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MACON, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27, ISIS.
For Fresident of the United States:
ZACIIARY TAYLOR,
Or LOUISIANA.
For Vice President :
MILLARD FILLMORE,
OF NEW YORE.
Electors for the State at Large.
DR. WILLIAM TERRELL,
HON. SEATON GRANTLAND.
Electors.
First District — Hamilton W. Sharpe.
Second District — W*. H. Crawford.
Third District —Anderson Redding.
Fourth District —William Mosely.
Fifth District —Warren Aiken.
Sixth District — Asbcry Hull.
Seventh District —Yelyerton P. King.
Eighth District —George Stapleton.
WHIG NOMINATIONS FOR CONGRESS.
FIRST DISTRICT)
THOMAS BUTLER KING.
SECOND DISTRICT,
JAMES S. CALHOUN.
THIRD DISTRICT,
ALLEN F. OWEN.
FOURTH DISTRICT,
JOHN N. WILLIAMSON.
FIF2 DISTRICT,
JAMES M. CALHOUN.
SIXTH DISTRICT,
JAMES W. HARRIS.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS.
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
ROBERT TOOMBS
JcgT The Advertisements which have been omitted,
will appear next week.
Macon Cotton Market.
Receipts still light. Sales brisk at 51 ©s* cents,
lmostly at the latter,) for fair qualities.
Fine and Cheap Clothing.
We take pleasure in calling attention to tle ad
vertisement of Messrs. Peter & Jaujsteter in another
column. Their stock ot goods is well selected and
their workmanship can be relied upon both as to style
and quality.
To Tax Tayers.
Persons who are desirous of are referred
to the last notice of the Tax Collector iti another col
umn . The books we are informed must be closed at
the time specified, so that all concerned will please take
.notice.
TANARUS Tobacco <'hewers.
We would call the attention of those Gentlemen
who iciil use the noxious weed, in spite of the nu
merous arguments against it, to the advertisement of
“Leftwich’s “4 aces” Tobacco” in another column. We
are told by competent judges that it is what its name
imports, the brag Tobacco of the country. To those
therefore, who will not escheic its use, but chouse to
chaw, we would say, call on Scott, Carhait &. Cos , and
obtain a supply.
The Cherokee and Muscogee.
The first named of these magnificent Ocean Steam
ers is to leave New York for Savannah on the sth ts
October. She is acknowledged, on all hands, to be one
of Ihe most magnificent Steam Shijjs afloat and for
strength, speed and elegance of accommodations alto
gether superior to the Charleston Steamers. The Rail
Roads connecting with Savannah, will run special trains
in connection with these vessels so that the passengers
will suffer no delay. This is a great Georgia enterprise
and*ve trust that all citizens .of the State may not
only patronize it themselves, but that they may take
especial care to present it to the favorable notice of
the travelling public of other States. See Advertise
ment.
* Asleeu. Certain.
Our neighbor of the Telegraph denies fiat he has
been taking a “Rip Van Winkle” nap, though he is
from the region of Tar River; and yet the very article i
before us proves that he must be slid very profound in i
his slumbers. He does not even mention the fact that
an election has taken place in Vermont, and yet pro-1
fesses to believe that the Democratic party there has
not beer, disbanded. We beg him to look at the records
for both Vermont and Maine.
In Vermont, in 1847, Eaton (Whig, for Governor,) i
•had 21,150 votes, and Dillingham (Democrat) 17,434
Whig majority 3,716. At the late election the Whig j
candidate received 20,822 votes, while the Democratic
candidate had only 12,190—leaving a Whig majority i_f
8,632. The Whig loss in 1848 is only 328 votes, while
the Democratic los-t is 5,244! Now where did all these j
Democratic votes go to ? We answer, to the Free
soilers and Abolitionists, and here is the proof: In 1847,!
the Abolitionists polled 6,737 votes; this year they poll;
14,025 votes. -Of these 5,244 were Democrats, and 328 ,
Whigs cither voted with them or did not vote at all.—
Now will the Editor 6ay that the Democratic party at
the North is not disbanded, and that its menaben are
hundreds and thousands— nay, by five thou- :
~ J 7"” “ ‘he Free-soiiers and Abolitionists 1—
V erily ,f our ne.gn,,. _ aaWn -mpow
his readers to be very dull of comprehension. What is
true of Vermont, is true nearly to the same extent of
Maine.
r I he Philadelphia Ledger gives the following:
“In 268 towns where the vote for Governor last year
stood, Whi , 20,530; Loco, 25,503; scattering, 6.298
the present vote, is W. 25,904, D. 30,819, Free Soil,
9,710, leaving.* - plurality against Dir is, loco, 0f4,795,
which is a loss to him of 3,470 votes.
Thg House of Representatives stands, Whig 54, D.
61, Free Soil 18, laylor Democrat 1, and 25 yet to
hear from.”
The Telegraph says the Whigh gain in Maine is
only 200 votes, whereas the above record proves it to
be 5,374!!! Verily, if our neighbor cyphers in this
way, he will find no difficulty in electing Gen. Cass—
n a horn.
He said in his last:
“The late news from the North plainly indicates that
the contest is narrowed down to Cass and Van Buren.”
Does he still honestly believe so 1 If he does, we
can only say with Burns,
“Strange optics hath the man I ween
To see what is not to be seen.”
School Master Wanted.
There are repeated complaints in regard to the failure
of letters and papers between this city and Nashville
Tennessee. On enquiring the cause we hear it said
that the Post Master at Dalton cannot read. Will our
friend Ware look into this matter as he seems to be
doing infinite good in ether respects among the“ gable
coders 1
Skies Bright in Ohio.
A friend of ours a iew days since conversed with a
prominent Democrat from the county of Baker, who
has been spending the summer in Ohio,and who stated
to him, that from all he could learn,that State was cer
tain tor Gen. Taylor by from 20,000 to 25,000 major
ity, lie said that Taylor was sweeping everything,
and that the Ohio Democrats did not even pretend that
they bad any chance to carry the State. We give the
statement lor w hat it is worth,remarking that it is only
confirmatory of what we have recently heard from
other sources, in regard to the probable result. With
CL.o and New-York certain against their candidate,
what possiblehope canour opponents have oI success
in the pending contest ? None, unless Taylor men of
the South, by their inactivity and slothfulness should al
low the election to go by default, in States w hich could
easily be carried by a little effort.
Very late and Important.
The Editor ol the Ohio Plain Dealer is growing
desperate in his support of Gen. Cass as the Free e©il
candidate. In a late number the Inboring
to prove t Irat the no®'**"* °t Ins candidate upon ihe sub
~r, rn the Territories is identical with that of
Judge McLean,, canciudeshis article thus:
“ Now we *sk every candidd reader to compare the
opinions of the twp men, and poiut out the difference
if they can. We elaim to say that Gen. Cuss is as
good a free toil man as Judge McLean , AND A
MUCH BETTER ONE THAN MARTIN VAN
BOREN.”
Look ont for Misrepresentations.
The Democratic papers are publishing garbled ex
tracts from an old letter of Mr. Fillmore’s published in
1838, to prove him an Abolitionist. We find this pre
cious morsel in the last Telegraph, with an extract
from one of Gen. Taylor’s letters appended, to shew
that Taylor “ endorses the Abolitionist”
Can it be possible that our neighbor, usually frank
and honest, is about to enter upon this kind of warfare ‘?
Has he ceased to read, or is he resolved to mislead and
bamboozle his readers ? When our neighbor was si
lent in regard to the infamous approval of the VV ilmot
Proviso by Mr. Potk,we thought it was a mere over
sight—that he had merely failed to receive the mail con
taining the news The repeated denials of abolition
ism on the part of Mr. Fillmore and his friends, must
however have long ere this have met his rye. Wby
then not give him a fcirchowing 2 Why not .publish
his positive denial of the charge, made lw Mr McAl
lister ? Why not publish his letter to Governor Gayle,
in which he goes the tuil lengih, even of the-Baltimore
Platform } Why not publish his letter to the Raymond
Club, in which the charge of Abolitionism, as made
against him is pronounced a vile slander, and in which
it is declared ihat under his administration. Southern
Rights will neither be assailed nor endangered.
Mr. Filimore has avowed distinctly his opposition to
Abolitionists. Those who know him best, say he lias
never received an Abolition vote, nor sought to obtain
one. Why then persist in misrepresenting him ? Why
garble even the very letter which is retied upon to es
tablish the charge 1 Have our opponents been redu
ced to these desperate means, in order to carry their
sinking cause ? If so, all we h ave to say is, that the
people will scon pass judgment against them. They
are too s'trewd to be thus deceived, anti will soon see
that the soie objects of these unjust attacks upon Mr.
Fd more, is to withdraw attention from the abominably
unsound views of Gen. Cass on the same subject.
Stump Speakers ami Editors.
Ii seem* to be becoming customary for a certain class
ol stump Speakers, to abuse and \ iiify me conductors of
the.press as hireling scribblers, as men unworthy of cre
dence or consideration. It the allegation were true it
would certainly be in bad taste for the mass of stump
Speakers to make it. They are emphatically the crea
tures of the press,and can only breathe so long as the
Editorial bellows is applied to their lungs. In many in
stances the men of the quill are required to perforin
almost 6uper-human labor—they are expected to make
great stump Orators out of most indifferent materials,
and to pats the veriest Roscius into the dimensions ot
a Cicero. If the Editors are to blame for any thing it
is forgiving these ungrateful creatures art existence at
all. If they are unjust they are so only to themselves,
when they warm into life and being those pseudo Ora
tors who steal, ad libitum, from their columns, who trav
erse the country croaking like the frogs of Egypt, and
w ho veiy profoundly conclude that an argument is ful
ly answered when it is gravely pronounced to be
newspaper lubrication. The most astonishing part of
ihis w hole matter is, that these ehatges against the press
are made by a class of men who have done., end .are
doing, more to degrade and debase the public morals,
than the combined press of the world. It many of their
statements were put in print, they would shame the
father of lies himself, and if their libnLnous and inde
cent jokes and anecdotes were placed in the columns
ot a Newspaper, the most debauched denizen ol the
Five Points would be ashamed to acknowledge having
ever looked into its pages.
These are the men who are lecturing the people of
thiscountry upon the immoralities of the press. We
understand that Mr. McAllfeter in a recent speech in
this C-ity denounced the whole “ Editorial fraternity as
s wholesale liars. He said they mode their bread by
Hying, and that his remarks were applicable to Demo
crats as well as Wings, the only difference being, that
the Whigs exceeded their Cotemporaries at the game.”
These may not be his preci-e words, but they con
tain the substance of what he said. Os all tnen in the
world .Mr. McAllister is the very man who would be*
most likely to make such a charge. He has reason to
be jealous of any encroachment upon his peculiar do
minion, even when made by gentlemen ol his own par
ty. Enjoying as he has done a distinguished reputa
tion in that particular line of business, it is not surpri
sing that he should feel sore, especially when the press
is every where calling upon him to verify. with the so
lemnities of an oath, his equivocal statements in re
gard to Mr. Fillmore. Verily, Me. must have been
haunted of late by the ghost ot “ that John Quincy
Adams letter,” to have become thus sweeping in his
declarations. He ought however to exercise a little
modesty and wait until his charge of Abolitionism
against the honest and patriotic citizens ot Middle
-V.-I Tipper Geonria has been forgotten, before he ven
tures to assume the cast off robes of his brother Uol_
quitt. and attempts to lecture the people of “ the wheat
growing regionupon morals and veracity.
Mr. Clay and Gen. Taylor.
The Cass men have been endeavoring to console
themselves, in the prospect of inevitable defeat, that
Mr Clay would cast a cloud over his name by accept
ing the ncminntion of the New-Yotk Fanatics. Such
is not the fact, Mr. Clay is still the enemy of misrule,
and will not lend his name for the purpose of distract”
ing his old friends. The Editor ot the New- York Ex
press says:
“ When we first heard of the intended so called Clay
movement in this city, we addressed a private letter t e
Mr. Clay, not expecting in return any answer which
we could put in print—but we have received an answer
in whieli we are authorized to sny as follows :
“ Ashland, Sept. Bth, 1848.
“ James Brooks, Esq.—
“ l have given and shall give no countenance or en
couragement to any movement to bring my name, as
a candidate for that office, (the Presidency) before the
f tiAA
* “ * * * *
“On one point I desire no seert-sj,. j
I am utterly opposed to the use ot my name as a can
didate for the Presidency.
My warm regards to your brother,
“ I am truly your friend,
“ And obedient servant,
“H. CLAY.”
In the Telegraphic correspondence of the Baltimore
Patriot, under date of Louisville, Sept. 18, P. M., we
find the following :
“ The papers of this city Contain a paragraph, the
publication of which is authorized by Mr. Clay, in
which he says, that while he feels deeply and grateful
ly affected by the desire to which many of his friends
cling of electing him to the Presidency, he cannot ac
cept any nomination for that office if it should be ten
dered to htrn. Feeling himself bound by the decision
of the Philadelphia Convention, he does not wish, and
cannot consent that any further use of his name in con
nection with the Presidency be made.”
The Poughkeepsie American says—“ A recent letter
from Hon. Henry Clay, dated and poetmaiked at Ash
land, is in possession of a gentleman of this village. In
this letter Mr. Clay says that lie yields a cheerful sub
mission to the action of the Philadelphia Convention.
The American adds.—“ We have seen the document.”
The Slander Nailed to the Counter.
The following letter from Mr. Fillmore lo the Presi
dent of the Rough and Ready Club of Raymond Missis
sippi sets forever at rest the infamous charge of aboli
tionism made against him by lus opponents.
The letter is copied from the Raymond Gazette :
Albany, August 26, 1848.
Dear Sir —l have the honor to acknowledge the re
ceipt of yournoie ot the 9th inst., enclosing a printed
copy oi the resolutions adopted by the Rough and
Ready club o Ra/mondon the sth inst., and desiring
to know whether tl.’ political sentiments contained in
those resolutions are in accordance with my views.
The 10th and 11th; only, speak of my position a* and
views ; und though 1 cannot teel justified in appropria
ting lo myself all the floueiing compliments contained
in those resolutions, yet lam happy to say that they
truly define my position and express my views on the
subject to which they allude.
lam happy to inform you that unless something oc
curs which cannot be foreseen, I think this State is
certain for the Whig ticket by a large major ty.
Please to make my acknowledgments to tiie mem
bers ot your Club, und believe me.
Respectfully yours,
MILLARD FILLMORE.
John B. Peyton, Esq., President.
The following are ihe resolutions referred to:
10. Resolved, That we recognise in Millard Fill
more, the Whig candidate for the Vice Presidency,a
genuine republican, a pure patriot, a man of exalted
intellect and high acquirements—one who has served
the republic long and taithfuily in civil department
of government, whose every act manite ts that he is
a true devotee of liberty, whose name is prominently
identified with the Whig party, and whose talents and
patriotism justly entitle him to the love and admiration
of his countrymen.
11. Resolved, That the charg: of abolitionism reck
lessly adduced against Millard Fillmore, by unscrupu
lous partisan opponents, for the purpose of exciting
* sectional prejudices against him, has no foundation
whatever in truth ; but on the contrary, is triumphant
ly disproved by the solemn declara'ion ot our candi
date for the Vice-Presidency, uttered long since in
the councils of the nation, that Congress has no power
under the constitution, to interfere with the institution
of domestic slavery as it exists in lite States of this
Union ; and therefore we feel well assured that Southern
institutions wili never be assailed or molested by any
act ot Millard Fillmore.
Front the foregoing it w ill he seen that the people cf
Raymond declare that the charge of abolitionism as
made agu ret Mr. Fillmore is a base slander —has no
foundation in truth and that Southern institutions wtii
neilherjhe assailed nor molested by any act of his should
i lie be elected.
I r. Fillmore says, they “ truly define his position
and express hhs \iews ou the subject to which they al
llude.” Where,oh where is Mathew Hall McAllister,
I the truth teller, the man who offered to swaar that .vlr.
Fillmore is an abolitionist ?
Work on, W oik Ever.
One great reason why the “Whigs have not been more
uniformly sucessful in their Elections, is that they talk
too much and work too little. This is especially true
af our prominent men. They think aright and they
talk well enough,but when jt comes to dose personal
effoit, to .mixing among the masses, ami exerting a
wholesome influence, they are sadly deficient. In this
matter we shot iid take u leaf from the book ot our op
ponent. No Taylor man should think himself above
the performance ol his duty as a citizen. It they de
sire the tri miph ol their glorious old Chief, they must
expect to go into the thickest ol the fight, tliey must
cheer and encourage the rank and file, and it need be,
fill up the broken ranks themselves and meet the enemy
hand to hand. This is the only way to insure certain
victory. They tliould not only Ik: active but united.
Remember Od Zac’s words to Gen. Wool, after the
battle of Buena Vista; “ When the boys all puff-to
gether, we are hard to whip!” As in war, so in jkol
ities. Let tire boys then, “ all pull together,” and Old
Zac will be again triumphant. “ Work on, work evet’ i
should be their motto. No dodging, no surrendering,
no lugging behind,or skulking in the chapparal. Let
one and all come right up to his duty, and there cau be
no fears as to the result. Now’ is the time. The Octo- j
ber Election is at hand. A victory now will insure a j
more glorious one m November. I o the Taylor men j
then we say, be vigilant, be united—“ Work on work j
ever.”
Up Taylor men and at them ! !
The Congressional Election is neat'at hand. It is j
important that gallant Old Zack*should have a working !
majority in the next Congress to back his policy. His j
election to the Presidency is no longer doubttul. We |
must now carry as many Congressmen, as possible, j
In view, of this important matter, let ilie Taylor men ol
the Third Congressional District arouse themselves, and
from now uuui tae polls close, woik lor U\Y LN.
MONROE.
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
Taylor men reflect that the election on Monday next,
will exert much influence on the result in November.
Then as you desire the suce.ss ol the pure and incorrup
tible Hero ol live Rio Grande, turn out in your strength
on Monday next, and let us give 500 majority tor Ovf en.
8188.
Bring him to the liook.
The subjoined communication is, as it purports to be,
from a gentleman of character ami standing, who for
merly acted i olitically with Mr. McAllister but who is
not willing to join in the crusade against a Southern slave
holder for the purpose of securing the election of such a
person as Mr. Cass. He has recently been at the North
and has fully acquainted himself with the tree-soil, abo
lition,anti-slavery sentiments of the supporters of Mr.
Cass. He has beard their speeches, read their papers,
listened to their songs, and watched closely their move
ments until he lias come to the conclusion that the only
hope ol the South, is to rely upon her own man—upon
Gen. Taylor and upon those men at the North who
like Mr. Filimore are sustaining him at the present try
ing crisis. Nothing could more fully prove the utter
falsehood ol Mr. McAllister’s charge against Mr. Fili
more, titan the very lact that that gentleman is now
supporting a Southern slave-holder lor the Presidency*
while Mr. McAllister, in common with the YVilmots,
the Van Butene, the Garrisons, the Giddings’ and the
I whole tribe of Northern aboii'iouists is, reviling Gen.
i Taylor, as a man, a civilian and a soldier and using,
| like them his utmost efforts to defeat the election ot the
old hero.
COMMUNICATED.
.Hr. incAiiisier and itimarct i liimore.
Messrs. Editors: —You will recollect that Matthew
Hall McAllister some time since, offered o make oath
that Mr. Fillmore is an abolitionist. A pamphlet was
sent North not long since, purporting to be from Ala
bama or Mississippi, stating that Mr. McAllister had
heard Mr. Fillmore (wlw was affiliated with the abo
litionists) in 1844, make an abolition speech at Avon
Springs in Livmston county, New York ; and that this
assault upon Southern rights was made by Mr. Fill
more, while standing under a banner, the folds o
which occasionally touched the head of the speaker,
and on which were represented a negro, with General
Jackson or Mr. Polk; till in a position to bring our
Southern institutions into disrepute.
When in New Yotk recently, I was questioned by
the citizens of Livingston and other counties in regard
to the character and standing of the man who could
make a statement which they allege is so utterly devoid
of truth. The citizens of Avon Springs particularly,
pronounced the whole story a wilful and malicious slan
der. I saw there at least one hundred respectable men,
allof whom were willing to verify that Mr. Filimore
never spoke in Avon in his life, either at a political or
abolition meeting. Mr. Fillmore himself in his recent
manly letter to vlr Cabell, ofFloriUn. goes even far
ther and avers that “he never attended an abolition
meeting or made an abolition speech in the State of
New York in the whole course of his life.” 1 make
therefore the direct issue with Mr. McAllister and 1
call him to the book. I have hitherto acted with that
gentleman in politics and have held him in respect.—
He has said that he would make oath to the truth of
these statements, and I now call upon him to come up
to hisßolemn promise. I call upon him to state defin
itely, over his own proper signature, under oath, the
place, the circumstances, the time, the officers of the
meeting and the language used by Mr. Fillmore. I
do this that we may have something to refute. Vague
assertions from a treacherous memory will not answer.
As I hold Mr. McAllister in respect, I wish him to
stand fairly before the country. He and others are at
issue on a matter of veracity, the most delicate point
on which a man of honor can be assailed. A false
hood has been circulated to injure others, and Mr.
McAllister's name has been appendtd to it and given
it authority. It is worth his while as a man of honor
to notice it, for he who allows the innocent to suffer by
the use of his name an ! by the artifices of his politicnl
friends endorsing for him a falsehood, must either ta
citly or indirectly share the imputation of being parti
ceps crirninis. I therefore call Mr. McAllister to the
book and ask him to make the oath which he litis pledg
ed himself to make.
It is well understood in New York, that Mr. Fill
more never affiliated with the abolitionists of the North.
They have invariably opposed him whenever he ran
for any office, and no one of Mr. Fillmore’s friends
ever knew of his ever getting an abolition vote or of his
ever trying to get one. This whole story must have
been a political fancy of Mr. McAllister—a mere rhap
sody—or symphony to some of those Democratic songs
which I heard at the North, and which describe Gen.
Taylor as feeding his hounds upon negroes! This I
suppose Mr. McAllister would consider Gen. Taylor's
affiliation with abolitionists. I profess to be second to
no man in my devotion to oIJ fashioned Democratic
principles, but I confess myself wholly at a loss to un
derstand how Mr. McAllister or any other Southern
man can oppose Mr. Fillmore on the slavery question,
and yet advocate Gen. Cass, as sound on that subject.
Why Messrs. Editors, the bosom friends and support
ers of Gen. Cass at the Noith, publish and repeat as
household words such language as the following, copi
ed from a prominent Cass organ :
“lie who would veto or oppose the principles of the
W Imot Proviso at the North (he lie Cass or a member
of Congress) would require a special resurrection anil
an extra trmnn to raise hint from the depths of his po
litienl graxe and his political damnation.”
These are good Cass sentiments in New York.
Will McAllister and the Cass allies of Georgia shout
Amen to them? If they cam tot do so, they cannot
vote for Gen. Cass. Ifthey cannot subscribe to such
sentiments ns the above, if they are not prepared to
follow their Democratic allies of Vermont over into the
ranks of the Free Soilers and abolitionists, they had
betterimitat 1 ’ the examp'e of your correspondent, and
become at once A TAYLOR DEMOCRAT.
the south betrayed
OR
The indentity between the friend* of Gen-
Cas, the Free Sailers, llnrnburners, mid
Abolitionists, exposed and proved by Doc
uments f unque> li *> ,,s 'frh‘ authority.
The present is a time when Southern men and slave
holders ought to be cautious and circumspect in their
political action. Much depends upon their course. The
country is in a crisis. Tilt* rights of Southern men
are in danger. The North, almost without distinction
of party, ore oppose J tous. They declare that South
ern men shall not be allowed to carry their property in
Sinves to the new Territories acquired by the com
mon blood and common treasure of the entire nation
The south will not,and cannot,of course, submit to such
degradation and dishonor. She must in-'is: upon her
rights or they will be forever lost. The exclusion ofshi
very from the new Territories will be a death blow to the
institution in the {States, ft matters not how that ex
clusion may be effected, whether by Congressional ac
tion, ns contemplated by the Wrintot Proviso (Mid ?.Ir.
Van Buren, or by the direct prohibition of the people
of the Territories, acting in their unorganized capacity,
as proposed by Gen. ("ns*. No man at tin- South
would think of voting for ;thv person who should avow
himself in favor of the U Ilmot Proviso. The object
ol the present article is to convince tin* thoughtful and
reflecting portion of the Southern people, that Gene, al
Cassis loss reliable than Mr. Van Buren himself, and
that his positions are mora objectionable and triors ru
inous of Southern rights than are those of tlie ul m
Free Soil men of New England. That tire reader may
the more clearly understand Gen. ('ass’ true feelings
and opinions upon the subject of slavery, wc purpose to
review briefly all that he is known to have uttered or
written or done on the subject.
Gen. Cass Presenting Abolition Petitions.
On the 98th page of the Senate Journal, 1815-6, is
the following entry - :
“Mr. Cass presented the petition of citizens of Mich
igan, remonstrating against the admission of Texas in
to the Union, with a Constitution tolerating slave
ry.”
On page J 34 is the following entry:
“AD. Cass presented a petition of citizens of the
State ot Michigan, remonstrating against the adniis
sion of Texas into the Union, with a Constitution rol
i. HATING SLAVERY.”
The former was presented on the 13th of January,
1816, ami the latter oh the 4th of” February thereafter.
The joint resolution admitting Texas into the Union
? a State, with a Ooiislitntion tolerating Slavery,
passed Congress about thfe 21th DecenTber, 1815, ami
watt approved the 29th of that month. tBo Tt-Xas was
then in the Union, as a Stole, an I vet we'find Mr.
Cass introducing two petitions, aimed directly at her
domestic institutions!
Yes! We find this Democratic Candidate for thq
Presidency, then a Senator in Congress— representing
the sovereignty of the Stat: -;—hound to do all in his
power to protect their rights-— after Texas had been ,
admitted into the Union as a Slave State, with a
Constitution which Congress has no power to alter
amend or disturb—presenting petitions which pro
tested AGAINST ONE OF HER RIGHTS OdNFERKBB B.Y
that Constitution !
Gen. Cass Praying for Abolition.
While Gen. Cass was Minister to Frantfe, in 1842,
he wrote his celebrated paper on the Right of Sea-cli,
The London Edition “of that work is now before Us. —
In it he uses the following remarkable declaration,
which is the more to be ‘deprecated because made in a
Foreign land. No Southern man can certainly ap
prove of it, or vote for the man who uttered it. YVe
quote from page 66, where Gen. Cass, speaking of him
self, says:
“We are no slave-holder. We never have been.
We never shall be. We deprecate its existence in
principle and I’RAY FOR ITS ABOLITION EVE
RY WHERE where this can be effected justly and
peaceably and safely tor both parties.”
Such were the views of Gen Cass in 1842. He was
then, if he spoke the truth, “opposed to slavery. warn
principle and prayed for its abolition every where .”—
We of the South want no 6itch man for President. We
believe the institution of slavery to be a good one both
morally and politically, both for the master and the
servant. We are in favor of its extension to all terri
tories where it can be profitably introduced, and we
know that no honest man who is “opposed to it on
principle and who prays for its abolition” can possibly
either favor its extension or defend our rights under th e
constitution.
she opinions of Gen. Cass then in 1842, were not
such asSoutliern men could approve of. He was not
then such an one as we could have, with confidence, en
trusted our rights to. Is he any better now ! Let us see-
Gen. Cuss in favor of the YYilmot Proviso.
As we have said, the North are opposed to the rights
of the South, and alfedge that slavery shall be excluded
from the New Territories of California and New Mex’
ico. Several plans have been devised to effect this ex
clusion. Due plan is by the YVilmot Proviso. We
will now prove Get). Cass to have been, at one time, in
favor of this plan.
At tie first Session, 29'h Congress, Mr. Polk asked
Congress to appropria’e Three Millionsot dollars to en
able him the mare effectually to or purchase,
a peace with Mexico. In the House of Representa
tives, containing ft majority of some seventy Democrats
an amendment was proposed and earned, providing tha 1
in any territory to be acquired slavery should not be
tolerated. The bill came to the Senate on the morn
ing of its adjournment, when Senator Davis of Massa
chusetts, took the floor and spoke against it until the
hour of adjournment arrived. No vote was taken.—
Gen. Cass was at that time the open and avowed advo
cate ol this Wilmot Proviso.
Testimony of Senator Miller.
Senator Miller of New-Jerscy, gives the following
statement of facts which in iy be found in Houston’s
Senate Debates, page 755, viz :
“As soon as Mr. Davis had taken his seat Gen.
Cass came over to this side oj the Senate, and with
much earnest ness suui.in the presence of the Sena
tors, THAT 11E REGRETTED MUCH THAT
Mr. DAVIS HAD BY ills SPEECH PREVENT
ED THE VOTE FROM BEING TAKEN ;
THAI’ lIE (GEN. CASS) AND EVERY DEMO
CRATIC SENATOR FROM THE FREE
STATES, MOULD HAVE VOTED TO SUS
TAIN THE PROVISO; that Air. Allen would
have Led off, and all the rest would have followed ;
that he was very sorry that they had been deprived of
the ojiportuuity oj voting upon it ; that it would have
settled the question, and Gov. Davis was resjmnsiblr
for defeating that result.”
Here we find Gen. Cass, still opposed to slavery up’
on principle, and deprecating the conduct of Mr. i)u
visbecause he had not allowed him an opportunity to
vote in favor of a provision which would forever have
excluded every Southern Slaveholder from the territo
ry to be acquired under the treaty.
Testimony of Mr. iUtthbun.
Mr. Ratiibon of New York, a political associate of
Gen. Cass, in a speech made at the Utica Convention,
thus confirms the statement of Mr. Miller m regard to
the opinions of Gen. Cass upon the Wilniot Proviso in
18-16. lie said :
“I propose to inquire briefly into the views ami feel
ings of that Senator in the month of August, 1846. 1
learned them lrom his own lips, on the day that Con
gress adjourned, and at the tune that Senator Davis, of
Massachusetts, spoke up to i he adjournment of the Sen
ate on the Wilniot proviso. 1 met the Senator at tiie
railroad depot in Washington, and rode near to him,
and conversed freely with bun lie tween that place and
Balt more. The Senator appeared somewhat excited ;
spoke freely and with a gooddcal ot energy on the sub
ject of the ‘Proviso.’ He stated to me ‘that every
Northern Democratic Senator had agreed to vote! r it,
and but for Mr. Dttvts’ speeclt would have voted for it
before the adjournment.’ 1 expressed as much regret
as he did, but not precisely for the same reason. / de
sired. the record —he the popular applause. He said lie
lievet regretted anything more titan the failure to re
cord the votes of Senators. Indeed, sir, this was the
principal topic of conversation at Baltimore. This, Mr.
I resident, continued to be Ins language ail the way to
Michigan, as 1 understand,”
Gen. Cass Quivering in the Wind.
Thus stood Gen. Cass until the commencement of
the 2d Session of the same Congress, when Mr. Rath
bun alleges that lie began to suspect him of ou inten
tion to desert tiie Proviso Parly. He mentioned his
fears to Mr. Brinkerhoffof Ohio a warm personal and
political friend of Gen. Cass and at Brinkerhoffe’ sug
gestion they called in company to see the then Sena
tor. The subject was broached. Cuss, thought it pre
mature—better give it the go-by this session ; nothing
to be gained by pressing it now—sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof.’ Rathbun said : “that there
were important reasons for pressing that question to a
vote in both branches,, which probably had net oesurred l
to Gen. Cass. * * Gen. Cass replied, !
CSf“‘OH, IF IT COMES TO TIIE VOTE—I AM WITH YOU, !
YOU KNOW. ”
During this session and on the Ist of March, 1347, 1
the Three Million Bill came from the House, to the
Senate without the VV,imot Proviso. It was moved to
insert it. Cass opposed tiie amendment for the follow
ing, among other, reasons :
, “ The present is no proper time for the introduction
into the country and into Congress, ot an exciting to
pic, tending to divide 11s. when ournnited exertions are
necessary to prosecute the existing war.
“ It will be quite in season to provide for the govern
ment ot territory, not yet acquired fiotn foreign coun
tries, niter wv snail have obtained it. * * *
“ Its passage would certainly prevent the acquisition
ot one toot ol territory ; iluv- defeating a measure call
ed for by a vast majority of the American people, and
defeating it, too, by the very act purporting toe6.abl sh
a partial basis for its government. ”
H re it will be seen, that lieu. Cass does not declare
himsell against the principle ol the proviso, but oppo
ses it on the ground of expediency solely. He goes for
die war and tor ilu* three millions. lie desites first to
procure the territory and intimates that it will then lie
ttuie enough to exclude slavery from it. “ VV hen Gen
Cass lmd concluded, .Mr. Miller addressed the Sen
ate, and a conversation ensued between tlretn, which is
ithusr ported in the Washington Union of Tuesday,
Ma cli 2d, 1817 :
“ .VTr. Miller expressed his great surpiise at the
change in the sentiments of the Senator from Michi
gan, who had been sogarded as the great champion ot
lieedoni m the Northwest, ot which lie wa a dis in
-1 guislied ornament. Lost year the Senator teas un
derstood to be DECIDEDLY IN l’ AVOR OF the
H'tlmot Proviso ; and, as no reason had been stated
i for tjie change, ho (Mr. \I.) could not refrain from the
! expression ot his surprise. ”
Mr. Cass said the course of the Senator from New
Jersey wits moskexiraordiuary. Last year he {Mr. C )
SHOULD HAVE VO I'EU tor the proposition laid
it come up. But circumstances had altogether
changed. The honorable Senator then rend several
passages from the remmksas given above, (hivepeech
on the bill.) wlui h he had committed to wiiting, in or
der to refute such a charge as that of me Senator from
New Jersey. ”
Cotenijrormieons Testimony.
Other papers give the same report of the Ftosition of
’ Oen. Cass as given above by the Union. The Wash
ington correspondent, of the New York Express, writ
ing Match 5.h, says :
“M . Miller, of New Jersey, expressed his surprise
at the speech ot the Senator from Michigan. He cer
i a inly understood him, at the last session of Congress,
ito be in favor of the VVilmot proviso. What had
t changed his mind ? He had on Ilia table instructions
adopted by the Legislature of Michigan expressing sen-
I IjiJicnts favorable to tree lerriiory. ”
*’ Mr. Cass was surprised at the attack of the Sena-
I tor .from New Jersey, flow did he know how be
woult 1 Nave voted at the lust session ! But he contess
i ed that, ot the. last session, HE SHOULD HAVE
i VOTED TOR THE WILMOT PROVISO, and
probably in common with all the tnainbets from the
tree States. ”
The correspondent of the Richmond Whig, in a
letter of cooeunenX date, thus stated Gen, Cass’ re
marks in reply to Mr. Miller :
“ Mr. Cass gr 4 up to reply to this, (to Mr. Miller’s
speech,) and sect aed to be very much out of humor
He said he would have voted for rr, ip he had
VOTED AT ALL, L.vST YEAR ; RUT HE DID IVOT THEN AN
TICIPATE, AS HE SEES NOW, THAT IT WOULD STOP THE
-WAR, AND PREVENT THE ACQUISITION OF TERRITORY.
So it seems that Gen. Cass in March 1817, was still
in favour of the Wilinot Proviso, or rather the princi
ple of that Provfso. lie was in favor of excluding sla
very ts, m the ‘I erritories, but was opposed to the Wil
mot mode ot accomplishing his purposes. “Hedoubt
cd ns toI he time when, the nature and character of
the lau>,by which it should be enforced”
In-a letter to his abolition friend, Judge Wilson, dat
ed on the 19th of February of that year, he says:
T'K Proviso will not pass the Senate. It
would be death to the war—death to all hojies of get
ting an acre of territory—death to the admnistra
tion, and death to the democratic //arty, it was not
so intended, ft no doubt originated with proper feel
ings; but things nave now Come to such a puss, that
its adoption will produce these effects .”
Another Change in his position.
riiusremained G n. Cass until Mr. Buchanan and
Mr. Dallas came, out in decided opposition to the WH
mot l’roviso. Jt then was apparent that unless he
made a liberal bid for Southern support, that he must
loose the Democratic nomination for the Presidency.
Accordingly iu live fall of 1847, Gen. Cass wrote his
celebrated Nicholson letter. In that letter he says :
“ The Wilinot Proviso has been before the country
some time. It has been repeatedly discussed in Con
gress, and the public press, lam strongly impressed
with the opinion that a great change has beeu going
on m the public mind upon this subject—in my own as
-leellusothei s atrd that doubts are resolving themselves
into conviction*, that the principles it involves should
be kept out ot the national legislature, and left to the
people ot the confederacy in thetr respective local gov
ernments.” * ,
Gen. Cass is of opinion that a change is going on in
his own mind ! What a discovery !
Again he says :
“ l am opposed to the exercise of any jurisdiction bv
Congress over this matter ; and 1 am ip favor of leav
ing to tliepeople ui.any territory, which may beherealter
acquired, the right to regulate it for themselves, under
the genera! principles of the constitution.
Again Gen. Cass says:
“But certain it is that the principle of interference
should not be earned bevond the iw>r*i F
which produces it. It should be limited to the crea
uon of proper governments for new countries acoquired
or settled, and the necessary provision for ihe.r even
ninadnuwHn, into the Union ; leaving in the mean
time, he peorde inhabiting them to regulate theirin
tenta concerns in their own way. They are j-st as
capable o) doing so us the people of the States; and thev
can do so, at any rate, as soon as their political in
dependence is recognized by their admission into the
Union.”
Here it appears that Gen. Cass has entirely chang
ed his mode of excluding slavery from the New
1 erritories. At first he was in favour of the Wil
mot Proviso proper. He thought that Congress
had the power and regretted that he did not
have an opportunity to exercise it by giving his vote
in tavour of the Piovtso. He said too that all the
| Northern Democrats would have voted with him We
! next find him doubting and dodging-anxious to give
it the go by. He then made a sort of temporizing
speech against its being carried out at that time and
finally he denies the right of Congres. to act in the
matter al together.
Cass submitting Southern Rights to Negroes.
Having denied the right of Congress to settle the
i question ot slavery in the Territories ot California and
Nv.w Mexico, Gen. Cass proposes to leave it tomepeo
ple of those territories in their unorganized capacity!
and alleges that they are as capable of settling it as 1
the people of the states ! He says further that the 1
people of these territories will exclude slavery from their 1
limits because nine-tenths of them are negroes them
selves! Lot us see what his views upon this sub
ject are 1 Speaking of die extension of slavery he
asks : 7
‘ But cmit go there ’ This may well be doubted
Alt the descriptions which reach us of the condition of
; die C.ililoin ws and of New Mexico, to the acquisition
ot v\ Inch our efforts seftn at present directed .unite in
, representing those countries as agricultural regions
I similar m their products to the Middle States, and gen
era liy until tot th e production ot the great staples which
can a,one render slave labor valuable. Ifwearenot gross
|ly deceived and i! is difficult to see how we can be
the inhabitants ot ihose regions, wliether they depend
upon their ploughs or herds, cannot lie slaveholders
In voluntary ] n | )( , ri requiring the investment ol large
capital, can only be profitable when employed in the
r' < i < ee, I ,'l" I | ,° k w * a V or *'d articles confined bv nature
isi.’ f rr.p f ,r!C, l 8 ’ an . and larger returns than the
“, ’’l a-rtcuimrul products spread over more consider
able prtton s „f ||,r earth.
“In the able letter of Mr. Buchanan upon the sub
jeet, not long since given to the public, he presents sim- I
liar considerations with great force. “ Neither ” says
tin*distinguished writer,“ the soil, the ciimate, northt*
productions of California south of 36 deg. 30 min nor
indeed oi any portion of it, north or south, is adapted
to slave labor and besides every facility would be there
afforded tor the slave to escape from his master. Such
properly would be entirely insecure in any part of
California. It is morally impossible, therefore that a
majority ot the emigrants to that portion of the terri
tory sou ill ot 36 deg. 33 min., which will be chiefly
composed ot our citizens, will ever re-establish slavery
within its hurt is . 3
“ 1,1 regard to New Mexico, east of the Rio Grande>
the question has already been settled bv the admission
I ot Texas into the Union.
“ Should we acquire territory beyond the RioGrande
and east oi the Rocky Mountains it is still more im
i possible that a majority of the people would consent
:to re-establish slavery. They are themseies a color
ed population, and among them the negro does not so
cially belong to a degraded nice.”
“'Viih tins last remark Mr. Walker fully coincides in
Ins lea 1 written m 1844, upon the annexation ol Texas
! and winch everywhere produced so favorable an im
pression upon the public mind, as to have conduced
: very materia by to the accomplishment of that great
measure—“ Beyond the Del Norte ,” says Mr. W nlker
‘• slavery will not pass ;not only because it is lorbiddon
hy law ; hut because the colored race there prepondcT
ntes in'he ratio ol ten to one over the whites; and
holding, ns they no, the government and most of the
offices m their possession, they will not permit the en
slavement ol any portion of the colored race which
makes and executes the laws of the country.
” 1 he question, it will be therefore seen on examina
tion, does not regard the exclusion of siavery from a
region where it does not exist and where from the
feelings ot the inhabitants and the laws of nature, it is
morally impossible,” ns Mr. Buchanan savs, that it
can ever re-establish itself.
Here then is thi true position of Gen. Cass. He de
nies tlie power to Congress. He denies it to the peo
ple of the states by whose common blood and treasure
the Territory has been won. He gives it to the con
quered people and boasts that they will decide it
against the south because nine tenths ol them are ne
groes! Is it not clear that G n. Cass has gone from bad to
win sr ’ \\ as it not enough tor him to declare hiuiscll
opposed io slavery upon principle ? Was it not enough j
for him to seek to prevent its extension by act of
Congress? Was it not enough for him to desire to
acquire the New Territory in order to carry out his
abolition notions in r gaid to it ? Has it come to
this that the tiglr- of Southern men are to be submit
ted to negroes, J ‘attaes, mestizoes mil hi’ weeds
and that the very who makes the insu Iting proposi
tion .is to be heh p for (in suppoit and we asked
to vote for him for the tir.-t office in the Nation ?
Surely the sober and reflecting portion of the south
ern people will pause before they commit any such aci
of sell degradation.
(lea. Cuss still opposed to the South.
This It Herd Gen. Cass to Mr. Nicholson was in- j
i tended io cheat both the North and the South. It was
purposely written to give the South the idea that be- j
cause he declared himself opposed to the WJlmoi Pro
v iso in terms, ilia i he was consequently in favor of tlieex
tension of slavery and oflhe ptotcction ol south, in lights
‘l’his was the impression intended to be inode upon the
south, while, at Tlie North Geu. Cass hop J to con
vince the people that his mode of excluding slavery
from tire Territories was more certain, speedy and ef
fectual than even the Wilniot Proviso itself He hop
ed, in other words, to give up, or appear to give up, the
principle, to the south while he was at tiie same time
practically earn ing out his abolition views for she ben
efit of ihe North. Soft words for southern gulls, sub
stautijd abolition of slavery tor Northern fanatics.
This was his intention os will appear from good Dem
ocratic amhority The Chailesfon Mercury in pub
lishing his letter, used the iollowing language :
“In estiinn ing however the importance of this letter
we mast bear m mind that the opr uon given by Gen.
j Cass, though seemingly positive, is nevertheless equiv
ocal ; and next we must bear in mind lh** system of
j toreigrupobey now advocated by Gen. Cass in the Sen
ate, and which, ii successfully developed, will furnish
tbe field tor ibe application of his principles. When
we tr-.y that the letter is equivocal, we mean that, while
Gen. Cass declares the Wilinot Proviso unconstitution
al, he evidently const del a its principle a mere abstrac
tion. ‘That application of the principle which the Ab
olitionists desire will be obtained, while the princijde
will be condemned. He says to the Sooth, you are
right. Such s restriction as is proposed by Mr. Wil
mot is unconstitutional, and cannot lie adopted. He
says to.the North, why raise nu unnecessary disturbance?
\\ hen we get new territory, it will be free—slavery will
have iiq existence there—it wili be impossible to give it
being. The end you have in view will certainly be ac
complished, and you cun aflbrd to give up the triumph
of the argument oil the principle, it you are made cer
tain oithe triumph in your application of it io tiie new
territory.”
‘J’lte Macon, Georgia, Telegraph, of July'llh allud
ing to Gen. Cass’ proposition to submit the settlement
ot th is quest ion to the people of the Territories, goes
even further and denounces the doc fine as more in.a- 1
nmus than that advocated by Van Buren, Giddings
and Gerritt Smith. The Editor says:
027” “If Congress, then, having the exclusive right
to legislate for a Territory—to alter or annul, and re
vise all laws passed by a Territorial government,—has
no right to prohibit Slavery in the Terri tot i-s—how can
thepnr/e in their unorganic state, who can exercise tu> i
povveF bdt by the concurrence of Cbtigress, prohibit
Slavery ! We contend that this doctrine ot inherent
right in the people of the Territories, instead ol beiiig
the safest lor the people of the South, as some Editors
ate persuading them, is qpite as dangerous as the uu
. limited control claimed lor Congress over the subject,
by Van Buren and John P. Hale: For who cauuot see
that if this difficulty is to be met ii this Way, it is no
longer a difficulty to Northern ProvismstS. We
doubt if Getritt Smith himself would demur to this
course—lor nine-tenths of the population of this new
territory of such a character as to make it ascertain
that slavery would be excluded if left to them as it
would be if left to Garrison and his Iriends in their own
precinct. ‘ ’ .
Equivocal Betrayer ofSouthern Rights.
So uusaiisiactory was this Nicholson letter to even
Democrats at the South that the Charleston Mercury
dubbed Gen. Cass as die “Equivocal Betrayer of South
ern Rights ” and Mr. Yancey one of the leading dele
gates ot the Convention which nominated him, iu his
Charleston speech, said of Gen. Cass:
CT* “He is all things to ail men, and faithful to none
—a vase:Hating, time-serving politician—unsound up
on die the abolition question, and an enemy to the
Soudi.’^ef*
The people of Charleston, in public meeting, also de
nounced Gen. Cass as unsound and unsafe on tire slavery
question. They denounced the Convention that nomi
nated him because it voted down Mr. Yancey's amend
ment and adopted in its stead a platform, of which the
Mercury declares that:
CCP “GiJJings never asserted the contrary and Han
nibal Hamblin agreed to the resolutions of the Con
vention. 1
How the South was Betrayed.
The Mercury was highly indignant at the nomina
tion of Lewis Cass find charged that the South had
been betrayed to party. That prim used the ioUowing
terse language on the occasion:
“But the harmony ot the party was to be preserved
and this could only be effected by the prostration of
the rights ot the South. Will the people ratify this
shameless concession? Will they bow ilieir tie k
• like beasts ot burden to this yoke, which irresponsible
ofliee-seektis have prepared tor them amt proclaimed
that they shall wear? When it is recollected that the
members of the Convention that nominated Mr. Polk
have already received more than seven hundred thou
sand dollars in the distribution ot Executive patronage, ,
the inducements ot a Convention like that at Baltimore
to preserve the harmony ot the Party may be seen and
appreciated. But what boots party to the people ?
! When trampling under toot their constitutional rights,
party becomes an unscrupulous combination lor tlie dis
tribution of spoils torn from the hands of honest and ,
patient industry. Let the South—the people ol the
South, reject this wicked contrivance to betray and de
liver them, like sheep in the shambles, bound hand
and foot in the power of the North. If they have the
spirit of freemen—ot men—let them “bear it not.”
It appears however, that the people ot the South,
under the behest of party, are now called upon to “bow
the ir necks .to the yoke,” even by the Mecury. The
great mass of them however, are not prepared to be
“led like sheep to the shambles,” even by the talented ‘
editor of that paper.
Correspondence between Cass and Moses.
If tne Southern people are deceived by Gen. Cass, it
wtll be a most palpable case of wilful deception o:i their
part. They have had ample wan ing both from friends
and foes. Before the Convention which nominated
hint assembled at Baltimore, R. J. Moses, Esq. one of
the Delegates from Florida, believing that Gen. Cass
was unreliable, sought to elicit from him his real views
in regard to Southern slavery, and accordingly addres
sed him the following letter:
Coletjan’s Hotel )
Washington, May, 19, 1848. $
Gen. Lewis Cass : —Dear Sir. —As your name will
in all probability, be prominently before the Baltimore
Convention, to be hidden on Monday next, for the pur
pose ot nominating a candidate tor President of the Uni
ted States, and nsi shrill have to cast the vote of the
State ot Florida, in conjunction with my colleagues
should they arrive, (or alone many other contingency,)
it is desiiatile that the delegation should be informed ot
your views upon tlie right ot slaveholders to migrate
*.o new territory with their slaves, that we may lTnow
now far they accord with the instructions under w inch
we ere directed to act. 1 wtll therefore, respeettuliv
enqui e.
Ist. Whether you still adhere to the positions taken
in your letter to A. O. P. Nicholson. Esq. of Decem
ber last.
gd. it so, am I correct in construing it to mean that
you consider that the inhabitants ot a territory before
they form a State government, have a right to establish
or prohibit slavery as they may deem most cons.stent
with their local policy.
3J. And Unit the policy so expressed is the para
mount law during the ternto'ial probation only change
able by the people ot the territory u,m*ii the formation
of a Skate government,or under such Legislative sanc
tums as they may direct.
‘There is another matter but slightly alluded to in
your Nic olson Letter, to which 1 will also direct your
attention.
Do you consider that the slaveholders would have
tlie undeniable right to migrate, with their slaves, to any
Mexican territory that maybe annexed to the United
Stales—oi would you regaid it a doubtlul matter, in
consequence ol ihe institution of slavery not having
been recognized in said territory by the Mexican author
ities immediately preceding the acquisition ol such ter
ritory (supposing ii should be aeq .ired; !
You, reply will enable the delegation to determine
w hether under certain circumstances they can cons s
umtly with their instructions cast the vole ol Florida in
your behalf,as a candidate tor the Presidency.
Yours respectfully, R. J. MOSES.
It will be seen that in the above letter, Mr. Moses,
asks fora distinct, uninistakeabie explanation ot Gen.
Gass’ views as expressed in tlie Nicholson Letter. To
this plain, polite request, Gen. Cass sent Mr. Moses
the following equivocal, unmanly and insulting reply :
United States Hotel, May 21, IS4S.
Dear Sir. —l did not receive you ■ esteemed favor
until yesterday, and I have lieen so in ich occupied that
I could not,answer it before.
I had supposed that my sentiments upon the subject
to which you reiet w ere luliv underst. od by my south
ern friends ; but as you seem lodesne uiioniiation, I
enclose you my Nicholson letter, vv licit contains all
that 1 have to say upon the subject.
Respectfully, yours, LSWIS CASS.
To R. J. Moses, Esq.
Mr. Moses asks an explanation of the letter. Gen
Cass makes” darkness visible” by sen ding him a copy
of the very pap. r * hicu he could not c imprehrnd! Mr.
Moses in a recent letter to the Editor of the Tallahas
see Sei.tinel, covering this remarkabh correspondence, j
says ;
“The correspondence .requires no comment! I I
doubted that Gen. Care’ rwiir.n
wrote my letter to him P F , was
wrote tire letter that I had if. tL<ifi ‘
srrnction to his views- and the *f’ .
cooUi hut cuiiimn me m oj •
couhl rely span nu Ulle fl _ t ‘wt
Oied inilivtduq who is now th- ‘ ‘Sf-tin-,.
more Convention. “ ,-i ‘ ;| ee of , ‘
If Gen. Cass cannot tic touted bv h
how caa it* be palmed off upon^ U ;. u ■
upon tliempouant subjecto! Stm-l"^” 11 ’ “ : ‘i
Conduct of the N ominal .‘J f rni
I t the very Convention that ior ‘ t ’’
I P*®***" l expressing their opposi,;, p,a !
j visv) was f qiiiniiiardfpuid cwub u ‘
! Yeas—Maryland I. South (
i riond.i 3. Alabama y, A’ka'i-- a
lucky I—3o. ‘ J ‘ e: lu .
| Nys-Mame 9. New Hanipsh, r - fi v
| t-. V I II Mil 6. R|, |e i.
iMaryhmdo, Virginia ’)) \*;. .
j ei|,pi 6, Louisiana 0, r ’
j lucky 11, O,no 23, l idia-ia i-> i 1 '‘
i lowa 4, Missouri 7, \v iscw.s!n’fe ,s ‘'’ >1’
Thus dtd The National !)•„,
, toiniDi Vote refuse to ,
viso ‘They nave itieri tore aha n ,i (
lit**, and virtually avowed th- j ’ ,ta ' x
superior to Southern interests. H, !
Philadelphia Convention which n
ior. There, Mr. Tilees, cl Ohio U ’
ing resolution :
Resolved, That whilst all pr ,v -
gross to inteitere with slavery , n
is witlmi the powei and it is'ii',,! 1: •!
P’olubit the introduction or exre
territory now posse.-sed or that ma \
He said jie inlrodticeJ it after CW w
Ohio delegation am, he wished toi
upon it. The principle which it
claimed in primary meetings ihr u
Mr. B*oi**,of Pa. was
of ill is charteter ir.trcHiuced. Wjifa |K
of disturbing the hanaony ot the C Wy *’
not always listen with V ”’
Mr. Brown finally moved to h v lt|
Tilden upon the fable, and his reso
by an overwhelming majority, thus ‘J'.,
the (fiends of Taylor were not dispel
the question ; a majority of the
th-* open advocate- of Free Sa l. 1 J
; undeniable authority by the Baltimore
Mr. Yancey of Alabama proposed tow 1
burners iecause they wer.- in favoroitlT ii
; viso > (iov - Touceyof Connecticut ‘ :
Attorney Geaeral of the l h -
warned the Convention in sach words
| ware, bew are how you reject these del,
i gxu:its. Reject them if you please but /
them horn your ranks because they are j j ‘’
■1 rnen, you put i„ jeopardy everv S■ ?
[ Mason arid Dixon’s line. ”
Testimony ol the \ ;rtber„ u
Gen. Cass seems to h-ive adopted tb-,
I talpdlcyrtniisfrieiiJjiiiti, ecoivei .| yi
I *>’ we dnd ‘hat while on his northern lour h
by a crowd of deaiDerat c ciiize is at Cle
-1 w , here “Virict;o.i i slavery is ‘
“One ol tiie democmtic orators u
f F a,ul ‘ ed Uen- Cass and trie . ’
he was now unde, stood to be to far
lroviso,nrui that the assertion that he* I,'’
it was untrue Ine crowd shouted th- ” *
I mi.T MfawaiJui
The following is the response ol Gen. Cassa-,,
, f ‘■ in the CfravelanJ Herald :
* no.se and confusion which v
. tills assembly will prevent my bemir ha rat/
porta til topics to winch you have called my an':.
Ihe noise aad confuo.oiV’ however w.is il
•| ientl y S rt * at to prevent Gen. Uaa< ,roin inform.;.
; assembly” of a great many other things coimec;":
his candidacy. He said that “his letter ofacc.-j
closed his political profession ofiauh” audtjati
ly approved of the proceedings of the Halt,. -
j vei.tion.”
Now the Baltimore Convention voted d*n
Yancey’s Report and Resolu;ioas dtciaraicvt
true Southern ground upon Slsvety. Tit, is:
Convention dodged the question o! the W,.j j
so entirely, and passed a series oi milk an i a,
luttous upon the subject of Slavery, which * i
lor even by Hannibal H nuiinand his iho c.
. Not only did Mr. Cass find time to tell thea
Cteaveland, that lie approved ot the .r
veiuion, hut amid aii the “noire and cuiim- -
“private conversa ions’ with the E .iiut L .
Plain Dealer who subseqm. idly „•...
as follows :
To oar Southeru Subscriber*.
“Every day brings us nt w se!sc r /:<:s va
’ South. Out circulation is no ion£e; touted :; 1
At, Dixons line. Il has been ■ imserv :o u? i v
uitaueous.y subscribe,s Horn t • .” ,>i
even Texas aaomu see 9ucn v.tia.si:.
terday we got it clue to me mystery. A t
M ss.ssipp, Wiote to a ...euu ..*ir aenu 1.l
t lulu that Inend we learned ur-i-jcs:
these Southern subscribers. They tin 1W..!
who want to show to then Democratic nr., i
i free soil articles in this paper, ly iray ,
tarm that iieu. Cast is a ” tree Soli tim.
-\ntV,G£Ml LLMLS SUTM hiL. u
SOUTH, Yoi it ho WILL TBALi it...
RY ARTICLE, LET Us SAY /Old
ALL CAWooR AM) bKASKSLbi
! WAWT TO SUPPORT A SLAV£i.\ i!
. OAMHST, VOTE toil Ghf TAYi -
i CASS IS WOT YOUR M A.\ iiELtii
THE TLA/A DEALER WOULD A A
PORT HiJl. ’
As many ot our readers may dt sire io *
this editor ol the Plain Dealer had prev .• s
regard to the Presidency, we c ,p> the la.. .
many other articles ot a similar nature. I-1
claims to be a personal and intimate to:.--
Cass and ot course would not misrepreret.: >
tiiiu. Now hear what he says :
“WE, AS A PARTY, PRfSErf
Tilt, NA I’ION A CANDIDATE Fiid.M -
! STATE. HE IS NOT A SLAViiiK'Uki
DOES NOT TRAPJC JN HUMAN rE
lILiJAS NO SYMPATHIES, ASkAi.-..
iOR CONNECTIONS WITH THUSI I
j fVhe n the Proviso was first sprit i 4
House ot Representatives, John Q. Attain*
| place and denounced it as r.vxECESsiSV. 1
i ‘because,’ he said, ‘the territory was note fE
j Congress had no power to make it suit 1
j ben. Cass opinion. Judge AlcLean,ol va-i
Court, hold# the same opinion—also John r >
| Joshua li. Guldings, editor o’, the v*
! all the Liberty papers. Congress has no
jla make a slave than to make a king,sail let
Cass believes, that }mn Met. sw
ration oj the Constitution, the character v ‘
pie now there .and those likely to go there. U
raphy oj the country,and tne strong pu a r
hi alt oj the free and many oj tne slate Sti>ti>4
Slavery, that it will never exist in those te~
WE KNOW PROM FREQUENT i>L't
TiONS, MADE IN PRIVATE Co> ;
HONS, THA I’ HE IS AS S'i KU-NbLi
ED TO THE FURTHER LXiEV’ ,
SLAVERY’ AS WE ARE, AND I'- 1 ;
.STRONG ENOUGH MOm Ol
WILL THINK.
tVt nave every assurance that botnet ‘
lion, should he te elected, while it wtd t IU *:
to the great and fundamental principles •
WILL NEVER HE USED TO GA l i
NANCE TO S(J OBNOXIOUS A MhA'-
CARRYING SEA VERY INTO i£d‘ fc
NOW FREE.”
\ ati Burdti openly seeks to exclude Swk II
Territories and the Editor of the Plain
that he knows from private conversation* * ‘
Cas, that he isa belter free soil man than
Cassisia and Prorisoisai
The people of the South, ought not toWrT 1 -
advojutes of Geu. Cass have an especi* l
creating a great excitement against Mr ‘ -‘•" ,
They know that Gen. Cass hunseil .s uurf)
upon tire subject of slavery They knew s
Uoti to the rottenness ot hia Nicholson w 1
given assurances to h;s Nortitern support
■I ■ . i ioV** a
still oppose J to the exteusouoi s.avery - u •
tones. They know that onieas a great uU ' c
against the Whig candrdaies the jeo, -
a thorough knowledge ot Geu. Ua* ‘ ,
slavery, lienee theirnoisy, blu-teniigf H '*'-
not however thus to be driven frwn one i'*" l .j
posing both Geu. Cass and his suppor ,:>ri
tore briug Gen. C and his allies to the hoo4 •
3 9
The Ifemocratic,Cass anti Butler. t l
sex couuty, New Jersey, have adverts
! mg lor the counties ot Jussei a ” <
which tiiey call,m glaring capita*.“l-■ ( . >
jto Southern nictation anti //if rrtf . ; •
j Slavery,” to rally under the siaudar *
ier ! VV hat say the people ol tne boo •
Ily their Northern aides ate growing 1 siav ,r!
Geu. Gass Against the Evlesi oii
It apppears moreover, that the
alone in .is knowledge ol Gea. Ga** * • a „>
timents. Tne Guernsey (OhwJ Jr * e * lcliw -
Cass and cutler paper, hoids the w
language: j. v t t*v : *?.!
“The Whigs having nominated a
for the Presidency, an - v ' ,,,n! *° . , f(ll! gi!t„ :J
Democrats are snuiimly