The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-10-06
TWO CENTS.

VIII those who make this obiection 49,, Ts
0ass MORN us whether Gen Taylor .is any brttsr'
Willie veto blu containing this pri ncpie n prrcc
ed to him by Congress? 1t will be- presume ON. n
those domestic questions which he thinks ought to b,
left 10 the discretion of Congress II the oblsotor Ia
wbig, Southern or Northern ask him why his part,
did not vote with me for the compromise BILL sup
pressing tGectually any action in the Territories
on the subject Of slavery. II he has left his partj
on the ground of their faitbessness to the South
be can consistently orraign Gen Cass rather tn,
doctrine, frankly declare that did put the
rruction on Gen Cass's letter to Mr.. Nicholson
TINT he was in favor of this doctrine OF territorial
sovereignty Certainly a distinguished Senator frou
New York, In resolution he Introduced into the
Sepate, and In speech he delivered, did maintain
IT asssiled this doctrine the floor OF Co ngress
mi spesch delivered as worse fcarried out In
rtories shan the Wilmot proviso, although obarr ID
neither Cen Cass or any else with ug it.
GeBtlemer. Gen. Casg'e friends the floor OF Con-
grees denied that he msinta any such in
bis Nchoson letter which is certsinly capable OF that
construction But my object delivering that speech
was by no means limited Co Gen. CASES position. I
feared and | think had reason to fear that the
southern democrats might be divided to the rights
of the South by portion Of them supporting this doc
t1ne 1t was with view TO the South, far more than
Gen Cass's pontion, that spoke early with what
party from schi SIN five divided knew that All wa
lost We did not divide; and the doctrine of terrific
rial s9veregnty may for all practical purposes here
after be considered dead 1t had it's purposes IL had
It's dangers and has passed away II IL held nowhere
by any considerable portion of any parity whilst pub
negative this subject 1t will force on Legislation.
over the territories the subject Of slavery. And
native now is-the Wimot proviso, or the Missouri
compromise. agree also with him, that II Gen. Cass
is elected to the Preside the party that places him
our territories. But whether 1t does not have ne
alarm for anything that Gen. Cass's administrator
may do towards the South.
Gentlemen, it would be fortu ate for the South n
the Wmot proviso was the only form in which
is implicated in the Preside initial election But 1t 10 fs
otherwise Supported for the Vice Presidency ON the
wing ticket with Gen Taylor, is Miard Fillmore OF /,
New York. Mr.. Fillmore, in 1888, was a canddste for
Congress- and the abotionsts in his district demand
ed of him whether he subscribed their creed That
creed consisted Of four points the general 90
vernment was concerned
LIST. Do you believe that petitions to Congress on
the subject of slavery and the slave trade ought
received read and respectfully considered BY the
presentatives Of the people 80 4
Cd. Are you opposed to the ton Of Texas to
this Union under any circumstances, so long slaves
Sd Are you in favor of Congress exercising ill the
constitutional powert Possesses to abolish the internal
slave trade between the States!
4h Are you in favor of immediate legislation for thu
abolion Of slavery In the District Of Columbia
His answer In the Affirmative to all these questions
placed him in full communion with the abolitionsts,
and he received their support What constitutes an
abotonis In the politics Of the Union? 1t Is who
asserts African slavery in the South to be evil and
that the general has the power, and should
exercise It, to prevent or abolish 1t in territories
and in the District of Columbis-snd abolish the in.
terna slave trade as they call IT, between the Statss-
that is prevent slaves from emgratng with their mas
tiers from one State to another. Giddngs Pafry and
Tuck, go further They all have disclamed on the
floor OF Congress- over and over again, any design
right to interfere directly with slavery In the States
In what does Mr. Fillmore then differ from them In
his opinions? II he Is not an abolitonist they
not abolitionists-and there Is such thing an
abolitionst In the land Yet former whig Govsrnoe
Of Alabama, and the whole Southern whg press, de-
clare that because Mr. Fillmore discaims Interesting
with slavery in the States by legislation in Congres
that this all the South has right to ask, and that
he Is perfectly sound the subject Of slavery Gem
tlemen, Mr. Fillmore owes his position on the whig
Preside initial ticket to the same he owed his
election to Congress his abolitionism. The wings
in the Philadelphia Convention had not forgotten
the detection of the aboitonists from their ticket in
state Of New York, and with New York, The Prssi.
dency. Mr. Fillmore was placed on their ticket to
win to it, support the abolitonists; whilst General
Taylor with his two hundred negroes would carry the
South. Negroes for the South-abolition for the
North. The arguments were powerful-the combine
in and threatened to defeat the abolition portion Of
the arrangement. This was very bad but when Con.
Iayor's friends, in the South threatened the same
Of faith and Mr. Fillmore's friends in the North let
of their indignation accordingly. Gentlemen, our
Taylor democratic friends have unwittiugly been
great benefactors to the south. They were knocked
over by the negro argument; but they held up their
cut him from their ticket Of his opinions on
the subject OF slavery and proposed to support the
democratic nominee for the Vice Presidency Gsnsr.
accepts in the warmest terms their nomination OF
him for the Presidency. The Northern wings take
the alarm. They suppose that Gen Taylor and the
Southern wings about to repudiate their cunning
and common arrangement What they say to Gen.
IL.
that instead ofrepudating the OPT mons Of Mr. Fillmore
be says. in a second letter to Capt Allison The
National Wing Convention met in June, and selected
me as their candidate. accepted that domination
with gratitude with prde and may add that these
emotions were increased by assooistins my name With
that Of the distinguished citizen of New York. whose
acknowledged ability and sound conservative opinions
might have justly entitled him to the first place on the
ticket Now what are the opinions of Mr. Fillmore
which he characterises here sound and conservs.
tive Are they not the opinions which occasioned all
the d,fheuityrthose which the Charleston democrats
itutah tt1a ant
Of the ticket-his abolition opinions The Southern
wbig press, speaking directly as to Mr. Fillmore's
the National Enegsneer, used almost the Very words
Of General Taylor But suppose that General Taylor
lition opinions, 1t is clear that he did not deem
these opinions such to hinder him from cha
racteriziDg MIR Fillmore's political opinions y
mans not an abolitionst himself can Characterize
a. politician who supports the aboitionists in all
their measures in Congress, against the South. e
being I" soNnd and conservative in his opinions It
is not easy to understand And Mr.. Fillmore's opn-
ions not only sound and conservative but they
Justly entte" him to the first place on the ticket
I he abolition mist ought to have been first, and he
second and his pride" and gratitude" at the whig
nomination, are increased by being associated with
MIR. Fillmore ! Instead of treating him a hagitious
ineendiary, and spurning any political association
tionate admirer and endorses all his sound conser-
vative opinions ~ No wonder Giadpgs SAYS that when
walking among Shareholders he feels he was twelve
feet high If it was not for Gen Taylors character
plain blunt man, might be supposed he only deal
ing in refined irony The political opinions of the abo
Btonists designed to carry out their policy and
where must that policy end! In dissolution Of the
Union, or the desolation Of the South. Most sound
and conservative results certainly, My friends look
at the Iapd progress Of things the slavery question
iii bad been told you four years ago that at the
ing Presidential election an abotio list would be
omnated by of the two great parties of the
try Vice President OF the United States to be Pre-
dent If the President dies and to have the casting
vote all questions in the Senate, there is not man
'you would have believed it. But If you had been
told sti further that he would be upheld the South,
whilst the whole whig press in the South would declare
that his opinions were all the South had right to
require, your alarm would have been equal to your
amszement. But If yet further you had been inform
cd thata southern man. the President this ticket,
with an aboitonist Vice President would endorse his
opinions as sound and conservative" and express
Increased pride and gratitude at being associated with
him. your Indignation would have equslled your alarm
And further vet to the whole that here In the