The North-Carolina standard., 1848-10-04
GEN. TAYLOR ON SLAVERY.

GEN. TAYLOR ON SLAf ER1.
Gen. Taylor, in his Allison letter, says: "Ihe power
pn b the Constitution to the Executive interpose
lis Veto high Conservative power; but IN my opln-
ion should be exercised except IN cases OF clear
ioaion of the Constitution, manifest haste and want
Of consideration by Congress.
Mr. Badocr in his Speech in the Senate against Mr..
Caytons Compromise, declares the Wilmot Proviso to
be Constitutional; and, speaking OF case In which
Congress exercised over the question OF
r. he saws: Nor this instance OF h1Sty ana an-
nuaderQte action" So, according to Mr.. Badger Gen
TsyO would not if elected President veto the Wilmot
Proyiso.
Gen. TAYLOR also saws in his Allison letter, that the
PERSONAL opinions of the individual who may happen to oc
upv the Executive chair ought not to control the action
dCongess upon questions of domestic policy nor ought
lis objections be interPosed where questions OF consul
uOna power have been settled by the various Depart
nents of Government and acquesced In by the people
Mr. Badger i'll his Speech delivered IN this City, on
he 24th day of August, 1s4s, said: He deemed the
tue pivot which the ensuing election ought to and
must turn. to be the question OF the unmted
f the Veto power. If you would have the Legislative
apartments of the Country mere chambers for register
the edicts of corrupt Executive, vote for the advo
cate of such theory, Lewis Cass. But II you would
see the will of the People expressed and perfected tnrough
their proper Representatives-if you would preserve
Your republican form of Government in reality as well
name vote for that ,chO 1ciH sacrifice ms o'0'l
Pirate partiaHties of opinion to the open dceGrGf'os
+ the popular aOiH!
opposed by Southern Wings to be in favor Of the slave
ins States but Mr. Badger here distinctly announces
hat he ,ciH saerifce'' those "prtrafe P0rttnhttes
the ociH Of bare nigjoT1fy ct Congress inas is,
he Representatives of the nonsaveholdng States should
law excluding the people of North Carolina, and
IF the South, from New Mexico and California, Gen.
Taylor will approve that law, and as President OF the
United States, see that it is enforced.
Gen. Taylor says he will make no pledges and yet lhs
Signal letter he stands pledged to this eect The extern
the Continent beyond the Rio Grande OF the Or
finance Of 1887, 1.-THE Wimot Provlso Is an OBJECT TOO
IL MI. De- Slo,1fI al ofnoCO
In great debate in the Senate of the United States,
in July last on the Oregon BILL Senator Corwin said
Could be made to believe that General Taylor would
veto any bill embracing the principles OF the WImot
ovso certainly acoud not UOte for him and Will
ake myself to say, that not one OF the free States
~uH be BROUGHT to support @.im But between Gen.
Taylor and Mr. Cass there could be no hesitation as to
hOice" See Congressional Globe, lst session. Soth
Congress, page 994.
At large Mass Meeting of the friends of Taylor and
Fillmore held in the City of New York. on the night
d the 22d August 1s4s, Speeches were delivered by
Ar. Brooks of the New York Express, and Mr. Ray
nond of the New York Courier and Enquirer; and the
nAOwing Resolutions were adopted: ss>
Resolved, That in General Taylors early and
frank declaration that he was whig we have an avowal
and pledge that he will carry out the principles and
Measures on which the whg party Is based, and Tor
whose ascendancy it has always battled.
Resolved, That in the promise he has gwen 70 tne
country to leave the business of legislation to the Peo-
pes direct representatives where 1t properly belongs we
have assurance that the odious one man
power will longer trample beneath its feet the Popu
TW expressed by Congress- and that the rivers and
OOrs of the great West will feel the fostering aid OF
Ns government in improvements which they require
Resolved, That In this same promise we nave secu-
MY that his care and protection of human liberty will
s % Ds bounded by parallel Of latitude tit and af ne
@ % uOenous subject of free SOIL uether the territory
effected Be North South Of SO deg. 80 minutes
M.nVcd ~esoVcd That our cordial thanks are due 10 ne
of Congress who resisted the attempts OF the
southern cOnfederacy extend the dominion of slavery
I our newly acquired possessions and fasten its 6hg
< curse upon the shores of the free and far Pacific.
Assoyed, That the great fundamental principle OF
y to the extension Of human slavery, the position
"e iohigs of Ne1O York tOGs early taken and has
s Unneki1gLy npointGined and soe point t0ih con-
e to the unGnim0Us notes of tohig members OF
~ ess ON eOery question: Involving this principe, az
n a7est Of convictions and fyn1aiesss we ap-
sr our whig brethren to stand by those who have
@ compromised, traficked, never betrayed the
of the North, rather than the noisy new converts
& sou and free labor, who ceased to ruckle to
'0Uth until she had sPurned them with contempt