The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-06-06
LEWIS CASS.

1t would be really amusing, were it not evl-
IDENTIFY so painful to our Democratic friends,
to see in what manner tho nomination of Lew
is Cass is received among his partizans at the
North, ard especially among that portion ofthe
party who have claimed to be advocates of the
Wilmot Proviso. The Montpelier Patriot dis
poses of Gen. Cass in ten lines Gin imitation of
that honorable gentleman's letter to the Chi
cago Convention, perhaps) and evinces eve
ry indication Of having swallowed n very Bit
ter pill. The Major runs up the Baltimore
ticket, however, and makes desperate effort
at smile. He thinks the nomination twill
prove peculiarly gratifying to the lovers of the
country. 1t is deserved tribute from Amer
lean feeling { } for the man who from his car
liest public life, and for the last tew years espec-
tally 4 y has been its most powerful advocate
and most perfect embodiment" Gen. Cass
the embodiment of american feeling"l A
man whom "his earliest public life" was at one
time Federalist, at another Democrat
now advocating just and equitable measures TO-
wards the Indians, and now joining heartily in
the policy Of Gen. jackson in direct opposition
to his previous views-now full of zeal for tho
principle embodied in the Wilmot Proviso, and
now equally jealous against it such man
may be, with some propriety perhaps, termed
desPicable embodiment" of Locotocoism-
other embodiment, he certainly cannot be.
"1he last fer years ESPECIALLY THAT is
very significant What will the honest and
brare-heartcd yeomanry of Vermont have to
do with imam who is not, all the time, straight
forward, open, consistent, stable champion of
what he holds to be right and just? The Loco
focos nominate a man whose past course pro-
sents as many different phases as the moon
and one who, under his last aspect, is sworn
champion Of principles most hostile to the
North and most ruinous to tho best interest,
of the Union.
Lewis Cas- will undoubtedly get many votes
from Vermont-but We believe there are some
Democrats who will vote for anybody sooner
than him. 1t is time for such as have sim
cere regard for the great principles of Free
dom to look around them, and see whittier
Southern Locofocoism is leading. Cass's NOM
ination turned solely on his mean and shame
full subserviency to Southern interests and his
base treachery to the principles of Freedom
of which he was once pretended champion.
All the votes this candidate will get in the
State of New York may be crushed in mans
hand.
The Barnburners number eight-tenths, it is
said, of the Democracy of New York-and
they will not cast single vote for Cas-. They
have called Convention for the 22d of June,
to nominate a candidate for the Presid cncy,
and we think their movement will not be IN
seconded in some other Northern States
Hereafter, We shall endeavor to give our read
ers some account of the public career of Lewis
Cass. Our opponents have got out an edition
of his life alread,-but, unless we mistake,
there is an unaccountable silence on some par
ticulars of his life which are among the most
prominent in his career, and which ought by
no means to be neglected. VIII not our Dem
ocratic readers follow us in a sober and can
did review of some of these points, entirely
overlooked by their own press? We intend
to give them an opportunity of doing so, next
week.