The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-10
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, Is4s.
The Boston WING. and General Taylor.


election. Mr.. Webster-whose speech we have before
nocedproclaims that the Generals nomination al Phl-
aielphia was nomination not fit 10 be made" and yet
orasmuch he has been nominated, announces has
determination mot 10 oppose him"-thus giving to the
Taylor men the very coolest sort Of comfort if com
Tort at all. Mr. Speaker Winthrop goes step further
aud declares that he shall support General Taylor, " as
the only OF overhrowng the present policy of the
county," But like Mr. Webster, Mr. Winthrop, if we
understand him. very shy about saying much in favor
of the Generals nomination per Sc" Mr.. Choate speaks
in quite different tone Always most ingenious and
eloquent aduoeate-and said be especially great in that
desperate and hopeless class OF in which all hope OF
being turned of court in disgrace depends solely
upon the resources and ingenuity OF the advocate-Nr
Choate has gone in TO win" for the General and has
urged his claims to the presidency, in TWO elaborate
speeches, which, though Astounding IN most unscrupu
lous assumptions and most unwarraned differences, are
yet in fearlessness, feency and vgor both OF thought
and expression far the finest rhetorical pleadngs which
the Taylor intrigue has yet called out in its defence
Beal himself might have spoken them with high ap-
pause in Pandemonum, when he sought
''To dash maturest counsels; and to make
The worse appear the better reason ~
And finally and fifty to close this array of the Boston
advocacy of General Taylor,sMr. Harrison Gray Otis
perhaps the most odious living political name in this
Countrywide very type and representative TO younger
and wondering generation of that genuine old blue light
Essex Junto federalism with lis Hartford Convention
treason, in which he most conspicuous leader-a
gentleman whose high character, in his private and
social relations higher tribute perhaps be paid
than 10 say that it has survived and outgrown, among
those who know him, the mighty oboquy of his past
political career-Mr Otis, so known to his counymen,
has emerged from his long retirement and come out in
letter to the people of Massachusetts" in which he
dwels with complacency the records OF the Hart
ford Convention warmly eulogises the Duke of Wei
lington pours forth violent denunciations upon Cen
eral jackson and James X. Polk, and winds up with
statement of the upon which he shall vote
for Zachary Taylor This preenaural temperance of
Harrison Gray Otis the scenes of public life is the
ghastest galvanizaton of the political dead and damned
that we can remember 1t is the federal Farnata, ag
onized yet unrepenant, lifting his head TO speak from
out of the abysses of his doom as from the burning
tonlbs of Dane's Malebolge Boston iederalism--as
if in madness and despair at Websters recusancy,
and all the gathering of swift defeat and pros
called to its aid this Teller spirit from the
''vasty deep !" has resolved,
and behold THE HARTFORD CONVENTION, again
in the body and Gin its lved stalks through
The land to eeconeer for General Taylor OF old, such
Dorentous appartons of the founders of fallen dynasty
the chiefs of fated cause often imagined to attend
upon the spectacle of its final overthrow and ruin
The first remarkable point in Mr. Choates late speeches
his explanation apology for the course OF the Phila
lepha Convention, in refusing to make any declaration
of.whig principles. Here is his view OF that matter
81 was having the honor say, Mr. President that it
would have been superuous and hng have presented
platform and creed of whg politics the people of
America, because the grand outlines of that creed
craven already in the hearts and in the minds of the people
large. Sir, we gathered up the leading outlines Of that
PLATFORM you will remember, very far back indeed, in the
splendid and glorious epochs OF the history OF liberty
md arranged them, for the first time in something OF
specific and definite form, If remember, about the close
the second administration of James Monroe In the year
1924 first produced them and elected upon them to
he presidency of the United States the elder Adams the
after Adams, the LAST Adams. Tremendous and re-
peated cheers
son that creed zoe stood 1925 1882, and 1896
uuphed 1910; deserved to triumph it in 1874
md to triumph ii in lS.S Six sharpy-contesed
elections had proclaimed the principles OF the wings to
Every man. woman and child in America, and had blown
abroad with the sound OF trumpet, from NADIA
yaska the Sabine, the of New York to the
springs of the Mississippi Why, sir every knew our
reed the day that the Philadelphia Convention met, as
we'll Is the Declaration Of Independence"
Yes it is true tina, the old wing creed well known
when the wings at Philadelphia; and it just
we'll known that that creed whenever presented TO the
PEOPLE, had been signaly condemned and put down. 1t
lad been condemned in 1898 by the election of Jack
ION - in 1882 by his reelection in 1896, by the cleo
ion of Mr.. Van BUREN, 1914, by the election OF Mr.
Polk In $780, when Harrison in, the wing creed
vas not presented to the people No resolutions were
,assei-no declaration of principles made by the
supporters of Harrison Their only cry was "change!
Their candidate himself equvocated upon the bank ques
ion and other questions till he put into the hands of
lis COMMITTEE of Silence, and not suffered to express
or himself any sort of opinions any longer 1t is true
hat John Quincy Adamss administration became wing
But Mr. Choate makes wholly untrue assertion in say
ng that he was elected as known wing On the con-
rary all the candidates in that regarded
Is belonging to the democratic party-o say nothing OF
he notorious fact that Mr.. Adams not the peoples
hoice In view of these repeated and constant condem
ations of the wing creedn view of the fact that the
Wigs had never once elected President upon plat
wings a, Philadelphia did not dare make
profession of their principles to the country So far from
his they took candidate who, if he whig, had been
or twelvemonth, they supposed, making political
throughout the country under false coors, an
Independent, by soemnly pledging himself not to repre-
ent the principles opinions of the whig party, any
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