Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1848-06-09
From The Cieveldad Herald.
Gen. Lewis CaSS.

In announcing the nomination Of Gen. Cass
for the Presidency, the New York Tribune re-
marks, 'that he has not the good fortune en-,
joyed by his immediate predecessor of being
very imperlectv known. His administration
of our Indian Affairs in the Northwest for ma.
nv years is remembered, and will be shown tc
have been more profitable To himself than adj
vanlageous or honorable to the country. His
negligence or incapacily while Secretary o
War was one Of the potential though secondary
causes Of the disgracelul, unjust and most prodi.
gal war proracted for years against the Semi.
noles of Florida. His sycophuncy to Louis
Philippe, while Minister to France, will not
soon be forgotten, and happily the evidence of
the sycophancy, in the shape of his published
"France, its King, Courand Government" has
taken an enduring shape, and can neither be
denied nor perverted. His atrocious calumnies
on the crushed but still struggling advocates of
European Liberation will rise in judgement a.
gainst him now that the cause of Democracy
has there riumphed over the calumnies he aid
ed to propagate, wherein the excuses and dia-
bolism of few among the French Republicans
were artluly put forward as exhibiting truly
the character of them all. This is Despotsms
Oldest trick, but he is one of its recent instru-
ments. The work aud the workmen were nice
y fitted to each other.
Returning to this country in l84l, Gen. Cass
soon after acquired the seat he has since filled
in the United States Senate, aud no man has
since done more evil in our National Councils,
or done it with more garingIy selfish intent,
than he has. OF the Texas lniquityS and the
consequent war, there has been no more head.
long and unscrupulous champion; though we
believe il can be proved that, Just before he
wrote his published letter in favor of annexation
which rendered him Van Buren's most formi
dabe antagonist at Baltimore, four years ago
he wrote one as decidedly against annexation
and on the broadest grounds Of general hostility
But this, of course, has never troubled hin
since he swaIloweddt.
So soon as his party had completely regaineC
power by the election Of Polk, he proclaimed ,
war with England for Oregon "inevimble," anC
did his best to render it so. He fought to thu
las, the Treaty whereby the Oregon Boundary
was settled, still clamoring for 81 degrees Al
minutes even at the cost of a war. This wa
by no small means his first effort to embroi tn,
country in that quarter. And the whole is i'm
PEELED by the most sordd, selfish calculation
lie knows what are the worst passions Of tn
wort class, and he is the very man TO clambe
eagerly and smilingly into a window Of III
White House over hundred thousand bleed
lug corpses of men slain that his ambition Nigh
be satisfied.
On the great question of Free Soil agoins
Slavery Extension, his course has been bas
beyond example. He was originally (and tn
proof exists) an avowed champion of Free Soil
Even when he voted against the proposition /
; the last Congress, he declared himself devote
TO the principle, but this was not the prope
; time to affirm it--it was improper to lcgislat
on al Abstraction, &c, &c. Thus he stood ic