Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1848-09-07
Keep it before the People
.Anglice, Mary.


That Willard Fillmore has distinctly
disavowed 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 tor
the wilmot proviso, had it been brought
forward during the session of lS46.
Keep it before the people. that Mlllard
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
u 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, Mesizoes, 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 Willard
Fillmore has always been a frank, open
and consistent politician, that he has not
two sets of opinions, one for the North
and the other for the South; that he does
not, like Van Buren,, boast Of being ga
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 man
Nth 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 10 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 i'll any
other light than as a violent opponent ol
slavery and a recognized champion of the
Wilmot proviso, and that he only modi-
fed his opinions when he became the cam
didate for the Presidency; that even now
he has neuer written or uttered one sylo-
Die against the principle of the Proviso;
and that when Intercepted by his north.
ern friends on the subject, he pretends
that the noise and confusion prevented him
from explaining his views.
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 a political aoeath-
ercock, tall things unto all men, an Abo-
litionist at heart, and false to the South
On! RARE CONSISTENCY IL. General
Cass writing a book lauding Louis Phil
lippe, and then, on. his overthrow, con-
graduating the people that deposed him.
2. General Cass voting for the Wilmot
Proviso when he wanted Northern votes,
and opposing it when he wanted South
kern votes.
3. General Cass refusing the s'over-
grown patronage" Of the Government, af-
ter exhausting that patronage to his own
benefit.
4. General Cass speaking ~eloquentIy
about the suffering of The people of Ire
land. and then forgetting to vote for the
appropriation for their relief.
S. General Cass ~concurring with MIR.
Folks administration and voting for the
Harbor and River bill, the veto of which
was the browning glory Of Mr.. Polk.
6. General Cass was enchanted with the
prospect of peace throughout the world,
and greasing his palate s'to swallow the
whole Of Mexico"