New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-03

their leading hackers, VINO feel autnOrilen
To affirm that their man will not be forget
fnI Of important services rendered. Agood
Jockey is in his element at quadrennial
gathering of this sort.
What voice have the People in the prem
Uses! Who imagines, or guesses, or is fool
enough to hope, that the fact of this or that
candidates having most of the farmers,
mechanics and laborers of the party who
are at hsme about their business on his side,
will help him one straw at Baltimore! Ii
candidate is supposed to havea winning
way with him-if he is generally presumed
the best nag in the field to bet on-that
circumstance will weigh in his favor, SIM
plybecause the delegates and outsiders who
are pro1ered prospective officesin payment
for votes, want to feel pretty sure that the
promisers will have at least the means OF
fulfilling. But the naked fact that three
fourths of the party prefer this or that
nomination goes for nothing in National
Convention. In fact, we consider it worth
rather less than nothing since the wire
workers may very fairly conclude thas a
candidate made by them out Of whole cloth
will feel deeper obligation and evince
more gratitude to them, than one in whose
behalf they have simply declared the de-
cided preference of their constituents.
In this instence we presume there is no
serious doubt tibet Gen. Cass is the first
choice of by far the largest division of the
party. This may evince very bad taste
on their part-we rather think it does-but
that does not alter the fact. Yet Gen.
Cass has had no show at all for the nomi-
nation. He may have ever so many votes
on this or that ballot, but it has long been
notorious among the knowing ones that he
was marked out to be letdown that any
eminence which might be graciously
accorded him in the outset would only In
crease the probability of broken neck in
his ultimate and inevitable fall.
Well, viewing his case by and large
we are mo- ,orry for him. Gen. Cas- has
deserved this cumulative discontinue, by
the insincerity of his public course. He is
at heart as favorable to q straight out Pro-
tective Tariff as we are, and, when be had
no motive for concealing or distort'ng his
convictions, he proved it. He wrote from
Paris, while ambassador there, Just such
sentiments a. we should have put forth,
and no Free Trader could without gross in
consistency and disqualification. We
have not doubt that, if he were now
President untrammeled by committals,
pledges or party necessities, he would re-
commend a revision of the Tariff with a
view TO more efficient Protection. But
that does not lie on his road to the Presi-
dency; so he helped enact and now upholds
Tariff by which dif1erential duties are
absolutely levied againstimportant branch
es of our National Industry!
So with regard to Rivers and Harbors.
That Senator from Michigan, with her
nine hundred miles of almost harborless
lake coast, should be Indifferent or hostile
to Harbor Improvements, is outrageous.
Personally Gen. Cass is not; but Presiden-
TALLY he is driven to be, lest the South
which hates such improvements, should
bar his access to the White House. And
now the South is engaged in laying him
out. Good for him better that it comes
from that quarter Martin Van Buren,
used to pander to the worst prejudices of
the South and the South paid him off
in the Baltimore Convention of 1874.
After this week, we shall count on Gen.
CasSs consistent and unquibblingsupport to
River and Harbor bills.
Yet there is one respect wherein we re-
greet his discontinue. Few of our States
men so eminent by position have evinced
equal manliness in his department toward
KOssuth and the great principles whereof
he is here the representative-the hopes
whereof he is the immediate depository.
We don't mean that Gen. Cass has done
bis whole duty in the premises; for he has
not; he was under obligation, for his own
characters sake, to do more than he has
done. Viewed relatively to the conduct
Of most others, however, his course has
exhibited some regard for Principle and
Duty, so that we cannot record his Presi-
Dental demise without throwing at least
ore flower on his grave.
But 10 return to the manner of our