The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-09-05
From The Boston ANas.
from he BOSOM HIdS.
GREAT WING MEETING
IN MAPSHFIELD.
Daniel Webster for General
TAYLOR.

Agreeaoly to notice given,a Wing meet
ing was held yesterday afternoon, at
Marshfe!d, on piece of land belonging
to Mr.. Webster, near the old Gov. Wins
low house. At the place where the
speaking was to be, stage was erected,
suitable TO ACCOMMODATE some forty or fifty
persons.
Early in the afternoon, carriages were
seen, filed with men and women, bend
ing their way from all quarters to the place
assigned for the meeting. At three O
clock, the time appointed for the orator
to speak, there were from ons thousand
10 fifteen hundred people present. AT the
appointed time. MIR. WEBSTER, accompa-
MED bv Hon. HIRAM KETCHAM. of n. Y,
Hon. GEORGE AsHNIUN. of Springfield,
Hon. ARTEMAs HALE, of Bridgewater
and several others, whom we did not
know, appeared upon the stand, and were
most heartily welcomed by the people.
Mr.. Webster soon after commenced
making his speech, verbatim report OF
which we shall publish on Monday. He
spoke about an hour an half in a man.
ner truly Websterian. We never heard
him when he was more interesting, or
when he appeared to feel more fully the
Importance of the questions now at issue
before the people of the Union. His
speech was devoted exclusively to the con-
sideration of the Presidential question.
He avowed himself fully and unequi' o.
cally in favor of electing General Taylor.
He said he believed him to be an hon
est man-one whose conduct had ever
been marked by hiq principles. He said
he was a man of little pretensicn-a
modest, unassuming man. He had been
made candidate for the Presidency, a
year before the Philadelphia Convention
met. He was fairly nominated at that
Convention. He believed him to be a
TRUE WING. Our opponents said Gene
raj Taylor was Wing, and they tried to
disgrace him and the other Wing Gene,
raj, Scott, for it. by putting Democratic
civilian in command over them.
He did not believe that the slavery
question had any thing to do with his
nomination. The convention believed
him TO be a Wing; they thought him to
be the man who would, under existing
circumstances, be the easiest to elect, and
therefore they nominated him. Mr.. Web
ster spoke in this strain for some time,
vindicating the Wings of the convention,
and speaking highly of the character oil
General Taylor. He denied the correct
ness of that part of the Buffalo platform, -
which said that the nomination of Genes
raj Taylor was induced by a desire on the
part of the Wings to extend Slave Terri
tory. Nor were the Wings of the South
to be held accountable for the nomination,
whether it be good or bad. The free
States had some sixty majority in that con-
vention, and could have nominated whom
soever they pleased.
Mr. Webster then went on to say, that in
his Judgment the question of who shall be our
next President lay between General Cass and
General Taylor. One OF them ,ciu be elected
Who then should Wings vote for? We all
could not have our personal preferences graft
fed. The skies were not about to fall, so that
I'VE could catch larks 1t was idle to talk a
bout third candidates. We had enough of
that in ~. Every vote given Tor Birney, IN
that election, was half vote for Folk and the