Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1848-10-12
HERALD RHODESANDER THURSDAY MORNING OCTOBER lS4s

ulousness and readiness TO quarrel, A spirit
OF aggrandsement and war--a spirit disposed
to yield itself up to what it is now fashionable
4 10 call the "manlfest destiny of the country
which Is to carry the institutions which we
have established into all neighborlng lands,
willing OF unwilling to receive them, and to
make by conquest and acquisition, still might
ier territory Of our Republic
4 Gentlemen, l have said before, that General
Cass was one Of the most dangerous men,
and most dangerous man-of all our public
men, who could be elected to the Presidency.
| repeat it. l know nothing in his history
that would lead him to be desirous of honora-
bic peace. Nothing at all. do not say that
he would wantonly plunge us into war without
any cause at all but do say that the whole
tendency of his policy is towards war, invasion,
lggrandisment, and the acquisition of new
territory. (Applause.)
And now the question is, shall we aban don
all these great Wing principles of which
have spokenl And it is matter of regret to
me that the attention of the Wing party, and
the Wing press, has been drawn too much
away from the consideration Of these things,
by disputes about men. / am sorry that in
their disputes on the question whether Gener-
al Taylor is a Whig-of which | conceive
there is no doubt-Or whether Mr.. Van Buren
is, and always has been, true liberty man
of which there is just as little Doubt Laugh
ter. .)-they should have left this vital question
almost unspoken Of Were it not now too late,
! should invite the whole party, both at the
North and the South, to attempt to rally upon
this matter of so deep interest.
| Now, gentlemen, some favorers of this new
| light of the free soil sun, instruct us not to
look backward. trust at least that we may
be permitted to look forward. hope we are
not 10 be placed in the situation Of him of whom
it was once said
" lie neer looks back still he
goes,
Yet ne'er looks forward further than his
| nose"
| pray you, gentlemen, to look forward and
see what will be the condition of the country
if General Cass is elected have given you
a summary of the principles for which the
/ Wings have been contending for twenty years
principles which deem deeply important,
and essential to the prosperity of the country
and | ask you to look forward and see what
will become of them if Mr.. Cass is chosen the
next President | will tell you exactly what
will happen. Gen. Cass will say that every
one of them was repudiated, put down and
contemned, by the very majority which made
him President
\ Who, in the next Congress, can venture to
stand up and say that the public voice requires
an alteration in the tariff of 1876, when he may
turn round and say that the public voice has
expressly demanded that it shall be left where
it isl Who can complain of the Sub-Treas-
ury which now, at this very hour Of financial
pressure, has mi lions of specie locked up in
It's vaults-when the President may say that
the institution existed in November, 1913,
when he was chosen by majority of the peo-
pie, they knowing him to be for, and his an
tagonist against the system!
| And just 50 it will be with every thing else.
Just so with every thing else. will not say
that ,he argument would be fair one. I'M
der the existing state of things, it would be I'M
far. But it would be plausible-and he
would put it forth, would stand upon it, and
would act upon it. Depend upon it, gentle
men, that would be his course.