Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-10-13
WING NESS-INJUSTICE TO GEN
CASS.

The Richmond Wing, a short time since,
published an editorial, devoted exclusively to
an effort 10 prove that Gen. Cass was highly
Objectionable to the South, and that he enter
tanned views directly hostile to Southern in
terests. That article was copied into the Pc
tersburg Intelligencer, and 10 the full extent
of the circulation of these two extensively pa
tronized papers, the injustice to which we re-
fer has been disseminated.
In that article, the Wing refers to the opin-
ions of Gen. Cass on the subject of slavery,
and says:
"In his pamphlet on the right of search,
Gen. Cass takes occasion to utter the follow
ing sentiment"
sc am no slaveholder-I never have been
Il never will be. | deprecate its existence in
principle, and pray for It's abolition every
where"
Now, the Wing knows very we'll that no
one would deny that those expressions were
used by Gen. Cass, but it ought to have had
the fairness, the candor, the courtesy to have
published the whole sentence, and not 10 have
stopped in the middle of a sentence, where in
fact there was no stop at all, and thus make
Gen. Cass say what he did not say.
To use the language of our neighbor in his
last paper, in reference to another matter; we
emphasis, Now, gentlemen, we believe it is
rule of law that you must take all that a
witness says, and that you cannot use that
which suits you and discard that which is un-
palatable," and therefore, if the Wing had de-
sired or intended to do anything but injustice
TO Gen. Cass, he should not only have finish
ed the sentence which he divided so abruptly
and anonymously, but he should have pub
lished little more of the testimony which his
own witness gave in the same document. In
order that our readers may see into the trick
and be prepared for the future to expose it
we will give the whole paragraph. General
Cass, in that pamphlet, says:
We are no Shareholder We never have
been. We never shall be. We deprecate its
existence in principle; and pray for its aboli
ton everywhere where this can be effected
Justly, and peaceably, and easily for both par
ties. But we would not carry fire, and devas
tation, and murder, and ruin in peaceful
community, to push on the accomplishment O
the object. But after having visited the thre,
quarters of the old continent, we say befor
God and the world, that we have seen ia
more and more frightful misery, since we Ian
ded in Europe, and we have not visited Ire
land yet, than we have ever seen among thi
class of people in the United States. What
ever may De SAID, tnere is muCn OF Inc palTlaI
chal relation between the Southern planter an
the slave And as to the physical distres
which is seen in Europe, resulting from wan
of food, and from exposure to rigorous Win
ter without adequate clothing, we believe it t
be so rare as not 10 form just element in tn
consideration of this matter. But the sublet
of the emancipation of two millions and ha
of human beings, living among another popu
lation of different race and color and with dij
ferent habits and feeling, is one of the grave:
questions which can be submitted to societ
to solve. 1t can safely be left only to thos
who are TO be so seriously affected by it; an
there it is left by the Constitution of the I'm
ted States It is matter with which the Ct
neral Government has no concern