The North-Carolina standard., 1848-09-20
GEN TAYLOR ON SLAVERY.

Gen. TAYLOR, in his Allison letter, says: "The power
riyen by the Constitution to the Executive to nterpose
his veto is high conservative power; but in my opin-
ion should never be exercised, except of clear
violation of the Constitution manifest haste and want
of consideration by Congress.
Mr. Badger, in his Speech in the Senate against Mr..
Claytons Compromise declares the Wilmot Proviso to
be Constitutional; and speaking of case in which
Congress exercised jurisdiction the question of slave
ry he says: Nor this instance of hnsfy and
considerate action So, according to Mr.. Badger Gen.
Taylor would not if elected President veto the Wimot
Proviso.
Gen. TAYLOR also says in his Allison letter, that the
personal opinions Of the individual who may happen to
cupy the Executive chair ought control the action
Congress upon questions of domestic policy; ought
his objections be nerposed where questions of cons
tutiona power have been settled by the various depart
ments of Government and acquesced in by the people"
Mr.. Badger in his Speech delivered in this City,
the oath day of August, ls4S said: He deemed the
true pivot which the ensuing election ought to and
turn be the question of the unlimited exercise
of the Veto power If you would have the Legislative
departments of the Country chambers for register
ing the edics of corrupt Executive vote for the advo
cate of such theory, Lewis Cass. But if you would
the will of the People expressed and perfected through
their proper Representativcs-if you would preserve
your republican form of Government in reality well
name vote for that man ,oho acH sacrifice his
pirate partiuties Of opinion to the open declarations
of the popular tciH :"
Gen. Taylor's "privates partiaes of opinion " are
supposed by Southern Wings to be in favor of the slave
holding States but Mr. Badger here distinctly
that he ",UU sacrifice" those "prirute partiahties
to the sviH of bare majority of Congress! That s if
the Representatives of the nonslavehong States should
pass law excluding the people of North Carolina, and
of the South, from New Mexico and California Gen.
Taylor will approve that law and as President of the
United States, that it is enforced.
Gen. Taylor says he will make pledges, and yet in his
Signal letter he stands pledged to this effects The extern
sion the Continent beyond the Rio Grande the Or
dinance of 1887, 1.-THE Wilmot Proviso] is object
high and permanent to be baed by Presidential vetoes
In the great debate in the Senate of the United States
in July last, the Oregon bill Senator Corwin said
Could be made to believe that General Taylor would
veto any bill embracing the principles of the Wimot
Proviso, certainly o00ud not cote for hin and will
take myself to say, that not Of the free STATES
could be brought to support him. But between Gen.
Taylor and Mr.. Cass there could he hesitation to
choice. See Congressional Globe, st session, 3Oth
Congress, page 994. -
At large Mass Meeting of the friends of TAYLOR and
Fillmore held in the City of New York. on the night
of the 22d August 1s4s, Speeches delivered by
Mr.. Brooks, of the New York Express, and Mr. Ray
mond of the New York Courier and Enquirer; and the
following Resolutions adopted:
Resolved, That in General Taylor's early and
frank declaration that he whig, we have avowal
and pledge that he will carry out the principles and
measures which the whig party is based, and for
whose asccndancy it has always batted
Resolved That in the promise he has given to the
country to leave the business Of legislation to the
pes direct representatives where it properly belongs
have that the odious antiAmercan
power will longer rample beneath its feet the popu-
lar will expressed by Congress- and that the rivers and
harbors of the great West will feel the fostering aid
the government in improvements which they require.
Resolved That in this promise we have a
rty that his and protection of human liberty will
be bounded by any parallel of latitude qnd that he
,oiU sanction and approve any act of Congress upon
the momentos subject Of free soi aohether the territory
to be affected be North South of So deg 80 minutes.
Resolved, That cordial thanks due to the
Members of Congress who resisted the attempts of the
Southern conederacy to extend the dominion of slavery
newly acquired possessions and asten its blight
upon the shores of the free and far Pacific
Resolved That on the great fundamental principle OF
hostility to the extension of human slavery, the position,
the tUhigs of Neo York. early taken and has
been HnichigLy maintained and point sv;th con-
de'1ce to the unanimous UOtes of ,oig members OF
Congress on euery question irotUilg this rincpL as
an earnest Of convictions and rnness; we ap-
peal to whig brethren to stand by those who have
spirit of the North rather than the noisy new
the South until she had spurned them with contempt
ency by offices and honors" ., iss,5
If believed that Gen. Taylor if elected, would use
his official influence in aid of the further extension of the
slave power, would oppose him, let him be- nominated
by whom he might. Daniel Webster.
believe that Gen. Taylor has been from the yery first
opposed to the policy Of the Mexican
lmPOtc, and improper. believe, from the best nforma
ton can obtain-and you will take this as nv own
opinion, gentleenI believe that he has no disposition
to extend the Of slavery, the influence of the
siaye institution. Daniel Webster.