The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-06-16
From the Louisville Journal.

From the Louisville Journal
PRooF UPON PRooF.-It will be remembered
that, few days after the news of the nomina-
ton OF Cass arrived. we stated that we had
seen ii asserted cn the authority of Niles's Re-
gisler that he had been a Federaist in his
youth, and hat when keeping school in Del
aware he had worn black cockade. We re-
marked that we did not know whether this
was true, but that it was probable, as his faith
er was an old Federalist.
The Editor of the Democrat forthwith de-
nounced the statement a Sunderland us as
its author. We have already submitted com
plete evidence of its truth in cuery particular
We take the following from the Zenesville
(Ohio) Courier:
GEN. Cas- AN OH FEnERALIsr.-The Loco
foco presses, now that the Michigan General
has been nominated as their candidate for the
Presidency, are taking great deal of pains to
assert that he was always Jefferson Demo-
crat, and that the charge OFF liberalism against
him is an exploded calumny." To show
the falsity OF this assumption, we at present
content ourselves with offering the following
evidence that he tras, in l799-lS00 an out
and out "black-cockade FEDERALISTI"
Niles Register of Sept. IL, 1884, states as
follows:
A majority of several of the cabinets, under
the present administration, were ''old school"
Federalists y We now specially allude
10 the late Secretaries of War. The "Globe"
says of the last
''Gov. Cass, on his first appearance in pub
lie life, was the vindicator and supporter of
MIR. Jefferson, and received from that republi-
can patriarch distinguished marks of his con-
idence. From that day to this, Gov Cass has
been identified with the republican party, and
most signally marked his devotion to it in the
darkest hours of the last war"
The fact is, Il at while his father, Maj. Cass,
Ia gallant officer of the Revolution, and an &C
complished gentleman of the old school,) SUI
periutended the recruiting service in Delaware,
La l199-lS00, for what we Democrats
then called the "provision-eating army" he,
the present Gov. Cass) was the preceptor of
the grammar school, in Wilmington, and al
rays appeared Nth ''black- cockade' in his
hat-and SO we see it also stated in the "Del-
aware Journal" as being in the present -
collection Of many of the citizens of Whining
ton.
Since we are on this subject, Continues the
COurier,) however, we may as well give an
other "Reminiscences of early days and politi-
clans hereabouts. We state therefore, and we
challenge contradiction, that Lewis Cass came
to Marietta, from Delaware, about the year
lS03-that he there studied law, in company
with William Woodbridge, since Gov. Of
Michigan, i'm the office ofMathew Backeus, an
attorney of that place-that, like his father, he
was then Fede ralist in his political opinions,
and that in 1903 or 1901, he delivered fourth
of July Grafton there, replete with high-toned
Federal sentiments. Indeed, SO ultra was its
character, that even old Col. Nye, a hot Fed
eraisi, said he thought ii was little too spicy!
On leaving Backus' office, he concluded that
Jefferson.an Democracy was more useful and
profitable creed, and he soon embraced it. His
appointment to the marshalship was obtained
from MIR. Jefferson through the influence of
Senator Worthington of Chillicothe, and it is
believed by some of the old citizens 10 have
been intended as some reward.
And we may also remark, since our fellow
citizen, DIR. Mitchell, has been cited as wit
ness in this matter, that he. too, we'll knows
that Cass, when he came to Zenesville, was
very recent convert from Fe, ~alisml
Touching the early life and ia ing reference
to The political and military history of the Lo-
cofoco candidate, there exists much interesting
evidence in this region, and it will be produ-
ced in good season.
We have ourselves examined Niles'e Regis
ter of the date referred to, and find the extract
above given exactly correct. And the editor
OF that paper remarks that Cass's father was
Federalist
1t will be observed on consulting Niles's
Register that the editor speaks as of his own
rary evidences, and we need not say that the
testimony Of such man as Niles, corroborated
as 1t is, settles the question.