The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-07-18
voR THE REPUBLIC /.

1oh ihE hEfUbLiC.
The Disgusting Coalition General Cass-Tsickery
in Ensbryo-Wh is to be deceived? and ,Ohat ,oia
be the consequence "A guere to the "Soie Organ,
and ,oord to the soise IN season.
The alliance of the southern portion of the Loco
foco party (more particularly represented through
the columns of the Uion) with the Freesoilers and
Abolitionists-the present very equivocal position
of General Cass towards the LOcofoco Legislature
of Michgan that returned him TO the Senate, (which
unanimously instructed him to vote for and support
the Wilmot proviso, &c. y and towards his whole
party, are subjects of important consideration and
have become fruitful Of many angry dispulatons
among Locetoco gentlemen and Others in Washing
ton and elsewhere.
General Cass made the leader and chief re-
preventative of the Locofoco party, in virtue of his
nomination by 1t to the Presidency; and the Union
since it so ably assisted him in his efforts to obtain
the Office, has fit declare itself the g sole
organ" of Locofocosm! Therefore, between the Mi
chigan Democracy, General Cass, and the Union
there ought to exist it would SEEM perfect agree
ment. But If not so, will the Union denounce either
the Michigan Democracy or General Cass' II will
dare to do neither; and simply because the combi-
nation of so many discordant elements in one body
has the promise of good things to come" to the
queerly constituted, easily deluded, and very fan
ciful minds of the Union. The hope of regaining
the spols of Office, the loss of which has caused the
bitter lamentations, and much rank hate to their
opponents, is the sole impetus they have in their
present labor of love-"
Now, the organ Of General Cass and the Michi-
gan Democracy is aware that he has been instructed
by the Democracy Of his State to vote for and sup
port the doctrines Of the Wilmot proviso; but the
sole organ" may not be aware that before those
resolutions of instruction passed second lime
by the Michigan Legislature, General Cass pur-
he Ne
will therefore give the facts in the case which
must leave the Union and General Cass no longer
the "nOn-interuentiOn' plea of escape they have
so ingeniousy resorted to wherever they have been
driven to the wall upon this Wilmot proviso ques-
ton.
AS before stated, the Legislature of Michigan,
almost solely Locofoco, previous to it's having re-
turned General Cass to the Senate unanimously
passed set of resolutions declaring it to be the
duty, and enjonng 1t upon their representatives
IN Congress to carry out the spirit of them, and
particularly to vote for and advocate the Wilmot
proviso. Having afterwards elected General Cass
to the Senate, they expected him to observe the
DEGREES that had previously been put forth by them;
but though he knew this, he did not design doing
so, and on the way to Washington to take his seat
IN the Senate so expressed himself, declared the
Wilmot proviso humbug, asserted it as his inten-
ton to vote against it, and shield himself from the
charge of duplicity upon this plea, which is of very
questionable morality; that "as the resolutions of
destruction (alluded to above) were passed before he
was elected to the Senate, he was not bound by
| them. These facts having reached the ears of the
Legislature, the same resolutions were again called
up, and again unanimously passed and sent to Gen
eral Cass as his instructions, thus leaving him no
| opportunity OF evading the responsibility of the
question. 1t must not be forgotten that in this
whole Legislature, composed of 80 members, there
were but 10 Wings; to % in the Senate, and Is
| to 81 In the House. The cause of General Cass s
refusal to take his seat in the Senate for the remain
der OF the session of the last Congress The Will
| mot proviso was under discussion! That was ALL
We defy the Union or Gen. Cass to question the
| truth of any of the above statements and it now
remains to be seen whether Gen. Cass will resign
his seat In the Senate rather than vote for the Will
mot provlso, and thus preserve his consistency,
and save himself from position that would prove
as humiliatlng as that of Mr.. Dallas when he voted
for the tariff of 46, after declaring that that of 40
would be safe in the hands of Mr.. Polk, or whether
he will vote according to instructions. But if he
should do the former, he would betray his State at
the very moment she would expect him to act; and
1t he does the latter, he will do violence to his own
Judgment or go in opposition to his protested prn-
cipes.
Will the Union tell what, in its opinion, Gen.
Cass ought TO do under such circumstances what
| II is probable he will do and what would be Its
position towards him if he should vote for the
| Wilmot provisoi 1t is very important that the
people should know; for since coalition has taken
| place between the northern and southern "Democ-
racy," II must needs be that whatever one portion
of this completely mongrel party may do, the
other portion will be bound TO acquiesce in or their
alliance amounts to but little. The Abolition and
Free-Soi portions being the strongest, can and will
hereafter of course dictate the action of the slave
holding portion Of it-save to the Calhoun men.
The Union has thrown its southern friends into
the affectionate embraces of political abolitionism,
and there is no getting over it. Ii and its party
have gone dozen to the Aboitonists and Free-Soil-
ers. Not so with the Wings. When persons from
these classes Of politicians vote the Wing ticket,
they do IT from a conviction that the Wing party has
more important principles to carry out than theirs
Refusing, we do, to 90 over TO them on section
al grounds, when they act with us they do so on ma.
uonal issues In proof Of what we have said, we
would refer TO the action of the Wing State Con-
venton Of Wisconsin, sitting at the same time in
the same town with Free-Soil Convention, in re-
jecting every overture of union made to them by
the latter. But the 'Old Hunkers" of the Locofo-
co party, the Free-So and Abolition parties, have
become all one at the North, and the Union is the
organ of the coalition between these and the south
ern Democracy!
Let honest and patriotic men, North, South, and
every where, beware Of the frauds these monde
script Locofoco leaders, the Union, and all such
venal prints, would practise upon them
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