Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1848-09-18
Keep it before the People!

e U SLSP "h'S
. Keep it before the People!
That Willard Fillmore has distinctly
d!sayowed the slightest wish or desire TO
interfere with the question of slavery In
the United States.
Keep it also before the people, that
Lewis Cass proclaimed in his place in
the Senate, that he would have voted for
the wilmot p~roviso, had it been brought
forward during the session Of 1916.
Keep it before the people, that Millard
Fillmore is denounced by the Abolition
lists as a traitor and a dough-face, because
he recognises the institution of slavery,
and brought a bill into congress to pay
\ master the value of a runaway slave.
Keep it also before the people, that
Gen. Cass boasts that be never was a
Shareholder, that he detests slavery, and
would be delighted to see it abolished, if
it could be done safely and peaceably.
Keep it before the people, that the De-
mocratic papers dare not inform their
readers that Willard Fillmore voted in
favor of the first of the Atherton resolu-
tons, which declares that Congress has
no jurisdiction over the question of sla-
very in the United States.
Keep it also before the people, that
Gen. Cass has proclaimed the monstrous
opinion that the question of slavery in the
newly acquired territory must be settled
by the people thereof; thus giving to the
Indians, TMesizoes, Zamboes, and other
colored inhabitants of such territory, the
right and power to exclude citizens Of
the South from establishing themselves
with their property on the soil.
Keep it before the people, that Millard
Fillmore has always been a frank, open
and consistent politician, that he has not
two sets Of opinions, q for the North
and the other for the South; that he does
not, like Van Buren,, boast of being "a
northern man Nth southern principles"
nor make professions at the eleventh hour
to gull the South.
Keep it also before the people, that
southern democrats are endeavoring to
hold up Lewis Cass as "a Northern ma
scih Southern principles" just as they did
Van Buren,, and that Lewis Cass Is aid
ing to propagate the fraud, by causing to
be circulated two editions of his life, one
intended to reconcile stockholders to his
support, and the other to ingratiate him
self with Northern anti-slavery men.
Keep it also before the people, that
Lewis Cass never was regarded in any
other light than as a violent opponent Of
slavery and a recognized champion of the
Wilmot proviso, and that he only modi-
fed his opinions when he became the can
didate for the Presidency; that even now
he has never written or uttered one sylla-
ole against the principle Of the Proviso;
and that when Intercepted by his north
ern friends on the subject, he pretends
that she noise and confusion prevented him
from explaining his yieus.
Keep it before the people, that Mr..
Yancey, a Southern democrat, and dele
gate from Alabama to the national demo-
cratic convention, refused to sustain Lewis
Cass, pronouncing him apolihcal peath-
ercock, "all things unto all men, an Abo-
l~itionist at heart, and false t the South:
On! RARE CONSISTENCY IL. General
Cass wrifinU a hooE ta.d;nr .ouis phil.