Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1848-09-04
Gen. CaSS-HiS Portrait,

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Gen. Cass-His Portrait,
Mr.. Andrew Stewart, in a recent speech
in Congress, thus described Gen. Cass:
He always thought Mr.. Jefferson was
the friend of peace. What was General
Cass? For war, war, war! First with
England; he was for 'sffty-four forty Oh
fight" then he was for Mexico; for "swal-
lowing" ito use his W ~language) the
whole of Mexico; next for Yucatan; and
then he might be for Canada. Now,
where was the practice of the gentleman
over the way, and of their leader, who
talked so loudly about Mr.. Jefferson's
principles? War was barbarism in this
enlightened age and country; it was an
absurdity. a crime, and it was so consid~
cred by Gen. Taylor.
But a little more of the history of Gen.
Cass. He had been on all sides of all
questions. There was not a question of
public policy of the country upon which
Gen. Cass had not occupied a posi-
ton on both sides. Once a federalist,
now a democrat" When the question
of the annexation of Texas first came up,
he was decidedly opposed to it when it
was said that the British were going to
take Texas, ''let them have it," ssid he,
we do not want it, But a little before
the nomination, on the 10th of May, 1914,
he wrote a letter to MI. flanagan, in
which he was for immediate annexation
and for slavery too.
He was against annexation and for an.
nexation; against the proviso and for the
proviso; against protection and for protec-
ton; against internal improvements and
for internal improvements. With refer
enc to the WiImot Proviso, Gen. Cass
was decidedly for it at first; he was a great
proviso man; and then at the next session
of Congress, when he found it would not
not DO for a certain section, he turned
against the proviso, and in his letter to
Mr.. Nicholson said, "a change had been
going on in my mind" and when the
shareholders demanded to be allowed to
carry their slaves to new territory, he says
it will greatly improve the comfort and
condition of the slaves if they were scat
tered over more territory, and he was now
a great slavery man; and the gentleman
from Mississippi, (Mr. Featherston) had
just said that he was pledged to veto the
Wilmost Proviso. He was once for a
protective tariff, but nov opposed to all
protection. The time was when Cass
voted for internal improvements; but he
wrote an answer to a letter ofinyitation to
attend the Chicago Convention in his
neighborhood-a letter of four lines, stat
ing that he could not dttend-as at Cleve-
land, the other day, when asked for his
opinions ON internal improvements and
the proviso, he said there was such a
crowd he was afraid he could not be heard,
and spoke on other subjects. Now, the
Baltimore Convention declared that in
ternai Improvements were unconstitutlon-
al, aud Gen. Cass said, Amen: he agreed
to every word in hat platform. He was
a mar who had been on all sides of all
questions; a man of no principle, no con-
sistency, but a time-servlng, vascillatlng,
weatbercock candidate, and that had Sc
cured his nomination for the Presidency.
But he (Mr. s. thought his party now felt
very much as Father Richie did-very
much like giving it up. Had the Wing
candidate ever vaseillated, ever changed
his position, his principles? No. They
were laid down in the Allison letter, and
were fixed as the everlasting hills, having
their foundation in justice and truth
based upon the Constitution of the coun-
try, and upon popular rights-the emana-
ton of a sound head and pure heart, 1t
was impossible that they could be wrong,
or could change.
AN IMPORTANT AccEssIoN.-TheMil
ton, IN. CO. Chronicle, has the following
paragraph:
The Hon. Bedford Bro1n fir Taylor!'
We have the very best authority for
saving that the Hon. Bedford Brown,
formerly a democratic U. S. Senator
from this State, and now a citizen of Al