The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-05-24
GOVERNOR cAss.


This dsmagogue and political Sir Psrtinax Mae
Sycophant gets It .under the shirt" from all
quarters. The following remarks from the New
York American have as much truth and severity
as any we have seen:
The meanest of all men is he, who, knowing
the right, will, for the hope of personal advance
ment, pursue the wrong. In this category, unless
he be greatly belied, stands General Cass, whose
trumpery letter, in favor of immediate annexation,
follows these lines
We were credibly informed at Baltimore, dur
ing the Convention, that gentlemen IN attendance
there from Detroit, spoke of Gen. Cass, as noto-
rlousy opposed to Annexation, and freely IN the
habit OF expressing his opinion to that effect, TO
all whom he talked. Ii this be, as we suppose 1t
to be, true, then the barren chance of being made
Locofoco candidate for the Presidency has
caused him TO swerve from his integrity.
But Mr.. Cass has ever exhibited in his public
life, that peculiar craft by which the Mac Syco-
plants are wont to rse-the craft of "boolng."
lie could never, any more than SIR PerfinaT,
stand straight in the presence of great man."
| He booed and booed to A. Jackson-as the an
tediluvian Richmond Enquirer called him-he
booed 10 King Louis Philippe and to Queen
| Louis Philippe, and to all the little Louis Phil
| ippes-and he booed and snuffed with the royal
sister of Louis Philippe, old and clever Adelaide,
and he chronicled all court dinners and court
fetes and, we dare say, fondled the court poo
| dles--if such sensible court have any such,
with four legs-and now he is willing to boo to
| Locofocoism and Texan Annexation, and any
thing else that promises chance to rise.
The reasoning of the letter is on par with its
| independence. His military eve breads attack
through the wilderness of Texas, only to be ap-
| preached from seacoast without harbors--whe
himself inhabting city, that in one month from
the fitting out in England of fleet of seameas
that should the Atlantic, and passing up the
st. Lawrence, and through the Rldeau and Wei
land canals, present itself in the face OF Detroit
before notice could even reach our scaboard oil
their fitting out or destination.
| He breads invasion through such country as
Texas, destitute of supplies and means, and sees
none from the immense line of frontier extending
| from Maine to Lake Superior held by the Brit.
| ish, and with all appliances and means of war
prepared.
He boos, in short, with wonted reverence to A.
| Jackson
Then, again, the appeal TO prejudice, in quoting
an article from Fraser's Magazine, insulting to
| this country.
What would any man of common sense, and
common honesty, think of an English statesman
and Mr. Cass, doubtless, is by some persons
| looked upon as statesman-who should seriously
argue from the columns of the Madsonian, which
has, what Frazer's Magazine has not, sort OF
official existence and sanction, and its ignorant
and insolent abuse of England--about the public
opinions or policy of this country?
| Yet such is the whole aim of Mr.. Casss refer
ence 10 by-gone article in Frazer's Magazine.
Altogether, the letter is as contemplate in
| style and argument as in motive.