Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-07-14
TUESDAY EVENING, JULY II, 1913
A DastnrdIY UeccptiOn.

this mornings Sentinel, and invite the attention
is obvious that the attempt, so successful in 1874,
to carry the election of the democratic" no.
minee by fraud and deception, is again to be
resorted to. 1t is not until quite recently that
papers in Vermont have dared to pre-
tend that Lewis Cass is opposed to the extension
OF Slavery. The Sentinel, and otter Cass pa
pers. have kept tllc!r mouths sealed ON the subject
until they have discovered that silence would be
as fatal TO their candidate, as the assent would
be that silence indicates. All at once, therefore,
they appear to be determined to try what virtue
there is left in the maxim " a lie well stuck-to
is as good as the truth = and in direct and plain
contradiction of both common sense and the
assertion aisl argument Of Gen. Cass, they now
declare that he is opposed to the Wilmot Pro-
viso, to be sure, but is nevertheless opposed 10 The
extension Of Slarery, That is he is opposed
to the extension of Slavery, but is, at the same
time, equally opposcdo Tie only measure By rhich
lie crtcaSion IF Slarcry cdn be prevented Is it
possible that so miserable a subtcrfuge. so gross
t'NNiFiNh vi Niii'iio thSt. ~ tIiH Il ulSHulSc
of sophistry, can deceive the shallowost thinker
in the Cass party ? But that we may not be sup
posed to misrcpresent the diseraceful game now
playing by the desperate supporters of the de-
cayina fortunes of the Northern Donglface, we
give the S]cntinets own words. Here they are -
".U The Free Press publishes an article assert
Ing that tro iires of Gen. CAss have been published
and circulated, one Of them representing him to be
opposed to the proviso, and the other representing him
in its t1vor.-Ai more absurd charge was never invent
ed.-li any life representing him to be in favor of the
proviso had been circulated it would have been cir
cnluted in Vermont, and every democrat knows that
no such life has appeared here. Every one knows
too that every democratic paper at the north repre-
scnts Cass us being opposed to the proviso and most
of them if not all, have published a life asserting the
same thing. Such Il charge is an ~absurdity upon the
face OF II.
1t is admitted every where so far as we know that
Gen. CAss is opposed TO that proviso-it is equally
well known-tlat he is opp0sed to the extension Of
Slarcrg into territory NOR free. Democrats should
be careful about being deceived by wing misrepIesent-
atlons.
Now the Cass organs in this State will not
dodge us in this way. We have got 9 the doc.
uments" touching the position Of Lewis Cass on
the Free Territory question, and shall publish
them as often as may appear to be necessary.
We assert that Mr.. Cass is not only opposed to
the principle Of the Wilmot Proviso, but that he
is, anil has arowed himseD. IN FAVOR Of the en-
tension Tor DIFFusIoS'' as he calls i) of Slave
nv over the Free Territories of this Union. lie
has gone so far as to present an argument to
show the benefits that would be likely to result
from such extension. We quoted it from his
famous An,i-Proviso letter, last evening, and
now quote it again and if the Cass papers con-
tinue to assert that he is opposed to extending
Slavery, they will do it at the most bare
faced expense Of truth, and to the plain stul-
~tiiication of their candidate. Will our readers
again study attentively the following argument
Of Lewis Cass tending to show that certain sup
posed "evils' would be " %MITIGATED' by the
extension of Slavery, or. as he expresses it, 90 by
transporting slaves to d NEW COUNTRY, or,
in other words, to the FREE TERRITORY OF the
United States! Says Cass:-
The question that presents itself is not a question
OF the increase but of the OF slavery
WHETHER ITS srHrRE Re STATIONARY OR PROGRESSIVE,
ITS AMOUNT WILL BE TIE SAME. The rejection OF TINS
restriction will not add one To the class OF s%ervi,ude, nor
will lis adoption give ireed9m to a sIngls 9finG WIG
- W. Iild''h ~ -:
WILL BIZ SPREAD OVER GREATER TERRI;
TORY & SOAR SCOMPRESSlON, WITH
LESS ABUNDANCE OF THE NECEsSARIES
OF LIFE, Is AN EVIL. 50 FAR WILL THAT
EVIL BE MlTlGATED By TRANSf0RTING
SLAVES TO NEW COUNTRY, AND CIV
ISG THEM A LARGER SPACE TO occU-
Let it be particularly ro,iced that Cass per-
ceives no sort of objection TO spreading the in
stitution' Of Slavery into our Free Territories,
that is not couatc,Jalanced by the supposed adj
yantag tia, might result TO HE Slaves from hay
ing ga larger SPACE to occupy!' The great
moral question, involving the sin and disgrace
of extending and Terpe,raling Slavery. gives
him not il moments c'nccln. If Slaves can
thereby secure more of the ncccssaries of life
(a,norg which this Michigan freeman does not
appear to count ELDERLY and the pursuit of
happiness') then $50 far" the extension of
Slavery would be IA desirable measure!
And now, we will pay our respects to the re-
naming paragraph in the above extract from
the Sentinel. We gave, in our Saturdays pa
per, an extract from the speech of Mr.. MANGuM
of North Carolina, in the Senate. disclosing the
disrepu,able fact that the political I" keepers of
CaSS had found the necessities of the case so
urgent, that they had been compelled TO put
forth hro lines Of that preyarica'ing and janus
faced politician, in order to meet the wants of
the different latitudcs of the Union. "Such a
charge" says the Sentinel, sis an absurdi,y
upon the face ofit.' Let us see! Our readers
will find, below, the VERY PASSAGE in the
SOUTHERN "life of Cass" which prudence
has expurgatcd from that which is designed for
circulation at the NORTH. We invite The at.
tention of the Frceiuen of the North to the dis.
graceful record hot that the fact itself, that
Leris Cass is opposed to the Wilmot Proyiso,
is over-and-above disgraceiul but that the
mean and fraudulent attempt to CONCEAL that
fact, is in the lowest degree disgraceful TO him
and to the " Committee" who have his p%olitica!
interests in charge, Mr.. Cass is at liberty to
hold the opinion that Congress has no authority
to exclude Slavery from the Free Territories OF
the Union-he is at perfect liberty to be, as the
extract below says he is, " opposed to the meas
ure, and to the exercise of any legislation by
Congress over any Of the Territories Of the
United States respecting The domestic relations Of
HI. uL,I;I,uhi' lint ,uo insist upnn IL tbut lao