The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-07
From the Charleston Mercury.
Taylor CatechisAn


i. Not quite one year.
d. Whence did you remove!
L. To Jefferson county, in Kentucky on the Ohio
D. From whom did you receive your early education
T. From Elisha Ayres, of Norwich Connecticut who
acted as private tutor IN my fathers family
d. What were his politics'
T. He was federalis and an abolitionistl
d. Was Jefferson county savehoIding county Z
T. No! Even at this day there are not hundred
slaves in the whole county.
d. Is true, then that you in principle in favor OF
slave institutions!
T. | not, and the Rev Mr. Lamb expresses nv
true sentiments when he says that " favor OF
slavery but on the contrary, give my decided preference
to the free institutions of the North only hold slaves
because live IN saveholdDg community"
D. How long have you lived in the South altogether
T. II you will read the sirteen different lives which
have been written OF me- you will find that they all agree
that have lived in the South altogether only six years
The rest of the time have served in the army on free soil
d. How long have you been in the army'
L. Forty years.
d. Who gave you your first commission
T. Thomas Jefferson, democrat.
D, In what wars have you gained your reputation
military man
T. In the of 1919, in the Florida war; and in the
D. What party particularly sustained those wars
T. The democratic party under Madison Jackson, and
ID. What party have pronounced those wars 'most
hesh and unauthorized sacrifices of life, wholly uncon-
stuonal and meriing Tor all engaged IN them the hal
ter and the gaows instead OF testimonials of honor %
T. The wing party.
ID, OF what party are you
T. am decided wing, but not an ultra wing.
ID. What do you mean by not being ultra wing
T. mean that am whig not going ultra or beyond
the advocacy OF protective tariff general system Of
bank the distribution OF the proceeds of the public lands
bankrupt law, the non extension OF slavery in the Ter
rores, the of the veto power, except in of
manifest unconstutionality haste in word con
slider Henry Clay decided wing, but not an ultra wing
one whose politics should sooner follow than any other
public man know.
d. What would you consider case of manifest uncon-
or haste'
T. would consider any law passed by the democratic
party unconstitutional and hasty and should veto it
such; but any law passed by whig Congress would
consider constitutional and well maured, and such law
| should not battle by the Executive veto
Are you acquainted with the politics OF NIillard
r. | am. He is a DECIDED but not an ULTRA wing
He believes that all petitions to Congress the subject
OF slavery ought to be received He opposed to the
of Texas, long slaves held there
in. He is in favor of the abolition by Congress of the
internal slave trade between the States and its imme
date abolition in the District of Columbia; and in favor
of the Wmot Proviso, against the extension of sla-
very in the territories
D. Have you consented to be linked with such man
as the exponent OF your politics, or as tit substitute Tor
President OF the United States
T. Most unquestonably have; and, in assocatng
my with that distinguished citizen of New York.
somewhat express the high compliment paid me, when
declare that "hls acknowledged abilities and sound
sentative opinions justly enttle him to the first place
the ticket"
d. w hat have you thought OF those democrats who
have nominated you for the presidency!
T. have no right to repel nominations from political
opponents, any more than have right to refuse the
vote of democrat at the polls But if they suppose that
will admire them any more for their recreancy of prn
cples in supporting me- they forget that am reader of
Esops Fables and understand the moral which the fox
cheese by compmenting the beauty of her voice My
motto is, "get in honestly If you can-but get in any
howl"
D. What do you think of those democrats in Charles.
yho hav stnuui al of
York" fer Vice President and substituted W. O. Butler
on the same ticket with yourself
T. Why, am profoundly thankful for their confidence
me, but their advocacy Of Butler and democratic prn-
cples have treated with SILENT CONTEMPT.
ID. When you said you would not refuse nomination
by democrats, did you that, if elected President
you would not make yours wing administration
T. No such inference can be drawn from anything
have said. Let me repeat what have written and
always asserted, viz:
"That would accept nomination from democrats !;
but in doing would abate lot title Of my
opinions wing Such nomination, as indicating
no be- o rapared ON e h 81 hose MAXI
with me as compliment personal to myself it should
not npdy N.Y. 's to sn ' To w
reject their aid ,chen Heyjoi" my friends voluntarRy'
D. Is it true you have said that if elected you would
appoint your cabinet from democrats and wings inds-
T. No. have repeatedly denied so false an assertion,
and have published my denial in my letter TO the Hon J.
R. Ingersoll My friends in and out of Congress- have
spoken the truth in saying that if elected President mine
"sha be wing administration, with whig ministers,
advocating wing measures"
ID. What, then, do you mean in saying that you will
be "the President of the people, and not OF partys'
t. Why, the logic of is simply this If am elected
it will be by wing majority. According to my views
the majority are the people; and that majority being
uhigs-ergo, if | obey the wings will only obey The
people.
d. Did you say TO certain South Carolina gen.
teman that you owned certain slaves and you wished to
be UNCOMFORTABLE if you did not keep them
T most certainly did.
d. Did you intend him to infer that you were in favor
of the extension of slavery in the Territores'
T. PROFESSIONALLY not | am engaged in planting on
the Mississippi; the cheaper can buy slaves the more
slavery the greater will be the demand for negroes and
the higher the prices | therefore for keeping the
slave population where it is. My plantation is large
enough to employ six times the number ever expect TO
purchase And there land to employ their labor
in the old slave States than will be required for them for
posterty take care OF itself What has poserity ever
done for me
ID. Between the White House and "the paramount is
sue" which you in favor Off
T. am for the White House first The Shareholders
take care of the paramount issue" when the time
comes TO do After all my hard campaign service
comfortable place in the White House. with S25 600 per
ton plantation, would not be so bad, will il!
D. Did you ever say that you surrender.
T. did once when to dodge was of no use
d. Are you an advocate then, of lodging in politics
T. When can gain anything by it,
d. Is IT true you have been studying political economy
since your nomination
of Henry Clay
d. ! may examine you further at another time For
the present you will do