The Daily spy., 1848-09-04
DANIEL WERsrEn,s SPEEcH. The TayIor m

DANIEL WEBsTER's SPEECH. The Taylor men
have at length, got their ong>expected and long herad
ed speech fiom Daniel Webster and little good do we
think it will do them. He says that :" Gen. Taylor is
military man merely He has had no training in civil
affairs-he has had participation in the councils Of
the Repubiche is known only by his brilliant achieve
menls at the head of the American army, The Wings
of Massachusetts, and among them, of opinion that
il not Cise not discreet go the army for our
candidates for the Presidency. This is the FIRST IN>
STANCE in the history of the government OF the u. S.
that any MERE MILITARY MAN has been proposed
for that office. y The case therefore stands by
itself, lrithOnt precedent previous history"
Again he says: "Before Gen. Taylor's nomination,
stated always, when the subject mentioned by my
friends that did not, and could not recommend the
nomination of military TO The people of the u. s..
for the office Of President. 1t against my ConvIc
tons Of what due the best interests of the country
and the character of the Repmbhc = stand
upon the same ground now. considered that such a
nomination. was NOT FIT for the Wings to make"
The drift of The speech the same as that of the
Taylor papers-assuming, without sufficient reason, as
we think, that either Cdss Taylor must be elected
bad as the nomination is il must be supported in order
10 defeat Cass and to preserve the unity of the pary
The argument is not very strongly put-no SO strongly
we think as we have seen in of the Wing papers.
The whole speech wears the appearance of an effort as
lions of the speaker and therefore entirely unworthy
Of the fame and reputation of Daniel Webster. Wehave
already said would do the Taylor party little good.
The speaker does not even say they shall have his VOTE
IL ne had, would assure them more than they were
before certain Of and that think about The ex ent
OF the benefit which they destined to derive from it,
The speaker was very severe upon those who have
nominated Gen. Taylor He said that sagacious mise
Jar seeing doctrine of AVAILABILITY lies at the bot
tom Of the whole matter"
Aporon OF the speech is occupied in showing that in
the evils Of the influence Of slave legislation the North
mas borne her full share and that in all the cases of slave
extension, it has been done by Northern votes This
is true, and always will be So long as we have par.
ties IN office who depend upon the slave power to sustain
'hem Both of the old parties do depend upon il, and
are therefore inefficient for good and can inerpose no
barrier against that power But the Free Soil party,
based upon opposition TO the encroachments of slavery
offers firm and substantial foohod for all the friends
OF Freedom, both North and South, sally Iupon ard
IN lis hands the interests ofTeedom will be safe Once
power as il inevitably be, before long and we
shall no more witness this trucking slavery ills vot-
ing away the rights Of freemen for the sake of securing
the influence of the South
% 1t Is said that Hon. Mr.. Hoar of Concord. is TO
be the "free soi candidate for Governor The party
who go for principles not men" cannet vote for Gov
Briggs, who has all his life been earnest advocate Of
free principles and free soil.
We copy the above from the True Wing. The Tay.
iOr men should be The last in the world 10 say any Thing
about not supporting Gov. Briggs. Why, ii is matter
OF public nolorey that, previous the division in the
Party,it was determined, by them, that Gov Briggs
should "wak the plank" this fall, and, if they do not
carry out that intention, it will only be because they
dare not go before the people with the candidate who
was to have been put in bis place. or because that per-
son will no. permit them TO use his name. Who the
FREE SoIl candidate may be, we do not know, but one
'ang we can tell The True Wing, that, whoever he may
oe' ne viii De the next Governor Of this Common.
wealth.