Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1848-06-01


affect the political character Of Kentucky, or
| that his nomination for this office can add to or
subtract a single electoral district from the
support of General Cass.
H The Loco CANDIDATE FOR PREsIDEST.-
Below we give few extracts from loco foco
papers, just to let our readers know what som
of the loco papers say in regard to the late loco
nomination at Baltimore of a candidate for
Il President. People who read loco foco papers
altogether, or occasionally neutral papers, do
not see all the good things the locos say of
each other. The first extract is from the New
York Post, the leading loco ioco paper in New
York city.
Mr.. Cass, it seems, has been agreed upon
by the mutiated invention at Baltimore, as
candidate for the Presidency of the United
States. The news is received with great JOY
by the wings in this quarter. Their Journal
lists are already presenting their thanks to the
convention, and the friends OF CLAY wear
much more cheerful faces. The nomination
has been made without the vote of New York;
if her delegates had been admitted into the
Convention it could not have been made; and
it now remains for the democracy of this state
to say whether, by accepting the nomination,
they will sanction the outrage which thurst out
their representatives, and led to the nomina-
ton Of a candidate who, Of all the democrats
spoken Of for the oflice, was the most unac-
ceptable to our citizens. This is grave ques-
ton, and VIC are certain that II will receive due
| attention.
II The final vote given for Mr.. Cass is not
| properly a two-tbirds vote after all. 1t com
| prises two-thrds of the votes gwen, but not
two-ihrds of the votes of the Convention. II
! the representatives of the New York people
had been allowed their rights, Mr.. Cass could
not have been nominated. 1t was important,
therefore, to his friends, that their votes should
be either excluded or neutrallzed-a fact, Of
which the Washington politicians who attend
ed, were well aware before they left home.
Il Nine Of The rotes giren for him wGe cast by
one Rcgro dicr from South Carolina, appoint
led ala nagh6orhood gathring," and ASST
ming to vote for the whole Staic-wherc Mr.
Cass is sure of receiving no support from any
party, unless he makes an entire new declara-
ton of principles on the slavery question:
Neither has the Convention given the nomina-
ton It's usual unanimous confirmation. The
delegates from Alabama and Georgia refuse to
abide by it, until fuller and more explicit ex-
plantations are given on that very question, by
Mr. Cass's friends in the convention.
II What sort of nomination then is this-a
nomination made in a convention mutilated and
packed in such manner that it can by no ad-
missible figure of speech be called body rep
rcscnting public opinion in the party from
which it WAS constiluted--a nomination which
I % on IappnIC for its validity IN dom
ocrallc States upon new concessions to the
Shareholders, which are yet to be proposed de-
batcd and exactcd
| These concessions will probably be granted,
and the consummation of the proceedings Of
this convention will be as dlsgraceful as their
inception.
\ The y. Y. Globe, another loco paper pub.
lished in New York City says
| We have but a few words To say this morn
1 ing respecting the outrage upon our Dcmocra-
cy, in the decision of a part Of national con-
vcnllon, admitting two sets of delegates from
this state. Aiter having committed this out
rage, all obligation to support the nominees of
the convention ended. No matter who had
been nominated, after New York was thrown
out the Democracy of this State would not
have supported the candidates. We tell our
readers that II is as impossible TO elect the Bal
timorc nominees as IL is TO row a boat up the
Niagara Falls with a crow-bar. They cannot
be elected. IL every Democratic paper in tins
State should give the nomination hearty sup
port, the result would not be changed. Lew
is Cass will want from fifty to one hundred
thousand votes Of carrying the electoral ticket
Of New York. The man who thinks other
wise knows little of the extent of the popular
Indignation respecting the outrage committed
on the New York Democracy. A revolution
Of parties is at hand The honest Of all par
ties will conc together, and the Democracy Of
the Union will become purified.
The nomination Of Gen. Cass, outside Of the
walls Of the building in which it was made, re-
ccwed not single cheer. The very boys who
thronged the streets in front of the church
gave long and loud cheers for Gen. Taylor the
moment the nomination of Cass was announ-
ccd. From the time Cass was nominated un-
Ill we returned to this city, we have not heard
his name cheered either in the hotels, or in the
cars, on the steamboats, or any where else the
name of Lewis Cass was scarcely mentioned
on our route home. This is ominous. On
our arrival home, we learned that the same de-
gree of silence was observed. The reason is
obyious-the Democracy of our State has been
insuled-a spurious, conservative, slavery eX-
tcntiOn delegation, elected by nobody, were a-
lowed to sit by the side of our delegates in ad-
joining pews of the Universalist church in Bal
timore-the place in which the Democracy of
the nation, through their representatives as
sembled to make nomination for the highcs,
Office in the gift of free people. This insult
was too great to be overlooked our Democrat
ic delegates Withdrew from the convention.
The Troy Budget, loco ioco paper remarks
thus on the nomination
A convention at Baltimore 10 whose ac-
tion the people looked with some little interest,
has nominated General Cass for the Presiden-
lcy. When the news reached here, it fell like
a dull, dead weight, upon all classes excep,
the wings.
"The Baltimore Convention has accom-
plished feat which will long be remembered
among the remarkable events in the political
history Of the country II has broken up the
democratic party OF the nation.