The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-11-28

,tconkey declines to answer whether his veto would
~ interposed to save the South from degradation We
are told that General Taylor never surrendeIs Never
LEI be said again he has surrendered MS
fo he fears the consequences OF an ayowal OF MS oh
on. mon his chances OF election. The soldier whose
lace has been bronzed in the service OF his country be-
comes special pleader IN an election canvass ne VINO
his lie hesitaes before the organization OF party and
treats before the apprehension that the announcement
al his principles may lose him votes The dangers oil
Palo Alto Resaca, Monterey, and Buena Vista, are
nnable 10 shake the nerves OF one VINO waivers ana
TsTeals before the managers OF the ballot box; Sir,
can consent to vote away my tlghis IN 'f aah
cannot vote for general al the head OF DIVISION
II the army, who accepts nomination for the presl-
Sency and retains has commission; who, IN the exer,
;.e of the highest military, asks the highest civil
uunand in the world | cannot consent to do this
and make such an awful stride towards the brink OF
thai gull which has swallowed up, every republic
II the conquerors sword shall dig the grave oil THIS
rsuube will be guiltless OF giving the act my
,porobaion will not aid him in writing It's cpl
n,h on It's tombstone with the point Of that sword.
The hearts blood OF liberty shall never, by my ad be
. n record in crimson letters, the fate OF the land
of the free and the home OF the brave Sir gentlemen
finland the course OF General Taylor, and declare his
ocuar gvings out in his correspondence as proper and
satisfactory, whilst they are free to denounce the plat
form of democratic principles upon which we ACT NO
declaration however plain, can be understood, whilst
we are asked adopt the principles OF General Taylor,
which at best are matter OF conjecture; or, II known
at all are utterly opposed TO all the doctrines which we
hold General Cass declared his views in letter which
a hefor world.
provso in the constitution He accepts the platform LAID
5own bv the democracy convention He accepts the
nominaiion and retires from the Senate to private lie
How unlike the wing candidate; now proper now ais
rree, how becoming. Sir, | sustain the democratic
nominees because they are democrats, avowedy, prac-
icaly They experienced civilians well acquainted,
practically, with the duties OF statesmen, ana latnlul
and true The present Executive has fulfilled his pledges
made when he accepted the nomination. he deserves
and has secured the confidence and regard OF The people
General Cass has given his administration bou' manly,
AN ri g
II is needless for me to compare VIM O. Butler and
Willard Fillmore before a southern constituency the
one a good and true southern man with southern feel
ingsZa democrat in his Opinions and so recorded IN his
yotes--a man of high chivalry and gentlemany hear
ing-a cizen-solder retired into private life, with no
army interest back his pretensons the other, stepped
IN all the doctrines OF a northern wing, found voting
side by side with Gldngs and Hale and Slade, without
recommendation to southern statesmen except per-
haps availability in New York.
Sr the President has been over and over denounced
for an equvoca position on the subject OF the tariff IN
sl4 We have been tainted with the Kane letter when
ever we complain that Gen Taylors opinions not TO
he derived from his letters Justice to that distinguished
individual demands the refutaton o. that charge AS
early as lSi3, his letter. declaring his hostility to the
arfof 1872 was published in Tennessee IN his canvass
for governor, The National lntelllgencer, at the COM
nencement of the canvass of 1884, published that letter
and Mr. Gays who advocated that tariff, and made the
issue The letters speak for themselves:
THE TARIFF Upon important point OF national
policy the has been fairly joined Notwlst lnimg
the arliu dodgng OF The ocaocos they are directly al
ofthe whgs-Henry Cay-has uniformly declared himself
favor Of sustaining that great, and as experience has
shown, beneceni measure; and the following brie
letter, which has just been pub'shed upon that subject
stop the mouths OF the most INSCRIPTIONS sianderers IN
the ocotoco ranks;
"AsHI.ANp, June %, 1874
"DFAR SIR; have received your favor stating that
political opponents represent me being friend pro-
lection at the North and for free trade the South and
yos desire expression OF my opinion under my own
hand for the purpose of correcting this misepre sentaon
,fra will HnIt tiO -
representations of Those who choose to undersigned
opinions have no difficulty in clearly compreendng
them. have repeatedly expressed them, as late as this
spring. and several times in answer to letters from Pennsy
yana My opinions, such as they have been recently
quite freely expressed at the South ever uttered
em the North haze epery,chere maintained that, IN
n"nga tmD for reusnu d,'erM, g ought 10 Dc
ncaAy and that am utterly opposed TO its repeal These
Were by me az public mee' M IN Ala
n' and in Virginia our friend and en- cEaY
"Mr. FRED. ]. Core.
Thus stands Henry Clay. Lot the following letter
equally explicit and emphatic. define the position OF James
'WIScHEsrER, May 49, 1913.
THE object which bad in proposing Governor Jones
atCarov'e, the 18th April last, that should each
ecto, the tariff was, that respscfrs positions might be
distinctly kaocn and understood BY The people That my
doubt had steadity during the period oas repre-
"tntics Congress- been opposed to proeetiu policy
tred from Congress had held the same opinion. In the
present for governor, had aroced my opposition
70 the tarW act Of the late mhig Congress being highly
as q rsuenue measure. had avowed my opinion in my
public speeches, that the interests of The counryand
Pecay the producing and exporting Satesrquird its
HP and the restoration of the principles OF the compro-
mise tariff of 1888. JAMES X. POLK.
Thus stands James X Polk and thus stands before the
PEOPLE the question OF the continuance the repeal OF the
tanh OF 1872. If the wings succeed, it will be continued;
If the locoIocos succeed, it will be REPEALED"
If an unfair construction was placed upon the Kane
letter, was deliberately done and the nominee Tor the
presidency was in no way 10 blame.
Sir, occupy most critical position. All of the
patriotism OF the South invoked for the preservation of
the Union for the safety of the country. We find wing
OF the dominant party in the House of Representatives
with the seubrquet of the free SOIL party unwilling to
concede anything to the South We see the formation
Of great party to the North exhibiting the union of New
York and Massachusetts Martin Van Buren, and Charles
= Adams The free soil demonstration made by all
The dscordant materials of wings, disconnected democrats,
oarhourners and liberty men, aboltionsts and free
negroes, fourleres and socialists, whose abors have
resulted IN giving candidate for the presidency, who
mas proved recrean to every pledge which he has hereto
iofe made; and reputed. and suppose avowed aboi
ZIONIST, for the second Office All differences of opinion
nave been compromised, and all unite in common hos
ulY 10 southern institutions they bound together in
crusade against the constitution and its guarantees
9r, may speak freely of Martin Van Buren,. have
ueVoted much OF my time advancing his preensions,
as lar as my ability enabled to do so. respected
nun and honored him. With the rest of my party, |
ieh covered with wounds for him in 1910. When the
oae OF New York deserted him. the South gave him al
mos a The votes which he obtained Up to the last act
VI me drama IN 1874 he proved preference His
uucl In that canvass secured admiration But disap
pointed ambition struck the deep into his soul his
plIhGlpes is patriotism, and his high position once
eh before the whsperngs of the end the volcanic fires
burned IN his bosom, and, Just the moment when graf
Ial