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

Buchanan were early supporters of Gen. Jack Ii
son, but Cass was in favor of John @. Adams
until Gen Jackson 11aS elected sCass then i'm
came over to Jackson and saved the
office of Governor of the Territory of Michigan
and Indian agent held by him previous toathe
election.
The Democratic convention have preferred
as their nominee the man who joined their par
ty after it was victorious and in order to save
a share of the spois to those who found il weak
and assisted by their struggles in making it
strong.
We have seen it stated on the authority of
Niles Register that Cass was, when ayoung man
keeping school in Delaware, a Federalist-and
that he wore the black cockade We have
never seen this statement denied, but we don't
know whether it is true. 1t is rendered prob
able By the fact that Cass's father aeaS an old |
Federalist. Would it not be little curious
that of three prominent candidates before a
Democratic convention two, Cass and Buchan |
an, should be old Federalists, aud that a
bleck cOckade FsdeTalist was the choice of the
body?
The party now called on to support Gen.
Cass pretends to be party of principle. Will
any one of them please 10 tell US what princi-
pie of their party is Unidentified with Cass? Is
it the Sub-Treasury or free trade? Is it oppo-
Cass has been in public life and public pay
about thirty years, and where is the truth or
the principle he has maintained-the service
he has rendered to the country? There is not
man OF any pretension to talent now or here
tofore in public life for half that period that
has not done more for the great principles OF
political faith he possessed. But Gen. Cass,
whilst he thus treated principles with so much
neglect, has been a most anxious and most
slavish devotee of power. Whenever he has
found himself on the weaker side he has made
all haste to abandon it. Hence, if the account
of his political youth is true, he forsook an
cient Federalism, came out TO the West where
the use of his black cockade was unknown,
and in due time was appointed Indian agent
| in Michigan. He supported Mr.. Adams whilst
he was President, but when defeated he pass
ed right over TO Jackson. Jackson kept him
in Office as Governor of Michigan and Indian
agent and afterwards made him Secretary of
War. In that department, however, he did
not suit Old Hickory, and was therefore sent
to France to get clear of him. In 1910 the
Wings were victorious, Gen. Cass, although
/ then in Paris, began to manifest the warmest
personal regard for Gen. Harrison, and wrote
certificates to vlndicate his military reputation
from the assaultsOf Casss own party; and when
Harrison died Gen. Cass undertook to be deep
ly grieved, and actually celebrated in Paris
the Presidents death with funeral ceremonies
and delivered euiogy himself-things which
no other foreign Minister from this country
ever felt himself called on to do before or since
But Casss object was obvious and we'll under
stood here; it was laughed at by the Wings
and cursed by the men who are now called
on to support him. WHY. the thing went so fal
that it was even proposed 10 bring Gen. Cas-
over and run him as no-party man to succeed
John Tyler.
At length, however, the Wings quarrellec
with Tyler and lost their Majority in Congress
, and the country. Forthwith Gen. Cass pickec
quarrel with Webster, lin which by the by
! Webster fayed him alive,) in anticipate we
presume, of bsing removed, and he resigned
4 came home, and went about the country willis
his name was presented as candidate tor the
Presidency, and instead OF taking no-partJ
grounds. he came out cautiously and success
sively for the extreme doctrines oil the presen
party in power. From his latter to the lndl
ana convention of 1843, it is hard to tell whetn
er he is for free-trade or protection; now W.
are told he goes for free trade. When the an
: nexatIon of Texas was proposed, he was agalils
it, but quickly he came round IN favor OF Il
} when he thought it popular. He came out for
the Wilmot Proviso at first, but when tht
South determined to resist 1t, Gen. Cass turned
against it in lcordS for he tells its friends tina
its object can be accomplished in another way
t When in France, Gen. Cass, with his habitua
5 subseryiency to power, whatever 1t may be
wrote large book on the court OF Louis Phil
: lippe, full of fiattery of that monarch. Now
: is it not BEAUTIFUL for convention Democrat
: iqae par cGccLlclce to nominate for Presiden
s OF the model republic of the world, the fattere
+, and paLegyrist of Louis Philippe, and that to-
: in three short months after the French despo
n was hurled from his throne by the republican
i of France! 1t is true that Gen. Cass now i
speeches glorifes the French revolution an
denounces Louis Philippe a0hen he is in ADDER
situ. But let us ask how long it would hav
} taken to overthrow Louis Philippe if demo
II Gratis had all written such books ia his prais
l. as Gen. Cass!
Behold then the candidate of the progre'
N sives-the man who has never made speec
~ or written an article in favor of any of the pc
itical principles OF his party, but who ha
u found time 10 deliver funeral orations in fave
Is of Wing President and write large volum
in praise of French despot and his court
u These are the recorded labors of Gen. Casss II
tellect; these are his services to the country an
his party-these are his claims to the highe
j. of his countrys honors.
), General Cass has been in the Senate abol
three years. He first came out for "a 40 whe
~ that numDug was uppermoSl III HIS party. u
s. they saw fit to drop it and take up another, Il
be Mexican war. General Cass, as usual, wei
with the crowd of his party and has been
. much devoted to the Mexican war as he W
Ill to Oregon all or none. 1t Is because he su
he ports this infamous war with Mexico, and
IT. cause he has shown himself to be utterly u
n scrupulous, that he is thought now to be t
~ man TO WELD the enormous patronage al
on plumber that attend such policy. Ii this W
nd should go on if the treaty fails, Cass is pledg
he to the conquest of all Mexico. and with such
man in the control of the hundreds of millio
of money that must be borrowed to carry
an such war and the offices in his power to
nut stow, our system would become as corrupt
INT that of the great model OF Gen. Cass, Lol
aoc Philippe, whose policy in the conquest OF
geria Cass evidently copies in tina OF conqu
his ing Mexico.
the We have now said and shown enough to s
st" isfy any man, even Polk man, OF the r
by character of Cass, and low we shall see whe
ore er the experiment of running man for Pre-
dent without any principle will be as suece
full as that of running one without lntellec
ner whether the country or the party abounds m