The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-09-22
From, he Bacna Yi,ta .
pnrnoIr MnnIaAn, Aug. 81, 1913.

Editors Bucna Vista;--
GENTLEMEN: In your paper Of the 18th, vol
l, No, 2, addressed to a friend Of mine here
observe a long editorial on the political tergio-
e%rsations Of Gen. Cass. A new chapter on
this subject is we'll understood here, in regard
to hissomerset on The Texas question, tDe facts
Of which are as follows:
General Cass was, in the winter Of 1914, de.
cidedly hostile TO the AMI %exatiop Of Texas,
and 50 expressed himself everywhere, Mr..
flanagan wrote to him three several letters,
telling him he would lose the South uni, IS he
changed ground on that subject, which he final
" did do, and his third letter to Hannegan was
published as il he were in favor Of annexa-
ton.
Now the following facts can be proven in
a court Of justice: On the lstof March, 1914,
Gen Cass being in DetroilD the Hon. Edwin
II. Lothrop, speaker of the House Of Repro
sentatives Of Michigan, introduced a iointies-
o%lntion, instructing our Senators and request
ing our Representatives Of Congress to use
all their influence to prevent the annexation
Of Texas Vide House journal, page 1896 1t
was read twice and referred TO the Committee
on Federal Relations. The Hon. James l.,
schoolcra(t Of the Sault st. Marie, was chair
man Of the committee, but had gone home,
and Hon. VIM Norman Mcleod, now Of the
sault 81. Marie, was acting chairman. MIR,
Mcleod took the resolution in person to Gene
raj Cass. He (tho General) approved the spirit
and it's letter, and urged its immediate passage
by the House, where nenrly every member
was his political friend. He gave to MFR. Nc
Leod may strong reasons why it (Texas) ought
not to be annexed; which he embodied in his
elaborate and able report in favor Of the Reso-
alton, and also speech made in support Of lae
Report,
On the 6thof March, l744, " Mr.. Mcleod
from the committee on Federal Relations, tc
whom was referred the joint resolutions in
structing our Senators, and requesting ou
Representatives, relative TO The admission o
Texas into the Union, reported the same bscl
without amendment and recommended its las
sage" wide the House Journal, p ge 439 i.
On the 9th March, " the Honse then went int
committee Of the whole on the general order
Mr.. Henry N. Walker in chair, and, after spe.
ding some time on a joint resolution instruct
ing our Senators and requesting our Represents
tives relative to the admission Of Texas, re
ported the same back, with amendments an
requested the concurrence of the House there
in.n wide House Journal, p. ALL On til
eth Of March, 1914, Mr.. Pratt, Oakland cour
a ty, reported the resolution as correctly engros.
ed. Wide House Journal, p. 480 On tn
a same day it was passed by a vote of 80 to 10
Of the 30, there was, so far as I can learI
n but one whig, the Others wtr democrats an
r in constant intercourse with General Cass VIII
Il the same winter, was elected to the Senate.-
Z About the same time, a remonstrance again
Texas was gotten up, and circulated by on
Wing, one Cass man, and one abolitionis
which, as a special favotto the Cass men, a
blended by some dozen Of the strongest Ca
a Democrats, among whom were the Hon. He
IN ry N. Walker, Hon. George E. Hand, Ho
o. Benz B. Kercheval, and several other gentl
4 men thcn and now Cass Democrats. This r
It monstrance reached the senate Of the Unite
q States the very day that Gen. Cass's third al
" last letterto Hannegan, in favor Of a"nncxatio
appeared.
Alter il was was published, he sent for N
~ M'Leod, when the following colIoquy, in su
Or stance, took Place;-"Well, Mr.. MLeod, l su
pose you were surprised to see my letter to \
Hannegan, were your notl" " Well, sir,
It. hardly knowf' said Mr.. M'Leod, with a shr
% Of the shoulders. To which the General
re pended: " Well, you told me you had no p
u, sonal feeling Of the subject, when you show
o. me the resolution against annexation, and
.. TELL you the truth | have been compelled
m change my course and go with my friends"
al The facts can be verified By the staten
nd of Mr.. Mcleod, now living sat the sault
Marie, and the House journal.
The real reason Of the Generals change
Te- the Wilmot Proviso, which was equally 8
BY den will be found in the enclosed letter to
ell Hon. Robe Wilson, a distinguished Democ
lce who was delegate to the Baltimore Convent
of1s4l, and voted for Gen. Case.