Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1848-11-14
THE DAY AFTER THE FAIR.
FROM TIE w4sx1serex UNION OF GOV 9,

FROM TIE WASHING TcN UNION OF nov g.
We received the following communication on
Sunday last by the Southern mail, On which
morning we had declared "the canvass had
cIosed.' We sa il was toe late 10 lay it before
our readers previous to the election. Having pro-
tested against the appearance of any new expose
on the eve of the election, we were unwilling q"
set any such example in our own person Had
we sent il to the North for publication, we should
have been bound in all fair dealing TO send II TO
the SoUth. Besides, the authenticity of the afti-
Gle might have been disputed, and it might have
been denounced as a trick TO operate upon the
elet ton. For these aHd other reasons. we deter
mined 10 let that event pass by without throwing
a new issue into the contest. The campaign
having gone by, SIC feel at full liberty to lay it
before ear readers. ShOnhi Gen. Taylor be elect
ed, and these statements be correct, then how is
he TO satisfy The North as well as the South in
the course which he may pursue?
CLISTox, (La..) Oct 90, 1913.
To MeedIors 81 The Union:
1t NAV not he altogether unimpoItant far soioe
of your northern readers, or rather for the north
ern Wings, who arc cIam0rnus IN support of Gen.
Taylor, upon the ground that te is as good a
WlImot proviso man as they could have, to know
his real and expressed views on that important
subject. 1t will be remembered that the General
has declared his intention not TO i%HiPTp0se his veto
Ut eiPcIed) To arrest the passage OF any law, not
81 paipaS Sly in visitation OF the constitution :; which,
II Will llS hlGLal EAAGH anu SNftItE
Prir0ie documents, has doubtless furnished his
northern friends with Vervplansihleg=a=aIs for be-
lieying MIN favorable toW ilmuf Provisnism for be-
lieving that he does not regard any law, TO which
that FrOviso might he appended, as ga 7aIpablc
violation of the Constitution" Nny, as those
persons are acting under 4 base deimsion. and are
themselves honest in their convictions. it would
be well enough for ynH to say Ia them, that Gen
Taylor has declared most positively thai Congress
cannot interfere with the question 81 slavery in
the States or Territories, without p~aipabiy vio-
latIng the Constitution and, consequently, such
an Interference would meet his unqualified di<zR-
probation il Ne we're President
This declaration was forced out OF him by his
freads in Louisiana, vino found lIathe was DOOM
ed to 4pse ais own State If he did not satisfy them
on this tender subject. Thinking, Isnppose, that
the election was so near at baud, the trurh could
rot reach the northern States in time to inIure his
suppressed only SO far as it is thought servicea-
the tocstn. Let the deluded know that General
man to suppose him to possess any sympathy for
the Proviso meu; and as proofOf his true position,
confidently refers to the fact of HE recently In
vesting more than $4,000 in slaves. :
1t isto me a source of great astonishmPnt. how
either the naturalized foreigner or the wiImot
Proviso man can Seaport Taylor in the North,
white his friends here are Eamping and making
the most capital they can out of his real and er.
pressed opposition to both
Set Louisiana down 1000 majority for Csss
and Butler.
In haste. yours, VERTTAS.