Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1848-06-09
Manhattan Of Gen. C,ss.

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The following from The Buffalo Commercial
Advertiser, places the proceedings Of the Loco.
foco convention, and the character Of Gen. Cass
IN so true light, IhaI We transfer il entirely to
our columns.
BY insulting and ouragng New York, BY
practically casnng this greaI state OUT, and by
fraud upon The popular will in allowing a sort ol
Seli.consliued delegate 10 cast nine votes for
South Carolina-a sale that contemporary re.
fused TO send representatives to the Baltimore
Convenuon-thaI body has nominated Lewis
Cass, Of Michigan. US the LOcoioco Candidate
for President The nomination is every way
hitting. Ills, in fact, almost the only one that
could have been made by such body under the
influence that controlled its action. The Pres.
ldenl OF The convention, Andrew Stevenson, of
Virginia, distinguished himself as speaker of
the House, during JUckson's administration. by
SeryIle obedience 10 his masters to the behesls Of
The South, and while minister TO England, dis.
graced bis country aud the station he held by a
staggering display Of Nirginian chiyary, in
seeking personal encounter with Daniel o O'Con.
ncll-who it was known, would not fight, and
was therefore safe man TO challenge-be-
cause he had made some disparuging alIuson to
slavery and shareholders. How could con-
yenlion that so far forgot what was due to the
character of freemen as TO make such a man its
presiding officer, fail to make Lewis Cass its
nominee for PRESIDENT
The times demand an honest, strong, self
sustained man; bur from his first entrance into
public life ill now, Gen. Cass has been tmid
and hesalng, weak and irresolute, clustering
when there was no danger, but cowed as soon,
and faithful only in fawning sycophancs and his
readiness to become the supple tool Of power, be
il welded by "king or kaisar." As secretary Of
war under Jackson, his name was very by
word for the obsequiousness Of his devotion to
his imperious master, and his official career at
that time is distinguished by his sanction Of the
loules wrong thai stains our naIlon's annals the
expulsion OF the Cherokees from their home,
in direct violation of the most solemn treaty
stipulauons. His prompt obedience to the south
in that NATTER was doubtless remembered at
Baltimore.
As minister of France, true to his instincts,
no courier could surpass The adulation he law
ished upon Louis PhiIippe who for his weach-
erous lalsty TO every pledge he made when raj
sed TO the throne, and betrayed Of every princ-
pie of popular rights has been Indignantly thrust
out by the people.
AT home, since his return, he has played the
demagogue, ready to plunge the country into
all the horror of war, for the sake of a little
cheap popularity, YET refusing, least it might en-
danger his Standing with the south, even to
sanction by napproying word, measures design
ed TO secure life and properly on the western
waters. Who does not remember his four line
letter declining to attend the convention at
Chicago last summer, and the derisve scorn
with which it was read and encorded by thou.
sands there assembled! Look. also, 10 his recent
Tennessee letter, affirming that Congress has no
power to frame rules prohibiting slavery in new
territories.
In nominating him, the slave-holding inter.
es, that controlled the Convention, knew their
man. They wanted tool and they have it,
Any other northern man might possibly show
some independence, some heslancy about ma
king an absolute surrender, not only OF ofnorthern
rights and interests, but of Congressional indie.
Dendcnce and jurisdiction, but with Cass they
eeI safe. His whole life is a guaranty that, if
elected, their confidence will not be misplaced.