Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1848-08-31
Keep IT before the People

@ Keep 1t before the People!
That Willard Fillmore has distinctly
disavowed the slightest wish or desire to
interfere with the question of slavery in
the United States.
Keep it also before the people, that
Lewis Cass proclaimed IN his place in
the Senate, that he would have voted for
the wilmo. preyiso, had it been brought
forward during the session of 1916.
Keep it before the people, that Millard
Fillmore is denounced by the Abolition
lists as a traitor and a dough-face, because
he recognises the institution of slavery,
and brought a bill into congress to pay
~ master the value of a runaway slave.
Keep it also before the people, that
Gen. Cass boasts that be never was a
slave holder, that he detests slavery, and
would be delighted to see it abolished, if
it could be done safely and peaceabIy.
Keep it before the people, that the De-
mocratic papers dare not inform their
readers that Willard Fillmore voted in
favor of the first of the Anterior resolu-
tons, which declares that Congress has
no jurisdiction over the question of sta-
yefy in the United States.
Keep it also before the people, that
Gea. Cass has proclaimed the monstrous
opinion that the question Of slavery in the
newly acquired territory must be settled
by the people thereof; thus giving to the
Indians, Mesizoes, Zamboes, and other
coIored inhabitants of such territory, the
right and power to exclude citizens Of
the South from establishing themselves
with their property on the soil.
Keep it before the people, that Millard
Fillmore has always been a frank, open
and consistent politician, that he has not
two sets of opinions, one for the North
and the other for the South; that he does
not, like Van Buren,, boast of being "a
northern man wih southern principles"
nor make professions at the eleventh hour
to gull the South.
Keep it also before the people, that
southern democrats are endeavoring to
hold up Lewis Cass as ga Northern man
10Th Southern principles" Just as they did
Van Buren,, and that Lewis Cass IS AID
ing to propagate the fraud, by causing to
be circulated two editions of his lif,, n
intended to reconcile shareholders 10 his
support, and the other to ingratiate him
self with Northern anti-slavery men.
Keep it also before the people, that
Lewis Cass never was regarded in any
other light than as a violent opponent Of
slavery and a recognized champion of the
Wilmot proviso, and that he only modi-
fed his opinions when he became the a
didate for the Presidency; that even now
lie has neutr written orr uttered one sylla-
bic against the principle of the Proviso;
and that when Intercepted by his north
ern friends on the subject, he pretends
that the noise and confusion prevented him
from explaining his uiews.
Keep it before the people, that Mr..
Yancey, a Southern democrat, and dele
gate from Alabama to the national demo-
cratic convention, refused to sustain Lewis
Cass, pronouncing him political weath-
ercock. "all things unto all men, an Abo-
~litionist at heart, and false to the South"
On RARE CONSISTENCY IL. General
Cass writing a book lauding Louis Phil
Itppe, and then. on his overthrow. con-