The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-10


mt letter. afterwards. This question Of General Tao,
titrde o,Cards the old aShig platform of s2s, of 1882
If 1886. and 1914, the very question which the
Philadelphia convention bound solve but did NOT
lare to solve and adjourned without solving Its No
answer TO this question TO say that the old ways Of the
Wigs at these past periods well known The peopls
only want know whether they have now rePenfsd Of
those old ways and sacrificed Clay and the rest and
ak en- up Taylor sign of such repentance And whether
This were so or not the convention had not the man
ness to say
But Mr. Choaie and the Boston orators in general
have no such scruple nor prudence. Either General
TAYLOR has cheated them, else they cheating the
country; or else o there is other alternatve) Gene
raj TAYLOR is national bank high tariff, no-veto wing OF
the rankest sort. and anii-savery wing 10 boot! In
his speech before the Massachusetts, Wing State Conven
ton after enumeratng the fundamental principles of the
whg creed from 1925 TO ls44-includng the wing heo
nv of finance and the tariff, and gigantic system Of in
ternal improvements by Congress, and representing all
these as embodied and represented in General Taylor
Mr. Choate proceeds thus to define the position both
of the wings and their candidate the questions OF sa
very and the extension OF our national domain:
sand then. Mr. President wheu the progress of time
the attention of the public mind began to be drawn little
more directly TO great subject of human freedom
human slavery the wings the true party of national pro-
gess silently incorporated another great doctrine into
reed and that va to the end that of slavery should
not be attended, that the agatng question should not be
Introduced which would shake this glorious Union the
rentre that couid haze territory anyhoo On
that new creed rallied party agains, the annexation
Of Texas.
Here then, we have it. Gen. Taylors election is to
signify that never another State with slaves in it shall
al. L..
more territory anyhow While every other nation in
the world is to survey with JOY and pride the extension
of its national civilization and power and resources we
alone-the great republic of the western worldhe hope
of humanity and the exempar of popular power and free
to fold in dead apathy. and
see the great growth of others go all around WHILE
for ourselves we adopt policy and our motto-no
more land no new regions of American civilization;
no new stars on our standard of republican freedom!
Such is the avowed policy of the wings OF to-day Such
is the ssenty incorporated" principle of the wing creed
Such is the significance of Gen Taylors election Let
Free and proud and patriotic people ponder it well
But this is not all of Mr. Choates testimony to Gen.
Taylors position, and the effect of his election the
question of free soil In his second speech before the
wings at Saem he thus enlarges upon the idea, and in
reduces the concurrent testimony Of Mr.. Webster He
is mporng the wing free solers to vote not for Van Blu,
rem but for TAYLOR; and we ask the wings of the South
one and ALL to consider well the OF his appeal the
acts and purposest discoses and the testmor which
It stands:
SIS there a wing upon this floor who doubts shat the
myth of the whg party March will insure freedom
o Cali fona and New Mexico, il by the constitution they
ire entitled freedom at all Is there member of Con.
,ress that would not vote for freedon You know there
,o one Did every wing member of Congress from the
rec States the last session for freedom You know
hat every of them returned home covered with the
hanks his constituents for that vote. Is there single
ohig constituency in any free State q" this country that
mould return any that powH not for freedom? Do
You believe Daniel Webster HIMSELF ould be returned,
i there the least doubt upon the question How
enseess then, reject whig and how absurd and how
mad to vote democrat the Buffalo nominee when
,ne them freedom to California and prosperity
You and the other freedom California perhaps but ruin
10 YOU
'But free-soil friends tell that the southern wing
members will give this of freedom but will any
Of them join you Not and therefore you
will only kill without helping yourselves See the dit
ference between yon and We retain the party with
which have acted OF the best nsumentalities
by which the mischiefs of this terrific agitation
may be in some measure dsarmed and controlled. On all
great questions OF the day. but just saveryon executive
power internal improvements, the protection of la
Dor. peace, and the consti,uon--we mean
main the party OF wings and indvisibe, from
Maine louisiana, incorporation of
feeling throughout the land amd upon this question:
lone aoays differ from these ,chigs of the South and
that one propose simply TO ro:e them dozen.
"Are you really, any of you, afraid You shaH
hare rhg Congrss to roe the pofe Of freedom, and give
without dissolution that along with all the of
great practical improvements give you them ALL Are
you really afraid that Gen. Taylor will pu his upon
('Yes from he Chonoype man., at the reporters desk,
md also from single voice the speaker) Then you
never have examined this great question anxious
main whig yon have hardly examined this great ques-
with the candor and fairness which its importance de-
mands You have read take it, his letter Captain Al
ison of you doubts that he that letter
40, of yon but believes him to be above falsehood
and dupcity Will he go Congress and that they
egslated hastily, when they have not! Will he say
that they have gone beyond their constitutional grounds
81 may be permitted to say you, that not thirty days
igo, was walking arm in arm with Mr. Webster,
him this question: From what You know of Gene
al Taylo character and opinions do you believe him to
who could, by sophistry, be brought doubt
he constitutional pooer of Congress to gire eedon TO Gait
ornia And he answered that he had not The shadoo
ia doubt that he safe this point. When you con-
der how clearly the constitution in just many terms,
las authorized Congress egsate without limitations
when You consider that Congress has exercised tina, power
rom formation OF the constitution up this hour, with
approval of the xecutive the Judiciary, and the peo-
pie tina. exercised it upon the admission OF Missouri,
Iowa. and Louisiana that it has exercised again and
again when you consider thsyou have no doubt
hat he will hold that power coastitutonay clear and
oeent: aud if they send him law under the exercise OF
such power that believe he tciH sign calmly and
firmly ms he assembled the ridges of Monterey, and behed
the approach of that tremendous odds Buena Vista and
Palo Alto"