The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-01
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 1, Is4s.


TayiortsnA In New hork
When we wrote our article of yesterday upon whig
affairs in New York, had seen the remarkable ar
ce in which the New York Tribune Processes to give IN
It's adhesion rather TO abandon it, opposition to Gen
Taylor Had we this manifesto-whch quite equals
i does not eclipse, Mr. Websers Marshheld speech in
me art of damning with faint praise" the wing nom
neewe should certainly have spoken far less strongly
than we did OF the apparent reconciliation OF the Clay
men and the Taylor in the Empire State 1t is true
that the Tribune went heartily into the Clay
ment but il is not the less that that thai
journal reflected faithfully enough the wide spread dis
affection in the Clay wing ranks and their strong in
cnaton to join in the Free soil crusade, both because
OF their abotionst tendencies, and also with view
to defeat the rival party managers who had out
maneuvred them at Philadelphia and brought Gen
era Taylor into the field 1t is therefore very sig
ni6cant fact that this proessed conversion of the
Tribune Tayorism, long delayed and difficult of pro-
it has been, amounts that it has come to
almost nothing at all The article might properly be
titled, "An celebration to lukeDaness addressed 10 the
,oAigs of Nev York by an unbelieuer an Gen Taylor,
,oho puts has real faith in reesoilers and free sod
Beginning with expression OF profound respect
and sympathy for the independent free soil movement.
and closing with the declaration that, in giving any sup
port to Taylor, it is painfully conscious of differing with
many cherished friends" the Tribune proceeds 10
the matter after the following fashiona fashion, take
leave say which never yet brought wing voters up
the polls
'But Gen. Taylor committed to the great fnndamenta
principles OF wing policy will be asked and
Not distinctly fully, satisfactorily But he is clearly
committed to the policy of leaving legislation to Congress,
while the President confines himself TO his APP.
proprate duties and that WH suffice" tf
"That should greatly prefer to Gen Taylor as Pres-
dent Mr. Clay, Mr. Webster almost any prominent ,chg
statesman, shall Disguise hncforh than hereto
fore Our objection The recarding Of military srpe with
the highest eiuH trusts is the ever"
The meaning of all this is plain enough The Tr-
bune Supports" Gen Taylor; but does not by any
hold that he has either fit principles, fit qualifications,
fit position before the country, go into the presiden
cy and hereupon leaves its friends for him.
not, as they may think proper.
Breaking away possible from the consider
alton of General Taylor, the Tribune passes to Willard
Fillmore, whom it thus euogzes in comparison with
William O. Butler HIM it attacks, as our readers will
perceive exclusively upon the ground that when in Con-
gress he opposed the abotonists The readers of the
Tribune determine for themselves whether these
reasons for preerrng Fillmore TO the gallant Butler do
not also involve good grounds for preerng Seth M.
Gates, on his Buffalo platform to either of them.
"Sll, as between the men, Zachary Taylor and
Lewis Cass, we greatly prefer the former Need say
how much prefer Willard Fillmore his gentlenany
opponent the OF the right of petition the cham
pion of gagaws and the advocate Of thrustng member
of Congress from his for merely presenting OF
resolutions respecting slaveryT'
And close upon this follows the very gst of the art-
Gle, which quote at full length simply promising that
in our judgment, it is most skuly written with view
to deteat General Taylor both at the North and the
South, by placing him in exactly the ons position, in
which he can be safely trusted by neither section.
The question of slavery extension most serious
that remains We knop Gen. Cas- be wrong upon it /;
do not befieve Gen Taylor to be essentially right That
he has spoken often in general condemnation of slavery
we quite aware but have many others who with
the usual inconsistency of error yet vehement in their
demands that the South be guaranteed the right to do
wrong and dluse evil in the Territories We regret
that the candidate of the wing party fully, unequv
cay right this great moral well political question
We coud cheefy postpone, torego
erpedent and benefcent to Establish firmly righteous pri
cpie that SLAVERY be planted national
soil.
''Bu how to this question with view Ill
innate and complete triumphl If the action friends
could doubts that of adversares would
South Carolina and Texas obviously prefer General Taylor
personally General Cass but their instinct teaches
what their holder leaders avow that their only hope
triumph is through the continued ascendency OF their
natural allies the northern false preenders democ-
racy. And they not mistaken. The ,ohig yIrfy
faulty is, embodes of temperate and meas
ured antsauery sentiment Of the country and the fact
that has nominated Louisiana sugaplancr Pres
dent, whose opinions this subject do with
its own preponderang convictions constants, and ,oi
constram 10 decisive and hostility to slavery
erenson The strong of popular feeling
forward those who, under other auspices would be
unwilling and resisting And Congress elected un.
der the influence of this feeling will not dare
connive the extension of slavery whether directly
obliquey The triumph ofhe wings will be defeat Of
the avery from Mr. Calhoun Hangman Foote
Should Gen. Taylor attempt ope,r ci,cumvent the
free soil sentiment he pH find himself second John
Tyler. But he has 100 much sense to attempt it,"
This is most keenly and powerfully put to make every
northern ree-soer for Van Buren, and every slave
holding State vote for General Cass Such we cannot
but think will be its tendency wherever it is read 1t
shows beyond question that the large section of the wing
party New York for which the Tribune speaks are not
at all reconced to the idea of voting for Taylor Their
sympathes all with the e-soil movement They
hoped to get Mr.. Clay upon some such platform That
hope TO have failed Them and now if they would
vote either their opinions or their feelings they
must vote for Van Buren,. Many of them will do
soa the for such articles as this of the Tribune
The sole argument which the Tribune pretends to ad.
vance against that "freeso' ticket which has its
profound respect and sympathy" is the fact that it
cannot be elected, That ia n which NAV waigb