The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-10-20
Terence Brady,
Thomas O'Brine,
John Cunningham,
Gen. Cnss Esiimatcd al Home.


Gen. Cass Estimated AT Home.
The Hon. William Woodbridge for
mery Governor Of Michigan, and subse-
quentIy an honored Senator of the u. S.
Senate, presided at meetngin Detroit, Il
on the Sth ultimo comprising several dis
Itingulshed members of the democratic
party, and in the course of calm and dis .
passionate review of the present State OF
the parties and their candidates, thus re-
viewed, with no unfliendly personal feel.
ing, the political history and character of
General Cass The venerable character
Of the speaker, his intimate acquaintance
with the subject. and the Importance of
the case claim for his we'll considered
speech the most considered attention. If
any fair-minded reader-no matter of
what party-still entertain any doubt
(which to choose" let him ponder this
portrait, by one of tho most upright men
in the country. .. r.
"What for example, have been his
views relative to the encouragement of
domestic manufactures-and the hOme
industry of the countryl Now | have
known him an OUer jealous advocate for
the protection of home manufacturers and
American industry. Not even Mr.. JEFF.
ferson, who desired that "the Atlantic
had been sea Of fire." that we might
be thus utterly cut off from the workshops
and the pauper labor of Europe, was
more ultra protectionist! But Democra-
cy sis progressive" and have since
known him participating in all the anti
tariff notions of the South! His ''tree
trade" speeches previous to the election
of 1874 are not forgotten, aud his vote
with the aid of the 1rraS Senators, re-
pealed The Tariff of 1912.
f IL have known him in favor of N lonal
Roads and Lake Harbors. He earnestly
aud ably sustained that policy in the Sen
ate. But his recent demonstrations and
especially his full and unqualified approx
al of The whole of the policy of the Polk
{ administration, and of the "Democrltic
r Platform" imply his entire abandonment
, of the Lake Harbor policy. And his ex-
plict adoption of the avowed principles
of the Baltimore Convention, as the ac-
knowledged articles of his present polit-
4 cal faith, seems to leave him no retreat.
S Again. there is no proposition perhaps,
= in respect to which the people of Michi-
gan, are in oplnion, more united, than in
this; that the extension of slavery, and
= increase ofslave power. is adverse to the
It prosperity of the Union-and in an espe-
II cal manner, adverse to the rights and in
II furious to the non-slaveholdng States.
o while, as body they would be true
g to all the stipulations ofthe Constitution
(, and faithful to the compromises involved
d in it; they are. and Except when the eff
7, fervescence Of party favor may for shor,
space of time have overloaded their un'
t. derstanding) always have been decidedly
IS opposed to the application of those pecu
'r liar stipulations to new y acquired States
o or countries, not originally parties tc
q those compromises.
"Now suppose it to be matter of noto
n riety here in Detroit, that in the beginning
J. Gen Cass was opposed to the annexation
e of Texas-and Likewise opposed to al
4 further extension of our national limits il
r. the Southwest; but shortly after he ap
r, pears to be the decided advocate of tina
D. fatal measure, and of the Mexican war
and of stripping that miserable Republic
e ofstil more of her Territory.
% Anticipating The probable acquisition
y of Territory in that direction, the Michi
u gan Legislature had passed Resolution
: instruclng its Senators in such an event
y to require, in the terms of the Ordinance
= of 1887, that involuntary slavery
VI for crime ommtted-should be foreve
o. prohibited in it; and Gen. Cass was al
70 earnest advocate of the Wilmot Pro0isC
d But new light burst upoa them. ThougI
the accredited agent of the General Gov
}" ernment for some eighteen or twenl
. years of his life, in administering and en-
v forcing the laws of Congress in and owe
the territory of Michigan, he suddenl
'G discovers that Congress has no right t
legsate for the Territories; and, there
10 fore, though both tooth and nair' in ia
IT, vor of the WImot Proviso, he now come
n' out its open, undsguised opponent; as
10 the right to acquire territory did not ne
&, cessarily imply the right to keep and t
:, take care Of ito legislate for, and
III IL, 'reguIate" it when acquired But tn
~ sophislry of his Nicholson letter-ecen .
ii could be supposed that lie beIie0ed
h,mscIE falls far short Of justi6catio o
for this change of opinion. That goe
only to the alleged incompetency of Cor
oil gress to regulate the concerns Of its ow
Sc territory by ordinary acts Of CO@gressiO'
es al legislation. Now every Treaty b
ng which territory is acquired, contains, {
ny necessity, provisions and conditions:
us for xample--rela,ive to the rights re
he served 10 the original and resident il
lSS habitants, their right Of property, of rel
gious freedom, &C., &c. The project {
the Mexican Treaty, sent to the Senat
for its opinions, contained many SUCH
'r- Some we're rejected, some varied, Other
he added. Gen. Cass voted for that treat
to as amended. By that vote, he q6Srme
as the competency of this governmentto to a.
"a quire additional territory by treaty. an
Gu to acquire IL subject to provisos and col
IRE ditions. '''""'' @a7i@-.' ii@' ~
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