The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-09-09

The wing party having taken up the presidential can
iidate OF the native Americans, making desperate
but unavang efforts TO asperse the character of the dem
ocrac nominees, and prejudice the minds OF our adopted
fellow citizens by The most gross and unfounded state
ments One OF these IS that Gen Cass voted against the
Irish relief bill, while in the Senate a matter so totally
false, that shows not only the mendacity of
the wings, but the desperation to which they are driven
Gen Cass voted for the Irish relief BILL and was also
its most eloquent advocate in the United States Senate,
as the following, which copy from the Congressional
Globe, will show On the Goth of February, ls47, the
following bill was before the Senate:
"A bill provide some relief for the suffering people of
Ireland and Scotland.
BE 1t enacted Se, That the President of the United
States be- and he hereby is authorized to TO be
chased such provisions he may suitable and prop
err aud to cause the 10 be transported and rendered. in
the of the government of the United that
Great Britain, for the relief of the people OF Ireland and
scotland, suffering from the great calamity of scarcity and
famine.
"src g. Ind be il further enacted. That the sum of five
hundred thousand dollars be- and the is hereby
proprated ont of any in the treasury otherwise
appropriated, to carry INTO elect thls act
SEC 8 dad be further enacted That the President OF
the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized, his
discretion to employ OF the public ships of the United
States for the transportation of the provisions TO be pur
chased as aforesaid"
"Mr Cass said, one member of this body, he felt
obliged to the senator from Kentucky for the motion he
had submitted, and for the appropriate remarks with
expressed my sentiments, but with eoquence pecu-
liarly his own While physical want is unknown in
country, the Angel of Death striking down the amsh
ing population of Europe especially the suffering people
OF Ireland The accounts which reach from that
country indicate state of distress, extent and de-
gree far exceeding any previous experience in modern
times II is beyond the reach of private char
ity Its fountains drying up before the magnitude
OF the evil IT is national calamity, and calls for
national contributions The starving millions have
| Egypt ''where they go and buy corn, that they
may live and not die" From granary of abundance
let us pour forth supplies. Ireland has strong claims
upon the sympathy of the United States There few
OF our citizens who have not Irish blood in their veins
That country has sent large portion of the emgrans
who have added numbers to population industry and
enterprise to capital and the elements of power and
prosperity which doing that mighty work, from the
Atlantic TO the Pacific that is already exciting the aim
ration of the Old World, and will stimulate by its
pie the exertiors OF the New. Our population of Irish
descent have fought the battles of the country with
much zeal and bravery any class of citizens And from
the heights of Abraham, where Montgomery fell to the
walls of Monterey their blood has been poured out like
water in the of liberty We send to Ireland
not indeed what she has sent to us, her chrenhose
cannot part Without food for their relatives friends
upon whom the hand OF God is heavily laid In petition
suggestion which am gratifed 10 find embodied in the
bill reported by the senator of Kentucky, and which
should be happy 70 carried into efectto employ,
the transportation OF provisions, such al the armed ships
OF the United States not required Tor the operations
OF Ii would be beautiful tribute to the advancing
spirit of the age The messenger of death would thus
become messenger OF life the agents OF destruction
above Them and carried to the very coasts of
ireland, would thus become the signal of hope where it
has been the signal of defiance. shall lend the bill my
support with great pleasure.