The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-06-02
owing was the result:
Whole Mo-. of Votes. .252.

Necessary to choice, on the I'd ballot,
165-All the States, then, which had Va.
ted against Gen. Butler, changed their
votes aud he was declared unanimously
the Irregular candidate"
On the fifth day committee of five
we're appointed to inform the Candidates
of their nomination, and resolutions were
passed which have no, yet come to hand.
Gen. Cass is now q Senator of the u
States from Michigan, and Gen. Butler
is at present in command of the army in
Mexico.
Of the nomination for President, we
append the following remarks ofthe New
York Tribune:
ave know no other candidate except
Polk himself whom we could have wei.
coined tn the arena more heartily. We
mean not to underrete the strength ofour
opponents. but we are confident that if
they can elect Gen. Cass they could elect
anybody, j ames X. Polk always excepted.
He has not the good fortune enjoyed by
his immediate predecessor of being very
imperfectly known. His administration
of our Indian Affairs in the North. west
for many years is remembered, and will
he shown to have been far more profitable
10 himself than advantageous or honnra.
BILE to tho country. His negligence or
incapacity while Secretary of War was
one ofthe political though secondary eau.
ses Of the disgraceful. unjust and mos,
prodigal war which was prosecuted fol
years against the Seminoles of Florida
His sycophancy to Louis PHILIPPE. while
Minister to France, will not soon be for
gotten, and happily the evidence ofthal
sycophancy, in the shape ofhs published
France, its King, Court and Govern
ment," has taken an enduring shape, and
can neither be denied nor perverted
His atrocious calumnies on the crushed
hut still struggling advocates of Europe.
an Liberation will rise in judgment a
gdinst him now that tho cause of Democ.
racy has there triumphed over the calum
nies he aided to propagate, wherein the
excuses and diabolism of few among
the F.'ench Republicans were artfulIy pu
forward as exhibiting truly the character
ofthem all. This is Despotism's oldes
trick, but he is one Of its most recent in
s;ruments. The work and The workman
were nicely fitted to each other.
Retaining to this country in l641. Gen
Cass soon after acquired the seat he ha
since filled in the United States Senate
and no man has since done more evil il
our National Councils. or done it with
more glaringly selfish intent, than he has
Ofthe Texas lniqnity, and the conse
quent War, there has been no more head
long and unscrupulnus champion; thougl
we believe it can be proved that, jus
before he wrote his published letter i,
faU0r of Annexation, which rendered hin
Van Bucen's most formidable antagonis
at Baltimore, four years ago, he wrole ont
as decidedly against Annexation. and ~
the broadest grounds ofgeneral hostility
But, this of course. has never troubles
him since he swallowedit.
So soon as his party had completely re
gained power by the election of Polk, HI
proclaimed War with England for Ore
gon 'inevitable'snd did his hest to rende
it so. He fought to the last the Treat,
whereby the Oregon Boundary was set
tied. still clamoring fol SAD. 40m. even a
the cost of War. This was by N
means his first effort to embroil the coun
try in that quarter. And the whole i
impelled by The most sortlid, selfish cal
culation. He knows what are the wors
passions of the worst class, and he is tn
very man to Chamber eager and smiling
= into window of The White House owe
a hundred thousand bleeding corpses a
mon slain that his ambition might be sal
is6ed.
On the great question of Free Soil q
gaiuSt Slavery Extension. his course ha
been base beyond example. He was q
: riginally (and The proof exisis) an avowe
champion of Free Soil Even when h
voted agains, the proposition in the las
Congress. he declared himself devoted t
the principle, but this was not the prope
time to affirm tit was improper To leg
islate On an abstraction, &c. &c. Thu
he stood for few months. when 10! or
comes his letter to Tennessee, eating a
his former words, and avowing himself
convert 10 the Southern doctrine, III;
Slavery may be legally established in an
territorial acquisition Of this country b
1.-THE mere fact of shareholders choosin
TO migrate thitherl So Aagrant an il
stance Of apostacy and treachcry hi
: rarely or never been known. and we hol
that every advocate ofFree Soil and Ere