The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-09-22


reason for believing that he did Then choose between the
thern man the hand. st, ehoder though he be
who viii the legislative power to prohibit the
extension of this evil with all its train OF bitter conse.
quences and lis unequal representation and viii uphold
the will the people thus expressed, and Gen Cas-, ts
other hand northern with southern principles"
who abandons his former known opn ons prostituting
himself in the hope of purchasing power by the sacrifice
and who already announced in advance, his denial Of
his right their representatives, right SO dear to every
northern heart. For one, cannot hesitate
This is document No. 1. Now let us examine docu
ment No O. 1t is headed REASONS GOOD AND
TRUE FOR SUPPORTING THE NOMINATION OF
GENERAL ZACHARY TAYLOR" Among a mass of
matter which our limits will not allowus to notice. We
find the following which purports to be letter from
Reverend Mr. Lamb endorsing General Tayor's anti.
slavery and abolition principles. This Mr.. Lamb is
New Highlander and his letter is intended TO influence
the pious church going, Wilmot Provso wings of New
England and induce them to vote for General Taylor on
the ground that he is good abolitonist.
Does this reverend gentleman speak the TRUTH is he
wolf in sleeps clothing wearing the livery Of Heaven
to delude and deceive the people But to his testmo.
ny. He says
With regard to slavery and extension Of territory as.
sure you that neither market any other OBJ
ect General Taylor in favor of conquest and
ton He was not in favor OF receiving Texas into
only evidence of his being in favor of slavery that
saw or heard Of the fact that he did what every
the South do. If he would have servants, viz
either hire slaves. do well remember that a part
the colored people living in his family coud
we'll and were very pious. heard pord from The
General in favor of the siape system but the contrary
his decided preference for the imstitntions and customs of the
North
1t is pity that General Taylor should be made out
slavery his government keeps him the
South for the wrong of allowing his plantation to be
Missss ppi instead OF the banks OF the Connecticut
We are allow ed to hang man upon nm inference.
assure you that, if elected, he will do for peace
contemplation than any northern man would be allowed
to do.
What will the South think, when they are informed
that hundreds of thousands OF these documents have
been published in this cy that the northern mails have
been groanng with their burden for the last three
months; that the North has been literally flooded with
them in every city, town, school district, and hamlet in
the free Sates If these statements Of General Tayors
opinions the slavery question true how earfuy
is the South to be betrayed II false how grossly is the
North to be deceived in the election of General Taylor
to the presidency.
We have not been able to obtain any documents from
the southern depot but learn, by friends who
have lust returned from North Carolina and Virginia,
that the country in the South is flooded with documents
to prove that Gen cass's position the slavery ques-
ton is not safe for the South that he isthere rep
resented as free soil man and that, among other doru
ments of like character is which pretends to de-
tail some private conversation which General Cass
once had with Senator Miller. of New Jersey in which
General Cass represented have admitted to the aforc
said senator that he in favor of the Wimo,
Proviso, and also the assertions of barnburners
and abolitionsts of New York of the same character
,had in
sent out to the South by the wing executive committee
General Cass is there represented as Wlmot Proviso
man. and General Taylor as the advocate OF the rights
and interests of the Shareholder
Look upon this picture, and then upon that
In addition to the above, there in circulation
FOURTEEN DIFFERENT LIVES OF GENERAL TAYLOR We
have been shown number of them. Some contain.
from his volumnous correspondence. only his letter
cepting the nomination of the Wing National Conven-
ton, with the assertion that he is true and decided
whig Others in addition to the above letter, contain
letter written to Dr. Bronson Of South Carolina in which,
in g'arng capitals is placed his declaration that had he
voted in 1914 he would have voted for Henry Clay
He is here claimed as good Henry Clay whig.
| Another contains garbled extract from Gen. Tay-
lors letter to Gen Gaines, to show that he did not
slider the country in Mexico worth the expenses of the
The subsequent sentence WnCn ne rec
ommends the taking and keeping of seven or eight PROV
inces States of Mexico Another life has part Of
his first Allison letter, in which he pledges himself against
the of the veto This is to propltiate the Wlmot
Proviso wings and abolitionists of the north Others
have letters whatever from General Taylor but
filled with fusome laudaons of his military ach ieve
ments, in which he is represented oparty man.
second Washington. sc. This is for the independent
Taylor His lives in the German and French Ian
guages able to decpher but if in keeping with
the of them, he be represented to the Germans
as German, and to the French as a Frenchman; and
that instead OF being the candidate of the .atiue Amer
he is the best friend and only safe protector OF the
adopted citizen!
These lives, almost numerous as his letters-and
their name is egionare designed for every political
meridian and for every faction in each meridian of the
country.
There is also circulated very extensively speech Of
Mr. Stewart, of Pennsylvania, filled with the most gross
and monsrous msstaements of the extra compensation
paid to Gen. Glass; and the assertion that not one cent OF
extra pay was ever drawn by Gen Taylor When the facts
taken from reports of the accounting officers of the gov
eminent, and published time since in the Union,
show that not one cent of extra pay drawn by
Gen. Cass except for bona de and extraordinary services
rendered the government while Gen Taylor has drawn
the of $74,s64 OF, not for extra services
rendered. but emolument for his ordinary routine
duties in the line of his professions and the most Of this