Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-08-18
VOL. IX-NO. s.
GEN. CASS AND THE VETO.

Lest here should he any doubt of the
intentions of Gen. Cass in regard To the
prohibition of slavery in the territories, the
Washington Union ofTuesday answers fol
him in the following manner:
"Gen. TAYLOR evades any answer on the
Wilmot Proviso. Gen. Cass has bravelv
and frankly defined his position in his Nj
cholson letter. He will veto the WiImot
| Proviso."
Lest this should no seem sufficiently en-
plicit, the Union in another article publish
ed on the same day makes the following
authoritative declaration:
''At all events we are happy to under
stand by private letters that Gen. Cass
stands firmly on the round he has taken.
Being applied to formally by man or TWO
of the Wlmot stamp, he declared unhesit-
ingly that he adhered TO his Nicholson let
ter and to the Baltimore platform; and that
If elected President, he would veto the Viii
mot Proviso. Dare Gen. Taylor make
such declaration"
This is Gen. Cass' southern face. Thus
he appears, as shown in the looking glass
To the people of the north his friends ex.
hlblt him in anothera'pect. The follow
ing is what the Brooklyn Eagle, the main
organ of the Cass party in this neighuor-
hood, says of the passage which we have
quoted from the Washington Union:
"Our friends should beware of these pri-
vate letters and knowing hints given out in
certain quarters to produce sectional re-
suits. Every body, almost, has seen pri-
vate letters from Gen. Taylor and Gen.
Cass, sanctioning every shade of opinion
TO suit every section in the Union. We all
know how much dependence TO place on
them Just before an election. We do not
doubt that Gen. Cass adhercs to his Mich !
olson letter and to the Baltimore platform,
but further than this we do not believe that
he has gone. lie is to be Judged Just as
Gen. Taylor is TO be judged, by his public
opinions, sustained and counenanccd by |
his public acts"
General Cass, il scenes, takes refuge un
der the skirts of General Taylor. The best
that his friends heIe can say for him, that !
on the question of slavery he is little cx-
plict as the southern candidate AT the |
south it is confidently claimed that he will .
intcrposc his veto if Congress should pass
a law prohibiting slavery in the territories ;
the Nicholson letter, they assert, fairly Inn
plies as much, and they affirm that he has
this Interpretation in conversa-
ton. AT the north, his friends only tell
you that his Nicholson letter does not mean
so much rs the south would make it, and .
that if General Cass allows his opinions on
this point To be subject of conjecture, anG
asks the people to vote for him bindfOld, so
loes General Taylor.
As we are now going on. it will soon
come TO be necessary qualification for any
candidate for the Presidency, that he shall
nave set of opinions for every quarter in
he Union, or at least shall be ale to offer
10 any quarter of the Union 4 preteXt upon
which his supporters may hang set of
opinions TO suit themselves. For our part
we prefer the Old fashioned way of supper
ting a candidate whose opinions are honest
" and publicly declared, and in eIcctng
whom we incur no danger of being cheat
ed n. Y. Eve. Post.