The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-10-13

The charge that Gen. Cass vas him
se!tPriry TO tie gross deception attempted
by his friends at Washington, to be prac.
tced upon the American people by
framing two biographies of him, differing
from each other on the vital question of
slavery extension, for circulation in the
free aud holding States respective
Iy, this charge we repeat, having been
denied. "Independent," the Washing
ton correspondent of the Phil. n. Amer.
ican, by whom it was first made, has, in
a recent communication to that paper,
shivered 10 the wind the paltry excuses
and soplisms upon which that denial
was made We make the annexed ex-
tracts from his articIe:-
1t came to my knowledge through the
instrumentality Of two or three members
of the Senate-friends with whom | was
in constant and familiar Intercourse
that Oil the day upon which Mr.. Mangum
exposed to the gaze of the country the
base and contemplate fraud which had
been praclised under the direction of the
democratic Congressional Committee"
ID ofissuing two lives of Gen. Cas-, ,one de.
signed for the South and the other for
the North-that Mr.. Wentworth, the Lo-
cofoco member from the Chicago District
Of Illinois, voluntarily stated, in pres.
ence of The Senators referred to, that he
had represented to Gen Cass the injury
that would ensue to his cause, by circu.
lating, in the free States, the life" con-
tanning the extracts from the Nicholson
letter, with the commentary of his bog-
rapher, respecting the Wimot Proviso;
to which Gen. Cass replied, "it should
be corrected, "or words to that effect.'
But there is darker shade to this pic
ture, unrevealed, which stamps it with
damning guilt. 1t will be remembered
that the first edition of the "life"-that
containing the extract from the Nicholson
letter-was published in March. The
second edition, having that extract sup
pressed d,appeared in June. The concoc-
tors of the fraud have endeavored to pro.
duce the impression, that these were the
only two editions issued, and to explain
away the suppression ofthe WiImot Pro-
viso by alleging their anxiety to intro
duce other and more material matter.
This is tier account. Now for the other
side.
have before me, (open 10 the inspec-
ton Of the public,) two editious of the
life, both published in June-one contain
ing the views Of Gen. Cass on the Will
mot Proviso, intended for the South; aud
the other, without them. intended for the
North. Admitting the first explanation
made by these intriguers, how does it
happen that the fraud came to be re-
peated in the month of Junel
In the judgment of all candid men, this
proof must seal their conviction.
repeat now, what announced from
Washington, that if Mr.. Wentworth, shall
in his own person deny or cause to be
denied. any substantial part OF my state
ment, | stand prepared to furnish the
most incontestibe evidence of all that has
been advanced above my signature.
challenge him to the issue. | challenge
the Union to bring him upon the stand,
and until it fufls that duty-now demau-
ded by honor and good faith-l shall con-
slider any attempt to impeach the facts.
as a sneaking subterfuge. Why call in
third parties and manufacture witness
es, when the source of the whole contro-
versy can be so readily appealed to.
1t was said by the eloquent Chatham
that confidence was a plant of slow
growth" The Locofoco candidate is
likely to illustrate in his experience the
truth of that maxim. A Federais! in
his youth, Democrat by trade, a Royal
| ist abroad,a Jacobin athome-a chan ge-
ling at all times-such a man is not likely
to command the confidence or to enlist
the cordial support of the American peo-
Pile. lNDEPEN DENT.
The Good President.