The North-Carolina standard., 1848-07-26
RALEIGH WEDNESDAY MORNING s4s@
From the Pennsylvanian,
GEN. CASS AND GEN TAYLOR, =,

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GEN. CASS AND GEN TAYLOR, @ IN
The candidates for the Presidency, of the Demo
cratic and Federal parties, respectively, may be com
pared with each other, with infinite profit to the vo-
ters who may be called upon to decide between Them
During former political struggle has the contrast
between the rival candidates for that high office, been
marked in its character. Certainly, during for
mer period in our history has this contrast served to
place the Democratic party on higher ground, or in
more impregnable position.
Gen: Taylor, to use the language of Horace Gree
ley, leading Whg,' on the 7th of June, as pub
lished editorially in the New York Tribune has been
nominated for the purpose of 'srewarding him for
services performed on the field of battle by confer
ring upon him the Office of President of the United
States, leaving him to supply his admitted Deficiencies
Of knO.Oedge and eaperience to perform the duties Me
office, by the selection of Cabinet who could in
struct him what to do.'' -
Gen. Cass has been nomina ted because of his spen-
did civil reputation-because of his power as an ora
tor and statesman, and because he has served his
most powerful Intellect and because to his great Ser
vices and qualifications, added consistency as
Democrat and intrepdity and ardor in defending his
country against British invasion during the late
Gen. Taylor admits that he has not voted for forty
years, and that nearly his whole life has been spent
in the regular army. . -. = '.7} .'. a2
Gen. Cass has voted, from the period when he voted
for Jefferson, down the last election, when he voted
for the present executive and always the side of
the Democracy. Carried poor boy to the west, for
ty-nlne years ago, when that region only contained
twenty-five thousand Inhabitants, he has remained
among its adventurous and enterprsing people, until
it now numbers five millions of Notwithstanding,
in that space of time, studied the volume of his
tys history closely, and gatherered stores of know
edge and experience the field of war; in the cabi-
net the councils, the executive chamber, the senate
house, and the courts of the old world.
Gen. Taylor is nominated alone because of the vic
tories he has with his sword ; and that, too by
party which opposed the war in which he has earn
ed his lanres, as Infamous, unjust, and accursed of
God and man.
Gen. Cass is nominated not only because he has
done good service his country with his swo ord but
because he has enriched her literary and political an
nails with his pen, and defended the people in the
halls of legislation. Presented by the Democracy,
who approve his principles, and proud of his
course, he became their candidate without causing
sacrifice, on either side, of consistency honor.
Gen. Tayoris presented to the country with strange
and insane inconsistency, because he has his
laureIs h a which his hackers denounce; and the
canvass must be conducted by his friends, by show
ing that while he is of the heroes Of this war,
yet that it infamous in its commencement, and
that it waged for purposes of personal ambition
and territorial conquest.
Gen. Cass is presented as the friend of the war
the defender of the policy which has conducted it
since its commencement by Mexico-as the advocate
of those who have aided to fight its battesas the op-
ponent of those who havea and comforted the common
foe-and as the able and eloquent champion of the
great principle of indemnity for the Past, and securi
ty for the Future!
ddate of the Natvsts, who declare him to be avora
BILE to their dangerous and contracted doctrines.
Gen. Cass is presented to the country the oppo-
nent of Navism and of all parties that do believe
and practice the great principles of Democracy.
Gen. Taylor is also the candidate of party that has
not dared to express its opinion in regard to single
one of the great questions now agitating the country
Gen. Cass is the candidate of party alone
the party of Democratic Progress and Democratic
Principle. He points for his faith to the expressive
and comprehensive resolutions of the Baltimore Con-
venton, in which the boldest and strongest ground
is assumed in regard to every question before the
country.
Gen. Taylor presented to the people of the South
as the friend of Southern institutions and as the
opponent of the Wilmot proviso; while
in the North, Mr. Fillmore the Federal candidate for
the Vice Presidency is offered to abolitionism, and
to provisoism an argument, apology in favor
of Gen. Taylor's devotion to Northern interests.
Gen. Cass is presented to the Wh0le Union, the same
in the North as in the South without equivocation,
evasion, or mystery. Scorning all subterfuge, he
stands upon the platform of Democracy and de-
sires support that is not given with full under
standing of his principles upon the Wimot Proviso,
and all other questions. -.,... .....
Gen. Taylor has repeatedly admitted his painful
and benighted inexperience and ncapacty-his utter
ignorance of all great questions, and his utter want of
sympathy with all reared to the soldiers life. His
letters, when written by himself, awkward, lily
constructed, and without point. ... ......
Gen. Cass has wrung plaudits from all Europe by
his powers as minister-has enriched our Libraries
and archives with the productions of his mind
and is at present of the most finished sefeducat
ed scholars in this country. . .. . :.:: i:,s
This contrast is useful and impressive, and may
serve good purpose hereafter, showing how far a
party without principles insult the people in the
blind and sordid ambition which looks to as
the greatest of all human virtues .- ~.. ..-'.'
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