Wisconsin Tribune

GENERAL CASS ON THE WILMOT PROVISO,

The Union announces by authority' that Gen. Cass writes no letters on Political topics to friend or foe, since he accepted the Baltimore Nomination. Hundreds of inquiries as to his opinions on various points have been addressed to him, all of which remains unanswered. This is doubtless discreet; but is it candid? is it fearless? Is not its chivalry entirely of the sword-breaking order?

But though Gen. Cass does not write a line 'for the public eye,' Father Ritchie most industriously scribbles in his behalf, and in his last assumes to contradict, as if by authority, the charge circumstantially preferred by Senator Miller of New Jersey, that in 1846 he (Cass) was decidedly, ostentatiously favorable to the Wilmot Proviso. The Union's article is feeble enough, and fails to meet Senator Miller's explicit charges; but the cool effrontery of the attempted contradiction is its most remarkable feature. Father R.'s memory must surely be giving way, for he has forgotten that Gen. Cass himself, in his Nicholson letter, says:

"The Wilmot Proviso has been before the country some time. It has been repeatedly discussed in Congress, and by the public press. I am strongly impressed with the opinion that a great change has been going on in the public mind upon this subject in my own as well as others; and that doubts are resolving themselves into convictions, that the principles it involve should be kept out of the National Legislature and left to the people of the Confederacy in their respective local governments."