Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1848-08-26
ARTICLE X.
Keep 1t Deforc the Peon1aLi

Millafd Fillmore 6f
Keep 1t Before the People!
That Willard Fillmore has distinctly
disayowed the slightest wish or desire to
interfere with the question of Slavery in the
United States.
Keep it also before the people, Tint
lewis Cass proclaimed In his place in the
Senate, that he would have voted for the
Wilmot p~roviso; had # been brought for.
ward dufihg the session of 1S46.
Keep II before the people, That Willard
Fillmore is denounced by the Abolitionists
as a Traitor and a Dough- Face, because
he recognizes the institution of Slavery,
aud brought n bill into Congress 10 pay q
master the value Of a runa way slave. =
Keep it also before the people, That
Gen. Cass boasts that he never was a
slave.h holder, that he detests slavery, and
would be delighted to see II abolished, if il
could be done safely and peaceably.
Keep it before the people. That the dem.
ocratic papers dare not inform their rea-
ders hat Willard Millmore voted in favor
Of the first Of the Athcrton Resolutions.
which declares that Congress has no Juris.
diction over the question of slavery in the
United States:
Keep it also before the people, That
Gen. Cass has proclaimed the monstrous
"pinion that the question of Slavery in the
newly acquired territory must be settled
by the people thereof-thns giving TO the
Indians, Mestizoes, Zamboes, and other
colored inhabitants of such territory the
right and power TO exclude citizens Of the
South fem establishing themselves with
their property on the soil.
Keep it before the people, That Willard
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 North.
ern 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 endeavorin9 10
hold up Lewis Cass as "a Northern man
tc1h Southern principles" just as they did
Van Buren,, and that Lewis Cass 10 aiding
to propagate the fraud, by causing to be
circulated two editions Of his lite, one in J
tended TO reconcile slave holders to his sup.
port. and The other to ingratiate himself
with Northern anti. slavery men.
Keep it also before the people, That
Lewis Cass never was regarded in any
other light than ~ a violent opponent Of
Slavery and Il recognized champion ofths
Wilrnot proyiso, and that he only modified
his opinion when he became a candidate
for President ; that even now he has Meier
written or uttered one Isyt1able against The
principle Of the ProuiSo and that when
Intercepted by bis Northern friends on
subject, he pretends hat tho noise and
prepent htm from explaining his
Keep it beforq the people, That Mr..
Yancy, a Soutt6rn Democrat, aud Dele.
gate from Alabama to the National Dem.
Conyenlion, refuses to sustain lie.
wis sCass, bronm1ncing him a political
,ceathercocH "all things unto all men, an
AbolitioniA al heart and false TO the south. /"
Ht K a&
. n BBAcK RErUB11C.-In Gen. Cass's
to Nicholson, we find the following
paragraph copied from Mr.. Buebanan's
letter and fully endorsed by him: a
"Sh5tlld we acquire territory beyond the
Rio Grande, and East ofthe Rocky Noun
tains, it is still more impossible that u ma.
the people would consent To re.es.
slavery. Thoy are themselves a
colored population. and among them the
negro does not belong socially to a degra-
ded race"
If we "a understand English, says the
Richmond Wing, this means that d MAORI.
y Of the inhabitants in the newly acquired
territory are colored, that they can prohi-
bit slavery and will do 80, and in fact hav-
as much authority to act as the people
the States, they may even prohibit the
introduction of Dhite people within their
Is this what Southern Demo
Gratis mean! Is it their object to estab
ish a Black republic in our South West.
border? And Is 1t for that reason they
ire so enthusiastic for Cass Z
The Hon. RoBERr G.. ScHENcK, of
Ohio, a thorough and sterling Wing, who
1as much Influence in his own State, hav-
ng been questioned as to his opinions
concerning the nominations, and determin-
respecting them, publishes in the
National Intelligencer, an able letter, in
which he reviews the whole ground upon
which the party stands, and declares him
,elf in the following explicit manner
You ask me what course ! intend to
in relation to the nominations made
by the Wing Convention at Philadelphia?
I mean tosuppors them. | will vote for the
candidates, and do what | fairly can to
promote their election. This | believe to
,e my duty as a Wing and my duty as a
anxious to contribute whatever Of
lelp I can 10 sustain and advance, under
ii circumstances, the best interests 0 my1
country, and those principles and measures
lpon the successful support of which, | be-
ieve, depend the perPetuity and prosperity
f our free Government.
| viii make ne remark upon the very
nomination ofVice President.
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