Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1848-06-10
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GEN. CASS AN OLD FEDERALIsT.

Tbs Loceln,o presses. now that the Miehi.
gao General has hsen nominated ss their eau
didaIe for the Presidency. are taxing a good
deal OF pains TO assert that he was Jefferson
Democrat. and thai the charge OF Federalism
sgainst him IL an "eyploded oaiumny," To
show the talsity OF this assumption. We at
present ooatent ourselves with offering the
following evidence tina, be was, in 1885, 500
an out and-opt characteristics FEDERAL
lST."
Niles Register Of Sept. ls. 1884, states as
follows:
A majority of several of the cabinets. under
the present administration. were cold school,
eralists. We now speedily al.
lude to the late Secretary of the Treasury, aud
the present Secretary OF War. The GLOBE"
saws OF the last "Gov. Csss, on his first ap-
pesrsnce IN public life. was the vindleator
aud supporter OF Mr.. Jefferson, aud received
! from that republican patriarch distinguished
! marks of his confidence. From that day 10
this, Gov. Cass has been identified with the
republican party, and most sgnslly marked
his devotion 10 ii in the darkest hours of the
last war"
The fact is, that while his father, Major
Cass. Ia gallant officer sf the Revolution. and
an accomplished gentleman OF the old school. }
superints nded the recruiting service in Della
ware, l199-lS00, for what we democrats then
called the provision-eating army" he Che
present Gov. Cass.) WIS the precepter OF the
grammar school, 10 Wilmington, and dlUay,
appeared with "black cockade' in his hat
and so we see it alsostate in the Delaware
Journal as being 10 the present recollection
OF many OF the citizens OF Wilmington.
Since we are on this subject, continuel
the Courier. however. we may give anothe
reH'i"'-s""ee" of early DAYS and politicians
hereaoou's' we state, therefose, ,, aud ks
challenge contradiction, that, Lewis Cass ca 10,
to Marietta. from Delaware, about the yea
lSO4-that be there studied law, in compan!
with William Woodbridge. since Governor 0
Michigan, in the office of Mathew Backus. al
attorney oil that place -that, like his IA ther
he was then Federalst in his political opin
ions and that in 1903 or 1904, he delivered
Fourth oil July Grafton there, replete witt
high.toned Federal sentiments. Indeed, ~
ultra was his character, that even old Col
Nye, hot Federalist, said he thought it wa
u little too spicy On leaving Backus' Office
however, he concluded that Jefiersonan De-
mocracy was more useful aud proftabl,
creed, and he soon embraced it. His appoint
ment to the Marshalship was obtained from
MIR. Jefferson through the influence OF Senate
Warrington, OF Chillicothe, and it IS believ
ed by some OF the citizens TO have been in
tended as some reward
And we may also remark, since our fellow
citizen, DR.. Mitchell, has been cited as wit
ness in this mater, that he, TOO, well knows
that Cass. when he came TO GAINESVILLE, was
very recent convert from Federalism!
Touching the early life aud having refer
ence to the political and military history o
the Locofoco candidate, there exists much in
teresting evidence in this region, aud it vii
be produced in good season.