Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-05-04


your personal friend, might better, perhaps, accom-
pish my purposes; but as have never avowed one
class Of sentiments, whilst in reality holding another
tell you frankly that, although from my earliest
youth had been something more than a cold admirer
of Yourself so when you started on the l4th of Aug.
1915, to the Virginia Springs, leaving your friends
and family to murder me in my sick bed for yindca-
, ting those principles which you had taught me, IN
your speeches at least, ceased to be your FRIEND and
became by the necessity of my nature, your enemy
What shall say to you now then, will have the more
weight, because You will see that 1t comes from an
honest, if not unpreiud ced MN; whilst | shall at
tempt to dvest myself Of the individual and speak as
| the member of great party
shall then take up your letter in its proper order
In saying that you had "a strong disncnnton to the
use of my Tyonr name in connection With that Office
courtesy leads to confne myself TO the remark that
you deceive yourself-but no one ese So soon as
YOU were defeated III the last election, committee OF
your friends from Frankfort waited upon you and con-
doled with you on that melancholy event. You re-
spon1ed in manner that led me,almost with the power
of certainty to remark to some friends that Henry Clay
is candidate again for the Presidency Time attests
my sagacity.
So Strong was my conviction that you would be
candidle when otters were read in the convention Of
the wing friends of Gen Taylor in the State House
at Frankfort from the Hon John J. Crttenden, Hon
Charles s. Morohead and Hon J. p. Gaines, begging
Us not to nominate Gen Taylor, and thus push YOU
from the track, and saying that you woad on your re-
turn home retire from thacanvass, in the presence OF
the thousands there assembled rose up and decar-
ed, that although respected these gentlemen had
not the least conid0ncetAet you would in truth with
draw. Time attests my sagacty. After you had
gone on to New York, and delegates were chosen to
the National Convention, whilst you were the cy's
guest, and it again asserted that you would de-
cline your return home, | said no; you refused to
90 to New York last summer you would not have
i l.. .,-1 tIC
Presidency Time attents the truth OF the prediction
You say that your friends represent that the with
lrawal Of my name would be fatal to their success
If they SO speak to you, they speak different Ian
guage elsewhere have been told chat all the mem
bers of Congress from our State but one, told
you that you could not be elected, and that divers
whom | could name, told You the same thing. But II
these reports be uRtrue allow me to tell you, that
have heard almost universally that your name would
again bring US defeat In that opinion concur, and
/ will rive YOU ny reasons. Because | am not guilt
less myself and because Of the bad taste Of the thing
will not urge objections to your private character
Neither will press your prestige Of ill-mCk, in say
ing that all the which yOu have urged upon
the people except the Missouri compromise have been
erased from the statute book For we lament in com
mon, the FILL Of the tariff the bank, and internal i'm
provenent5 under your lead. I shall confne myself,
G then to the question Of availability Three times
, have we run YOU, and three times your name has
+ brought us defeat So soon as Gen W. II. Harrison
It had brought us up from miserable minority, where
you had left us, to large majority, you hurried on to
Washington when Mr. Tyler under Mr. Webser's
lead was doing good service to the country and party
and by attempting to force on him and us the 'obso-
ote Bark. which we had purposey slurred in the can
yass you brought us to a speedy minority.
A long time ago. being too old to perform the
comparatively light duties Of Senator, you gave lhe
public f1rc,ec address, and retired from puJc Je
I'M Il Nf e., l1t1n rs
was at once split into widely separated Fragments
L Messrs Cass, Calhoun, Van Buren,, Tyler, Polk and
Others were all pressing their claims with bitterness
s before unknown to the party. Whom the gods wish
j. to destroy, they first make mad. They determined
Y to bring Texas into the Union ayowediy to break
k down the power Of the free North, and to make this
V nation slave empire. The friends Of liberty rallied
once nore and in spite of your Missouri compromise
and your consistent Remuneration Of all real antisav-
cry action your Raleigh letter made you by some Ia
G talitv our candidate once more, The democratic
y fcu3 were al ete3 cured rp ny The greater hatred Of
u Henry Clay. Gr Van Buren, who had aIan similar
ground with YOURSELF but who coudnQl unite ho par-
If w. was oyerihiovn and Mr. james X. Polk snbsjtu-
G ted. Manufacturing sac clalms OF otA7r WAlg5,
n vii. now restrict Dys3H to saying your cfGas, were
postponed, who No one now doubts could have been
n elected, We the whjg party all united on you. We
l. fought with the ardor of BROTHERHOOD and with the
n moral power Of noble cause. Our success seemed
certain. Now once more, by that fatality which ut
{ vtends you YOU come out in your Gazette lettor and
o dsclaim any sympathy with emancipation, 1t IS true
$ there was little inconsistency in this inasmuch as
you had always avowed just the opposite doctrine, but
It as you wrote to me go on, good Casslus' | thought
1t at last all things would come out right. This, how
, ever was small affair between you and me, ANA oui
: abolition friends But all at once you came out IL
= your Alabama letter; when you would mot reject a
Il permanent ACQUISITION of territory account OF a
rNhg different Ht-
d fair 1t lay at the foundation Of the whole contest
e You changed 'front.' The wings of the North were
: disguised They had nothing left to contend for
The battle was lost. We felt our country's wound,
1t in your person We paid your debts we condoec
J. with you in your retirement more, and raised
st monuments to your memory! Once more the exces
l. ses of the democratic party began to exhibit them
s, selves The unconstitutional annexation OF Texas
and the Presidential war; began to STIR the souls OF IN
dignant freemen. Seeing thar were in minority
and without the sympathies Of the peope-havng ex
: perenced that peacepary can never have the con
d idence of Republic during raging war,-our utst
II whig leaders voted supplies and the wings turned ou
t. to the war; and once more we steadily brought our
e selves up from minority where you had again left us
Y into a majority. The Administration had all the re-
II sponsby Of the loss Of honor, men, and money, by
e the war our wing generals reaped ali the glory
n The success of our party was certain. The pubic
with a unanimity before seen IN this country
lOOkeu - one Idu5 HILL "IlO SlOhlS Wv SSoV iVl
7, the powers at Washington was left to perish with
handful of men before twenty thousand troops in the
is enemy's country. But Zachary Taylor was not the
l. man to die, to accommodate either President Polk Of
y his ally Santa Anna! The battle of Buena Vista FIX
ed General Taylor in the hearts of this people, Meth
er you, nor the wreworbers Of party, nor the Pres
e dent can cause him or his friends to surrender The
/ honest old soldier generous enough to give g
parting compliment to your name, by saying he woult
j have preferred you to himself to lead once tC
le the battle. You have taken him at lis word! lmme
IN diately your friends of the secret circular under the
W protence of being the friends of General Taylor si
him to the vals, Then sharp sighted patriots iount
ont that General Taylor nuJ inc c1ioscc or IN
e. wings that this willingness Of the Grateful hear
s. the people was all sham affair; IN word that you
10 would reluctantly consent to run again am plain
H. spoken man. sir tell you know these men; the,
would not have vcn,ured to take this step without you
consent! It's uue this is not fair play! 1t looks +
me like political assassination! Nor will it be cure
in the eyes Of all DISTINGUISHED men by the spirit G
violence, which your friends in Franllort-in Bait
in more-n Cincnnat-and in New York, have ventur
ed against the friends of Taylor and the liberty {
We speech. The verdict of jury against your son late
Of y in Kentucky ought to teach you and them that "