The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1848-08-09
From the Charleston Mercury.
GEN. C4SS.

| GEN. u 400.
| We have already shown that the Stale can.
not support Gen. Taylor, because he is an a.
vowed Wing, and supports party which advo.
Gates Protective Tariff, a National Bank, the
Distribution of the Proceeds of The Public
Lands, System of Internal Improvements, the
Assumption of State Debts, the Bankrupt Lap,
and the whole brood of Federal measures sus.
tanned by Henry Clay under The name Of the
American System.
We proceed to show that South Carolina can
sustain Gen. Cass.
/. Because, during the whole course Of his
political lie, he has been consistent Demo-
crat.
In 1910 and 1914 he stood upon the platform
of The great Democratic party--a platform. he
it remembered. with South Carolina approved
in all the primary assemblies Of her people, and
by the repeated resolves Of her Legislature.
In 1910 Gen. Cass publicly expressed hi
sentiments in favor OF the seventh resolution Of
the Baltimore Democratic Convention, which
was all that The South demanded, and was as
follows:
"That Congress has no power under the Com
stituion 10 interfere with or control the domes.
tic institutions Of the several States, and that
such States are the sole and proper judges ofeve.
ry thing appertaining TO their own affairs. not
prohibited hy the Constitution; that all efforts
of the Abotionists or others made to induce
Congress to interfere with questions Of slavery,
OR TO TAKE INCIPIENT STEPS IN RELATION
THERETO, are calculated to lead to the most
alarming and dangerous consequences; and
that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency
to diminish the happiness ofthe people, and en-.
danger the stability and permanency ofthe Un.
ion, and ought not 10 he countenanced by any
friend of our political institutions"
In 1s43 Gen. Cass was Minister 10 France.
While there he wrote hia celebrated pamphlet
in opposition to the Quintuple Treaty, contem.
plated by England, France. Russia. Prussia, and
Austria, which treaty, under the pretence Of
aboIishing the slave trade, was to authorize the
war ships of those countries to search and e1.
anime, and ultimately to seize, the vessels Of
other nations at pleasure. This pamphlet was
translated into most of the modern languages of
Europe. and created great and salutary srnsa.
ton; and, together with a protest, written by
Gen. Cass, TO the French Government against
the Treaty, had the effect Of defeating the meas.
ure.
Garbled passages from the pamphlet have
been extracted into our slave instiluions.-
Here is what Gen. Cass says in the pamphlet:
I'VE are no STAKEHOLDER. We never have
been. We never shall be. We deprecate its
existence in principle, and pray for its abolition
everywhere, ,chere this can be Effected justly and
peaceably, and easily for both parties. But we
would uot carry fire; and devastation, and muir.
der, and ruin into a peaceful community, 10
push on the accomplishment oftte object. But
after having visited the three.luarters of the
old continent, we say before God and the
world that we have seen for more and more
frightfnl misery since we landed in Europe, and
We have not visited Ireland yet, than we have
ever seen among this class Of people in the U.
States. Whatever may be said, there is much
ofthe patrarchal relation betwee the Southern
planter and the slave. And as 10 the physical
distress which is seen in Europe, resulting from
a want of food, and from exposure to rigorous
winter without adequate clothinGi we believe il