Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-08-18
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To Mai. Gen. VIM. o. BUTLER.
WASHINGTON. August 3. 1913

DIR: | nave the nOnOT 10 acknowledge the
receipt of your communication as the organ Of
the Baltimore ConventiOn-which reached me
only yesterday my nomination
by that body as the democratic candidate for
the office of Vice President.
For this distinguished mark of confidence
andtrust, am most deeply grateful TO my
friends; and cannot but the more appreciate
the honor done me, when reflect that this
nomination was made without my knowledge
while absent in distant country, and by the
unanimous voice of the convention. My &C
CeptanCe is matter of course.
1t is at all times proper in free country,
and al a crisis like this, deemed indispensable
in our own, that aspirants to office should be
distinctly understood on all important ques-
lions of national policy; and my nomination
for the office of Vice President has no doubt
been made with full knowledge of mine
My position while a member of Congress COM
PEELED me 10 take decisive, though not con
spicuous. part on all the leading questions OF
the day. | might therefore appeal to the past
as the best and safest guarantee for my future
political course. Some of these questions are
however, daily growing in importance; and
as ! cannot consent to win the good opinion
of others by Disgusting my own, and as de-
proper that | should be more explicit. feel
the more impelled to this course from the con-
sideration that my action as member OF Con-
gress may not be accessible to the people al
large. With this OBJ ect in view, have ex-
amined carefully the proceedings of the con-
venton by which was nominated | recog-
Mise in the resolutions passed by that body but
the marking, and with an able hand of the
great lines of separation between the demo
cratic and whig parties-lines that should be
ever kept freshly before the people, and are
so plainly laid down in the resolutions refer
red to, that "the wayfaring man, though
fool, cannot err therein" Those resolution.
have been widely circulated, and are within
the reach of ALL | deem it sufficient to say
that they meet my entire and unqualified ap
probation.
Permit me, in conclusion, sir, 10 tender t
you, and through you to the entire democrac,
represented by the body over which you 81
ably presided, my grateful thanks for the dis
tinguished honor they have done me.
With high regard, remain truly your friend
W. o. BUTLER
Hon. ANDREW STEVENSON,
President of the Democratic Convention
Od-We keep by us number of extract
from leading federal papers of the non slave
holding States, which advocate the election O
Gen. Taylor to the Presidency over Genera
Cass, on the ground that the former is exact
ly the sort of man that the Wilmot Provtso
men Of the North want. Gen. Cass they can
not bear, because they say he is pledged to We
to the Wilmot Proviso but Gen. Taylor i
the very pink, because he is pledged not to in
terfere in questions of domestic policy
We shall continue to present TO the reader
specimens OF the mode in which the fedora
abolition papers of the free States urge upo
the anti-slavery voters OF the North, the claim
of" Old Zack,' in preference to those of Gen
Cass on this point. The South ought to know
the game that is being played by the federal
lists OF the North. We clip from the Cncin
natl Gazette-one of the leading federal pa
pers of the North West-the following cxtraC
from long and elaborate editorial, heade
The Great Issue Of the present Canrass,
and ask the Southern reader if it does not We
ry ingenlously prove that Gen. TAYLOR ba
pledged himself to go with the North on III
slavery question:
eve believe (says the Gazette> that slave
ry is a national evil and a national DISGRACE
and thus believing, we are uncompromising i
our hostility 10 its extension into any terrific
ry where it does not exist We have no ney
lght-no newborn zeal upon this subject :
Always having regarded slavery as curse
always having feared and deprecated II
consequences of its extension-we still advC
cate what we believe the only practicable an
efeetual means of arresting IFS spread, an
state the reasons for the faith that is in u.s.
How then is limit TO be established, BE-
yond which SLAVERY in this, our boaste
land OF Liberty, shall never extend SureI
no other way than by the potential fiat of II
people, constitutonally procaiming, thus f;
NOS s. + Progressed-but hereafter, no farther
,uo nona - tooNongress, and to Congress alon
we must IN the,frst instance, look for actic
ana decision upon this agtatino nnaston ~
secondly, zoe must haUe7a Pres;!3 resuol d
not interpoSe his " indiUid,i.l' '1"o I"
rest or control the action of Coas .~ao' 70
How then stand the two cand;Ssso.
terence to the exercise of the Kinglv - ~ !
tive? We discard Van Buren, and Has
the election of either, by possibility, does !
come within the range of legitimate, i'd
computation.