The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-06-12
PHILADELPHIA, June 10, lSiS.


the Clay Vhigs-1he Ratification Meeting, il,
independence Square.
The old whig party Is deiunct. u Is dissolved
1t has ceased to be. II was; but no longer
With its National Convention, it adjourned sine
die Its elements, with sundry extraneous factions
fused into the heterogeneous mass, may, and most
probably will, succeed in the election of General
Taylor; and up to that time there may be icti
tlous appearance OF consolidation. But then will
come the Kilkenny cat contest for the spols,
which will etiectuay clar de Kitchen" and scat
ter the unnatural combination TO the winds
The convention, in adopting Gen. Taylor, has
adopted his no party creed 1t has abandoned the
great apostle and the faith of the legitimate church,
TO try again the experiment of 1870 1t has de-
clined an opinion the war--upon this admins
tration--upon the Wilmot provso-upon rivers and
harbors-upon the tarf-upon the land distribu-
tion-upon the sub-reasury-upon everything. 1t
has not dared to express opinion upon anything.
Whenever opinion was offered. it was throttled
and stitled on the spot.
The convention, by its own acts, has repudiated
the wing church--repudiated Henry Clay, and cast
the doctrines of the party to the dogs-it has
agreed to eat its own words upon the question of
the Mexican war; and with mockery of enthu-
sasm as hollow as gourd, 1t HOSTS up the head
and front of the war as its standard bearer. and
filings out as 1t schedule for the campaign, 1.-The
Hero OF Buena Vista" Is he in favor of bank {?
We don't know but "Gen. Taylor never surren-
ders." Is he opposed to the sub-treasury Can't
say but we will give you "a little more grape,
Captain Bragg" Is he. opposed to the war.
Well, he has not expressed any definite opinion on
the subject; but at Buena Vista the Mexicans found
out who he was. Is he IN favor OF land distribution
Well, upon that point, you see, Old ZackAhas been
IN the tented field all his life, and hasn't had time
to study the questions; but you remember that at
Buena Vista he said to an officer, who was sorey
pressed and asked relntorcements: ''We have no
requirements to give you, but Major Bliss and
will support you" How is he on the question of
rivers and harbors! Why there his position is
distinct. He drove the Mexicans over the River
del Norte, and expelled them from their harbors at
Matamoras, Camargo, Mler, Cinderella, Victoria,
Monterey, Saltillo and Buena Vista. Is he the
in twenty letters that, while he would accept the
nomination of any party, he would be the exponent
OF the principles of no party, and therefore we
wings in making HIM our candidate for the Presi-
ing. Having been beaten by the locos in every
regular pitched battle, we are going to try them
again on the guerilla system charged upon the
original Taylor men by Gen. Leslie Coombs of Ken
lucky.
Such is the position of the wings, with General
Taylor as their candidate before the country
The faithful disciples of Henry Clay are Indig-
nant. They are open-mouthed in their Reproductions
cannot support it, But we suppose, after Mr.. Clay
shall have written letter of acquiescence, they,
too, will acquesce, and trust to luck in the cleo
ton of an honest man, though he be honest to that
degree that he positively refuses to stand forth as
the exponent of whig principles.
The ratification meeting. last night in Indepen-
dence Square, was a delusive spectacle to the ar
den dent ad DIM n.u, of Old Zachary of Phadel
that the pith of the wing party was not
there--that the Old Guard, as far as they
participated, did SO only as spectators, bringing
their families with them to see the show-that a
large proportion OF Cass men was there anxious to
learn whether the wings had turned democrats, or
whether Old lack had turned whig-that the ma
tlves led IN the proceedings of the night under their
pre-emptlon claim to old General Taylor as their
candidate, he having first accepted their nomina-
ton.
We like the nomination made exceedingly 1t
gives every man the fullest freedom of expressing
his own sentiments, and of acting upon them it
allows every man to advocate oppose, to the ut
most the election of General Taylor and gives all
on both sides an equal chance to the Offices Upon
this platform, whether we advocate or resist the
election of General Taylor, we cannot be ascused
OF presumption IN asking nice place of him when
he shall have been transferred from Ba-
ton Rouge to the White House; and Ho-
race Greeley will have as just claim
TO a secretaryship, though he should continue to
denounce the old General, even to the getting up
OF an independent Northern convention, and an IN
pendent w ilmst proviso candldate-he will have
Just as good claim, under the Taylor programme,
to a secretaryship foreign mission, as Col
Webb, late OF the irregular army.
AT the ratification meeting IN the Square, there
were five stands in full blast. From the great
central stand, where the formal organization was
made tor the night, Mr.. w. f. Johnston, of Pa.
President, the multitude was addressed by Mr.
Johnson, and Senator Barrow, of Tenn, when
MIR. W f. Pierce proposed the following string of
ingenious resolutions, as substitute for the omis-
sion OF platform In the convention, and they
~ m mr. ICl Unfn fnH fn
l. Resolved, That the wings of the United States
here assembled by their Representatives heartily rat
fy the nominations of General Zachary Taylor as
President and Willard Fillmore as Vice President of
the United States and pledge themselves to their sup
port.
2 Resolved, That in the choice OF General TAYLOR
the wing candidate for President, we are glad to
discover sympathy with great popular sentiment
throughout the nation-a sentime which, having its
origin In admiration Of great military has been
strengthened by the Development in every action and
every word, ofsound conservative OPT Mons and
fidelity to the great examples of former days; and to
the principles of the Constitution administered By
its founders
3. Resolved, That General Taylor, in saying that
had he voted in 1s4i he would have voted the whig
ticket gives the assuranoe-and betteris needed
from consistent and truth-speaking mau-that his
heart with us at the crisis Of political destiny
when Henry Clay was our candidate and when not
only wing principles were well defined and clearly
serted, but wing measures depended on success The
heart that was with us then is with US now. and
have soldiers word of honor, and life of public and
private virtue, as security
1. Resolved, That we look to General Taylor's ad-
mi nistration OF the government conducive of
peace prosperity and union. or peace because no
better knows, or has greater reason to deplore
what he has sadly the field Of victory-thc hor
rors Of warand especially ofa foreign and aggressive
war. or prosperity now more than needed to
evc the nation from burhen of debt and to
industry agricultural manufacturing, and CONNER
ciato its accustomed and peaceful fun tons nd in
huences. or union, because we have a candidate
whose very position as a Southwestern IN, reared
the banks OF that great stream whose tributaries
natural and artificial. embrace the whole Union rem
der the protection of the interests of the whole
try his first trust and whose varied duties in past life
have been rendered, not the soil under the hag
OF any State section but the wide frontier and
under the broad banner Of the nation
8. Resolved, That standing, as the wing party does,
on the broad and firm platform of the constitution
braccd up by all its invioable and sacred guarantees
and compromises and cherished in the affections be-
protective Of the interests of the people are
proud to have the exponent ofour opinions one who
is pledged to constrne IL by the wise and generous
rules which Washington applied to it, and who has said