Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-10-26
GREEN MOUNT AIN FREEMAN.
SOnth Carolina and Gen. Taylor.

South Carolina and Gen. Taylor.
We ask the attention of such wings as advocate the
claims of Gen. Taylor as "free soil" candidate, to
the following extracts from a speech of C,I John
Cunningham, delivered at a democratic Taylor Con
vention' holden at Charleston, South Carolina Sept
Id, 1846:-
1t is with emotions of high qualification, my fellow
citizens, that respond to the honored invitation to
address this Southern assembly. In previous polt
cal struggles it has been my pride to be known as OF
the States Right Republican School that has dstin-
guished Virginia and South Carolina But at this
crisis for the South, know neither Whggery nor De-
mocraC@-only the Southern party. take higher
position than parties or their ordinary purposes OF the
usual daily administration of government afford or
do present. stand here as a Southern and Carolin-
an, to address you Carolinans and Southerners.
General Cass when Minister at Paris, proclaimed,
with Wanting persuasion, in the face of downrodden
but anti-slayery Europe, in his pamphlet the Quin
tuple Treaty that he was no Shareholder and never
would be- | stand here proudly a STAKEHOLDER, and
intend to remain one in defiance OF all aggreSsons.
Gen Cass at the time, and SINCE in his Nichol-
son letter, "deprecated the existence of slavery in
principle, (which is the very pabulum OF abolition. AS
all American and Southerner, respond by proclaim
ing that slavery is neither moral nCr political evil but
African siave an advantage to the south through the
necessity of its labor to sou in climate, and as
interviewer with our very vtas, It's preservation IS to
our safety and happiness matter Of right and honor,
of life and death. And with the that the honor
Of freeman and cheValier should feel, and in the
name of the SOUTH etOrt back upon him the gratuit
GUS insult not required by duty which he represent
ing us part of tie nation, thus Haunted in our faces
And through him, would beard the insoence of the
sentiment ut the North begot by such feeling and
opinion on fanatlcsM and abolition, that arrogates to
reduce the Southern States from their political equa
ty and to degrade the southern man Gyen in social
and religious estimation.
In my late address to the public, announced that
81 ready TO fight in any corps, and under any ban
ner that will mon and wave overthe rampant of south
ern defence against the enemy without AS | turn
my eye over the "brOad waste" that corps to be
the "Iaylor Democrats" and that banner to be- the
sandar Of the hero Of Buena Vsta-the man Of the
south.
But Taylor was born and lives in a southern and
slave State, He breathes the air, full of the sympa
thies associations endearments of our paharchal in
situations lie feels the manliness and affections of
the domestic lordthe very essence Of baronla chiv-
airy. He knows and daily administers the rights and
interests of the stakeholder The ties of household
and community, which are adamantne chains, cable
his heart to CHS own his native land" AS a free
man ana CtZen, ne reVereS ana would maintain the
constitution which fosters the liberties Of his state his
section his nation. He would-he could never con-
sent to give his slaves to the horrors of civil ex-
termination the restitution of freedom with famine
and degredatlon his community and section TO be
land rent with horrid strife and drenched it may be-
with domestic blood or be degraded and dsfranchs-
ed; nor his "ttIe ones" to the nightly assassin
and his home to the torch of the incendary Yet is
said that this old hero and patriot whose whole life
hnc shaun and rood rb+ ctoa off
section dispose of his present interests feeling and
ties in exchange for the Presidency "barter his soul
for mess of poridge" and with cravens gee leave
behind him the broken fortunes, crushed rights, de-
graded inequality and desoated land of his birth, his
home, his friends! Lash, southern men, from your
borders this foul treason to your brother.
1t is roundy asserted that he will not use the veto
will abrogate it, will not oppose as shield even
slavery. This is gross regeneration. He says to
"The power given by the Constitution to the Exec.
utive to lnerpose his veto is high conservative pow
er, but in my opinion should never be exercised, ex-
cept in of clear violation Of the Constitution, OF
manifest haste, want of consideration by Congress-
This is his d1ctrine-all the rest he has said are
dictator reasons for it. 1t up to the republican
standard. Itasserts retention in full value ofthe pow
or as existing in the constitution, appreciates it
true nature by recognizing it as "hghly conservative
and vlndcates and enorces its true and full purpose
by insisting on its exercise in case of violation of thu
Constitution or hasty legislation He depIecates sim
ply its factous use. Any interference with slavery
being unconstitutional and mischievous, lie WILL there
fore, Of course Veto
But politicians and papers at the north assert tina
he is opposed to the extension of slavery. chaeng
any man, at the North South, to produce any thin
from Gen. Taylor himself to slavery or lis opinion
on it, expressed for the public. The assertion is the
either falsehood, uttered there for selfish purpos
and party success, is predcated upon his not bein
in favor of extension for mere extension sake. Mel
: Their Southern men generally; and upon the sam
ground that they would not demand or approve the re
vva of the African slave trade. But he, as they, wi
insist the right of extension and demand that slave
. nv be allowed 10 90 where soil and climate will al
tract it. Yes, and it will and must go there. Bu
Gddngs, the Abolitionst, at Buffalo, settles the mat
ter. In his speech he asserted that Col. Boone,
Of committee that attended General Taylor on Wis
it to the Legislature Of Mssippi, wrote to the Hol
a Jacob Thompson, member OF Congress, who nforme
. him that General Taylor expressed himself to thu
committee to be sin favor of the and of prosecu
ing it, until we could obtain territorial indemnity, an
that the South OUGHT NEVER TO SUBMIT TO TIL
: WmMoT PROvIso."
. We have proof that Gen. Taylor continues to bu
negroes and make southern investments. From h
section there charges, even from his opp
nens that he is untrue to our rights None other al
more than idle cant. The assertion, that in his fir
Allison letter he meant by domestic policy" our saN
Institutions is ridiculous He clearly uses it in cont
distinction to foreign policy, and the aggressive NJ
=. tons Of the Cass school.
) HOvnrnOr FlnrtiAn