Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-24
From tho n. Y. Tribune
CASS.
WASHINGTON sday. Feb. ]. 1855.

WASHINGTON Wedne sday, Feb. 7. 1855.
Mr.. Cass is an old man, and a dead man, and
we hate to disturb the ashes of the departed.
But when their remains lie superhuous, we
can't help the desire to characterize and shovel
them out of the way. Cass is a most valorous man
in circumstances where it costs him no exhibition
of pluck. But under other circumstances
such, for example, as at the Chicago Convention,
it is rice cerSd with him. Cass was afraid to say
what he thought on Internal improvements, at
Chicago: he was afraid to say and vote what he
thought on the Wilmot Proviso he was afraid to
do his duty on the Nebraska bill. but he is not
afraid to derT the Legislature Of his own State, and
saw "No" to their p;"positior for him to resign.
His valor in conduct remii.ts US of a man whom
his wife put under the bed, but who insisted upon
locking out through the cracks in the counterpane.
When she child him, he resented it. and declared
that while he had the spirit Of man he would
peep out.
But we do not wish to be hard upon the soft,
spongy old man. He has good qualities, and his
notes are A. l.. But he is no sort of n man to hold
up as Il model for the youth Of this great country.
On the contrary, n nation Of Casses-the thought
suggests a parody:
Nature could form hut one SUCH,
And broke the die in moulding Cass.
Perhaps this may be thought personal and Sc
we're, but we do not SO intend it. We have none
but the kindest feelings of contempt for his moral
qualities. There is really no stand up to him.
lie is not the man who is known as an animal
who stands erect on q perpendicular vertehra.
He does not go upright, but hops through the
world. If you hit such a man, you don't knock
him down; you only set him spinning, You might
as well talk of knocking down a football. lie is
the natural advocate of squatter sovereignty, for
he is a professional squatter himself. lie never
does anything else. He always squats. lie
squatted on Slavery, squattcd on Internal I'm.
p%rovements, squatted IN the Pruviso, ~squatted
on Nebraska, and was never known in any
emergency to do otherwise than squat. He is n
squat man himself: and at length, through the
action of the people of Michigan, he has been re-
duced to a Senatorial squatter. He is occupying
territory that does not belong to him and which
the owner thereof has ordered him to quit. But
he doesn't go he still squats.
Indeed, Mr.. Cass is, politically, all putty and
dough. The wonder is he has ever exhibited
any powers of locomouion. Men generally need
bones to do this. But Cass has not one. He is
purely mucilaginous. He is human blanc mango
with the favoring omitted. Doubtless he Is vir-
tuous and pious after his own standard. But it
is a viatue and piety which spring from the fear
that the devil will get him at last. So shaky, so
timid, so filled to the brim with all manner of APP
prehensions. from the frown of Il stakeholder up
to the imaginary scowl of Satan, he breads to fall
into the hands Of either. Such u man must be
pious-very.
MIR. Cass enjoys the nlgn honor OF standing III
the head Of n class. This is the political mock
auctioneer of our times-men who keep the red
flag flying continually, and perpetually expose
their brass and pinchbeck, declare them to lie
pnre gold, and try to impose upon everybody.
lie is the head aud front of the whole breed OF
doughfaces. of which it is to be hoped this genera
ton will see the last; but perhaps not. 1t is
hard to eradicate an entire breed, especially
when it is bad. Foul weeds need perpetual up
roofing. The signs of the times. however, de-
note that most of them will be brought to the
stake for their crimes. Let us, at least, hope
so. If we only could get rid of the troublesome
rascals, and bring the North and South face to
face on the Slavery question we should have peace
and harmony. The question would then be set
tied once for all. But the doughfaces and COM
p~romisers thrust in their time-serving interference
and make all the mischief. The Lord deliver us
from the whole doughface race-timid, harelike,
trucking, spongy, prevaricating. backing out,
selling out crew. If such a thing existed as a
political J~ew-shop the whole tribe could not be
pawned for enough to replace the wig of the ven
cradle head of the order UPON whose merits we
have descauted.