Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1848-06-01
results were arrived at :
Whole No. Of Votes


William o. Butler OF KY.
Whole No Of Votes 252 ISL a5s 2sl
Necessary to a choice (4th ballot) 10, or two.
thirds of the whole number cast Gen. Cass had it
and over. So he was declared the regular
candidate for ls49.
We know no other candidate except Polk him.
self whom we could have welcomed to the arena
strength of our opponents, but we are confident
that if they can elect Gen. Cass they could elect
anybody, James X. Polk always excepted. He
has not the good fortune enjoyed by his immediate
predecessor Of being very imperfectly known
His administration of our Indian Affairs in the
Northwest for many years is remembered, and
will be shown to have been far more profitable to
himself than advantageous or honorable to the
country. His negligence or incapacity while Sec
retary of War was one of the potential though
most prodigal war which was prosecuted for years
against the Seminoles of Florida His sycophan-
cy to Louis Philippe, while Minister to France,
will not soon be forgotten, and happily the evidence
of that sycophancy, in the shape his published
France, its King, Court and Government" has
taken an enduring shape, and can neither be de-
MED nor perverted His atrocious calumnies on
the crushed but still struggling advocates of Eu-
ropean Liberation will rise in judgment against
him now that the cause of Democracy has there
triumphed over the calumnes he aidedto propa-
gate, wherein the excesses and diabolism of few
among the French Republicans were artfully put
forward as exhibiting truly the character of them
all This is Despotsm's oldest trick, but he is one
of its most recent Instruments The work and the
workman were nicely fitted to each other.
Returning to this country in Is4l, Gen. Cass
soon after acquired the seat he has since filled in
the United States Senate, and no man has since
done more evil in our National Councils, or done
it with more glaringly selfish intent, than he has.
OF the Texas Inquity, and the consequent War,
there has been no more headlong and unscrupu-
lous champion; though we believe it can be proved
that just before he wrote his published letter in
tauor of Annexation, which rendered him Van
Buren's most formidable antagonist at Baltimore,
four years ago, he wrote one as decidedly against
Annexation, and on the broadest grounds of gen.
eral hostility But this, of course, has never trou
bled him since he swallowed II.
So soon as his party had completely regained
power by the election of Polk, he proclaimed
War with England for Oregon inevitable, and
did hrs best to render it So He fought to the last
the Treaty. whereby the Oregon Boundary was
settled still clamorrng for $40 4O even at the cost
of War; This was by no means his first effort
to embroil the country in that quarter. And the
whole is impelled by the most sordid, selfish oacu-
lation. He knows what are the worst passions of
the worst class, and he is the very manto Chamber
eagerly and smlingly into window of the White
House over hundred thousand bleeding cerpses
Of men slain that his ambition might be satisfied
On the great question of Free Soil against
Slavery Extension, his course has been base be-
yond example. He was originally (and the proof
exists) an ayowed champion of Free Soil. Even
when he voted against the proposition in the last
Congress- he declared himself devoted to the prin-
ciple, tut this was not the proper time to affirm it,
it was improper to legislate on an abstraction,
&c. DC Thus he stood for a few months, when 10 !
out comes, his letter to Tennessee, eating all his
former words, and avowing himself a convert to the
Southern doctrine, that Slavery may be legally
established in any territorial acquisition ofthis
country by the mere fact of slayeholder's choos-
ing to migrate thither!. So fragrant an instance Of
apostacy and treachery has rarely or never been
known, and we hold that every advocate of Free
Soil and Free Labor should vote even.for John c.
Calhoun, If the election of Cass could rot other
wise be prevented. Defeated he can and must be-