Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-10-12

"iNiVu9 taTlH, winch you VIII remember
we set to verse and sung, night and day,
through the campaign of lS40 But now,
1t seems, he has found out that direct tax
alton" is even better than "ludcious tar
iT."
What have we to expect from General
Taylor
"Upon the subject If tho Tariff tho Currency, the I'm
The will of the people, through their preson
ye in Congress ought to be respected and carried out
by the Executive"
Fellow citizens there is one praise and
boast more of Wing politics, dearer aud
sweeter to me than ali the rest; and that is,
that It has ever been the policy of honora-
bic Wings Of the North that we want no
war OF annexation or glory TO consummate
our civilization, to develope our resources,
to work out our magnificent and true desti-
ny, to bless mankind. Our policy is "hon-
orable peace" We want no more wild ta-
ble-Iands we want no more gold of Amer
lean churches; we want no more Buffalo
hunts-no, nor Buffalo nominations. either.
Honorable peace with Mexico honorable
peace with Spain; honorable peace with
England; and "entangling alliances" with
nobody; this is the boast and this is the
mission of the Wings Be this our boast,
and this our mission. Let us remember
with pride that it was Wing that negocia-
ted the treaty at Washington in 1872 which
saved us from an English war. The uni
versal Wing party in Congress resisted the
annexation of Texas-which was, in itself,
a Mexican war. The universal Wing par
ty in Congress favored us in the adjustment
of the Oregon question, and spared us the
danger of another English war. On our
hands, from 1924 to this day, there rests no
stain of human blood
Is there one man that will tell me that
there is no longer any use in this country
for great national political party like the
Wings, party of peace, which nscribes
upon its banner, along with all other social
good, No war, for annexation or glory -
/ Honorable peace with all nations; entang-
ling alliances with none" Ye merchants
of Salem, whose flags float on every sea; We
statesmen, who contemplate the error of this
country in being thus converted into great.
rapaclous, PROSECUTING power, mady grasp
ing at the empire of the whole new world
we phlIanthropists, who, like us, regard war
as the most enormous of crimes, and the
most stupendous of blunders, have YOU real
| ly no anxiety respecting the election of
Gen. Cass
If his own speeches, and letters, and pub
lie Course of conduct, are to 90 for any,
thing; If his extraordinary and indecorous
performance upon the Mexican and Oregon
questions are to go for anything; if his no.
torious companlonship with Senators Allen
and flanagan is to go for anything, tell
you that You are on the eve of whole era
OF wars. Gen. Cass says very coolly that
we " could swallow the whole of Mexico
4 without hurting u.s." Iwsh, for my part.
that he would take it for his own particular
eating. (Laughter.) Let me read you
contemporaneous creed by one of his
friends, who says, with the piety of Genghis
(, Khan and Tamerlane:
at hard to find of which good has not grown
Men, unconscious instruments the hands of God
are obedent to the great law Of power and even when bin
working out the great results his laws demaud' aHe
VINO forces his way with the torch OF civilization tho
sword into degraded the way for III. glory
aud moral elevation of future generations either consciously
or as blind instrument in the universal government"
So much for him who did or did not break
his sword when Hull surrendered
And now listen to this:
&" need hardly reply your concluding inquiry that am
peace man, and that deem te of peace be ouely
necessary to the and heahu action republican,
institutions Ga this important question freely confess my
down by the Father of his County and urgently
mendedhy him his Farewell Address the merriam peo-
pie. Indeed, think may safely say can put
implicit faith thun do in tho wisdom of his advve
when he urged upon US the popey of always standing upon
My life has been devoted arms, yet upon war; at
TO be avoided Incompatible with national honor The pnc
PIES ofour Government as we'll as its true policy oppo'
ment OF other countries by conquest"
: | understand him that he thinks it would
/ hurt US to swallow not more perhaps than
, three fourths of Mexico
Fellow citizens, l know you will pardon
me that linger thus fondly, and sadly, and
proudly upon these great doctrines OF the
creed of the Wing party. With one excep-
ton, to which shall have the honor, in a
moment, to ask your atteation, they seem TO
) me to embody the promise of everything
which National Government can do for
= America or the world To say that they
| are dead, to say that they are obsolete, these
: drcana imperii, these great secrets of glory
a aud strength, is to talk as knave or as a
e fool. When these fail, the plIared frma-
4 ment is rottenness and earth's base built on
e stubble. "Thereiore shall We lay them up
: in your heart, and in your soul, and bind
/ them for sign upon your hand, that they
t may be as lrontlets between your eyes,
! Since, then, he that would persuade us to
: leave our party, can hardly maintain his po-
e sitIon that our creed has grown valueless
= with the lapse of time, he is obliged to plant
!, himself upon the other ground, and say, I'M
e portant as it may be, and important as it
should be, to maintain the organization of
: the Wing party, yet an other object has SUI
r pervened, which cannot be accomplished
! without the dissolution of the Wing party,
, aud this at once so high and so important,
: that we ought at once to sqnander away ev-
c cry object of state and national politics to
t accomplish this one. Well, what is this OBJ
jectl 1t is the passage of law to say that
: California and New Mexico shall remain
e forever free. That is, fellow citizens, I'M
: doubleday, an object Of great and transcend
= ant Importance; for there is none who will
r deny that we should 60 up to the very lin
= its of the constitution itself, aud with the
e wisdom of the wisest, aud zeal of the most
: jealous, should unite to accomplish this
G great object, and to defeat the always de-
: tested and forever to be detested object of