The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-07-14
Cen. Cass, opinions.

srat quotes the Cleveland, Ohio, Plaindealeras
good authority in favor of Gen, Coss. What
does he think Of the following from his own
I'VE, as a party, present to the nation a
candidate from a free State. He is not a slave
holder. Ie does not traffic ID human flesh.
He has no sympathies, associations or c%onnec-
with those who do. He was Born and
educated in New England, and has spent most
Of his days in the free wilds Of the West, has
his country long and faithfully, and has
the confidence of Jefferson, Madison,
and jackson in the more harmonious days of
the democracy. Such a man is now the STAN
dard bearer Of our party; and we support him
and this we could do with a hearty good viii,
independent of our obligations to party.
We think Gen. Cass' construction of the
Constitution is an ample '%proviso' against the
further extension of slavery. He says Con-
gress has not the power to abolish slavery
where it illegally exists, nor to institute it where
it does not. 1t does not now exist in the terri
tories of New Mexico and California-and
according to Gen. Cass' doctrines it cannot
exist there by any act Of Congress. 1t fol-
lows, of course, that said territories must re-
main free until the same shall become States,
It is a conceded point that States have the
power to abolish slavery within their limits,
and by the same act of sovereignty they can
establish it. The only fear is that these Terri
tories will be peopled by those who prefer
slavery to free labor, and that when said terri
tories become States, slavery will be establish
cd, either by q provision of their State COnsti-
ton or by law.
/" Let us see if Gen. Cass's doctrine will ia
vor such result. Shareholders will not emf
CRATE there because there is no law to protecl
slave property. Should Congress pass such q
law it would be unconstitutional and of nc
binding effect. There is no law of the terri
tories by which a Southerner could hold {
slave one hour after he had become settled
there! The present inhabitants are all Oppos
ed to slavery. No law would be made b.
them to sanction it, and under such circum
stances what can our Southerners do? The,
can give up slavery and go there, which the,
will not do, or they can stay away, which
the most probable. They never will hazarC
their property where there is no law to protec
it. Mark that!
when the Proviso was first sprung upol
the House of Representatives, John Q. Adam
arose in his place and denounced it as unne
cessary. Why? because he said, 'the terri
tory was now free and Congress had no pow
er to make it slave.' This is General Cass'
opinion, Judge Mclean, of the Suprem
Court, holds the same opinion-also John 7
Hale, Joshua R. Giddings, Editor Of the M
tional Era, and all the Liberty papers. Cor
gress has no more power to make a slave tina
to make a king, say they. There is no powe
in this country to make slave except by tn
sovereign States, and they can make a slave {
a white man as we'll as a black. Should Me-
Mexico and California become States an
choose to institute slavery, the probability
they would %enslave the whites as the black
and copper skins would be largely in the mi
jority.
"General Cass believes that from the simpI
operations of the Constitution, the character
: the people now there and those likely to G
there, the geography of the country, and II
: strong public sentiment in all Of the free ar
: many of the slave States against slavery, TIL
S it will never exist in those territories. "
4 know from the frequent declarations made
: private conversations, that he is strongly o
b posed to the further extension Of slavery as v
d are, and that is strong enough mast Of our rea
ers will think.
h "We have every assurance that his ADM.
d istration, should he be elected, while it W
give security to the great and fundament
! principles Of the party, will never be used
: rive countenance to so obnoxious a measu
aa carrying slavery into territories now free
g The right SpiriL-The following is an e.
h tract from a letter from the Hon. Mr.. Ashmr
# OF Mass, to his constituents;
GAS it is, we have a Southern candidat
fairly nominated in a general convention
the Wing party, and see no reason why Il
h wing party should refuse to sustain him. Y
10 sent me to that Convention to strive in a spli
r of honorable emulation for a free State can'
10 date, | have done all that was in my pow
/? and have failed Of success for want OF suPpC
n, in our own sister free States. There was
US unfairness in the mode Of balloting; eve
delegate announced his vote vipa 0oce, 50 Il
III the whole people might hear and see It. !
to majority declared for Gen. Taylorand agail
IL us. Had ], then, the reserved rights, al
er taking our chance for success, to renounco q
On denounce the action Of the conventions, me.
or ly because, our desires were not accomplish
If aud our preferences were not satisfied!