The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1848-09-14
LETTER FROM ]. M. Bolts.

LETTER FROM ]. NJ BOLTS.
The following letter, addre ssed to the recent
Clay meeting in New York, we find in the
Tribune The letter speaks for itself, and the
writer is well known, as Wing member OF Con-
gress:
RICHMOND, Sept 6, lS48.
My DEAR SIR:-l received your letter yes
terday, by which was delighted to hear OF the
fred purpOse-not an Albany f1ash-in the pan
OF the determined friends OF the Wing cause, and
OF Wing principles, 10 nominate HENRY CLAY
for, matters now stand, admitting Gen. Taylor
to be Wing candidate, (Which utterly denyO
the party is doomed certain, inevitable and dis
graceful defeat, and every man not willully blind
must see it. 1t was an inexcusable olunder 10
suppose that from million and a quarter to
million and halt OF free independent Wing vot
ers could be wheeled into line at the word OF
command from some fifty or sirty Washington
politicians (most OF whom had scarcely shed their
pin feathers In politics. Tor candidate who had
never filled civil station, and who had not for
forty years, and perhaps in his lie, given vote
for man or measure; without experience or know
ledge OF the practical operations OF any one OF
the domestic questions about which we had dit
fered; OF no acquaintance with our foreign rela-
lions; who had said to the people, "You must
take your own responsibility will
not be the candidate OF party nor s'will be
the exponent OF your patty principles" nor ''look
to the doctrines OF your party as the rule OF my
action - and while proiessed to shrink from no
responsibility, steadily refused to gipe his Opia-
ion on any one question: except the practical use
of the TetO pOtCer and declared his determine.
tiOn NOT to be gouerned By the action of the Con-
Uention, but lU0uLd be candidate no matter who
might be nominated; and in my Judgment his
name never should have been considered in that
Convention after he made that declaration.
d. s1s -k-ls- -
removed by the pledges made for him by Judge
Saunders in behalf of the Louisiana delegation,
which he subsequently adopted by card written
by his authority and published by Bailie Peyton,
Bullet, &c.,-and this declaration was held up
by the Taylor men and Wing presses OF the coua-
Try as sufficient TO reconcile all Wings to his
election. That Peyton card and his cordial ac-
ceptance OF the nomination had placed him upon
the Wing platform; and just at the moment that
many of US had brought our minds to the conclu.
sion TO vote Tor him, however reluctantly, he
writes another letter, in which he says he 1c0t.id
haze accepted the nomination from the Bait.
more COnUenti0n on the same terms on which ne
accepted the Philadelphia nomination What
becomes, then, of the Saunders pledge What
becomes of the Peyton card And il it be true
that there were no terms expressed or implied in
the Philadelphia nomination that would be incon.
sisteDt with an acceptance Of the Democratic
nomination at Baltimore, in what an attitude
does 1t place the Wing party, selecting as their
candidate one who could with equal propriety
have become the candidate of their opponents
And il not true, in what position does it place
Gen. Taylor
But what desire to learn is this IF Gen.
Taylor is not bound By the action Of the Phil
GdetphtG COnUtnttOn, tDn0 ts7 And il he NAV dis
regard Its recommendations, who may not
And ii he is boundby their action, what right has
he to lend the influence OF his name to the defeat
| OF Mr. FILLMORE who was associated with him,
| by the same body of men, by accepting nomin-
alton with Gen. Butler, Loco Foco whose cleo
ton he thereby assist in promoting La short his
1chOLe course of conduct is insulting to the
Wing party, and especially to all those who par
ticipated in the proceedings at Philadelphia, and
| ifthey had any Wing spirit LETT in them, they
| would resent it.
Fit is ascertained that the purpose of the Con-
! vention was perverted from its original legitimate
objects OF ascertaiuing and giving expression to
| public sentiment; by smothering ii on the one
hand, and manufacturing it on the others, or in
other words, lift has been ascertained, lot which
there is no doubt) that the nomination was made
| through the nstrumentality of politicians with
out the slightest reference TO the public will, and
that the interests Of the party are likely to be
sacrificed by it; then hold, that the error ought
to be corrected promptly by the People them
selves, and trust in God, the meeting you mott.
fy me OF may put the ball in motion, that it. may
roll, and gather as ii rolls, until the Wing party
shall have its eyes opened to its true condition,
and uniting as one man, on the only one who
lives embalmed in the hearts of his countrymen,
we may command a triumph, that our real
strength in entities us to achieve. / shall be in
| New York very shortly.
Yours truly in great haste,
JOHN M. Bolts.
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