Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-11-01
The ssgO Faced Cnndidate-Inl-
partial Testimony.

The ssso Faced Candidate Inl-
partial Testimony.
In an0tber column we publish an arti-
Gle headed aGen. Taylor-H His Honesty
and Consistency, " containing extracts from
his letters, in which he takes directly op-
posite ground upon treive distinct subjects
upon which he treats. The honest {?
example being set BY their chief, nothing
else but contradictions could be expected
from the wing satellites. Accordingly we
find them belying the democratic nomi-
nees, az we'll as their own, thinking per-
haps that they are not committing very
henions sin against The public, a.. in the
case Of their own candidate, double deal
ing and inconsistency is at a premium!
But especially upon the subject Of
slavery, is Gen. Taylor represented with
two faces. From an article in the Ma
tional Era, we take soaY extracts COM
menting upon these misrepresentation -
The editor says:
"Before us lie two pamphlets, publish
ed and circulated by the Wing Contra
Committee, to which the Wing members
Of Congress confided the work Of manu-
featuring eleationeering documents, and
using the ranking privilege and the mai
in scattering them over the country. One
is entitled, "THE VAN BrREs Plat.
FORM; or, Facts for the Present support.
ers Of Martin Van Buren," the other
"Grs. CAss' PosIrIoN ON THE SLAVERY
|QUEsTIoN; also a Brief Notice Of South.
ern Objections TO Millard Fillmore
Here follows a half column Of com
ments upon the Swan Buren, platform
as published by the wing central commit
tee, in which they represent Gen. Cass as
favorable to the extension of slavery te
the new territory. Upon this subject the
editor Of the Era makes the following con-
Guiding remarks:
sThis powerful anti slavery tract, SC
unrelenting against the slightest detection
from the cause Of freedom, so fearful oil
the extension Of slavery, SO full of deep
anxiety lest the Abolitionists be entrapped
into votins4or an enemy of the anti-sla-
very cause, so shivering with horror al
the idea Of 'sSouthern dynasty" cma-
mates from the Wing National, Central,
Congressional Committec-but, it is in
tended for cons umption at the North.
Doth the same fountain send forth
sweet and bitter waters?
We have had one taste-le: us take an
other. The other tract, we said, treated
of the position Of Gen. Cass on the VIII
mot Provisc, and Southern objections to
Willard Fillmore.
The Van Buren, tract closed BY assn
ming as an unquestioned fact that Gen.
Cass was pledged to slavery extension
and the preparation Of "a Southern dy-
nasty" This one opens with an elaborate
collocaiion of extracts from letters and
newspapers and debates in Congress, with
.I;<>. al. .h~.-.:--.r-4I. ~'>'... Suss II fIui
a safe man for the friends of slavery ex-
tension or a Southern dynasty, having
been i warm supporter Of the Wilmot
Proviso up 10 the date Of his Nicholson
letter, and being still claimed as an aren't
friend Of free soil by Cass papers at tilc
North, five Of which are quoted to show
his anti-slavery heterodoxy. This pam
phlct is designed TO circulate in the
South.
Now, the question is, which of these
tracts does the said Committee believer
Both emanate from its brain? Does it
believe in contradictions? In one it as
sumes as an undouLted fact thet Gen.
Cass is a friend Of Slavery extension, in
the other, it produces documents to show
that his position on this question is, to say
the least, doubtful.
We heard, accidentally, the Hon. True
man Smith, one Of the members Of this
committee, say, in conversation behind a
reporters seat in Congress, last session,
that the Wilmot Prosiso twas humbug.' .
There are politicians who believe that all
politics IS "a humbug," ard that the peo-
pie are always fair subjects for IMPOSE
tor.
Bat to the rest Of the pamphlet. Mr..
Fillmore's votes in Congress are examin-
ed, and explained so as to show that thew
imply not the slightest anti-slavery faint.
And so the committee proceeds: show
ing that, in all the votes given by Mr..
Fillmore touching the slavery question,
he was braced up by Southern men.
Ani this tract is designed for consump-
ton III the market of the South!
~~ Gen. VIM. O. EuiIcr.