Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1848-06-23
GeHeE'3E Cass.

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gIFersatlons Of the nominee of the harmoni-
Gus democracy. From it we take the follow
ing extract, which we trust will be read nv
all into whose hands this paper may fall It's
length should deter no man from carefully
perusing it
The party now called upon to support Gen.
Cass pretends to be party of principle
/ Will any one of them please to tell Us what
/ principle Of their party i. identified with
| Cass IS 1t the Sub-treasuy or Free-trade
Is it opposition to a Nationa! Bank , Meth
er. Gen. Cass has been in public life and
public pay about thirty years, and where is
/ the truth principle he has maintained, the
service he has rendered TO the country =
{ There IS not a man Of any pretens ion TO tai
ent now heretofore in public life for half
that period that has not done more for the
great principles of political faith he protested.
But Gen. Cass, whilst he has thus treated
/ principles with so much neglect, has been a
most anxious and slayish devotee of power
| Whenever he has found himself on the weak
er side he has made all haste to abandon it.
/ Hence, if the account of his political youth is
true, he forsook ancient federalism, came out
! to the West, where the use of his black cock
ade was unknown, and in due time was ap-
| pointed Indian Agent in Michigan. He sup
/ ported Mr.. Adams whilst he was President
bat when defeated he turned right over to
Jackson. jackson kept him In office as Gov
ernor of Michigan and Indian Agent, and at
forwards made him Secretary OF War. Ii
that department, however, he did not suit
Old Hickory, and he was therefore sent to
| France TO get clear Of him. In 1910 the
! Wings were victorious. Gen. Cass, aItho'
then in Paris, began to manifest the warmest
personal regard for Gen. Harrison, and wrote
certificates 70 vndicate his military reputs-
ZION from the assaults Of Cass' own party /
and when HARRISON died, Gen. Cass under /
took to be deeply grieved, and actually cel- |
bratcd in Paris the Presidents death with
| funeral ceremonies, and delivered eulogy /
1 himself things which 30 other foreign min
Ster from this country ever felt hmsel. call |
ell on TO 60 before or since. But Ca.s' OBJ
Ject was obvious. and was well understood
here; it was laughed at by the Wings. and
cursed by the men who are now called on to
support him. Why the thing went SO far
that 1t was even proposed to bring Gen. Cass /
over, and run him as party man to sue |
coed John Tyler
From his letter to the Indiana convention, |
of 1913, it is hard to tell whether he is for |
free trade or protection; now we are told he !
goes tor free trade. When the annexation |
Of Texas was proposed, he was against tt
but quickly he came round in favor OF it when
he thought it popular lie came out for the
Wimol proyiso at first, but when the South
determined to resist II, Gen. Cass turned a
gaInst Il "a 5ey.Is, tor he tells its friends that
is object can be accomplished IN another way. /
When Ia rance, Gen. Cass, with ms habit
ual subserviency to power, whatever it may
be, wrote a large hook the court OF Louis
Phillips, full OF fl:Atery OF that monarch
Now IS it not beautiful for a convention dem
ocra'ique par erectieacs to nominate for Pre-
sIdent Of the model Republic Of the world the
Gntterer and pane.yrist Of Louis Philippe
and that too 10 three short months after the
French despot was hurled from his throne by /
the Republicans of France Il is true that /
Gen. CaSs now in speeches glorifes the
French revolution and denounccs Louis !
Philippe trlen he IS in a9rsrsity. But let
Us ask bow long it would have taken to over
throw Louis Philippe il democrats had all
written such books in his praise as General
Cassl
Behold then the candidate Of the progress
yes-the man who has never made speech
or written an article IN favor of any of the po-
Iitic.I principles Of ms party. but who has
found Time 10 deliver funeral orations in favor
of Wing President and write large volume
IA praise of French dsspot aud his court
These are the recorded Iabors of Gen Cas-
intellect; these are his services to the coun-
Try and his party these are his claims TO
the highest of Lis coun1ry's honors.
Il the war should 90 on. il the treaty fails, I
Cass Is pieIEedro the conquest Of all Mexico, |
and with such man in the control of the /
hundreds OF millions of money thst must be 7.
borrowed to carry on such war. and the |.
Offices IN ms power TO bestow. our system F..
would become rs corrupt a th,t of the great
model Of Gen. Cas-, Louis Philippe, whose /.
policy in the conquest of Algeria Cass evi- .
denrIy copies in that Of conqusrius Mexico.
! One Of the resolutions ofthe Demo
cratic Convention that nominated Mr.. +
CuSs Tor the Presidency. casts the re-
sponSihilty Of the war upon Mexico. f.
IS follows:
Resolved. That the war with Mex
IcO provoked on her part bv wears Of