The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-09-27
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 81, Is4s.
F.. CT xb ho.te docerI.


OF the Wimot Provso and fact the fomener oil the bad
feeling which at present in the North and South
on the subject Of Slavery recently made has debut before
the Wing State Convention of Massachusetts, in order TO
explain his support OF General Taylor for the presidency
and to persuade back the wings who had boed
the Philadelphia nomination
This gentleman, the Speaker Of the House Of Repre-
sentatives, elected such by southern votes, and
quasi abolition,st, upon them and rails al
every measure which has been calculated to promote
southern interests, alay excitement in the South
Notwithstanding the happy effects of Mr.. Van Burens
pledge bill abolishing slavery in the District
notwithstanding General Casss commtal on the Wilmot
proviso it would if he elected produce the same
result This northern man, elected By southern notes.
denounces BOTH and says that Cass is advocate OF the
interests OF the South in regard all this question both
of the extension of territory and the extension OF
slavery" To say nothing of fanatcsm ingratitude
much further go' This is the ground of objection to
General Cass What does he assign for support
ing General Taylor 'He does not in Martin
Van Buren, did," (or General Cass wll0 ''to veto
bill abolishing slavery in the District" leaving it
10 be inferred that he will approve such bill OF
mtted in positive and specific terms upon the Wilmot
Provso " leaving it be inferred of course that he will
approve the principle if bill should pass Congress
tanning it during his administration else why does he
say she unfe,tered trusting in his past charac-
ter and general principles and declaring that in his
Judgments in the judgment of every true whg-that
odous veto power ought 10 be altogether dsused ="
These things significant enough why Speaker Win
hrop advocates the election OF Gen Taylor and opposes
that of Gen. Cas- and having some pirate assurances
no dOubt cOuld sneak he ha hoe
done. to bring recusant and malcontent portion OF
his views on SLAVERY.
Mr. Van Buren,, however. has proved false to all his
former professions and betrayed the South in order to
secure the support of the mscalled Stree soil" party at
the North-otherwise, the abolition party Mr. Speaker
Winthrop thus with them in order to take the
wind out of has sails They (the whgs) were opposed to
the extension of slavery, earnestly, ardently, I'M
compromsingly and they declared themselves So They
had been freesoi from the first they Stree
soil men while Mr.. Van Buren, and his friends were
admitting Texas into the Union, and covering four ffhs
Of it with slavery; they have always been soil
men,
Here is reason enough for opposing Gen. Cass! Mr..
Van Buren,, with all his fanaticism on the subject does
not go far enough for Mr. Winthrop in favor he is OF
aboshng slavery in the District and of fencing out by
the '.Wmot Provso" the slave States from all partici-
patton in the Territories of the United States Mr. Win
hrop and the wings the North always 'free- soi
men" uncompromsingly, ardently, earnestly" SO, if
they had had their way, Texas could have entered
this Unon and one less would have embazoned the
flag of our country Mr.. Winthrop would have forced
the question on us then Mr. Van Buren, (bad as he is)
and his friends compromised it, and let her in ruth slaue.
ry emnently proper it to do so; and for this
course does Mr. Winthrop aun him, and urge the sup
port of Gen. Taylor Is Gen Taylor "free-soil' man.
and "uncompromisngy' If not, how can Mr. Win
throp sustain him. or, with his views, venture to ask
others 10 support him
But what attitude is this for southern man to be
placed in! On question of vital interest to the South,
a candidate for the presidency, born and reared within
her limits allows himself to be represented by fanatics
and 'free-so" hostile to her dearest interests
Will the sold SOLDIER speak out, and say whether he
will veto or approve the Wilmot Provso'
After all, what false and ridiculous cry is this of
''free soi' at the North Does mean that any portion
of our wide and extended country not 'free soil ~
For what else did Washington fight in the revolution if
not for ''free soil For what else did Henry
pour forth strain of patriotic eloquence if for free
soil ?" Did not the South fight to make the North 'free
soil, and the North to make the South ''iree soil "
Many southern man fell at Long Island to make New
York (whence this cry of 'free soil" orgnated) 'free
soil" From l776 to 1888 forefathers fought and
bed to make America "ree soil !" and now we are told
at the North that the South is not "free soil" If so,
then Washington fought in vain-then Henry Numbered
in vain 1t question Of 'free SOIL" but abolition
and fanaticism seeking to interfere with the domestic
institutions of portion of Union, and thereby to
create party on geographical lines,' against the
ing voice of the Father of his Country and augh with
imminent if not certain peril to the Union OF the States
Will the North persist in this cry Our constitution
the result OF compromise and conciliaory and forbea
ing spirit Will they no. continue this spirit and cease
this cry of ee SOIL, since every inch of confedera
cy free SOIL" consecrated and made by the best
blood of our fathers Let the negro be where
constitution found it, and left it. When constitu-
ton was formed, nearly every State in the Union
under the operation of this CLASSES fdue EIGHT
of the original THIRTEEN have emancpated their blacks
or, rather, sent them south for price. Ii this prin-
ciple of "non interference had continued, emanci-
by this time, would have released their blacks from
bondage But fanacsm the north would have it 9TH
ewise and it becomes the whole patriotism of the
country, under this banner of Let Alone" to rally to
the support of Gen. Cass, whose attitude the question
is simply of northumberland This is the great