The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1848-10-03
From the N. Y. Tribune.
LETTER FROM JOHN M. BOTT5.

/ rrom tne IN. 4 lHpune.
\ LETTER FROM JOHN M. BOTTS.
I Published by order Of the Clay Commnoe.]
! RlcuMoND, September 6, ls46.
MY DEAR Sin: received your letter
yesterday, by which was delighted 10 hear
of the fired purpose mot an Albany lash-in.
Tlhe-pau--of the determined friends of the
Wing cause, and ofWhig principles, 70 nom.
mate Henry Cray; for, 40 matters now
stand, admitting Gen. 1ArLoa 10 be a iphig
candidate, (Which utterly deny,) the.pary
is doomed 10 certain, inevitable and dis
graceful defeat, and every man not wlfully
blind must see II. II Was sn inexcusable
blundelto suppose that from million and
quarter 10 million and half of free, indie.
pendent Wing voters could be wheeled into
line al the word Of command from some fif-
iy or sixty Washington politicians, (most of
whom had scarcely shed their PIN feathers
in poliiics) for a candidate who had never
filed a civil station, and who had not for
forty years, and perhaps in his life. given a
vote for man or measure, without experiences
or knowledge Of the practical operations Of
any one of The domestic questions atout
which we had differed; of no acquainiance
with our foreign relations: who had said to
the people, You must take me on your
own responsibiliiy"-"I will not be tho can
didate of a patty" nor "wil | be the expo
nent Of your party principles" nor "look to
the doctrines OF your party as the rulo OF
nv action" and while he professed 20 shrink
from no responsibility, steadily refused TO
give his opinion on any one question, except
the practical use Of The veto power; and de-
clared his determination not to be governed
BY the aclion Of the Convention, but wonld
be candidate no matter who might be nom
mated; and in my judgment his name new.
er should have been considered in that Con-
ven,ion after he made that declaration.
But this last objection, it was said, had
been removed by the pledges made for him
by Judge SAUNDERS in behalf Of the Louis:
lana delegation, which he subsequently,
adopted by card written by his authority
and published by Bale PEyToN, BrIIrTr,
&c.-and this declaration was held up By
the Taylor men and Wing presses Of tho
country us sufficient to reconcile all wings
to his election. That Peyion Card and his
cordial acceptance Of the nomination had
placed him upon the Whig platform; and
just at the moment that many Of us had
brought our minds to the conclusion TO yoie
for hun, however reluctantly, he writes an
other letter, in Which he says he would have
accepted the nomination from the Baltimore
Convention on the same terms on which he
accepted the Philadelphia nomination!--
What becomes, then, Of the Saunders pIedges
What becomes Of the Peyion Gard? And
if ii be true thu, there were no terms ex.
pressed or implied in the Philadelphia uomi-
nation that would he inconsistent with an a.
cepiance OF the Democratic nomination Il
Baltimore, in what an attitude does il place
the Whg party, sele, fling as their candidate
one who could with equal proprety hive be-
come the caIdidite Of their orponensf-
And if moi true, in what position does it
place Gen. Taylor? \,
But what desire to learn IS this: Ir
Gen. Taylor is moi bound by the action Of
the Philadelphia convention, who isf And
; if he may disregard its recommendation.
who may not? And if he is bound by their
action, what right has he 10 lend the intiu-
ence Of his name TO the defeat Of Mr.. FIX.
MORE who was associated with him, By the
same body Of men, by accepting a nomina-
lion with Gen. Butler, Loco Poco, whose
election he thereby assists in promo,ing.---
In short his whole course of conduct is in
sulting 10 The Wing party, and especially 10
all those who participatedih ihs proceedings
at Philadelphia, and ii they had any whig
; spirit LETT in them, they would resent iL
If il is ascertained that the purpose Of
that Convention was perverted from It's orig.
inal legitimate objects Of ascertaining and
giving expression to public sen,imen.; by
smo,hering it on the one hand, aud manufac
turing |, on the other, or in other words, il
liz has been ascertained, (of which there is
; no doubt,) that the nomination vas made
through the ins ,rumentaliiy of politicians
without the slightest reference 10 ihe public
will and that the interests Of the party are
likely to be sacrificed by il, then hold, that
the error ought 10 be corrected promptly By
The People themselves, and TRUST in God,
the meeting yon notify me Of may put The
ball in motion, tliat il may roll, and gstthr
as il rolls, until iha Wng party sLail hsss J
lis eyes opened tos lrue cond;iio~, and us:-
ling as que man, On the only rnr w,lo lvea
I embalned in the hsaris of his cuqn,ry,n, n,
we may command 4 triumph that our Il al
strength ensitlesus to achieve tsh4ii be IL
New York yery shortly.
!! John NJ. RoTTA