The North-Carolina standard., 1848-09-06
GEN. .TAYI.oR,s NoRrHERN FAcE.


b GEN. gAYIpR,S NORTHERN FACE.
We statedast week ina brief article, that start
ling develOpeaeass y ere being made In Connscticut
going to show that Gen. TayIof was openly adso-
Gated in the free States the ground that he seoud
not veto the Wilmot Proyse; and that secret pledg
were in circulation in Connectieut to the effect
that if congress should enact that Proyso under his
Administration, he would give il his sanction and
approval. We now have Tire proofs. The New Ha-
ven Journal and Courier, of the 25th August now
in our possession, and which we quote regards
the. question settled and calls upon .sdoubt-
ing Wings and warm free soil men" to "aake the
proof and get round it if they can. - That paper
publishes letter on the subject written by Truman
Smith, leading Connecticut Whig, ,sfrom which the
following is an extract - Ae..s@ssas g 1a Is NJ
7tt August %, 1s4s.
GENT, The confidence expressed by you in the
leading article of your paper of Yesterday in regard
to General Taylor in reference to the reesoil ques-
ton, is, can assure you, well founded. A friend
of mine, in whom repose implicit confidence, had
conversation with the General on this subject last
May, and in letter to me, dated the 10th of that
month, he reports that conversation an fuM, The
ground taken by him is, that the ordinance of 'S7
having been passed by Congress, approved by Wash
ington and upheld by the Judiciary the constitution
aity of the measure has been settled by all depart
ments of the government and consequently there is
told my friend that he iuouM neither veto the Wiluo
Proviso lrould he intrigue against IT, do any
thing to e'abarrass as passage through the ta0o houses
Of Congress 30 ~ s.i- *s.tle n t,.- -
The Journal and Courier adds /" Now gentlemen
take it, and let your cry henceforth be Taylor and
Fillmore forever! But if you doubt the truth of the
letter, ,-then pledge veraciy that it is from
one who knoUs.' '.s| - .', 'i'-' --''.ss -
/ Senator Baldwin of the State, who writes to
the Washington Union on this subject, and who de-
nies that he has seen circulated any letter from
Gen. Taylor himself containing these Pledges says
&c But while thus pronounce this statement to be
an entire fabrication, wish it not to be understood
| that entertain doubt that General Taylor would
sign any bill which may be passed by Congress ap-
plying to the territories of the Unted States the pro-
yso of the ordinance of 1857 the subject fsave
ry. Were Gen. Taylor to interpose the veto power
control the deliberate action of Congress upon that
any other question of domestic policy, in relation
to which the constitutional power has been settled by
the various departments of the governments and ac-
quiesced in by the people, should regard It. as in
consistent uuih The frank rrocal his sentiments con-
tanned in his letter TO Capt. Allison. As the ordinance
of 1887 confirmed and re-enacted, in effect, by
the first Congress convened under the constitution in
1889, and again applied to the territory north OF
36 deg. 80 mn. in the act for the admission of Mis-
souri, in 1920, with the deliberate approval of Pres
dent Monroe and his cabinet; and again in the ACT
for organizing territorial government for Oregon
ed no doubt that General Taylor would regard the
question of constitutional power too firmly settled
Justify any attempt by the Executive to control the
action of Congress; and this opinion have freely
expressed to all who have conversed with me on the
subject" .- = So ~
| The above facts afford conclusive proof, not only
that Gen. Taylor is urged upon the support of North
upon the strength of private and secret pledg
es that he will not veto the Wilmot Proviso, but
that he is openly sustained, Wihaot Proriso:fe
| by such leading Whig politicians as Truman Smith
and Senator Baldwin. Let Gen. Taylor speak out
If it be true, his friends say of him. that he asks
no favors and shrinks from responsibility lei
him come forward with avowal. of his opinions
and his principles; and let him announce to his coun
rymen, in language which neither be " distort-
ed " nor misunderstood, what his position is on this
vital question As the matter stands, either the
people of the North of the South will be cheated
and deccired! Which is the doomed section? His
Northern supporters say the South, and the South
] can make no answer. His friends here may say they
hope-aye, hope! but how can they do even that
after Gen. Taylor in his Allison letter. has proposed
to deliver them over, bound hand and foot, to the
tender mercies of majority of Congress?