The State guard., 1848-10-03

common consent of the American peo pie, and in all probability if he finds it tc his interest to own negroes, he will do so Now, if this prayer was so objection able, it has been great m istery to us tt account for the general appreciation which the whig presses and whig politi clans give throughout the South, and from one end of the Union to another" Fol the edification of our readers we will give the following small extracts from the lead ing whig papers of that day which are now abusing and villifying Gen. Cass fol this very prayer We will head it with the Chronicle and Sent inal, and hope to be enabled in 9 few weeks to give hundreds of other instances;
 From the Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel
 April. l9, 1Sl2.
 "RIGHT OF SEARcH.-This question has engrossed so much of the public mind of late, because of the delicate character of our relations with England, we have de- sired for some time to lay before our req ders the views of Gen. CAss, our Minis ter to the French court, which have re- ccived such general appreciation, from one end of the Union to the other. And al- though we have had it on file for some weeks, we have not been able to con- mence it's publication until to day. We shall conclude it as early as our limits and just regard to our usual variety will per init, and bespeak for it a careful perusal." This article will be found in the mum. Der of that paper dated April 2l; ls42, and which contains the letter of General Cass in full. .
 The next on the stand is the Richmond whig, yiler denouncer nop of General Cass is not to be found in the Union, for making a prayer which the whig then thought the people of the United States was eminently idebted to Governor Casss."
 From the Richmond Whig of March I5,
 lS42.
 "We Lave received a pamphlet printed in Paris, and written by Gov. Cass, re- viewing with great ability the assumption by Great Britain of right to search American vessels-for the purpose of sup. pressing the slave trade. The pamphlet was designed to operate on the French Chambers and to open the eyes of the French people to the grasping designs of Great Britain. Most opportunely did it make its appearance, and most beneficial have been its results. Under the inhu- ence of its cogent reasoning and powerful defence of the freedom of the seas, the French Government have refused to ratify the treaty with England authorizing mu. tual search ofvessels to suppress the slave trade. Even M. Guizot, although in ia. vor of the treaty, was forced to confess that we were right in resisting the search. It will be recollectcd that Lord Aberdeen, in his correspondence with Mr. Steven son, dwelt with emphasis upon the fact that France had yielded to the search, and that whatever that proud and chivalrous nation would consent to, could not be de- grading to the United States. But the wind is taken out of his sail-France re- fuses to ratify.
 No doubt seems to be entertained that the treaty with the five powers was plot on the part of England to operate upon us and by means of the search to convert her admitted superiority upon the ocean into actual and absolute supremacy. That she has been baked in this design, we are emnently indebted to Gov. Cass."
 The Whig of the same date publishes the following letter on the same subject from the U. States Gazette and cordially endorses it, which was written by an Amer ican in Paris;
 PARIS, Jan. 24, ls42.
 You were doubtless as unprepared as myself for the joint treaty of five great Europian powers for the support of the slave trade by the concession of the mu- tual right of Search. English ambition, concealed under the disguise of philan. thropy, is at the bottom of this business. The object of Great Britian has been to interpolate the Right of Search into the law of nations under the sanction of the united authority of those European pow CTS who take upon themselves to make and interpret European law. Her real objects, as well as the means which she has intended to put in practice for their attainment, have been concealed from the associate parties to this treaty. Her pri. mary aim has been to legalize her soye. rreignty of the Seas, and then to force the minor powers, the United States among the rest, to respec: this new authority for her insolence and boundless ambition for maritime power. Happily we have here and able and influential Minister. As soon as we were informed of the exis- tence of the treaty, he hastened to un. fold its objects to the French Ministery, and through that and other channels of infu ence, he has awakened France to an excited and proper feeling of danger to the principles and interests which she has hitherto defended, cont aimed in this instru- ment to which she was about to give her