The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-09-05

Mr. Wshst.r's refusal 20 boIti


The wing party has at last come to such pass in the
of its affairs, that the leading wing journals
are making matter of boast and felicltasn that Mr.
Webster has not boed yet but on the contrary really
means to vote the wing ticket We say to vote the
whg ticket; fos as understand the case Mr. Webster
has of late announced his purpose to take no otheror
further part in the And even 's more than
Mr. Clay will yet pledge himself to do lie has promised
10 go to the polls ON the 18th Of November next and "o
vote according to bis best lights at that time" Suchs
the sxannle of energy and enthusiasm which the wing
Generals Of Division now set TO their rank and file
vbo.e COURAGE and ZEAL be it Observed never before
needed nspriting so sorely
The REASONS which Mr. Webster in his late speech al
Marshfeld gives for not voting against General Taylor.
seem about adequate as the support thus promised
enthusiastic This is the sum and substance OF them
stated in the brief report OF that Speech which alone has
vet reached the newspapers
He said he believed him be honest man, whose
conduct had ever been marked by high of honor
He was ii oflitto preten'on' modest ana unasumng
He had been candidate for the presidency year before
The philadephia Convention. He fairly nominated by
that convention and he believed him to he ~hig Our op.
pouens said he whg, and they tried 10 disgrace him
and tho other whg, Gen. Scott by putting democratic
oivian In command them. He did not believe the
slave,v question had anything do with his nomination
The convention believed him to be whis thought him the
hest man under eristing ercsta~cs', and therefore MONT
mated hin Mr. Webster spoke at some length in vindca
ting the wings OF the convehoh anu oA'os 'ne cha'"o
Of Gen. Taylor"
Such is the glowing suogy which the great wing
tor finds it in his heart. after three months deberaon
to pronounce upon the wing nominee. 1t may perhaps
Justify Mr. Websters voe-partcularly as il he failed
so to VOTE he would have again to ask himself the
solemn and puzzling question, "Where | to go" But
this view of General Taylor would certainly not justify
in Mr. Webster another exposure to ian October sun
in behalf of such candidate And Mr. Webster now
proposes nothing Of the sort Yet here again. he is rather
in advance Of Mr. Clay That distinguished gentleman in
tated it is said that he could not "endorse" General
Taylor's nomination until he saw "sgned" The Gene
RAILS has appeared in his letter to Gov More
head but we have not Jet heard that MI. Clays en
dorseen is forthcoming Perhaps the truth is, that Mr.
Clay wthhods his endorsement because he has seen the
same signature attached to rather too much Of the paper
now hawked about on the Political Exchange
But Mr.. Webster, though very much changed from
what he was in the previous presidential canvass in
spect of ador and energy yet shows himself in this
Marshfeld effort to be in point the same man now that
he was in 1874. He still hates and deprecatss third
party quite as much as he did when he courted and
wooed the aid of the "iberty men" against Mr. Polk,
on the express ground that theirpoltca principles were
IDENTICAL with those OF the wings Indeed from the en-
phass of his speech this subject and from his very eab
oras assault upon Mr.. Van Buren,, CHS dimnutive, Mr.
c. f. Adams of course ncusve there is reason to think
that Mr. Webster is rather panicstrvck now about
the third party than he in 1874 Plainly enough he
fears and with excellent reason) the nroad which the
Buffalo ticket is making in the wing ranks When the
"barnburnng" fire broke out in New York, it found the
..conscence" wings of Massachusetts. and indeed Of
New England as tow and as finder. And in that diree
ton Mr.. Webster labors in vain to stop the flames
In fact since the Buffalo Convention the Taylor wings
of the North have found their hands full OF business
Time was-and not long snce-when they thought a
"barnburner" almost half good as wing. But since
General Taylor took the field and the "barnbumers'
faternzed at Buffalo, 'barnbuning" has become in the
eyes OF the Taylor men, worse even than downright
abolitionism. They like even Gerrit Smith and Lloyd
Garrison better than Joshua Leavit, and Joshua Gid
dings and CHARLES F. Adams, and John p Hale. And
as fol Mr. Van Buren,, he is worse than all the rest
He,e is Mr.. Webster's judgment on that point:
Gle denied the correctness of the Buffalo PLATFORM which
that the Nomination Of General Taylor was induced
by desire the part Of the wings to extend slave terri
tory Nor the wings of the south accountable for the
had sixty majority in the convention and could have
nominated whomsoever they pleased. Mr.. Webster said
that in his judgment the question who shall be our next
President lay between General Taylor and General Cas-
of them will be eected-whom then, should the wings
for We could all have personal preferences
graed the skies about to fall, that we could
catch larks 1t was idle talk about third candidates
We had enough of them in 1874.
"Every given for Birney in that election was hall
for Polk and the annexation of Texas and every Voo
given this year for Van Buren, practically half voc
party folly in 1874, and no would again them Of its
consequences He spoke of the Buffalo platform-said
what there good in it, what the wings had always
advocated, and Van Buren, and his friends had always
gone against what there new in 1t, unsound ITO
had confidence in Van Buren,. would be udcrous to
express confidence in Van Burens fee-so prncples nr
he had opposed everything that looked like free soil all his
lf and he had doubt frol.the knowledge he had Of
the man, that they together, Van Buren, would laugh
in his face when the free-soil question was named.
Mr Webster went at some lengh to show up Mr. van
Buren's conduct.
'IIe had always been the supple tool Of the Soutthe
alder and abettor of slavery he did (aid Mr. Web
ster) defeat John Quincy Adams and elect Gen. jack
son than any in the country He was the soul
and of the opposition to Mr.. Adams. lie spoke Oh
his conduct while Secretary of State in his opposition 10
the abolition Of slavery in Cubahc the only President
who ever advance, threatened to BILL il Congress
should pass such one, abolish slavery in the District
Columbia He referred to his casting rifle the mails
of anti slavery papers.
'He said that exercised controlling In
his friends than Van Buren, and his friends all
went with him. He was, and his friends, in favor
annexing Texas Southern wings in both houses Of
Congress voted against admitting Texas tho Union
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