Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1848-12-07
THE ELECTORAL VOTE.

NOW, upon tlllS record TIE lOlOWlng COM
mcnts may be made -
/ lst All these Taylor States have for some
time been Wing States, and are old Wing
States, unless we except Pennsylvania. That
State in 1910 voted for Gen. Harrison, and
prior to the election of Gen. Taylor, elected a
Wing Governor. The Tariff Principles of the
Wing Party alone achieved the revolution in
Pennsylvania, as was shown by the election OF
Gov. Johnston. Gen Taylor's Wing MAORI
ty there, we may add, is over the combined
opposition vote of the Cass and Van Buren,
party.
%. The Free Soil Party gave us no one
State, but on the contrary lost us Ohio, and
in New York and New England. The only
doubt that existed as to Taylor election aros,
from the action Of the Free Soil Party. II
the question had been only Taylor and Cass,
we should have added Ohio and Indiana, and
probably Maine, to the Taylor table, - and Oh
ly in New York would our maJori,ies have been
sensibly diminished.
Sd. Gen. Taylor is elected by the Northern
portions of the Wing Party and upon Wing
Principles, as understood in New York and
Pennsylvania that is, the principles of the
A llson Letter, carried TO the extent that il
Congress enacts law restricting the spread OF
slavery in New Mexico and California, he
will not veto it.. eve may add, however, that
in the present condition of the United States
Senate, there is no probability that such an act
can be passcd.) Gen. Taylor has 100 non
slaveholding votes, including Delaware, eight
States--and 63 slayeholding votes, seven slave
holding States.
4th. II Gen. Tayor's administration is to be
sustained, it must be by the party that has
elected him; and if he should look to any third
party, or to any other odd or personal party,
1'ayolism would fall just as Tylorsm fell
Gen. Taylor undoubtedly knows all this, and
feels all this and everybody admits that 1t is
impossible more than once In century to have
John Tyler at the head of any party. The
Wing Party that elected Gen, Taylor can
alone sustain his administration. If he should
do anything to offend the great central States
of New York and Pennsylvania, or what is the
same thing, to prevent Ohio from rallylng to
his support, as it naturally will, then his ad
mlnistration will fall.
9th. A great deal is sand of No Party,
and " independent of Party" with all that
sort of thing. The bitter enemies of General
Taylor, from the organ of the Government
down to the smallest by ., are now laying
such No Party, independent 'platlOrms' for
General Taylor. But this is all dcluson.-
No good can ever be done " without party"
or - independent of party" The man who
wants to do anything, or have anything done,
in morals, or in anything else, must rally HIM
self with. or create party. To talk of Gen.
Taylor's party, is to suppose that millions OF
men belong to him, and not he, to their pIincl-
pies and their feelings We Wings are " no
mans men," as Mr.. Sprague once so emphat-
ically and forclbly said in the United States
Senate.-but we are of party whose highest
ambition is to serve and to promote the best in
,eres,s of the whole country. Nobody wants
Gen. TAYLOR TO be party tool. Nobody
wants him to serve party, if such service is
not in the highest degree beneficial to the
country. No Whig wants him to be a Wing,
even, unless SO to be is best to serve the great
est good of the greatest number of the People
of the country But he is to create an ad-
minis,ra,on. and that administration is to gov
ern the coun,ry--not by "No Party" or in
dependent of party" for there is not steam