The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1848-11-08
THE wHIGs-THE FREE SOIL PARTY.

THE WHIGs-THE FREE SOIL PARTY.
There is now no mistake, that the Wings of
the North, in order to keep their rank and file
from going over to Van Buren,, have taken the
hotd groundthat they are the genuine original
free soil party fheiriargument is. Gen. 'ray.
les isS0LEMNLY -PLEDGED TO allow the
majority In Congress to do as they please that
that majority is in favor OF Free Soil that
], Millafd Fillmore is with them that Gen.
s s Taylor can, and Van Buren, cannot. be- elected;
and that free soil and abolition Of Slavery in
J the District Of Columbia, are certain IN The
3 event Of. Taylor and Fillmore's election. But
we do not speak without authority. Look at
the following extracts from the address of the
Wing Convention Of Massachusetts
'-,' The sentiments of General Taylor are be
, 7ieped to be in accordance ,ruh those Of the
'Thiss of Massachusetts,, aohile those Of Gen.
= Cass are kaoua to be directly opposed 10 them
'ts r''@-"
81 Now, if there ever was a question settled by
The varions Departments Of the Government
: and acquesced in by The people, it must be that
sof elhe ordinance Of 1877. 1t was affirmed by
he 6rst Congress, and express recognized in
ihe Organization of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, Wisconsin. Iowa, and Oregon and
70 has the sanction of Washington and his sue.
cessors in office, and has been sustained by the
highest judicial tribunals of the country. Here,
then, is case achere Gen. Taylor arould be
bound 10 ,rithhold his ceio, in case Congress
should pass a bill excluding slarery from the
Territories. Nor is this all-be has pledged
!. himself not to attempt to influence the action
nf Congress on this or any other question of
domestic policy.
- "Under all heSe circumstances of tie case,
WE ARE SATISFIED THAT THE ELECTION OF
GEN. TAYLOR Is THE MOST EFFEcTUAL WAY
OF SECURING THE OBJECT WE ALL HAVE AT
HEARr. Such are conrictions, and such zee
beliere arM be ihe conclusion to uhich ALL
FREE SOIL WHiGS pW come on due re.
Fiction"
See too, The address of The New York Wing
Convention:
All we have a right to ask upon The subject
Of . Free Soil" or all we can expect from the
candidate of a Federal Union, in which there
are as many slave holding as non-slaveholdins
States, are pledged in the principles of the Al.
iison letter. If we can obtain majority in
Congress to prohibit the extension Of slavery,
: gorio maintain freedom where freedon already
eyis If the democracy" of New York, $50
called.) which has been hitherto opposed US on
this subject, will unite with us now, and create
j hat majority, the principles Of Zachary 1ay.
,lor, rrho has aeDer broken a pledge. aciH secure
,.tseedom IN a Territory uhich their rar con-
rguered for us to quarrel ,cuh the South and TO
leopard the Union about"
Ao.t Read again these extracts from speech OF
Hon. Walter Forward, leading whig OF Penn.
,sylyania, and once member of MIR. Iylers
cabinet, delivered on the l4th ult at Pitsburg.
-; Mr. Van Buren is the candidate Of the Tree
soil party. As for their free soil, it aras noth'
.iag but an old achig doctrine. The wings, as
party, have always been opposed TO the e1ten.
sion of, slayery-many prominent whigs in The
slave States were with the Wings Of the North
lin their opposition 10 slavery extension. Where
were these men, these free soil men, in lS44
Were they not united to a man in favor OF MIR.
Polk, and in support of the measures OF slavery
Extension which he embodied? Who then
.withstood the schemes with which Mr.. Polk
was. ,identi6ed-the slavery, annexation OF
Texas, and all the issues growing out OF it; OF
war, debt, and decentralization The whg
party, fellow citizens the whig party did it,
..whilc not a word on The subject was heard
from Mr.. Van Buren and his ficnjs. (Cheers.)
s.aHe was glad to see the principle OF freedom
appreciated by those gentlemen, Mr.. Van Bu.
rem and his friends, but their free soil doctrine
was one item in the old whig creed, Cheers.
1t is our old principle, and their new position.
Loud and prolonged cheers.
Mr.. F. would repeat what he had once he.
fore said, the wings want nothing that they
cannot attain from a majority in Congress.
They desire to see the will of the people car.
,ried out, and not defeated by an exercise OF
authority as arbitrary as that of the Emperor OF
Russia. They were in favor of popular sover-
acignty--and Gen. Taylor, in his Allison letter,
and by various other means, was pledged to
their views on The veto power Gen. Taylor
Iaid Il should never be exercised, except on
>;great occasions-when necessary to save the
constitution from violation. The veto question
was question between the Executive and the
people Gen. Taylor was on the side of the
people. lie will sign tariff, it passed by
Congress.
p But let us look little further into this qnes-
ton as to the extension of slavery. Gen.
Taylor has pledged himself to the whig doc
trine on the veto question. He is pledged him.
Setf to abide by and submit to the will of the
people as expressed through Congress, unless
such expressions involved an infraclon OF the
constitution. What man, the least acquainted
with the constitution, does not recognise the
right OF Congress either to permit or prohibi,
the extension of slavery in the territories! No
question has been moro plainly decided. in
effect, by the Judiciary. 1t is question OF
rights and Limitation, about which there can he
no difficulty. State sovereignies have the
power of controlling the institutions within their
own limits, Congress has the power of control
ling it in the territories. Gen. Taylor, ~ere he
TO refo q bill prohibiting The extension of sla-