Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-08-29

illustrous instance to show, that fmness does not
mean violence for that although coming into the ad-
minstration in the most excited state of feeling that
country has, perhaps, ever experienced, he ijt
10Th The Repu6tiea" party greatly augmented and ne
principles Il had contended for, firmly established
Now, il does strike me that these days. when the
Government is falling off from Of its good char
acterstics in the Executive Department, want al
s head vrtuous and competent citizen like this
10 check the downward course-and perhaps do it the
better from having been much detached from the polit
cal arena Of late and therefore, free from enange.
ments Of all sorts which, it is not irrational 10 sup
pose, may have been, more or less, springng up
amongst those most prominent in it.
/ What the sufficient guarantees that General Cass
is that man. it may be asked
The very letter referring TO is one-for, he
gives TO understand, that Mr. Jefferson would be his
model and, above all, in interpreting the Constitution
and after life of honor and usefulness such as he
has passed in great variety of public trusts, we
should, perhaps be in little danger if we confded in
his own assurances. But we have, ought TO
have, where the occasion is so momentous full as
.urances beyond words. We have high atiestaons
from others, and his own high deeds The three De-
mocratic Presidents, Mr.. Madison, Mr.. Monroe, and
General Jackson gave repeated proofs o their a5un
dant confidence in him-and for his own deeds,
would be much disposed TO say, without going farther
in this present letter, though greatly more will after
wards be seen, that
into the breach, and did more, by publications under
his NAME than any in the nation to turn aside the
odum which, under that disaster rising against the
i Government, whose friends were IN dismay, ana It's
enemies mad with ferocions Joy, in the double
hope OF getting into power, and stopping the pub
locations, which exposed him 10 the fiery denuncIaons
from the Federal press, without parallel perhaps IN our
country, except in the of Mr.. Madison himself,
Of whom il said, (and let this 60 as sample OF It's e'
rocily that erery honest ought to hare ,ohip IN
his hand 10 lash The scoundrel round The lcorfd-'he
man who could face this in his country cause, may be
said to have moral resolution enough Tor any thing
| The man. who, when at the Saut SAINT Mary,
I TO procure a cession Of land for military poet
for tho United States, and finding himself surround
ed by hostile Indians three times the number ct his
own little party, of whom, daring and turbu-
lent chief, hosted the British flag in the Indian camp
within our boundary, and hosted il in defiance the
man. who as Schoolcraft relates, could then walk
coolly to the lodge OF the hostile Chief haul down
the flag, and put bis foot upon it, thus indicating in an
instant the American honor and supremacy by the ter
he inspired, though he did so at the risk OF his lie
that has constitutional courage, as well as pa
triotism enough TO do any thing.
The man, who wrote that ma;chless protest Il so call
his pamphrD the Court Of France, thereby exposing
himself TO the bitterness of the ant-slavery fanatcsm
in that hemisphere, especially in Eng land, waere
| The fanalicsm has the whole press It's organ, ana
other organs besides, even to malignant and d1iams-
Tory peers in Parliament, whose audience IS Europe
and the world as well as Brain-ihe man who does
this in fearless and heightened vindIcation oil The
rights OF his country, that man IS likely, think, 10
have intellectual power and independence as well az
patriotism enough, to do any thing which the national
wans, interests and dignity could demand at his hands
in the Presidential Office
| call the protest referred to, MATcHLEss must,
therefore, the term strong, ask 10 be indulge IN
few remarks on this head Surely it SO, OF never
would il have provoked the rnatchless wrath oil LORD
Brougham That powerful, though prejudiced and
passionate peer, and furious Aboi,Ionst. that "uni.
versal busy body and nermeddler OF the aye, as
spirited and accomplished writer in the Globe calico
him, beheld in the sound reasoning and sateman'llke
tone Of the protest. death TO his hopes OF seeing per-
fec,ed the ever famous Qunuple Treaty. Had that
hgh-handed portentous league, reached It's consunma-
ton, new, and peculiar effective vigor, would have
been impaired 10 The principle Of universal abolition,
the undoub,ed root Of the league; Of which Lord Pal
merstons instructions to the English minister in Por
tugal, distinctly avowing England's determination 10
persevere in her pans of suppressing the slave trade,
until SLAVERY itself was eItirpatcd from the worlds
the proof What avowal What an attack does it
not involve The domestic institutions Of independent
nations! Even the English ambassador at Cons,anl'-
nople, Lord Ponsonby, IN writing TO his Government,
was forced to shrink back from prime pie monsrous
How highly, then, ought not the United States. esPe-
cially the South, TO estimate this service in General
Cass2
The protest matchless in another sense. lie per-
formed the service on his own estimate of duty. BY
the exercise of talents of the fret order at the right
deciding campaign and perhaps the destines of u
nation he broke up Of those dangerous conedera-
cIes among emperors and kings, to defeat which sup
posed in The history of Staes call for the full inter-
position Of national influence and authority and
~. if ever effected without l-sedom ,oh it, unless
broken 10 pieces by arms The honor 10 utn. Cass
therefore signal the service he rendered; and the
conduct of his own government towards him, does but
augment his fame
should get beyond my limits if | attempted to re-
view all the deep mschies that lurked in the Quin,upe
Treaty, but must not pass them by entirely The whole
Eastern coast of America South of the 32d degree of
N. latitude, came within its gigantic sweep No vessel
contracting parties could have been approach
ing Charleston or Richmond, N. York, with cargo
from any part Of the world, South of Savannah or
have been going from any of these ports of with
cargo, TO any part of the world, South of Savannah
without risk Of being searched for slaves by British
cruisers The voyage stopped and The vessel ordered to
some British Court Of Admiralty for adjudication In
credible as this may seem, the words Of the Treaty
prove it, The space for British search, comprehended
full seventy seven degrees of latitude II might have
been exercised upon all vessels above, in The very
Gulf of Mexico itself, going TO or from New Orleans
What blow 10 commercial interests was therefore
warded Of what door foreclosed against British do
mlnon upon the seas-and against her ani-savery Fa-
naticism, working upon Tho seas, that it might do It's
work more thoroughly and quickly upon the land -
Here is the key 10 Lord Broughams rage-the defeat
of that monsrous Treaty by the talents sagacity and
patriotism of General Cass. His attack upon him is
without parallel since Wedderburnes attack upon Dr.
Franklin. II exceeded that in outrage as franklin
not then the representative of ndep pendent ma
ton.
! Strange to say, General Cass was exposed 10 both
indignty and injustice from his own Government for
the noble part he acted in France The proof is on re-
cord or we might want faith in such charge ], is
contained in The correspondence between Mr. Webster
and himself, carried on mainly after his return from
France-but never retrbution sooner BROUGHT
about, as Tar as the parties were concerned though The
public will not soon forget to hat umentable extent
great principles forgotten The treatment General
Cass received His own victory over Mr. Webster
was complete, triumphant. No two judgments car diff
fer about thistle nhole correspondence beng read
Let me give single specimen Itforms an item in our
political history, memorable and instructive consider.
ing the dsting uished actors in the scene
General Coss had objected to the so gun squadron
clause of the treaty Of Washington that it had no
provision renouncing the British claim to search our
vessels for slaves Hereupon the Secretary of State
mounted upon stills. He says in reply, what ask
Remuneration by treaty of unjust preension no,
knew too well what was about The nation doing
that, would weaken its cause; il would be like
asking treaty stipulation not To destrov orr ,or, !,