The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1848-10-31

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Wing party or that, if elected, ne "ou.u ar.
the Wbig cause, but that there Is, upon the
other hand. his declared opinion, tbat ne aces
not understand the queStionS al ISSUE anu .,'"'
he has again and again, made inc dsSei ,''"' qua"
he ,cOuld not stand as the exponent O me Po''y
But. gentlemen are driven from one defence
70 anotber that they say'' he is all the better for
tSa,I We don't want a man who is pledged; we
don,t want man whose opinions are known"
Tbot is the amount OF it. &" He is all the better
TOR standing before the country as a no'party
man Theu tchO rant a nO-pGrty man ana
nam of no oSlai0ns ndV take hun then; but,
the onestion is, whether the WING party are
bound bV the nomination, and whether the del
egates of the WING party were fruitful to their
trust, when they put before the country man
who was not representative of their party. l
saw, further, that the opinions of man upon
great political questions, who is candidate for
the highest political office the country, should
be known TO the whole country.
Gentlemen need not remind US, that no pledges
were required from Gen Washington, or from
John Quincy Adams, when he was returned to
Congress after being President eff the United
States. No pledges were required, because they
had been in public station all their lives, and
because their opinions were known and under
stood Gen. W Washington, although at the head
OF his army, at one period of his life, was he not
also statesman and were not his views OF ma
tional policy known? Was John Quincy Adams
a man unknown in civil life, of whom pledges
or the renewed expressions of opinion should be
required No, they were not required, because
the general views and policy OF these men, were
known. But, In respect to the opinions OF man,
whose opinions are all unknown, who has spent
his life away, almost from civilization, who has
taken part in the political affairs of the nation
not so much even as to give vote for the Chief
Magistrate of the county; intelligent people will
hesitate to give their ballots for him, certainly
until there shall be frank avowal of his opinions
upon matters OF great national policy. TApplause
How, then, does it happen that Gen. TAYLOR
was nominated to the office of President of the
United States 1t was through the management
OF certain politicians who thought, and said that,
with him they could " beat Cass." That is it.
By men who dsregarded public sentiment; who
looked not to what the masses of the whig
party wanted; but who thought it would be
very cunning thing, to take the Hero of the Rio
Grande, as the wing candidate and endeavor to
elect him President Of the United States There
was no wisdom, as think events will hereafter
show, in this abandonment OF the principles
which they had protested before the world for
the hope OF barren victory.
But, it is denied that there was any comblna-
ton at Washington Or elsewhere, to procure that
nomination Gentlemen, sometimes, he who
to the whole people, brings suspicion upon his
own sincerity. Tremendous applause Is il
intended to perplex and embarrass him, who has
made the avowal of that, which the country
knows to be true If it is it is for an unfair
purpose; and, for what other purpose could there
be demand OF proof, for the assertion that the
men at W Washington were busy in electioneerinp
for the office OF President of the United States )
Was 1t not most notorious fact complained of
fhrnn rhO fha pboIa IL
OF Congress, during the past session of the nation
al legislature, devoted most of their time and
energies, to the settlement of the question. who
should be the candidates for the Presidency of
the United States. The Wing papers, the Dem
ocratc papers, and the papers of every name,
throughout the countrywide they not complain.
that the proper business Of members of Congress-
was neglected, tor the purpose of securing TO
their own favorite candidates, the Presidential
nominations? Was it not as well known to you,
that leading members of Congress were thus EN-.
Ployed, as that Congress was in session?
But since the proof is asked, will call two or
three witnesses, both as to the manner in which
Gen. Taylor was nominated, and as to the pro-
prlety OF the nomination. In the first place |
Will ask, II some OF you have not heard Of John
NJ. Bolts, member of that Congress, bold.
blunt wing, as we'll as able one, from Virginia,
Will not read his letter, but will merely recall
II 10 your recoHecton. He declares, again and
again, the unhtness of the nomination, and de-
ciares also the fact, that the nomination was made
by the politicians at Washington. | next refer
you to the letter OF Daniel P. King, the member
OF Congress from the second District, to his con-
sutuents. In few words, he, fortunately for the
county, though rather unwisely for himself, lets
you Know how the nomination of Gen. Tavlor
was ELECTED. He says: "The friends of Gen.
Iaylor said he was already fairly before the
country, and they opposed a National Conven-
ton. The Wings an Congress compelled them
to submit the nomination to National Couven
tion."
They compelled them to do it, and never did men
make greater mistake. The letter affrms. in the
hrst place, that General Taylor was not nominated
originally, as Wing. No other conclusion can be
drawn from that letters for it that his friends did
not mean to submit him to the Wing Convention And
them instead of leaving his friends to put him before
the country as noparty candidate instead of pursu-
ing that which was the only proper course for wise
and honest Wings to pursue, he says that they at
washington compelled them to bring him in. Com
PEELED them! How How COULD THEY COMPEL
THEM, BUT BY GIVING THEM ASSURANCE THAT HE
SHOULD BE THE CANDIDATE OF THAT CONVENTION
lAPplause,l Verify Mr. King you and your confed-
crates IN that measure jumped at miserable bait and
nave been caught by the hook.
NOW, my friends, in proof of the utter unftness of
that nomination, and to show you, also, how it was
made, and by what combination, will call another
witness upon the stand, whose testimony at the time
toas gtcen was entitled to the greatest weight with his
constituents and which has not lost any of its truth or
importance down to the present hour I anneaI IN