The North-Carolina standard., 1848-09-20
,,ENRY CLAY NOMINATED,

~ VIRGINIA, about a month since, continues to
"''1 and it gathers strength and power as it adj
PH~. On the 18th instant the Wings of New York
H had most enthusiastic Meeting, and nominated
N and Fillmore by exclamation. The feeling at
,r:Neeting was most intense-nothing, like it had
pp r;tnessed in New York City, since 1910. The
% Willis Hall, straightout, old-fashioned Whig
~" :1od. surrounded by a crowd of Vice Presidents
PI secretaries. According to all the accounts we
' s.en of this Meeting, at least TEN THOUSAND
rra,es WERE PRESENT, all animated by the same sem
-.Ot, and all determined to repudiate Gen. Taylor,
1In cling, through veal and through woe, to Harry
T,he West. In opening the Meeting, among other
%H.~s Mr.. Hall said
n ~ do not say that Gen. Taylor may not be right
=, his position, as no-party candidate; 1 am not
% 10 agitate the question of the necessity of party
N .rarty is the only way by which the sense of a
%.65Ie can be ascertained, and no free government
exist without party-without it they are liable to
unbnsed and destroyed. General Taylor takes the
mon that he will not be the candidate of any party
7 bs he may be right; but where did that conven-
aaa Get authority to nominate such man? Did
w. w. ssuthorise that convention to dissolve the whig
!sUUIrl No. They have, therefore, gone beyond
RiII authority, in nominating a who said he
Oud not be the exponent of the whig principles, and
"" are therefore, not bound by the nomination of
w. convention. Another reason we have for reject
nr n this nomination is, that we know not what Gen.
Tor's princ pies are. His friends very fond of
domnarinG his position to that of George Washing
ton (Hisses) Gentlemen, there IS moi the reusotest
oornisau bet1ceen them. mo, no) General WASH
n was taken from civil life and made general of our
mies. After the war, in which he displayed tai
snts civil we'll as military, he elected Presi-
sn of the convention that formed the constitution:
and no man in country had been more familiar
With our government, no man was more familiar with
every question that was discussed in that convention,
Il and his opinions known to all the people-al-
most TO every man in the nation. Where, then, is
the resemblance between Gen. Taylor and General
Washington? In that respect the comparison fails
absolutely. Again: Gen. Taylor has never, by pre-
pt or practice, developed his views on public ques.
yions What has he said to indicate what his prn-
dples arel What has he done to indicate them
Nothing. Felow-citi izens, is this popular govern
ment? Is this government of the people Is this a
government belonging to the people, and are they
alone to control it? Tell me, in the name of heaven
then, how you can control it if you do not know the
principles of the man you vote for. / ask you, do
you vote for principles! Now, the only way known
which the people the control their own govern
ments is, by knowing the principles of the men
they vote for. (Applause.) What farce, then,
Ii popular government, if this is to be carried out
ii not insult to the people, to propose man aUhO
nfuses to tell iOG Of his principles, or hOaO he
rH conduct the government, Of has election? Is
hat the way you do when you appoint an agent
When you appoint man to act for you, do you not
the reasons given for this extraordinary conduct is
adding insult to injury. What is the truth That
il is impolitic for him to declare his principles, be-
by not doing so he may get the votes of par
ies who would not vote for him if he declared them
That the people may be deceired in thinking that has
opinions tUGy, 1Uhen in fact they are another.
The Meeting was also addressed by Dudley Sell
len and others. Mr.. Selden said:
sit was for them in New York to act, and all the
ether States would pursue tho same course. He
would now see what the amount of the wings was
ia New York. The whig vote in the city was about
they gave Henry Clay the ticket, they would then
have done half the work; if they could but carry
the electoral vote in the State of New York, they
would then have performed one-tenth OF the labor.
Cries of Sc We will, to be surely He would then
look around him, in the city of New York, and ask
Where were the wings 1'' (Cries of ' Here to be
ure.'' s. Here are,'' and cheers.) Yes, he had
boxed around at the Taylor meetings. lately held in
Jsess meetings.. C'Yes, yes.'O They seemed Gs #
hey had gathered together for funeral daughter
and cheering.) They seemed controlled by fear
hey knew that they were pursuing course of poll
y which never belonged to the wings. (Cheers.)
4 They knew they were following a man not of the
Fhg party-that all they would ever hear of the whig
/ PARTY would be lost in the name of Taylor. Loud
theerng) He did not intend to be in at that change
n Of name; so he would act that platform, of which
A CLAW was the principal architect (Vociferous cheer
| mg1 The battle, then, was now before them, and
would rather carry it in sixty days than IN six
months. The news of their proceedings would
reach every part of the State in ten days. and let all
their friends only be told that they would not go for
f Taylor in New York, that they would go for Clay
\ tRenewed cheering.) 1t they but held on to this
course and acted energecally throughout the State,
I Clay would undoubtedly succeed
n The following Resolutions were adopted by accla-
nation:
. "Resolved, That we tender our thanks to Hon.
Daniel Webster for his recent address to the wings
Of Marshfeld and of the Union, he having, In that
ibe speech, demonstrated by unanswerable argu-
nens the impolicy of the late Philadelphia nomlna-
ion for the Presidency the of relying upon
supposed availability the principal ground OF re-
concentrations and the importance to the whlg party
dhaving and eIecting a candidate, thoroughly In
'uced in the civil policy and conduct OF our nation
government.
Resolved, As we'll in compliance with this care
fully considered opinion, as in conformity with our
own deliberate Judgment and wishes-we Will select
Om the roll of whig statesmen who has for near
forty wears performed leading part in the coun-
ellis of his country-one In whom the whIg party has
always had entire confdence-whom, above all oth-
eB, without invidiousness, we think best quallned
adjust and settle the great questions which now
distract the American Union-to whom all hearts
turn with instructive regard-Henry Clay, of Ken
lucky. We know how strong may be his dlslncl-
ation to any step which, under any circumstances,
nay connect his name with the pending political
Struggle; vet neither he any other citizen has the
hight to withhold when the country requires his ser
vices in the Office of President of the United States
We will endeayor to secure them, and if we shall
0rtunately succeed, we will have performed our
duty, and will leave to him the performance OF MS.
Resolved That in the present emergency In our
POLITICAL AFFAIRS and the necessity for immediate ana
Energetic action, there is not time for 1orm' OF cele
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