New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-09-29

We thls Gay inscrlDC on our DauLer the names OF
the Wing candidates for Nstioosl aud State Offices
within the immediate gift Of TIE People.
la taking this step we Indicate no new convic-
ton, unless it be that 81 the impossibty of defeat
ing Gen. Cas- Otherwise than by supporting Gen.
Taylor To- peremptory withdrawal and sban
donmert Of Mr.. CLAY leaves Us no second alterna-
i've. Profoundly respecting and sympathizing
with the independent Free Soil movement we can
yet discern no hope of its electing Mr. Van Buren,.
All the States wherein Van Buren, Electoral tick
cts will be iormidsbly supported. do not together
choose majority Of the Electors. III were pos
sible, therefore, to give Mr.. Van Buren, One Hun
dred Electoral Votes he would still stand chance
OF an election. Mr. Clay might carry the House
Mr.. Van Buren, manifestly cannot Every Wing
vote fer him. therefore, is in effect half vote for
Csss, and tends directly to promote his election
Believing Gen c. the least worthy and most danger
Gus among the candidates we cannot be content
with protesting hostility to his elevation, but shall
labor ia good faith to defeat him
OF course, our decision will be impugned by
those whose convictions on the great permanent
questions on which parties divided are hostile
10 ours. He who believes the Protective Policy
fraudulent and oppressive-who regards all Inter
nal improvements as impelled by selfish and spe-
culativs schemers-who condemns Land Distti.
button az wasteful and pcrnicious-who regards
the eub-Treasury a. the apex OF Financial science
will naturally condemn our course. They canno,
do 1t justice without change in their general
opinions and views.
- Bat ia Gen. Taylor committed to the great
fundamental principles of Wing policy ? will be
asked and we snswer-Not distinctly, fully, sat.
isfactorIly 70 us. But he is clearly committed to
the policy OF leaving Legislation to Congress
while the President confines himself to his own
more appropriate duties, and that will suffice. II
the People shall elect Representatives in favor OF
our cherished policy, we wish TO see it adopted
aud established. II they do not, we do not desire
It's triumph by Presidential patronage or influence.
That we should greatly prefer to Gen. Taylor as
President Mr.. Clay, Mr. Webster, or almost any
prominent Wing Statesman, we shall no more dis.
guise henceiorth than heretofore. Our objection
60 the rcwarding OF Military service with the high
est Civil trusts is the same as ever. There is
some consolation in the thought Of upsettng the
authors OF the late atrocioos War on Mexico with
one OF their own instruments but this does not sui
y
aad Buena Vista line of augmentation in support
Of our principles. and may not for some days. I'm
dertsking anything Of that sort reminds US that c
are no longer young
still. as between the two men, Zachary Taylor
and Lewis Cass, we greatly prefer the former ;
need We say how much wepreter Millard Fillmore
TO his geDtlemanly opponent the contemner OF the
Right OF Petition, the champion of Gag Laws and
the advocate of shrusting a Member of Congress
from his seat for merely presenting series OF
resolutions respecting Slavery We believe Gen.
Taylor will take the Presidential Chair less ham
pered by pledges by personal obligations, BY party
resolutions. than Gen. Cass would. We believe
be will be more hostile to War, more solicit
Gus for Peace, more favorable to simplicity in the
Government and utility in its expenditures than
Gen Csss would be. Thus believing, we shall
earnestly support the Wing nominees.
The question of Slavery Extension is the most
serious that remains. We kaor Gen. Cass to be
wrong upon 1t We do not believe Gen. Taylor to
b. essentially right. That he has spoken often in
sonerai condemnation OF Slavery, We are quite
aware burso have many others who, with the
usual Inconsistency of enor are yet vehement in
their demands that the South be guaranteed the
right to do wrong and ditiase evil in the New
Territories We regret that the candidate OF the
Wing party is not fully. unequvocsly right on
this great moral as well as political question We
would cheerfully postpone or even forego meas
ures we deem expedient aud benehcent to estab-
hsh firmly the ri shteous principle that Slavery
can mover more be planted on National Soil.
But how are we to act on this question With a
view toultimste and complete triumph Ii the
action OF our friends could not remove our doubts
that of our sdveraries would. South Carolina
and Texas obviously prefer Gen. Taylor personal.
ly 10 Gen. Csss but their instinct teaches what
their oolder leaders svow that their only hope Of
triumph is through the continued ascendency of
their natural allies, the Northern false pretend.
ers TO Democracy. And they are not mistaken.
The Whis party, faulty as it is embodies most OF
the temperate aud measured Anti-Slavery sent |
ment oil the country; and the fact that i, has nom
mated Louisiana Sugar Planter for President /
whose opinions on this sub jet do not accord with
ts own prepondersting convictions, constrains and
viii constrain 1t to more decisive and earnest hos.
lhty to Slavery Extension. The strong current
VI popular feeling often carries forward those no
lnder other auspices would be found uawiliny
md even resisting. And Congress elected under
be influence OF this feeling will not dare not con.
emit TO or connive at the Extension of Slavery,
whether directly or oblquey. The triumph Of
he Wings will be the defeat OF the Slavery crusa.
ep from MIR. Calhoun to Hsnsmsn Foote. Should
rem Taylor attempt to override or eircumvent the
rec Soil sentiment, he viii soon fad himselfs
soond John Tyler. But he has too much sense 10
tempt it.
We, therefore, confidently trusting that the most
snefcent results viii, in every aspect OF the case
low the success Of the Wing candidates, will
We them henceforth a determined support
sinfally conscious that in doing so we shall differ
I'm many cherished friends, we can only ask them
defer their judgment until events shall Justify
blast our expectations We confde not in any I
an, bat in the great and intelligent party whose c
stiacts and traditions alike bind il to the cause q
Humanity and Freedom. 4
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