Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-08-10
VOL. V. NO. %.


in which it can be avoided and that way will adopt
as far as my vote will go; and it is by having Pres
ldent who is opposed to it, and will forever resist tas
not only avO'dabLe, but destructive to our Union our
liberty, and our happiness"
asked you to note that Mr.. Botts's Address
is dated Both March, 184S, and Immediately is
sued from the press that Gen. Taylor has since
viz. on the Goth and 22d, written letters-and
that up to the sitting of the Convention, and to
this time 8 July no denial of any part of the
Mississippi conversation has appeared have
seen none;-and for every thing in favor of Gen.
Taylor look to the National Intelgencer.
now submit myself to your judgement on this
single point-was it my duty to give in your adj
heson to the nomination of a President who was
not opposed to the acquisition of more Merican
TERRITORY, The past cannot be helped the
deed is done; the Treaty is ratified
In my judgment this question admitted of no
Compromised no wW not veto compromise.
Nor was it necessary The Southern Wings mot
the Locos) had already agreed to the issue of
"no Meajcan territory" and which (after the
treaty included 'nO more Merican territ0rv"
But this Gen. Taylor, as standing in his ambig-
uous relation to Wings and Locos, repudiates in
favor of the Southern Locos he goes for all
Mexico.
1 HOW tdhG my gIOuIlu OH your IlTSJ resolution
the Wilmot Proviso In consequence of the
acquisition of Mexican territory by treaty, the
principle of the Wimot Proviso was forced upon
u.s. II now can be neither avoided nor evaded
Yet SO ardently did desire to preserve the
union between the Wings of the South and the
North-without which no Wing candidate could
hope for success-that was willing to comprom-
Use SO far as this-that the battle should be fought
in Congress, and that the candidate should give
an open, direct; aud absolute pledge that he
would veto no Bill containing the principle of the
Wilmot Proviso "a pledge so recent as should
remove any existing doubt-a pledge to which
the South should, in Convention give its unqual-
fled assent. Perhaps you may not Justify me in
going thus far; but my apology rests in my de-
sire for the success ofthe Wing party and that
the union of the party could not be preserved on
any other terms 1t was as we'll known then as
now, that cUery member of the slave States was
hostile to the Wlmot provlso.
But am now already condemned for not yield
ing the whole issue to the South, and for not
giving in your adhesion to nominee-whom
verify believed would veto any Bill containing
the principle of the Wilmot provso-and who if
he had avowed to the Convention that he would
not veto such Bill, would not have received a
single vote from slave State. And will add
that it requires the extreme of charity to believe
that any Wing member from the free States be.
lieved, or now believes that he would not veto
such Bill. / place before you the following con-
sideratons before bringing forward the direct
evidence General Taylor is himself slave
holder, (reports say between 200 and 300) re-
sident of a state bordering on Texas, to whose
annexation, though not to the manner, he was
favorable as Mr. Mangum stated in the Senatel.
2. That in the entire slave States, Wing and
Loco, one and ALL believe that General Taylor
, would veto the Wilmot proviso in any and every
form in which it can be presented. For the
opinion of the Wings of the South on the Will
mot pr0viso | refer to their speeches and votes
:. in Congress and to the Southern wing newspa-
pers without single exception. For their opin-
ion of General Taylor | refer to their deadly
; opposition to the Wmot proviso and to their
ardent support Of General Taylor. Let me place
before you samples Of Southern views and opin-
ions from Georgia and Virginia.
Resolution passed by the Wing State Conven-
! ton of Georgia, 9Th May, l848:
RESOLVED, That the nomination of Gen. Zachary
=, Taylor for the Chief MagistracY of the Union meets
the hearty concurrence of majority of this Conven-
tom but in the spirit of Just and liberal concession
stand prepared to support Henry Clay any other
a Wing who may be the nominee Of the Wing party,
= provided the UielCS Of the nominee accord Ch our Oon
on The subject of he WLMoT PRovIso and Southern
u rights"
IS Does not this resolution necessarily imply that
Gen. Taylor fully accords with the views of the
pi Wings Of Georgia on the Wilmot proviso? Is
/ there Wing in Georgia who would vote for
3 Gen. Taylor if not assured he will veto the Will
"a mot provsol
at Next from Virginia. In pamphlet published
IN by four Wings members of Congress, ardent sup
4" porters Of Taylor, Gents Pendeton. Preston.
s. Fulton, and Flourney] they charge Mr.. Bolts
+ with endeavorlng to create the belief that Gen.
., Taylor would not veto the Wilmot proviso, in
20 answer to which they say:
IF "But seriously does Mr. Bolts believe for mo-
IF men that Gen. Taylor entertans Objectionable opn-
to ions on this subject? Can he possibly believe any
such thing? have any doubts at all in regard to it
he Yet such is the caption of one of his chapters"
~ To which Mr.. Bolts replied in the pamphlet
st. before cited =
IN But what IS was my language in respect to it
- Here it is: will not do Gen. Taylor the injustice
10 to say he will not veto the Wmot Provso if he should
DC be elected and it should pass during his term And
L then PUBLISHED the letter ofhis friend Andrew Stewart
= OF Pennsylvania, to show that he was making fair
~ lceather with the North that subject for Gen. Tay
W or, by endeavorng to prove from Gen. Tayor's own
!" letter, that he would veto il if it should be adopted
III certainly never suspected him of avonng the WimO
Proviso."
Reading again the Mississippi letter" the
" South should neUer agree to the WilmOt prOUiSO
nd will now present the evidence by which the
to Taylor wing members of Congress and Taylor
lal presses endeavor to impose on free States the
'ot belief that Taylor would not veto the Wilmot
~ provise the unanimous opinion of the Wings Of
NJ the South TO the contrary notwithstanding.
lis The Signal letter, You have reason to CON-
list plain that the whole paragraph is not gven that
is only single sentence is quoted from the edto-
n rial and that disconnected from its principal po-
~ n; sition, of which the quotation is only e. g.
X. ask you to read [Appendix A the editorial ex-
nv tract and the letter of Gen. Taylor Appendix
ut b noticing particularly the approved sentiments
'd Il, 2, 3, A. printed [by my directionl in black
not etter-(passng for the present, all except the
ut parts relating to the veto power)
MO The leading sentiment after the approval OF
e Al al ia 0hS A.