New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-10-19

sour, Arkansas, Texas, &c. nave pceh Piv'o'
men Of swelling words aud no real force Every
day renders more and more apparent the fact mat
Gen. Taylor Will not be elected nor materially
helped by ao-psrty nor by Southern party votes
and that be mast be carried by old-issh.oned "nig
strength a1d Whig mesns-by appeals % the IN
dsrstanding. the patriotism and toe conscience OF
the Country against the policy and measures
recommended by Polk and supported by Cass-by
Wing arguments and Wing votes Gen. Taylor
has himself been constrained by the necessities Of
the case 70 place himself distinctly the Wing
platform. sm pretty determined Wing, and
DO ~, wan; President more decidedly Of az and
with us than bls later letters make him. The
States which Will vote COR him Will thereby sp
prove the general features Of Wing policy, now
known Of all men. The Congress elected with
him will be Wing Congress, only the more thor
oughly committed - our principles that he has
been suspected Of lukewarmness or equivocal re-
gard as n some Of them. That Congress will pro.
coed TO csry out the Wing policy. 50 far as It shall
have power And General Taylor is distinctly
pledged, beyond persdyenture or csvil. to leave
Legislation 70 Congress and devote himself to his
Executive duties Is not this night Is 1t not all
we could desire Who would wish to see our
measures fastened upon the country through the
potency Of Presidential influence What Wing
is not satisfied 70 have the country governed and
ia policy shaped as the Representatives. Of the
People shall direct For one, am content with
this, and shall do my best 10 secure It.
And now % the question Of Slavery Extension,
which after all is the great difficulty in the pros
eut contest II your State is lost 20 the Wings,
IL will be on this issue alone Let whether
il should be lost on this
know nothing Of Gen. Tsylors or Gen. Csss's
sentiments on this point which Is lot or may not
be known 10 you all. That Gen. Taylor slave
hodcr-that he opposed the Annexation OF Tex
as-thst he has often spoken ia apprehension Of
Slavery yet, with the usual Southern inconsistent
cy. insists on cherishng the evil and repeine all
Free State Interference with it-so much is may
be generally known. That he desires or contem-
plates any Extension Of slavery | do not be
lieve nor do believe that any considerable por
ton of the Wings Of the South do so. In all my
conversations with Southern Wings this sub
iect | have not vet met the first who ex
pressed desire 10 see Slavery carried across the
Rio Grande Some, indeed insist that they will
not be excuded-that Southern planter has a
right 10 take his slaves into the new territory ms
clearly rs a Northern wool-erower has 10 take his
sheep there and they can't agree TO surrender the
punciple but to desiring the practical Exten-
sion Of Slavery know not one Of them who does
81. On the contrary their general sentiment is
no, dissimilar TO that Of the great body of intel
gent conservatives at the North-namely, that
"a L.. To- al.
be rid Of, and which, though they shrink from the |
sacrifices and hazards Of sbolishing II, they have
no wish to impose upon others. In defiance OF
the noisy manifestations Of zeal for Southern |
tights which the lynx-eyed jealousy of fragrant |
wrong naturally incite, ! firmly believe that If
every Southern Wing could vote Yea or Nay on
the question Of Slavery Extension, in such man
ner that no mans vote should be exposed two
thirds of them would vote in the negative The
e alousy of the powerful classes of slavebreeders
and slsvetraders may long prevent any open exhi.
btion ofthis sentiment, but it sthere nevertheless.
Now let us suppose Gen. Taylor chosen Presl-
dent and with him Congress House Wing by
20 to 80 msjority-the Wing strength consisting
of ninety Representatives of Free and forty Of
Slave States. You know under what influences
the Wing Members from Free States are chosen,
aud what are the sentiments on this subject de.
handed by the public opinion Of their constitu-
encies You know whether President could
afford to commence deadly struggle with two
thirds Of his supporters IN Congress. You can
guess whether the Loco Foco Members whatever
they might be impeed TO do for President OF
their own stripe would be likely to do toward
helping on a Whig President engaged IN such an
undertaking as Slavery Extension The induce
ment to such a seli-sacrihoe for President Of ad
verse politics would be nothing, the peril every |
thing Ihave looked over the whole ground care
fully. and 1t is my deliberate conviction that |
should Gen. Taylor and a Wing Congress be |
chosen. there will be no Extension of Slavery |
during the ensuing Presidential term-l trust not |
ever alter And do not see how any candid OBJ |
server, after survey OF the whole ground, can |
come TO different conclusion.
What would be done in case Of Gen. Casss
election cannot so clearly foresee but the pros
pect cannot be better in that direction-it may be
far worse The South will trust Southern Pre- |
sldent farther and bear from him more than from
Northern politician whom she knows was against |
her claims until she bought HIM by lurng his IN
famed ambition. 1t is the pride, not the interest |
nor the calm Judgment. OF the South that stands in
the way Of the establishment Of the Free SOIL
principle-dresd OF being overruled or overborne
rather than an earnest wish to difiuse Slavery
the wilds OF New Mexico and California. To |
secure tranquility and success to the Administra-
ton of a Southern President of general and de.
served popularity, the South will coscede what
she never wall ooncede TO the mere numerical
preponderanoe OF the North. Taking into account
sll the circumstances believe the Extension Of
slavery under Gen. Taylor ss little probable as
under any other President whatever.
And ii not ON this account, on what should any
Wing faller Since Gen. Cass or Gen. Taylor
must be President, how should any Wing hesitate
If the difference in the men be nothing, is not the
difference in their priaciPles something On the
one side, Legislation BY Congress on the other,
Government by Presidential patronage and Presi-
Dental Netoes On the one side, Protection 10
American Industry on the other, hostility to the
principle. and persistence in the policy which is
now the main cause OF our moneyed contrsciioas