Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-07-25

and that he had always bcca opposed to the ac-
cushion or conquest OF any part Of Mexico
de spoke OF General Taylors fricnus in Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana, as being for the greater
part confined 10 the sugar planters, who are
Wings and sound Tariff men, while The only OPP
position he will meet with in these States will be
Iron The cotton planters, who ale Locofocos and
free traders. What makes this information The
more reliable, are the circumstances that it comes
from gentleman Of acute observation, high
sense OF honor, iIfexible integrity, and one oil
the most indomitabe Wings in The county"
So much for the direct and positive testimony
OF 'sound" Northern Wings the supporters oil
General Taylor. Let us now see wha, some OF
his Southern Wing advocates say on The subject
Ex-Governor Jones CT Tennessee, "bis gun"
OF Whigeery, made in Albany, New York. an
anti-war, Mexican sympa,hizing speech, IN
which he denounced the war as unconstitutional,
wicked, unjust and disgracefu-ail in The true
Corwin vein. Being asked how General Taylor
was on the Wilnot Proviso: ~ don't know"
said Governor j.; "but belitue he will teareit to
he representatives of The people" Again, al
Cincinnati. when he spoke, Governor Jones was
enquired OF in regard 10 General Taylor's posi-
lion upon the tree territory question The Gin.
clnna,i Enquirer says:
"At this he instantly grew circumspect.-
Words were weighed here, and carefully meted
out. My opinion is, said he, that General
TAYLOR will leare this matter 10 be settled b. The
peoples representatives 10 Congress. But We
do not want your opinions replied The voice
I'VE want those OF General TAYLOR IF that is
what you desire, said the speaker, you must 90
down and ask OLD ZAcK himseli.'"
And, again, a, Carthage, Ohio, Gov. Jones' &C.
cording TO the Cincinnati Atlas, a Wing paper,
depressed the opinion, that Gen. Taylor would
peto no bill passed BY Congress containing tie re.
stridisn on sarerw bu tcsud abide BY Legislature
viA OF the people, expressed through Congress"
We shall bring forward but one more witness,
AMI he is most important one, not only in his
own conceil but in The view OF The coon.worship-
ping Wing Club of 1914 in this city. Gen. Leslie
Coombs, OF Kentucky, slaveholding Stale, has
been spouling in favor OF Taylor, in The distant
North. Al Augusta, Maine, he made speech,
of which the spirited sage" gives The following
sketch:
"Turniug from the consideration OF the buoys
and snsgs, The orator proceeded 70 say that IN the
ticker which the Wing National Convention mad
presented the North ras offered The best ferms.-
They we're awarded the Vice President, Nth a
casting rotr; while all the South icoll,d hare would
be President, pih NJ r0te at all, and pledged in
adrance 10 reio no congressional measure d.lbc-
rat IN passed. We repeat this statement for The
,f pnt hot
position OF the insgnfcance 10 which The Wings
would reduce the office Of President OF III" Uni.
ted S,a,es Elected BY the direct votes OF The peo-
pie 10 Tepresen, them in one OF the departments Of
government, and stand up as their guardian
against the errors aud corrupions OF legislative
bodies, (and our history has loo often shown them
capable Of being corrupted y Whisgery would
abroea,e The conservative power Of the President,
which The Constitution ordains, and which the
Magistrate is sworn to support, and invite every
mischevous scheme oil legislation which bad
men may hope, by log-rollins or baser applian.
ces, 10 force through the two houses Of the ma
liunai legislature.
"rhe buoys, the snass and The veto, however,
consumed but lille OF me orators time. II was
manly occupied with other matters, such as that
General Cas- was "a large mushy man." who
went 10 Palestine 10 get bottle Of walter from
The jordan with which TO hap,ize baby of The
French Kins-ihai he should like 10 gee the iun
candidates Tor Plesiden, icaied round Tor e3hl6i-
lion as a measure of Wing elecioncerins-
The Signature OF General Taylor was ridden
lous scrawl which would occasion much delight
10 The b'noys, couli they see i,-that Gen. lay
lor's wife was a very fine old LADY, iam'liaIiy
known 10 all The camp as "Aunt Peggy"-and
finally that General Combs black nurse loved
his children as arden,ly as he did. The reason
for his later fact was no. stated. We suppose
the worthy orator inepded 10 indicate The degree
OF equality 10 which portion OF The black Iacr
are sometimes advanced in the Southern States
We ask the South 10 examine this evidence OF
leading Northern and Southern Wings which we
have grouped together, and TO decide for ltseli
whether gross fraud upon the people is not de-
signed. II Gen. Taylor does not entertain the
views ascribed TO him BY these distinguished
Southern and Northern men, is j, not an arrant
inpos,ure upon The North TO hold him up as a
candidate sympalhizing with its anti slavery pre-.
iudices2 II Gen. Taylor does hold these odious and
dangerous" principles" should no, the South
shrink back with horror, as from leper, and, as
the Times once sail, "Ieject (hisI embrace"
The issue must be nett cannot be avoided
and while the Signal letter stands, unexplained
and unrefued, the South will be tai,hless TO her
selt If she hesitate as 10 what course TO pursue.
How stands Lewis Cas-, on The other hand2-
His opinions on this subject are published 70 The
world. North and South, East and West. They
are based upon The Consti,uiion-,hey boldly and
thoroughly conflict with the factious views ofihe
Barnburners and Northern Whigs-lhey follow
Out the compromises Ct the Constitution, and
come up Ia The just and conservative standard
which the South has adopted. This we have
often shown, and deem it unnecessary 10 repeat
here Bnt there Is more evidence thai Lewis
Cass is sound ant reliable on this question. He
has pledged himself 10 abide by the glorious plat
form Of principles established at Ballimo,e-and
one of those principles covers all the ground on
the subjec' of slavery, for which The South has
commended II is tue that MIR. Wilcher and the
Southern Wing press with Yancey, The Ala
bama Barnburner) ridicue The furce OF The Bal
limore resolution, and charge the Southern dele.
gates at Baltimore with having violated their in-
s,rucions, and practised ireachery TO the South.
Blu, we have witness more potent and inhuen-
rial than any of them-we allude to Mr.. Ber-
rien, a Wing Senator from Georgia, who, few
days since, employed The following language in
his speech in The Senate against The Wilmot Pro-
yi,o section of the Oregon bill. We call alien
ton TO the passage, and we boldly say that The
South may firmly and safely confde in Lewis
Cas-, who is pledged TO carry out the principles
of policy" so forcbly commenced upon by Mr..
Berrien, Wing Senator from a slayeholding
Stale:
"What remains but 10 refuse all legislative in.
reference with question so pregnant with dam
ger to the integrity Of the Uniona address my
self also In perfectly respectful spirit to gentle.
men on The other side OF the chamber-to my po-
litical opponents. To them appeal to adhere to