New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-10-24
Calhoun and Cas..

From the new and able Free Soil pamphlet en-
titled " The Great Issue we make the following
eloquent extracts portraying the positions respec
lively, Of John c. Calhoun and Lewis Cass on the
subject of Slavery Extension:
What now l.. the manhood Of America compared
with infancy, What, in moral sense, lite eXtraof'
binary position
the Union are made free territory II then doubled the
preponderance Of the North the south II made
numerically twelve 10 six This was the Tree and
unanimous act Of Southern as well as Northern states
men Through the perous night Of the 18th century,
In savage and civilized warfare we have moved sesdl
~ and rapidly onward 10 the broad daylight and Al
length TO the noontde OF the 18TH Inc dawn Drought
peace and constitutional liberty the meridian 10 our
owo race brings that completeness OF civil and religious
liberty enjoyed by no other nation OF the earth we
have increased from three andahalf 10 twenty millions
Of people. We have become an asylum Tor the op-
pressed Of all nations From the Lakes TO the Gull,
from the Atlantic the fsrhest prsiries OF the West
Whatever the strife Of party the differences OF states
sections of the Union these have ever vanished like
the morning msts Of mountains and valleys In the
golden brohe of the Constitution In violation OF
the pledge of fathers the North has again and again
yielded % her brethren OF the south III us numerical
preponderance 10 annihilated In the nyeight years
Of our constitutional history have added and given
up nine States Slavery I'LL now excluding from the
estmste New Mexico or California slavery has extend
cd over Ave .nnths OF two millions ak hundred and
twenty thousand square miles Of our territory
"Can we 20 farther, we ask and be worthy OF our
heritagef Can yield more and not dishoDor our
noble ancestry But more is required. Inc master
spirit Of all those leading minds which control the slave
power has established the line Of policy. He stands
the Apostle of the South not only in the defence but
for the indefinite extension ~ Slavery Following this
satesm the South now demand an enfUc sHbrtfsi0a
OF the principles which common ancestry poured out
their blood 10 defend and establish. We are asked
willingly and not forcbiy TO make ourselves parties
10 this extraordinary and paradoxical position. such
10 HE position and his demand We ask the free
men Of North view these in the double aspect OF
bis character nd talents and their dangerous bearing
on the general cause Of freedom and civilization Al
most a son. Of the Revolution one whose alma matsr'
OF all others the Continent OF America has given the
brightest host of the Of civil and religious Tree
dom one whose locks have whitened in the service
OF his Countrywide has passed through all It's impor
tant posts OF honor the hghestwhose private life
has been little less than Spartan for simplicity and
purity great mind. which can trace principles to
their and make profound and intricate questions
luminous with its genius In the light Of the struggles
OF all Europe for freedom and IN the light oil our own
thrilling history stands on the highest question OF
humanity against the Judgment II the civilized world
"The Ordinance of 81 and the Terrific
rial Government Of Michigan had one and the same
origin OF the latter Lewis Cass was nearly eighteen
years the administrator For this service he received
from the public Treasury upward OF ninety thousand
dollars and yet the ground on which he asks our suf
fagos for the highest Office in the nation IT, that the
power which created that glorious Ordinance OF q
not delegated 10 fathers but by them violently
implied or assumed that the exercise of this same
power IL, therefore, now unconstitutional aud that the
free territory of the boundess West should be opened
20 Slavery. not as its people or the South may
desire Stripped OF their DISCUSSES these his prn
ciples. Slavery has been and will be carried
svhere II IL not prohibited This is matter OF history
This platform. then. yields all for which con
tending Is fret principle the denial of the power Of
the National Government over persons In It's territory
10 clearly and fully affirmed II this be true, every
other principle 10 conceded and the entire claim OF the
South yielded To vote for Lewis Csss to vote for
this concession"
john Calhoun March Is l7s2 Two maternal uneles
kled IN the Rsvoutoa.
f0dustsd Yale College $50. Representative and Senator
Congress Seven years Secretary of War Secretary Of state and
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