Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-07-12
From the Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
Gen. CaSS and the Volunteers!

From the Phlladelphla Pennsylvanian.
Gen. CaSS and the Volunteers!
An Infamous Federal &ander Exposed.
The Federal papers have been publish
ing for several weeks, in the shape of Q
letter from Mexico, purporting to be writ
ten by one of the Pennsylvania volunteers
scandalous slander upon General LEWIS
CAss, the Democratic candidate for the
presidency. The pretended volunteer
goes on to say, that as soon as the men,
bers Of the regiment, to which he is at:
tached, heard Of the vote which General
CAss had given in the United States Sen
ate, 10 reduce the pay of the volunteers,
they first hung, and then burnt him in ef.
fgy. goes on to describe tho indigna.
lion among the troops as overwhelming
II occurred to US, at the time of reading
this letter, which first appeared in the
Berks & SchuylkiU Journal, an unscrupu-
lous Federal print, that it was at least sim
guiar, if any such affair had taken place,
that no other person, but the editor in
question, was apprised of it-that no pub
lication Of the matter occurred in other
newspapers-and that, if it really dad
transpire, that some Of the Democrats in
the army, there were a few, we believe,
did not address their numerous friends in
this country upon the subject. Whether
ahe statement in question is made more or
less genuine, by the fact that it was made
in single letter, and that published in a
violent anti-war newspaper, is matter
that we are willing to leave to the future
say until the arrival of our regiments
from Mexico. The truth is, however,
that more unmitigated SANDER, by whom
soeyer prepared, never was fabricated or
published against an upright and honest
man. The whole circumstance, so far
from doing Gen CAss an injury, cannot
fail to operate powerfully in his favor
The facts are briefly as follows:
The volunteers had been allowed three
dollars and fifty cents per month for clo-
thing. In the volunteer bill, which the
Secretary of War sent TO the Senate, du-
ring the last winter, there aoas clause al
lososng the volunteers to be paid an mon
ey instead Of clothing, and that their clo-
thing should be charged te them at the
same rates charged to the regulars, which
~
GIVE THE VOLUNTEER HIS CLOTHING AT
THE ORIGINAL cosT,sAY 81 SO PER MONTH,
AND yuEn TO GIVE HIM THE DOLLAR Ex-
IRA or i'm other words, TO GIVE HIM
ONE DOLLAR PER MONTH ADDI-
TIONAL PAY. This amendment, al
the suggestion Of the Military Committee,
of which General CAss was Chairman,
was Incorporated in a seperater bill and
passed. When it came before Adjutant
General JoNEs, who is "a Whig," lie con-
strusd the lar0 to give the volunteers only
the Same pay as the regulars, for clothing
thus reducing their odtoseance one dollar
per month! AS soon as this construction
Of the law became known to General CAss,
he and the other members Of the Military
Committee protested against it, and an
explanatory bill was Immediately prepared.
Il, the mean time the Democratic Secreta-
yy Of acar rerersed the decision Of the
"Whig Adj4tant General; and the pay
masters have now been instructed to pay
the additional dollar to the volunteers on
their discharge. The whole object of Gen
-eral CAss, the Military Committee, and
Congress, aras to faror the uolunteers.-'
The whole difficulty grew out of the mis-
Of q plain law, by AdIutant
JONES, which has since been corrected by
the War Department.
r II the letter in the Berks & SchuylkM
journal was written, as it purports TO be,
by volunteer then it is clent that he and
his companions are the victims Of vile
fraud, which, now that it has been exposed,
must overwhelm those who fabricated the
falsehood with shame. Bus if it was not
written in Mexico,as we more than suspect,
then it will be only new proof of the des-
peration and dishonesty Of a party 4 hat glo-
qies in its opposition TO Just war, and to
who support it.
The calumny referred to, is a wicked
one. and intended to work TO the injury of
the Democratic party, through our candi-
date. The reader will see that it has been
completely and triumphantly refuted. 10
TO man in either branch of Congress are
the soldiers that have fought in this war,
moro indebted thnn to LEWIS CAss. He
has been their friend in every emergency.
He has defended them from insult and from
misrepresentation. He has applauded
their brave deeds, and gloried sa their vic.
tories; and by no man have their interests
been more carefully watched and promoted
than by himself. 1t would have indeed
been an unnatural and extraordinary spec
aacle to have seen LEWIS Ckss conspiring
to deprive them ofabe Limited pay which
ahey have heretofore received. The very
reverse proves to be the case, and this new
Federal accusation falls to the ground, to
the shame of those who have originated nnd
circulated it.
q The War Debt.