The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-07-09

is not decided whig and that 'oho will cast him off
New York will repudiate him Massachusetts will NJ,
vote for him"
The great contest for the abohonist vote al Budao
lies between Martin " Buren, and John p. Hale In III.
large ratification meeting at Cincinnati, on the LIST I'LL
Utica nominee carried the day They adopted VIII
reclamation the following among other resolutions:
Resolved, That with Martin Van Buren, our leader il
the coming struggle, we will overwhen with coufaslor
aud defeat that slave power which, four years ago.
him and we will verify the prediction made by Andre
Jackson 1874 that Martin Van Buren, in 1873 woon
be elected President of the United States.
Resolved That approve ofthe call for independent
National Free Territory Convention, TO Buffalo an
The ninth day of August next; and, believing that no div
sion should exist among the friends of freedom free soil
aud free labor, urge upon that body concurrence
the nomination of Martin Van Buren,
But the Tappans (Arhur and Lewis)-and other 'berv
men" have Just issued pronunciamento at New York
and they place John P Hale as their candidate not op
above General Taylor, but against Mr.. Van Buren, HIM
self 1t is rather amusing to in wha, manner they
first dispose of the General and then of the Magician
We cannot believe that any entitled the appe
ton of friend liberty-we wish could say we A,
not believe that any protesting Chrsan-will under ap
consideration, for belgerent demagogue and a
tocrat be carried away by popular excitement to aid
ta.E
utute OF civil qualifications, and whose reputation is de
rived from his practitioner in he science IA
human butchery in war that his partisans hav
styled unconstitutional" unnecessary" "disgncsGl
and barbarous Neither is it to be imagined that sin
gle individual who prizes liberty and abhors slavery @
loves peace and values Christian institutions will v
either for slave holder who is the creature of
holders and who, for personal aggrandizemen and II.
power distribute the offices and asure of the nation on
political partisans, woad plunge his country into wa,
M wi wi ich rial H.,
Should this be the case however, and man answernE
either description be elevated to the chief magsacy
lesson never to be forgotten will have been given to Ina
young of this country, teaching them that time serving
oiceseekng, and attering demagoguesn, successful
lighting for territory and slavery, the merit and
the qualifications for civil office in the estimation of b
people of the United States.
Neither we believe that any liberty party man will
cast his vote for politician who has, when in power
proered his aid to the saveocracy of the country and tina
world and who has evnced any desire that the record
should be expunged Though ready award due praise
him who has repeatedly and ably advocated the doctrine
OF the non-extenson of slavery, believe that
while he there, and is decidedly opposed to any i'm
porant principles of the liberty party you will be nst
mental in elevating him again to the presidential chair
They conclude with recommending J. P. Hale 10 ali
wings and democrats who wish to vote against slavery
as the man worthy OF confidence. We shall have Gu
rious auction of abolition votes at Buffalo; and we look
Hale We envy neither of them the honor which awaits
them.
The New York Globe Zone of the rabid barnbuming
press, owned controlled by custom house officer
begs the authors of the pronunciamento to reconsider
their declaration, and take down the flag of John Hale
Ii afrms that If Mr. Van Buren, is nomnatedat Buf
10, which we think he will be, he will be supported
nearly every opponent of slave extension in the Union
And in the close of its article of Friday morning
it repeats that "a little reflection will satisfy The
intelligent and freesoil voters of all parties that
the most certain method to pursue, in order to &C.
complish anything, is to support Mr.. Van Buren,
In fact, ii advises all the abolitionsts to vote Van
Buren,, and drop Hale. What change from Martin \
Van Buren, of 1895, when seeking Office at the hands Of
the South and 1913, when avengng his imaginary wrongs
upon the South! ''Sar of the morning, how art thou
falen~ competition between John p. Hale and MAJ.
tin Van Buren, for the honor of the abolition vote at The
Buffalo convention
The New York Evening Pest produces new meetings
to show the chances that Mr. Van Buren, will carry away
the pam-as, for instance meeting of 400 citizens Of
Norwich Connecticut, and meeting signed by 21oOvo.
tiers, which is to meet at the place the 4h OF
July, to ratfy the nomination OF Mr. Van Buren,. II also
mentions State convention to be held at Peoria, ILL.,
nos, during the next month, for the nomination Of an
electoral ticket pledged for his support
The New York Evening Post is attempting to defeat
the Missouri compromise to give wide sea-room o
the operations of Mr.. Van Buren,. 1t is throwing
pcion over the motives of sundry western senators II
charges Mr.. Douglas with absening himself from the
Senate, under miserable pretexts and lodging the Oregon
question 1t suspects the motives OF Messrs. Bright,
Hannegan, and even Allen the senator from Ohio, for
whom it once professed such singular respect; and
concludes its TRADE with the illiberal and indie
cent accusation, that the slave. owners hold as
complete dominion over the Senate as over the ne
gro villages on their own plantations" And this
too, comes from one of the most decent and dgnlhed
presses of the barnburners! If men who are sudynso
the Union from fearful excitement, and perhaps
divisions by administering the constitution in the comWo
missing spirit in which it established, are thus be
browbeaen in the discharge of their solemn duties, what
mercy expect from the abolition clique Of 1885,
and the secret-crcular men of 1916, We resisted them
them and resist them 1ow, fanatics and abolition
lists
An Honorable Competitori
The concord Freeman Gan abolition paper contends
that "the nominee of the Buffalo convention will be either
Mr.. Van Buren, or Mr. Hale" Twelve years ago such