Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-06-08

RESPONSE OF New YORK LoCoFocoIsM.-The
New York Evening Post and New York Globe
are the organs of the barnburning division Of
the Locofoco party of New York, and, when il
is understood that this division constitutes
full thirds of the party in that State, the
following comments of the organs on the pro-
ceedings Of the Baltimore convention and the
nomination of Gen. Cass will justly be deem
ed conclusive as to what may be looked for
from the empire State in November:
From the New York Globel
We do not regret that this gentleman was
preferred-for, in regard to him, the views OF
the Democracy of our State have been frequent
ly and fully expressed. His course upon va
rious questions, but more particularly on the
subject of maintaining freedom in territories
where it now exists, has earned for him the
hearty contempt OF the people of this State,
and we are gratified that an opportunity is
presented of declaring this sentiments at the
pools.
Had the representatives of New York been
allowed to take part in this nomination, it will
be seen that two-third vote would not have
been obtained for Gen. Cass. We are graft
fled that such was not the fact, and that we are
thus relieved from all responsibility for no.
mination which reflects deep disgrace on the
parties by whom it was made. The delegates
from New York were excluded because they
were friendly to the preservation of freedom
in free territories, and Gen. Cass was nomina :
ted because he believed such preservation I'M
constitutional. This is exactly the test pre-
sented by Georgia, Virginia, Alabama and
solemnly resolved they never would submit.
The Democratic party of the Union has been
dismembered on this sole question, and the
Democrats OF New York are thrown back to
the alternative of State action and State nomi-
nations. 1t remains for them to act with the
calmness, firmness. and determination which
have always sgnalized their action.
[From the New York Evening Post.l
! The final vote given for Mr. Cass is not
properly two-thirds vote after all. 1t COM
prises two-thirds of the votes of the conven-
ton. If 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 excluded or neutralized-a fact
of which the Washington politicians who at
tended were well aware before they left home
Nine of the votes given for him were cast by
one negro driver from South Carolina, appoin-
| ted at ..neighborhood gathering" andassum
ing to vote for the whole State-where 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 its usual unanimous confirmation. The
delegates from Alabama ard Georgia refuse tic
abide by it. until fuller and more explicit ex-
plantations are given on that very question, by
/ Mr.. Casss friends in the convention.
/ What sort of nomination then is this
| nomination made in a convention mutilatet
| and packed in such manner that it can by nc
admissible figure of speech be called body
representing public opinion in the party from
/ which it was constituted-a nomination which
even now depends for its validity in some
Democratic States upon new concessions 10 the
Shareholders, which are yet to be proposed, de-
bated, and exacted.