New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-05-26


John {. Calhoun Of $. CO... 2 o
w. J. Worth OF y. Y.........
Geo NJ Dallas Of Pa. =
William O. Butler Ofky......
Whole No ofvotes....15l 81 &1 ~
Necessary 10 a choice oh ballot 10 or twothrds
OF the whole number cast. Gen. Cas- had H. and
over so he declared the regular candidate TOT
lsfs
We know no other candidate except Polk him
self whom we could have welcomed TO the arena
more heartily We mean not TO undenate the
strength OF our opponents, but we arc confident
that if they can elect Gen. Cass they could elect
anybody. James X. Polk always excepted. He
has not the good fortune enjoyed by his immediate
predecessor Of being very mpericctly known.
His administration OF our Indian Affairs IN the
Northwest for many years is remembered, aud
will be shown 10 have been far more profitable to
himself than advantageous or honorable TO the
country His negligence or incapacity while Sec
rotary OF War was one of tue potential though
secondary causes OF the disgracciul, unjust and
most prodigal war which'was prosecuted for years
against the Seminoles of Florida. His sycopbancy
10 Louis Philippe, while Minister to France, VIII
not soon be forgotten, and happily the evidence OF
that sycophancy in the shape Of his published
France. its King, Court and Government has
taken an enduring shape, and can neither be de-
MED nor perverted. His atrocious calumnies on
the crushed but still struggling advocates of Eu-
ropean Liberation will rise in judgment against
him now that the cause Of Democracy has there
tnumphed over the caumnies he aided 10 propa
cute wherein the excuses and diabosm of few
among the French Republicans were arfully put
forw ard as exhibiting truly the character Of them
all This is Dcspotisms oldest trick, but he is one
M It's mos, rsgenf inst The work and tho
workman ere nicely fitted to each other.
Returning to this country in lsil, Gen. Cass
soon after acquired the seat he has since filled in
the United States Senate aud no man has since
done more evil in our National Councils or done
IL with more glarinely selfish intent, than he has
OF the Texas Iniquity and the consequent War
there has been no more headlong and unscrupu
lous champion; though we believe II can be proved
that Just before he wrote his published letter IN
fauor of Annexation which rendered him Van
Burens most formidable antagonist at Baltimore
four years ago. he wrote one decidedly against
Annexation. aud on the broadest grounds of gen
eral hostility But this, OF course has never trou
blcd him since he swallowed II.
30 soon as his party had completely regained
power by the election of Polk, he proclaimed a
War with England for Oregon inevitable. and
did his best TO render it so. He fought to the last
the Treaty whereby the Oregon Boundary was
settled. sti clamorng for SO aO even at the cost
Of a War This was by no means his first effort
TO embroil the country in that quarter. And the
whole is impelled by the most sordd, selfish calcu
lation He knows what are the worst passions of
the worst class and he is the very man TO Chamber
eagerly aud smilingly into a window otthe White
House over hundred thousand bleeding corpses
Of men slain that his ambition might be satisfied
On the great question of Free Soil against
Slavery Extension his course has been base be-
yond example. He was originally land the proof
exists an avOwed champion of Free Soil. Even
when he voted against the proposition in the last
Congress he declared himself devoted 20 the prin-
epe bat this was not the proper time to affirm it.
1t was improper TO legisate ON an abstraction,
&c. &c Thus he stood for few months when 10
out comes his letter TO Tennessee. eating all his
former words and avowins himself a convert to the
Southern doctrine, that Slavery may be legally
established in aay territorial acquisition of this
country BY tho mere fact of Shareholders choos-
ing 70 migrate thither SO fragrant an instance Of
apOstacy and treschcry has rarely or never been
known, and we hold that every advocate OF Free
Sod and Free Labor should vote even for John c.
Calhoun If the election of Cass could not other
wise be prevented Defeated he can and must be.
And now if the Philadelphia Convention shall
only do as well for us as the Baltimore has done,
We shall 80 into the contest with very strong
assurance Of success. We have one advantage
in the greater distance Of our place Of meeting
iron Washington whose influence ON these de-
alterations has usually been unpropitious. IL was
Though intrigues conceived and matured at
Washington tina, Van Buren, was stricken down
in "a, aud through the same has Cass been put
up IN as. We do not think the Wing party would
bear the yoke 5 mcekly aud we do most respect
fully intimate our hope that Congress will not inter-
nit its Sessions nor be left without quorum during
the week OF the Whis National Convention
President making is very proper business in it.
self; but we hear gathering, swelling murnurs
that the Members have about done their share OF
it Tor this time especially il 1t Is to require sus
pension Of the public business while the daily sti.
pend runs on. The year for which the last Annual
Appropriations were made has nearly run out, vet
very little has been done toward their renewal
aud hundreds Of mechanics and iaborers in the
employ Of the Government arc living precariousy
or submitting 10 ruinous shavcs because the Go
vcrnment cannot pay them the wages they have
earned until the Appropriation bills are passed
aud signed by the President We do most car
pestly hope, therefore, ON several accounts that
Congress may no, lose day by reason Of the
Philadelphia Convention.
~ WILLIAM A. SAcKErr, the Delegate elect
from our NXvnth District Wayne aud Seneca
Coantios) to the Philadelphia Convention. is IN
clined to vote Cor Gen. Scott, though he prefers
Mr.. Clay. He was chosen over J. +. seely. TOR
Clay) on the second ballot, by Is 10 10.
E7- A UAirersGlisi General Reform Assoc'a
fioa Ia to NEE; in BOSTON Thursday, June l. being
the middle Of Anniversary week in that city Social
Festival and the Annual Report (by Rev Ii Bacon) arc
20 be enjoyed The general beet Of she Association is