The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-10-03

", sir, the Wings of the nation. ana
who was il tha, brought Texas into the
Union. with all our woe, with loss oil Eden!
Az, who was it Who, but a portion oil
the party of the Democrats. and the best
personal friends of Martin Van Buren,.
Sir. if they had rallied with MS; II his
personal friends, the Democrats Of Name
and New Hampshire, had voted with the
Wings of Louisiana and Georgia, this
days business, need not say TO you, sir,
would have been spared US all.
And then, sir, when Texas came IN, and
New California, OF Old California, (for
they conc in so fast that can't for the
life of ne tell their names,) Mexico. Gre
ron. and southwestern creation, coming
or 10 come, then we adopted another, and
The last article of the Wing creed, and
tina, is that henceforth the will of the pro-
pie, unenbarrassed by any veto at all, shall
declare whether slavery or freedom shall
be the organic law Of the territory thus
acquired; knowing well, sir, knowing
perfectly well, that if the will of the peo>
pie, constitutonally expressed, may but
have "free course and be glorihed," slave
nv can no more exist in California or
Mexico than it can lake root to-day on
the everlasting submits Of the Green
Mountains of Vermont.
Every body knew, perfectly well, our
creed, on that day aud there was no need
at all of anything SO pedantic or so super
fuous as publishing it to The world. We
might Just az well expect that every time
that George Washington brought up his
army, in review, that they should not fire
a muskei until three octave volumes had
been written upon the rights of man.
There was the Declaration Of Indepen>
dence, sealed already by our best blood
upon thousand fields of glory; all we
needed, therefore, was little sharper bay
onct aud "a little more grape
Now, Mr. President, L beg to say SIM
gle word in this hurried and desultory
manner, without arrangement and without
preparation. on another topic, and that is,
the personal qualifications of General
Zachary Taylor for the great office to
which we propose to carry him. l felt i,
incumbent upon NE, when that nomina>
ton was made, TO s;udy The subject TO the
best of my abllity-I will moi say reluct>
ant or incredulcus, but with the best lights
10 study that practical subjec;-andI now
arow my belief, il signifies nothing, but [
am proud to unite with you in the avowal
of that belief-that in his mere personal
qualifications, | believe we have the guar
antee of an administration as honest, quiet
and national as that which has cast such 4
glory upon the unapproachable name Of
WASHINGTON. (APplause.)
Sir, to say that Gen. Zachary Taylor is
great and patriotic man is TO say moth
ing. Martin Van Buren, might say that
Of him, and he has said as much again as
that of him, in resolution have in my
pocket. believe, upon all the evidence
In which have had access, that he pcs
sesscs, in an extraordinary degree, the ba-
SIS of administrative talent of exactly the
kind you seek in the Presidential chair.
believe, from all the evidence to which
have had access, that he is thorough and
quick in his discernmeni Of mcn-readinq
character accurately candidly and instan-
taneously. believe thai he possesses, in
an extraordinary degree. sense, judg-
meut. solid and strong qualities of mind,
of the old Roger Sherman and George
Washington model.
understood him to hc thorough man Of
business, in the best and largest acceptance
ct that tern-administering large estate and
great fortune with as much ability as Flori-
da or Mexican campaign. Again, from his
youth up-from the time he took up arms in
the service of his country-he has had an une-
uuivoca proof Of superior character, in the
confidence he inspires, and the profound defer
enca he receives, without exacting it, from ey-
cry human being who comes within his reach.
All to that the kindness of his heart-kind
as Nelson's kind as womans-and that toler-
ant humanity, and honesty incorruptble,
which he who knows him would think no more
Of a'snlling than of putting himself within III E
ranre Of all the ba,tlements Of Monterey, or
the whiriwinds ef the Gulf; all tho world may
look upon him and say, HERE Is \ MANI
l hear it asked whether he has the requ,-
site degree OF political nformation,a and expert
ence ia public affairs. Sir. cannot help be-
licviHg that Gen. Zachary Taylor is destined
in the hands of Providence, 10 illustrate the
tFH = "a tldl TelllTk Oh lLldt great pbSSi itTi
Ell nund Burke: 81 have many times taken
II ':icc. that men not professionally trained in
details Of public Office, yet when called into
grel: stations, have, by the mere force of sim
pie discretion, conducted the affairs of nations
with distinguished felicity and glory" l ex-
poet the illustration of tina. remark in the eight
years or the four years of the administration
OF Gen. Zachary Taylor. All his life long he
has served his country in department of The
General Government, enlarging and elevating
him above :hc influences of mere politics. All
his life long now, from his youth to somewhat
Fast middle age, the ripper time OF mems lifc,he
has been an observer of the fortunes, the poll
cy, and the Interests Of the General Govern
n,ent All his life long he has been an equal
associate with those great scenes; in all his in
tervals Of leisure, in his winter evenings his
Burroughs, his retirements from the sharper SER
vices of the the cam p, he has been an observer,
student and a thinker upon the great nation,
al interests of the land. He has learned them,
Sir, as Julius Cesar learned astron omy, in the