The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-09-08
Candidoles.-The contrast.

C1uOl0ateSs~lnC COnthlSt.
Reader, are you opposed to the dis
.membermenl of foreign countries to their
cOnqHest-to open the way for an exten-
sion eff slavery-ior new slave States}
We know you are not. But there is
danger. Cass or Taylor will be The next
President. No rejecting man will dis
pule that. Your single vote for either
may determine his election-nay more
your refusing 10 vote for either may
settle the election. Let us see then, If
the difference in their principles is such
as to determine us to vote for either, or
stay al home.
Gen. Cass, in a speech in the Senate,
the l7th January last, said:
"lf we should swallow Mexico to-mor-
row, don't believe it would kill us. The
Senator of North Carolina and myself
may not live TO see it, but l am by nc
means satisfied that the day will not come
in which the whole of the vast country
around us will form one of the most mag
ni6cent Empires that the world has YET
seem"
Three days afterwards, speaking OF
the objects Of the Presidency in rePor
ted order to Gen. Scott to spread the ar
my over the whole of Mexico, he said:
81 hope the Executive will say. in SC
many words, that its object is, in any cir
cumstance to conquer Merico."
Again IN the same debate:
1--WE may have to make the great ex
pertinent SO dreaded by the Senator from
South Carolina and The Senator from
; Kentucky, and anncD tie d0miniOns o
Mcrico TO ar Oacni THIS is the penalt,
which national injustice has often beel
called to pay, and which Mexico may b'
preparing for herself"
Gen. Cass is, therefore, beyond dis
pute, in faUOr of dismemberment-COn
guest He would Swa'lOw tie whOle 9
Mrrico! When Territory lis obtained
, he & his party denied the Constitutions
power of Congress to prohibit the estab
ishment of slavery in ito proclaim
forever free; and he stands pledged t
= fortid-veto-any act of Congress ma
king such territory free! Such is tn
: position of Gen. Cass. We want n
such President
} How stands Gen. Taylorl In his lei
ter TO Allison he says:
J "The principles of our Government, a
we'll as Its true policy, are opposed to II
subjugation Of other nations and tie di'
, membermcnt 9fother countries By cOnques
, In the language of the great Washingto
why should we quit our own to stand @
foreign groundl"
This is plain; the old Hero woul
swallow nothing. He is opposed to sui
jugatiOn or conquest, and in favor of Sta'
ding on our owa ground. But, suppose
bill passes Congress, extending the ant
slave ordinance of 1857 TO new territorie
+ Extending to them the clause whic
forercr makes them frce-will he approx
: of the bill and sign itl In the letter I
q Allison, above referred to, he says:
= "The personal opinions of the indiviC
uals who may happen to occupy the E'
: ecutive chair ought not to control I'll
$ action of Congress upon questions OF d'
: mestc policy, nor ought his objection
s to be interposed when questions of col
= stitutional power have been settled /
o the various departments of Governmel
t and acquiesced IN by the people"
: No question, since the government wi
h organized, is better settled or more ge
orally acquiesced in than that asserlir
the power of congress to extend the frt
clause of the ordinance. of 1887. Ge
Tayloris, therefore pledged not to 'nte
+ pose any objections to such bill.
: Gen. Cass is for war; Gen. Taylor IL
peace. He says again:
. . War at all times and under all CT
cumstances, is national calamity, to
f avoided, if compatible with national ho
q or"
One of these men will be Pre- sidont 9
N ter the 4lh March, IS49. In Int
), more than sixty days you. reader and Il
u other free men of the United States, W
II have to determine which of them. w
: you have peace or war; SaCery.propd.
andism and aoar IF conquest, or peat
:, and our country as tits? Freemen jud!
i ye which of these men you will have
. rule over you!-Cm. GaS.
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