Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1848-08-10

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Hubbard, one of their own number, and
then or since u. S. Senator from New
Hampshire, to look after their interests,
and ascertain if Cass and his agent had
dealt by them fairly and honestly. Mr..
Hubbard opened a correspondence with
Cass, but, failing in every effort to get
any satisfaction from him, he wrote a
final letter, informing the Hon. Secretary
Of War that he was a rascal, and the
Hon. Secretary was quiet and silent under
the charge. MI. Hubbard charged him
with swindling his associates, and the
Hon. Secretary, instead of exhibiting re-
sentiment or attempting to prove his inno-
cence, admitted by his silence the justice
of the accusation, and even to this day,
the association has not been able to get
anything GU: of him. >
The editor of the Journal is authorized
to make this statement by a member of
the Association, a gentleman who paid
$4,000 into the hands of Cass, or his
agent, and has never received anything
whatever in consideration of his money,
and is further requested, if the facts are
denied, to call on the Hon. Henry Hub
bard for a statement of the truth-to de-
mand of him a publication of the letters
that passed between him and Cass, par
ticularly the letter to the Secretary of
War, charging him with villany in all its
forms. A copy of the Journal containing
the article from which we have quoted,
has been sent to General Cass, who win,
therefore, have an opportunity of yindica-
ting himself, if he can, from allegations
which. if we'll founded, brand him une-
%quivocally with peculation and infamy.
Mr.. Hubbard, who is referred to as the
person who accused Gen. Cass o fappro-
priating the funds of the Association to
his private uses, is, as everybody knows,
a prominent Locofoco, and was formerly
a U. S. Senator from New Hampshire.
W. cannot better conclude thir singu-
lar expose, (says the New Orleans Bee,
from which paper we obtain the abovel
than by citing the reflections of the paper
which has made it public:
"We are authorized to make this state
ment by a member of the Association, a
gentleman who paid $4,000 Into the
hands of Cass. or his agent, and has me-
yer received anything whatever in cohsid-
Grafton of his money. Our informant
requests us, if the villany is denied, to
call on the Hon. Henry Hubbard for a
statement ofthe truth-to demand of him
a publication of the letters that passed
between him and Cass, and particularly
the letter to the Hon. Secretary of War,
charging him with villany in all its forms.
We shall enclose a copy of this letter to
Gen. Cass, and, if he has anything to
say, let him speak out, or authorize some
of his organs to speak out for him. Mr..
Hubbard, the public are aware, is a prom
inent Locefoco, and was the man that no.
minated Mr.. Polk in the Baltimore Con-
vention, four years ago.
1t was bad enough, in all conscience,
for the head of the War Department to
become a member of an association for
specializing in lands-to use the adyanta-
ges of his high office, one Of the very
highest in the government, for monopoli-
zing lands, through the use of an i'm
mense capital, to the great disadvantage
of the poor emigrant. Such an opera
ton, on the part of a Secretary of War,
would have been in the EXTREMIST degree
censurable, even if there had been nothing
dishonest or unfair in his treatment of his
associates; but if it is fact, as charged,
that, to the monstrous improperly and
shamelessness of entering into such a
speculation, the Secretary added the crime
of cheating or ~overreaching his associ-
ates, he deserves Immortality of infamy.
The man who, as Secretary of War,
speculated SO extensively in Western
lands, and who, by that and other means, |