The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-09-23


ID Superintendent during Lewis Oasis Absence,
alary at the rate Of $3.50 year for dischsrginy
evils CASTS duties during those very POS days This
was. no doubt. due Mr. Woodbridge, but It ought to
have beer paid by Mr. Cass.
VI So in 1928 and 30 Lewis Cass ended Ill days
in Washington. preparing an Indian code, charging
for II Si520. All this time his pay gong as
Governor and Superintendent all this time. WIN.
woodbridge was doing Lewis Casss duties at Detroit
and paid fer doing them out OF the treasury Of
the United States several years afterwards, while Mr.
Csss was Secretary ofWar
VII In ls26, Lewis Cass as Governor OF Michigan,
received for his salary Governor SO coo In
dian Superintendent and 1920 f.r otaer ALLEGED
extra services, in negotiating treaties VIM Wood.
bridge, meanwhile, did his duties "a Governor, and
was paid for doing them by the War Department,
while Lewis Cass was Secretary.
VIII Ia 1887 Lewis Cass was nominaly Minister Mt
Paris and that pretence receiving 80 900 a year
from the United States while he was really cruising
nbout the Medterrn in armed ships ofthe United
States and travelling in the East The secretary OF
Legation during his absence charges the states
the salary Of charge dafaires. and Commodore Elliott
brings the expenses of entertaining the Minister'S
family, into his annual accounts
Here we find, expressed IN detail, whether true
or false, what seems TO be matter OF little conse-
aucnce-the various modes by which the fortune
of Gen. Cass has been made. The journal in
question fortlfies those facts and charges, by re-
ferring to certain Official authorities and vouchers;
and winds up the whole, by exhibiting them az a
specimen of the ''rapacty" of General Cass. the
savaIice" of General Cass, his Insatiable passion
for money, money, money" besides adding that
he had large land speculations IN the West, to an
extent beyond its knowledge or imagination. AS
a counterpart to this mean and contemplate con-
duct towards Gen. Cass, we have seen, In the jour
mails hostile to Gen Taylor, similar statements of
the means and modes by which he also has accu-
muated his fortune, out of the proceeds of his
long life which he has spent in the service of his
country.
Here is another disgracsful specimen of the
mode in which those guerllas, without principle
and without manners, conduct great election,
among free and generous people. We class the
conduct of those journalists, James and Erastus
Brooks IN point of taste and moral feeling, as gen.
temen and politicians, in the same list which is
headed by Cbevalier Wychoif, the conductor and
owner of the Democratic Rertcy, and formerly the
manager of Fanny Elssler's affairs. during her
theatrical career IN this country. If General Cass
is 10 be elected President of this great republic let
it be done on the principles and measures which
he represents, and is expected 10 carry out during
his term of Office What has his private life, his
private habits, or his pecunlary affairs, to do with
his principles or policy, or his measures of action
Lewis Cass, If he has received emouments from
government, performed sufficient services for them
in the same way as General Taylor, and all Others
have done before him. With the exception of Mr.
Adams, every one of the candidates has been in
the service of the government, and had received
moneys from the public treasury, With regard TO
the private life and private character of General
Cass, we believe that even his enemies will ac-
knowledge that ii pure, honorable, aud unspotted
1t can benefit no cause, and least of all that of
General Taylor, to treat and write of General Cass
as we would of the veriest pickpocket up for trial
before Recorder Scott at the next term of the Ses.
sons. The NcD York Express, which degrades
and disgraces journalism by resorting to such a
system as it has assumed, Is working in its voca-
ton of dirt and filth and unprncipled conduct 1t
is but six months ago since 1t treated Gen. Taylor
with nearly the same courtesy and respect with
which il now treats General Cass; and before six
months more if General Taylor, its candidate,
should be elected and should refuse to be the agent
for the qualification of its avarlce ambition, in
the distribution of office or emolument, the same
journal may return and repeat its former TRADES
against that distinguished man, now its candidate
and the object Of its admiration. The Chevalier
Wikoff's mode of conducting controversy, may
do In matters Of dispute among ballet dancers and
their Wallets, but never should BIZ encouraged
among an intelligent people, or adopted by
respectable and well conducted newspaper, having
any pretensons to character, feeling, or gentle
manly proprety.