The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-06-27

We have never known our political opponents
to be so thoroughly stirred mp, and apparently so
utterly exasperated, as nov-at the very outset of
the Presidential Campaign. To ask them to look
a. any great point at issue dispassionately and
berry, would plainly be useless-any leading and
professed politicians We mean, for there arc thou
sands in Vermont, whose votes will be reckoned
next November who arc ready to consider the
question candidly and deliberately, and to act
honestly and conscicntiously upon the conclusion
to which they shall arrive. With this class of
men We arc glad to argue-to throw any light in
our power on whatever political topic they arc
considering. We do not intend to put ourselves
in way of being Justly accused of asserting what
we can bring no evidence TO sustain. We have
not done so, in speaking of Gen. Taylor's views
on Slavery.
The Burlington Sentinel, of last week, affects to
be incrodulous about our candidates opposition to
the extension of Slavery. In fact, that paper
denying the fact, and of bringing evidence to prore
its position. What are these proofs? Simply
quotations. eleven in number, $50 ue1y abundant,
yet the Sentinel has more left of the same sort, it
is Intimately of which the following is speci-
men "Tho compact discipline of The South has
obtained its end" Judge Allen, Wing dele
gate, at the Philadelphia Conventional Two 9TH
er statements, ofsimilar import arc copied from
paper circulated among the ultra Abolitionists
ofBoston, calling on all those "who are opposed
To 0fC nd rTar10r 70
in Convention at Worcester. Another is from
the Burlington Free Press, asserting that Gen.
Taylor wishes the citizens of whatever part of
Mexico is annexed to be left TO their orn viecs on
the subject Of slarery-and what those views are,
everybody knows. The Mexican Republic long
ago abolished Slavery entirely. This pretended
testimony agains, us, is therefore positive on our
side Of the question.-Another proof that Gen.
Taylor is in favor of extending Slavery, which
the Sentinel adduces, is the course Of the Phila-
deiphia Contention, in refusing TO act on Will
mot Proviso resolutions, when it was occupied
with other business. AS this has nothing to do
with Gen. IayoIs views at ALL and if it had would
not afford the slightest evidence ofwhat the Snti
H-t uiCdus " bC as oooCie w TT ~
pass. The next proof adduccd by this astute
logician that Gen. Taylor is opposed to the Wlmot
Proviso, is the belief of the Brandon Foce, that
Gen. Taylor's opinions on this subject are
knorn We will follow such testimony no far
Their. The Sentinel gives none better than we
have quoted.
To assert that Gen. Taylor was nominated
by The South, las Judge Allen and two or three
other professed Wings have done,) is manifestly
absurd. Every Northern District was represent
cd in the Convention, but one. In the Southern
delegation, there were ten vacancies. One vacan-
CIV in Illinois seren in South Carolina tro in Al
ALBANIA, and one in Mississippi) There were,
therefore, in the Convention, les votes from the
Free States to Ill from the Slaves States-a ma
jority of 81. On the last ballot Taylor received
votes from every State in the Union, and on the
first, many from the Free States.
In conclusion, we invite the attention of all
candid men to the following positive and decisive
proofs of our assertion that Gen. Taylor is op-
posed to the extension of Slavery. Two quota
tons from the Canon, going to show a6frmotirely,
that Gen. Taylor is all We have claimed, will rath-
er more than offset eleven garbled extracts from
the Apocrypha, gong to show, negatively, that
his opinions are guessed to be uncertain.
We copy the following from the Boston
with reference to the Allison
letter, which we published few weeks since.
Upon one point the letter is silent, and
that point is oae in regard TO which much
interest is felt al the North. We mean the
extension of our territory and the spread of
human slavery. We are happily able 10
supply, ifnot from the pen of General Tay
lor himself, at leas; from that of one who
knows him well, the information we need up-
on this important point.
Colonel Johnson, Of Upper Piqua, Ohio