New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-07-31

iectiOns 70 the nomination Oh zen. Taylor
/. He Military Chieftain, whose whole ma
ture life has been passed in the Army, necessarily
diverting his mind TO a great degree from civil
affairs We dislike the principle Of choosing our
civil rulers merely or mainly because Of the distnc
ton they have achieved in Military service
?. Though his present professions are Wing,
and he is no doubt hearty hster Of the Polk dy-
nasty he has never voted Wing ballot probably
never gave dollar nor an hour to the diffusion OF
the truths which are the basis Of our organization,
and confesses himself not well acquainted with
political siairs-as might well be supposed. We
have 40 assurance up to this hour, that he is
heartily favorable to any one Of those great dis
tinctve measures for which the Wings have con
tended, unless it be the practical Limitation Of the
now grossly-abused Veto Power.
3. His nomination was urged on unworthy
grounds and secured by the force Of considerations
we heartily detest. Its advocates either assumed
that the great distinctive measures for which the
Wbig party had long and honoraby struggled
we're obsoete--(that is, surrendered Or that
they were not sufficiently popular to triumph on
their own merits bat must be carried by the roll
Of the drum and the fash Of Buena Vista guns.
We deny these assertions and despise the coun-
sells they inspired.
T. Gen. Taylor stood before the public in an
cquivocal attitude with regard TO the Wing party.
He was supported by some independent Of
party; by others as a Wing, but not an ultra
Wing and again by others a full Wing and
a gtarfer oUer. He was pledged to some TO run
for President even in opposition to the Wing
nominee; by others he was understood and re
presented as committed to abide the decision Of
the Philadelphia Convention. 1t seems difficult
to see how frank, honest, straightforward man
should get involved in such labyrinths Of misap-
prehensons.
3. He was first proposed and most warmly
urged for the Presidency, in good part, by men in
whose integrity we had no confidence and whose
characters we could not esteem-who had belong
ed to several parties and acquired no good reputa
ton with sny-men whom we had been com
PEELED T. regard as spectators IN politics and mer-
cenary hunters after spells.
g. He was an especial favorite with those known
To MS ms Northern Wings with Southern principles
advocates Of vigorous prosecution Of the War
No Peace without Indemnity Our Country
right or wrong, &c &c This class do not like
The Tribune, nor we them.
Z. Last and worst Of ALL he was the candidate
If the ultra slaveholding interest, so far as any
portion Of it adheres to the Whg party-of Geor-
sia Alabama, Mis- ssippi Arkansas, Florida and
Tcxas-of those who claim for the South the right
Of planting Slavery Ia the New Territories. We
have not said, and do not mean to say, that Gen.
Taylor is himself Of their school. We do say,
however that he was the only one among all those
proposed as Wing candidates for the Presidency
who had never uttered a word in public reprehen-
sion Of Slavery and was not known to us to be
hostile to its Extension.
These are the reasons land the Republican is
entitled TO the credit of cxtortng from US this for
mai statement Of them which induced us, in oppo-
sition to.our uniform course hitherto to hesitate
as to supporting the regular Wing nominations, so
far as the President was concerned To us they
seemed strong enough 10 require hesitation. at
least. Yet We said at the first, and have stood to
it since that if compelled TO choose between
the support OF Gen. Taylor and the election Of
Cass. we should support Taylor. We have doqbts
as to Taylors fitness for the Presidency, but none
at all as to Casss. Gen c. lacks the good traits
in Gen. Tayors character which we have cheer
fully recognized and acknowledged; he is disquali
fed for the Presidency alike by what he has
done and what he has failed to do. Even the
Slavery question, where he has naturally the better
position by fifteen degrees of latitude Taylor
attitude is as much better than his as doubt is
preferable to despair. We shall therefore vote for
Taylor even in his present equivocal attitude if
we deem that vote necessary TO the defeat Of
Cass But we shall do this. whenever it shall be
DONE because we think it the best thing we can
do for the country, and not at all because of any
pledge as asserted made last February. We
protest against the doctrine of choosing the less Of
two cvils-thc candidate we support must be COM
mended to us by conviction that public good is /
to be secured by his election. 1t may not be all
the good, the highest good we can conceive |
but it must be real good, and the greatest good |
we think attainable
- But why not take ground at once for Taylor |
since it is now certain that either he or Cass must
be elected are often asked We answer
L. Because that until after the Buffalo Convention
and the August Elections shall have uttered their
voices it is not absolutely certain that Taylor or
Cass must be chosen. =. Because we are bent on |
ductou Of Slavery into the New Territories 70 the |
very utmost and We believe we can DO this more /
eAectually rOm present position than from any
other And we wish to be distinctly understood /
,n this point Il Slavery could be excluded from |
New Mexico aud California by shivering the /
WING party to atoms, aud thus only, we would /
not hesitate moment but insist on the sacrifice.
Should the moment arrive when we could a
way open to exclude Slavery from those regions
~ opposing the Philadelphia nominations, we
should DO il without a moments hesitation.
As TO 'the soundness Of our principles and the
Judgment passed thereon by our Johnsiown cotem.
,orary, we deem it unnecessary to say anything.
That We are most anxious for the ascendancy OF
he principles hitherto professed by the Wig
'a1y, we suppose none really doubts II any do,
hey are welcome to persist in 50 doing. We be
eve the country is now silently but rapidly ap-
roachins a crisis wherein return to the Protec-
i've Policy or universal prostration and bankruptcy
inevitable At this moment half the manufac-
ories in the country are running at loss. many
ave stopped, and more must stop If some decided
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