Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1848-11-06
TO tlsc Free Soil Wings.

We comment the following extract from an
address 10 the Free Soil Wings Of Ohio. by iior-
ace Greeley. to the Free Soil Wings of Indiana
"That Gen. Taylor or Gen. Cass will be next
President, all Of you mus, know. If the vote Of
Ohio could be cast for Van Buren, or G.rrit Smith
It's practical effect would be the if il
were thrown for Cass. Every Electoral Vote
against Gen. Taylor is a vote either directly for
Cass or against any choice by the People, and so
in favor of cIec,ing by the House, where the
chances il hundred in favor Of Cass
and thousand to nothing against the choice Of
anybody else. There is possibility that no
choice might be Eff ctet. in which case Gen. But
! Ter, being inevitably chosen Vice President by
the Senate, would be er otfcio Presid-nt-which
is the same as electing Ca<s. In the House,
ly eleven out of thirty votes by Safes could b-
concentrated against Cass; for your State
is so divided that she must cast blank vote
none. The Butler alternative is IL bare possible
iiy; the overwhelming probability is tina, Ia. Tor
Cass must be President
Suppose Gen. Cass should he elected; sor
would he be! By the votes Of South CaroIina.
Alabama. Mississippi and Texas: Aud why are
these given him. Not because their people like
him better personally conde in hun more
than Gen. Taylor, bu, Leeause they deem his PAR
more r.ltatie for Slacery than the Wings are
They vote not for the man Lewis Cas-, whose
s-rviiy thy must despise aud whose apostacy
from the Wiinot Proviso must excite suspicious
that he who has turned once may turn again;
but they vote for the party long ago authoritative
ly proclaimed ',he natural ally Of the South
the party which perfjiouslv drove off the unof
Tending Chrroke-s and slaughtered the wr-tci,-d
Seminoi-s at the b-ck of the Slave Power-which
lent Northern votes TO enact aud sustain the Gug
Rule and trainple on the Right Of Petition
which annexed Texas and thus extended the
Slave Territory OF the Union-whch plunged
us into the war with Mexico, whence Slavery
hoped and still hopes for farther aggrandize ment
which has already done all it dared toward
fastening Slavery upon New Mexico and Cal
ifornfa-and which stands ready TO pursue the
same line Of policy still, prorided 1t pays On
/ ~ let the game or Gen. Cass's Nicholson Letter
prove profitable one, and il is morally certain
to be played again and again. But the defeat
Of Cen Cass will be deadly blow at the coaIi
ton of Northern seIfseeking serviliiy with
Southern propsgandisn. 1, knocks tn. consid
Grafton ont CT the bargain. The Loco-Foco
Member. of Congress from the North will have
~ Not's'S ioF SidNeIt
they will have Administration TO sustain, no
Spots TO scramble for. The embe rs who vote
for Gag Laws, Amistad recIamations, &c, will
commits; suic ide without hope of reward. They
will simply throw themselves away, unthought
OF, nncared for by those whose cupiiiy they
sought TO saiia,c. Who believes they will 10 it,
Why should they! Who believes there will be
, a dozen Members from Free States in favor Of
exte ncing Slavery any ~he re or upon any pre-
text Who does not know that the re must and
will be strong effort to compromise Slavery
into the new territories if Cas- 10 eIected7 II
does seem to me plain that every one who earn
estiy desires the restsiction Of Slavery within it's
present limits ought TO vote with the Whig party
and thus insure that pic ious result Why not
II History be not = lief the Past re fec, any
light the Future-if eontrassed characters.
aims instincts. give any clue the course which
may he pursued by men Parties-,h-n It i.
certain that the Wing party may be more safely
trusted y it'll this question Of Slavery Extension
than its adversary. When James G Bfrney as
srrfed the contrary in ls44, he said what has
since been proved gisrngiy false. and doob,i-..
viii be again. The people now realize tina, if
Mr.. Clay had then been elected, we should have
had NO w ar with Mexico, no Natio nal Debt, no
uD,ineiy deaths Of thousands Of our gallant
eountrymen by savage foes OF a more mercile.