The Arkansas banner., 1848-08-01
General Cass and the ProViSo.

All that the Nashville Whig has said or can say on the subject ot General Cass ard the proyiso is fully md completely answered by the annexed ex- tracts from two of the most furious whig papers in the Union: the text being from the Cleveland Her ald, aud the comments by the Ohio Sta'e Journal We commend these extracts to the especial aiten- ton of our readers, showing the way in which the northern whig proviso men are fighting Cass - . GEN. CAss NAILED UPON THE SUBJECT OF FRsE TERRITORY This man, who. if elected PTesideat of the United States, will rule the country by force of executive intlnence--whose voice, and whose veto, as he follows in the steps of his usurping predeces- sor sis to be the law of the and--whose opinion IS to be paramount to that of the people, expressed in the voice of their representatives -this man has given 70 the world, not merely what he thinks, bas chos he. fhs Gorefa1snf, srtH do, and he has re- corded it in the archives oi the country, by sol emn VOTE. upon the very question which now 90 agiates the whole land, and particularly the State of Ohio. The Cleveland Herald says :-Oato Stais Journal. ~
 The injunction of secrecy having been removed from the proceedings in the Senate in relation 10 the reaty with Mexico the recorded vote of Gen. Cass answers the qaestion by his deliberate act-an act that admits of fewer constructions than candidate s words. We find h inc journal as printed iu the National Isteigencer, the following entry On motion. by Mr. Baldwin, to insert at the end of the fifth article the following words. to wit :-
 Provided, That there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary serviude in the territories hereby eede. otherwise than in punishment of crimes. whereof the party shall have been duly eonyicted.' After debate the question sta.ed Shall those words stand as part of the fifth articlef And 1t was determined in the negatise-yeas Is. nays 3s-
 Those who voted in inc affirmative, are ! Messrs. Atherton, Baldwin, Clorke. Clayton, l Corwin, Davis of Massachusetts. Dayton, Dix. Greene, Hale, Miller, Niles, Phelps, Sprusnce, Up- ham.
 { Those who voted in the negative, are
 Messrs. Alien. Ashley. Aichison. Badger, Bagby, Beil Benton, Betrien, Breese. Bradbury, Bright, Butler, Calhoun, Cameron, Cass. Cristendep, Davis of Mississippi, Dickinson, Doughlass, Downs, ' Feleh, Foo,e, HaBn-gan, Hunter. Johnson of Mary. Lewis, Mangum Mason, Meoie. Pearce, Rusk, Se- viet. Sturgeon, Tnrney, Underwood, Ynlee. '-''a'N 1 Not whig Senator from the free States voted i against the guarantee for freedom which was ar- dently desired by Mexico, while the following loco. focoS from the free States voted against the free proyiso; Allen. Breese, Bright, Cameron. Cass, 1 Dickinson, Douglass. Feieh, Hannegsn, Sturgeon Under these 'crcamstanees,' the interrogatory of 1 yesterday was perfectly cruel
 l In the correspondence conmunicaied with the treaty, Mir. Trist states that the Mexican eemmis- sloners were very anxions 10 incorporate such a 1 provision into the treaty, and assured him that proposition 10 introduce the faquis;tion into the q States, would not be more revolting to its inhAhi tants, than the prospect of the Introduction c slavery to the population of Mexico.