New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-09-19
Letter from David Graham, Esq.
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NV iDihf - pt ~ 400
Horace GREELEY, Esq-Leor SIR While
am quite aware that my individual opinions upon
.ubects Of public concern are Of very lnconsdera-
bic importance, yet having hitherto occupied pub
Gc.y position Of hostility to the nomination and
election of Gen TAYLOR as the Wing candidate
for the Presidency, deem !. due 10 myself to state,
a. uubhclv the position intend hereafter to Occu-
nv ON that subject and the reasons, very briefly,
ior my former as well as for my present course IN
respect 10 the Presidential canvass
It's % some extent, though 1t may not be very
generally known. that before the nomination OF
Gen Taylor ] took occasion. in al Address to a
large BODY of the Wings of this City, 10 declare
that would not deem myself bound to support
him even though be should be presented as a can
ddatc by the Philadelphia Convention. The
prominent reasons which influenced me were, that
he had refused 10 be the exponent or representa-
tive Of the principles Of the Wing Party-that ne
had declared himself willing TO accept the noni-
nation Of any other party or body Of ctzcns-and
that he had distinctly ayOwed his determination
not % Withdraw his name from the canvass, even
though Mr. CLAY should be nominated by the Ma
tonal Wing Convention. COnsclentiOusly deem
ing these avOwals AS at once suDverslve oil the or
canization and discipline Of the Wing party, and
holding the language OF defiance 70 its Representa-
lives in the Convention regarded the nomination OF
Gen Taylor a virtual dissolution OF the wing party
and fell myself as VIII who had been Tor more than
seventeen years ardenty devoted 10 the principles OF
that party Justified in declaring myself absOved from
au obligation 20 support him As the Wing candidate
Upon ihis ground have continued to stand from tnat
time 10 the present and upon this ground should have
remained during the Presidential canvass. but that
conceive the last letter Of Gen Tayor to have removed
the principal objections which my opposition 10 MS
election has hitherto rested .,
In that letter / under stand him 20 place himself
di.tipctlv upon Whe ground lie avOws himself 10 be
sdecided Whic-dcclsrcs in effect that hs Willingness
10 accept the nomination of any other party was not
designed 10 imply compromise or abandonment OIL
any of IN individual Opin.Ons-and processes mat
his Independence OF party obligations extends no iarthc
than to exempt him from the necessity OF laying
violent hands Unfortunately upon public officers good
on bad who may dferin opinion from him or of fore
ing Congress by the coercion of the veto to pass laws
10 suit him pass none. This he says, Is what ne
means by not hang party candidate; and tins ne
understands a. think correctly, as being good wing
doctrine
Standing as he does ia this position confess do
mo-, sec nv way clear in farther opposing his election
I regret no less now than have ever done that II
was deemed lust or wise polite 10 lay aside the
,,ast Champion at the WING party and it, Principles
ior that uustrons citizen cherish yeneratiOn which
lenders it no ordinary sacrifice of personal feeling on
nv mart TO enroI myself under the banner OF another
leader But reaizing do, and as trust ever sha
an inhexibe de- OtiOn to the great conservative primer
es al that pany under whose flag have always fought
"a deeuin ne recent avOwals Of its candidate Tor the
g,c.dancv amiicient that those principles
in sufer nodshonor in his hands have resolved from
bencetorth D support the nominations oil inc Ihauel
yhia Convetion. .
auiear sir with great respect
DAVID GRAHAM