The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-17

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Van Burenism TayIorism
The barnburncrs throwing hot shot into the Taylor
camp The last Albany Atlas hits both the nominees
with the stone:
The Philadelphia and Baltimore Conventions (says that
polished jounaD have seemingly been engaged in strug
gle 10 find who the candidate least acceptable
to their several constituencies They have succeeded.
hese conventions had been fairly constituted and honest
y managed, they would have reflected the sentiment of
their respective parties but the result is conclusive proof
of their corrupt management.
1t then pays its respects especially to Gen. Taylor, in
these complimentary strains:
Formerly candidate was selected with reference to
principles and preferences Of tho people. Now avail
ability" is found in unfit TO be nominated, without
party without principles with prnc Piles revolving
Teemen The weight of candidate is estimated by his
alacrity in sinking. AS in the ludcrous games which
sometimes make village sport in England the presidential
contest is turned into cripperace and the wagers
the hindmost The strong and the onward statesmen
rejected from the lists give place the feeble and shat
tered politicians. Can any doubt the why Taylor
receives but feeble support from his party when he
voted whig ticket, avowed wing principle, and
entered the field ready to run against who did
Here follow some compliments to General Glass; which
take the liberty of emitting. In another number the
same Atlas resumes its notice of General Taylor in
nexon with he shareholders" II exhibits the various
phases he Has says
gated as to whether he will withhold his hand in re-
gard to free territories he alone of the three candidates
in opposition refuses to answer The South claim that
he alone is reliable for them; and party of the oppssi-
ton in the ultra slaveholdng State OF South Carolina has
gone to him. the strength of their confidence in
him. Yet the northern wings affect to believe that this
question be safely reposed in his hands They
affect to believe this but their southern brethren know
the contrary"
The Albany Atlas is not very chary in the compliments
it pays the old General Supposing he has lost Ohio, it
comments thus on his fate:
The namc of Taylor has broken down the wing party,
and the wing candidate is borne down with it. Like the
wife whose husband was fighting with the BEAR
ready excaim that do care which wins
The result only proves directywhat the election of
Ford would have proved by mpcaton-hat the
in that State is between Van Buren, and Cass. The only
candidates in nomination have been anTayor, and
the people have preferred the strongly and
eddy
We shall any considerable portion of the in
telgcnt freemen of that State going throw away
their strength in hird party ooing, under such cand
date Gen. Taylor.
The New York Evening Post declares, that a mere
military precdcr does not deserve receive the vote
of either Pennsylvania or New York.
The Tayorites are not slow in returning the fire.
The Boston Courier gives of ." grand rally
at the old cradle of liberty" Friday night One of the
speakers, Mr. Thomas of Worcester, denounced Mr..
Van Buren, the arch apostle of slavery and slave
power. The liberty men took him up available
candidate, thus adopting the very principle against which
they make SO loud camor. He the father of the
law and the promoter Of the scheme for stopping the
mails and burning liberty publications. To the bill for
carrying the latter scheme into effect he gave his casting
vote at the third and last reading This was not an act
of courtesy his disciples pretend, but decisive act
on a test vote. >
After his reachery TO the principles of freedom in the
of the Amistad captves, he blasted with the
breath of popular Indignation, and shrunk into the
anatomy of He now politically dead /; and
though planted in the freest soil oose,t dirt in the
country, he never would sprout again"
Mr.. Gerard of New York. expressed himself at the
same meeting in terms not very respectful TO Mr.. Van
Buren,, nor, indeed very decorous in themselves He
said
was laughabe sight for him, (Mr. Gerard) just from
New York, where Mr.. Van Buren, is well known, and
where his character has been thoroughly exposed
the freeso banners in Boston inscribed with the Of
that political adventuer who seemed to have Yam
kee land to fish for natives, and hoping catch of
them with nlgger-bait. Tremendous laughter.1 Why
Mr. Van Buren, cared nothing for free SOIL Everybody
his own State knew that he would within smell
ing distance of a black The Buffalo platform was
nothing snaf Inc lree-sou party had oil the
reality oil life about It, 1t was lettering, squintng scky
bat, which would expire the 7h day of November
and be buried in the cabbage garden of Undertook
Even Mr.. Winthrop the polite Speaker of the House
Of Representatives drew pretty strong picture of the
ex-President in speech which he delivered at New
Bedford on the 18th. He speaks of him as being
ssen but consistent and true the pursuit only of his
own interest,"
The fact is the Van Burenies and Taylores afraid
and jealous of each other Their friends both play
ing for the vote of the ''thrd party" Mr.. Webster
called the abolitionists in 1914.