The North-Carolina standard., 1847-08-18

mat the Journal OF Commerce man is i'll informet
e tas premises; me esssntiai question eSneern
TAT greater moment--g good faith cofdiality ant
harmony amang ourselves nc thel writer Of the a
boYe is NOT clesry informed with heregapd 10 the
Character and tendencies Of the Taylor movement
1cho think they ought not to rendisi there. We
viii thank therefore, lhe Editors ofNotthern Wing
Journals who favorihe nomination of Gen. T'ay.
orfor President for explicit answers to the follow
ing questions: X e aebtsd - s1aaasneJ
s II. Is it your understanding end purpose that
there shall be Wing National Conye yealion, some
time within the year ensuing. for tbs, nomination
of Wing candidates for President and Vice Pre-
sident2 Will you favor or discourage The calling
Of such Convention by the Whig members of the
Congress soon TO assemble? s., - 81! @
s'2. Suppose Gen. Taylor should be induced or
constrained 90 declare himself opposed to the prin
eIPle ofithe Wimot Proviso would you continue
to support hint Ditto OF Protection to Home ln-
duSiry and liberal sy stem of National Improve
ment of Rivers and aarbors2 s,Ay4 ,i.-
So In case no Whig National Convention shall
be held BY what means is It to be settled and de-
elared that Gen. Taylor is the choice of the Wing
party? What il respectable portion of our friends
should insist that he is not, and that, supposing
new candidate is 10 be taken up, he ought to be,
must be, Northern statesman: what are we TO
dog sf
"a. What will be the probable effect of running
Gen. Taylor pell-mell, 1oith all the bands of party
Orgoa,zofiOr retared rather cast to the 1oinds,
on the growth and expansion of the Liberty Par
ty,' so caled2 and sOhere aDW the Whig party
Be, moi alone in '4s but atterpards, ifthat party
shall thus be enabled 10 poll 10000 votes in this
State, 10000 each in Ohio and Massachusetts,
10000 in Vermont, &c. &C., e.| "' -'''-
"These questions asked in no invidious spir-
IT. but in that impelted by An earnest desire pro-
mote the National well being through the iastru-
mentality of Whig harmony and Whig ascendan-
cy. Shall they in like spirit be answered."
The New York Mirror, which ike the Re-
publican of this city, repudiates all Conventions
says empbaticalfy, on the contrary.
"The Tribunes call for a declaration of senli-
ments from the Whig press is doubtless made in
a candid spirit, aud if candidly responded to will
show Gen. Taylor where he must look for support
ia the coming contest. After his explicit avowal
that he will not be the candidate Of any party and
that he will only accept of nomination 20 the
Presidency from the people at large, il strikes
rs almost Insulting to him for the Wings TO talk
Of nominating him as the candidate Of their par
fy. We do not see, therefore, how the questions
Of the Tribune can prove at all embarrassing TO the
Wing editors of the north, nor why they should
hesitate to declare whether they be in favor
of elecling him, 'sao!esas potens" since he has de-
cIared that he will not be eected in any other man
neT. If the Wings vote for Gen. Taylor, they
m 4st forget their party allegiance and loosen e
bands of their old oIeauizatlons. So must their
now political Opponents do" - sHE-. .-an .-is
There is conclusive force in this reasoning
hat is, unless Gen. Taylor shall retreat from the
position he has taken in so many letters, and on
every occasion, when called upon II IS absurd,
Then 10 contend, that Gen. Taylor will be the
Wing candidate, and ii is idle 10 suppose that the
Wings or the country will sustain him as their
candidate. If they mean to abandon all their
principles, they will support Gen. Taylor; but
should they desire TO keep the Whig flag flying
and TO promote the measures of their party. they
will select some other individual who will accept
their nomination and not repudiale their "party
schemes" The Tribune has drought them up
all standing" as the vulgar saying goes They
must now answer yea or nay-give up their prin-
ciples, or abandon their present game of playing
double. The "ehaqcs, of ofelecting General Tay-
Ior as Whig, candidate is gone forever.
barren victory, involving sacrifice of their Whig
doctrines, is all they can hope for. Truly, old
Zac has put the wings hOrs de combat They
must give up their Whiggery, or the only
'chanee" of the spois of power. - ...