, tiie letter has been laid away
We call for its publication. Certain Demoerats have
I got it, and die public want to arc it. Come gentle
I men. publish it.**
We know ol some men in these parts, who affect to
I condemn Mr SrxrtiKN, Iwcauor he voted with cer
tain Northern men on the Compromise Bill! Why do
they not condemn their own men, who have entered j
into piivnte correspondence with notsnmus Abolition
ists for patty purposes T We iuse for a rep'y,
Ttir MenHlorfnl Duel.
After all it does not that the difficulty between |
Mrsrs Ih nton A Butler, wa* honorably sd|oeted The
Charleston Mercury says:
” The rn itter is ended in ronseqnence of Col Ben
ton's failure to reply to Judge Boiler's invitation to a
meeting, though notified oil th# third day that unless
■om# answer was given before i o’rhick that evening,
lie would be emsidereJ as having declined the meeting
“(o much Mr Col Benton's anutey for” indemnity. M It
eetiis that “ Old Bullion,” was not so anxiHis to fight
•liter all. Thu* la it ever with rude and vulgar men.
AHOLI I ION is.M t'Jfl LILLI),
OR
Lewis Cats mlvncateil because he is n gre.at< r
friend of KKKE SOIL than Martiu Van
Huren himself.
A Few words to Southern Men.
Many Southern Democrats deny that Gen. Cass has
any sympathy with, or is supported by Anti-Slavery
men nt the north. We have now some of the proofs to
show that he is their choice, b- tausc he is regarded hy
them ns being more opposed to the South than even
Van Daren himself Southern men, Whigs, Demo
crats rend them, and if yon can mrrifi.ie the South
it you can endanger tile Haiety oI your own persons
and property by voting for Cuss, do so, hut remember
that you assume a fearful responsibility :
The very nmoles themselves contain internal evi
dence that they arc copied from ultra Cass papers
Here they are :
n “ rs n
OT’ A Northern man, p irticulmiy a Democrat oc.a
“Free Soil*'man, must be beside himself wht> will vote
for any other man that General ('ASH, and. by with*
holding Ins vote, indiiectly aid the election ol General
Taylor, who is idenlilied with the institution of slavery
in its very worst form, and whose nomination was in
disputably procured by the slavery interest.
Hartford Times.
f* r*
(Xl* Every democrat who refuses to vote for Gov.
Cass, wrft aid in electing Zachary Taylor, who is a
slaveholder, and who the Southerners sny they know is
with them and of them, on questions touching slave ex
tension. Free soil, therefore, cannot be sustained by
refusing to vole lor Casa. ReHect. —New Haven Keg.
ft M w
- H 1
BT* Gov. Cass ?s opposed loif/zy legislation hy Con
gress relative to oJavery in the Territories, lie must,
then, be opposed to a law recognizing slavery in these
Territories.
The federalists have very strongly urged that Gen.
Taylor being opposed to the veto, would not veto any ,
bill that Congress mgbt pass upon the subject —not
even the Wilmot Proviso, though he declares that the 1
South ought neveMo submit to that proviso. He would
not, then, veto a bill recognizing slavery in those Ter
ritories.
Does not every one opposed to slavery see that Gov.
Cass oceupies the best position—and indeed the only
true practicable position—or the people, with vvhom he
would leave the whole matter, will settle this whole
question in a short lime, to suit themselves, and Con
gress cannot prevent them from doing so.
Hartford Times.
KT” Ziuhary Taylor would veto no law establishing
shivery in the new territories, if the Whigs speak truly
of him; the Southerners say they know he is with them
on this subject.
Taylor would undoubtedly sanction slavery in the
new Territories. Cass would not.— Hartford Times.
S q q
KT” Gen. Taylor says the south should never submit
to the VV'ilmol Proviso, and his friends claim he will
not veto any bill relative to slavery in the Territories
Os course he will sanction Ur* establishment of slavery
in those territories, whilst Gov. Cass would veto any bill
of the kind. How cau it be true, then, that Cuss is
more objectionable than Taylor on the slavery ques
tion, at the north X It is not so. The usser-lion is too
barefaced to be believed. — Hartford Times.
$ s q
By Now it is a fact that Gov. Cass was not the can
didate of the South. The Southern Delegates exert
ed themselves to defeat him. They were disapponted
in hia nomination. He is opposed to the acknowledge
ment of Slavery in the new territories by Congress,nnd
this doe 9 notsuit the South. The Northern federalists
are abusing him for favoring southern views, and the
South oppose him on the ground that he is not in favor
of those views. Is it not singular I—Hartford Timas
By We say that the democrary will continue to sup
port Cass and Butler; and, indeed, there is no other j
ticket which presents any thing like so strong claims to j
the support of these men who are really in favor of
“free soil.” General Case ie a native of a free State.—
He has resided, for almost Ins whole life, in free com
munities. He has no interest in slavery, and hits ex
pressed his opinion against that institution in moat em
phatic terms. QSTGen. Butler is not a slaveholder,
and has ever been among those Kentuckians who are
favorable to emanei]>ation Such is the deuiocra* ■
tic ticket, and such are its claims to the support of the ,
friends of freedom. If we look at the other tickets, I
what do we see ? Why, they are composed ol men I
who are, either from position or past acts, the friends
and supporters of slavery. General Taylor is a large
slaveholder, and holds at least a quarter of a million of j
property, the security and value of which depend upon ‘
the integrity of the institution of slavery being preserv- j
ed intact. He certainly cannot be claimed as being
friendly \o any principle likely by its triumph topre- I
vent either the extension of slavery, or to hasten eman- I
cipauon. As to Mr. Van Buren, he is even more ob- ,
jecttollable than Gen. Taylor. He is emphatically the
“northern man with southern principles.”— Boston j
Times.
n n
q q
[From the Bay State Democrat, August 18.]
General Cass the true‘Free Soil* Candidate.
That those who wish to advance the cause of free- 1
dom should vote for Lewis Cass for President, is a
point so clear to our mind, that we are at u loss to com- j
prebend how the new party can hope to draw any lib
eral-minded men into a support of their pie-bald ticket.
The democratic party is ihe party of freedom and pro
gress, and its triumph alone can secure the extension
and perpetuation of liberty. If the democracy are de
feated, the successful purty must rule in accordance 1
with whig principle* ; and how favorable these princi
ples are to freedom, and how likely their prevalence
would be to secure “free soil for free men,” are mutters
that it requires no targe amount of talent to form correct
opinions cm. Essentially conservative in its character,
and averse to change, iio movement having for its ob
ject the promotion of the rights of humanity, can receive
from the whig party any support, but must inevitably
encounter its sternetd and most fixed opposition. As
every vote withdrawn from the democratic ticket to he
given for the Buflalo nominees indirectly aids the wings,
it follows that any democrat who gives his support to
Van Buren, lends his assistance to lhe advancement of
the only real slavery panty that we have in the United
Btutes. Will democrats under such circumstances, de
sert their old friends, their long-cherished principles,
and the measures they have so much at heart merely
because Martin Van Huren is burning up with n mean i
and unchristian spirit of revenge f We do not believe
that five thoimatuDlemocrats throughout all New Eng.
will be deluded by the attempt that is now making to
create false issues, and to array the different section* of ,
the republic against each other, under the idle pretence |
of preserving free from slavery territory into which it is
foibtddeu to spread alike by a srim -of interest! ami the
predominating uud all-controlling spirit of the age
% S
General Cm** is the real “ free soil* candidate. Un
like General Taylor, he is not the owner of slaves and
plantations, and therefore lie Inis no interest in keeping
up the institution of slavery, or in providing for ns
spread. Unlike the sume gentleman, he is not the
leader ami cho*'Mi champion, of a conservative party
which must change its very nature, and do that which
lias never yet been done by any political orgaluxation,
before it ran take part in promoting the spread ol frro
institutions. He is tile resident of n great free region, in
which slavery has never existed—in which its existence
is forbidden alike by poremptoiy laws and by u public j
opinion that no human power cun change. He in the
leader of the reform party, which has steadily warred
against all übiiWA, and which has extended freedom
over millions of seres, and established freedom of speech
and a free press throughout the greatest dominion
ever acquired b) any hia.tcii of tiie human family. Six
ty years and his life n ive bean pa-sed in these coin nu
llities in which free labor has *up)oind nml made n
free people pioeperoui*. Is it rational to believe— to en
tertain the idea for a rnoim til- tlmi Lewis < ‘ ihn, a
man of judgment -and capable of drawing correct eon*
elusKHi*. rrr p'etersUvery to liberty f that fie desires
to nee slave labor prevail, end free lols.r forbidden ill
our new territories l Madmen may helirve so, and
knaves may tins*misrepresent his opinions ; hut every
sound headed limit w ill see nt once, tltn the demon ntic
candidate must be Isvoruble to “ free soil,” and to
the spread of lise labor into every region open to the
daring and enterprise of the human race
ff ty ‘
y Si te
As compared wiih Mr Van Buren
c :um 1° ill” supporto, ” free soil” _ , 5 ‘"I
nr,t ; a,ned e* 1 w.,ldhimseifi*. v :'
prised to see attributed to him. Mr v,„'n h ”* r
been ,h uk,l ..I slavery l!,rou.h*l Id, wl ‘, C “'"‘ h j
o slave-holder has be™ so shan,e t ,d: v ‘ ’ H
Dqhling for .he establish,,,,,,, „f lh , .. \
linn’os tins’ northern man,” whose i ! “* ! J
that h“ was iiciu'ttc Iby ” soothe, „ princip^J’ H
isan abolitionist n, the name of con, mo „ ‘ l
does tt take to make a IrteovUuU W| ip or,„ ol ti’ “ 1
Gan any man point to any one act of k i
• Itm in,lieates,n,hen lg inU^o,,:;[
ol freedom! Nut only has he labored
emancipation ot slaves, and to return into , TANARUS” “
slaveholders thrate who Info Rjrttek lor ,h*, r . ‘‘‘"“’l
but lie is foremost atnotiq those who v ‘* r ' lu ' i
I I • HI AIPW \ J
have always oeen oppos ’d to e, tell dm* , :
citizenship to tree and inhlligcn tie Toes ‘’"'j
, free Stales. Can we hold that such a L 1
| become lhi‘ :rimi antiujvoeate o’ tlic t, l l| U " 81 " lll " I '|
universal humanity ! Art we to believe ,| VI , *’ ‘i’* 1 "’ I
J saltvm, become a more liberal-minded ( ,a -.pS
i iddesl democrats in lhe taition, wfi,, l 1 1"” ij
eoiH'ae on slavery, even while aup’porta,. 1
I nlar tlumineeol their party !IsMr V “, llsl le “fl
i liberal than the bulk of hia supporters th! i
ol New York, who, but (wo years aqu, lltt “ , ! :b " r " e W
|iH>po*ition to enfranchise the negroes ~ liu ” n J
Btate. by an overwhelming majority? n
first.time in his cureei that he lias been a! ‘'’l' 1 ” fl
popular voice. It is a fiict, which we ,]„ 1,1 ‘fl
having seen any allusion to i„ this camp,
\ an Buren and hi* immediate sat porien. in H
have alwayslieen conspicuous in j,,, ‘ ‘fl
to ’he social amt political elevation ol the
j population of that State, iq which thev ‘th “i” , ‘'fl
| o l-HB held role. Is this lac,
their desire to promote the cause of liberty ‘ | a p “"H
who puts n social and political stigma on theta. ..T” fl
in u free slate, a proper leader lor the,,, wt)o f
prevent the extension ot slavery !If ,| leJr B ' t| '’ S
■ el ites, if their whole lives are based on a li..
| right m giving their standard into his hands, th, ‘ ■
has been lalsehuod incarnated. or it i* how ’. H
’ are really and truly the advocates ol •• fo-'■
men,” Martin Van Buren is no more fit tube the,, S
er, than Judas would have been, had he not ‘ M
graoe to Imug himself after his treachery ~ ‘ ■
services on the groat day of Pentecost. I
■
Tin- only hope of freedom is to be found in ,h, ■
tinued ascendency of the democratic party. ||
party cannot Ire relied upon to secure “ f ret . .. f H
soil cun have no existence. V
Fuss and his Abolition Supporter,. 1
While the supporters of Gen. Cass, in Georgia J
raising lhe cry ol mad dog, against Mr. Fillmore t J
studiously conceal from the people the fact that they 3
leagued with the Northern Anti-Slavery men in,,. .1
ring Gen. Taylor, and in advocating Gen. Cassiwß
I Presidency. Does any honest Southern man al
for the proof ! Here it is; ■
I
Resolutions passed at the Democratic State l,hM
turn assembled in Vermont, July 11,1348. I
Resolved, That in the opinion of this Convrn:fl
Ct ngres* hare the Constitutional power, to prup'fl
the introduction of Slavery into the territories ‘ ■
United States, in which sla\ery dors not now
long as said tomtoms renwin under the inrisd;,■
Congress ; and that it is the imperative duty of Cm l
gress to exercise that power immediately. H
Kei,jived, That the Democratic party of this
j by repeated resolutions inState and County Cor.vfl
I tions, stand pledged to oppose, by every lau: in jH
j constitutional menus, the extension of Slarnu ;il
; any Territory belonging to the United Staten
free, and that ice here reiterate that B
Resolved, That while we are ready in the most
het good faith to abide by the compromises u!
I smut ion ujion the subject of Slavery, and tu :^B
I rights of the citizens ot the several fctates
fherel.y. we arcus Democrats and ns men. uiuumM ß
misinghf opi pnsrd to the extension ot slavt-n .:
territory now free.
Resulted, That we hove the utmost confidenceH
the patriotism, ability and honesty of Lewis
j and Wiiliain O. Butler ; that in their bands
will be sale, and the Government adniinistend |^B
the principles of the platform of the Demon .1
Uj, and we pledge ourselves to use all honoruL ::
tosccure the election to the respective offices tor
’ they are nominated. B
k Js h b h I
A voice from the Northern Allies. H
The following Resolution was recently passed
| Cass Convention in M chigan: fl
” Resolved, That hostility to
“F m man SLAVERY is now and ever has been ‘He
PRINCIPLES OF THE DEMOCRATIC Cw..M
and that to abandon it at the present crisis v fl
ermiG against the tree prmeiplrs ujw >n which - i:’ ‘fl
I tions are based. ■
This reaulutHn was passed by the fiiends, ni*/'.™
ami supporters ot Lewis Cans. Dogs any nrui * fl
that a man situated us he evidently is cuuM ’ H
Wilmot Proviso 1 Look at Mr. Polk? Ever. Jdfl
Butler says that hud he vetoed the Bill it won tfl
| been unsafe for him to walk the streets and r• r. fl
| the very men who placed him in power! W, fl
! mentary upon the devotion ot Nor’hern IV.I fl
the South’ What Mil illustration of the
| folly of putting our trust in any Northern man fl
| er great his professions. fl
Acts for thi* North—Words for the Scfl
The Editor of the Columbia, (S. C.) Tc/erraffl
luding to Mr. Polk’s Message, excusing him** ’ H
proving of the Wilmot Proviso, very pointo
I marks ; B
“ It always lias l*een thus, action fo r the Nurm-fl
words lor the Southern gulls—signing the l*i< * fl
a private prutestaudo, that the princij i s fl
shocking.” B
lieu. Cass u I’arly so the Fraud. ■
If has already been proved that lhe friended ‘” H
have nut into circu ntion several lives ‘ ■
candidate. Two of these were produced in the Isl
States Senate, the one show ing him to be
the Wtlmot Proviso and the oilier contain*** “’fl
on the subject ! So base ami degrading wa* tl**’ fl
that even Mr. llmmcgan pronounced it the W
p illian. The correspondent of the B
American, gentleman well known and In* l ' v ‘B
ed in Wusliiiigton, makes the ■ - fl
opment in regaril to the matter; H
” On the day on which Mr. Mangum cxp^ 1 H
\ notice ol the Senate, the deception in the t° fl
of the life of Gen. Cass, that the Hon. •Fh’*
worth volunteered rn the presence ot out 'fl
Whig Senators, a statement to this efec\ H
puuihascd ui ilia ollsu’ ol lh* i ofigießNuna- (*•
! uiiieuis Uu circulation in his dietnct. and ® wl ‘ H
i ih* Lile of ('ass, issued in the month ol Marc i fl
I ” Fpoii rxainniing the ‘sketch’ lis dii*® o^ 1
tract from lhe Nicholson l*ter, with h rom' lll
, the biographer, unfavomhle to tiie \Aihnoi l’ r ’ k
Fearing the political effect of such a dof* mr
free States, and bring himself a VN ~fl
hr called on (ien Cuss and rrprs**" 1 fl
the dangerous tendency of circulating df I 1 fl
at the North. GiNkRAtCAsa ixfoeuru fl
snori.u m. corrected. Some tune
occasions visit the (iwgresswnal UW j
he was informed that an sdihonsj th*H!
been published .better suited to his dtstru
nn dby the voluntary remark. that te r * ;
been issued to secure the nomination n“’
I secure the election. p f |
” This is substantially the statemen (
| Wentworth, and it famishes the most , (a
| idence tiiut the insertion anand
relating to the Willin'! proviso nil Jr
of the lib* of Gen Caw, was . wilfa’ .
fraud, concocted for tin’ purpose ol 1 1 j
North Btt'l South,iiuJ'il wliii'h hr ’
* nn ''” . i ...oMrtfd w ‘ :rtl
’ I'hr \Vuliitigton l mi'll 1'""“ !'•“
eiMirpirau) witli tmitlfrrtrt' r ’ 11 * •’ * mbiw*. ,u ' ’ ‘
an.l toui'l.ilfo a tjueitioilßU Jeuuulr'* |r „
nage. I ,|tj,tt‘hrnd (hat the f’ ‘ 1
(InMgnrd to .h-feive, willlhmk “‘lm’ l ‘ fir; ,. ‘
with the arvrte,t rrjrrobolio.i. ‘ n ., <
■nan who ree|>eet the ohl'K' 111 ”" 1 ’ “ „ . 1
nr in |iofrtir* mu,l I’eimdi* I*’ 1 *’ n c ,.u|,l ■- 1
wh.t canJiJate nr rMiwmrfW •'* 1 .
of conirmnit ami executing*
tine.”