Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1848-06-09
The Democratic Nomination.

The nomination Of Gen. Cass as the Presi.
DENTAL candidate Of the Democracy, is thus
treated 10 the New York Post, leading organ
in the Barnburner party:
Mr.. Cass, il seems, has been agreed upon by
the mutilated convention at Baltimore, as a can
didate for the Presidency of the Uniled States.
The news is received with great joy by the
Wings in this quarter. Their journalists are
already presenting their thanks to the conven-
ton, and the friends Of Clay wear much more
cheerful faces. The nomination has been
made without the vote ofNew York; if her dele
gates had been admitted into the Convention II
could not have been made, and it now remains
for the Democracy of this SlaIe to say whether,
by accepting the nomination, they will sanction
the outrage which thrust out their representa-
tives, and led to the nomination Of a candidate
who, of all the democrats spoken Of for the Of
fee, was the most Unacceptable to our citizens.
This is grave question, and we are certain
that it will receive due attention.
When Mr.. Hannegan, of Indiana, rose and
declared that he was bound by instructions re-
ceived before leaving home, TO propose that the
Albany delegates should be allowed to vote in
the convention, and that the Utica delegates
should be excluded, he made a very significant
aIlusion to the conspiracy which had been plan
ned to exclude New York hom the conventions;
a conspiracy to which he was willing to lend
himself, but which he had not the discretion to
conceal. Want of principle is fortunately often
accompanied by want of prudence. The indi-
cations are clearer and clearer, that the whole
affair of the Albany convention and its delegates,
was fraud got up by an understanding between
our conservatives and politicians without the
State, who promised it their support, and came
TO the convention with a deliberate determina-
lion tothrust the New York delegates out al the
door without inquiry. The case was preudged
months ago, and the formaily Of d committee on
credentials was intended to oss over the injus-
tice by hypocrtcal attention 10 forms.
The final vote given to Mr.. Cass is not pro-
perlv a twothirds vote after all. Ii comprises
two.thirds Of the votes given, but not two.hirds
of the votes of the convention. lfthe represent
tatives of the New York people had been al low
ed their rights, Mr.. Cass couldnot have been no.
minated. 1t was important, therefore, TO his
friends, that their votes should be either exclud-
ed or neutraliZed-a fact Of which the Wash
ington politicians, who attended, were well a.
ware before they left home
Nine Of the votes given for him were cast by
one negro driver from South Carolina, appoint
ed at "negh ghborhoodga gathering" and assuming
to vote for the whole State-when Mr.. Cass is
sure ofreceiving no support from any porly, un-
less he makes an entire new declaration Of prin-
cipes on the slavery question. Neither has the
Convention given the nomination its usual un-
animous confirmation. The delegates FROM
Alabama aud Georgia refuse to abide by it, until
fuller and more explicit explanations are given
on that very question, by Mr.. Cass' friends in
the Convention.
What sort of nomination then is thsl-a no.
minaton made in Convention muliIated and
packed in such manner that it can by no ad-
missabIe figure of speech be called body re-
presenting public opinion in the party from
which it was consttuted-a nomination which
even now depends for its validity in some Demo-
cratic States upon new concessions to slave
holders, which are yet to be proposed, debated,
and exacted
These concessions will probably be granted,
and the consummaon orthe proceedings of this
convention will be as disgracelu as their ncep-
ZION.