Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1848-08-14
The Janus Candidate.

The Janus Candidate.
We have not yet been enabled to pro-
cure copies of the TIVE lives of Gen. Cass.
says the Bee, issued by the Locofoco
Committee at Washington; one represent
ing him against the WiImot Proviso, and
intended for Southern circulation-tbe
other as in favor Of it, and intended fol
the Northern markets. Others, however,
have been more fortunate. The editor oil
the Cincinnati Gazette has received both
editions of the "sketch ofthe life and pub
lie services of Gen. Lewis Glass;" They
are both printed at the Globe office, in
Washington city, June lS4s: each con-
tains eight pages, and SO closely resemble
each other in typographical appearance.
that the fraud would not be readily de-
tected.
The Gazette proceeds to specify some
of the variations made to suit different
ATTITUDES. On the 9Th page ofthe South
ern life, are these words:
"In December, ls49, General Cass
gave his views at length upon the evil
mot proviso," in a letter TO MIR. Nicholson,
of Tennessee. In that letter, he avowed
himself opposed to the measure, and 10
the exercise of it in any Of the territories
Of the United States, respecting the do
mestic relations oftheir inhabitants. He
believed that all questions of that nature
should be settled by the people themselves,
who ought to be allowed ito regulate their
internal concerns in their own way and
that Congress has no more power to abo-
lish or establish slavery in such terrific
ries, than it has to regulate any other of
the relative duties Of social life--that Of
husband and wife, of parent and child, or
ofmaster and servant"
Tn the Northern life, this entire para
graph is unprecedented one word is said
about the "Wilmot Proviso," and Lewis
Cass being "opposed to the measare;;" but
tits place is supplied with a notice of his
g%lorification speech about the French Re-
volution, in modification ofhis eulogy up
on the liking and Court of France"
Again, saysthe Gazette, in the Southern
life of Lewis Cass, on page seven are the
following words
ut was during the sessions of this
Congress that the Tariff of 1916, and the
Independent Treasury were established
lit is not alone to the exclusive cham
pion Of free trade. and the ultra advocate
of hard money currency, that the oppo-
nents of protection and the enemies ola
paper currency are to look for the defeat
ofthose measures. Such men are usual
ly in the pursuit of some theoretical alb
stract, which gives them but little infu-
ence with practical men. But 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 benef-
cial reforms.1 General Cass gave to
these great measures the might Of his in
fuence, and his jealous and unfinching
support"
But in the Northern life of Lewis Cass,
the words printed within brackets are ex.
plunged. ii
In Soutkera Lewis Cass, his popularity
in Ohio is represented al resistless and
overshadowing ; but as this would not do
for that market, it is expunged from Lew
is Cass North, and its place supplied by a
reference to athe Democratic National
Convention which met at Baltimore on
the 22d of May, i648."
Honest Democrats Ye who vote the
party ticket from a conscientious faith in
the principles and an abiding trust in the
champions Of Democracy-what think vel