Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1848-08-15

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The Hon. Henry A.. Wise has letter IN
the official organ, this morning. on The sub
iect on his former sw irl belief against. and
his present support ol Genefal Cess.
Personally. / Tor q long series of years en-
tertained q very hI1h regard tor MIR. Wise.
For his sake. ! regret the appearance OF his
letter.
He admits that he did swear upon oath,
that he believed General Cas-, then Secretary
OF War, was dishonest and corrupt. lie says
he LtliereS still That General Jackson's Ad-
| ministration, while General Cass was a prom
inen, member of it, lGas corrupt. He adj
mits that he made no investigation, and tia
none has been made, exhonorating General
| Cass from the corruption which he once
swore be believed that fuuctionary guilty OF
and in the face OF all those admissions, he
turns about and gives his hearty support To
the very man he swcre he believed 10 be cor
rupt, for the high office OF President OF the
| United States!
Now, why this change? Why does Henry
| A. Wise turn about aud support the man he
once swore he beiisucd to be corrupt, at the
same time admitting that be has made no NJ
vestigation, and that none has been made, to
ascertain whether General Cass was corrupt
or not?
What reason for this course OF conduct does
Mr.. Wise give? Why, he says, such men as
Edward Hannegan aud Gorham Parks believed
in General Cass' honesty, aud the Locoicco
party has endorsed the verdict, by adopting
| him as lis candidate! What an all-sut'icient,
| what a perfectly overwhelming reasoni
Mr.. Wise's logic is immense! Hear him.
"My support OF General Cdss at present, with
my convictions of the past as TO his charac.
ter, affects my olCH propriety Of conduct mol
his, and, at the wolst, r%onvicts Inc only OF
being driUen 10 a choice Of e0its. 1t would
prove, at worst, that / prefer the democratic
party, with General Cass at its head, to the
dire alternative of ~electing the Wings and
their principles OF this day to power"
al the wors'," he says, il affects his onc'
propriety OF conduct. not that Of Genera
CasSi Very WELT is his own propriety o
conduct which The attention OF the public il
directed 10. II Mr.. Wise will swear he be
lieves General Cas- a corrupt man-admit!
that he has not investigated to a~scertair
whether his w sworn belief his correct o
not-and then turn around TO urge Genera
Cas- upon his lellow-citizens as a suitable
man Tor the high station oil President OF t1t
United States, does il not beaoove the people
10 ask themselves, that sort Of a man Mr.
Would-be- Elector Wise is? Is he a pfope
man to instruct the people as to the dispose
of their suffrages2 lie is "the man" the PEG
pie are asked to look attn this matter! Gene
raj Cas- conduct Is not alone TO be scanned
The men who support him are TO receive somi
OF the people : observation! MIR. Wise is ON
OF Them. Is he the proper man to lecture
from the Temple of Purity?-His position il
d critical one indeed, ii he has not better es
cape than to plead that his own hard swear
ing against General Cass does not make Gen
eral Cass the less acceptable to himself or tl
those upon whom he is urging his claims!
Mr.. Wise says: Il confess that a candidate
would have to be fully as bad as | once though
Gen. Cass 70 be. before tcould be driven ron
the democratic party at tbis day, or take even
a neutral stand IN the coming contest iog Tn
Presidency
Mir. Wise admits he has seen nothing as ye
which proves gen. Cas8 to have been Ire
from To. corruption, Wiach Ae swofe lie be
lieypd that iune ienury was guilty oi-and :
he goss into his support rather than De drlve
IRON The democratic party, or 10 take even
neutral stand!
Why is he 50 much afraid of being cast OF
OF tue '|'democGatic" partyl Is it because h
is a l|ylerite, and he sees how the Tylerite
have generally been served by Mr.. James X
Polk's administration Or is it because he ACT
upon extremes-having formerly been a
over-zealous d Wing as he is DOW an over
jealous Locofoco? Or is ii because he dread
being ever again contaminated by Wing asso
I'ciation?
Its rue Mr.. Wise has not Jared so hand
somely the hands OF the Wings as he mag
med he deserved TO iarei Had they eiecte
him Speaker of the HOUSE, in lS4l, he mlgl
never have discovered so much wlckedness i
the Wing party, or so much patriotism an
greatness in Gen. Cass as he can now see. q
if the Wing Senate had not cut oil his head a
the time he was nominated for France, h
might have been less can't inkerous toward
the Wing party. The fact that he was confirm
ed for Brazil, 10 get rid Of him, does not seer
to command his thanks, or take from his acrl
mony its sting.
But the reasons which Mr.. Wise gives fC
supporting Gen. Cass are not the least cur
Gus portion OF his epistle. He says:
!. That Gen. Csss is opposed to breakin
up the great land system Of 1857. His Ian
speculalions, with Henry Hubbard, I. o. -.
Smith and others, at the time he was SecrC
tary of War and had supreme control owe
the indian land reservation, show his posito
in regard TO the public lands very distinctly
more distinctly than Mr.. Wise can present i
2. That Gen. Cass is opposed TO a publ
debt, and TO creating any necessity Tor IL
His furious CRY for 54o 40, Oh the Orego
question, and his vehement support OF tn
Mexican war, crying out all the time for me
and supplies, and for conquest after conques
until the arh0le of Mexico should be conquer
ed, show better than Mr.. Wise's asseveratiol
Just how much he is opposed to a public deJ
aud to creating arg necessity torit
3. That lac is opposed to making the fedora
government a splendid power! His supper
of MIR. Polk in his stupendnous nsurpallon
Of power, his high handed exercise of tn
one-man power, and his call for power 4
PLACE a Lieutenant General OF his own, owe
Scott and Taylor, shows how correct is Mr.
Wise's statement in his regard
1. Thsthe is anti French, His book praisin,
Louis Philippe aud his aristocratlc court, o
course, shows the correctness OF MIR, Wise
asserveration that General Cass * anti-French
IL more proof be wanted, his speech at tn
French symplthising meeting ln this city las
spring viii furnish II.
). That a debt u gratitude is due to him a
a soldier IN the last war with Great Britain
he roke his sword al he surrender OF Hull
Tie broke his sword did he3 Can Mr.. Wis.
Say that be ever did amy thing else withi,?
The idea advanced, indirectly, by Mr.
Wise. that he Wa obliged to swear to hi
6'io tuatGeueui Cos, Was corrupt before hi
investigating COMMITTEE coal. commence a
examin1'Io4 20 t1a Executive Departments
on that d. Ht- eou eird b others, OF 81 hi
] nrN. 90 do ID. Will NOT dn. &c WAS MAJ