Wisconsin Tribune

"Opinions of the Press."

We give below several extracts from leading Democratic papers, as well as the opinion of the late Gov. Wright, respecting the qualifications of Gen. Cass for the Presidency. We hope they will be read attentively. Perhaps they are better authority than any thing from Whig papers would be considered by our Democratic friends.

The Southern Telegraph says:

The Wisconsin Democrat states, and doubtless it knows, that 3 out of the 4 delegates to the National Convention from Wisconsin, are in favor, as their first choice, of Gen. Cass for the Presidency, and it has hopes that the 4th is also. Now we have no hesitation in saying it such be the case, Wisconsin will be most outrageously misrepresented in the National Convention, for we firmly believe that of the democratic voters, five out of six would prefer some other man to Gen. Cass.

We say that whatever may be the individual ambitions and hopes of the individuals who controlled this State Convention, the mass of the democracy of Wisconsin, have no sympathies whatever with Gen. Cass. If his southern subserviency were not sufficient to condemn him in their eyes, his standing in relation to national works of improvement, as manifested in his letter to the Harbor and River Convention at Chicago, would most effectually do it, and hence he is not the preference of Wisconsin.

The same paper week before last, speaks of Gen. Cass as follows:

"Again, we need not say that it is quite possible for men by trickery, to secure a nomination, whose whole life has been a living lie upon democracy. If Gen. Cass has not always been such an one, he is at least such an one now, and if he be nominated, wherein, under such circumstances, is the obligation to support him in virtue of democratic principle? He says, should he be elected, (Congress shall not interpose, if he can help it, to prevent the spread of slavery into territory, now free. Now we need not say that this position is at war with the interests of free labor, and consequently at war with democracy, for we all know it. Can then, a National Convention alter this state of affairs, or make that democratic which is now its opposite? -- If the National Convention should betray the principles of Democracy, we know not what rule makes it incumbent on individual members of the party to complete the treason and pull down the pillars of the temple on their own heads."
The Rock county Democrat was equally strenuous in protesting against the nomination of Cass. We quote the Democrat's language:

"The Madison Dem., whose editor is a delegate to the Baltimore National Convention, says that three of the delegates from this state are for Cass, and that the vote of Wisconsin will be cast for him in the convention. Gen. C. would have been a strong man if he had not written a foolish letter. His views on the subject of free territory are not very palatable to northern democrats -- and the expediency of nominating him, with the absolute certainty of losing New York, is, to say the least of it very doubtful. We trust the delegates from this state will consider the matter well, and act at Baltimore for the interests of the party, regardless of men."
The Albany Atlas of the 22nd of April last, thus spoke of him:

"The shameful tergiversation of Senator Cass on the question of free territory, has lost him the support of the Northern democrats, and his attacks on the French Republicans have alienated from him, the masses everywhere. Republicans can have no sympathies for one whose sympathies have been so conspicuously manifested on the side of a monarchy and against the people."
The Racine Advocate, says:

"We do not place the names of Lewis Cass and Wm. O. Butler at the head of our columns, because we can in no event cordially support the nomination of the Baltimore Convention, and very probably may not be able to support it at all. We do not look upon Gen. Cass as a great man, nor as a good man, nor as a firm man. The qualification we could excuse, for it is not to be expected always, or even commonly, in peaceable times, even in Presidents, and the administration of John Tyler, a bad one certainly but one that could do no considerable evil, proves that the want of it may be powerless for great ill, or for good. We do however require a good man and a firm man, and not one who can make constant compromises of opinion for the sake of office, as Cass and Clay have done. The course of Gen. Cass on the Wilmot proviso, was one that ought to have met the reprobation of men of all parties. It was a shifting for the sake of office: or, if not, the change of opinion on the part of Gen. Cass, ought to have led him to abandon all idea of the presidency at a moment when his political opinion on so important a subject, were so crude and undigested, that neither he nor his friends could understand the ground he had taken, or, whether, amid his constant change, he had yet finally settled himself upon firm ground.

We honestly hope another nomination may be made by Democrats. Defeat, we should look upon, as some thing of a misfortune, but not as so great a one as success under such circumstances."
The Southport Telegraph, in copying a call for a new Convention, from the Racine Advocate, remarks:

"The Racine Advocate contains the following recommendation, which we trust will be adopted. There is not a democratic editor in the State, however he may try to deceive himself and readers, but knows a more unfortunate and objectionable nomination than Lewis Cass could not be made. Why not then throw aside hypocrisy -- act like men, stand up for the right, fall in a good cause rather than by vitating the popular mind, prevail in a bad one?"

The late Gov. Wright, speaking about this same demagogue Lewis Cass, says:

Mr. Cass having sold himself and his principles to southern task-masters, in the vain hope of purchasing southern votes, must not complain if his vascillation and treachery bring upon him the indignation and contempt he deserves. A man who will stoop so low in subservience, as has Mr. Cass, can never be supported by the people. We regard him as the most truckling, subservient and unprincipled of all the dough faces.