Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1848-07-21
A IannS candidate.

We have before US a brace of Locofoco mis-
siyes, styled "Sketch of the Life and PUBLIC Ser
vices of Gen. Lewis Cass." They are pam.
phlets of precisely eight pages each, bearing
date, Washington, June, l848, and "Printed al
the Congressional Globe Office, Jackson Hall,
Washington, d. c. Price 80 cents per hundred
copies" They are made 10 resemble each 9TH
er so closely that none but the most careful OBJ.
server would detect the difference; and yet they
have TWO distinct aspects-one looking North,
the other looking South. No person seeing the
two pamphlets would mistrust the trick that is
attempted to be played of, without careful ex-
animation. Indeed, the first six pages are so
arranged as TO suit either a northern or a south
ern latitude "wilhout material variation" But
on the nh page, in the Southern Lewis Cass,
occurs the following paragraph;
sit was during the session of this Congress
that the Tariff Of 1876, and the Independent
Treasury, were established 1t is not alone to
the exclusive champion of free trade, and the
ultra advocate of hard money currency, that
the opponents of protection and the enemies oi
paper currency are to look for the defeat OF
those measures. Such men are usually in the
pursuit of some theoretical abstraction, which
gives them but liuIeinhuencewith practical mon.
But it is TO men of enlarged and liberal views,
whose strength of character and influence carry
conviction with their action, that the country is
indebted for radical and beneficial reforms.
| General Cass gave TO these great measures The
might Of his influence, and his Jealous and un-
ninching support. AT the close Of that Con-
gress," &c.
In the Northern Lewis Cass, the words
which we have printed in brackets in the a
bove extract do not Nppeurl They are careful
ly Withdrawn from their position in the middle
Of paragraph, and suppressed!
On the 9th page of the Southern Lewis Cass
occurs the following:
"In December, 1847. General Cass gave hi,
views at length upon the "Wilmot Provso,' il
q letter to Mr.. Nicholson, of Tennessee. 1t
that letter he avowed himself OPPOSED TO TIL
MEASURE and 10 The exercises Of any Legislation
by Congress, over any Of the territories of III,
United States, respecting The domestic relation
Of their inhabitants. He believed that all ques
tons Of that nature should be settled by the peo
pie themselves, who ought to be allowed "to reg
ulate their internal concerns IN their own way,
and that Congress has no more power 10 abolis
or establish slavery in such territories than it ha
10 regulate any other of the relative duties of so
: ca life--that of husband and wife, Of paren
7 and child, or of master and servant"
= Now, who would believe III In the Levi
Cass for the North, not one word about the 'Wil
: mot Provso!' Nota syllable about Lewis Cas-
$ being "oPPosED TO THE MEASURE ! |" All this
J; too, is cautiously Withdrawn, and suppresse
Q from the view of the Northern reader; and ii
a place in the "skotch" is supplied by one ofGen
, Cass' Qualifications about the recent French rev
+ o!utionl Fie upon such palry tricks to enabl
! shallow demagogue to carry tcO faces! Ol
: upon such base attempts TO deceive the popua
mind, and misIead the public judgment!
There are other and lesser beauties in hi
carefully prepared pamphlet, which our spac
will not allow us to notice fully and at large tC
day. For instance, in the Southern Lewis Cas-
parade is made of hisgreat and overshadowin
popularity in OhiOl This would not answer
the Ohio market, and it is Withdrawn from th
Lewis Cass North, and its place supplied wit
. allusons to "the Democratic National Conver
ton which met at Baltimore on the 22nd Of May
1848."
|, On the whole, this is one of the most paltr
= and contemplate pieces of demogoguery wit
> which we have met for many day; and as I'll
: pamphlets are offered dog cheap tat the Cor
gressional Globe Office, Jackson Hall, Washing
ton, D. c." we advise our friends TO procure Il
= themselves supply. Be careful 10 get them
: pairS-asil is by comparison only that their bea'
! ty and excellency appears. Without being S
. matched, thev would be no great bargain, eve
!, !, at half cent piece.-[O. S. Journal.